18 and Life Guitar Lesson (Chords/Outro Solo) - Skid Row

In this 18 and Life guitar lesson video series, I will show you how to play this classic by Skid Row song note-for-note. The first video will cover all of the rhythm guitar parts, including the intro and the outro guitar solo. The intro is instantly recognizable and is built around a C minor bar chord. It is arpeggio picked with slight variations added each time the pattern is repeated. Getting this riff to sound correct is probably the most difficult task of all the rhythm guitar parts. For the other sections of the song you mostly encounter power chords except in the chorus where there is also an arpeggio picked guitar riff doubled over the power chords. All-in-all though, the rhythm guitar parts for "18 and Life" should be pretty easy for the intermediate level guitarist. I will finish up the first video lesson with a look at the highly melodic outro guitar solo! Up next in the second video lesson, the MAIN GUITAR SOLO! The lead guitarist on this Skid Row track was Scotti Hill who created an instant classic with a solo containing some nice melodic licks, liberal use of pinch harmonics and little bit of flash at the end. In this 18 And Life guitar solo lesson, I will teach you note-for-note how to play all of those techniques. Besides being one of the greatest power ballads ever written, "18 And Life" is Skid Row&most successful single to date. You need to have a great solo to compliment such a great song and it is a good thing that Scotti Hill definitely delivered...