Slash is a hard rock musician.
`` November Rain '' is a power ballad by the American hard rock band Guns N ' Roses . Slash (musician) . Guitar World ranked his guitar solo in `` November Rain '' No. 6 on their list of `` The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos '' in 2008 , and Total Guitar placed his riff in `` Sweet Child o ' Mine '' at No. 1 on their list of `` The 100 Greatest Riffs '' in 2004 .