Even though stuck up with drugs and alcohol he's always professional when comes to interview..also His notes always sexy to hear.. Now that's magical slash
i find it funny that hes wearing a like southern tie with no shirt he is so laid back and chill i just wanna chill with him play guitar and smoke a joint
Yeah this was the very beginning, afd was released in 87 but didn’t get big till 88 they were just starting to get big here, definitely 1991/1992 was peak GNR
Holy shit his stance on scales is SPOT ON, I truly finally 'learned' guitar after i started to visualize melodies and songs, then making the voice come to life on my guitar. For years before that I was just a fucking robot who could play physically, now I play music.
RossLinden97 Yes - sorry for the no reply. I would definitely do what bergalini suggested. It's a very "feel" oriented thing. I would recommend by listening to melodies of popular songs and then playing those melodies on the guitar. For example, play a vocal melody from a rock song and then imitate his vocal notes on guitar, gives you a good feeling of vocalizing.
@@BluesAdam but if you don’t learn a scale at first how can you improvise and play in key? You just play random notes? Not tryna be rude I don’t like being boxed in either
Kurt Cobain what he’s saying is to play from what you hearing in your head. Most of us guitarists when we ‘improvise’ are actually playing from muscle memory. Hearing something in your head and playing it is surprisingly difficult at first, but that’s why Slash has that extra 20% to everything he plays, and why his sound is so identifiable
@@gianmarco2886 I feel you there, sometimes you can use some tricks to come up with something, for example: I pick six notes visually without thinking of how they will sound, and find different combinations of them that sound good. Or take a lick that you like and maybe play it backwards or do an alternative version. Creativity doesn’t have to come from your brain alone.
Guitar lesson from slash… ‘ don’t need to practice scales, just play what you hear in your head and make sure you don’t miss a note’. Must nice to ooze talent like that, but for a mere guitar mortal such as myself, I’ll keep practicing my scales.
Pretty much. A scale are notes that work in harmony with a particular chord or chord structure. It sounds much more complicated than it really is. Once you get used to a particular scale, you can bend the rules a bit; like blending major and minor scales.
True, and don't be mistaken when he said he doesn't practice scales. He knows the pentatonic scale very well. He's famous for that scale. You see it all over his playing. When he was learning guitar he practiced 12 hours a day. He doesn't have to practice playing the scale up and down because he already knows it inside and out. He just plays pieces of it which is what you should do so you don't sound sterile. But it is good to know at least some scales. Or if you want to just play mostly rock and blues the pentatonic scale.
I just finished reading The Slash Autobiography! My jaw dropped. I cannot believe that he is still alive! I bet he knows that. Plus, the book was very very insightful of what went on in Slash's life during Guns and Roses. All the coke and heroine, he almost died. And according to the book Axl said "You gave us a scare.(Regarding Slash overdosing) We thought you were dead. I thought I'd had to look for a new guitar player." (page 362). -I think that is really messed up, shallow and inhumane.
but when slash says he doesn't do any scales he doesn't mean he doesn't use them he just means he docent play them like how a teacher would write them out, he solos in them like most guitarists he uses the A natural minor, and the A minor
Slash is famous for the pentatonic scale. He says he doesn't practice them but he knows that scale very well and probably got that out of the way very early on when he was practicing 12 hours a day. He's still using parts the scale a lot when he's practicing he just doesn't have to think about it anymore and he not playing the whole scale.
slash is so awesome!!!!! he's so hot and talented!! i love it wen he said " .... so the girls dont c my winkie". he did alot of cussin and stuff, and then he says winkie!!!
@Musicmaker703 He does know scales, but he didn't sit down and learn them - he learned them by playing and seeing what sounded right, rather than going "Right I'm gonna learn this one now"
the same way people sang or hummed melodies around a fire before the word music even existed....the only difference is, instead of expresses those melodies with your voice, it's done with the guitar
@Musicmaker703 I know what he meant, I have heard from many experienced guitar players that scales are tools but you never have to base everything on them or your melody will never be soulful it will be like prefabricated ones.... so you have to learn by ear to know every sound of the guitar (which its pretty hard) and then you will be able to copy genuinely every sound that comes through your head, thats something that many guitarists dont realize and thats why slash sounds so unique....
no wel it depends if you play the e scale then no because there are many notes in the scale which is and you can just play all the e notes on the fretboard
@Lexus-infinity it really isnt difficult to figure out if you know your pentatonic scales. Keep in mind he’s tuned a half step down what particular part @ 4:29 were you wanting to figure out. I know your comment is a yr old and i think you should try and figure it out by ear but i could try and help you start off with it
Its funny, the guy is so shy, i think i read somewhere in his autobiography that he's so self-conscious that he almost never plays his guitar out loud at home :P Kinda ironic, considering his skill at playing.
well if you've ever heard someone say that's off key well it just dosnt sound right its hard to explain(I find it hard) and a song is in a certain key to make it sound right it just sounds wird if you play in different keys bassicly
1;54- which of those 3 sunburts is his main Standart, which later appeared recreated as Slash inspired by VOS replica? This is my favourite guitar of him It is interesting, than when that guitar was new (as in this video) it was more darl sunburst, and after 20 years it became light orange:)
@Musicmaker703 He means he doesn't just sit down and play scales and hope to get a solo. I noticed when he did that little impro section at 3:45 he was actually playing the notes of the a minor pentatonic, so he does know the scales. I find it hard to believe he could of writ all the classic solos without the knowledge of scales, especially like sweet child o mine solo which incorporates the harmonic and a bunch of other scales
its funny how he single handedly brought the gibson brand back from the ashes, even though they werent genuine gibsons, the were built by ghostbuilders
