Slash's Ultimate Guitar Showdown - Overview
STEP 1 - ENTERING
If you've just come through sign-up, you're already entered... otherwise click ENTER NOW in the control bar. So far, so good, but there's much more to do.
STEP 2 - SHOWING OFF YOUR SOLO
You’re going to need a video or mp3 that shows off your best guitar solo. If you’ve already got something that fits the bill, great, otherwise you’re going to have to record something special. It can be as simple as you, sitting in your room, wailing on your ax… or on stage with a band. You can play a whole, original song, or just the solo, whatever you think is best, so long as it shows off your best guitarmen-ship for Slash to see. Remember, it’s just the solo he’s looking for.
STEP 3 - UPLOADING YOUR WORK
It’s pretty easy actually, just click UPLOAD MEDIA in the control panel on your right. It'll walk you through the process from there.
STEP 4 - GETTING IT INTO THE HEAD-TO-HEAD PLAYER
Pay attention, we just changed the system. Now that you've uploaded your solo, click SELECT MEDIA in the Ultimate Guitar Showdown control bar at the top, to let the system know that's the clip you want in the competition and you're good to go!
STEP 5 - CHECKING THE MAIN COMPETITION PAGE
The direct address is showdown.musicnation.com, or you could click the SLASH'S ULTIMATE GUITAR SHOWDOWN logo at the very top left of your screen, but we'll also link to it from the musicnation.com homepage. From there we'll have links to the new Slash interviews uploaded weekly. More importantly though, you can also go to the Head-to-Head player to check out and rate your competition, as well as checking out the standings.
Don't forget, Slash has hidden 30 exclusive tips in the player, secret tidbits that could help you win.
If after seeing them all, as well as your competition, you’d like to change your entry, feel free. Simply upload a new submission, move it into the number one spot on your playlist, and see how your fellow competitors rate it.
FINALLY: SLASH HIMSELF STARTS WATCHING IN DECEMBER
Slash can’t look at everything, but your ratings decide what's worth his time, so keep at it in the Head-to-Head.
Remember though, there’s actually two winners:
One hand-picked by Slash as the best Solo, wins a Gibson Les Paul Studio, a Marshall Half-Stack,
and Slash's own, personal seal of approval.
The second, picked by Music Nation and Ultimate Guitar as the most unique or creative, gets a copy of Guitar Hero III featuring Slash and a Nintendo Wii.
Bottom line:
Get wild, get noticed, get the prize!