This course is for you if…

1. You already play guitar and want to incorporate Slash’s style, sound, and scale system into your playing

2. You want to understand how to use Slash’s scales and licks to create your own sound and FINALLY stop memorizing solos

3. You have an hour a day for a week to learn Slash’s scale-first approach

4. You want to improvise solos with confidence either by yourself or during a session

This course is not for you if…

1. You are just now picking up the guitar
2. You aren’t interested in learning how to create Slash’s iconic sound
3. You’re looking to memorize Slash’s solo note-for-note
4. You don’t have an hour a day to learn the scale system behind Slash’s iconic sound

What You’ll Find Inside The Course

Part 1: Bending & Vibrato Mini-Course

The course kicks off by walking you through Slash’s bending and vibrato techniques. Here you’ll discover the mechanics along with the different types of bends and exercises you can follow to quickly get up to speed on this technique. After that, you’ll learn why vibrato is important, and exercises for creating your own personal vibrato.

1: Course Introduction – welcome to the course!

2: Bending Technique – Gabriel demonstrates different bending techniques, along with the mechanics of executing a proper bend and showing different types of bends you can do (half stop, whole stop, overbend, etc.).

3: Bending Exercises – here Gabriel walks you through a series of exercises you can use in your practice routine to nail your bending technique, pull off clean bends in your playing, avoiding things like bending out of tune, bending too fast, etc.

4: Vibrato Technique – moving on to vibrato, Gabriel walks you through different types of vibrato, talks about the vibrato different players have, why vibrato is important (namely that it gives a player their unique personality on the guitar), as well as demonstrating types of vibrato (fast/slow/wide/narrow/etc.).

5: Vibrato Exercises – next a series of exercises that you can add to your own practice routine to get good smooth vibrato that is in time with the music.

6: Final Thoughts – this contains an overview of what you’ve learned along with suggestions on what to learn next!

Part 2: Legato Mini-Course

In this next section you’ll learn legato fundamentals as well as some killer techniques for erasing unwanted noise. Gabriel will walk you through proper placement, execution, and how to play without wearing yourself out. This part closes out by deep diving into how to mute unwanted noise from untargeted strings.

1: Introduction to Legato – welcome to the course!

2: Left Hand Technique & Concepts – Gabriel walks through some of the building blocks of legato using your left hand, covers things like thumb placement (two different positions depending on what you’re trying to do), finger placement (to get clear notes and good speed), minimizing movement and strength (basically you want to move as little as possible and only play as hard as you have to so that you aren’t tiring yourself out doing too much), and general legato technique, demonstrating both hammer ons and pull offs, how to execute them cleanly without unwanted noise or too much movement that would cause over exertion or injury. Also covers trills, which are rapid hammer ons and pull offs.

3: Muting Unwanted Noise – one of the big mistakes people make with legato is having a lot of noise coming from the strings they’re NOT targeting, so this module walks you through various techniques to ensure the only string ringing out is the one you want to hear, covering both left and right hand muting.

4: Legato Exercises – Next, Gabriel walks you through a series of exercises that you can use in your own practice routine to strengthen your fingers, clean up your playing, and get good clean legato, covering both hammer ons and pull offs, as well as hammering on from nowhere, muting, and other legato hacks!

5: Course Conclusion – here Gabriel gives a recap, ties it all together, and suggests what to learn from here.

Part 3: Double Stops Mini-Course

In this section you’ll learn how to create unique and iconic sounds by playing two notes at the same time. You’ll learn the common double stop notes (Gab teaches it in c minor scale), how to incorporate it into the pentatonic scale, and how to use triads in double stops. The session closes with Gab sharing his best tips to make this complicated system easy to learn.

1: Introduction – welcome to the course!.

2: What is a Double Stop – For those who are new to the idea of double stops, we give you a ground floor explanation and demonstration of this technique.

3: What notes can be used in Double Stops – Double stops can be performed in any scale, but Gabriel walks you through most common double stops – thirds, fourths, fifths and octaves. Gab uses the C minor scale to demonstrate each of the most common ones, played through the whole scale.

4: Incorporating Double Stops with the Pentatonic Scale – double stops are most commonly played using the pentatonic scale, so Gabriel walks you through how you would do this in your playing, basically giving you a practical roadmap for how to easily incorporate double stops in your playing. Then a little minor pentatonic jam plays, demonstrating this technique.

5: Incorporating Double Stops using Triads – Another technique for finding good double stop ideas within a key or within a solo. Triads are three notes, so if you know your triads, you have two choices within each triad (1/2, 1/3). Gab reveals all!

6: Technique Tips For Playing Double Stops – Walking through techniques to embellish your double stops and make them more vibey. Walks through regular picking (downstrokes or alternate picking), hybrid picking (combining picking and fingers), fingerpicking, slides, and legato.

7: Final Thoughts – a review of everything you learned in this section, along with some suggestions on next steps.

Part 4: Slash Masterclass Techniques & Scales

This is where you combine all the techniques you learned to unlock the Snakepit Scale. You’ll learn the scales Slash uses, how to switch between them, and the simple techniques that unlock the ‘Slash Slur’ (IE-the legato techniques shared in part 2), how to use hybrid notes (IE-double stops), bending, vibrato, and more. The course ends with a quick wrap up before diving into the two Slash solos you’ll learn so you can tie everything together and start soloing with confidence!

1: Course Introduction – welcome to the course!.

2: The Snakepit Scale – here Gab walks through how Slash combines several different scales to create his own scale known as “The Snakepit Scale”. Gab teaches each scale involved in each position and shows how to switch between them to get that Slash sound.

3: Slash’s Techniques – walks through how Slash uses all of the techniques covered so far, along with his Slash Scale, to get his iconic style.

4: Course Conclusion – Gab goes back over what you’ve learned and gives suggestions for next steps.

Exercise Sessions: Fundamental Slash – 15 Licks & Riffs to Help Unlock Slash’s Style

This is the official intro for the final part of the course! By now you’ve mastered the basic skills you’ll need. In this short section you get introduced to Gab, learn about his style, and get a walkthrough of his gear choices.

1: Welcome To The Course – an overview of coming lessons.

2: Meet Your Instructor – Gab introduces himself, gives some background and explains his relationship to Slash’s playing.

3: Introduction to Slash’s Influences, Style and Sound – Here Gab walks through Slash’s major influences, gives a general overview of his style, and talks briefly about the gear he uses to get his signature sound

Slash Song 1: Uptempo

This first song will have you playing an uptempo solo using the techniques you’ve learned. To make learning easy, we’ve included a moving tab layout you can play along with. We include backing tracks you can play with tabs on the screen, a half speed option to unlock any ‘sticky’ sections, and get insight and advice from Gab’s years on the road.

Slash Style Song & Solo 1 – Playthrough – Let’s hear the first solo! Gabriel talks through what he’s about to play, what songs influenced this solo, a little about the techniques involved, and then plays the solo at full speed with moving tab on screen so you can follow along.

Lick 1 Discussion & Walkthrough – For each of these licks, Gabriel talks about what inspired the lick, plays the lick at full speed with backing track and tab on screen, plays the lick at half speed without backing track, and then walks through the lick note by note, explaining the scale involved, giving playing advice, etc.

Lick 2 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 3 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 4 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 5 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 6 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 7 Discussion & Walkthrough

Slash Song 2: Lower Tempo

The second song will have you playing a lower tempo solo using the techniques you’ve learned. This section includes everything from the first song, such as the moving tab layout you can play along with. We include backing tracks you can play with tabs on the screen, a half-speed option to unlock any ‘sticky’ sections, and get insight and advice for Gab’s years on the road.

Slash Style Song & Solo 2 – Playthrough – Now it’s time to hear the second solo! Once again, Gabriel talks through what he’s about to play, what songs influenced this solo, a little about the techniques involved, and then plays the solo at full speed with moving tab on screen so you can follow along.

Lick 1 Discussion & Walkthrough – For each of these licks, Gabriel talks about what inspired the lick, plays the lick at full speed with backing track and tab on screen, plays the lick at half speed without backing track, and then walks through the lick note by note, explaining the scale involved, giving playing advice, etc.

Lick 2 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 3 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 4 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 5 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 6 Discussion & Walkthrough

Lick 7 Discussion & Walkthrough

Course End: Conclusion & Files

Gab closes out the course with insight into how to use the licks to create your own variations you then work into your own improvised solos! You’ll also find all the course files for solos, PDFs for tabs, and the Guitar Pro files for the solos.

How To Use These Licks – Gabriel walks through how to practice these licks, and demonstrates how to create variations of the licks to make them your own and work them into your own playing.

Conclusion – you’re all done! Gab gives his final goodbyes!

Course files – Folder with backing tracks for both solos, PDFs of tabs for both solos, and Guitar Pro files for both solos.