caponi...I think Doug might be getting at something...not that I would speak on his behalf. I mean, I wouldn't want to try to play over a song unless I could get in to the swing of it. For me, I love Le Freak (points to anyone who can tell me how the song came in to being ;) ). I love the groove and the swing. If your not diggin' on the groove of the song, playing the solo over it will never come naturally.

I think others said it here and I said it in the past, it's obvious your playing is very much centered around Slash. It's the only artist you've ever asked about. I will mention again, if you want to play like Slash, learn his influences and not just him. Your not going to understand why he can rip over a funky chord comp unless you can get why he likes it and thus why he can do it. He grew up playing Rory Gallagher, Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Queen, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck etc.

I should also mention this, you may want to try to sound as close to Slash as you can but you won't. Not that you won't be a skilled guitar player, it's because you're not Slash. Slash made his unique and rightfully respected voice as a guitar player because he listening to a spectrum of music. His sense of phrasing and timing is from that spectrum. You are trying replicate him without understanding the path that he took to get there.