What the Paul Gilbert Lick ISN'T Teaching You!

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What the Paul Gilbert Lick ISN'T Teaching You!

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What is the Paul Gilbert lick NOT teaching you?!? Paul introduced us to his favorite alternate picking lick back on his OG Hot Licks video, and he has since disavowed it as being the be all end all alternate picking workout. It's a great outside picking exercise, but there's a lot it DOESN'T show us if you want to become an alternate picking PRO!
In this video, I'm going to show you variations on the PG lick that will get you inside picking, outside picking, and crushing the game while learning the fretboard MORE BETTER! It's a smashing little etude that's gonna turn you into SHREDDY KREUGER!
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@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

ALL my Patreon supporters are getting TABs, Guitar Pro files, and practice tracks to go along with this one! Get MORE out of the Paul Gilbert lick! www.patreon.com/posts/104016329?

@thirdlegstalliano 2 ай бұрын

I mastered the Gilbert lick years ago and ever since then, the money and chicks just keep rolling in. Thanks Paul Gilbert lick

@ginto1990 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha what a comment 😂

@joesatchton212 2 ай бұрын

lol...well-played, sir.

@binkywarren21 2 ай бұрын

I want my girlfriend back, you b*stard.

@edbernardmusic3599 2 ай бұрын

Haha bravo! I play Al DiMeola's version, so far no money, no chicks.

@inkedvillan80 2 ай бұрын

12 years ago I bought the intense rock 1/2 dvd. I got divorced soon after HAHA true story lol

@sheriewart8100 2 ай бұрын

Great lesson, my stepmom loves your variation of strokes, but mostly the inside

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

EYOOOOO tell her I want my Whitesnake shirt back!!!

@MissyMuthaTruckiN 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@NoahWolfe 2 ай бұрын

The inside picking variation is evil. Thank you for highlighting a major flaw in my chops and forcing me to the woodshed, some 35 years after wearing out my Intense Rock 1 VHS.

@ZIGSVIDS 2 ай бұрын

I met Paul at a clinic once , he gave out a hand drawn lesson on A pentatonic minor and said 'If your teacher hasn't shown you the pentatonic minor get a new one" I'll have to learn that someday.

@nvlddmkm1282 2 ай бұрын

I’d say no need for a specific key, start with major, learn the intervals, then you’ll automatically learn the natural minor since it’s relative to major, then you’ll know minor and major pentatonic. It’s all connected :)

@ZIGSVIDS 2 ай бұрын

@@nvlddmkm1282 Dude , I'm Australian and started in the early 80's. So knew pentatonic even if you thought you didn't. Thanks to Angus

@nvlddmkm1282 2 ай бұрын

@@ZIGSVIDS heh yup, if you played thrash or rock in the 80s you knew pentatonic

@diogorenato 2 ай бұрын

2:42 "chicks and money are NOT guaranteed" the legal disclaimer hahahaha

@pickboy7 2 ай бұрын

Love this etude Uncle Ben!! Thank you!

@cristianlopez_8486 2 ай бұрын

Hmm... didn't even know that was a Paul Gilbert lick, but I have played a variation before as fun practice exercise starting out. I just knew it as that cool intro lick from Annihilator's Alison Hell.

@pcbullets8726 2 ай бұрын

Yup, great stuff to step up your guitar playing game! Thanks!

@amesmilesoff4768 2 ай бұрын

Cheers Ben, interesting lesson. Nice guitar by the way 🤘

@burnsZY85 2 ай бұрын

That lick really helped me get my head around alt picking, thanks paul.......and uncle ben.

@JonnyCrackers 2 ай бұрын

I was just practicing the Paul Gilbert lick not more than two minutes ago and then this pops up in my feed. Excellent!

@VanhA-db3kz 2 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thank you for this. 🤘

@rickabell9218 2 ай бұрын

Ben, I really like your style. Your sense of humor, your teaching style and your skill. Thank you brother.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

@ravikant840 2 ай бұрын

This man has helped me a lot.

@brunolevasseur 2 ай бұрын

Hi Ben ! In my memory, a VHS of Paul Gilbert with same kind of licks in the 90's. A funny guy too! 😂

@erichartwell6792 2 ай бұрын

The best Chanel there is period 💣🤘🏻🎸🔥💣

@AlfredPotterGuitar 2 ай бұрын

Excellent variations! Whenever I get a new student, they'll very often already be practicing this maneuver. I have to explain to them that the pickslanting challenges are insane, and that even though it seems simple, it really isn't. There was a video (somewhere) where PG himself admits that this maneuver is disastrous for beginners

@OfAllTheNerve 2 ай бұрын

I am envious of the 3 stacked skull decor in the background.

@sole__doubt 2 ай бұрын

Uncle Ben looking like Yngwie in this one with the high volume hair and dangling bracelets.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

It’s all about the angle of the dangle

@chucksaeger7500 2 ай бұрын

Love the lesson dude!

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@mcguimen 2 ай бұрын

Você só tem guitarras bonitas e o som maravilhoso. Além de tocar muito. Sempre assisto suas dicas. Grande abraço

@JP4271 2 ай бұрын

Great lesson, Mr. Ben. I've always struggled with the classic 'Gilbert lick' outside picking mechanic. BTW - I saw you play with Mr. Andy last week at the Dallas show, very cool! I talked to Andy and he said you engineer all his records. Didn't know that. Was going to say howdy to you too but you had quite the crowd around you. Guess that happens with almost half a million subscribers!

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Hey dude would have loved to have met you! Everyone at the Dallas Guitar Fest was SO NICE, we had a blast.

@vincentquy 2 ай бұрын

Hey uncle Ben. Thanks for the lesson. I saw you at Dallas Guitar Festival last Sunday but I couldn't say hi since you was busy. Hope to see you again some day.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Next time!!! That fest was a blast

@CBlackShred84 2 ай бұрын

Dude that Schecter just looks comfortable AF

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

It RULES

@dimitriid 2 ай бұрын

When you said the 'Paul Gilbert lick' I thought it was going to be the scarified ending and thought 'boy that's hard enough to learn already' lol

@erichartwell6792 2 ай бұрын

Thanks uncle Ben I be working on this and I got a better job I’ll be rejoining the patreon page soon I like tabs💯

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Niiiiiice, see you there!

@johanjotun1647 2 ай бұрын

IDK if i like to even want to start thinking about this, ive allways just let the inside or outside pick thing just happen automaticlly via whatever the path of least resistance happens to be, an extra thing to be self concious about is another oppertunity for me to choke.

@IDGAF_PLUS 2 ай бұрын

That Schecter is sick! They make stupid awesome guitars.

@BrianH020 2 ай бұрын

¡Pablo Gilberto! 🤘

@edguitarguitar 2 ай бұрын

Great lesson, as usual, Ben. That 2-notes per string position really slowed me down! How about adding the last 4-notes per string position?! Ouch!😬

@HarlanHarvey76 2 ай бұрын

Love the color of that Shaktor but cannot dig that headstock.... Unless I needed to pierce through some chainmail or something

@meahulapela 2 ай бұрын

I like the variations on this lesson, I love pattern permutations like these. I honestly think the lesson would have benefited from a close up view of when the target pick escales are. Nice nonetheless! Edit - to make it more PG like would be good to get rhytm variations too, you know moving from steaight 8th notes to 16ths to some tuplet

@pzuliomaccavellion9711 2 ай бұрын

I never knew what inside/outside playing meant until now! And have realized I'm kind of an inside player! .....have I been making things hard for myself all this time!? Dayam!

@mdeerocks6792 2 ай бұрын

I'll try to ask Paul Gilbert to play inside picking variation :)

@randallhaney7909 2 ай бұрын

Outstanding lesson Uncle benny Bob. (as always) You and the hard work putting these lessons together are greatly appreciated. My question. How is it; You can consistently make something, Difficult; frustrating & fun as heck to learn/do? (for me at my ability level) The difficult; frustrating & Fun; is the Worry. I think you've brought out latent masochistic tendencies in me? Yikes & Gasp .. LOL. Thanks for keeping it Fun; Uncle benny Bob.. For real.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@braxal6983 2 ай бұрын

Hey Ben, It was good seeing you last Sunday. You going to do a lesson on Way Cool Jr.?

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

I’m thinking I should haha good meeting you too

@julianschulz1620 2 ай бұрын

As a young shredder, i practiced that PG lick constantly, since the day that REH video came out. I could NEVER play it up to speed, despite starting slow and working my way up. I hit a speed barrier, i could never clear, no matter how much i practiced. It was incredibly frustrating, although i ended up mastering the "Legato section" of the vid.

@Dropshock20XX 2 ай бұрын

Sick

@andrewsmall4865 2 ай бұрын

Ben, can you drop a comment about whether you incorprated two-way pick slanting with this as opposed to just letting your picking angle develop naturally based on ensuring the licks are played cleanly and in time? Cheers.

@andrewbecker3700 2 ай бұрын

Alright, this has gotten downright weird. This must be at least the 3rd or 4th time this year alone. That the Weekend Wankshop topic is almost exactly what I've been working on. Get'n the vibes out there one way or another? Uncle Ben has hit paydirt repeatedly now. I dig the simple approach that focuses on the basics that rarely get talked about. All these fundamental skills are guaranteed to get you more money and chicks.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Ha!!! I’m out there skating through the astral plane nightly searching for Shredi Knights in need!

@saltyphucker777 2 ай бұрын

Hi, Uncle Ben! The Paul Gilbert lick has troubled me with pickslanting for a very long time (i.e., changing the pick angle when hitting a new string for a one single note, and then coming back to the previous string, like at 5:47). Can you elaborate on how best to practice this with pickslanting? Are you changing the pick angle at all when hitting the new string for a single note, and then coming back to the previous?

@MissyMuthaTruckiN 2 ай бұрын

¡Paulo Gilberto!

@VIBORARockbandES 2 ай бұрын

Greetings my friend

@forelectricstring8833 2 ай бұрын

Thanks but I'll always pick in the direction of the string (relative to current pick position).

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

If it works, it works!

@berkayguner 2 ай бұрын

Idea for another more better Uncle Ben video: "What the Ritchie Blackmore arpeggio isn't teaching you?" Context: Is there a way to pick that part, which starts with 567s on GBA strings in Rainbow's "Man on the silver mountain". It seems nobody covered it online how to pull that off with a pick without arpeggiating as Ritchie Blackmore does. It seems impossible for me in 100 years to pull that off with the actual rhythm 😅

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

My man, you are in luck: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gKeoZrmGmb29Y2w.htmlsi=91IWDbSwlS8sDMg5

@berkayguner 2 ай бұрын

@@BenEller Oh man! How did I miss that 😮. I was thinking that I've seen all videos here. Thanks a million 😁🤘

@weaselfart5505 2 ай бұрын

What the Paul Gilbert lick DOESNT teach you is that in order to master this technique (as well as many others in this style), you must first acquire a Gibson 2024 emerald green SG. A secret only the coolest guitar players know.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

I’m listening!!!

@johnhagan582 2 ай бұрын

I'll stick with my Alpine White 74 Gibson Les Paul Custom .it's the only gutair I've ever played .and it was my favorite guitarist go to 🪓 .doubt I have to tell anyone who played the exact guitar . color .year . and Python Snakeskin Strap lol but yeah the SG is sick

@bluematrix5001 2 ай бұрын

why dont go from the last not on the string.down stroke, down to the next string (economy Picking)

@erichartwell6792 2 ай бұрын

Just the tip 😂

@edbernardmusic3599 2 ай бұрын

It's funny that this became The Paul Gilbert Lick. I heard DiMeola play it a decade earlier and it's almost guaranteed that's where Paul heard it.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

It’s gotta be!

@edbernardmusic3599 2 ай бұрын

@@BenEller I just played Mediterranean Sundance for a student. That Al solo...I tells ya...

@permanentwaves4621 2 ай бұрын

What the "other" Paul Gilbert lick? He plays it as much as he does this one. I've found a few people trying to teach it, but i cant understand it. We've all heard it. He usually plays it in A pentatonic, 5th fret "box", but does elsewhere also.

@leaharrington4472 2 ай бұрын

I played it a few times and already a bunch of chicks showed up. What can you recommend for feeding these chicks until they're big enough to fry and eat for dinner? Also, can you explain how to tell the roosters from the hens?

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Let them things wander out in the yard and feast on bugs and whatnot, you’ll get the best eggs that way!

@nicolasignaciodiazcastro2036 2 ай бұрын

this is full of intricate string changes why no mention about pickslanting?

@impoopnrightnow906 2 ай бұрын

*UNCLE BEN!*

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

HI!

@edsnotgod 2 ай бұрын

breckin thelow, breck in the low, breckinthe low... breckin thelow... (never 'breaking the law')

@richardjones2811 2 ай бұрын

More than one way to skin a cat 😀 There's also another way called Swiping. Paul has used it a LOT.

@touchtennis 2 ай бұрын

It’s been about 10 years since I was in the first three comments!

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

You made it!!

@touchtennis 2 ай бұрын

@@BenEller I kinda think it means YOU made it! Gone are the days of 10k subs where nephews like me could get a comment in! And seriously it’s nothing less than you deserve. So happy for you.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

@@touchtennisdawwww

@IDropzGuitar 2 ай бұрын

Hey Ben, been a fan for many years now, would love it if you could take the time to read this one, I’m a 21 year old from Queensland Australia, I’ve been battling an ongoing eye condition stemming from a skin disease I got when I was 8, it had left me in a coma for some time and it’s left me going blind, as of November last year that’s when my eyes got worse, i ended up homeless for some time there, at an attempt to get big enough to maybe go overseas and get my eyes treated by a world class specialist I’ve started a KZfaq and TikTok channel teaching guitar I know you have a huge audience and would appreciate it to the moon if you could help us out, if not even just some advice to help me improve I’d appreciate it so much and keep it up!

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Keep it up, dude, and always remember: your voice is your currency, and content is KING! Don’t sweat low production values to start, set your phone up with some good lighting and share what you’ve got!

@IDropzGuitar 2 ай бұрын

@@BenEller thank you legend, your all so kind, I’ll see you at the top!!

@JJohnson616 2 ай бұрын

@IDropzGuitar do you have a channel yet? I'm sure a lot of us here would also follow you there

@IDropzGuitar 2 ай бұрын

@@JJohnson616 this is my channel I’m commenting off

@JJohnson616 2 ай бұрын

@@IDropzGuitar subscribed!

@cflowers69 2 ай бұрын

Say, my mom says you have been really pushing those “bonus” lessons. Care to explain? If not, dad says to stop wearing his slippers at least.

@spoonfedfred2 2 ай бұрын

If I only work on outside picking do I get chicks but no money?

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

That’s correct, according to the data.

@superflysoulbrother 2 ай бұрын

Back in the day when I bought the VHS tape, I wound up overdeveloping my outside picking, thanks to Paul. Can concur, got the chick, but not much money.

@edbernardmusic3599 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to watch, and expect you to get revenue, but the ads are too much on KZfaq and the monthly cost much too high.

@BenEller 2 ай бұрын

Practice during the ad break, my man. Those ads pay my bills!

@edbernardmusic3599 2 ай бұрын

@@BenEller I understand. Post an original and I promise to sit through the ads! BTW, you just happened to be the vid I was on when the rant struck. Absolutely no ill will intended.