Thanks for learning all my survival tips for Overture 1928! What Dream Theater song should be break down next?

@kimchi2780

3 жыл бұрын

Can you go over Metropolis Part 1? There is some deceptively funky runs in that song or the solo Arrival of Love by Circus Maximus. That solo has me totally criss crossed constantly.

@headstash420

3 жыл бұрын

Not a Dream Theater song but it is a progressive masterpiece. Can you break down the solo to Steven Wilson’s Ancestral. A Guthrie Govan classic.

@petemorrisrocks4922

3 жыл бұрын

Hero 🤘🏽 Cheers Uncle Ben. Maybe Innocence faded or solo to Under a glass moon. Thanks again

@KaldDodeGitarist

3 жыл бұрын

In the Name of God I believe in you

@chronaaa8978

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe Erotomania, Learning to Live, or The test that stumped them all?

Finally...my step-mom was asking whole day "Hasn't that handsome ponytail guy uploaded a video yet?"...

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

Tell her I said hi!!!

@nothingnew69

3 жыл бұрын

I bet she's hot

@StuPedassol

3 жыл бұрын

This is why I call him UNCY BANG! For hot step-mom milfs everywhere!

@mediumtalented9250

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah fuckin Ben Eller, my girlfriend likes him too. Everytime I'm watching and she comes in she stares for a second and every now and then she goes "I like this guy", and I just go "I know you do baby"....

@nothingnew69

3 жыл бұрын

@@mediumtalented9250 it's really the guitar playing

I probably listened to this song like 400x in the past month

@qwertyzxcv123

3 жыл бұрын

Get a life then.

@Kevin-gb8gb

3 жыл бұрын

And please, change that profile picture.

@gogpoydi

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kevin-gb8gb you find me sexy?

WE NEED MORE "STUFF BLANK DOES" VIDEOS UNCLE BEN!!! Im not even a guitar player, im a drummer. And I can't play the drums without the neighbors below me freaking out! I watch your videos because of your ridiculous personality and boyish good looks!

@lueymeteora1410

3 жыл бұрын

You sir, are a drummer.

@Blindashitmetalasfuck

3 жыл бұрын

@@lueymeteora1410 guilty! What tipped you off? Was it when I said I was a drummer?

@lueymeteora1410

3 жыл бұрын

@@Blindashitmetalasfuck Cor! You got me! Lol

I always love a good slow blues. Thank you, Uncle Ben.

i just noticed the screws on the neck pickup at least are in perfect alignment. i am so dang satisfied right now, even my step dad couldn't ruin my mood!

Love the nailed it face when you finish a killer lick

I was planning on learning this song fully when my RG1570 comes in the mail next week. Thanks Uncle Ben!

Best lesson digest this masterpiece...I gave up learning this song a few months back. Thanks Ben for making we want to reattempt it. And if possible can you make a similar video for the Under the Glass moon solo..I think it might be great

Awesome song. Really glad you did this one.

Gracias uncle Ben! I'll be working on this one over the weekend.

Great breakdown! This song is a challenge we should all accept!

As usual, a stellar effort! Love this! Shanksh!

Ben, you're a beast! Gonna have to try this one this weekend.

Just signed up on Patreon. I love your channel Ben!

Best lessons on KZread. Per usual, thank you for uploading.

I’m always on the lookout for the self congratulatory smile when you nail a tricky solo. Love it!

Dang this was a very fun and hard for me 15 years ago. I wish I had this back then. Well done!

Ben, love you vidoes, man!

I have been learning this for a couple weeks now. Impeccable timing, Unc

I love you ben! Your lessons make me play better every day! Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱

I LITERALLY just finished learning this song yesterday and was trying to improve my execution of these sections!!! Thanks a lot Uncle Ben!

This is perfect timing holy shit thank you!

and just so covered every problem area that I had with this song... great job, thank you uncle Ben!

Hello Ben, Thank you very much. Also my absolute favorite DT song ever. Haven't played this tune for a while. I am currently practicing it again after watching your video. These are excactly the parts I was struggling with.!! :-)

The best guitar tips in KZread! Super Uncle Ben🙌🏻🎸🔥

great video Uncle Ben

Loving the tutorial and always love the humor.

Great vid , such a killer song.

Fantastic, only just started learning this recently

You're the bestest best step dad on the interwebs with arm hands. Seriously, awesome lessons. You're definitely one of the best teachers on KZread. Quality content bro

Thanks for sharing, probably eleventeen in practice years away for me but still really enjoyed it. Cheers

Awesome content. Subscribed!

Thank you Ben! I’ve been playing this song for years, and just now realized I’ve had a few notes wrong in the unison section. Time to grab the guitar and go to work! Your patented “Step Dad Speed” really helps work out those sections easily. Thank you so much for always posting stellar guitar instructional videos🤘🏼🎸

I never have listen to dream theater read his articles but your lesson breaks down what a great guitarist he is and you for teaching us this you are very skilled thankyou

So real talk... ever since i found your "this is why your hand sync sucks at guitar" video i've been like... that's the key.... i can finally play overture 1928 once i do like 6 months of metronome work. that was 5 months ago, and it's almost there. I think this lesson will push me over the goal line. the tab i had for the fastest sextuplet part was just wrong. I think it'll be a lot easier with what you showed here. The cross picking thing is really cool. I was trying to do this section with sweeps and it wasn't really working out. I was ready to be like "well... this part will just sound like shit and i'm ok with that", but i'll see if i can work out the cross picking thing. Once again, thanks for all the lessons! I'll work out some way of giving you money once my step dad give me my allowance.

This combined with strange de ja vu is such an incredible piece of music 4th favourite dream theater song!!

If anyone wants accurate dream theater tabs for the classic albums (image and words all the way through metropolis part 2, and the latest album, and john petruccis solo album) go to Evan Bradley's channel and email him. if you can, donate to him because he emails these tabs for free, and has a transcription company. great video as always!

Thanks Unc!

I just needed some Uncle Ben in my life

That album is just sooo damn cool... love it

You Sir are a great teacher as well as a fine player.

Finally!!!!!!, Thx Uncle

good explanation.... thank you!

thank god you mentioned pick slanting for the first fast scale, it helped me a lot!

Thaaaank Yooooou! For a friend of mine, that may or may not happen to be attempting this one for like the 4th time..

Dude I’m literally putting the final touches (midi keyboards parts etc) to a guitar cover of this song. Where the F was this video like 2 months ago! Hahah awesome work. I was learning this song from my old tab book, and the timing on the “picking purgatory” section took longer to nail than the rest of the song combined.

So my Google Pixel's news feed recommended this video to me. Odd, right, but I'm glad it did, because I love it!

Your technique is insane Ben!

You rule man. Thx

That technique of going through the bottom string instead of going around for odd number picking really helped with faster playing. Thanks for the tip!

Best explanation I’ve seen ever! (Still way to hard for me, but let’s practice).

That's so weird! That's the DT clip I was watching just 15 minutes prior to getting notification for this tutelage.

Finally, Step-Dad Ben is touching me in a way I never thought possible. More of this please.

Ben Eller is the man!!!

I've been waiting for this video since 1999

We used this song as a benchmark to prove ourselves back when we were 16 in 2006. Just to get the initial downward scale half right could crown you local guitar God of your town. Greetings from Italy.

Hey Ben. Yes. Us Britishers got a mench! Cheer mate !,

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

haha cheers man!!

great vid ! that upstroke trick helped a lot. my fingers trip up on the riff just before the riff that includes the unison section. maybe i'm missing something simple? I didn't see it covered in this vid.

OMG dude I've had so many teachers try to teach the swiping out of my playing. You are awesome.

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

It’s great for certain things!!!

@skipkelton

3 жыл бұрын

@@BenEller I'm too much of an alternate picker - I see the value in swiping but alternate picking works for me

This is the first dream theater guitar solos I learned. It was so fun making my guitar sound like John's i didnt play anything else for atleast a month lol

Heck yeah!

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Ben!!!

2:25 laughed out loud. Your personality never gets old Uncle Ben

Bought my first ever guitar 3 months ago (Harley Benton CST24 Deluxe), and desided Overture to be THE song I want to learn. I'm way over my head here 🙆

@BenEller

3 ай бұрын

Haha that’s a STEEEEEP learning curve for sure. Peruvian Skies isn’t too bad, take a swing at that one.

Awesome video as always dude! Any insight into John's picking technique with regards to pick slanting and such? I've wanted him to show up on Cracking The Code for sooo long.

That cross picking section has been haunting me for the last 15-16 years!! Argh - time to get it DOWN! JP song next? The glass prison intro(You know which part..) Awesome video;)

Uncle Ben beasting as usual.

Ok that Revv is a beautiful thing.

Great job! And to think you broke all that down and didn't once ask why John left Ibanez or why MP left DT? Amazing clarity and focus! :)

It's probably the Dream Theater instrumental that I know best though there are bits that I definitely never learned properly and still fudge my way through even after 20+ years of playing it. It's also one of my favorite DT songs overall.

@JohnSpo

6 ай бұрын

I've finally learned this properly in its entirety along with strange deja vu after it. It only took 2 years of playing it every time I pick up a guitar. I'll probably forget it after a month of not playing it.

This song rocks! Do Erotomania next!

First comment! Great vid, as usual. One of the best KZread shredders is Uncle Ben!

Endless Sacrifice!

That swipe technique gets a swipe right.

The perfect place to START!? 😲 I'm screwed lol

The stems are from Jammit, if you're handy you'll find them on google.

Benjamin: “YOU’RE GONNA HIT THAT GODDAMN CAT!!”

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD!!!

@SquibNoNo

3 жыл бұрын

@@BenEller I love you still

Can you do Erotomania solo's ? nice vid btw

*UNCLE BEN!*

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

HELLO!

Great video, Uncle Ben! Beautiful Suhr there. Can someone explain how can one use a very high-wattage amp at home and still get a good tone at non-earth-shattering volumes? I did a lot of digging but nobody seems to have an actual concrete answer.

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, the REVV has a built-in Two Notes Torpedo, so you can run it straight into your interface and monitors at any volume. It’s also switchable to 10 watt mode!!!!

11:40 - yup

Okay I love this song and the video but the thumbnail led me to believe that John Petrucci would be making an appearance 😡

😎 cool

7:31 See this is why my fingers hate you Ben!!!

Woah! hair looking nice

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you!!!

Bro what timing. I was literally listening to overture a couple months back and I was like, I wanna learn this song. Then finally 3 weeks of struggling I was able to get all the parts down except the part after the second solo so I gave up. But I just revisited it again to see if I can play it and I still can't play some of the parts with 100 percent speed and accuracy.

@killz323

3 жыл бұрын

Ima upload a cover to youtube when I can do it. I'll post it here

I thought I had it but then she turned me into a newt!

Challenge accepted - can you do the main solo on "Voices" all the way to the end.

DUDE YOU NAILED IT! Oh btw Satan called he's burning up 🔥👹 Riddupp- Riddupp Froggy. ROCK ON BEN ! 👊 🎸 Have u checked out the band, THE HU? MONGOLIAN METAL \m/

✋ *Uncle Ben! Step-Dad Luey here!* Can you make it even more slow-li-er ? Tha-anks ! 🤗

Random question: What are you using to raise your guitar up while it's on the right leg (like at 2:46 for example. It also looks like you lower it again at 4:40). Is it just a footstool, or a guitar rest or something? I've always found playing on my right leg to be tricky for the higher frets, so I'm wondering what your solution is.

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm honestly I wasn’t aware I was doing it haha.... I probably just had my foot on the roller leg of my chair.

2:52 I got a straight 6 watching this video

This was great. All the tabs out there for this song are wrong and I resorted, like you, to slowing down some videos to learn the trickier portions a couple years ago. I doubt it was 100%, but I gave it the old college try. Or, a "step dad try." You should absolutely do In the Presence of Enemies Pt 1 for those insane unison parts that I can't even physically move my fingers fast enough to play (damn you pinky!), or Stream of Consciousness/In the Name of God. Another good idea would be a seven string song with some very tricky riffs like The Enemy Inside.

This was fantastic Ben. That being said, your accent has given me the desire to order BBQ tonight.

@BenEller

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Raise a rib for me!

@EdwardKayeplus

3 жыл бұрын

@@BenEller I mean it'll have to be Canadian-Texan BBQ, so might turn your nose up at it, but I know no better. :) Also, I just ordered a Revv Generator 120 MK3. Yours was one of the videos that helped make my mind up. I was considering a 5153, but I think this will do what I want without all the hiss.

16:43 still in my nightmares lol

My goodness uncle Ben, your effortless picking technique frustrates me. Awesome stuff!

11:15 imo its a chromatic run on D string (14 15 16) after that everything is correct (14 16 17), that sounds a little better and still playable :D that kinda makes this lick Gb blues

Nice lesson uncle Ben! Need to learn some DT? you guys should check out Mr Evan Bradley.

Where were you last year when I had to learn this ungodly mess of a song ON MY OWN, Uncle Ben?!?! WHERE WERE YOU?!?!

I must say I like those Rubik's cubes my fellow nerd. You have the fast fingers, what's you best solve time bro?