“That was one of those moments in my life where everything felt validated”: Marty Schwartz says Slash has used his YouTube tutorials to learn blues guitar
Marty Schwartz says Slash used his tutorial content to brush up on his blues-style guitar techniques.
Schwartz is one of the most prominent guitar teachers on YouTube, having taught players of all ages through his free video tutorials on popular songs, guitar set-up, and much more. He currently has a whopping 4.58 million subscribers on the platform, and apparently, Slash is one of his many viewers.
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According to Schwartz, he ran into Slash following an interview with Gibson for a documentary it was making about the artists that work with its instruments, and had no idea the Guns N’ Roses legend would be there too.
Following the interview, as the crew began to move things along and clear people out, Schwartz spotted Slash coming in for his shoot. In a YouTube video about the bizarre day, he recalls, “I start heading towards the exit of the studio and right as the door opens for me, boom – in the doorway is Slash, and I had no idea he was coming or that’s why everyone was getting serious.
“Slash [had] someone with him, a handler or someone from Gibson was chaperoning him, and [we meet] eye-to-eye, and he is a hero of mine, especially as when I was a kid… I’m only saying this because it’s absolutely true, it sounds like a flex but I’m only telling it to you because it is the truth, it’s still one of the greatest professional days of my life.”
He continues, “I was just like, ‘Whoa, hey Slash’, and he says ‘Whoa, Marty oh my God.’ And I’m getting chills right now even just saying that. He was like, ‘It’s really cool when you watch someone a lot and then you get to actually meet them in person.’”
Slash then took him into the hallway while everyone else was setting up for the shot so they could have a proper conversation: “I realised at the time that he was either just about to or had already released a blues covers album [2024’s Orgy Of The Damned] and so I think that’s why he said he had been watching me.”
Schwartz adds, “He said he had some of my instructional stuff saved on his computer and there were some really cool blues-style techniques that he learned from some of my stuff. He was so nice and complimentary… That was one of [those] moments in my life where everything felt validated.”
You can check out Marty Schwartz’ video below:
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