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    5 guitar tricks you can learn from Slash

    Slash’s loose but aggressive playing on classics such as Sweet Child O’ Mine,
    Welcome To The Jungle and Paradise City inspired a generation of guitarists to
    pick up a Gibson Les Paul at a time when pointy headstocks, doublecuts and Floyd
    Rose whammy bars were considered the essential stage gear.

    In this month’s lesson we’re looking at some ringing arpeggios and his melodic
    lead style. You’ll need three tones to play along: a clean chorus sound using a Les
    Paul set to its middle pickup position for the arpeggios; a high gain Marshall-style
    distortion tone with the neck pickup tone control rolled off a little; and a fully
    maxed out bridge pickup setting using the same distortion tone.

    Of course, a Les Paul will get you closest to Slash’s sounds but any humbucker-
    equipped guitar should get you in the tonal ballpark.

    1. Clean chorused arpeggios

    This style of chorus-drenched arpeggio playing will be familiar to fans of Guns N’


    Roses - check out songs like Paradise City or Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door to hear
    those classic Gibson cleans. These 16th notes are all played with ‘down up’ style
    alternate picking which can be tough at any tempo, so make sure to practise slowly
    at first.

    2. Fluid string bending


    Switching to a neck pickup and a driven Marshall amp tone, this melodic lick is
    fairly simple in terms of content, but make sure to pay attention to those string
    bends. Use the notation to guide you but remember that Slash would play these
    with a typically loose, drawling style - aim for a fluid, vocal delivery that’s not too
    tight.

    3. Oblique string bends

    The previous example should prepare you a little for this one where, once again,
    correct pitching on the string bends is key. Aim to let the notes ring together on the
    bends in bars 1 and 3 (a technique known as an oblique bend) for a November Rain
    vibe. Aim to keep it as clean and clear as possible throughout the rest of the lick.

    4. Legato flurries

    Switching to the bridge pickup, this brighter-sounding example demonstrates how


    Slash might embellish a lick with hammer-ons and pull-offs in between the ‘main’
    melody notes. Just look for the tight note flurries in the notation: the 32nd notes
    and the triplet in bar 1 are the rhythms to home in on.

    5. High register lick


    These high register bends can be tough work when you’re not used to them,
    but bracing two or three fretting hand fingers together can make it less of a
    hurdle. Having successfully completed these, we move down through the G
    major pentatonic scale for some bluesy phrasing in a lower register.

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