Slash Solo, my video :)

[henryjimmix]

Hi, new to the forum.. Stared playing again last Feburary - was well into shreding a couple of years ago but now more into tone and stuff..

Been wanting to learn this solo for a while cos I've always liked it - so I recorded it, here's the link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uqmjxiZDTI

It's a nice feel kinda solo, I know it easy enough to play, but it's also really good fun too!!

Hope you like, feel free to leave a comment if you do like it... or don't, bit of criticism ain't gonna hurt. :)

[fingerpikingood]

nice, music doesn't need to be hard to play in order to be good. it's not how hard it is to play that matters, it's just how it sounds. stories don't need to have a bunch of words that are hard to spell and hard to understand in order to be good. in fact it's better when they're not.

the hard part is coming up with the stories and coming up with the solos.

if i understand correctly this is a solo in a song you've learned to play.

if i were you, what i'd do next is mess around with the key scale of that tune for a while going nuts making mistakes and experimenting. then i'd look at that solo again and how it fits into the key, or fits out of it as the case might be, and then i'd try my hand at making a bunch of solos of my own.

don't forget, this guy who recorded this song didn't write this solo and memorize and play it for the recording. he showed up at the recording and just improvised it on the spot.

but you did well, you played it well, and it's a pretty nice solo too.

[henryjimmix]

Yeah I agree with you fella - thanks for the advise.
We played this song in a cover band I was in a few years ago and I always improvised over it, never came up with anything that sounded as good as the original though.

Yeah, it's just like you said, it's hard to come up with a good story, and sometimes people would prefer to listen to a well written story they've heard a thousand times before, told well than something someone just pieced together off the cuff cos it's just more entertaning for them.

[fingerpikingood]

True, but that you had not yet come up with something as good as the original does not mean you cannot or will not.

and ya, alot of people like to hear music as it was played on their cd, but that doesn't mean you couldn't come up with something better or different and as good.

i doubt slash ever played that solo that way ever again after he recorded that, or before for that matter.

[henryjimmix]

Yeah, thanks man, I'd love to write a better solo - I love that solo!
But yeah, your right, I should keep practicing and working at it, and keep trying to come up with a better solo. It's not gonna hurt and I'll learn from it.

I always found that when playing live, in a gigging situation, my improvised solos always sounded better than the ones I'd memorised. I think it's because I'm in the groove and mixing in and around the drummer/bass guitarist, also when I'm doing things live, I'm thinking more about the notes I choose and concentrating more on what I'm doing - Plus - if I mess up or forget a memorised solo I'm screwed, but I can easily get out of it with something I'm improvising on.

Cheers for the advise anyway dude, I'll defo working on something original and see what the guys on You Tube think of that. :)