This is the reigning champion of all guitar instruction RUclips channels, and that is not an easy title to defend. There's a lot of great channels out there, but this one has been the best for years. Great lesson. Thanks!
Never heard it explained like this. Because of this video, I had an "Ahh haa moment", "oh that's how they do it". I REALLY REALLY appreciate this video!!!!! Practiced it for an hour or so, before I knew it I was shredding a bit faster & smoother than ever before. Before this video, I honestly could not shred for the life of me. Uncle Ben, seriously... thank you sooo much for teaching this.
Haha I don't think Uncle B got the joke... In case you haven't noticed he's not the most tightly wound string in the machines. It takes him 2 hours to go a mile down the street because its easier to drive if you only make right turns.
Michael batio is my guitar hero. his speed and precision are my ultimate picking goals. i want to combine it with tosin abasi's opend hand techniques and sarah longfields tapping, to create my ideal technique.
@@iluvyunie getting there. i sprained my wrist at work and it set me back. but i'm a lot further than i used to be. still tripping on the pick profiling. but that's only because phrases i play are traditionally consistent. basically i improv too much haha.
@@enigma-g5549 That's awesome dude! Don't let that wrist set you back too hard. It's great that you're still going and I hope I can say the same for myself in a year's time. Progress is progress anyway right?
@@iluvyunie yeah bro. what i learned to do is not compare my process to others. i've set a goal for myself and decided that i'll reach it on my own terms and in my own time.
I love this channel. Your demeanor makes it seem more like hanging out with a good buddy than it does learning extremely difficult guitar technique. You are a great teacher.
Playing for years and this video is very helpful. Them damn 3 notes on a string! So simple I'm ashamed I never thought of doubling up to an even number. Ben you are a great teacher and person.
Yeah, he's giving away some of the secrets of the big shredders... Good stuff. All the speed can happen due to simple mechanics. Between Ben, Troy Grady and Claus Levin there's a lot of material!
Had a section of a solo I was working on, kept trying to use a tapping lick but wasn't happy with it. Threw this in (the technique, not the exact lick)... Suddenly my adoption papers caught fire and I became a real boy!
This is a joy, because it at last gives you some real fluency with speed. Struggling with string jumping and loosing fluency at that point, drove me to just give up with alt picking. But at last I can move from string to string with a degree accuracy which gives me the impetus to get back into it. Thank you so much. 👍
Not sure if what you taught here is same or similar to Troy Grady’s videos but I must say, I walk away from your video understanding this method and knowing I’ll be applying it to my playing for sure. You gave me something I can use. Not to diss on Troy too much but you holding your fingers up and picking across them like strings demonstrated the downward picking concept so much better than the fancy animated graphics in Troy’s videos. Thanks Sensei!
I am seriously learning so much from your channel. Your lessons are smart, relevant, accessible and engaging. I've picked up ye olde axe after a 20 year break and you've help immensely with getting my chops back up to speed and given me plenty of new ideas. Thank you!
Oh man. Your alternate picking is so smooth and effortless. I can't stand it! Lol. I have been struggling with my alternate picking when up to faster speeds my entire life and it sucks. Yours is just so damn smooth. One of these days i'll get it down. Awesome lesson Uncle Ben, Thank you buddy!
i’ve made so much progress in just a couple months from this video and your muting vid. thank you so much. also your vid with tosin gave me some unexpected insight into hammer ons
Hey, thanks for the lesson Uncle Ben! I’ve always been a pretty poor shred/solo player but the way you explained this really helped me out. I’ll be shredding in no time!
This was eye opening.....it has easily without even practicing made me a better guitarist the playing 6 instead of 3 made my jaw drop with how simple a change made everything fall into place. Why has no one ever told me this....omg thanks Uncle Ben
I just want to say that I was a total loser when I started looking at this channel, and I'm playing these exercises fast, easy, and without botched notes. I gotta say I think this channel has been my absolute biggest help in learning guitar. Thanks, Uncle Ben.
This is pretty clever. Taking some basic picking solutions to create a lick that is chunk-able, based on some solid principles that can be used to make tens of other licks. Nicely done Uncle Ben.
Ok so I sat one night and went over these patterns while re-watching Thrones, today I plugged in and just flew up and down the neck. These exercises really work, and well. As long as you practice you're all good. Thanks for the effort and time you put into these vids, you're the man Uncle Ben!
Excellent teaching style, I've been playing keyboards since 1980 and I pick up tons of soloing ideas and patterns from you brother🤘 translates nicely (minus the picking aspect)
Sorry about my english, but I have to thank you about this lesson ! Your tips really work on my way to play. This really was for me a useful lesson ! Your learning is cristal clear and effective. Thanks Ben, I just discovered your channel today, I still have a lot of vids to discovered. Thanks again and keep on the good work.
Thank you so much for posting this. I have been working on the solo in Separate Ways by Journey, which has a very fast speed lick at th end which requires great skill with alternate picking. These tips will defiantly help me achieve my goal of playing this awesome solo. Once again, Thank YOU!!!! I greatly appreciate it 💖🎸💖🎸💖🎸💖
...and the truth shall set you freeeee ! Why has no one ever mentioned this before? Why has it never even occurred to me to use even numbered patterns before? Been ploughing through scales forever thinking it'll get quicker over time but it never does. Thanks man
brilliant! i think i've done this impulsively from time to time, but got frustrated when i couldn't do it on command. but this makes sense. now, off to check out this troy grady you speek of, and then practice.
Just Wanted to say thanks. Been playing various instruments about twenty years and guitar has been my main about ten years now. I have looked for some videos to really explain pluntly these metal/neo classical things to me. You really got there. I started playing when Kurt Cobain was still alive so you can imagine all my technique flaws I have to correct. Thank you very much of these lessons. Will be donating on patrion someday when I am not living from hand to mouth. Kodos!
Ben youre literally the best! I've been watching your videos everyday for the last 2 weeks and have already seen a massive improvement in my playing and have learned a lot about what I have been doing wrong this entire time. Looking forward to becoming a patreon member! Keep crankin em out dude!
I'm not sure if all of your picking techniques are for me, but I love how you built your lick around octaves. It's an old trick that people don't teach enough. It makes applying a simple pattern across the fretboard easy. Nice job.
Great video Ben - thank you! I have a hard time getting any real down angle in my picking due to some nerve damage in my hand... but I’m working on it and these strategies will really help.
So this video started with an ad about how RUclips videos can't teach you how to play guitar. And all this video did was prove the ad absolutely wrong. Great tips and tutorials thank you so much!
Thanks, Uncle Ben. Nice practice lick, for ascending and descending fours, sort of. If I accentuate those quadruplets, it sounds sick. If I play straight sixteenths, it's kind of hard for it not to devolve into muddy triplets, with a sixteenths addendum. But if I really nail sort of cascading fours, I'm getting a way more sinister sound. So it's the final four note sequence repeating, after two different 4 note sequences, rather than two frolicking sextuplets with four midgets kind of crashing the party. Basically, I'm shooting bursts of four with my AR-SixString.
Wow! Meat and potatoes right there!! Thanks so much for this video. I have been working on the three note per string octaves for a few month now and while that has really opened up the fretboard for me and expanded my improvisational skills a lot, I wasn't developing much speed. I have to admit I judged this vid title as just another alternate picking vid. Boy, was I wrong! Thanks again Uncle Ben! Best biological step-dad ever!
Please post something on gaining speed with the fretting hand :). Love the posts. This one especially has given me something to work with again. Nice one dude.
This is the reigning champion of all guitar instruction RUclips channels, and that is not an easy title to defend. There's a lot of great channels out there, but this one has been the best for years.
Great lesson. Thanks!
97 Stratocaster Totally agree, best teacher on the internet
100%
I love Ben's attitude and humor. He's the kinda guy I'd like to kill a 24 pack of Yuengling with. Paul Davids is also good.
Sir, Troy Grady is the unquestioned king. Just ask Ben hahaha
@Malcolm Reynolds i totally agree with you!!
BTW, your sense of humor and communicating style somehow makes it easier to learn. Keep it up.
Never heard it explained like this. Because of this video, I had an "Ahh haa moment", "oh that's how they do it". I REALLY REALLY appreciate this video!!!!! Practiced it for an hour or so, before I knew it I was shredding a bit faster & smoother than ever before. Before this video, I honestly could not shred for the life of me. Uncle Ben, seriously... thank you sooo much for teaching this.
Me too.. I don't know a single shred until this video.. So much thanks to Uncle Ben.
I'm now able to play Smoke on the Water after this Wankshop. Thanks Uncle Ben!
Sanjeev Kalra Try playing it twice. It’s much faster!
I still can’t get it right. I get stuck on 2nd power chord.
Haha I don't think Uncle B got the joke... In case you haven't noticed he's not the most tightly wound string in the machines. It takes him 2 hours to go a mile down the street because its easier to drive if you only make right turns.
Ben Eller gives you the keys to the Lamborghini.
Michael batio is my guitar hero. his speed and precision are my ultimate picking goals. i want to combine it with tosin abasi's opend hand techniques and sarah longfields tapping, to create my ideal technique.
@@enigma-g5549 how's it coming along?
@@iluvyunie getting there. i sprained my wrist at work and it set me back. but i'm a lot further than i used to be. still tripping on the pick profiling. but that's only because phrases i play are traditionally consistent. basically i improv too much haha.
@@enigma-g5549 That's awesome dude! Don't let that wrist set you back too hard. It's great that you're still going and I hope I can say the same for myself in a year's time. Progress is progress anyway right?
@@iluvyunie yeah bro. what i learned to do is not compare my process to others. i've set a goal for myself and decided that i'll reach it on my own terms and in my own time.
I love this channel. Your demeanor makes it seem more like hanging out with a good buddy than it does learning extremely difficult guitar technique. You are a great teacher.
Your sweater has inspired me to eat my breakfast cereal on the toilet tomorrow
1:02-1:05 - Breaking The Law :D Great tips and video!
Playing for years and this video is very helpful. Them damn 3 notes on a string! So simple I'm ashamed I never thought of doubling up to an even number. Ben you are a great teacher and person.
Yeah, he's giving away some of the secrets of the big shredders... Good stuff. All the speed can happen due to simple mechanics. Between Ben, Troy Grady and Claus Levin there's a lot of material!
Had a section of a solo I was working on, kept trying to use a tapping lick but wasn't happy with it. Threw this in (the technique, not the exact lick)... Suddenly my adoption papers caught fire and I became a real boy!
I'll even insta my first #weekendwankshop in a sec
LOL. That's awesome
Agree with all the positive comments. It’s the ability and knowledge combined with being a natural communicator that sets this apart. Cheers, Unc.
Best online lessons. Period.
one of the smartest explanation of downward pick slating backed by an example i have seen. super good and awesome.
Ben you have single handily helped me more than anything or anyone
Morbid Mike the Tenn-OG awwww!!!! Thanks a lot!
This is a joy, because it at last gives you some real fluency with speed. Struggling with string jumping and loosing fluency at that point, drove me to just give up with alt picking. But at last I can move from string to string with a degree accuracy which gives me the impetus to get back into it. Thank you so much. 👍
Not sure if what you taught here is same or similar to Troy Grady’s videos but I must say, I walk away from your video understanding this method and knowing I’ll be applying it to my playing for sure. You gave me something I can use. Not to diss on Troy too much but you holding your fingers up and picking across them like strings demonstrated the downward picking concept so much better than the fancy animated graphics in Troy’s videos. Thanks Sensei!
I have seen loads of videos and starting guitar thrash speed death, you are right ,this guy as explanatory and teaching is brilliant.
I am seriously learning so much from your channel. Your lessons are smart, relevant, accessible and engaging. I've picked up ye olde axe after a 20 year break and you've help immensely with getting my chops back up to speed and given me plenty of new ideas. Thank you!
Oh man. Your alternate picking is so smooth and effortless. I can't stand it! Lol. I have been struggling with my alternate picking when up to faster speeds my entire life and it sucks. Yours is just so damn smooth. One of these days i'll get it down. Awesome lesson Uncle Ben, Thank you buddy!
Uncle Ben is the truth. Awesome lessons Ben.
i’ve made so much progress in just a couple months from this video and your muting vid. thank you so much. also your vid with tosin gave me some unexpected insight into hammer ons
Dude! Thank you! As soon as I tried the 6 notes per string I understood. Such a small thing that made an immediate and big improvement in my playing!
You're the best teacher. Kudos to you.
Damn thank you! Been working on triplets for years. You’ve solved ALL the aggravation (by the x2 deal!) Genius!!!!
Hey, thanks for the lesson Uncle Ben! I’ve always been a pretty poor shred/solo player but the way you explained this really helped me out. I’ll be shredding in no time!
This was eye opening.....it has easily without even practicing made me a better guitarist the playing 6 instead of 3 made my jaw drop with how simple a change made everything fall into place. Why has no one ever told me this....omg thanks Uncle Ben
By far the best RUclips guitar instruction offered. I'd be proud to have you as a step-son.
I just want to say that I was a total loser when I started looking at this channel, and I'm playing these exercises fast, easy, and without botched notes. I gotta say I think this channel has been my absolute biggest help in learning guitar.
Thanks, Uncle Ben.
This is pretty clever. Taking some basic picking solutions to create a lick that is chunk-able, based on some solid principles that can be used to make tens of other licks.
Nicely done Uncle Ben.
Ok so I sat one night and went over these patterns while re-watching Thrones, today I plugged in and just flew up and down the neck. These exercises really work, and well. As long as you practice you're all good. Thanks for the effort and time you put into these vids, you're the man Uncle Ben!
Stroke in 2017 you helped me tremendously man. Ty Ben!
Uncle Ben....you sir are a born teacher.....nice job my brother!!!
Excellent teaching style, I've been playing keyboards since 1980 and I pick up tons of soloing ideas and patterns from you brother🤘 translates nicely (minus the picking aspect)
These videos always help me so much
Thanks Ben you have a talent for explaining stuff clearly and simply !
Very cool stuff and very well explained. This is a major break through in my playing. Thanks a lot 🤘👍
Best guitar instructor on RUclips. Ben rulles!!!! thx man
Very enjoyable videos, thanks for putting in the work that helps us put in the work.
Thanks huncle Ben!! I feel like a super shredder now!!!
Thank you. Just what I have been looking for to move forward
NIce one to keep. A thousand thank you's, Baron Von Eller.
Uncle Ben. This is mind blowing. Will practice this tonight! Thank you!
Ben is easily the best guitar tutor on RUclips, no contest.
Best of your videos I have watched yet - thank you!
My favourite biological stepdad! Best fiddle lessons on the interwebs!
Wow this is clean playing! Please never stop making videos! :D keep rockin'!
Valuable information concisely delivered, thanks Ben.
Thanks, Ben!
Breaking down the struggle in step dad speed for alternate picking made it simple. Thanks!❤🤘🎵🎶
Convert 3 to 6 is a great strategy uncle Ben! Thank you!
Sorry about my english, but I have to thank you about this lesson ! Your tips really work on my way to play. This really was for me a useful lesson ! Your learning is cristal clear and effective. Thanks Ben, I just discovered your channel today, I still have a lot of vids to discovered. Thanks again and keep on the good work.
Thank you so much for posting this. I have been working on the solo in Separate Ways by Journey, which has a very fast speed lick at th end which requires great skill with alternate picking. These tips will defiantly help me achieve my goal of playing this awesome solo. Once again, Thank YOU!!!! I greatly appreciate it
💖🎸💖🎸💖🎸💖
Top notch teaching ....many thanks
Uncle Ben you're my hero, this was so helpful to a newbie like me. Thanks a ton and keep up the awesome videos!!!
...and the truth shall set you freeeee ! Why has no one ever mentioned this before? Why has it never even occurred to me to use even numbered patterns before? Been ploughing through scales forever thinking it'll get quicker over time but it never does. Thanks man
brilliant! i think i've done this impulsively from time to time, but got frustrated when i couldn't do it on command. but this makes sense. now, off to check out this troy grady you speek of, and then practice.
Fantastic lesson. Thank you
Just Wanted to say thanks.
Been playing various instruments about twenty years and guitar has been my main about ten years now.
I have looked for some videos to really explain pluntly these metal/neo classical things to me. You really got there.
I started playing when Kurt Cobain was still alive so you can imagine all my technique flaws I have to correct.
Thank you very much of these lessons. Will be donating on patrion someday when I am not living from hand to mouth.
Kodos!
Ben youre literally the best! I've been watching your videos everyday for the last 2 weeks and have already seen a massive improvement in my playing and have learned a lot about what I have been doing wrong this entire time. Looking forward to becoming a patreon member! Keep crankin em out dude!
I'm not sure if all of your picking techniques are for me, but I love how you built your lick around octaves. It's an old trick that people don't teach enough. It makes applying a simple pattern across the fretboard easy. Nice job.
Great video Ben - thank you! I have a hard time getting any real down angle in my picking due to some nerve damage in my hand... but I’m working on it and these strategies will really help.
Brilliant..Great "Oh yeah!!"moment, turn em into 6, makes loads of sense, Cheers uncle Ben.
Really great explanation, you are a very good communicator
Thats another Uncle Ben Video I have to work through. Seriously good content on your channel, man, appreciate it.
Great lesson, Ben.
Great stuff Ben!
Rock and Roll!! 🤘😎 Thanks for the video!
This is fantastic! I picked up on the scale idea some time ago and it blew my mind! Great video
Right, that’s me off to grab a guitar. Clear explanation of the picking and simple scale to practice it on. Thanks a mill
Once again, a great lesson! You make what sounds like the impossible, all make sense. Thank you!!
Good advice! Thanks, Pop!
That was a GREAT lesson. So very helpfull.... thanks uncle. Cheers mate.
Brilliant! Thanks a bunch for sharing :D
Man this is a brilliant lesson! Thanks uncle Ben!
So this video started with an ad about how RUclips videos can't teach you how to play guitar. And all this video did was prove the ad absolutely wrong. Great tips and tutorials thank you so much!
Thanks, Ben! 👍✨
"less clicking more picking" that's good advice. Can't just watch it. You got to do it!
Super shredder! 😂 Thanks Ben
Ben! love your lessons! Thanks!
Thanks, Uncle Ben. Nice practice lick, for ascending and descending fours, sort of. If I accentuate those quadruplets, it sounds sick. If I play straight sixteenths, it's kind of hard for it not to devolve into muddy triplets, with a sixteenths addendum. But if I really nail sort of cascading fours, I'm getting a way more sinister sound. So it's the final four note sequence repeating, after two different 4 note sequences, rather than two frolicking sextuplets with four midgets kind of crashing the party. Basically, I'm shooting bursts of four with my AR-SixString.
Concepts transcending contexts, great lesson!
I am amazed by how clean you played that at stepdad speed. That is surely harder than normal speed!
Thanks Uncle Ben! I hear Paul Gilbert do similar sequences.Killer lesson!
One of your best lessons Uncle Ben! 🤘
Thank you! This is awesome.
Great lesson Ben, thanks!
Very good, that will be a future warm up routine for me. Thx a bunch.
Great stuff, Ben!
Thanks!
Great lesson.
Love your concepts bro! You have a way of making things make sense.
This lesson is excellent man, I’m stoked to try it! Thanks uncle Ben 👍🏻
And suddenly... things just clicked! Thanks Uncle Ben, been trying to work this stuff out for years
The only thing better than the lesson itself is that damn snappy sweater. Scholarly and stylish.
Wow! Meat and potatoes right there!! Thanks so much for this video. I have been working on the three note per string octaves for a few month now and while that has really opened up the fretboard for me and expanded my improvisational skills a lot, I wasn't developing much speed. I have to admit I judged this vid title as just another alternate picking vid. Boy, was I wrong! Thanks again Uncle Ben! Best biological step-dad ever!
Great lick mate. Very fun to practice!
Thanks. Always great vids.
Please post something on gaining speed with the fretting hand :). Love the posts. This one especially has given me something to work with again. Nice one dude.
Mate, recently discovered your channel and I’m loving it! Please keep them coming! Hands down the best channel on RUclips!
Great lesson as always Ben!
God bless you bro, thanks again 🙏🏽🙏🏽