My favourite uncle. The only one that’s never touched me 👍🏼

@danmorrison8746

2 жыл бұрын

That joke is in poor taste and I'm glad you made it :D :D

@thenameless3271

2 жыл бұрын

He's touched our hearts

@Billywagner22

2 жыл бұрын

OMFG haha

@PelleKuipers

2 жыл бұрын

He did touch me. He touched my insecurities, and my lack of discipline, and much more.

@scribeofsolace

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao….what’s your family history looking like bro

Ok, so we need a running list of the bizarre names that Uncle Ben uses for The Malmsteem. Yolo Mousemeat is simply amazing.

@Jeffmetal42

2 жыл бұрын

I was always fond of Ying Yang Milkshake

@sorenportencio1149

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jeffmetal42 yeah Ying Yang Milkshake is definitely my favorite

@jasonjasniewski5925

2 жыл бұрын

How are you liking the earth tone Suhr? I was thinking of getting the blue or the green I saw on Reverb. Btw it’s nice to see that someone else can’t stand the Metallica tabs with all the mistakes. I learned most by ear and was incredibly close on this one. I admit I did not hear the harmony near the beginning the same way. I thought I heard a straight barre across the 1st and 2nd string. Note that I heard how you do it I see I was wrong. Great lesson!

@AndersonWave17

2 жыл бұрын

Yawangy is my favorite. That’s per Devin Townsend

@sole__doubt

Жыл бұрын

I really like the Ingsteen Malmateen version.

U are the most intelligent, capable and funny guitar coach. Actually ur the best teacher I've ever had. Period.

@BenEller

2 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thanks Ben for helping me out there 🙂 It really helped immensely and my playing is already improving. Ben is the guitar teacher I wish I had when I first started playing many moons ago 🤘🏻

@BenEller

2 жыл бұрын

You the man! Thanks for contributing!

@chrissmith5512

2 жыл бұрын

Nice one JC! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

If only the Interwebs and my Uncle Ben were alive in 1988/89 - I would be so much better on guitar. But, I'll take it now - thank you again!!

One of the absolute best guitar KZreadrs! A happy Patreon here!

Love the stuff about picking. I agree that cases like this are troublesome. I run into this all the time with stuff where the picking pattern that feels most natural overall involves a down-pick immediately followed by a down-pick on the next higher string (e.g. "economy"). In those cases, the tempo determines whether or not you have to decelerate your pick on the way down to the second note. Thus, there is always pressure at that point to slip the tempo because your body would prefer to keep your right hand going at the same speed.

Still enjoying your videos 5 years after . Thanks a million for your hard work

Great stuff as usual Doctor Uncle Ben! Sanitarium is one of ‘tallica’s finest!

Thanks so much Ben. About a year ago, I was watching as many videos of Kirk as I could find at 0.25 speed to figure out where the heck his hands were on those dyad parts. Will be revisiting this video often.

Excellent video, especially the part about using your thumb joint during picking. You teach without being condescending to improper technique, which I have found to be rare with ALOT of guitar players/teachers. Thank you.

Great video my man! As always

Your explanation of the 'key turning motion' and demonstration of proper hand movement just levelled my picking game up +5

Dawg, thank you so much for this. I just spent hours practicing and finally nailed it 🤘

You have the best finger exercises. Much appreciated!

Yolo Mousemeat strikes again! Great job, John. Love these videos, Uncle Ben!

@CyberScorps

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers dude 🙂👍🏻

Utter legend! Such useful help for all parts of the video.

@BenEller

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

Such a nostalgic solo for me. I remember learning this when I was like 15. Glad to see you playing a Friedman now, Ben. Your tone is on point. That harmonic richness is music to my ears. Keep up the great work.

@BenEller

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, I seriously cannot believe this amp. It’s perfect.

Tremendous video/lesson. This is the man I’d love to learn from on my journey to becoming a better player

HAHA, that King Crimson comment made me shoot tea out of my nose! ❤️

My favorite Uncle is a Doctor now!? I knew that cheat sheet would come in handy for ya! Bad ass lesson as well, Dr. Uncle!

Whats really crazy is we had to use those tabs back in the 90s and early 00s. Tabs were so freakin awful that in the early 00s we had this collective a canadian guy hosted called tooltabs. Probably the only reason good tool tabs exist. Where ever Nolan V is, you a G!! 🙏🏻

@OlviMasta77

8 ай бұрын

That and guitaretabs and shortly after that, ultimate guitar

Excellent. Will give this link doctor coaching a shot. I expected some " ha ha look at him play emojis " but Doctor Uncle handled it with utmost professionalism. What can I say, I'm bruised from the asking dumb questions in class humiliation from my teacher's. 🤣

Actually started learning this one recently, amazing timing!

Thanks Uncle Ben, always showing me how to finger correctly. Now to try this on guitar

Really nice video, I enjoyed it!

That Suhr looks so dope with the black board and stainless frets. Absolutely screams play me now.

Damn Ben, that really is a nice guitar. The inlays look really nice with that flawless looking fret board. Very nice. I bet your happy with it.

Good lesson! I aways enjoying lessons

i am a music teacher. guitar is one of the instruments i have taught for almost 20 years. there are many amazing musicians on youtube. some attempt to teach people here and they’re not very good at all. you, my friend- u shred and teach awesomely. great job ! and, thank you.

I knew there was something wrong with all of those tabs and KZread tutorials with the diads section. Thank you for making me feel sane!

Great lesson!

I've been playing this (wrong) from the old Hal Leonard tab forever. Thanks for learnin' me gud!

love your guitar! one of my favorite colors! It Suhr does look nice hehe

This is hilarious! Thanx for sharing unc. ✌🏻 Nice geethaar btw. 🤪

Pretty cool how Marty has his own amp company. :)

Great advice on the alternate pick approach instead of trying to sweep at mid to slow tempos. I had to adopt a hybrid alternate-picking/sweep technique for BoC's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" on both the main riff and the 'interlude' section (right before and during the main solo). Otherwise, my timing would get off, and I was too sloppy with straight sweeps.

He got me with the "Which King Crimson song is this?". 🤣

Cool video, bro! Really lets the masses see more of your one-on-one instructor side. :) The thumb caveat was a great call-out too. I agree with the alternate picking fluidity, but here's maybe a 3rd way to approach? All small downstrokes through the arpeggio (tempo slow enough), i.e. EVH, Dave Mustaine, or even Hammett's partner Hetfield? Just a thought. P.S> YOLO! hahahaha

Some great tips even for an old dog like me. Never stop learning or taking advice! Very rarely use tab as it didn’t exist when I started. Or wasn’t available. No net! Still use ear and now the live footage to get in the ballpark. Get a good ear as it makes learning easier and a lot quicker. Tab has the notes but not the feelz 🤘

@jasonjasniewski5925

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I started playing by ear almost 40 years ago just like most people do. I remember my friend getting the Master of Puppets tab book after we had already learned most of the songs and determined it was so full of mistakes it was better used to kill flies that bothered us as we played in his garage.

@Dan_Ranger

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonjasniewski5925 😂 Exactly that!

Great video, especially the explanation about the thumb motion. It was really helpful It's a very unsual movement, but if you have interest in seeing somone using this technique precisely, I think you might like to see a guitarrist Edu Ardanuy, from a band called Dr Sin. He uses this style of picking in high speeds with great accuracy.

Fantastic breakdown with Yolo Mousemeat as the icing to that cake. 👍🏼

We love you Dr. Uncle Ben!!!!!!

Like others have pointed out, I also learned this solo from the Cherry Lane book, so we never knew about the diads after the first climb. On the question of whether to play that climb in 7th or 12th position, the performance of the song in Nuremberg, Germany in 1992 that I’m watching right now and that’s part of the recent deluxe edition of TBA confirms the 12th position and also has a good shot of the diads. Thanks Uncle Ben!

I went to bed last night thinking about what songs in E I wanted to learn, I was considering Welcome Home (Sanitarium), but wasn't so sure, but you may have just swayed me :D

Uncle, thank you for this blessing 👏👌

Man I’m really damn early take care uncle Ben awesome video as always.

That knuckle on your thumb advice is very underrated advice/technique to watch out for.

Good stuff Doctor Uncle Ben

Good God damn this dude is talented. Keep going sir , cheers

First you were my Uncle, then my Step Dad, now my Doctor, you make me more better Dr Uncle Dad

Pretty pleased i was playing it 99% right although you highlighted a few minor details Id never noticed which really dot the I’s and cross the T’s. 👍

Ever since I started watching Ben, I'm convinced every isolated guitar track recorded is floating around on the tubes somewhere! Ha ha ha. Also John Petrucci exercises?! "Oh my arm just cracked and yours might also" 😅👀

For the thumb movement on picking, does that also apply to "circle picking" where you're arpeggiating across 3 notes: up picking and then pulling off on G string, then sweep picking the D and G strings, for instance. I find that bending my thumb allows the pick to cross over more easily during the up pick in that situation.

Thanks Uncle Doctor Ben

Ben makes me wish I knew how to play guitar. Not enough to learn guitar or practice guitar or put any personal effort into it whatsoever, but enough that it would be cool to know.

The Petrucci exercise sounds like a dissonant, jazzier version of the opening lick to “Mr. Sandman.”

I too like nice things. Your lick Dr. intro is nice.

+1 on the cross pick instead of a sweep. It helped me play that over the mountain lick much better. I was thinking exactly that when you said it, you mind reader you.

Great video

@BenEller

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy

Thank you so much for this. I always knew the tabs fucking sucked but my ear and knowledge was never good enough to actually catch what was going on so this actually brings me relief to see the proper way. Love those solos anyway. Shout out to the awful 15/14 fret bend that I knew wasn't right lmao

keep me learning as usual Uncle Ben. appreciate you.

You have a really nice approach dude.

@BenEller

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man

Honestly I hate making KZread comments but this criticism was honestly very thoughtful and intuitive.

I have the Master Of Puppets tab book published by Cherry Lane that I purchased in the early 90's. It has plenty of errors but it was great for me bc we didn't have the internet to access back in those days

Great stuff. I'm a member of a Solo Challenge group, where we learn a solo per week and I try really hard to put together my own tab, based on listening carefully and watching the original guitarist on video when possible. In six months, I don't think I have found a 100% correct tab for any of them online.

@B3Band

2 жыл бұрын

The easier the song, the more idiots try to tab it. I find the most complicated songs are usually the most accurately tabbed.

@TwelveSticks

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I hear you. But even the 'Official' tabs on Ultimate-guitar almost always have some little thing wrong with them. And solos with fast runs in them - most folks just seem to pick the starting and finishing notes and make a guess at what goes in between.

@floppa_9530

2 жыл бұрын

@@TwelveSticks Looks like the notes in between are fucking with everyone. Not just kirk

@richardsanchez9190

2 жыл бұрын

@@floppa_9530 hahahaha niceeee

When I was younger I would buy the Hal Leanord tab books for Metallica and pantera and even I as a young/new guitar player could instantly tell were wrong. Made me crazy!

Gold!

Man.. I'd love to see you run through the solo on the songs, Ghosts - Big Wreck. Great tune! Ian Thornley is a criminally underrated guitarist..

ahah the intro. I learnt the first tabs sold as books late eighties and you can notice they are plenty of mistake there from metallica to satriani. As I mostly learnt from ear I can tell they are lots of wrong tabs since day one! so not surprised the new ones can't be better..

that guy plays a LTD , I do like ltd so you must be wrong 🤪 thanks Uncle Ben , actually your videos are always the most useful and funny in the KZread world about techniques I do like your videos a lot!.

10:45 basically summarized in 30seconds or so what I couldn't understand is wrong with my picking for 7 years of playing guitar or whatever. Holy crap

@kennethnegy9467

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! And the thumb motion is so small that it can be nearly undetectable, but it really does make picking unreliable at fast speeds because you never know exactly where and how the pick will hit the strings. So hard to get rid of that muscle memory, though :'(

Good job. The second last lick sure sounds like it works as a slow sweep to me. I play it starting on the 14th fret of the D string as a partial A minor arpeggio followed by a hammer on pull off from the 10 to the 12th fret on the high E and end on the B string going from 13t to twelve. The only remaining picks after the arpeggio are down on the E and up down on the B. Not sure why you need to end the lick siding down the neck instead of keeping it compact.

Hey uncle Ben so speaking of terrible tabs, I've been looking everywhere for Oblivion tabs and I can't find any good ones. Was wondering if you could make a how to actually play oblivion video (since your the guy to go to for mastodon riffs) mainly the bridge. Figured out the first half on my own just can't figure out the second half. Consider???

I cant learn a thing from your videos when Im laughing so hard you funny sucker! lol

Sick olive drab guitar!

@BenEller

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, Suhr makes the BEST guitars!

thanx man...

I’ve seen Kirk do it the other way as well with the “Eric Johnson string skipping” approach. It was more common in the AJFA days.

BADASS INTRO

Dr., Uncle, Liker of Nice things and spreader of truth about the DOD Grunge Pedal. Dr. uncle Ben really does it all

Excelent video. Can you do the groove riff previous the chorus riff in Welcome Home (Sanitarium) that the tab book didn't get? It's says is a palm muting melody line instead of power chord attack over a E pedal. I hope I explained myself, English is not my first language. Thank you so much for your help telling us the right way and how to approach it.

Could you do a video on how to do the chorus riff, Uncle Ben? The isolated guitar tracks differ from Kirk’s tutorial video...

I use the TC Electronic Quintessence harmoniser pedal to play all the harmonised parts of this solo. It also lets me play harmonised bent notes wich sound even more cool.

@patandmacmusic

2 жыл бұрын

Love that pedal!

I was blessed with the ability to learn my favorite metallica songs after figuring out Randy Rhoads and Van Halen licks by ear in the PYT days (Pre KZread).

@tonyfondacaro1980

2 жыл бұрын

There’s no substitute for developing your ears and being able to see the lick based on what you hear.

Ho uncle Ben! For geeks and Metallica fans I suggest to get the GW issue where there's Kirk on the mop kind of background. It's full of little parts showed, especially part tabbed wrong from .. forever..

Thank you for your excellent advice and knowledge, Dr. Uncle Ben! I don't think my insurance covers this though...

Vai does something very similar to the Petrucci thing in the Attitude Song solo, just across 3 strings instead of 4.

KZread should have an option where musicians watching guitar and drum videos can have the option to post tabs to people or examples of tablature or a transcript option. That way we can all correct eachother and teach eachother music and comment too at the same time and same place.

You showed something at 5:55 in your vid that I've been missing: that D note at the 15th fret in the arpeggio before the walk-down scale. My ear and finger had been skipping over it and just doing the A octave thanks to whatever tabs I saw way back. It almost sounds like an open D string pitch on the album, but I figured that's actually just distortion overtone shenanigans from how Kirk let the notes bleed together, and you're showing it totally right. Thanks for helping nail those details!

Thanks Yncle Benstein.

Ben do you happen to know what the harmony notes are in the little For Whom the Bell Tolls duet guitar solo? I’ve never managed to discern them myself.

Great video. I wish you would play the whole solo using the correct techniques at the end, though!

Woow Cool !

Yeah!

Doctor Uncle Ben! 😂🤘

That suhr modern terra series 🤤

Do you give advice on originals too on lick doctor ? thanks Ben cheers

Would you do one of these on one of my original songs? I’d love to hear what you think of the song and any suggestions on how it could be better or how I can add a good solo etc

shame you didnt do this vid a few weeks ago....just bought the red and black Jackson Rhoads RRX24 from sweetwater

7:36 I have the same problem,when playing "one",intro solo. U can sweep,but kirk play with alternate picking, so the sound kind little different..kind hard to me.