Wayne Owen at rickbeato.com but I would wait for one Ricks new videos that usually includes a 30% percent off code. And with that money saved.....DNA test kit time.
You, Robert Baker and Tyler from music is win are the channels that I've learned the most new tricks from, I was stuck on a plateau that you guys made me move from, I wasn't even thinking about learning stuff but you guys make it so easy and fun. Thanks for all the teachings 🙏🤘
Switching positions, strings and fingerings is a great way to get different sounds, phrasings and moods out of the same notes. Excellent video... as usual. THANKS UNCLE BEN! Yur the BEaST!
You and Rick are both awesome dudes, can't thank you enough for the fantastic advice and tips I've discovered on your channels. All I can say is, I wish I had access to you two when I was starting out in the late 90's. Would've been a game-changer.
The book I learned guitar from has the A natural minor scale (or aeolian mode) pattern starting on the 5th fret of the low E string, so I first learned it by starting with my pinky finger.
I appreciate your time and effort. You are a great teacher for shredders. Most people cant do what you do and is somewhat discouraging !! Maybe slow it down for the mere mortals. You are very blessed as a guitarist.
My freatboard hack is learning the position of one note all over the fretboard for 20 Minutes a day. Rinse and repeat for every note. Takes about 2 weeks to learn all of them if you're dilligent, less if you spend more time.
@@jameslane9537 Swiggity. It's a good way to broach the subject with people. Ben's got a really approachable demeanor in how he explains stuff. Makes it sound simple so people don't go "OHHHH NOOOOOEZZ!" and run to the hills.
@@tylersherkin9487 it is a good way to incorporate those Major shapes that I otherwise struggle to utilize. In other words... I hate playing in Major keys, lol...
@@tylersherkin9487 it is a good way to incorporate those Major shapes that I otherwise struggle to utilize. In other words... I hate playing in Major keys, lol...
What really helped me was using one octave scales based around three string triads and their inversions. I could play lots of six string scales, but they would often reduce to dot patterns in my head which, while in the right key, led to me playing a lot of meaningless runs and brain freeze. Smaller patterns helped me play more fluidly and meaningfully, improving my ear in the process. Once mastered they are also easy to link up into many different larger groupings.
I only discovered this channel couple of weeks ago trying to find someone talking sense about evh's playing and why guitarists love him.... Now I'm hooked.... AND hopefully becoming a better guitarist after 50 years.... Also learning to smile when I play!!!! Ben you're great!
Congrats Uncle, you know this stuff for sure! Always great and fresh information even for old guitar veterans like myself. I remember Greg Howe saying to an old Guitar magazine back in late 80s something like "I only know a huge mixolydian pattern that covers the entire neck"
Im fairly new to guitar and I've been trying every video I can find and was having ALOT of trouble learning where all of the notes were on the fretboard, Im currently doing the CAGED system and I'm so confused until I saw this video and my head almost exploded off my shoulders...This is the best video not only for memorizing what notes are where but also for dexterity and really drilling in those notes in a practical way that can also sound like your shredding, it forced me to know where they are. MIND FUCKING BLOWN, thanks a lot man!
Wow! You are a great teacher man! Stumbled across this and I am glad I did. I have struggled to grasp a lot of this in the past and the way you explain it really helped. Thanks and subbed!
Good lesson, I have noticed one thing that surprises me though is that when learning solos from many well known rock guitarists is that 80-90% are played by the artist around box 1... so embrace this lesson and you’ll be better than them!
Really good lesson! Thanks. I like how you tie everything your doing to being able to play something "cool" that ultimately connects with an audience. That Satriani-ish riff was really demonstrative. (I'm a Beato subscriber too...)
I never really explored or understood the 3 note per string concept. Thanks to you, I do now. Shredding isn't my thing, but one is never smarter from not knowing something.
Great lesson. I've used this same method when trying to figure out other peoples riffs either through tab or by ear. If it seems to hard to play, you're probably not playing it in the right position/pattern.
Starting with your pinky on the root and playing a natural minor makes it a bit easier for those with smaller hands to shred it up a bit. Putting the stretch first makes it flow easier.
a trick i use is use the proper power chord shape to find the octaves and create scales around that pretty much. but should probably focus abit more on the scales then i do :). tho also reading sheet music helped me try different position and where to find the note or converting piano stuffs into guitar helped me alot. the last one also helped me with finding weird chord shapes on guitar and some interesting triad stuffs.
I'm just picking up guitar and have only been at it for 2 weeks now (previously tried learning like 10 years ago for a few months). So I'm still a fresh beginner. But I love watching videos like this, Rick's videos, etc......this makes me so excited and eager to learn more because of how deep and varied the guitar is. I can't make sense of any of the music theory, but I still watch just to see what is possible lol
I'm used to RUclips guitar video intro music all sounding the same. Some kind of distorted guitar with aggressive drums etc. You know what I'm talking about. The intro music here was an incredibly refreshing change, especially the bass line
This is what I did with the pentatonic scale we all know and after learning all the positions and the in betweens it let me fly that all over the place. After I learned more scales I just applied the same idea and 20 years later here we are haha
I use a numbering system to understand where I'm at when playing across the fret. I think the cool thing about guitar is that as long as you understand basic interval theory you will eventually reach an understanding of your own. I remember watching a fender next video with Melanie Faye where she commented a bit on her numbering system, and for me it clicked just like that.
I always find these things interesting because I learned to play off three note per string boxes so I've always done this by using my ear to determine tonal centers instead of worrying about specific scales or modes. It doesn't work for everything because you can obviously combine completely different scales by using modal theory and that I've never understood fully, but for the simple stuff I see people explain this and I'm just surprised that anyone didn't already learn it because it seems so fundamental to me. It's kind of cool to realize how many different ways there are to approach the guitar and how that will change at what points you plateau temporarily or possibly even permanently due to your fundamental understanding of the instrument.
This is great advice for nerds like me trying to learn as many inversions of chords as possible. If you know the scale, you know the chords. 👍 (And you can arpeggiate sweet licks.)
I found the most useful fretboard learning trick fromRick Beato is playing the major scale starting at each note in the major pentatonic up the low E string. Not sure about this “Starting hand position” thing nor the selection of the minor scale. It’s seems to me the major scale is what you need so if you want to play Am you can just use the positions of C major this only needing to learn one set of patterns. More fancy scales can then just be added as you need them
Useful advice, for sure. I'm guilty of playing in shapes that I'm extremely familiar with and not challenging myself with other positions as much. That's probably something most people are doing as well, so this is good stuff for kicking my ass into gear and learn the other positions as well. ALSO. It was cool to have you on the Doug Doppler stream last night. It was a lot of fun and I didn't even realize three hours had passed until everyone had signed off and I looked at the clock, heh.
@@BenEller Sounds like a riot. I'll definitely check it out. Honestly, that broadcast motivated me even more to make it to JPGU3 next year (went to JPGU2 and it was a blast). Will you be there to support Andy, by chance?
My girlfriend liked the new fingering techniques you showed me... she loves when I play guitar. Thanks uncle Ben!!! Btw.. what is on your shirt? 😂 P.s. also RUclips unsubscribed me. MOST HEINOUS!
The Satch-type lick reminds me a little of Bells of Lal (pt. 1), which reminds me of Uncle Stepdad's version of The Forgotten (pt. 1) from many years back. Not too shabby, my friend. And this comes from someone who can't play his way out of a wet paper bag, so take it for what it's worth.
Ok I’m gonna have to probably rewatch this like 100 times to get it cuz I’m kinda slow haha but ima get it!! Thanks brother you’re a great teacher man! I really appreciate all your help!
Hey Uncle Ben. A couple of years ago I came up with a similar way to expand my ideas and scale patterns, based on using mode patterns instead of standard scale shapes. For example, C Lydian is the same notes as E minor, so sometimes I’ll change my thought process and play the fingerings or patterns that I associate with C Lydian and it gives me different starting points and phrasings within E minor. Although it’s the same notes, it makes me feel like I’m playing something fresh and gets me out of ruts
Shave off the right and left side of two different guitars so left on one right on the other. Stop at the neck. Attach 2 guitars together perpendicularly. You have a z axis. I don't know why you would, or how you would use it, but there you go.
Thanks Ben. I am a fan of Rick. I have several versions of ‘The Beato Book’. Good reference and musical knowledge. Ben you truly are the Man From UNCLE! Now what does UNCLE stand for? Mmmm? Maybe ‘Understanding Nice Clues Left from Eller’? I don’t know that just popped out from my feeble brain... I’m sure you can come up with a better acronym/acrostic?
To amplify your point about learning many ways to play the same lick... If you used Troy Grady's "downward pick slanting technique," rather than alternate picking, you could play that same lick with down down up and forget the difficult string skipping.
Systems like these are good. I learned 3 major scale shapes and later 5 pentatonic shapes, which when combined, suddenly connected the whole fret board for me in any key. I still have a long way to go, but I'm approaching middle age and time to practice isn't always there =/
I know all that.....have for years.....but don't practice it nearly enough...that's why you are a great guitar guru...I might even open a Patreon account
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Every time I watch one of Rick's videos, I feel like a much better musician. Then I pick up my guitar, and I play at red-headed stepchild speed.
Oh, the pain of reality..... ;)
Ha same for me!
I am a redhead. I am a stepchild. I am sad now.
Hah! Jokes about genetics!
LMAO
Bro you're teaching methods are incredible and the amount of free lessons and content are even more amazing. It is greatly appreciated.
..."the more boxes that you know, the more potential for cool licks"... (having a Beavis & Butthead moment here) ;P
[Imitating Snoop] "Heh. Yay-uhh."
Uh heh-heh-heh...he said box
We're gonna score!
Boi yoi yoi yoi yoi yoi yoi yoiiiiiiinggggg!
A Freudian slip of the tongue
One of the best explanations I've seen about how to visualize the fretboard and see where the tonal differences are. Great job Ben.
I'm a stepdad but I bought the Beato Book. Now I play at Eller speed.
I'm a supposedly real dad playing at step dad speeds. Where might a "real" dad purchase one of those and also a DNA testing kit?
Wayne Owen at rickbeato.com but I would wait for one Ricks new videos that usually includes a 30% percent off code.
And with that money saved.....DNA test kit time.
So you went from stepdad speed to uncle speed?
@@Eskimogunslinger lol.
@@Eskimogunslinger The code from Rick's latest video was still active as of 12 hours ago when I bought mine.
You, Robert Baker and Tyler from music is win are the channels that I've learned the most new tricks from, I was stuck on a plateau that you guys made me move from, I wasn't even thinking about learning stuff but you guys make it so easy and fun. Thanks for all the teachings 🙏🤘
I love how at 4:55, Ben shows off just a little with that super fast run. That look of concentration! Great teacher and great player!
Switching positions, strings and fingerings is a great way to get different sounds, phrasings and moods out of the same notes. Excellent video... as usual.
THANKS UNCLE BEN!
Yur the BEaST!
This lesson was better than a meal that includes your esteemed rice, Uncle Ben.
You should have spelled it esteamed
You are aware Rick Beato looks like Anthony Borden the chef
He’s should Jazz it up... with some Zataran’s.
I like that idea,will try it.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Probably, im at work and have to watch later but yeah, probably.
You and Rick are both awesome dudes, can't thank you enough for the fantastic advice and tips I've discovered on your channels.
All I can say is, I wish I had access to you two when I was starting out in the late 90's. Would've been a game-changer.
This, yes. I love the interconnection of RUclips guitar folks!
Let's see an interview lesson with Eller and Beato. So much to be learned from masters of the art
Doooode! You're a true inspiration! And yeah, I have followed Rick for a year and a half or so. Thanx dude!
I never want these videos to end.
Thanks Uncle Ben! great follow up video. I literally just watched Ricks fret board hack video, and yours was next.
The book I learned guitar from has the A natural minor scale (or aeolian mode) pattern starting on the 5th fret of the low E string, so I first learned it by starting with my pinky finger.
I appreciate your time and effort. You are a great teacher for shredders. Most people cant do what you do and is somewhat discouraging !! Maybe slow it down for the mere mortals. You are very blessed as a guitarist.
My freatboard hack is learning the position of one note all over the fretboard for 20 Minutes a day. Rinse and repeat for every note. Takes about 2 weeks to learn all of them if you're dilligent, less if you spend more time.
I think this fretboard hack is essentially just learning modes, but explained without the scary word, yes?
@@tylersherkin9487 pretty much. He starts in Natural Minor and then incorporates Mixolydian and Major positions.
@@jameslane9537 Swiggity. It's a good way to broach the subject with people. Ben's got a really approachable demeanor in how he explains stuff. Makes it sound simple so people don't go "OHHHH NOOOOOEZZ!" and run to the hills.
@@tylersherkin9487 it is a good way to incorporate those Major shapes that I otherwise struggle to utilize. In other words... I hate playing in Major keys, lol...
@@tylersherkin9487 it is a good way to incorporate those Major shapes that I otherwise struggle to utilize. In other words... I hate playing in Major keys, lol...
7:27
"Breaking the law, breaking the law!" 🤘
At step-dad speed and tripping tempo. What's a metronome, son?
Judas priest
What really helped me was using one octave scales based around three string triads and their inversions. I could play lots of six string scales, but they would often reduce to dot patterns in my head which, while in the right key, led to me playing a lot of meaningless runs and brain freeze. Smaller patterns helped me play more fluidly and meaningfully, improving my ear in the process. Once mastered they are also easy to link up into many different larger groupings.
I only discovered this channel couple of weeks ago trying to find someone talking sense about evh's playing and why guitarists love him.... Now I'm hooked.... AND hopefully becoming a better guitarist after 50 years.... Also learning to smile when I play!!!! Ben you're great!
"It's about dinner time, so I recommend you guys pickup your guitar...."
That's going to be a weird meal.
Not when you're playing a 7-string in C-A-B-B-A-G-E tuning.
Guitar doubles as cheese cutter.
Can't spell Metal without Meal
@@denisfilming Metal is a meal with tea.
Well, wood is good fibre and you can use strings for flossing
So cool that you and Rick are friends! You are two of my favorite RUclipsrs!
And really great lesson! I'm going to be working on practicing scale fragments in different positions! Thank you Uncle Ben:)
Congrats Uncle, you know this stuff for sure! Always great and fresh information even for old guitar veterans like myself. I remember Greg Howe saying to an old Guitar magazine back in late 80s something like "I only know a huge mixolydian pattern that covers the entire neck"
Im fairly new to guitar and I've been trying every video I can find and was having ALOT of trouble learning where all of the notes were on the fretboard, Im currently doing the CAGED system and I'm so confused until I saw this video and my head almost exploded off my shoulders...This is the best video not only for memorizing what notes are where but also for dexterity and really drilling in those notes in a practical way that can also sound like your shredding, it forced me to know where they are. MIND FUCKING BLOWN, thanks a lot man!
Thanks Uncle Ben! Improving A LOT in these quarantine days with both yours and Rick's lessons! Keep up with the amazing work! :)
Your sure are correct about Rick Beato. Your lessons and explanations are great too. Simple and to the point. Thank you!
Wow! You are a great teacher man! Stumbled across this and I am glad I did. I have struggled to grasp a lot of this in the past and the way you explain it really helped. Thanks and subbed!
Good lesson, I have noticed one thing that surprises me though is that when learning solos from many well known rock guitarists is that 80-90% are played by the artist around box 1... so embrace this lesson and you’ll be better than them!
OK what I notice your picking changes from down/up'ing to hybrid Gilbert/middle finger Zakk picking.
Yipes, mindblown
Really good lesson! Thanks. I like how you tie everything your doing to being able to play something "cool" that ultimately connects with an audience. That Satriani-ish riff was really demonstrative. (I'm a Beato subscriber too...)
Oh boy! This was eye-opening and something i apparently couldn’t figure out myself
Bruh you should have at least 1 million subs, best content dude, keep it up.
been away from your channel for a moment, forgot how hilarious you are. so good.
I never really explored or understood the 3 note per string concept. Thanks to you, I do now. Shredding isn't my thing, but one is never smarter from not knowing something.
Great lesson. I've used this same method when trying to figure out other peoples riffs either through tab or by ear. If it seems to hard to play, you're probably not playing it in the right position/pattern.
Starting with your pinky on the root and playing a natural minor makes it a bit easier for those with smaller hands to shred it up a bit. Putting the stretch first makes it flow easier.
Great video; very easy to follow.
I think you explained and demonstrated this concept better than Rick did....actually much better. Thank you !
Rick is super smart in super appreciated by by so many great artists if y'all haven't checked his show out I definitely recommend its top tier!!!!!!
Thank you, Ben. I play bass but enjoy and learn so much musically from you that helps me be a better bass player and musician. And Rick Beato too!
a trick i use is use the proper power chord shape to find the octaves and create scales around that pretty much. but should probably focus abit more on the scales then i do :). tho also reading sheet music helped me try different position and where to find the note or converting piano stuffs into guitar helped me alot. the last one also helped me with finding weird chord shapes on guitar and some interesting triad stuffs.
I'm just picking up guitar and have only been at it for 2 weeks now (previously tried learning like 10 years ago for a few months). So I'm still a fresh beginner. But I love watching videos like this, Rick's videos, etc......this makes me so excited and eager to learn more because of how deep and varied the guitar is. I can't make sense of any of the music theory, but I still watch just to see what is possible lol
Thanks, Ben. I'm a bass player, but the changing finger to start is really a great idea for learning the fretboard.
Great video Ben
I'm used to RUclips guitar video intro music all sounding the same. Some kind of distorted guitar with aggressive drums etc. You know what I'm talking about.
The intro music here was an incredibly refreshing change, especially the bass line
More harder, indeed! Thanks for the lesson Uncle Ben AND @rickbeato
This is what I did with the pentatonic scale we all know and after learning all the positions and the in betweens it let me fly that all over the place. After I learned more scales I just applied the same idea and 20 years later here we are haha
Thanks Uncle Ben now I'm gonna go show this to my homeschooled step kids.
I use a numbering system to understand where I'm at when playing across the fret. I think the cool thing about guitar is that as long as you understand basic interval theory you will eventually reach an understanding of your own. I remember watching a fender next video with Melanie Faye where she commented a bit on her numbering system, and for me it clicked just like that.
You amuse yourself. I love it.
Thanks for the lesson, Ben.
I find that the best way for me to improve is to hit more of the correct notes, at the correct time.
I love the way you explain everything so easy to understand. Especially for an old ass like myself. Thanks 🤘🏻🤘🏻
That was an excellent lesson. Many thanks.
very well articulated vid!! thx ben
I'mma apply these tips to my bass 🌟 thank ya both
I always find these things interesting because I learned to play off three note per string boxes so I've always done this by using my ear to determine tonal centers instead of worrying about specific scales or modes. It doesn't work for everything because you can obviously combine completely different scales by using modal theory and that I've never understood fully, but for the simple stuff I see people explain this and I'm just surprised that anyone didn't already learn it because it seems so fundamental to me.
It's kind of cool to realize how many different ways there are to approach the guitar and how that will change at what points you plateau temporarily or possibly even permanently due to your fundamental understanding of the instrument.
This is great advice for nerds like me trying to learn as many inversions of chords as possible. If you know the scale, you know the chords. 👍 (And you can arpeggiate sweet licks.)
That was some mighty fine fiddlin' Uncle B. 🍺 Cheers 🍺
I found the most useful fretboard learning trick fromRick Beato is playing the major scale starting at each note in the major pentatonic up the low E string. Not sure about this “Starting hand position” thing nor the selection of the minor scale. It’s seems to me the major scale is what you need so if you want to play Am you can just use the positions of C major this only needing to learn one set of patterns. More fancy scales can then just be added as you need them
Hey Uncle Ben! Hope you're doing well. I love your videos. Keep up the great work!
Very cool. Thanks for the licks
Awesome lesson sir. Much appreciated
Useful advice, for sure. I'm guilty of playing in shapes that I'm extremely familiar with and not challenging myself with other positions as much. That's probably something most people are doing as well, so this is good stuff for kicking my ass into gear and learn the other positions as well.
ALSO. It was cool to have you on the Doug Doppler stream last night. It was a lot of fun and I didn't even realize three hours had passed until everyone had signed off and I looked at the clock, heh.
canman87 thanks man! It was a lot of fun. We are doing another on Wednesday next week, be sure to tune in! Myself, Andy Wood, Ryan Bruce, and more.
@@BenEller Sounds like a riot. I'll definitely check it out.
Honestly, that broadcast motivated me even more to make it to JPGU3 next year (went to JPGU2 and it was a blast). Will you be there to support Andy, by chance?
canman87 not sure, but I would love to be there and soak up all the shred secrets!
I'm sure you could persuade Andy to get you to tag along for backup during the live performance(s). Lol, a man can dream anyway.
Nice, glad to see a fellow LaCroix boi who appreciates peach-pear like myself. Also appreciate the video!
Ben, loving the hybrid picking approach!
My girlfriend liked the new fingering techniques you showed me... she loves when I play guitar. Thanks uncle Ben!!!
Btw.. what is on your shirt? 😂 P.s. also RUclips unsubscribed me. MOST HEINOUS!
That was awesome! I have learned great wisdom with this video, thank you!
Nice one as usual. Thanks for yet again
Hey Uncle Ben, got any Van Halen licks type of lesson in mind, say Panama solo? My fingers could use some ideas
The Satch-type lick reminds me a little of Bells of Lal (pt. 1), which reminds me of Uncle Stepdad's version of The Forgotten (pt. 1) from many years back. Not too shabby, my friend. And this comes from someone who can't play his way out of a wet paper bag, so take it for what it's worth.
Brilliant tip!
Simply awesome lesson Uncle Ben! Thanks!
Ok I’m gonna have to probably rewatch this like 100 times to get it cuz I’m kinda slow haha but ima get it!! Thanks brother you’re a great teacher man! I really appreciate all your help!
Wow! Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Uncle Ben is absolutely damn right
Wow!!!!!! Amazing lesson🤘🏻
Rick is a great teacher! Crispy High Fives!
Hey Uncle Ben.
A couple of years ago I came up with a similar way to expand my ideas and scale patterns, based on using mode patterns instead of standard scale shapes. For example, C Lydian is the same notes as E minor, so sometimes I’ll change my thought process and play the fingerings or patterns that I associate with C Lydian and it gives me different starting points and phrasings within E minor. Although it’s the same notes, it makes me feel like I’m playing something fresh and gets me out of ruts
Modes are just scales.
I need to invent a guitar that has a Z axis too. Whoa 🤯
Shave off the right and left side of two different guitars so left on one right on the other. Stop at the neck. Attach 2 guitars together perpendicularly. You have a z axis. I don't know why you would, or how you would use it, but there you go.
I think Michael Angelo Batio and Steve Via have already done that.
Does the trem count? It should
Scalloped frets
Edit: or a sitar
The guitar player is the Z-axis
this relates to beato's theory lessons on scale fingerings "before.. on and after" the scale.. More valuable transposed to licks...
Complemento perfecto al video de Rick
Thanks Ben. I am a fan of Rick. I have several versions of ‘The Beato Book’. Good reference and musical knowledge. Ben you truly are the Man From UNCLE! Now what does UNCLE stand for? Mmmm? Maybe ‘Understanding Nice Clues Left from Eller’? I don’t know that just popped out from my feeble brain... I’m sure you can come up with a better acronym/acrostic?
that was a great lesson uncle been
Nice job UB!!! I’m going to start on this today!
Great stuff!
pretty damn high standard of every single video i have seen from this dude.
To amplify your point about learning many ways to play the same lick...
If you used Troy Grady's "downward pick slanting technique," rather than alternate picking, you could play that same lick with down down up and forget the difficult string skipping.
Great teacher. Thank you
Systems like these are good. I learned 3 major scale shapes and later 5 pentatonic shapes, which when combined, suddenly connected the whole fret board for me in any key. I still have a long way to go, but I'm approaching middle age and time to practice isn't always there =/
Thanks, Benster!
Edit: Fretboard is 6 semisynchronized, 2 octave keyboards without color coded sharps/flats.
I know all that.....have for years.....but don't practice it nearly enough...that's why you are a great guitar guru...I might even open a Patreon account
Great video, very well expained🤘
Uncle Ben ur killing me. Ur skills are extraordinary.. my grips are terrible 😣 I'll keep grinding at it though!👍🏽
Thanks uncle Ben!
A guitar is like a (x,y) graph yes but with variable offset
Just here to say that I've finally learned the tornado of souls guitar solo from your lesson... Thanks... Subscribed...
great lesson