A series of new online guitar tutorials from eHow promise to teach aspiring guitar players to play like a variety of famous guitarists who spent years practicing their respective styles before making it big.
A simple transcript of the first video from this series sufficiently explains to viewers how to play guitar like Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash in simple, easy to follow steps that will have them performing “Sweet Child O’ Mine” in no time:
“I’m going to show you how to play a guitar like Slash.
So to play like Slash, one thing we want to learn is the pentatonic scale.
You play it like this.
So once you have the pentatonic scale down, you want to learn bending. What bending is, is just grabbing a string, and pulling it down about a half an inch.
So once you have the pentatonic scale down, and bends, you can play solos like Slash.”
“And that’s how you play like Slash.”
The online series also offers equally helpful tutorials on how to mimic styles of other famous guitarists, including Van Halen, Kirk Hammett, and Kurt Cobain.