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I learned it the second way first but realising it wasn’t how Slash plays it had a look at the other DVD. I think the (alternative) way on the learn to play DVD is actually a bit easier to get to grips with.
Oh yeah, shout out to Danny Gill who has taught me most of what I can do on guitar!
Funnily enough it's that song that I vowed I'll never play again as I've played it so many times I've grown tired of it and every band plays it I know of ....... badly
I've never really learned it properly as it turns out - I do an alternate picked run in the 1st position pentatonic box at the 12th fret. Sounds close but not spot on. Now I'll have to learn this instead. And yes, it does not look easy!
https://youtu.be/w6Y3mKy8s2k?t=94
I learned it from the video posted by @NelsonP (three posts earlier), but had trouble with the C to B and D# to B, which ties my fingers up in knots, so I worked out a way of doing it using pull-offs on the first string. My transcription of how I 'attempt' to play is in the picture below. I also find it easier to think of it in three chunks, which I've marked in the transcription.
https://i.imgur.com/7NRyGr0.png ;
I mostly agree, but there are times when a video lesson can carry more information than a tab and can help with where to put fingers etc.
I'd say the more experience you have the less useful a video is but for beginners a well made video is a lot easier than a tab.
As a side note, a 'technical' problem I had was that my band want to play this in the original Eb - our vocalist 'can't' (allegedly, lol) do this in E and he and the bass player are just 'used' to doing it in Eb). Now, there's no way my brain and fingers can cope with transposing this in standard tuning (I've got my work cut out learning it normally & I know my fingers would get confused!), I don't want to have to go to the hassle of physically retuning or taking another guitar tuned to Eb just for one song, and none of my guitars have 'robo-tuners'.
But then I spotted something on You-tube that was a revelation and simply never occurred to me - I could use the pitch-shift effect on my Zoom G5n (haven't tried it with my Tonelabs yet). So I set the pitch-shifter to the settings in the vid and voila - works absolutely perfectly with no latency or unwanted tonal issues whatsoever. Bloody brilliant!! (the idea that is, not me!). So I now have a 'Slash' patch set in Eb with a wah kick in, and (at least tone & key wise) I'm rockin'!
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I struggled with both the rhythm and speed and have much more work to do. I can wing it using a pentatonic run but now i realise thats cheating and i want to develop the technique to play it properly.
Silly really because I hardly ever play the song and theres plenty of other bits I dont know properly.
But now its bugging me.
If you just wing it you wont get any better
Have you thought about getting a top hat?
If it doesn't help to improve your playing you might be able to use it to conjure something up.
This works.
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proggy said: Yeah, but then I'd have to play my LP down by my knees...not a good look for a shorty like me!