Jorchi Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Yo...I am sittin her trying to tab the Used to love her at fox late night show...and I find it extremely hard..then a kind of noobie tought rushed through my head....Is Slash really making this fantastic solos up while he plays? (improvising)....or has he made it up before the show?and the kohd live era solos to, are they improvising or not? anyone knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 I ain't seen the clip but if it's drastically different from the recorded version then probably yeah, but he most likely mapped out a few licks before he went out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabre Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 ^^^ what he said, slash would have written a few licks and then strung them together while improvising in the solo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorchi Posted November 6, 2005 Author Share Posted November 6, 2005 ah I see.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistedthoughts Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Yeah man. You have to remember that Slash has played all of those songs hundreds of times in rehearsals so the majority of the "spontaneous" stuff he does is usually very well practiced (hence his excellent execution).I'm not saying that the whole solo would have been planned note for note though.One of my favourite solos is the 2nd one in KOHD from the UYI II DVD. That was awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backslazh Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Yo...I am sittin her trying to tab the Used to love her at fox late night show...and I find it extremely hard..then a kind of noobie tought rushed through my head....Is Slash really making this fantastic solos up while he plays? (improvising)....or has he made it up before the show?and the kohd live era solos to, are they improvising or not? anyone knows?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Could you upload the movie? I'd like to see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisi Rokks Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 u just jam in the same key the song is in. for example, im pretty sure KOHD is in E so just jam in E or somethin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnezz Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Improvising solos is nothing really, many many many guitarists do it.Ritchie Blackmore improvised all his solos in the studio, the problem was live he couldn't remember how they exactly how he did it in the studio, but it didn't matter because he just made it up as he went along, this made live gigs much more interesting as nothing was the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisi Rokks Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Improvising solos is nothing really, many many many guitarists do it.Ritchie Blackmore improvised all his solos in the studio, the problem was live he couldn't remember how they exactly how he did it in the studio, but it didn't matter because he just made it up as he went along, this made live gigs much more interesting as nothing was the same.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thats what i do lol. The solo's on my last bands demo tape were totally different how i played them live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlslash Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Typically, as you play songs several times you start to discover licks that you think sound the best. Even though you're still improvising the solo, persay, many of the licks are things that you work out in jams ahead of time. For example my band covers All Along the Watchtower a lot. Being a jam band, there's between 10 and 15 minutes of soloing (at least) every time we play it. You can hear a short (8 min), low-quality version of it over on our MySpace site. I know the vocals aint so hot, but it was a bad day vocally for me to begin with, and I couldn't hear myself due to the way the amps, mics, etc were set up. That was no matter, though, since this was just us rehearsing. But I digress. I play lead, and whenever we play that song, there are certain licks that I pulled out of Dylan's rescent live versions, as well as just licks that I've come up with and enjoy, that are always there. Solos on songs that I've played a lot tend to come to me easier, seeing as I have a library of licks for it stored in my head already, so I just have to think of filler to string them together. It's all a matter of the player, thou, I guess. That's my prefference. Slash may map his solo out entirely ahead of time, but being a lead guitarist for a jam band, I can't do that, so ^^^ that's what I do.Sorry if this was kind of rantish, but I hope it answered your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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