Slash style licks part 2. This is a long video so if you want a short 5 minute video with very little talking this is not the video for you. As an upper level intermediate I’m also on the guitar learning journey. I’m just trying to help people who are also trying to crack this slash style code. Please be respectful. Rude comments will be deleted. 🤘🏼🎸
Can I just say once more, thank you. Have confidence in yourself, ignore the haters. I have found learning from "pros" can be frustrating. Nice when people can remember how hard it is advancing or starting out. That perspective really can be helpful, thanks again kind sir
Thanks again for the generous comment and you are quite welcome. Yea, working on the confidence part. I’m not quite this insecure in “real life” ha, but this is my first venture into the world of RU-vid instruction and trying to communicate to a large audience, so it might take a little time to settle into that role. But I’m glad it’s useful to some people. As I said I really like the way brett papa teaches and I kept searching for someone who taught slash lessons in a similar manner. Never found it, most guys just go too fast and start mixing it up too fast and I spend a lot of time watching their vids at 50 to 25 % just to extract one lick idea. It’s rather taxing. So I was just trying to offer people the type of thing I’m looking for myself. I think having the close up cam helps too. For me anyway. Thanks again man!
@@slashtrio excellent , hey you know you said you bought some of Jakobs lessons I’m thinking of getting some soon I like the note choices of Laszlo & Jakob when they play those endless runs there’s just something in them that you don’t hear in anyone else’s Slash Licks ,although yours are helping & I’ve just downloaded A G sharp video that sounds good . Are there any of jakobs that would fit particularly what I’m after or are they a mixture, I gather each one is 30 minutes . I’ll ask him on the Facebook page another day,he’s probably gigging seeing as it’s the weekend . Have you seen those collaborations from the slash signature guitar page I love how all those guys flow & get those notes to sound so Slashy . Cheers Paul
@@Havanacuba1985 cool man, I only asked because then I can message you and it not be all public. No big secret or anything, but I can give you my opinion about some stuff more openly 👍🏼🎸
Really enjoyed this. I think the most important thing people get wrong about slash and most famously guitar players is the fact that they have a underline blues feeling. I think you teach this very well and it needs to be taught more. To truly learn a players style, learn they're blues feeling they play with. Thanks very much
Very good point, I completely agree. I have definitely seen some guys on RU-vid covering slash stuff, and sometimes I’m impressed with how fast they play things or how they managed to hit all the notes, yet I’m left feeling like something was missing and despite their technical skills I’m not envious of their overall playing. They are just lacking the “feel”, maybe their vibrato is not so good, or the bend out of tune a lot, and stuff like that. Definitely takes away something essential.
These are the most instructive, well explained slash videos I've found. As you mentioned they are some outrageously good players out there who all capture that "slash vibe" that i think a lot of us are after, but maybe arent as effective at slowing and breaking it down in a lesson. These lessons hit just at the right level, thank you
Thanks man, I appreciate the kind and thoughtful comment. Yea, there are a handful of slash guys out there who really nail his style (the late gsharp being my personal favorite) but also Jakob and laszlo. I certainly aspire to play like gsharp, dude had the blues chops in addition to slash, which is what I like (I’m a fan of SRV, old Clapton, Hendrix too). But yea, some of these RU-vid lessons go by so fast that I found myself having to watch all of it in slow motions, and even then sometimes getting frustrated because maybe the players didn’t repeat the same phrase (added variation too quickly) or maybe the camera wasn’t close enough to really see what the fingers were doing. I’m a big fan of Brett Papa’s lessons (I have even purchased some) and I like his teaching approach. He always constructs a lick passage or phrase and then repeats it at various speeds and then breaks down each lick within the phrase. I learn things way faster that way. So I guess that was part of my motivation, albeit I am not a player of that caliber and I don’t have the production or video editing skills ha. So it’s an iPhone and a one take! But I think some people seem to be digging it which is awesome. Thanks again ! 🎸👍🏼🤘🏼
@@alecscott6 thanks man, yea I like longer lessons too. I know many people want to quick 5 min thing with little to know talking, but there is tons of that out there. I’ll try to remember to link some good Brett papa stuff here. He has some very slash adjacent stuff that he demonstrates very clearly and effectively. Thanks again
Thanks for the kind words my friend, I very much appreciate it! I’m glad that you’re finding these lessons helpful. I have done 6 or 7 at this point. I’m gonna keep posting more so hopefully they will interest you. Rock on my friend 🎸🤘🏼
@@Kajojek thanks man, I’m you’re perceiving it that way. It’s of course impossible to please everyone’s preferences and learning styles, but I’m doing what I can. I learned to informally and never was really one to count the frets and stuff. But I keep reminding myself that it’s not essential to say all of that during a lesson so long as you’re repeating it and doing it slow enough, which is my preferred way of learning guitar. I’m definitely increasing my knowledge of basic theory in stuff but I don’t feel I have enough command of that type of info to teach that. Thanks again dude
@@Kajojek oh also, I stumbled across this guys page of late. The guy is such a great blues player. This Clapton solo he does here really gets me 🎸. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NDJ1pNjHbm4.htmlsi=w32yVZTULRM96WFR
What’s up dude! Just found your part one the other day so super stoked you made a part two! If you wanna keep going with this kind of series that would be awesome! You play really good and explain it well! Very helpful. Thanks for posting these!👍
Thanks man! I had never considered doing instructional type of stuff but a few people had asked me recently so I decided to try it. I think I enjoy the idea of teaching but I have never taught guitar so I don’t always know the best way to explain things. I just try to do the type or demonstrations that help me. Thanks again man 🎸🤘🏼
@@chalinovargaz1888 thanks man! You’re very welcome! If you like this one be sure to check out the others I posted. I will do others new ones eventually. Thanks
Super helpful man Once again you don’t need to apologise as much man this is music and yours is the best kind it comes naturally I can see you’re struggling to not get too into it Just be yourself and don’t worry we’re really liking your videos Thanks for sharing it’s making a huge difference in my playing 👍
Thanks man, I appreciate the feedback and support! Yea it’s all a bit new to me, teaching on the internet that is ha. I’m a pretty humble guy so the idea of trying to teach people how to play seems presumptuous a little, especially since there are so many exceptional players on RU-vid. But thanks man and I’m sure I’ll continue to get more confident and comfortable the more I do it. I think part of it too is that I’m a bit of a perfectionist with certain things, and I don’t always have time to plan these things out too much in advance and kind of wing it a bit. I need to learn how to video edit! This is all one take so sometimes I worry I’m going on too long on some things and going too fast on others. But yea, been getting nice feedback so it’s good to know what it’s helping some people. Rock on my friend 👍🏼🎸🎄✌️
With the pre bend stuff, as another trick you can do it the Trey Anastasio way and it’s almost an insta bend instead of a pre bend. It sounds cool but you snap your finger down the instant you hit the string and you’ll notice that ‘Trey’ sound immediately. It’s another way to add a different start to the Slashy runs. Just something I’ve picked up over the years that’s nice and simple and sounds cool. Thanks for uploading, I like watching how other ppl play this type of stuff.
@@slashtrioI think you got it down pretty good! It’s way harder than it looks to make it click to do it consistently and not need to be warmed up for an hour to get even the 75% of “it” like you mention.
Hey man thanks! I’m glad to hear it’s been helpful to you. I know this format isn’t for everyone since it’s rather long and informal, but I think for those that take the time to watch it they should I be able to extract useful information. I know I love to learn by watching stuff like this. Also, I’m sure you noticed but I have 5 different longer lessons like this. Definitely some overlap between them but I tried to focusing on different licks and concepts on each one. Thanks again man 👍🏼🎸🤘🏼
Good lesson. I’m almost 50 and listen to rock in the radio in the early mid 90s. This is what I try to sound like . I’m not a huge Guns N Roses fan either . By listening to him growing up it subconsciously what I thought of as Hard Rock blues guitar should sound like Good work
@@bluesman75 hey good to hear for you. I’ll be 50 next month 👴🏻. Yea I was into GnR in 9th grade or so I learned some of the songs on AFD, or at least the best I could back then. I got into SRV in college and then kind of stopped playing electric lead guitar for many many years. I oily got back into it on 2019 or so I went back to learn some of those old GnR songs I could never play before. But you’re right, slash is basically playing blues guitar most of the time, just like page, Hendrix and SRV, just over different chords, a bit more distortion, and with a slight bit of 80s weedle thrown in. I personally like to blend his souls with guys like Clapton and Hendrix. But yea man, glad you stopped by. If you liked this one I have several other lessons of this type on my page. Put up a new one a few days ago, definitely more blues style. Thanks again 🎸👍🏼🤘🏼
@@slashtrio I would say David Gilmour is in my top 3 . Gary Moore is in there too. Roy Buchanan, Billy Gibbons, the 3 Kings of the blues . I like Angus too SRV got me started with blues . But I honestly like the guys above better . Seems like everyone is trying to copy him ect . I like more distorted tone myself. Because I started in metal. Only been playing lead less than 4 years
@@bluesman75 cool man. Yea I like a bit more overdrive then most SRV stuff as well, but he was definitely a big influence on me in college. I agree, Gilmore is awesome and Billy Gibbons is great too. I didn’t listen to Pink Floyd at all when I was younger, I considered that “classic rock” and I was into punk, metal and such. Same with ZZ Top, I was a kid in the 80s so I associated them with their 80s stuff. But in more recent years I have grown to appreciate a lot of classic rock and really enjoy some Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, and 70s ZZ Top. I also really dig those first couple of Lynyrd Skynyrd albums, some great lead guitar playing there-lots of mixing major and minor pentatonic.
Great man, I’m glad to hear. I know we are trying to get to that gsharp level, but I hope this can help people take steps in that direction. I still watch a lot of his videos and lots of just blues rock instruction. Brett papa has some good stuff you might want to check out. His teaching style is really clear, at least to me. Thais again 🎸👍🏼🤘🏼
Also man, not sure if you have checked Brett Papa out, but I’ll put a link to a video he did a while back on “nasty blues”. Some killer licks, definitely some stuff that overlaps with slash style. Check this out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s1ibh_tzHns.htmlsi=_zJl2QKDdBMDnbfW
Thanks for checking it out man. Yea, I’m not quite at your impressive level but I’m working on it🎸. I love blues lead and slash style. So I just started these little lesson videos to try and help some guys who are but less advanced access some of these techniques. I know I’m a visual learner with guitar so it helps to see things up close and repeated a bit. Cheers man! Oh I subbed to your channel! That snakepit cover was awesome 🤘🏼🎸
@@Guitar19774 awesome man, yea they we’re definitely one of my first obsessions too. It was the Sex Pistols first then GnR. Were you born in 1974? I ask because of your name on here. 🎸🤘🏼
@@slashtrio No 1983. I was 8 yrs old and had appetite for destruction on cassette. I took it to summer camp and the counselor found it in my lunch box pouch where I hid it. He told me it was the devil's music and he was going to call my parents. I said they were the ones who gave it to me. But I always wondered years later why they were searching kids lunches anyway??
@@Guitar19774 ha! Awesome story. They were big into rock music being the devil’s music in the 80s! I asked about your date of birth because I’m 1974 👴🏻. Yea, I was in 9th grade when I saw live at the ritz and was blown away. I was into punk at that time and no so much the hair rock of the time, and GNR had a nice balance of hard rock 80s mixed with punk attitude. I recorded that show and watched over and over. I became obsessed with Les Paul’s and wanted those old flame tops (replicas) so bad. My dad got me a sunburst (which I still have ) but have since acquired a few more 🎸🤘🏼
@@slashtrioMy brotha this lesson was even better then the last one and i mean it everything i write i mean it or else i would not give the "trouble".Again from someone who saw all the guys on yt teaching Slash stuff i rank you in n1 and Gsharp in n2 ,the way you break it down i can understand everything thats going on.Again thank you 🎸🎩🤘❤
@@lets_rock_it man that’s awesome, that’s really my goal so I’m glad to hear it’s translating into reality, at least for some people. Gsharp was amazing and is/was my favorite slash style player. He seemed like an excellent teacher and very articulate and liked the way he described things. That said he flys through stuff and doesn’t repeat things quite enough which sometimes wears me out when I’m trying to learn from his vids. Of course back then I think he was really just showcasing his skills with the goal of getting private lessons. I’m sure his private lessons were much better / more thorough. I wish he was still around. Bit thanks again man 🎸👍🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
@@slashtrio me to i so wish he still was between us,he still is but not at the same way,he was the only one i go to and now you also all others are great i dont have anything against any of them but they arent just for me,i agree with all you said.And trust me your lessons to me never made me feel i was wasting my time, anyone no matter the level can understand what you doing ,what is going on others just here and there,other channels always remind me those guitar players when we just jamming or noodling around and sudden they run a lick you like and we ask how did you do that?and they just shred the exact same way kinda showing off wich always makes me looking at them like seriously?😄😄😄 I really believe a guy from zero can learn from your channel while the others and iam just talking about Slash like style content,the other channels good luck with that.Yes prob wont be easy but he or she will understand what is there to be done while in those other channels i felt i was wasting my time and many times is easy to get confused or overwhelmed ,with your lessons i always felt motivated and the most important to me i always understand whats going on. So again my guitar friend i cant thank you enough for teaching me the "secrets"of how to play the style of my favourite guitar player and the main reason i start to play the guitar. Thank you.🎸🎩❤🤘
@@lets_rock_it Awesome man, I’m really glad it’s helping you. I would honestly love to find something like this for myself, someone who is a level or two above me breaking things down like this. Brett Papa does this in his paid lessons, but I’d love one that was advanced slash lessons. I have bough several prerecorded and one custom video from Jakob slash. He’s an outstanding slash style player but I find it rather taxing learning from him, just because he fits too fast and does too much variation. Also sometimes the cam angle is too far away. But I extract what I can from all these guys.
Thanks man! I plan on doing some more sometime. I might try and do a shorter one that is more focused on a very particular lick or run or something. We’ll see. Thanks again 👍🏼🎸🤘🏼
Hello, thanks for checking out my channel and glad to hear that you are liking it so far. If you haven’t noticed yet I have several of these types of lessons on my page. I have 9 different slash style lessons. I actually just posted a more recent one just about 9 days ago. So maybe check those out. If you read the descriptions of each video I try to describe what I’ll be going over. Hope that helps. Peace 🎸👍🏼🤘🏼
Can you go over these concepts but mainly the common double stops in different positions to give some more attitude to solos in any of the five pentatonic positions… Also, what about solos or phrases in which slash has more of a major sound rather than minor, but it still sounds blues and tough
Hi there, thanks for watching and I hope it was helpful in some way. These are good and interesting questions you raise. I’m still pretty new to trying to do lessons so it’s tricky to know how much to include in each one. I’m trying to hammer in (hammer on - pun ha) a couple of concepts or phases at a time. Regarding mixing major and minor like slash, that’s something I have been working on a lot but not quite sure I’m at a point where I could teach that so well, but maybe at some point I can share some basics. I would highly recommend the video I’m posting below. It’s exactly how I approach mixing major and minor to get that slashy / blues style with attitude. I literally learned from this guy so I don’t think I can do any better than him. Give it a try. 👍🏼🎸 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8rJFGCkVtrg.htmlsi=L16ZgM1A6Hh0xCAo And ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X7BHDcZ7t40.htmlsi=ycSn0wqGmWf72bpU
Thanks man, I appreciate the positive feedback and support. I’m glad you find any of this useful / helpful. Yea I got really into the blues in college (a long time ago ha) and was really into SRV and some of clapton’s struff (mostly from the cradle and his stuff with the blues breakers) so I worked a lot on getting the blues feel with all the bends, tugs, and vibrato. I didn’t even consciously practice such things back then but was just imitating what I saw / heard. In recent years I have been much more cognizant of vibrato style and made even more effort to get to where I like. Brett papa actually has free stuff on RU-vid where he goes over this kind of thing. I really dig his vibrato, probably my favorite. Slash’s vibrato is a bit more unpredictable. I like the way it sounds on the albums but sometime live (especially now) it a bit too fast for my taste. But yea, keep working at it. I think some of if comes down to how one holds the neck and using the wrist. That’s definitely a difficult one to teach (for me anyway). Thanks again 👍🏼🎸🎸
Around 9:37 or so you're doing a couple of bends, I think what you're doing is, one, you're bending the 4th up to the flat five a bunch, and second, you're bending the minor 3rd almost to the major 3rd ... kind of mixing major/minor, kind of an exaggerated "blues curl" ... in case you're looking for words to describe what you're doing, maybe mentioning scale degrees in addition to pentatonic positions you already mention might be a place to start. Great lessons, btw, g-sharp and lazlo always seemed to blaze through a little too quickly without enough repetitions and without talking about where they are in the scale imho, so you're more my speed.
@@StephenCameron hey man, I appreciate that technical info! I have been playing a while now but learned most of my fundamentals as a kid, very much by ear, practice, and intuition (as opposed to proper lessons). I never read tabs growing up and always tended to improvise blues stuff. But as a more patient adult I’m definitely more interested in learning a bit more about the technical side of thing. Sounds like you know what you’re talking about. I have definitely learned a lot over the last few years from watching lots of RU-vid guys, particularly some course I got from Brett Papa. And yea, Gsharp and laszlo are excellent blues rock players in general and at the slash style in particular. But I have had some frustrated moments trying to learn from their vids due to them going too fast and not repeating enough. Unfortunately G is no longer with us. Seemed like a cool guy, would have loved to take some lessons from him. Not sure what’s up with Laszlo. He hasn’t posted new stuff in a years or two and seems to have lost his gear! He’s definitely a great player. At any rate, glad I can contribute in some way to people trying to work on this style. Thanks again 👍🏼🎸
@@slashtrio I really only barely and only recently know what I'm talking about a little bit. When I learned the pentatonic, for some reason, I decided to learn the "blues" scale, which has the flat 5 in it, which conveniently adds this little chromatic run in the middle of the pentatonic scale, and the flat 5 is this obvious landmark in the middle of that run. And then you notice there are these common bends that appear, one of which is the 4th to the flat 5. Another is bending the minor 3rd up a bit is that kinda snarly blues curl. I'm still working on learning, but found that thinking in terms of scale degrees and nashville numbering for chords instead of note names helps a lot in making sense of it all on the guitar. I think you know more than I do, or in any case are a much better player than I am. I just commented because I noticed you mentioned you didn't necessarily have the words to describe what you're doing, and I think maybe what you're missing is scale degrees (the note number within the scale). There are these very common types of bends (cliches, almost, but cliches for a reason) and so on which are probably best described in terms of scale degrees. And then this translates to the various pentatonic shapes easily (as opposed to fret numbers, etc.) OTOH, beginners may not be comfortable with this sort of thing, and be like, "just gimme the tab!" and you've got to satisfy your audience.
@@StephenCameron cool man. Yea for me it’s like I was doing a lot of this stuff before I had any kind of knowledge of the theory. I have been doing the flat 5 and blues scale since I got into SRV in college in the 90s, but I had no intellectual or theoretical understanding, it was all based on learning by ear and just copying what I saw guys doing. But yea in the last couple of years I have taken little courses and learned about the flat 5 and leaning all the pentatonic boxes and most of the major pentatonic as well. I still tend to learn best by just watching guys show licks and phrases but taking the time to understand things more deeply definitely helps your playing too. Always more to learn 🤓🎸
50s standard👍🏼🎸🎸. Those 60s necks are bit slim for me but I do have a 1990 LP classic 60s with the slimmest neck ever. I prefer the 50s for sure. Thanks
@@prod.fin- hey, yea I have a few les Paul’s and have tried some different pickups. The LP I’m playing in this vid came with covered alnico 3s I think but I put in the slash Seymour Duncan’s, well the bridge is, the neck is actually “slash bucker” I got off of reverb. What do you use / play ?
@@prod.fin- that’s cool man. Have you played a les Paul? Probably good to play a couple first to make sure you like the feel. I have never really played jags but actually played one a couple days ago at a guitar store. I’m more of an LP and strat guy. But yea, if there is a guitar store near you maybe try a few. And keep in mind the ones on guitar store may or may not play well depending on how long they have been sitting there with old strings that every guy has been handling. Almost every guitar I played at the store I went to felt terrible, sticky, and grimy ha. Not smooth. But most people find a good LP to be pretty easy to play.
@@ciachetti hello, thanks for stopping by. What level player are you? I’m not sure how many of my lesson videos you have watched but I have several where I repeat the same lick or phrase many times at various speeds. So I think if you look at some other videos you’ll find some that have more of what you’re looking for. It also helps to watch at slower speeds on RU-vid as well. That’s what I do when I watch videos by gsharp and laszlo. They go much faster than me and add more variation more quickly. If you look at lessons number 3, 6, 8, 10, and 11 I think you will see more repetition and slower speeds. I don’t do tabs at all. I have never even used them myself since I began playing. The idea of writing all that out seems quite tedious. I realize some people learn that way but I think if you just watch and play along you’ll be able to pick it up. Thanks again 🎸👍🏼
Hey thanks. Yes, some lessons have a lot talking, it's just my style I guess. It's all one take and no editing too so it's not always easy to get that balance right in real time. Thanks
Funny you should mention that lick / pattern, as I just started uploading an old VHS video lesson from the 80s where the guy does this pattern. It’s really where I learned it! It’s basically paradise city kind of vibes. I’m just doing in B as opposed to G and then I do a little variation toward the end of the lick. Check this out; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rl71hs-Gnnc.htmlsi=yQYjZXYUwsaoFMvQ
