How Do Bonamassa, Johnson, Gales, & Wylde SHRED Pentatonics?! Find out with Uncle Ben Eller!
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Have you ever wondered how the pentatonic shred masters like Eric Johnson, Zakk Wylde, Eric Gales, and Joe Bonamassa get so much shred milage out of the simple minor pentatonic scale? You're not alone! I've always loved the sound of those seemingly never-ending blues licks those guys bust out on the regular. There's a couple simple tricks all those guys utilize to achieve these signature sounds, and in this lesson, you're gonna learn them!!!
In this lesson, you're going to learn about some iconic sequencing phrases in the scale, plus a lick i made up in C minor for you to practice them. After that, we'll get into some of the picking secrets these guys use to rip through at blazing speed, and how they strategically phrase their licks for maximum picking success! These are easy things to implement into your playing to get you playing FAST through these things and help you create your own killer licks!
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Thanks a ton for watching and learning the pentatonic shred phrasing secrets of the stars! Who is your favorite pentatonic shredder? Make mine Eric Johnson!!!
Timmons! Love your vids! They touch me in a way my other uncle legally couldn't.
I'd be lying if I didn't go for zakk wylde. The speed and intensity just speaks to me
I like Dave Meniketti...
Ditto. I met EJ a few weeks ago in Waco and asked him for the one most important thing I should practice. His answer was "left-right hand coordination". He said he still has to practice that skill to this day.
Oh yes I concur, EJ just has such a unique melodic style, he's probably top two guitarists for me, can't decide between him and Petrucci.
Does anyone else consider Ben to be the best guitar teacher on TH-cam...gets my vote...always interesting and focused ...👍
Tim Watson awwww shucks
oh hell yes and by a wide wide margin.... thanks as always Ben !!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely
When I want to learn something really challenging, Uncle Ben's the channel I tune into. The humor helps me from getting inside my own head and the way he presents things in a concise manner helps me retain the info.
Definitely.
John Sykes is my favorite pentatonic shredder. Keith Richards is my favorite ginantonic shredder.
bradford knights Sykes!!!! Yes!!!!
Dammit I actually googled it
LOL!! Nice
I wish I had come here to say that.
John Sykes has the best slow vibrato
The absolute best explanation of downward pick slanting ever. I’ve watched a ton of the Troy Grady stuff and I’ve never understood what he meant. Could never really get what angle he was talking about. You crushed it in five minutes! Thank you!!!!
Coming back to this lesson after ~18 months and it is still a fundamental part of my playing and practice. The downward pickslant + proper pick holding technique is huge for players who are relatively self-taught. Thanks Uncle Ben!
Your teaching style and lessons are simply outstanding. My playing is much improved because of you. Thank you, once again, so much for the time and effort you put into this. It's making a difference.
Dude, WTF? Just spent the past 6 hours researching these fast pentatonic runs and then you come up with this, what a legend! You da man, mucho heart.
6 hours?! Man you are doing some serious practice sessions. Good job
"the pinky police they live inside of my head"
IronMaiden VHS when I was probably about 10, showed Dave holding a note with his ringfinger and trilling with his pinkey, no idea the song, but I never forgot how crushed I was that I couldn't. I've been deeply ashamed of my playing sence.
My stepfather always says there are two things you will never do. You'll never be able to shred with the pentatonic scale and you'll never keep your real Dad out of prison. Oh yeah Lamar? Im gonna shred the pentatonic so fast your hair implants are gonna fall out and my moms gonna dump you when my dad gets back from his top secret mission for the Marine Force!! Pfff its gonna be epic.😏
That’s the can-do attitude I look for!
how do u know that its a secret mission if it was a secret mission???
@@soumyakantichakraborty8635 Hey don't be poking holes in my character plot! Lol
bit old but hilaaarious comment mate 😂 how's the shredding? hope you've been consistent and are blazing through the pentatonics like a roadrunner on speed! cheers from 🇫🇮 mate :)
*Uncle Ben is my favorite guitar teacher on TH-cam, hands down!*
Geebus, I've been playing guitar for 27 years, and that turn around note in the pentatonic just changed everything! How have I always missed this?!?! I've always had the BB King note to throw in there but I just jumped like 15bpm extra running the pentatonic up and down just adding that run around note so I didn't trip up with the picc on the run. Damn dude!
Mark Heaps yes!!!! Glad to help!
right? exactly...
Even if I could play like Eric Johnson, I'd still tune in to watch my favorie Uncle back that ass up. 👍
You've helped me tremendously. I thought I would never be able to actually play anything worthwhile. Thanks for telling me why I suck.
MultiPankake cheers man, thanks for watching!
I really like your teaching style. It works for me. You're clear, unambiguous, and concise.
Your the John Petrucci of Uncle Bens
You are a very good teacher with very clear and thoroughly explained lessons.
Best guitar instructor on TH-cam hands down. This is the only channel that I actually absorb and use everything I learned from the lesson. Thank you Ben.
A real eye opener on the pentatonic scale. Makes it so much more interesting
11:50 exactly what i needed! Thanks uncle Ben!!
I've never seen such a clear and concise explanation of fast pentatonics and downward pick slanting, amazing video!
It’s always the same problem. You can only go as fast as your nervous system allows. 20 years ago I wanted to shred like Kirk Hamster and my hands just don’t work that fast. These tips really do a great job of explaining how to reach that limit that a tab just can’t. A hint of delay doesn’t hurt either 😝
I felt the honey moon joke should have been about ‘your mom on her second honey moon’.
James Gerbil is faster than Kirk Hamster for sure 😅
Ben, I’ve been playing for 40 years.
This instructional was huge.
I’ve been practicing this same lick now for 3 months daily, for hours…
Thanks for turning me on to Troy Grady, I learned my picking style is to escape on down strokes. I now start all my licks on upstrokes and I’m flying, it’s a little sloppy but getting cleaner at a rate that I should be clean picking in a month or 2, but without you revealing this lick to me, I would have been in the dark forever. Keep up the great work Ben👊
People don’t talk about Eric Gales nearly enough
Or Jon Butcher
I only found Eric Gales from watching him out shred Joe Bonamossa
That's because he fell into the jupiter size shadow that is Jimi Hendrix. Back in the late 80's, early 90's,
When he started out, he was dressing like jimi, and played exclusively Fender strats. Amazing Guitar player, Arguably one of the best. But Unfortunately for him, he was pigeonholed early on.
@@dr.manhattan6278 and I think him getting arrested... That put him out of the scene for a while... He didn't have the chance to market himself like Bonamassa did.
No, not nearly enough!
Dude, good lesson, I actually learned something! I'm an old blues player. Ive just recently started with the up down picking style. The details of pick angle is where the speed lives! You taught an old dog a new trick!
This is the best lesson on these two concepts I’ve seen. It’s all the info but not overwhelming. Very well done, Uncle Ben!
that shift in picking hand angle was everything
Agreed. So, @Ben Eller - I have a theory as to why we all suck at guitar. We're not holdin our mouths right. Gotta be it. Look at all of the heavyweights? They all got that "guitar face" during those epic shred wanks. It's as plausible as the Big Bang Theory lol
Really glad to see Joe B getting some much deserved recognition! My favorite pentatonic player, he is an absolute master.
That turnaround is going to be a game changer for me! Can't wait to take it for a spin tonight! Thanks uncle Ben!
Yeah. Learned this in 15 minutes before I went to work. Its added to my arsenal now. I love it.
you learned it at full speed in 15min hard to believe ...
Cousin Ben!! I’m 44 and have never been able to consistently cleanly pick at speed. Ur laidback and informative teaching style has reignited my quest and now my hand blurs like I’m indigenous to Lesbos. Gawd bless ya guy’ na 😘
This video made everything click, I went from playing 2 nps licks at 90 bpm to 116 within about 30 minutes. Thank you for the great lesson !
I’m so glad to hear that!! Killer!
Dying for that hit song from Steele Panther "Pinky police" Hell yea!
Ok, I'm a newbie, but I love your aside comments. Faster than a cheetah in a speedboat is funnier than hell to me, but the old lady doesn't get it. GOLDEN.
Uncle Ben you're the best teacher on YT! Ive been playing for nearly 20 years and have been regularly gigging for the last 10 and you are always showing me new things to help my playing. I dont play as much metal nowadays but the beauty is that your lessons can help anyone rip it up no matter what theyre playing!
Last longer!? Guitarists hate him.
Uncle Ben, I just wanna say that you YOU ROCK! Your lessons are incredibly easy to digest and have helped me more than I could ever Thank You for! \m/
Thank you uncle!!!
Thank you Rifficus Maximus for a great video!
You're a great teacher. Nothing in your lesson felt overwhelming. You chunked information in a manageable way with clear instruction.
After I got really comfortable with my pentatonics, I then learned where the notes would be for the different modes, along with blues notes. It was kind of a long process, but it really paid off. I don't run into that problem with the pentatonic scale feeling limiting. I would recommend that every guitarist do this too.
Thank you for patiently showing us note by note.
Ben... Great video! I'm a full time 'covers' musician from Auckland New Zealand. Apart from some variations I've accumulated over my years of playing, I pretty much exclusively use 'pentatonic'. Really enjoyed your 'straight forward', clear and precise explanation. Thanks!
Wow. Great lesson! At 60 years old, I'm off to practice this! Thanks!
Yes. A thousand times yes! Eric Johnson is one of my favorites and I’ve been trying to work on some of his techniques but I’ve never seen them presented this way. Seems totally in reach now. Thanks!
Seeing you and Fluff lately brought me back to your videos, tons of great stuff!!
This dude is an incredible teacher, been practicing a number of exercises you have demonstrated in your videos and have improved a number of my aspects of my playing, still have a long way to go but im grateful that this dude puts this much effort into creating lessons that are detailed and effective, you rock dude!!
This is the best way ive seen this layed out. Explained perfectly and easy to understand. Really has that bonammassa/johnson sound to it. Ive got some practice to do!! Thanks
This is like Viagra for the pentatonic scale! Thanks Unc!
Thanks Ben! Playing for 30 years and you helped me to the next level. All the Grady stuff made sense after your lessons. The lick in this lesson is just pure gold
The best informational vid I’ve seen this year on pentatonic scales...I’m blown away by the downward run, and the picking technique....thanx Ben. Perfectly explained and makes total sense...You sir ,are a great teacher..👍
He definitely has the best humor, with the exception of Shred.
Thanks Ben I really needed this!!!!!! I’ve been trying to improve my fast two note per string alternate picking lately!!!!!
You’re a very patient teacher uncle Ben!✌️🤘🎸I really needed this one
Ok, I've been picking strings for decades and never understood why some guitarists hold their picking hand that way. Now I have to unlearn all that I have learned. Thanks Yoda.
One of the best lessons I've ever watched.
You are by far the best teacher on TH-cam! You have a great way of being straight to the point but not so boring and dry that the learner loses focus...also you are great at adding extra valuable info in here and there without traveling off on tangents!
Keep it up man!
Oh btw, I can play the solo to “Shine” not for note now because of your awesome solo breakdown!!
You rock!
Brilliant. I don't think anyone can explain and teach technique as well as Ben Eller. He really is the best. Thanks Ben!
After watching that ending I'd love to see Uncle Ben's take on Gary Moore's "End of the World" lick. Please and thankyou.
I’m so excited about this lesson. I’m using a Boss e-band to practice with and had just found this scale.
It feels so good to actually create awesome as I actually taught myself this scale but didn’t know how close I was to getting it right before my next lesson.
Thank you again Uncle Ben this time from the big Apple 🍎✈️🥶👋
Brilliant! The A7 Pentatonic at the end is perfect to practice as well as the first exercise. Thank You!
Just started practicing a similar riff, I gotta get better! Thanks for all the many tips in this one!
Best guitar channel hands down
you're too kind!
Love it!! These lesson vids have Substantially helped my playing in all areas!! Looking forward to the next one buddy!!!
12:12 That's a great little piece of insight right there. Great lesson overall as well. Thanks Ben.
Great video on the clear cut mechanics on how that’s done. Thank you.
9:33 💥💥💥
So helpful! So frustrated with my right hand picking.
Your videos (which led me to Troy Grady) and Troy's videos
have been getting me on the right track, despite
all my shortcomings. 👐🎸
This is what I love about your videos, you teach me a great deal, but you also explain what I have been doing aromatically and didn't even know I was doing it.
Cracking the code blue my mind. Now I am on a picking mechanics journey. Thanks Uncle Ben!
Love your teachings/ lessons ..Love your face expressions...Keep up the good work..Your a real blessing to some of us Stepdads!
Signing up for the Patreon. I quit lessons from the local guy. Not enough information. Ben is way.
That trajectory thing worths gold, thank you so much!
Great lesson, I’ve been trying to attain that technique for awhile , thanks for info 8 notes really helped!!🤟🤟
Ben's channel is enormous source of knowledge given for free!Thanks Ben!!!!
Awesome video! Dude you have a real gift for teaching. More runs like this please
Awesome and fun information from a stellar teacher! Looking forward to taking lessons with You.
Ben rocks man. By far the best and the most accurate.
Great Ben! this in depth stuff has helped me so much, I would be stuck in my old ways without it. You got a great tone going as well. Thank You.
you're my hero Uncle Ben!!!
Appreciate it so much, Uncle Ben!
Great lesson
Spot on as always!
This is such a great lesson and has opened up my mind and fingers. I was stuck. Now I'm feeling inspired again. Thanks so much.
One of your most helpful videos. 1000% convinced if Eric hadn’t created this approach, it simply wouldn’t exist and none of us would be doing it. Every time I hear sequencing like this from people like Joe B, it always sounds super contrived and inauthentic- like he says “Okay, now it’s time for me to play my Eric Johnson exercise. Aren’t you all impressed? Look how cool I am with my sunglasses on in the dark, even though everyone can tell I’m a total dork”.
Excellent lesson and tips on gaining speed, great job many thanks !!
Youre may favorite guitar teacher Uncle Ben!!
“... at step-Dad speed.” 😂 Oh Jesus Herbert Christ, you’re a fuckin comic genius! I watch your videos for the entertainment as much as the theory and playing insight.
Great work Ben! Clear and concise!
Cheers Kev!🇬🇧
thanks uncle Ben; your videos are gold.
Very informative, to the point, and you made it simple. Great job, I found this by accident and I am delighted that I did.
Been waiting for this!! Great lesson, Uncle B.
Mind blown! You just made so much make sense!
Great! You saved us all a lot of time. Thanks !
Zakk Wylde is my guy! Would love to see some more videos with his stuff.
All I can say is a huge thanks! This has helped me heaps!
Hey Ben, thanks for your interesting ways of using the pentatonic scale, also I’m a massive fan of Joe Bonamassa and Eric Johnson playing, thank you for explaining the lesson, very clearly, all the best, kind regards Louiee Lou from downunder 👍👍
Exactly what I needed Ben, thanks!
Ben this just changed the whole game of pentatonics for me with the one note added at the turn around. Subbed and a new Patreon member!
I don’t think I’ve ever learnt so much, thanks
Excellent video as usual Ben!!! lol THANKS, You are the best Uncle a guy could ever have 😎😛😎
I am a new niece in the making.
Thank you for all your free lessons Uncle Ben