Originally Posted by: caponi14Hello everybody i want to ask you something.
I have picked up the quitar some time ago, and now i think im getting ready to turn up the heat, if you know what i mean?? :)

And since my biggest idol is slash i would like to learn to play ''Ala'' his style improvisation shredding.


I have listen to ALOT of his music. But i still quite can't fingure out how he alternates his fast stuff and make it sound so clean (and especially at the really high notes, how can he keep a lick going and going like that and still keep it clean?) . The legato and things like that, and how he goes up and down the fretboard really fast. If somebody knows some good courses or know how to achive this skill i will thanks you a thousand times?!

And one more thing. I would like you to maybe make me a list of things i need to be able to do and be good at, for me to develop this style and skill.
A list of like: double stomps and scales i need, and those kinda things. Please, Please, Please someone. Help me with this.

This means alot to me!?

Casper :)

A really good player I know said that the great players just practice a lot. No short cut for quick clean playing than to just practice. Particularly in my shred days so many years ago, I played pretty darn fast and clean. It took time building the chops and patients with my timing. While the feel for it was reasonably natural, even now that I don't play as often as when I was hardcore, if I get ahead of myself I just get messy. It really is a 'walk before you can run' scenario.

If anything I did (and I'm sure instructors here have better suggestions) that helped was to slowly alternate pick through scales. It was one of my warm up drills that I did in front of the TV. It worked for me anyway.

Also, most good artists know the vocabulary of licks that comprise good lead playing and have spent time integrating them in to their playing so that it really comes naturally.

So, them's my thoughts.