Chords for Slash on Scales and Improv
Tempo:
107.5 bpm
Chords used:
B
G#
F#
G
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Every kid has a book of scales somewhere around, and you sit there and you play those, and
if you don't apply them to some sort of music, there's no use for them.
And once you start to play something like the music, you start to take off and you forget
about the scale.
I know a lot of guitar players that are amazing with scales.
I know I always talk about Steve.
He's like my sort of technical guitar mentor.
He always is telling me all these different things that you can do.
[G#] But I [G] usually [Bm] find a hard time applying them.
There's a lot of just weird tricks that you can do, starting on different notes and putting
a different scale and different key, this and that and the other.
And I just can't play with feel or any kind of emotion and be able to sort of mix those two.
So I just sort of make it up as I go along.
But [B] the main thing that I do go for is obviously the rock sound.
[C#] So that really is the simplest scale.
And then just putting different notes in that.
I stick with as many different rock positions as I can get.
And what changes them is [B] like, okay, say we're playing in C, right?
We're playing in a 1-4-5 progression.
[C#] Then you've got two different sort of very standard scales for it.
[Bm] And they have that scale all the way up.
[B] All the way up.
Right?
[C#] And then the other one is [B] sort of an A really.
But anyway, those are two.
And then you just start breaking up like a
[A] So you bring a
Is that a third into it?
No, not a third.
A [G] seventh [A] into it.
So there's [C#m] that.
And then
[B] there's
[G#] So there's [B] these passing tones.
So here's a major scale.
Or however you want to
You know what I mean, right?
And then so in that position, [F#] you can go
[G#] [D#] [G#]
[B]
Stuff like that.
And then when it gets into minor stuff, say it's in the same key, then you bring in all the
The flat third.
[D#m] And depending [B] on the song, if it's got an F major [E] in it, [B] or sometimes it just sounds
cool, where you bring in the [F#] sixth, right?
[B] Which in a minor note sounds pretty weird.
[G#] But
[F#] [B] if you're doing a really sort of real, real minor stuff, [G] then you have the flat sixth.
[F#] [B] [F#m] [C#m] [Bm]
[F#] [B]
[B] [G]
if you don't apply them to some sort of music, there's no use for them.
And once you start to play something like the music, you start to take off and you forget
about the scale.
I know a lot of guitar players that are amazing with scales.
I know I always talk about Steve.
He's like my sort of technical guitar mentor.
He always is telling me all these different things that you can do.
[G#] But I [G] usually [Bm] find a hard time applying them.
There's a lot of just weird tricks that you can do, starting on different notes and putting
a different scale and different key, this and that and the other.
And I just can't play with feel or any kind of emotion and be able to sort of mix those two.
So I just sort of make it up as I go along.
But [B] the main thing that I do go for is obviously the rock sound.
[C#] So that really is the simplest scale.
And then just putting different notes in that.
I stick with as many different rock positions as I can get.
And what changes them is [B] like, okay, say we're playing in C, right?
We're playing in a 1-4-5 progression.
[C#] Then you've got two different sort of very standard scales for it.
[Bm] And they have that scale all the way up.
[B] All the way up.
Right?
[C#] And then the other one is [B] sort of an A really.
But anyway, those are two.
And then you just start breaking up like a
[A] So you bring a
Is that a third into it?
No, not a third.
A [G] seventh [A] into it.
So there's [C#m] that.
And then
[B] there's
[G#] So there's [B] these passing tones.
So here's a major scale.
Or however you want to
You know what I mean, right?
And then so in that position, [F#] you can go
[G#] [D#] [G#]
[B]
Stuff like that.
And then when it gets into minor stuff, say it's in the same key, then you bring in all the
The flat third.
[D#m] And depending [B] on the song, if it's got an F major [E] in it, [B] or sometimes it just sounds
cool, where you bring in the [F#] sixth, right?
[B] Which in a minor note sounds pretty weird.
[G#] But
[F#] [B] if you're doing a really sort of real, real minor stuff, [G] then you have the flat sixth.
[F#] [B] [F#m] [C#m] [Bm]
[F#] [B]
[B] [G]
Key:
B
G#
F#
G
Bm
B
G#
F#
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Every kid has a book of scales somewhere around, and you sit there and you play those, and
if you don't apply them to some sort of music, there's no use for them.
And once you start to play something like the music, you start to take off and you forget
about the scale.
I know a lot of guitar players that are amazing with scales.
I know I always talk about Steve.
He's like my _ sort of technical guitar mentor.
He always is telling me all these different things that you can do.
[G#] But I [G] usually _ [Bm] find a hard time applying them.
There's a lot of just weird tricks that you can do, starting on different notes and putting
a different scale and different key, this and that and the other.
And I just can't play with feel or any kind of emotion and be able to sort of mix those two.
So I just sort of make it up as I go along.
But [B] the main thing that I do go for is obviously the rock sound.
[C#] So that really is the simplest scale.
And then just putting different notes in that.
I stick with as many different rock positions as I can get.
And what changes them is [B] like, okay, say we're playing in C, right?
We're playing in a 1-4-5 progression.
_ [C#] Then you've got two different sort of very standard scales for it.
[Bm] _ _ _ And they have that scale all the way up.
_ [B] All the way up. _ _ _
_ _ _ Right?
[C#] And then the other one is _ _ [B] sort _ of _ _ an A really.
But anyway, those are two.
And then you just start breaking up like a_
[A] _ So you bring a_
_ Is that a third into it?
No, not a third.
A [G] seventh [A] into it.
So there's [C#m] that.
And then _
[B] there's_
[G#] _ So there's [B] these passing tones.
So here's a major scale.
_ _ Or however you want to_
You know what I mean, right?
And then so in that position, [F#] you can go_
[G#] _ _ [D#] _ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
Stuff like that.
And then when it gets into minor stuff, say it's in the same key, then you bring in all the_
The flat third.
[D#m] And depending [B] on the song, if it's got an F major [E] in it, [B] or sometimes it just sounds
cool, where you bring in the [F#] sixth, _ right? _
[B] Which in a minor note sounds pretty weird.
[G#] But _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ [B] if you're doing a really sort of _ real, real minor stuff, [G] then you have the _ flat sixth.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Every kid has a book of scales somewhere around, and you sit there and you play those, and
if you don't apply them to some sort of music, there's no use for them.
And once you start to play something like the music, you start to take off and you forget
about the scale.
I know a lot of guitar players that are amazing with scales.
I know I always talk about Steve.
He's like my _ sort of technical guitar mentor.
He always is telling me all these different things that you can do.
[G#] But I [G] usually _ [Bm] find a hard time applying them.
There's a lot of just weird tricks that you can do, starting on different notes and putting
a different scale and different key, this and that and the other.
And I just can't play with feel or any kind of emotion and be able to sort of mix those two.
So I just sort of make it up as I go along.
But [B] the main thing that I do go for is obviously the rock sound.
[C#] So that really is the simplest scale.
And then just putting different notes in that.
I stick with as many different rock positions as I can get.
And what changes them is [B] like, okay, say we're playing in C, right?
We're playing in a 1-4-5 progression.
_ [C#] Then you've got two different sort of very standard scales for it.
[Bm] _ _ _ And they have that scale all the way up.
_ [B] All the way up. _ _ _
_ _ _ Right?
[C#] And then the other one is _ _ [B] sort _ of _ _ an A really.
But anyway, those are two.
And then you just start breaking up like a_
[A] _ So you bring a_
_ Is that a third into it?
No, not a third.
A [G] seventh [A] into it.
So there's [C#m] that.
And then _
[B] there's_
[G#] _ So there's [B] these passing tones.
So here's a major scale.
_ _ Or however you want to_
You know what I mean, right?
And then so in that position, [F#] you can go_
[G#] _ _ [D#] _ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
Stuff like that.
And then when it gets into minor stuff, say it's in the same key, then you bring in all the_
The flat third.
[D#m] And depending [B] on the song, if it's got an F major [E] in it, [B] or sometimes it just sounds
cool, where you bring in the [F#] sixth, _ right? _
[B] Which in a minor note sounds pretty weird.
[G#] But _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ [B] if you're doing a really sort of _ real, real minor stuff, [G] then you have the _ flat sixth.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _