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#149961 11/08/05 12:56 AM
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An air ax is an imaginary musical instrument, usu guitar or sax; but obliged if musically inclined might explain meaning of fake-shred--thanks kindly all

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... Air Bass." Now, I feel like anyone can pick up an air ax and fake-shred like they're Slash, but it takes a heavier mettle to fake-lay down the low-end grooves ...
www.improvresourcecenter.com/ mb/archive/index.php/t-6482 - 101k


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to shred is to really tear up the guitar; fast, screaming licks. so if you're playing the air guitar, you can really fake shred...


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Unlike last year, when there was so little snow in the Cascade Mountains that several ski areas nearly went out of business, snow has fallen early this year and many of Washington's ski areas are opening earlier than usual. Thanks be to God.

Among the subculture which rides upon snowboards, the term shredding is used to describe what it is that they do on their boards. It is part of the patois, and thus imperfectly intelligible to those outside of their group.

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Father, Thank you. In that sense, then, wouldn't the expression mean to perform the sport on a slope without snow


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Eta thank you. Then wouldn't the expression, "to fake-shred an air guitar" be redundant--or isn't that the right term for it


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well, one could, I suppose, just strum a little on the air-guitar... I think the whole fake thing is un-necessary, however.


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#149967 11/08/05 05:29 PM
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Quote:


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... Air Bass." Now, I feel like anyone can pick up an air ax and fake-shred like they're Slash, but it takes a heavier mettle to fake-lay down the low-end grooves ...





"heavier mettle" -- I love it!

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'To shred' has also been used (in my neck of the woods) to mean 'to practice'... as in "shred your scales". It is the usage I'm much more familiar with (notwithstanding the actual practicing part).

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In snowboarding jargon, fakie or fakey is the style of riding a bi-directional board backwards.

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...riding a bi-directional board backwards.


Bi jove, how would one know?

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