LEVEL UP Your SHRED SKILLS!!

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You wanna LEVEL UP your shred skills? Here's what you need! In this video, Uncle Ben Eller here is gonna show you 3 increasingly harder approaches to shredding, plus talk about the pros and cons of each, PLUS give you technique tips all along the way to turn you from zero to hero FAST! Become the next Shredi Knight!
Gear:
Bad Cat Hot Cat
Ibanez RGT3120
UA OX
Which approach do you like best? Let me know in the comments!

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@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for LEVELING UP your shred powers with me! Get even more from this lesson by grabbing the TABs and practice tracks here! www.patreon.com/posts/level-up-your-86707561?Link&

@SamBarvels 11 ай бұрын

14:48 “Just cause it’s harder, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s always better.” I guess it depends on the stepmom haha 🤣

@dan8402 11 ай бұрын

The first three seconds I shot coffee out of my nose lol As an example, some of Satriani's latest stuff isn't shredding off the scales. It is voicing and harmony that really make it.

@satchrules101 11 ай бұрын

The consistency of Ben’s teaching is absolutely Gold!

@Kreecher82 11 ай бұрын

Old Benningtons leveling up every one because he wants to live in a world of shread heads, I'm down for it and so is my picking hand

@iggie_za 11 ай бұрын

Don’t forget that the number of notes per string sometimes will work better with different picking techniques. Great content

@paulcoleman3081 11 ай бұрын

Great. I feel like a caveman staring at a spaceship that's just landed. I swear I saw your pony-tail blowing about in the wind-wake of your alternate picking Ben. Very impressive and somewhat inspirational...

@97stratocaster21 11 ай бұрын

This is probably one of the best lesson videos I've seen from anyone in quite some time. Thanks!

@Kreecher82 11 ай бұрын

BEN BEN BEN BEN BEN WHAT HAPPENED TO WEEKEND WANKSHOP??? and BTW your speed has come.the fuck on this past year what are you now 220?

@FerdinandEphrem 11 ай бұрын

Uncle Ben, you are a true legend! 🙌😄 While most KZfaqrs leave us scratching our heads, you come in like a superhero, simplifying things and making it all worth it! I mean, I ACTUALLY understand what I need to learn and how to do it now. Mind-blowing stuff, man! Keep those awesome lessons coming! 🎸🎉 Not only are your teaching skills incredible, but you're also the most budget-friendly guru out there. While other Patreons are charging a kidney, here you get the knowledge for just pennies! You're a rockstar, Uncle Ben! 🤘💰

@EinarHagen 11 ай бұрын

I had a question at 10:30 into the video and went OH, OH!! Please be "What about economy picking?" - And when our fav uncle started pooing on it I was like: " But, but... Frank Gambale?" :D

@gregnash4860 11 ай бұрын

Legato every day and twice on Sunday, hail to the chief EVH

@arizonabayla496 11 ай бұрын

the mixed picking sounds great, I can't break my natural habit of starting on a downstroke on the alternate groupings for some reason.

@darrenm01 11 ай бұрын

SkankBanger 4 Eva! ‘80s Metal FTW

@bmanntube 11 ай бұрын

Definitely half picked is best, and alternate is best, and full on liquid legato is best too. Mmmm yeah, there can be 3 number ones when it comes right down to it. ❤❤❤😂

@amesmilesoff4768 11 ай бұрын

Cheers Ben, good ideas 👍

@Sixfootdig 11 ай бұрын

I absolutely love this dude's personality

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@armanpgrigorian 11 ай бұрын

YES, I remember ages ago watching a john petrucci lesson where he says that this combo of picking/alt picking is one of the keys to his 3nps speed. Beautiful explanation :)

@davidzamora9973 11 ай бұрын

Guitar World 2007 or 2008? Wasn't he playing a green Ernie Ball? I remember that one.

@Dan9385 11 ай бұрын

"Just like my honeymoon!" 😂 I've been struggling with the fast runs in solos such as Out in the Fields and Bark at the Moon for years. There's clearly something wrong with my technique. Gonna give this a shot. Thanks for the continual awesome content 👍

@loydthabartender5794 11 ай бұрын

That mixolydian run at the end of bark at the moon is a real bastard. I still can't get it down

@andrewnorris2391 11 ай бұрын

Uncle Ben, thank you

@bryannichols7843 11 ай бұрын

Solid Gold, sir! Thank you UB!

@radtats6899 11 ай бұрын

Great lesson as always man! Thanks for all the great content you put out Ben.

@lmactapout 11 ай бұрын

“More is more!” - Yngwie Malmsteen

@manthehelm 11 ай бұрын

Legato has always been my go to when I comes to speed. The speed burst routine has been so beneficial! Thanks for the awesome lesson videos!

@jeffpodrug8942 11 ай бұрын

Man this is really a great lesson. I'm still working on the outside/ inside stuff. I just have make sure I'm doing it correctly. It does sound like a machine gun. Thanks, dude! 🤘

@APK-pn4qh 11 ай бұрын

The vast majority of modern yootoob based shredders (particularly the Djent crowd) confuse speed and note density with quality and melody. If these guys listened to the original 80s shredders, speed never replaced melody for its own sake. I've heard 8 slowly played notes in a Randy Rhoads solo that have made my spine shiver and the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. I've heard modern Djent yootoob shredders zip through 666 notes in a two second burst and it has left me bored. Not a popular opinion, but true all the same. Nice video Unca Ben. Mom says hi. 😁

@bestboy897 11 ай бұрын

this is such a good idea for a video and a lesson

@rjprivate 11 ай бұрын

That track in the background in the beginning of the video is wicked cool. Awesome lesson!

@mrk4510 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic Lesson. Thank you very much. 🙂👍

@deltalegendsguitaramplific5450 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Uncle Ben !

@johanrunesson363kagy9 11 ай бұрын

VERY good points made here!

@K.V.H. 11 ай бұрын

Knocked it out of the park, as always 👏 You can't tell, but I'm bowing down to your genius

@reckless-575 11 ай бұрын

Great lesson! Thank you Uncle Ben. 👍

@tgstk2 11 ай бұрын

I loved that burst explanation!!! If theres something id love to learn with legato is how to cleanly go to the next string and how to use legato when the sequence is going down in frets

@darrenwardell3079 11 ай бұрын

Another cracking video Ben. Many thanks.

@slappywag7210 11 ай бұрын

I think legato sounds smoother. But the try hard in me wants to pick everything. As I get up there in years, I do apply more legato and I’ve always done the “Nuno” palm muting thing. Cool video🤘

@Imfreehowaboutu 11 ай бұрын

Because I was a huge Satch fan early in my playing my legato has always been better than my picking. I was surprised when I entered my local music scene that most guitarists I encountered couldn’t play legato. It definitely gave me an advantage in the length of runs I could play but it took me a long time to catch up in the alternate picking realm and I’m still working on it to this day. Cracking the code and your channel have been extremely helpful. Both sounds are great and guitarists shouldn’t overlook either.

@eigengrau1 11 ай бұрын

Very nice and interesting approach; Thanks Uncle Ben!

@guitar9310 11 ай бұрын

Man speed bursts helped me soooooo much. I never could get actual picking. Speed bursts and hybrid picking really changed my playing and gave me what I needed to pretty much play anything. Great vid man! I'm so thankful you are out here showing the world how to play guitar and teaching such good lessons!

@elgoogkcuf 11 ай бұрын

i do like hearing those fast pick attacks on shreddy licks instead of the "smoother" sounds of legato playing.

@orapidliquido1778 11 ай бұрын

Really great video unc 🎸

@jasoncrump1886 11 ай бұрын

Appreciate you Ben . You are a great teacher brother.

@guitardude1981 11 ай бұрын

Thank you Uncle B!

@richieismyhero 11 ай бұрын

Thanks, Uncle Ben. They all sound awesome. The half picking was the hardest for me, so I am going to work on that

@AlfredPotterGuitar 11 ай бұрын

Yeah man. I call those legato injections for scale runs the "Sparrow Effect" because it reminds me of how a sparrow flies: It flaps for a bit, then tucks in its wings and falls, then flaps again, then tucks and falls again, and so on.

@eddiejr540 11 ай бұрын

This is a great exercise…I think it would help alot to watch your picking hand as you do this…just to keep things on track 👍

@mindofmatter071 11 ай бұрын

All the heavy lifting!!! Love it!!!

@khuber996 11 ай бұрын

Ben your humor is great, I always get a good laugh along with I think is the best internet instruction on the net. Thank you and BTW you are a sick player!

@MarcoMastra 11 ай бұрын

Great lesson Ben! My favorite is alternate picking but the mix legato-alternate is quite interesting! 👏🏻

@oldfart6938 11 ай бұрын

Love u, man ur vids have always been fantastic 🤘🏽🔥😎🤘🏽

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@stefanokrivtzoff1593 11 ай бұрын

Hey uncle Ben! Awesome content! Gonna definitely give this a try

@alexgenova9632 11 ай бұрын

In one of your other videos you said something like... "If you'r right hand can't play fast in time by itself, and your left hand can't play fast in time by itself, then why would you expect them to play fast in time together?" Really showed me that i needed to do the legato stuff along with the alternate picking stuff.

@nunolance23 11 ай бұрын

7:12 the honeymoon joke lmao

@cyclethelock 11 ай бұрын

7:11 LOL I think we’re done here. Good night folks. Tip your waitstaff. Be safe getting home.

@ClassofEighty2 11 ай бұрын

Map for success. Thanks again.

@jasonspencer8104 11 ай бұрын

Right hand set on frappe 😂😂 If the left hand is feeding the right hand garbage 😂. Dude you are pure comedy. Always entertaining lessons. 🤘👏

@charles-davidcorbin3341 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this lesson Ben, now I just need to practice to get everything in time and at speed.

@livinghorizons7068 11 ай бұрын

My pick hand sure loves a good frappe! 👌

@travisgularte4792 11 ай бұрын

most awesome vid 2 date uncle ben 🤘🏻

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

@1loveMusic2003 11 ай бұрын

Killer vid

@Kriegter 11 ай бұрын

For ascending licks I like to do a down up down down up down economy picking approach kinda like doing gallops but connected

@comradetom3347 11 ай бұрын

"Is harder better? Depends on whose step-mom you asked" .... lol! I spat my coffee. Sooooo good. Your lessons rock.

@nickmillington9813 11 ай бұрын

"Just like my honeymoon" hahaha

@donaldramone6517 11 ай бұрын

Thank you maestro my left hand appreciates you

@Xplora213 11 ай бұрын

Nothing will break your heart more than realising you prefer legato in your ears despite putting decades into alternate picking.

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Ain’t a thing wrong with it. I catch myself working like crazy on alternate picking, then adoring the sounds of Holdsworth, Quayle, Satriani, and EVH.

@Xplora213 11 ай бұрын

@@BenEller The time lost is a lot. I’m WAY quicker with legato. I just don’t like hearing the pick!

@Minty.Fresh.Tunes. 11 ай бұрын

Hey Ben great video as always! You know what could be cool for a video instead of showing say whatever shred pattern you made and then telling us what scale it uses maybe start with the scale first like show the entire thing on the fretboard (the entire scale) and then go through the process of creating one of these shred patterns. And you could do a different video like this for different scales. Same for sweeps. Cheers man so glad I found your channel I pulled off the Tornado of Souls solo cause of you thanks! (Out of the several that I saw on youtube I liked the way you played it the best so I learned yours.)

@DorianDeLuca 11 ай бұрын

What an intro!

@JonBjork 11 ай бұрын

Great and important lesson Ben! I alternate picked EVERYTHING when I first started out, basically because I heard Al DiMeola say you should and also because it was harder (which equaled "better" in my mind then). Luckily I had a teacher who slapped some sense into my dumbass teenage self😬

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

thanks Jon!

@patandmacmusic 11 ай бұрын

I watched Yngwie for YEARS say he only alternate picks (with minimal sweeping). Then Troy at Cracking The Code showed that Yngwie uses WAY more legato and economy picking then he lets on. Honestly Yngwie probably doesn’t even know what he’s doing, not that he’s a bad player just not a super great teacher.

@Jettblack_ 11 ай бұрын

Hey Uncle Ben!The only thing that would make this video better is if you had a sweet 70's style handle bar mustache.

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

That’s true of all my videos!

@bestboy897 11 ай бұрын

the intro lmfaooo

@nimblefred2932 11 ай бұрын

I heart neck-thru guitars

@junkfoodeater 11 ай бұрын

Gonna go work on my legatos! using my left hand more was the last thing i though was gonna fix this, always blamed the picking hand.

@derickcutter8485 11 ай бұрын

such a sick ibanez

@impoopnrightnow906 11 ай бұрын

*UNCLE BEN!*

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

HELLO!

@YaBoyConstar 11 ай бұрын

Ben your alt picking is sounding very scary lately 🔥

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@randallhaney7909 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Uncle Ben!! Awesome lesson as usual, But it's quite a bit to Try to get after, (for someone "me" with " Dr. Strangelove" type dexterity and control over their extremities) Ahhh But am I going to try to get after it? Not just , But Hell Yes . LOL It's always Fun here Thanks for that.. You are appreciated.

@gloriahancock8358 11 ай бұрын

VERY RAD!!!!

@pyratoothNL 11 ай бұрын

I like the Paul Gilbert half-legato thing. All alternate picking doesn't breathe and is tiring to listen to which is why I had an issue with early Vinnie Moore. Paul's style has those bursts of intensity that keep things interesting. I've struggled for years with coordination and on a good day it works other times it's sloppy. My best alternate picking is Yngwie-style scaling down on one string. So I tend to find legato works best for me, but that it also because I play along to a lot of Satriani stuff. Considering my age its probably just my style, so I'll try and drop in some alternate stuff to change it up, but it will be difficult to replace everything that way.

@helio1055 3 ай бұрын

“but myself, i wanna know” 😂😂😭

@chrisdini5240 11 ай бұрын

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@erichartwell6792 11 ай бұрын

Great stuff saw pantera last night it was fantastic fucking awesome thanks this will help a lot i want to learn how Zach plays so fast 😅

@dylanhardina 11 ай бұрын

Ben again teaches us how to shred Step Moms in the Bed Room 😌 Awful joke aside, another awesome lesson 🎉 Legato still my favorite of the techniques.

@andrewnicon 11 ай бұрын

Ben, two necklaces is egregious.

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Can’t stop won’t stop!

@eirikhaugland4685 11 ай бұрын

First! Looking forward to the lesson!

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Hope you like it!

@oh033 11 ай бұрын

I wanna see that Anderson 7!

@nick39 11 ай бұрын

Hey Uncle Ben! Any chance you could do a lesson on Van Halen’s “Dreams”? Not sure I could get through the lesson though… every time I hear it or try to play it, I tear up😞 You’re the best buddy! Keep up your great work!🤟

@jay4vice 10 ай бұрын

One thing about your left hand technique, your thumb is in the middle of the neck. A Jazz Guitar technique that improves playing.

@TheGergeDIY 11 ай бұрын

I've definitely got right-arm-frappe style down. :P

@angellesambre1 11 ай бұрын

I have been doing a "pick-hammer-pick" style for decades. It was suggested in an article by Tony Macalpine in a column in Guitar World? I think?

@monsterram6617 11 ай бұрын

"Check out that leg meat". I was checking. 😘

@THE_WOAT 11 ай бұрын

LOL... opening line 😂

@erPiccoloTotti 11 ай бұрын

I don't know if harder is better, but we just saw Steve Vai in Nashville. Hot damn, he seems to have harder and better in his bag. If there was ever a case for aliens hiding here on earth Men in Black style, then Steve Vai is it!

@OcheKeeJam 11 ай бұрын

please do "Colorado Bulldog". thanks

@vinvin1909 11 ай бұрын

Great lesson. Thx for sharing..

@DC11GTR 11 ай бұрын

Satch has been my God since the early 90s and I busted my butt to learn as much as I could from his first 3 main albums (Surfing, Flying, Extreming) but instead of picking a song or a record, I decided to do all 3. I got really good at everything but the coolest of the legato runs, which I was working towards until stupid Dream Theater came along and I realized I just as easily pick everything. Petrucci had to come along and mess up my whole thing… 😂

@roblaaa1845 11 ай бұрын

hey ben, wonder if you've ever seen a band called Black Midi. They have a song called sugar/tzu and it's really interesting mix of zappa and chaotic music. Wonder if you'd ever do a lesson on lead/rhythm playing like that too or more zappa videos :)

@BenEller 11 ай бұрын

Hmm no I haven’t, but you know I love Zappa

@lyricbread 11 ай бұрын

4:10 That’s actually something Joe Satriani does. 😂

@Ryan_Messenger 11 ай бұрын

Throw in some legato and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about!

@janezimmerman7987 11 ай бұрын

Harder is not intrinsically better. It just hsppens that our brains don't t necessarily associate good to music that happens to be convenient to production by our physical capabilities on the somewhat randomly or idiosyncratically created tools we have to produce music. It would be odd if either easy or hard was associated with what we can produce with the tools. In the former, the tool would have to be a device matched to produce pleasing music with little effort. That's likely only possible with electronics. In the latter, the instrument would be a stupidly designed tool.

@HarlanHarvey76 11 ай бұрын

I'm so stuck in economy picking that I can't straight alternate pick anymore.... When try to go fast it just gets sloppy but when I economy pick I hit everything. It's like I lost a superpower (FYI - Gambale fanboy here😂)

@darrenm01 11 ай бұрын

Everyone knows whoever plays the most notes in the shortest period of time wins.