The REAL way to play Lay It Down by Ratt! Weekend Wankshop 192
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Hey kids! On Weekend Wankshop 193, Uncle Ben here is going to be taking you all on a hair metal odyssey, teaching you the REAl way that Ratt plays Lay It Down!
There's SO MANY bad covers and tabs of this one out there! It stumped me for a really long time, too. But now you'll be sounding just like Warren DiMartini and crew. Huzzah!
Tune that guitar to drop D and follow along. I'll be using my Les Paul with Duncan JB in the bridge, into my Kemper Profiler, running the Top Jimi Brown Sound profiles.
Thanks for watching, commenting, and subscribing! What do you want to see next?
Thanks for learning the right way to play Lay it Down by Ratt!!! One of my favorites. What else do you want to see covered on my channel?
Hi Ben
Please do something from TnT!
A lesson on the opening riff, chorus and solo from Caught between the tigers, perhaps? Would be awesome, Ronni Le Tekrø is a legend 🤘🏻
Hi Ben - how about a lesson “Snortin’ Whiskey Drinkin’ Cocaine” by Pat Travers? Old school! Thanks!
Journey-Edge of the Blade (Frontiers Album)
Tornado of Souls, again :D
Holy wars.
My hand is going to need a C Section after playing this riff.
HAHA! I was about to comment: "I'm gonna need that 'C Section' after A and B got me pregnant..."
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Drop d reconstruction likely
Carpal tunnel , buddy
😂😂
In my opinion the best and most articulate guitar lessons for accuracy taught on the inter web. Awesome and thanks!
Your absolutely correct sir!! LID is one of the great guitar riffs, and not just in the "hair metal" category, in all categories! Ratt was no joke buddy. Sean Black
How about the intro to Seventeen by Winger. That is a sick riff!! Reb Beach is a beast!!!
LOL...made my suggestion before watching the whole video! Bring it Uncle Ben!!
Winger and Ratt. Best shit ever.
Zombie Machinery Glam and hair metal/rock had some of the most ridiculous guitar playing ever (including the obscure Pantera!). I hated the overall music, but holy cow, those guys could straight up shred!
Yes! There was a very detailed riff video online that Reb made at N'stuff music, but it got taken down by someone we won't mention by name ;)
Reb Beach teaches the riff, it's on UA-cam
I remember exactly where I was when I heard this song for the first time back in 1985... They were at the top of their game on Invasion of Your Privacy IMO!
Steven Hatfield me too! I remember being in my Oldsmobile, a hot summer day, just got my pioneer stereo installed, I cranked it all the way down the highway!
Steven Hatfield
Saw them open for Scorpions on that tour!
Amazing show!
I saw them on Star Search and told my little brother the guitar players were amazing but they'll never go anywhere with a name like RATT :D
Luckily I was wrong, they won Star Search and the rest is history :)
Warren is so underrated. The tone you got is sick.
Robin Crosby's lick
Unholstered Media wrong. Warren
Warren was and still is a ripper!!
He got so sloppy tho man sucks.He will always be one of my all time favs tho.
Crazy Nights by Loundness. I played it wrong for years and then watched a lesson on YT a few years ago and it sounds a little better now. I still don't think I'm 100% album correct. Easy riff and sounds so cool!!!!
Rock n roll crazy nights! Tab on mike gross!
Totally nailed it. Almost impossible for me to play correctly. That stretch is something else, I was front row in front of Warren and he played that exactly as you did. Thanks Ben.
It is hard at first. I've worked on it for a few days and I've got it down its just the tempo. I drag a little by myself. That solo is blues/metal bliss though.
Awesome, uncle Ben! I think Warren was inspired by Eddie in the Unchained type tuning. Genius. Warren's tone was sick on that record.
Uncle Bem, can show us why do our hammer-ons/pull-offs suck?
Dude! I’ve never seen anyone play this song at all. My old band used to cover it in the early 90’s because I love that riff so much. Other players were gob smacked by the stretches. 😆 I loved playing the solo too.
When it was new in the 80’s and I was around 11 or so I had to figure it out before the Mtv video was over. I recorded it the next time it was on (VHS 😆) and loved cranking it up.
Dimartini is 1 of my old favs. Round an round is also killer of course. *Thanks for this man.* It was fun playing this riff again after all these years.
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As ultra excellent as Warren DiMartini was and is, people tend to overlook Robbin Crosby who wrote a lot of the great Ratt riffs and songs!
INDEED!! Robbin would be getting high as hell with a few BITCHES!! and still know how to play. What a talent he was and the guys just walked away from him in the end of his life. He was the band called RATT. Not many really recall that.
@@robertproctor7771 Really? Bummer. I hadn't heard or read that. Will look into it more....
"Dont cry for me i've run the full gambit" - Robbin RATT Crosby.
Robbin had the most influence on the EP and Out of The Cellar album. But pretty much from Invasion of Your Privacy, and onward. It was basically all Warren. Robbin was getting less and less involved as his addictions worsened.
@@dante8227
Yep, Warren is one of the best guitarist I've ever heard...I still listen to all of the Ratt tunes today off and on.
There was a ton of guitarists that were exceedingly good back then and Warren DeMartini, George Lynch, Jake E Lee were the major inspirations for me and also for fellow guitarists in my travels as I played gig after gig in a local cover band all over Atlanta.
Warren Demartini was a big deal.
A company was selling instructional cassette tapes called "Learn to Burn" where all of Warren's guitar parts were played at speed and with normal phrasing as an example and then broken down, slowed down and played in small sections....The tapes were constructed and narrated by Warren himself.
This is where I learned many of his guitar solos. It pieced up into sections and slowed down A LOT so that it was easy to learn it by ear and memorize it. The huge challenge was getting the speed and phrasing right while getting it also cleanly.
Such an underrated riff to see here! Awesome and informative my man!
RC32 oh it was well known and respected as “the riff” to learn back in the 80’s. Not really under rated as neither was Warren DeMartini. May be a lil more obscure for 20’s and younger folks
@@msw812 Exactly. Also every other guitar/rock/80s channel features this riff nowadays. And that whole UA-cam buzz made me dig out my old Ratt albums and i gave'em a listen for the first time since the early 90s. Back then i was more into the more blunt Motley Crue or the glamorous Poison/Warrant thing but nowadays i really came to like the timeless streamlined elegance of Ratt. Great band!
" Back for more" or "Way cool jr." ! ! Thanks!
Dennis High I know how to play the main riffs of Back For More, one of my favorites. My Dad plays it too but he does this slick little move where he runs his fretting hand up and down the neck while playing the chugging between the intro chords, and it's so fuckin cool lookin, can't get it down like he does it
If you need lessons for those you're not a guitar player, lol. .simple stuff !
Back for more & what you give is what you get! My two favorite ratt songs. 💪
Again with the awesome shirt Braa! ...Oh and RATT Rules!
I’m blown away that you essentially had no edits in the second half of this lesson. So concise and clear. Great playing as always.
Johnny Million haha thanks man!!
Great job on this one. I wasn't much of a glam/hair metal fan, was more of a thrash metal fun, but I always admired Warren Dimartini. He was a monster on the guitar along with George Lynch.
Great Ben! Round and Round is another finger stretching DeMartini classic with similar chording concepts which I've seen played a lot of wrong ways!
BZA - The cool thing in Round And Round is that the opening chord in the riff is an Em [as the vi chord], and at the end of the riff it resolves to an E [as a major (I) chord]; ...such a cool riff.
David Yergensen agreed, dead on! 👍
Yeah, and find me another 80s rock song that has C#11 chord in it's main riff. It was probably meant to be an obvious Unchained ripoff, but changed into something totally jazzy in the process. The circular progression/riff really fits in with the lyrics.
Round and Round solo is a blast!
Yes! Do Seventeen! Lay it down and Seventeen have some of the catchiest riffs ever imo!
I’m late to the party but it’s good to finally see this song being played correctly. I learned this song way back when the album came out and you’re right, that stretched chord is a hand-killer. But Warren plays it like it’s “normal” 😂
Great job, Ben. Love your lessons. Warren DiMartini is also a very underrated guitarist of the 80s!
Warren was such an underrated player-well done
jakemf1 Hey there. Yes I do. It's a guitar cover of the main theme to the movie - Neverending Story. (great movie btw)
Robin always said Warren was better even he can’t confess
BEN!!!! I'd really love to see someone (preferably you) go over Don't Call Me Dude by Scatterbrain!!!
Dude! Don't call me dude fking great tune. The video is hilarious. Yo later dude.
How about the intro to Walking Shoes by Tora Tora ?
Very nice. Such a bad ass riff.
AWESOME stuff Uncle Ben!!!....how about doing Van Halen"5150"...never seen that one played correct and its an awesome riff!!!!!
Whitesnake "still of the night"
Andy Gomez agreed. The solo is always played wrong or taught wrong. Even John Sykes didn’t play it as in the record. It’s super fast
@@iganpparamarta8813In the record it is played by Adrian Vanberg. So that...
@@lasm2000 according to wiki (please don't throw a brick at me) Vandenberg played solo only on Here I Go Again. And there's live version of Still of The Night where Vandenberg butchered the solo. Sykes version is closer to the studio version and I'm sure it was Sykes' who played it. Not wanting to make enemies here, just want to exchange info. We certainly like the same band here.
@@iganpparamarta8813 It was definitely Sykes.
Ben, amazing lesson. You nailed that tone!!
Could you please do overburdened by disturbed please uncle Ben it's not 80s but the tabs for it is wrong
5:38 That simple slide that adds so much texture to this riff ;-)
C-Sections, G Strings, pull offs....I think "Lay It Down" is an appropiate title.
Awesome Ben! How about some Great White - Step On You
please do main riff of body talk from ratt!! shred on!!
Such an amazing riff and excellent execution
"Let it Go" by Loudness.
How about House Of Broken Love or Rock Me by Great White
and I thought Round and Round had insane stretches. First time in a while when it actually hurts to play guitar
Rythym for the solo moves the opening riff to C, gets a little more difficult on a longer scale guitar,LOL
Rick Burton you aren’t kidding!!!
That was f*****g awsome!!! I hav watched so many shitty videos and tabs on this most awsome riff...u rule bro!!! Hope u do lady red light by Greatwhite one day...thx so much...im subscribed 4 sure = )
Used to play this song in cover bands when it came out. Believe it or not, the "Guitar for the practicing musician" magazine had it right back then. Nice work my man.
Amazing song, thanks for the video!
Cover some of the melodies in Joe Satriani's "Crushing Day"
....That is, if you haven't already.
Please & Thank You.
Great playing.
Great instructional video.
Great to see someone with a high standard to get out of their comfort zone & learn how to play it right!
Thanks Again.
Its aboit time someone plays it correctly..... Notice the chords are D Bb and C. 6-4-5 witht he 4-5 played an octive higher. Well done.
Great video!
"Poison" by Alice Cooper would be pretty cool too
if you havent found it already Nita Strauss has a great tutorial on that one!
Man UB...you have some tasty Kemptones. I do like your 800 tones...a lot... but this Top Jimi tones are just about perfect.
One of the greatest 80's riffs!
How about: The Ultimate Sin opening riff. Hall of the Mountain King main riff and verse (Criss Oliva was killer)
Ben you rule! This is a riff I love and one of Ratt's best. Robin Crosby was a great player. Everybody gives Warren all the credit but Robin was just as good and a better song writer on top of it. Thanks for the lesson (you're right, I can't play it on my Strat )
jppagetoo I agree, Robin was a key player. His sound chemistry and the way he used the Phrygian Scale Exercises disguised as three chord stompers was evident in the band's proven formula sound and changed dramatically after his, Robin's departure. Interesting note when Ben talked about having big hands to stretch, enter Robin Crosby🤘!!
Duuuude!!! YESS!! Such an underrated riff! Thank you master Ben!
This is by far the best lesson of this song I’ve seen. Good job! Now I know the RIGHT way to play it.
Do Scared by Dangerous Toys, Hall of the Mountain King by Savatage or Strange Wings, or I Don’t Believe in Love by Queensryche!
My hair just grew longer. I have been dying to learn that riff...My fingers are going to hurt for a week
Might be the right way to play it, but I'll do it the easy way and start at the seventh fret, bar the D G And B, a pull off, a hammer on and it's done. I tried to learn it this way and I gave up almost immediately. I'd like to last as long as possible without the carpel tunnel, and arthritis.
Tone is killer in this video, what are you running that guitar through?
Brian K Kemper Profiler
The only thing cooler than this lesson is your shirt. FUCK YEAH!!
Yeah, you covered Robbin's guitar part all right, but Warren's is slightly different at the beginning, and has that Sykes style slide into perfect fourth (C in this case)
You are mostly correct but after listening to the first 5 seconds of the actual song over and over, the ending lick isnt 100% correct. On the actual song when the timer is going from 0:03 to 0:04, you can hear there isnt a high note played there.
Now for the solo 😳 Thanks for setting us suckomaniacs straight. Uncle Ben....... Thanks 😊.
Cinderella - Somebody Save Me
he goes through the lesson but does not play song through to end--😦
YES! Thank you! I play this all the time, and know I do it wrong. PLEASE do Extreme's "Teacher's Pet" next, that's a SICK Nuno riff.
I second the Teacher's Pet request. Love that percussive playing. I think we have requested this one several times. Come on Uncle Ben...hook up the masses.
That's great. How about the Seventeen intro by Winger.... ha! commented before i saw the end of the video. derp.
Can you please do a wankshop on the intro solo to Rock Me Like a Hurricane? Dwaa-dayy-dwaa! Da da daa da dah doh etc...
YES!!! DiMartini is all over the fretboard on this.......and not to mention one of my favorite solos of ALL time.....that and Schenker's solo on "On and On" off of MSG
Hey Ben!
Could you teach us the correct way for Forever young - Tyketto solo
Thx man!
I loved "Standing Alone"...After losing my parent's and my brother abandoning me after Zika helped his family with $40 Grand, and not even a birthday card, my b-day is May 31st....that song resonates with me alot.
Ha! I still have my AX2 as well. It was the first expensive amp that I ever bought and I still think it sounds better than say my Spider IV 75. Nice video!
This song's intro along with "Sweet Child of Mine" and the fill between the chords in "Back in Black" are the most incorrectly played among local bands where I am.
Papa Arthritis your name gave me the laughters
haha, thanks. It's rare that anyone "gets" it.
Papa Arthritis lol makes it more special ey?
Indeed.
Sometimes the wrong notes, other times, they let the notes ring out too long and they run into each other.
"Shot In The Dark" or go home!
Dejoblue yesssss pleeeeease
Yeah..thats a good one.
Why about doing Modern day cowboy by Tesla?
How about Rush's Freewill solo. Talk horrible tabs!
SEVENTEEEEEEEN! The whole song has dark corners. Shine us a light, Uncle Ben!
Good stuff man! Btw, have you seen the movie The Stepfather?? Something tells me that you'd enjoy it lol
That Les Paul - man - what a beautiful guitar. Had the chance to pick up a 120th anniversary edition a few weeks back that looked similar and played like a dream. What a mistake I made by not pulling the trigger!
Good song choice bro! DeMartini is great
anything from dokken would be awesome
Chain gang woman-Malice..would be a great metal piece to learn correctly..and Chemical Euphoria by Armored Saint a nice excise
Ratt riffs are made possible because Warren is an alien and Robbin was a behemoth.
Standing on the Outside by Dokken would be good. Some great chords there...
that tone is killer. just sayin.
Weekend wankshop is for the birds!
this channel should have 10x more subscribers.... it's great stuff. thanks Uncle Ben
Love your vids, you're a big inspiration.
I would love to see you play Dime's solo (the entire feast for a god) from the bootleg of the basement show in '88.
If not, at least the Floods solo? (I'm fully aware there's ton's of covers of this, but would love to see your take on it).
Could you pleeeease?
That's a fucking sweet shirt, man.
Cool, but ill still do it easy way, cause my pinky doesnt like silly shit.
But it is so much more fun to play it the wrong way...lol...and doesn't hurt!
Sounds like “Unchained”
Hi Ben! Thanks for the video! Will learn this riff. As for future suggestions, I love that you devote some time to Vito Bratta and Steve Lynch and guys like that. May be you can do a video on one of the Warren Demartinis solos that are for intermediate level? He usually shreds real fast and I can't keep up yet to that level, so always glad when you do some intermediate stuff. Thanx!
One of my favorite riffs, Satsuma3042 plays it correctly as well.... I geek out seeing him make that stretch. Another fav of mine is Unholy Confession from A7X / Electric Eye - Judas Priest / Wasted Years from Iron Maiden - the solo in Wasted Years is about as perfect as it gets, not too much, not too little.
it’s a great riff! however i believe you’re playing the 2nd variation of the riff in the opening. A valiant effort tho.
Well done! This riff is a definite challenge to play, but you nailed it.
Please do Queensryche I don't believe in love
How about Bullet Boys, Smooth up in ya.
Awesome uncle Ben! More Ratt PLEASE. My favorite guitarists EVH, Lynch, Warren de. Some Dokken would be awesome too!
Thanks for sharing uncle Ben!!!
Thanks.one of those gem from the 80's.Great workout for the right hand precision Can't help but hearing "Unchained " (also in drop D ) ,Great series of videos man.
A lot of you tubers have missed out on Loudness. Killer song killer lyrics and Akira cutting loose 🔥🔥 I read the below comments and loudness RR Crazy Nights is a big hit. Let’s go Uncle
Almost every Loudness album is a classic. Those guys could write. Songs and riffs. Better when they sang in Japanese, the early records, but they're all good. Especially live!
My stepmom says she loves this song and how you “pulled off” on that G string...whatever that meant....
Awesome man! I love RATT. I know I'll be the only one, but can you teach ( DREAM EVIL) by DIO? rip R.J.D. Also I think Firehouse had some really sick riffs. 'Reach for the sky'. Thanks. Honestly the best teacher on UA-cam I've found. I am learning my first solo because of you. 'love song' Tesla.
I agree. Lay it Down is one of the sickest 80s riffs ever. Ive playing it wrong for 30yrs! Ouch!
Amen brother, it never gets old!!!
Thanks for correcting my 30 year mistake Ben! You ROCK! Looking forward to 17...
awesome "Fool for your loving" the Whitesnale WITH STEVE VAI version
Yes! I was just working on this and "You're in love." Would like to see some Racer X, just discovering the greatness (overdue, I know).