Use THIS exercise to master string-skipping!
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2020
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Hey guys! Its your good buddy Uncle Ben Eller here with something we ALL need: the ultimate string-skipping exercise to get you picking like a BEAST!!!
String skipping is one of the most complex motions we can make while playing guitar and alternate picking; you've got to strike a note, then hurdle over the next string without smacking it on the way. Its tough, even for advanced players, and many chromatic workouts only focus on one aspect of picking (inside or outside string changes)... but this mega workout will help you master BOTH at the same time! Pair this with my legendary Punisher alternate picking exercise you learned in This is Why You Suck at Guitar 17, and you'll become a picking MACHINE!
Here on Weekend Wankshop 272, I'll show you the exercise, then we are going to talk about the secrets you need to know to for string skipping success! Give this one a try for a week, and i guarantee you'll see shred gains and plenty of results!
Playing my ancient Ibanez RG550 with Fishman Fluence pickups through a Wampler Pinnacle into the clean channel of my REVV G20! What a sick amp!!!!
Thanks for watching! Lemme know what you want to work on next in the comments!
Thanks for watching the String Skipper Ripper!!! What technique do you need help with next?
I'd love to see a lesson on how to organize one's practice. There are so many techniques and drills and the such, no one can hit them all. What core concepts drive a well-rounded, comprehensive, and wise practice regimen? How can we design, vary, and evolve our routine?
Hybrid picking. I think it dovetails nicely when we think about string skipping.
regarding At the gates-style of riffage, how to up pick the melody notes while pedaling e-string.
Ernest Dameron actually, you could take this exercise and replace all the upstrokes with the middle finger, and it would be just what you’re looking for!
Hi. Ben.
I would like to see something on covering more of the fretboard with descending patterns...
Cheers
: )
i can't wait to be pissed off by trying this out
0:06 That's my favorite King Crimson song! Haha
Which one is it?
Bro I'm crying....
Lol got em
That's really true
I've been playing since 1984, and am completely self-taught, but I actually string skip while playing the "inside" naturally. Back in the '80s when ultra-fast sweeping was the new thing, I could never quite get good at it (nerve damage in my hands from an accident) but I found that I could skip strings all over the neck fast enough that every other player I ran across would ask me how I did it (no idea, by the way). When you hear players who are really good at it, like Paul Gilbert or Uncle Ben here, I think it actually sounds better than the mindless, 999-note sweeping patterns that so many players rely on too much. Maybe just my opinion. Stay safe everyone. Cheers from Florida.
2 words, giant steps
I know this is a bit old, but the song Live & Learn from Sonic Adventure 2 had a surprising amount of string skipping in the main riff.
Practicing that riff definitely helped me a fair bit.
Bro, you are an INSANELY good instructor. Your advice is MUCH better than ALL pricey courses and programs I've seen. And for free. Thank you for your generosity.
New song for Guitar Center
LOL
lmfao
Uncle Ben has given up the secret of his abilities. The joint Navel Relocation Surgery and Celebrity Teeth Placement of the 80's knowledge has made him Godlike.
I love how you still reference picking techniques from Troy Grady's Cracking The Code series. Just goes to show how useful and fundamental these techniques really are. I came across your channel in my beginner days and THANK GOD you referenced that series because I would not be the guitarist that I am today without it. Awesome stuff, man. Love your videos.
One of the most complete lessons I ever seen.
Hi and thanks from Brazil
Dude! That picking technique just gave me the keys to the Lamborghini. Not sure why I never picked that up before. I'm going to practice the string skipping exercise but just trying out the picking technique on its own really helps with those fast swedish melodeath patterns. Thanks Uncle Ben!
Always excited for a new video! Much love to you uncle ben
Great timing, just yesterday I was thinking, that it would be nice to add some string skipping exercise to my practice routine. Thanks Uncle!
You are officially my favorite uncle! It seems like you can predict what I need to work on by using your telepathic powers! I hope this exercise will help me with string skipping!
Very nice man! thanks for the warm up
Love it, time to add it to the regimen
Thanks Ben
Wanted to learn to site read this year and have gotten to some really terrible habits with my picking technique. This has helped me to straighten it out and probably saved me a lot of hours of practice. Thanks a bunch.
your videos helped me out more than any guitar classes i've ever been. thank u!
Man, my lesson yesterday touched on string skipping. I guess I will be adding this to my regimen this week.
Awesome lesson, Ben! Gonna use this every day!
One of the best guitar lessons on the internet! Thank you!
Well done Ben. Another triumph
Oh good something super easy to work on finally !! It's about time you gave us an easy lesson ...i
Thanks for the lesson Sir
Perfectly explained !! Thanks
Interesting Uncle Ben! Thanks! I was trying to use crosspicking, curvy mandolinesque for heavy metal string skipping and i was frankly stuck. This diagonal approach seems like a cool solution
I find the best method of string skipping is to skip all six LOL
haha!! as long as you have an 8 string...
Lol
Lol! That was a stepdad joke! 😂
My problem is keeping it things quite.. ie the string skipped arpeggio on the play with me solo ? Help
I too am gae
Youre the best teacher on here for me dude. Idk why but it sticks.
Adding this to the regimen along with the Uncle Punisher
Great video. Thank you.
This looks fun and sounds pretty cool too.
Love the sound effect at 10:38 ! Great lesson
Always wanted learn an easy King Crimson song thanks uncle Ben!!
This exercise helped me out a lot, absolute killer
Blotted Science harmony intensifies :O I already work your alternate picking exercise and it drastically unlocked my fingers and wrist.
I like skipping the string picking from the inside, the movement feels way more natural but I'll try the other version anyway. Thanks Uncle Ben
Can’t wait to get home from work and hit this up
Boring
@@James-hh1lq practice is practice
@@James-hh1lq dedication
@@rekhagusain9916 i learn songs by ear its more fun
I would like to note that this also helped me cure myself of flailing pinky syndrome. Great exercise!
Gotta try this exercise. I'm currently breaking my fingers on learning to play 'Across the great divide' by Black Peaks (awesome band). That would be a great song for a Weekend Wankshop btw, involves a lot of string skipping.
Thanks again for all the tips Ben. Now I can skip all the strings and my playing has never sounded better 😉
This is downright torture for the hands, brain and soul. I love it!
hi uncle ben thank u for another amazing lesson. Can u please do a rock legato lesson, ie the opposite of allan holdsworth legato lol. i know you have many sick alternate picking exercises, but im trying to improve my legato currently. thank u
Dude, this is a pretty cool exercise!
Thanks
Thanks Uncle Ben !!
'Step dad speed' haha still makes me laugh every time:) Cool lesson dude! Thanks!
Thanks!!
Most underrated NES game IMO. Thanks for the lesson, uncle Ben!
Damn I'm on Ben Eller binge....you've got some really awesome stuff going on 🤘
Thanks a lot uncle! Very cool!
Hey Honey, listen to what Uncle Ben taught me today. (she quickly leaves the room with no comment)
This is a good lesson.
My cat thinks I had a stroke!?! He’s giving me a weird look while I am practicing this lesson 🙃
Hi Ben. Great exercise and explanation, as I've come to expect from you. :-) One thing that has made my heart race on a couple of your recent videos is that when you're introducing the video's you're using what looks suspiciously like a "chicken pick", but for the actual video you change back to what looks like a flow pick. I really like them.
My step Dad told me this exercise is for noobs and kicked me in the guts.
at least you didn't wind up with the homeschooler laugh
I LAUGH LIKE ALL HUMANS HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH
Great one
For every road block I hit you’re here for me, man 🙏
Great idea. And you had me laughing our loud with the teeth jokes (although, I thought the Madonna version with the gaps actually sounded cool). You analyze the outside picking technique in incredible detail, but didn't really mention the inside picking portion. To me they are both following to same idea - think about where your next movement needs to happen and use your current movement to help you get there (which is also a useful general idea to apply when choosing fingerings for complex leads and chord voicings). I'm not finding the skip 1 string thing too hard but I find I really have to concentrate if I try to skip 2 strings. It occurs to me that it is a pretty good exercise to go through all skips (like skip no strings, skip 1 string, skip 2 strings, ....). Anyway, another good lesson. Thanks!
Good advice 👍
My neighbours will love me when i try this after work (gonna be home past midnight :P )!
I am pretty good at math and usages and stuff, won't take too long to figure, how much power/electricity, data and wear and tear it cost me to watch this one video, including our time of use utility company fees... : ) Good stuff, worth every penny.
Hahahaha
0:09 this beat is utterly superb
Dude this is brutal! I never thought I had an anxiety issue until now. 😳
this stuff is so informative
time to finally alt pick my way through 200bpm+ 8th note tech death riffs
(i downstroked that shit before)
Excelente compadre
ben eller you are basically my guitar teacher at this point , will be calling you mr eller from now on
Sting skipping?? Now that´s something new in the guitar world! Go Ben!!! :)
thanks for nothing, autocorrect! hahaha
@@BenEller if only there was an autocorrect for guitar... I would be a better guitarist! hahaha! By the way, Great Videos Ben!! Thanks!!
Thnx.....
Very Meshuggah. Sounds cool
Is it possible to do a two way pick slanting with string skipping? If yes, please make a video on how to do it!
Love your lessons dude! I've learned a ton from you. Is there a wankshop that deals with chugging exotic numbers? I'm trying to learn Fever by Orden Ogan and the chug patterns are killing me haha
Thanks again uncle ben,As always something to beat the hell out of my get tar to.
I believe the King Crimson song you're thinking of is "Skipture."
I d like to see more videos like - stuff gojaria does - and - stuff mastodon does - and more officer johnson stuff
I do love *sting* skipping
Naval reassignment surgery. I laughed out loud!
What I've come to realize over my many many years of sucking is that you become a better player in general by practicing anything that challenges you. But you MASTER only what you practice over and over. what i mean is this: if i worked at this, i could get better at it and it would likely help develop other areas of playing. However, if I wanted to master THIS lick, I would have to make this my primary focus. This is the exact same argument that Ben used when he had mastered 1234 1234 at lightning speeds but it didn't translate to Mr Scary. Only Mr Scary and exercises designed AROUND Mr Scary enabled him to master Mr Scary.
I agree. For the same reason I'm skeptical of such exercises. Although I like this particular one because it is also a great left hand workout.
But also I'm not a fan of always jumping at what you struggle most with. Often there are ways to achieve the same result with a different technique that suits you more and then there is no merit in just practising the hard way.
@@jakobgillespie2538 I'm trying to get the solo from gel. the inside string changes at 143 are uber tough. the only way i could figure that out was to do ONLY that. 321,321 descending over two strings, starting on a down stroke, and then translating that to the real riff, 10,9,7 9,8,7. ross is a phenom player. (and i've almost nailed gel at full speed, but it has taken me literally months of 3nps 16ths). i can play the basic 3,2,1,3,2,1 at about 165, but moving that over the gel and the positional changes was very difficult. ua-cam.com/video/MMlBzsq-yzU/v-deo.html
Thanks Ben. This is gunna help. I've been rilly snappin' that plucker.
(Bad habit #1046 )
Damn saucy.
Sick beat lol
"Naval reassignment surgery"
What a world we live in where we get to discover a phrase like that.
Trademark Uncle Ben
Hey, Uncle Ben? "Where were you Home Schooled?" 🤣
P.S. Can you do a vid on that Troy Grady Country string skipping stuff he's into lately. I can't say that I own any barnyard goat music, but it's got me intrigued. Thanks, Uncle Ben.
What King Crimson song is that ? Excellent!!
Im “inner guy”, tried this exercise, really easy with one string skipping because u keep inside and go bumping from the string up and down, it gets tricky when i try to skip 2 strings or if i have to play one string 2 times and another 1 time, it messes up the “inside skipping” pattern.
Ben can you break down Y&T “I’ll Cry For You”?
Cousin Ben, (I'm older) when will you be gracing us with a what Voivod likes to do? Or something to pay homage to the greatest sci-fi metal band in Canadian history!!! And likely the world?
Lark's Tongues in Aspic, Pt. III
You have the power. You have the power to make Piggy proud. Astronomy domine just to keep everyone interested?
Just so I'm not getting too confused (easy to do) inside picking is basically the upstroke, and the downstroke is the outside?
I wonder how much of your and Brandon Ellis' views get mixed as even I have sometimes trouble remembering the correct combination of names for one another only to end up in either ones channel when I meant to arrive at the other?
i hope i do skip the stings that sounds like it'll hurt
NES Ninja Turtles music!? Amazing!
Naval reassignment?
I fucking knew it!
Uncle Ben OP
I'm still stuck on trying to memorize notes on fretboard.
the pick is also hittin' the string on an angle right ?
Question for my main man Uncle Ben: How did Uli Jon Roth pick Sails of Charon, the first little solo thing? In every video it seems like he's fooling us and not picking jack shit.
Did you see Ben's video on that song?
11:30 what about picking from the 'inside' of the string with a pendulum motion? i kinda been doing it like this
Practice it both ways for maximum gain.
@@jfo3000 Good idea 👍
it's as pleasant as those healing frequency noises....but I like it....
Hey there, internet dad.
What's your take on classical vs. casual position, or rather left leg vs. right leg?
Right leg position feels weird for me when doing lots of palm muting, kinda feels like reaching behind me to play if that makes sense.
Yeah, right leg is really not very good for proper technique. Looks a bit cooler though. But especially when you play high up on the fretbaord it seriously impedes you. So, practise at home on the left leg, live with your mates you stand up anyway.