Pentatonic SHRED Strategies with Ben Eller
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2020
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Hey guys and gals!!!! Its Ben Eller, back with another episode of Weekend Wankshop thats gonna give you some crazy new phrasing concepts to get you shredding the minor pentatonic scale harder than ever!!! Behold the power of my ShapeShifter phrasing ideas!!!
When it comes to hot pentatonic licks in the styles of Eric Johnson, Zakk Wylde, Joe Bonamassa, and Eric Gales, i prefer to phrase my licks in such a way that there are two or four notes happening on every string; doing it this way keeps my picking moving in a predictable and efficient manner, without any awkward "flipping" or inverting of the picking patterns like you sometimes encounter when playing an odd number of notes on a string. One of the ways i do this and get maximum cool phrasing is to simply shift up OR down a scale pattern of the pentatonic, which gives me a direct highway to more 2's or 4's!!! If you are a downwards pickslanting player like myself, this is going to be the key to keeping your momentum up during the hottest of high speed licks. Plus it helps you learn to see those other scale shapes better and better and conquer the neck!!!
In this lesson, i'll show you 3 different pentatonic patterns, the basic idea of the shape shifter concept, then a super sick lick that utilizes them so you can practice up! Its exactly what you need to bring the heat to your rock, metal, blues, or jazz playing!
Playing my G&L Legacy with @BKPickups Veneer Board set into the Fractal Axe FX 3! Love this setup!
Thanks for watching! Let me know what you want to see next in the comments section! 
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The term “stepdad speed” never gets old. I have me a chuckle every time.
I'm never quite sure if he says "stepdad speed" or "stepdance speed". I mean.. the latter doesn't make sense.. but whatever. xD
I'm always working on getting up to stepdad speed. xD
I’m a step dad and do alot of step dad speed guitar work. Is Ben Eller a step dad is the question 🤘
yeah, are you sure this isn't Biological Step Dad Speed?
Spoken like a real Step-dad... hahaha. jk.
Another way to do it, which is way more frustrating but gives you more freedom in the long run is to play the scale starting on upstrokes for each string. Feels counterintuitive and involves many months of stepdad speed, but you do not have to break down phrases as far as turns and stick to an even number of notes per string.
Ben, you're a monster player, awesome teacher, and you must easily be the wittiest instructor on RUclips! However, hidden behind that rapier-sharp wit is a lot of wisdom that only comes from experience. Love from Ireland.
Man.. whenever I see uncle Ben kenobi upload a video.. I cant help but thrust my hips off the couch, through the living room wall and out onto the front yard , yelling " SHWING!"
Ben is easily the best teacher on RUclips. Signing up for his Patreon just a THANKS for all the free stuff he has dropped on me!
Excellent maestro lil meko
Your subscription is my thanks to him as well. Thanks!
I need a full movie of Uncle Ben's skits.
This happened to me literally two days ago. Uncle Ben has impeccable timing.
Yes, it has happened to me.
6:40...so awesome you're covering this. Many guitar players don't focus on pick strategy and the pick is really the secret to speed...🤘😘
When I come across a youtube video by uncle Ben I never skip...From learning to tune my first floyd rose to alternate picking & sweep picking exercises & developing palm muting techniques, these lessons are just absolutely invaluable & super helpful!!!
Can u please make a video explaining different time signatures, how to count them, how to distinguish between 3/4 and 6/8, how to get a feel for them in general as a guitar player....especially the odd time signatures...
I've watched several youtube videos, but I'm still not quite clear about them. I bet I'll be able to get a good grasp on them after following a tutorial of yours ;))
My god I have been stuck in that picking hole for 15 years - thanks man, I’ve noticed considerable progress in an hour after practising this stuff
Great lesson, best teacher on RUclips hands down
🙏🙏🙏
First I put new strings on the PRS, then a new vid from my favorite uncle!! Best day ever!
Your philosophies make the lesson. You are a great teacher.
Uncle Ben is a genius. Always the funniest and most eye opening part of my weekend
Ben, finding your vids incredibly enlightening and helpful. Keep up the great work and rock on!
I really needed this. You are simply the best. Better than all the rest.
Mr Ben not only does this help my up n down pic tech , it also helps me slide around through the diff positions on A key and learn a variety of road maps , thanks for all your help have a great week
Uncle Ben at it again! Thanks for all your work man!
Love you humor Uncle Ben!! I’m a stepdad kind of speed player usually but even my wife who’s always telling me to turn that s**t down has been telling me lately that I should go start a band . Lol I’m 54... Thanks man, I’ve improved so much from watching your videos!!!
I'm not even up to stepdad speed yet although I'm old enough to be you stepdad. Having just started learning all the different shapes of the pentatonic scale I was having a hard time visualizing them linking together but this lesson with the small chunks then the shift somehow got me clicking them together a lot better. So this didn't really help with the speed aspect of my playing it helped me gain a bit more fretboard knowledge. Thanks Uncle Ben.
Keep on playing. Keep on practicing!
I've been playing for thirty years, and am actually pretty good, but when I started trying to replicate licks in different positions, it really helped my overall playing. Certain things can't be replicated. Like a hammer on or pulloff in one position may be impossible in another position, because the notes are on separate strings. And, of course, certain positions can just be physically easier to play than others. So it's easy just to say, "Nah." But it's a worthwhile exercise.
It will improve both your technical ability and fretboard knowledge. And improved fretboard knowledge helps tremendously with your theory as well. So it's just a win, win, win.
Bless Uncle Ben! Thanks for all the knowledge you bestow...
Does anybody else freak out when a new uncle ben video uploads i lose my shit iv become a better shredder because of this wholesome dude
Simple and super effective approach to an annoying problem. Uncle Ben always serving up the goods
Yet another great video! Can’t wait to try this!!!
From a stepdad guitarist this was an eye opener but now I see it I realise it’s so logical! Thanks uncle Ben!
Dig it Ben. Good stuff you have been covering. I will support ya
That's a great approach! And a great exercise too! As always, amazing lesson
Uncle Ben Eller, you truly are the bane of my entire existence! My arch nemesis!
What a great lesson. I'll be playing through this a bunch. Thanks. You are absolutely right about the picking getting flipped (for me). Really good insight and that lick really rolls when you play it. Thanks again.
LOL, Wow, I never realized why I have always had such a hard time rolling back down a scale until I saw this! I obviously have the same picking "style" because once you pointed it out, I got up and down this riff with out issue from my right hand. Thank you!
Glad I found this! I feel like it’ll open the next door in my soloing. I often go to the next pattern below while jamming but often hit a roadblock where I don’t know the rest without thinking.
Uncle Ben, you are awesome man, not only learning a TON, but also enjoy the hilarious Dad jokes, and the brutal honesty. Best guitar teacher on the internet if you ask me. Thanks for making it fun for everyone!
Thanks Ben. You’ve really opened up a whole new door for me. I’m basically a rhythm guitar player trying to find my way around the fretboard. Thank you for sharing your knowledge /STEVE
Great video as usual, UB! Thanks!
Played bass with a pick for 20+ years, and upright bass with a bow (classical music has all sorts of wacky combinations of ■V markings, all over the beat), so the alternate picking doesn't trip me up, but those top two strings sure do. This was a great lesson just for the shapes associated with the position shifts! Super helpful! Position shifting is where it's at!
I have found myself becoming better and better everyday, thanks uncle ben for your helpful videos!
Thanks for another great lesson, Uncle Ben!
Pinky police 😂 That tone is very Eric Johnson-esque. Me likey!
Oh yeah, You're one of the best teachers I've come across on youtube so far. Thanks for all.
Always good stuff Ben.
Super great idea! Fantastic video.
Amazing to hear how your inner voice sounds! Glad to know I'm not the only one.
Yet another fantastic lesson Ben. Thanks so much for all you do...
Finally the video i've been looking for
Such a great teacher! Keep up the good work Ben ;-)
Great lesson Ben!! Thank you!
Another great Eller lesson. Rock on peeps.
Great lesson! Thanks, Ben
Great lesson Uncle Ben
Thanks!!!
Awesome analogy of the pentatonic position shifting...besides the lick is smoking! Nice job
This is something I’ve had problems with for a while. I think I need to find your pick slanting video as well. As always, another great video lesson!
Good stuff, Ben! Thank you.
Great video man! Right up there with the greatest lessons on the net!
I'll be over to get my Whitesnake shirt later.
this dude is such a great instructor, truly one of the best on the tubez
Thank you!
I always learn something USEFULL in your vids. Thanks
100% perfecto! And thanks for all the tips.
Great practice Riff ..I love the shifts really opens my eyes to the neck.
Awesome Ben, thanks a lot!
I've been playing the guitar off and on since the 1980s and have never thought of this. I just learned something new.
Awesome video. Thanks.
Just what I needed today...as always. you are the best...great stuff !!
Such a solid video, thanx again! 👍
I loved this exercise!! Thanks! Subscribed 😎
Smart strategy Ben! Great stuff!
This has helped me to play out of my comofrt zone pentatonic wise and ditch the one pattern safety rule THANK YOU!
interesting video and inspired me to examine my own picking to see how i deal with this especially playing hammit style solos. i caught myself adjusting the angle of my whole hand and accenting the up-picks rather than even attempt to kick myself back into step. had no idea i was even doing that
Killer lesson man! Thanks a lot
You're such an awesome teacher Ben and very entertaining . I always look forward to your videos bro. Keep up the awesome work . I would love to see you do an instructional on Cliffs of Dover or Manhattan .
Thanks, gonna try immediately
Thank you Uncle Ben!
Dude! The beginning of this video is so funny bro. But I want toThank you for putting this video together because it totally opened my eyes to something that I never even thought about. I've just always tried to pick up speed by reverse picking my way back up the fretboard as fast as I can (step-dad speed). I never even thought about putting a slide in there so I could keep my picking steady. That is so awesome That's like the kind of stuff that takes people to the next level so thank you for teaching me that Ben!
Great vid old guy new to lead stuff this method also great way to practice integrating several pentatonic positions to become ingrained for improv creations.
Such a great video!
Great lesson, Ben.
Man, I am a half assed wanna be crap shredder that can sound decent sometimes by being a chronic cheater, utilizing intermittent picking mixed with hammer ons and pull off. Descending 3's and and 4's are my goto and it becomes very repetitious. And Ascending has always been an achilles heal. You have some of the best breakdowns of techniques that I have been lacking, I have ever seen. Truly good stuff and inspiring! And yeah, entertaining too.
Good lesson Ben,... I bet a lot of step dads and young lads don't pay much attention to the picking side of things. More of this is really good.
As you were saying down up .... I was laughing out loud. Your delivery is entertaining. 👍 Great lesson.
Another knowledge bomb from uncle Ben 👌
Thanks Ben great lesson 💃🎶💃🎶
Dude, great one. I need to make a t-shirt that describes me as “Sucker for Shred”. And you do feed my hunger for the shredtastical joy of the geetar. Thanks for your teaching man.
Shredi-Knight apprentice! Hahaha classic! I'm stealing this
Great Lesson! I know what I'm practicing tonight!
this guy always puts me in a good mood
Pinky Police! Lol!
This is awesome, I was struggling with this a lot and was cursing Eric Jhonson.
good tips.. greatly appreciated.
...love Pentatonic stuff.the most versatile scale of all to me !!
Damn... the finish on that axe is a beaut!
I am liking this guy very amusing always helps
Awesome lesson
Love that G&L 😎Ben.
Like that G&L I had a lefty bought in 1982 one of the original sc2 was awesome
Thanks, Ben. 👍✨
i'm going through the same phase right now..!!!!!
Thanks UNCLE BENN..
Great advice thank you
I hope to get that fast at it one day. Sounds awesome.
That tone is so good
very helpful, thank you.
This is an excellent video.
Owning it, bro, the lesson is freaking killer. And the finish on the guitar is ridiculously sexy.