Thanks a lot for watching This is Why You Suck at Guitar: You Don’t Know the Minor Scale!!!! What do you want to see on the next episode of TIWYSAG?

"Scale pattern baldness" is the best thing I've ever heard.

Hands down, the coolest and best guitar channel on youtube.

without question, this guy is the best at what he does. he teaches the exact thing i need to learn, every time

Out of several you tube instructors, this is the one that got through to me on how scales work. Also, Just had the pleasure of meeting Ben as I recognized him in person walking downtown. He was much kinder that the sarcastic persona you see on this website. He recommended places to eat and even saved me from stepping backwards into a pile of dog shit! Thanks Ben!

I wish not knowing the minor scale inside and out was the main reason I suck lol

Ben you're the man. I've played guitar for over a decade and play a whole lot of really cool shit, but never bothered to learn scales nor even knew the notes im playing honestly. 14 years of only knowing guitar via fret numbers. Mostly just riffs... Hardly ever go above the 15th fret. And tonight I found myself playing some leads over a loop with the minor scale up in the 20 somethings, likely for the first time ever. And I actually know what notes I'm playing. 🙏🙏🙏 Thanks for being such an excellent resource! Actually made this extremely interesting and FUN. Joining that patreon as soon as I can!

I’ve been playing 30 something years. Self taught. Don’t know a lick of theory have struggled trying to learn this stuff like all the different boxes, modes, etc. this late in life and I feel like this is exactly what I need to make it work for me. Thank you so much.

14:23 That Max Headroom impression is ON POINT!

I’m a minute and 45 seconds into this thing and I haven’t listened to a single word you’ve said. I keep getting distracted by staring into the dreamy eyes of Richard Simmons. It’s hypnotic....

I tried paying attention, but Richard Simmons in the background kept distracting me.

My new fren ben.. I've been chicken pecking this fretted night mare since my first guitar on my thirteenth birthday.. I'm 59 years old this month in a few days on the 27th and I've never had anyone make this stuff even begin to make since to me.. I can't splain myself enough over this but.. you really are the best expressionist I have never met and I will always give you the due credit for this.. there is none other like you.. don't get me wrong here.. I still don't get it, but I can see that this video contains the answers to everything that has ever kicked my ass and made me put my guitar down right at the moment before killing it to death.. but this video is right here and I've saved it to a special place in my bookmarks bracket and I will watch this thing over and over until I finally discover that ever elusive epiphany because something is going to click this time.. I can feel it coming.. so.. you Mr. Ben are a scale pattern baldness genius and you may be in this world but you are not of this world, and I deeply salute you sir.. never stop.. never stop.. never stop

No, Uncle Ben, I suck because I don't practice enough. Like nowhere close to enough....

Brilliant teacher, you breakdown theory and simplify everything. I will get practicing and remembering those roots

How does this video get any down votes? This guy is a great teacher.

This is so useful. Getting a ton of mileage out of this, even after playing on and off for 20 years. Proof that it can always be applied and old dogs can learn new tricks! Please do a similar type of lesson for diminished scales. Us atonal/OSDM folks could use the help.

playing a scale linearly on one string... mind blown.. my god this makes so much sense.

can't believe you have "only" 320 000 subscribers. people don't know what they're missing

Best guitar teacher on the internet, I've played for 25 years, and corrected all my "sucks" in a couple of months! Thanks Ben!!

Fellow Tennessean here man. Easily the best guitar theory tutorial I’ve come across thus far. Especially as someone who’s been playing by ear for years and just now decided to apply a little theory to the guitar. Also, fuckin’ love the horror movie references and humor. Definitely scored yourself a new subscriber here.

If not knowing the minor scale is a major problem, is not knowing the major scale a minor problem?

15:33 I literally LOL'd. Well done Uncle Ben!

You're truly one of the best guitar teachers in KZfaq and maybe the entire world! Thank you so much

Guitar "player" for almost 5 years and this is the best tutorial by far! Nobody has made it so simple to connect and understand the scale patterns and how to connect them

Did you say "meow" ?! 3:23

This is great stuff man. I think the way you present and explain things is excellent and very easy to understand. I can't help but think how much easier it is now to pick up a guitar and start learning immediately with people like yourself sharing the knowledge instead of when I started like 20 or so years ago. I'm pretty sure you feel the same lol. Again great stuff, keep it up \m/

i suck at guitar for 20years until I discovered your channel.. thanks uncle Farquad.. kids now are lucky to have youtube.. in the 90's its every guitarist for himself..

“This is Why You Suck at Guitar: You Can’t Even Set up Your Own Instrument” (your floyd rose video transformed my life Uncle Ben I want the same genius to teach me truss rod adjustment). Thanks for another phenomenal installment, learning guitar is so much better on KZfaq now than when I tried so many years ago thanks to you. Will be joining the Patreon soon.

"Accidental Holdsworth".Nice.

What an absolute beast of a guitar lesson. Holy smokes 🤯

This and the Major scale lesson has opened my eyes like the first time I learned bar chords. One of the best lessons online IMHO. Thank you!!!!!

Ben, this is gold. I absolutely appreciate your lesson. Very thanks for your work, finally I understood what couldn't figure out for many years.

Accidental Holdsworth, there's a t-shirt right there.

Really excellent stuff Ben, learnt a lot from your videos. Will join your patreon for some more.

Uncle Ben, I can't put into words how much of your videos help. My perspective to playing guitar has completely changed. I'm finally becoming the guitarist I've always wanted to be. Thank you forever for these videos!!

I met Richard Simmons in an elevator in San Diego back in the mid-90’s. He wasn’t as chipper and upbeat as you see on TV. He was heading to a workout in Del Coronado Hotel gym with a bunch of women. Anyway, thanks for the lesson!

I see you are a fan of Richard Simmons too! lol. Sweatin' to the Oldies!!

Thanks. Nice lesson. Always looking for others' perspective on relating the different keys. I think you're putting a kink in this attempt to bridge these ideas when you say that Am and CM are in a different "order". They're the same notes, and SAME ORDER... SAME neighborhood... But you're in a different guy's house (root). The C major neighborhood is the same neighbor hood as A minor's neighborhood, but it's how things look to C major... the HAPPIEST guy in the neighborhood. I like to think of the modes as the different personalities of the different people in the neighborhood. The root note is the home of each of the 7 guys in the neighborhood. The root note is how you feel when you get up and leave the house and the "scale" in the sense of mode is the emotional path you progress through your day from inside your home, and the emotional momentum you leave your house with. Up the scale is out the front door. And down the scale is out the back door. I like making students learn the C scale and then introduce them to the other 6 guys in the neighborhood. I think it's critical to solidly anchor people in the idea that it is the same notes in the same order, but your just moving into different houses and you're ALWAYS THE GUEST...

Both these videos major and minor were fantastic...........absolutely fantastic. Cheers

dude, this is a heck of a good video!! tks!

I hear you speaking but I can’t get Richard yelling, “I’m a pony, I’m a pony” out of my head. Seriously calling the shrink right now.

Uncle Ben you are absolutely the best. I have learned so much in the last couple of months with you then I have in the last 30 yrs. thanks bro🤘🏻🤘🏻

Legend! This and the one on the major scale were super helpful. Thank you!

This guy kills me 😂. He taught me so much as well

This is a great tutorial and a AWESOME CHANNEL. Thanks very much.

Dude, you single-handedly opened my eyes to what I've been missing all these years. I've been playing stuff waaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder than I needed to. Something in the way you explain things makes it easy for me to comprehend whereas other tutorials seem too theoretically technical or they assume the viewer already knows the lingo (i.e. pentatonic, dorian, cycles, triads, and so forth). Thanks for what you do.

Amazing lesson, after a bit of a break I'm getting back to basics and there's some great things to focus on here. Thanks!

Five shapes you need: Flying V Warlock Explorer Strat Les Paul

Dude, you know over half your viewers didn’t get your Capt & Tennille reference!😂🤣

Thanks for painting a picture I can finally see. I've been needing this for about 30 years 🤘🏻🤣

Ive only gotten thru 7min of this lesson in 2 weeks, has to be one of the best lessons on KZfaq. Realizing the minor scale is in everything. Changed so much for me thank you!

Richard Simmons will not quit staring at me I can’t focus.

Ah yes, I see you, too, are a cultured guitarist with Richard Simmons as your desktop background

Skipped this stuff when I was a kid and now I have to back track now that I'm picking guitar back up. Thanks for the video I needed it. Things are making sense now!

I always learn something new from your videos. Never really thought of the 4 note per string method. Always practicing 2 and 3. Thanks for giving me more ideas to my practice and I love how this pattern (in Am) lets me drive to a juicy whole step bend at the 22nd fret on my Fender. You rock!!!

> could go on to infinity At some point it's hard to get enough energy to reach higher frequencies, plus the tensile strength of the string limits how fast it can vibrate. But those are technicalities that gods like Yahweh Mousemeat don't need to worry about.

Having Richard Simmons staring at you while trying to learn to play guitar is VERY CREEPY...

This video is a year old and I know you may never see this but OH MY GOD THANK YOU. I have been playing guitar for TEN F*CKING YEARS MAN. I CAN PLAY RHYTHM LIKE NO OTHER. FR IM GOD WITH IT. but when it came to lead I definitely had scale pattern baldness. I knew a few basic shapes and would try to jam with them and it was just boring. This video flipped a switch of how to move around the fretboard, play patterns over any chord using your explanation of the root system, and I’m actually jamming now and having a good time. I’ve been looking for a video like this for 10 years, and you were the one to post it, sir 🙏🏼 sincerely, thank you.

Ben's one of the funniest guitar teachers online. Also has some of the best lessons.

But I don't suck, my mom told me I'm pretty ok.

............The Richard Simmons screen savers...Creeps me out, Ben

I cannot believe all the ideas in this one video. I am subscribing to the Patreon just to show appreciation for what's in this video. Thank you for curing my scale pattern baldness.

Your wealth of guitar knowledge is so beneficial and delivered in an accessible, easily understood manner, but it's your incredibly witty, between gem's banter and attention to comedic details (R. Simmon's) that makes it SO doggone fun to tune in!! Holy cats! Thanks.

But, Uncle Ben, I've known the minor scale for over twenty years and I still suck!! Nevertheless, good content.

Nooo not like a circle..... it's like Pac Man. You go off one side of the screen and come back on the other side.

Great video Ben, uncle Ben is one of the best learners any kid could be teached by.

First time I watched and used your vid info Uncle, very well conveyed. I'm not a metal guy but this is gold info, thx

One viewer prefers joyriding his scales like a total pleb

I hear accidental Holdsworth is the root cause of metal fatigue

Ben, this is exactly what I needed to see plus all the premium add-ons. Awesome video! :)

as a self taught lefty whos never learned anything from anyone this just changed my life,

I totally understand your way of teaching.and will be looking for more lessons from you.finally someone that maker's learning interesting again..."WHEN THE STRAIGHT LINE ENDS,THE CIRCLE BEGINS"....

Greatly appreciated ben.you explain everything just right and its excellent that you're able to show us how to use all the stuff shown. Gr8 teacher.

I love your humor. Richard back there is killing me. LOL

these are amazing! as a younger player i thought i was too cool for this stuff even tho i figured it out on my own playing over the years... it still is doing me a lot of good taking these lessons and applying them to my current playing!! thanks!

This is one of the most useful and incisive guitar lessons I have ever had. Thanks.

Now that was a DAMN GOOD LESSON!!! I found it very helpful... specially connecting the patterns. THANKS MAN!!! 🤘🤘

I have watched tones of "guitar stuff" on YT an this is the one of the most valuable of these. Thanks!

Best single guitar lesson I've watched, a real light bulb moment after 37 years playing..many many thanks 👍👍

This is one of THE best videos I've seen for minor scale. I was always overwhelmed by it until now.

Pocket octaves is the best thing I kinda understood but never really thought about or had a name for

I started to play the guitar less than 2 years ago. I have seen literally hundreds of YT tutorials in the subject of varying qualities. Then all of a sudden I came across with Uncle Ben, who at first even seemed a bit irritating for his clowning and stupid jokes. His videos are by far not the most professional when it comes to quality, he uses hand written sketches, nothing fancy. Yet, this guy has given me the most precious practical knowledge in the subject with two of his videos: major scale and minor scale. I had been familiar with these scales before, but was not able to practically use them on the fretboard. The patterns he explains is a game changer, it boosted my understanding of the guitar. I could never imagine that one day I would be able to connect these scales all along the fretboard. This knowledge has given me so much that it is a no-brainer if I donate Uncle Ben on Patreon. Hell yes. Subscribed.

One of the best instructional videos I've seen on the subject. Thanks for posting it.

Your guitar knowledge won my subscription; your offhand references earned my heart. “Makin’ maps like a modern day Ptolemy” well done sir 😂

Love Bens teachin, just straight to the point ,great sense of humor with killer playin!!

OUT STANDING! WILL BE CHECKING OUT MORE! I HAVE LIMITED TIME TO PRACTICE YOU HAVE OPEN UP THE BOARD AND HELPED ME MAKE MY TIME MORE PRODUCTIVE. THANK YOU.

now it makes sense why alot of people told me to learn the fretboard by knowing where notes are, i practiced that for some time and this seems easy now that i can pretty much find any note on any string in a really small amount of time, ive been watching videos after videos tryna find something that will make everything connect and this one finally did it for me, thank you

Love the opening man lol, get after it Uncle Ben. Keep the $H!T5 up 🤘🏻

You are a great teacher! You really help me understand things without getting bogged down trying to process too much information.

Ben, I’ve been watching your videos for years and I don’t think I’ve ever not cracked up at some point while watching them. Though I’m an experienced player, I’ve learned a thing or two as well. Thanks man!

This lesson put it all together for me. It took everything I've been learning and getting a bit confused by and made it crystal clear. The transitions from single string to other more complex patterns was just awesome. Thank you for a truly great lesson.

Dude ! SERIOUSLY the best lesson i have ever watched !!! I learned more from this video alone than all the others i have watched !!! Great job !

Dude, thank you so much!! Man, no joke, you are probably the best guitar teacher I found on KZfaq!!

This is a REALLY INTERESTING way of looking at the minor scale. Thanks!

Hot damn almost spit my drink all over my laptop after that Gary Moore joke Uncle Ben, brilliant as always !

Fantastic lesson. Cleared up a lot of questions I had about the guitar for example moving from the g to b string. Thanks man

Dang guitar Trix say you can't learn guitar on KZfaq but I've learned everything about guitar on KZfaq this lesson just changed my entire prospective about the fretboard 🤯🤯🤯🦍

Haven’t even finished the video and my life has changed forever. And he’s a blooming wit!

Man, I can only repay you by not skipping your ads. Thanks for this.

Finally the video I was looking for to finally open my eyes after 30 years trying to learn scales. Thank you.