Walk This Way (Aerosmith) verse riff: The REAL way! Weekend Wankshop lesson 140
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Hey kids! On Weekend Wankshop 140, Uncle Ben here is gonna teach you how to play one of the most wrongly-tabbed riffs EVER, the verse to Walk This Way by Aerosmith! This is a CLASSIC funky rock riff that is gonna get your pinky finger and alternate picking in gear. Nailing the time feel and swing of this riff is critical, so be sure to watch all the way through for lots of picking tips! You're sound like Joe Perry in no time!
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This guy does such a good job of teaching. Very thorough. Love the disclaimer that there are slight variations throughout the song. I would love to see a video of the three people who actually gave thumbs down, trying to play this riff. I mean the guy goes into picking, groove, fingering, muting... good teacher and player.
thanks my man! and somewhere in there i think i mention that it has a couple variations... basically just have about 3 beers and 3 shots, play this riff as many times as they do in this song, and you'll accidentally play all the variations they do! hahaha
Sadly you need a disclaimer for most anything on youtube because it's filled with experts who have no experience in every field you can think of.
Absolutely!
Great Ben. Ever since the first time I heard this one it has been a mystery.
Great tutorial! I have a suggestion for people who have trouble playing the second part of the riff cleanly at tempo. Instead of flattening your ring finger to hit the D string, try using your middle finger to fret the A string at the 10th fret and your ring finger to fret the D string at the 10th fret. Your index finger will still be on the E at the 8th fret. For many this is a more comfortable position to hold for an extended period, and if you're a fan of the Police, you will recognize it as the hand position Andy Summers uses for the long stretches on Every Breath You Take.
Awesome suggestion and it would work if it weren't for my jumbo hot dog sized fingers. LOL
Yep. That’s how I do it. I had an accident as a baby where the tip of my ring finger was cut off and reattached but a little crooked. So I can’t get the correct angle if I try to fret my pinky three frets above it. So I use my index and middle fingers for the root and fifth. And use my pinky for the 6th and minor7th.
Wow that makes it so much easier for me! doesnt feel like im ripping my wrist out
still is too much a of a stretch for my tiny hands haha.I can barely reach the 13th fret w my pinky!!
I feel like a beginner again with that finger stretch
I've been watching tons and tons of guitar videos, yours included. I've come to the conclusion that you're probably the best on tutorials (and one of the best on playing as well, you make it look so easy ! ), because you master what you teach, you always play the exact versions and not some approximative shit (I have no problem with guitarist showing their covers of solos or riffs, but few of 'em have the credibility to teach, myself included). Great job man. !! Thanks a lot.
Dude, from Megadeth to Aerosmith... in one week I just relived the majority of my childhood. Thanks man!
When it's 5AM and you can't sleep there's always guitar. Gotta love the time zone differences between U.K (where I am) and the U.S.
Pointing out that swing feel really helped!! Nailed it.
I've always played it at the 3rd fret, also using the open G with pulloffs.
I always loved the funk sound of that riff. It's got a great groove to it.
THANK YOU for clearing up this long time mystery/debate!!! I think you are spot on with this version.
Two things:
1. Thanks for the excellent breakdown of this riff.
2. There is no way that 70's Aerosmith played this remotely good in any concert setting with all the chemicals they ingested.
Yeah my buddy who saw them said they were falling over they were so high on heroin.
Well maybe with them spending the majority of their time playing those songs and those only it can become like a reflex, but yeah I wouldn’t doubt that backing tracks were involved
This was a Brad part, and he kept it together, while Joe and Steven were out of it.
I've seen Aerosmith live 3 times and although it wasn't in the 70s. They are incredible.
The key to enjoying Aero in the 70's was to injest the same amt of drugs that they did. Oh yeah!
My life is comple: 44 years latercI have been enlightened! You the Man!
Appears to be an outstanding teacher, very detailed-oriented.
Great! Love this guy's lessons. Makes you feel like you're one on one in the same room with him 👍👍
Sounds great! And accurate!
Perfect! I'm learning this song now and my instructor mentioned that I need to do this. Your video is extremely helpful. Thanks!
You are the best Ben. Thank you!
Thanks brother, sounds exact!
Dude, you are a phenomenal teacher! Very well explained, for all levels of player!
Great channel. I'm not a guitarist but I can appreciate any tutorial that demonstrates correct execution of popular cover songs. Especially when, as you say, so many people do it wrong.
Also, I've tried to learn this riff since I started playing in 1999! This Aerosmith verse riff so thank you!
Thanks Ben,been try to get this down for ages ,just found you got it now ,great lesson
excellent lesson- as always
Another outstanding video. Nice work Uncle Ben!
best guitar teacher on youtube hands down
Thanks Uncle Ben, I learned this by ear 40yrs ago, wrong of course, so it's taking me forever to break that old habit for this...
Good job teacher!
Thank you very much
Great lesson. Thanks for posting 👍👍👍
Killer lesson freaking perfect! Thank you so much for cracking the code!!!
Great teacher
Oh, and it sounds spot on! Awesome work mang
Uncle Ben has all the choice geetars! Nice work Ben! great vid
Thanks Uncle Ben. Good lesson.
This is a really good lesson!! 👍
Smashed the like button. This is one of the best no bs dead on walk throughs of a guitar part I've found. Thank you!
Couldn’t ask for a better guitar tutorial!!! Thanks Ben
Hi Ben, Just stumbled across your channel as I was surfing on Aerosmith vids. Your instruction is brilliant. Really...the level of detail and pacing is perfect. Keep up the great work. Subscribed.
Thanks for this, really helpful. Never been very good at the swing thing, so this helped alot 👍
Thx brushing up on that one for a gig! You're right on the money.
I threw in a pinky slide on the freted E instead of letting the fretted A linger around because my timing seems better on the whole riff. Maybe too much, but it fits and the timing is there. 🤷♂️
This IS the best tutorial out there on how to pull this off and without it I'd still be lost.
Great video! I've never seen any videos by you before but I think I know who I'll go to when I have confusion on playing other riffs!
Excellent. Thanks.
Grazi, il miglior tutorial su questo pezzo!
Dude great lesson, tricky one to teach and this is excellent!!
i always struggled without verse but thanks to your lesson I can manage now
This is just what I’ve been looking for. I knew I wasn’t crazy.
Great lesson, Ben. Very useful and helped me make a short cover of this track. The opening riff may also be worthy of a short lesson by someone, as well as the second solo. I see too many people struggle with that using online tabs that I think are too awkward to play consistently. I've made my own discoveries on these but it's interesting to see other people's take on it.
Thank you, Ben!! Please show us that crazy main riff in Poison Was the Cure, or those note-y bridge riffs in Raining Blood and Angel of Death. All of those have been incorrectly tabbed out since the dawn of time!
Loved it!
i have struggled through this lick for years kind of wanking about randomly in the c pentatonic position there! thx for thr lesson!
Thanks. There are so many details here that I couldn't get anywhere else.
Thanks Uncle Ben
Another great video. So glad I came across your channel
Just about to start tracking this tune and I figured I would stop and see how uncle Ben does it!
Just ran across you. Pro saxophonist and hack guitarist for years. Also taught. You do a great job breaking it down. I am able to LEARN A LOT FROM YOU IN A MINUTE AND DO IT A SHORT TIME LATER. GREAT WORK MR ELLER.sorry for the caps.
Awesome Ben!!
How about some more Vito Bratta.
White Lion - Let's get crazy
Thanks!!
This was helpful thanks, the thing that was elusive for me was right after the 1st section octave down, then octave up and the double on the the 5th. I've seen transcripts in guitar magazines that didn't get this right, good job!
Broken down very well Ben, awesome lesson!
That's always how I played it. Tough to keep the swing going if you're singing at the same time though.
Nice lookin' Paul...! Thanks for the lesson
Thanks man.
I had it closer than I thought, but I had one little part off! Dang. Lol. Thanks for this lesson.
Something to consider when playing this Joe Perry rhythm. Joe is not the technically based strong instrumentalist that Ben is. What Joe has is an incredibly grounded and seasoned wholistic sense of rhythm. He feels his rhythms feels different parts of the rhythm with “both hands”. Something that is often not stressed or consider with guitarists. Generally the idea is to be rhythmic with your dominant hand and mechanical with your non dominant hand. People who are holistic rhythmically feel rhythm with their whole body and both hands. Joe is also left handed And his predominant rhythmic hand is his fretting hand. Finally, and Ben addresses this, it’s how Joe holds his pick, his pick angle and wether or not he rakes through the strings or slaps them. Raking is like pushing someone and slapping is like slapping them. The effects are also similar. Raking moves the string but without a lot of sharp affect as a contact point. Slapping stings and has a sharp effect at the contact point and subsequently a brighter and more pronounced sound. The walk this way riff has a fuller tone. And it was done on a Les Paul. When you combine all of this, you get the real Joe Perry feel. Good job Ben
Ben Eller is a cool dude who can play the HEYACK out of the guitar and is an excellent teacher. I learned how to play the intro to Drop Dead Legs from him (one of his videos) and I would have never figured that out alone. Plus Ben Eller is hilarious especially at "step dad speed." Thanks Mr. Eller
You got it
Man, I wasn't even looking for this but I took the guitar and learnt the hell out of it. Thanks, a fucking lot!!!
Yeah! Another decode.
Fantastic tutorial, Ben! Def a riff that I've worked on and dropped over the years over and over. I think I've got it now, though! Cheers, man! :-D
That was very good, Ben. That was a lot more interesting than some stranger telling me why I suck at guitar. lol
sooo coool!
Thanks for clarification. I played that C riff slightly different on many a gig. 👍
Leavin a comment to support ya uncle ben!
You're amazing Ben. I'm trying to start learning how to play guitar, although I'm failing miserably. You make it seem so simple. Maybe I need to get my shit together and get personal lessons instead of trying to figure it out on my own with online shit.
Anyway, keep up with the great work. This is one of the best channels to learn about how to play guitar. Nobody else comes even close.
Keep doing what you are doing. Your learning from it. Put it down for a minute if you get frustrated, then go back to it. You will Conquer!!
Dude , ur voice is soothing....
Sweet Les Paul!
Can you do Dire straits - money for nothing?
Thanks for the awesome work!
It is a tricky little part and nobody plays it right except Joe Perry (and who is their rhythm player). But you figured it out. Now I can it play it!
I am a vert hairy man. People say I smell terrible. They say my house is pungent. I like pickled mussels.
Yeah man, it's one of those licks he probably almost never played twice the same way live. It's also a lick you can put your own funk on as long as you keep to the spirit of it. I luv plucking/spanking muting and syncopated ghost notes using a thumb pick and my first finger.
Hi Ben. First I wanted to say I think your lessons are probably the best out on the Internet due to the sheer amount of detail, kudos for going to the lengths of learning exactly how a song is played.
The second thing I wanted to ask is to see if you could do a lesson on one of my all time favourite guitar songs. Like Walk This Way it's one that everyone seems to have a different way of playing but nobody can agree exactly the way the song was originally played. The song is "Do You Feel Like We Do" by "Peter Frampton", specifically the live version off of "Frampton Comes Alive"
i think i actually played it right (at least at some point until i forgot it :D) but this lesson is really great!
THANKS!!!
Great lesson, love the detail to the lesson. I wonder if you could do Day of the Eagle by Robbin Trower. It’s another one of those great classic rock songs that sounds easier then what it really is. Thank you
Great lesson and best breakdown of this riff! It has taken me a long time to get really close but you finally helped me mail it.
I know JP plays it in the 8th position on the low E string but I just saw a video of Slash playing it at the 3rd position on the A string. You play the C on the 3rd fret of A string, then the G on the 5th fret of the D string, then the A on the 7th fret of the D string then the C on the 5th fret G string, G on the 5 th fret D string, A sharp then A on 8&7th frets D string. Still pick it like Ben showed.
I know that might be hard to follow, but figure out the notes the way Ben teaches it and then find them starting with the C note on the 3rd fret A string. It is a good exercise for learning the notes on the fretboard . I still prefer to play it at the 8th position but it is easier as far as stretching your pinky playing it at the 3rd fret. One other tip. Play it with the neck of the guitar angled up and the stretch is very easy. All of your favorite guitar players don’t just do it to look cool!!
Yup you got it. That’s the way I do it to or try anyway. Lol your doin it well,better than me.
Fuckin awesome Ben! Been playing it slightly wrong for 40 years. Just got the right way under my fingers and sounds much better, and even more fun to play.
Thank you ever so much f. teaching how to play this excellent riff! It is very satisfying to finally get it right! That is a beautiful Les Paul you're playing. Is it a custom shop or?
Hi from France. Good lesson, I'm gonna try it !
I saw a moustached behind you. I saw him somewhere but where ?...
What about some Zappa solos ?
Awesome dude so many ppl get riffs wrong
Doctor Feel Good is another song that seems to work better when this technique is applied. I don’t know how Motley Crue plays it. But I could never get that song to swing quite right until I used this technique. Now I use this technique pretty much anywhere unless I absolutely have to economy pick for speed.
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I've just scrolled through the comments and read a couple from people who said this is too hard for them to do. This is a standard rock & roll rhythm move, sometimes referred to as the 'Chuck Berry Move' (google it), and there was a time where if you played in a band, odds are most of the songs you played required you to do this move.
I used to play this with a guy who did a part similar, but simplified, to what you're doing but I'd play a 1st position C chord with no 3rd and bounce between the low C to the higher C on the B string first fret and then do pull offs on the G string, so the chord alteration part is like (string/fret) 4/O, 4/3, 4/2, 4/O. This is a basic guide, not meant to be accurate to the note, but if you mess with it you'll see how freeing this is. In this way the barre guitar doesnt have to do that much but add the chicka chika while the 1st position guitar does something like a country lick over a funky beat. In order to play this part you gotta be good at muting unplayed strings! The 2 together make for a complex sounding part. My old school tab is a guide,
when you play it slow it reminds me of Coast to Coast
Nice job as always, Uncle Ben!! Beautiful Les Paul!! How many guitars own bro . . . Jesus!! I'm green!! 😂😂
Hey guys,
For those of you who have small hands, like me, there is an alternate patern for the left hand: instead of streaching your pinky to get that B flat, you might want to reach for the D string, pretty much like playing the C7 chord. You can still apply that nice alternate swing picking that Ben shows.
This riff has made me stop playing this song for years. Very frustrating.
Same here.
@@Larrymh07 thumb placement is key
@@clivegilmore9598 I'm definitely going to revisit the song. Thank you for the tip and encouragement!
Hey, Ben! I know this really has nothing to do with the video but I really wanna hear your opinion on this. What opened up the doors to lead playing to you? I've been playing for 3 years and I got nearly all my technique down as far as rhythm playing goes but I still find lead playing very intimidating. What do you think I could do to remedy that? Anything would be helpful! Thank, you!
Great Video showing this riff! My main problem is that my index finger wants to keep moving down from the 8th fret to the 9th. The rest I can play bang on!
Great lesson!! I'd like to see more on the solos. Thanks. Sad about this type of playing being a dying art. Rock & Roll ain't what it used to be.
On the idea of pick and the swing effect added to create picking on the harmonic with the pick hand, I am thinking in terms of Eddie Van Halen or maybe Nuno Bettencourt harmonic picking. That would be one the things hard to teach or something i need more study on, Harmonic picking and creating the harmonic with the picking hand, eddie van halen esq. thing.
I truly believe the art of the groove is being lost. Very few guys out there have any funk left in them. You should do a lead lesson from Journeys Lovin', song