Help me decide what to do next!!!
Added 2024-06-05 04:26:41 +0000 UTCMy lovely and loyal Patrons! Lend me thine grey matter!
I started to make a new video today, and i ended up getting caught in endless option paralysis, as i sometimes do!
I can't decide what i want to put up next on my channel, so i want YOU to!!! Check the options below, and feel free to drop suggestions down in the comments to help me out! Thanks a ton, y'all, means a lot.
-BE
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Randys Rhoads spotlight solo on the tribute album🤘 I think would make a great lesson .
Graeme Mcmurtry
2024-11-15 13:47:16 +0000 UTCThere's videos everywhere "your pinky is too weak". I find I'm having more trouble with the ringfinger, can't get it to position with the tip on the fretboard and also finger-rolls are difficult for me. Any ideas/exercises?
Ralf
2024-08-23 11:31:17 +0000 UTCWhat about a little love for gilmour or lifeson?
Paul Jones
2024-06-28 02:11:54 +0000 UTCHi I've just signed up.. can't find any videos on whammy bar excercies (only a video rating which ones are best). I have 3 guitars with whammy bars but still rarely use them 😕
Welsh wizard
2024-06-23 19:46:14 +0000 UTCI'm dying for some black dahlia murder!
Sebastian Burghardt
2024-06-22 15:55:59 +0000 UTCEven his solo stuff. All I Was is a killer hard rock/ metal album- tone for days. My personal favourite tracks is Wish You Well
MrTriggerhappy
2024-06-09 07:32:02 +0000 UTCWould more stuff related to "chicken pikcin" for rock dudes. I am starting to get into hybrid picking and additional content in that direction would be rad. And/or how about a lesson on the Nashville Numbering system?
Dan Conley
2024-06-08 19:33:01 +0000 UTCSaw Andy T many years ago at a UK clinic. He asked for requests and I raised my hand and said GOD. He said he hadn’t really planned to do it but he did and brought the house down. Ridiculous player and a very nice man
Mike Maley
2024-06-08 10:51:22 +0000 UTCMessiah Will Come Again live at montreaux 1990 Gary Moore
Mike Maley
2024-06-08 10:48:37 +0000 UTCPlease do the solo for the Unforgiven and talk about bends, triplets/sextuplets, and other stuff in that solo
Kostas Trev
2024-06-08 09:07:11 +0000 UTCRiff Retrospective Ratt and Dokken Albums
Snake
2024-06-08 08:21:25 +0000 UTCWhat about a Tutorial on Guitar Pro 8? I know there are many out there, but they are stepdad quality...just sayin. Thanks
Brandon
2024-06-07 23:08:16 +0000 UTCHi Uncle Ben, I wouldn't mind a Daily Shred vid if you're still planning on making more either :)
Paul K.
2024-06-07 22:57:20 +0000 UTCSome harder Pantera riffs and Dime solos would be 🔥
Rez Ak
2024-06-07 06:25:01 +0000 UTCLoved the Gary Moore solo in a day feature what about his blues solo on Walkin By Myself
Martin Mac
2024-06-06 17:09:23 +0000 UTCAnd you have a lot of cool machines. Lol
Joe McKenna
2024-06-06 16:29:58 +0000 UTCMan I would love to meet all your machines. I always go back to the video of your road flare red RG 7 string because I love to hear you talk about the background and overall thoughts about your gear.
Joe McKenna
2024-06-06 16:29:12 +0000 UTCAndy Timmons - Groove or Die Continues with the “monster guitarists who don’t get lumped in as shredders” theme Also think there’s some unconventional picking in there as Andy has said that it’s picked rather than swept (I think)
James Curtis
2024-06-06 09:11:47 +0000 UTCThanks UB! Riff Suggestion! Extreme - Teacher’s Pet - opening riff! Especially that tappy harmonicy fill of Nuno awesomeness.
~ Keyframe ~
2024-06-06 07:31:21 +0000 UTCExcellent suggestion!
Glenn
2024-06-06 06:51:55 +0000 UTCSolo to goodbye to romance. Please please find out the real way he plays it. There are a lot of different ways to play and not a lot of reference material.
Themadnoodler
2024-06-06 05:28:05 +0000 UTCI would like to see either mind crime or rage for order. For a riff album. They used funky chord,s effects, guitars..
Themadnoodler
2024-06-06 05:26:05 +0000 UTCHow to solo over Jazz changes( ii V I )
stefen woods
2024-06-05 23:48:13 +0000 UTCI wanna see that Universe! hell yeah!
Luca
2024-06-05 23:21:40 +0000 UTCLove to see a Riff breakdown on one of the Alter Bridge albums. Tremonti is so good.
David DeBruin
2024-06-05 23:17:43 +0000 UTCSolo to Spirit Carries On
JohnD
2024-06-05 22:31:53 +0000 UTCHere’s one: The second solo to Sultans of Swing. Sure, easy peasy. To make it challenging, no pick, like Knopffler does it, and a strat.
Diogo Camacho
2024-06-05 21:07:25 +0000 UTCFAQ with recording - I think you said at some point you run the ox box to your cab and mic that as well. As someone who just started doing a bit of recording, how loud do you record the speaker at? Do you have the gain bumped a couple db? I tried recording and it took like 120db of volume to get a good signal, so very curious how you get a good signal at lower volumes
NYCM&AHole
2024-06-05 19:26:36 +0000 UTCRiff retrospective no rest for the wicked. Hugely under rated guitar album.
Kevin Nelder
2024-06-05 17:34:54 +0000 UTCRiff retrospective- Pantera, CFH album. So much juicy material throughout that album, maybe touch on some overlooked riffage?
Michael Cunningham
2024-06-05 16:55:49 +0000 UTCAll great ideas, regardless of the vote outcome \m/
Ty Barnes
2024-06-05 16:18:45 +0000 UTCI'd love to see a lesson on Journey's The Partys over
Chris Corke
2024-06-05 16:04:10 +0000 UTCVoting on a lesson on the Vai solo on Go! by M83. Moo
DrReiCow
2024-06-05 15:08:48 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed the last couple lessons on simplifying Ratt - the 'How to play tough tracks without crazy stretches' vids. This was great not only because those songs are fun, but it was a really nice illustration of how to reconfigure and figure out how to play things different ways across the fretboard
Jake Raymor
2024-06-05 15:03:55 +0000 UTCHow about a Nuno Bettencourt licks lesson or song lesson. Another thing that would be cool is a country lesson for shreddy country like Andy Wood, Brent Mason, Albert Lee, Johnny Hiland type stuff.
Ryan DeMott
2024-06-05 14:45:37 +0000 UTCRiff Retrospective on something Iron Maiden... maybe Somewhere in Time or Piece of Mind?
Bryan Carpenter
2024-06-05 14:43:13 +0000 UTCATB!!!
Michael Nicolay
2024-06-05 14:11:08 +0000 UTCAlso, thought of a series idea called “So you think you can x?”. Where you pick a technique and a master of said technique. Like “So you think you can trill?” And talk about SRV’s minutes long trill marathon on Little Wing(?)
Christopher Marion
2024-06-05 13:59:01 +0000 UTC2 Riff retrospective ideas. 1) I’m ALWAYS here for EVH riff content. Any album, any era. Just love the breakdowns of how Eddie constructed riffs and danced within/between chords. 2) maybe a Ben Eller rifftacular?!?!??? Been super cool to listen to the 🧟♂️ master tracks, and obviously you’ve been involved in so many projects, it’d be awesome to hear you work back through some of that stuff and pick some of your favorites from over the years.
Christopher Marion
2024-06-05 13:56:07 +0000 UTCSolo lesson on deep cuts that don't normally get any love because they weren't a hit single. Especially if they have an interesting technique to teach.
Frederick Herbert
2024-06-05 13:25:16 +0000 UTCThunderhorse in a day
Gamble
2024-06-05 13:17:07 +0000 UTCWhat do you think about recording high gains guitar, or maybe how you recorded the van halen tribute ? Recently one video like this teached me to set the right levels and combine plugins in a way that I had to get back to your picking videos to fix my sound - a new plugin was not enough.
Gleicon Moraes
2024-06-05 13:15:22 +0000 UTCThat is the coolest Beatles cover EVER. I was gonna ask for a dive into the Georgia Satellites “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” as a sort of “stepdad shred”. That song is a library of cool basic rock riffs.
Gregory Taylor
2024-06-05 13:12:17 +0000 UTCLesson for the solo from Van Halen’s so this is love, studio or live
Chris Frankman
2024-06-05 13:09:03 +0000 UTCUncle Ben looks like the Q may be winning out
Corey Solman
2024-06-05 12:44:33 +0000 UTCMy favorite Vai song to play (try that is)
Corey Solman
2024-06-05 12:43:23 +0000 UTCSaw Ratt 30 years after their debut album and Warren was still shredding like a master ! So good
Corey Solman
2024-06-05 12:39:26 +0000 UTCAwesome song !!!
Corey Solman
2024-06-05 12:37:41 +0000 UTCI second this idea!
Andrew Maul
2024-06-05 12:35:35 +0000 UTCI'm in dire need of some exercises (and/or specific a song lesson) to improve my legato technique!
Andrew Maul
2024-06-05 12:35:16 +0000 UTCOr a Riff Retro on the master George Lynch on any of the 1980s Dokken albums
Corey Solman
2024-06-05 12:35:11 +0000 UTCWould like to see another "daily shred" episode.
Brian Dwyer
2024-06-05 12:33:58 +0000 UTCRiff retrospective on Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
dean mestas
2024-06-05 12:15:48 +0000 UTCRiff retrospective on XYZ's Hungry & Marc Diglio!
Louis-Simon Carle
2024-06-05 12:01:42 +0000 UTCHow about recording guitars at home 101? How to do it, how to punch in, use IRs, sims, etc.
Jeff Hirshberg
2024-06-05 11:42:45 +0000 UTC+1 for Finnish metal. Wintersun would also be AWESOME
kai S
2024-06-05 11:41:44 +0000 UTCI'd like something 7 String to show off the new Universe
Taos Smith
2024-06-05 11:33:47 +0000 UTCI'd like to see a breakdown of different bands like you have previously done with Mastodon and Meshugga. Or a breakdown of some different genres like stoner rock, doom or heavy blues. Like a breakdown of riffs, song structures and tunings common to the different genres.
Peter Murphy
2024-06-05 11:08:41 +0000 UTCDo video of Don’t Pass Me By. The Georgia Satellites cover version of the Beatles song.
William Hamler
2024-06-05 11:04:20 +0000 UTCRiff retrospective on King's X please
CC
2024-06-05 10:47:39 +0000 UTCWere you ever into Children of Bodom? Alexi Laiho was such an inspiration to me and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him mentioned here!
Mace
2024-06-05 10:47:08 +0000 UTCThe Uncle Ben breakdown of Jimmy Page would be awesome. Give us a little insight into the structure and then on to the variety of ways it was done "in the field" at MSG or RAH or other famous performances.
Erik Berg
2024-06-05 10:35:32 +0000 UTCLots of great choices here. But the technique/lick videos have helped my speed and overall technique tremendously in just a few months.
Dave Huffy
2024-06-05 10:23:56 +0000 UTCA non-sequenced lick would be a good choice. There has been a little too much of sequenced licks since quite a while. More complex and less beginner-friendly. Something to chew on. That'd be great! :)
Markus Dreßen
2024-06-05 09:52:26 +0000 UTC+1 for the great riffs from America's Least Wanted
Dazza
2024-06-05 09:50:42 +0000 UTCYes! Throwing in a piggyback request for a tutorial for the sweet sweet dueling solo work on Breaking the Silence
Tor
2024-06-05 09:48:44 +0000 UTCNagasaki by Whitecross (Rex Carroll - Guitarist)
John Cullen
2024-06-05 09:35:55 +0000 UTCFrom a WIIFM perspective, I get the most out of learning a technique-focused lick or a cool song/solo. I love the rock/metal content, and I appreciate a twangy solo every so often. I'm still trying to break the step-dad speed limit on that "Summer's Comin" solo.
Mike Conroy
2024-06-05 09:33:37 +0000 UTCSteve Lukather's smoking work on the Tubes "Talk to ya Later" please!
John
2024-06-05 08:50:01 +0000 UTCI like both "learning the song in one day" and the "riff retrospective" options. They help me focus on the cool or challeninging parts of artists I probably wouldn't really be into
Bogdan Frigioiu
2024-06-05 08:46:19 +0000 UTCI'd love to see/hear your take on the Good Times Bad Times solo, with some notes about amps, amp settings, tone, and how to get the manic feel Page has as he rips through that solo!
El Raymundo
2024-06-05 08:37:34 +0000 UTCAnything Black Sabbath
Dave Duvalier
2024-06-05 08:16:40 +0000 UTCJason Becker
Glenn
2024-06-05 07:16:20 +0000 UTCRiff retrospective- ugly kid joe
Teddeeh
2024-06-05 06:34:02 +0000 UTCPersonally struggling on a solo that has a few runs of fast sweeping with alt picked notes within those runs (Matriarch by TBDM for reference) - tips/exercises on combining sweep and alt picking/quick changes in "direction" would be cool!
Abhishek Gairola
2024-06-05 06:31:19 +0000 UTCI will forever keep requesting Ratt’s “Nobody Rides for Free” solo lesson. Sorry about that!
Henry Stinkler
2024-06-05 06:26:39 +0000 UTCHow about some Black Sabbath? They just released the remastered versions of the Tony Martin era albums. There is virtually nothing on Youtube on the Solos to Headless Cross, When Death Calls or Nightwing. All epic and very underrated.
Oliver Meyer
2024-06-05 06:14:08 +0000 UTCYes Please! I was going to say the same thing. A lesson on a specific song Lamb of God - Memento Mori 🙌🏻🔥
Blair Coleman
2024-06-05 06:12:43 +0000 UTCAlso Round and Round by Ratt the whole song. The best part of the solo is the ending legato solo. That's incredible. No one ever tabs the ending of the solo fade out. I have the Ratt Tab book, and I think it's right. It has the ending solo, but the legato technique is really hard. I got most of it down awhile back, but you would make an exercise out of it so it would be easier🤘🤘🤘🤘
David Geer
2024-06-05 06:07:42 +0000 UTCBen Eller, please break down the Still Of The Night legato solo. It's so fast, and all versions of the tabs look wrong. I like Carl Brown but I think his version is wrong as well. I don't think their is an accurate tab on that solo. You are the best! Please alot of people want that solo, and you said on another rainy day. That was a long time ago!! Thanks so much!!
David Geer
2024-06-05 06:02:20 +0000 UTCRiff Retrospective - Album: Badlands by Badlands
Ryan Nutick
2024-06-05 05:53:59 +0000 UTCMore on songwriting, please!
Matthew L Juge
2024-06-05 05:48:53 +0000 UTCHow bout some Uncle wisdom on some hammers and pulls and trills accuracy and speed exorcize will be cool
Mean Dean
2024-06-05 05:48:12 +0000 UTCAh yes, paralysis through analysis. I know it well. How ‘bout some picking exercises for those who need it (and those, like myself, recovering from carpal tunnel surgery)?
Lou
2024-06-05 05:46:29 +0000 UTCI'll be honest with you, uncle, I selected "Meet the Machines on that sweet Ibanez Universe i just got". But aside from that It would be out of THIS universe if you taught us how to play the solo in "Souls of Black" by Testament's one and only Alex Skolnick.
Gregg B.
2024-06-05 05:44:49 +0000 UTCHell yeah. The hardest part is trying to pick where to start. Played through As The Palaces Burn on a whim last weekend, scary to think they've been writing consistently great riffs for 20+ years already.
MrTriggerhappy
2024-06-05 05:40:33 +0000 UTCMore Opeth, please! A song, an album, a solo (anything from Still Life especially!), or even a "Stuff Opeth Does" video. Haven't been able to get enough Opeth lately. And I can really only find a few channels that sound like they're playing things correctly in lessons or playthroughs, one of which is yours. Mikael writes such unique riffs (and some damn tasty solos, I think), Peter might be the smoothest player I've seen and makes anything seem effortless, and Fred can melt your face off with something like the Heir Apparent solo (and some great backing vocals like in Cusp of Eternity).
Octavio Stenberg
2024-06-05 05:30:23 +0000 UTCLamb of god riff retrospective?
George
2024-06-05 05:29:35 +0000 UTCYou’ve put up a few videos with your new Schecter KM-6 MK-iii and mentioned a possible “Meet The Machines” about it. We need to meet that machine!
Trevor Dillon
2024-06-05 05:09:55 +0000 UTCGrats on the Universe, I preordered mine in '97 and it still shreds. Maybe some wang bar tricks would be in order
Shreddy McGuire
2024-06-05 05:04:13 +0000 UTCWhat about a riff retro on Queenryche's Operation Mindcrime, the album?
Javier Bellido Sánchez
2024-06-05 04:57:30 +0000 UTCI think I’ll do some more of those yeah!
Ben Eller
2024-06-05 04:52:05 +0000 UTCBlack Mages LOL
Kenny Roscoe
2024-06-05 04:49:02 +0000 UTCOur Dairy Shred / Weakwand Wankshop about some laser-speed tapping or "non-guitar" techniques like maybe slap/finger-plucking? Something to help gettn' out of "traditional shredi knight" mindset? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for trad-shreddn' but something that borrows from other instruments, just to broaden our horizons? What do you thing, Uncle?
Gaclav
2024-06-05 04:46:58 +0000 UTCMaybe the intro to “Buried Monuments” by Job For A Cowboy? That’s both a specific lick and a great exercise as well (hand synchronization). And a kickass song.
Norman Burt
2024-06-05 04:46:53 +0000 UTCBreak down Still Of The Night solo. Your video about the song was the best which i found, when i was trying to learn it. In isolated track you can hear that John himself plays it sloppy, How it will sound clean?
Māris Drīksna
2024-06-05 04:41:28 +0000 UTCFor a riff lesson. It would be rad if you could show us Morning After by Ratt. It's a sick riff that I'm having a hard time nailing and finding the correct tab.
Horacio Rios
2024-06-05 04:35:18 +0000 UTCOK, maybe it's just me but I pay Uncle Ben to teach me shit. I don't give a fuck if he learns how to stroke Paul Gilbert's schlong in a single day. Uncle Ben, you're a fun and excellent teacher and I really like your stuff but put out the "in-a-day" crap on your channel outside of teaching the Patrons where our stepdads went wrong. If I could learn Cliffs of Dover, I wouldn't be here anymore. I'd be in HillBilly Heaven just down the street from you, stealing your gigs and your womenfolk! 🤣❤️❤️❤️
Paco Jazztorius
2024-06-05 04:34:34 +0000 UTCRiff Retro on Emperor of Sand?
Steve Burnham
2024-06-05 04:33:53 +0000 UTCSome Steve Morse love would be nice too… dude is legendary!
Shahar Bar
2024-06-05 04:33:17 +0000 UTCHey UB, what happened to the YouTube practice session thing? Was it not so popular?
Nelson W
2024-06-05 04:32:38 +0000 UTCFor The Love of God. Ya, you know.
Devon Ward
2024-06-05 04:30:56 +0000 UTCTry learning Iron Maiden’s Starblind in one day 🤘🏻
Arrr
2024-06-05 04:29:48 +0000 UTCKinda random and not saying you should do this type of thing exactly but I recently watched your Dirge for November lesson from years ago and it is extremely satisfying to play!
Mark Herrera
2024-06-05 04:29:33 +0000 UTC
