What the Paul Gilbert Lick ISN'T Teaching You!

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    What is the Paul Gilbert lick NOT teaching you?!? Paul introduced us to his favorite alternate picking lick back on his OG Hot Licks video, and he has since disavowed it as being the be all end all alternate picking workout. It's a great outside picking exercise, but there's a lot it DOESN'T show us if you want to become an alternate picking PRO!
    In this video, I'm going to show you variations on the PG lick that will get you inside picking, outside picking, and crushing the game while learning the fretboard MORE BETTER! It's a smashing little etude that's gonna turn you into SHREDDY KREUGER!
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  • @BenEller
    @BenEller  25 днів тому +14

    ALL my Patreon supporters are getting TABs, Guitar Pro files, and practice tracks to go along with this one! Get MORE out of the Paul Gilbert lick!
    www.patreon.com/posts/104016329?

  • @thirdlegstalliano
    @thirdlegstalliano 25 днів тому +81

    I mastered the Gilbert lick years ago and ever since then, the money and chicks just keep rolling in. Thanks Paul Gilbert lick

    • @ginto1990
      @ginto1990 25 днів тому +3

      Hahaha what a comment 😂

    • @joesatchton212
      @joesatchton212 25 днів тому +1

      lol...well-played, sir.

    • @binkywarren21
      @binkywarren21 24 дні тому

      I want my girlfriend back, you b*stard.

    • @edbernardmusic3599
      @edbernardmusic3599 19 днів тому +2

      Haha bravo! I play Al DiMeola's version, so far no money, no chicks.

    • @inkedvillan80
      @inkedvillan80 4 дні тому

      12 years ago I bought the intense rock 1/2 dvd. I got divorced soon after HAHA true story lol

  • @sheriewart8100
    @sheriewart8100 25 днів тому +19

    Great lesson, my stepmom loves your variation of strokes, but mostly the inside

  • @ZIGSVIDS
    @ZIGSVIDS 25 днів тому +14

    I met Paul at a clinic once , he gave out a hand drawn lesson on A pentatonic minor and said 'If your teacher hasn't shown you the pentatonic minor get a new one"
    I'll have to learn that someday.

    • @nvlddmkm1282
      @nvlddmkm1282 25 днів тому +1

      I’d say no need for a specific key, start with major, learn the intervals, then you’ll automatically learn the natural minor since it’s relative to major, then you’ll know minor and major pentatonic. It’s all connected :)

    • @ZIGSVIDS
      @ZIGSVIDS 24 дні тому +1

      @@nvlddmkm1282 Dude , I'm Australian and started in the early 80's.
      So knew pentatonic even if you thought you didn't.
      Thanks to Angus

    • @nvlddmkm1282
      @nvlddmkm1282 24 дні тому

      @@ZIGSVIDS heh yup, if you played thrash or rock in the 80s you knew pentatonic

  • @NoahWolfe
    @NoahWolfe 25 днів тому +6

    The inside picking variation is evil. Thank you for highlighting a major flaw in my chops and forcing me to the woodshed, some 35 years after wearing out my Intense Rock 1 VHS.

  • @diogorenato
    @diogorenato 25 днів тому +8

    2:42 "chicks and money are NOT guaranteed" the legal disclaimer hahahaha

  • @cristianlopez_8486
    @cristianlopez_8486 25 днів тому +5

    Hmm... didn't even know that was a Paul Gilbert lick, but I have played a variation before as fun practice exercise starting out. I just knew it as that cool intro lick from Annihilator's Alison Hell.

  • @sole__doubt
    @sole__doubt 24 дні тому +3

    Uncle Ben looking like Yngwie in this one with the high volume hair and dangling bracelets.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  24 дні тому +1

      It’s all about the angle of the dangle

  • @CBlackShred84
    @CBlackShred84 25 днів тому +6

    Dude that Schecter just looks comfortable AF

  • @rickabell9218
    @rickabell9218 24 дні тому +3

    Ben, I really like your style. Your sense of humor, your teaching style and your skill. Thank you brother.

  • @ravikant840
    @ravikant840 25 днів тому +3

    This man has helped me a lot.

  • @AlfredPotterGuitar
    @AlfredPotterGuitar 24 дні тому +1

    Excellent variations! Whenever I get a new student, they'll very often already be practicing this maneuver. I have to explain to them that the pickslanting challenges are insane, and that even though it seems simple, it really isn't. There was a video (somewhere) where PG himself admits that this maneuver is disastrous for beginners

  • @JonnyCrackers
    @JonnyCrackers 25 днів тому +1

    I was just practicing the Paul Gilbert lick not more than two minutes ago and then this pops up in my feed. Excellent!

  • @brunolevasseur
    @brunolevasseur 24 дні тому +1

    Hi Ben !
    In my memory, a VHS of Paul Gilbert with same kind of licks in the 90's.
    A funny guy too! 😂

  • @burnsZY85
    @burnsZY85 25 днів тому +1

    That lick really helped me get my head around alt picking, thanks paul.......and uncle ben.

  • @pickboy7
    @pickboy7 25 днів тому +1

    Love this etude Uncle Ben!! Thank you!

  • @JP4271
    @JP4271 25 днів тому +3

    Great lesson, Mr. Ben. I've always struggled with the classic 'Gilbert lick' outside picking mechanic. BTW - I saw you play with Mr. Andy last week at the Dallas show, very cool! I talked to Andy and he said you engineer all his records. Didn't know that. Was going to say howdy to you too but you had quite the crowd around you. Guess that happens with almost half a million subscribers!

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому +3

      Hey dude would have loved to have met you! Everyone at the Dallas Guitar Fest was SO NICE, we had a blast.

  • @amesmilesoff4768
    @amesmilesoff4768 25 днів тому +1

    Cheers Ben, interesting lesson. Nice guitar by the way 🤘

  • @pcbullets8726
    @pcbullets8726 24 дні тому +1

    Yup, great stuff to step up your guitar playing game! Thanks!

  • @mdeerocks6792
    @mdeerocks6792 24 дні тому +1

    I'll try to ask Paul Gilbert to play inside picking variation :)

  • @VanhA-db3kz
    @VanhA-db3kz 25 днів тому +1

    Awesome. Thank you for this. 🤘

  • @OfAllTheNerve
    @OfAllTheNerve 25 днів тому +1

    I am envious of the 3 stacked skull decor in the background.

  • @BrianH020
    @BrianH020 24 дні тому +2

    ¡Pablo Gilberto! 🤘

  • @dimitriid
    @dimitriid 25 днів тому +1

    When you said the 'Paul Gilbert lick' I thought it was going to be the scarified ending and thought 'boy that's hard enough to learn already' lol

  • @erichartwell6792
    @erichartwell6792 25 днів тому +1

    The best Chanel there is period 💣🤘🏻🎸🔥💣

  • @vincentquy
    @vincentquy 25 днів тому +2

    Hey uncle Ben. Thanks for the lesson. I saw you at Dallas Guitar Festival last Sunday but I couldn't say hi since you was busy. Hope to see you again some day.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому

      Next time!!! That fest was a blast

  • @chucksaeger7500
    @chucksaeger7500 25 днів тому +1

    Love the lesson dude!

  • @edguitarguitar
    @edguitarguitar 23 дні тому

    Great lesson, as usual, Ben. That 2-notes per string position really slowed me down! How about adding the last 4-notes per string position?! Ouch!😬

  • @IDGAF_PLUS
    @IDGAF_PLUS 25 днів тому +1

    That Schecter is sick! They make stupid awesome guitars.

  • @pzuliomaccavellion9711
    @pzuliomaccavellion9711 24 дні тому +1

    I never knew what inside/outside playing meant until now! And have realized I'm kind of an inside player! .....have I been making things hard for myself all this time!? Dayam!

  • @andrewbecker3700
    @andrewbecker3700 24 дні тому +2

    Alright, this has gotten downright weird. This must be at least the 3rd or 4th time this year alone. That the Weekend Wankshop topic is almost exactly what I've been working on. Get'n the vibes out there one way or another? Uncle Ben has hit paydirt repeatedly now. I dig the simple approach that focuses on the basics that rarely get talked about. All these fundamental skills are guaranteed to get you more money and chicks.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  24 дні тому

      Ha!!! I’m out there skating through the astral plane nightly searching for Shredi Knights in need!

  • @weaselfart5505
    @weaselfart5505 25 днів тому +5

    What the Paul Gilbert lick DOESNT teach you is that in order to master this technique (as well as many others in this style), you must first acquire a Gibson 2024 emerald green SG. A secret only the coolest guitar players know.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому

      I’m listening!!!

    • @johnhagan582
      @johnhagan582 25 днів тому

      I'll stick with my Alpine White 74 Gibson Les Paul Custom .it's the only gutair I've ever played .and it was my favorite guitarist go to 🪓 .doubt I have to tell anyone who played the exact guitar . color .year . and Python Snakeskin Strap lol but yeah the SG is sick

  • @johanjotun1647
    @johanjotun1647 25 днів тому +1

    IDK if i like to even want to start thinking about this, ive allways just let the inside or outside pick thing just happen automaticlly via whatever the path of least resistance happens to be, an extra thing to be self concious about is another oppertunity for me to choke.

  • @meahulapela
    @meahulapela 23 дні тому

    I like the variations on this lesson, I love pattern permutations like these. I honestly think the lesson would have benefited from a close up view of when the target pick escales are. Nice nonetheless! Edit - to make it more PG like would be good to get rhytm variations too, you know moving from steaight 8th notes to 16ths to some tuplet

  • @mcguimen
    @mcguimen 25 днів тому +1

    Você só tem guitarras bonitas e o som maravilhoso. Além de tocar muito. Sempre assisto suas dicas. Grande abraço

  • @erichartwell6792
    @erichartwell6792 25 днів тому +1

    Thanks uncle Ben I be working on this and I got a better job I’ll be rejoining the patreon page soon I like tabs💯

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому

      Niiiiiice, see you there!

  • @MissyMuthaTruckiN
    @MissyMuthaTruckiN 24 дні тому +2

    ¡Paulo Gilberto!

  • @edbernardmusic3599
    @edbernardmusic3599 20 днів тому +1

    It's funny that this became The Paul Gilbert Lick. I heard DiMeola play it a decade earlier and it's almost guaranteed that's where Paul heard it.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  20 днів тому +1

      It’s gotta be!

    • @edbernardmusic3599
      @edbernardmusic3599 19 днів тому +1

      @@BenEller I just played Mediterranean Sundance for a student. That Al solo...I tells ya...

  • @braxal6983
    @braxal6983 25 днів тому +2

    Hey Ben, It was good seeing you last Sunday. You going to do a lesson on Way Cool Jr.?

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому

      I’m thinking I should haha good meeting you too

  • @saltyphucker777
    @saltyphucker777 23 дні тому

    Hi, Uncle Ben! The Paul Gilbert lick has troubled me with pickslanting for a very long time (i.e., changing the pick angle when hitting a new string for a one single note, and then coming back to the previous string, like at 5:47). Can you elaborate on how best to practice this with pickslanting? Are you changing the pick angle at all when hitting the new string for a single note, and then coming back to the previous?

  • @Dropshock20XX
    @Dropshock20XX 24 дні тому +1

    Sick

  • @andrewsmall4865
    @andrewsmall4865 24 дні тому

    Ben, can you drop a comment about whether you incorprated two-way pick slanting with this as opposed to just letting your picking angle develop naturally based on ensuring the licks are played cleanly and in time? Cheers.

  • @randallhaney7909
    @randallhaney7909 25 днів тому +1

    Outstanding lesson Uncle benny Bob. (as always) You and the hard work putting these lessons together are greatly appreciated.
    My question. How is it; You can consistently make something,
    Difficult; frustrating & fun as heck to learn/do? (for me at my ability level)
    The difficult; frustrating & Fun; is the Worry.
    I think you've brought out latent masochistic tendencies in me? Yikes & Gasp ..
    LOL. Thanks for keeping it Fun; Uncle benny Bob.. For real.

  • @HarlanHarvey76
    @HarlanHarvey76 25 днів тому

    Love the color of that Shaktor but cannot dig that headstock.... Unless I needed to pierce through some chainmail or something

  • @julianschulz1620
    @julianschulz1620 24 дні тому

    As a young shredder, i practiced that PG lick constantly, since the day that REH video came out.
    I could NEVER play it up to speed, despite starting slow and working my way up.
    I hit a speed barrier, i could never clear, no matter how much i practiced.
    It was incredibly frustrating, although i ended up mastering the "Legato section" of the vid.

  • @edsnotgod
    @edsnotgod 24 дні тому +1

    breckin thelow, breck in the low, breckinthe low... breckin thelow... (never 'breaking the law')

  • @berkayguner
    @berkayguner 24 дні тому +1

    Idea for another more better Uncle Ben video: "What the Ritchie Blackmore arpeggio isn't teaching you?" Context: Is there a way to pick that part, which starts with 567s on GBA strings in Rainbow's "Man on the silver mountain". It seems nobody covered it online how to pull that off with a pick without arpeggiating as Ritchie Blackmore does. It seems impossible for me in 100 years to pull that off with the actual rhythm 😅

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  24 дні тому +1

      My man, you are in luck: ua-cam.com/video/JAx3VU4WY38/v-deo.htmlsi=91IWDbSwlS8sDMg5

    • @berkayguner
      @berkayguner 24 дні тому

      @@BenEller Oh man! How did I miss that 😮. I was thinking that I've seen all videos here. Thanks a million 😁🤘

  • @VIBORARockbandES
    @VIBORARockbandES 25 днів тому +1

    Greetings my friend

  • @forelectricstring8833
    @forelectricstring8833 25 днів тому +1

    Thanks but I'll always pick in the direction of the string (relative to current pick position).

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому

      If it works, it works!

  • @impoopnrightnow906
    @impoopnrightnow906 25 днів тому +1

    *UNCLE BEN!*

  • @erichartwell6792
    @erichartwell6792 25 днів тому +1

    Just the tip 😂

  • @IDropzGuitar
    @IDropzGuitar 25 днів тому +6

    Hey Ben, been a fan for many years now, would love it if you could take the time to read this one, I’m a 21 year old from Queensland Australia, I’ve been battling an ongoing eye condition stemming from a skin disease I got when I was 8, it had left me in a coma for some time and it’s left me going blind, as of November last year that’s when my eyes got worse, i ended up homeless for some time there, at an attempt to get big enough to maybe go overseas and get my eyes treated by a world class specialist I’ve started a UA-cam and TikTok channel teaching guitar I know you have a huge audience and would appreciate it to the moon if you could help us out, if not even just some advice to help me improve I’d appreciate it so much and keep it up!

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому +3

      Keep it up, dude, and always remember: your voice is your currency, and content is KING! Don’t sweat low production values to start, set your phone up with some good lighting and share what you’ve got!

    • @IDropzGuitar
      @IDropzGuitar 25 днів тому

      @@BenEller thank you legend, your all so kind, I’ll see you at the top!!

    • @JJohnson616
      @JJohnson616 25 днів тому +1

      ​@IDropzGuitar do you have a channel yet? I'm sure a lot of us here would also follow you there

    • @IDropzGuitar
      @IDropzGuitar 25 днів тому +1

      @@JJohnson616 this is my channel I’m commenting off

    • @JJohnson616
      @JJohnson616 25 днів тому +1

      @@IDropzGuitar subscribed!

  • @cflowers69
    @cflowers69 25 днів тому +2

    Say, my mom says you have been really pushing those “bonus” lessons. Care to explain? If not, dad says to stop wearing his slippers at least.

  • @richardjones2811
    @richardjones2811 24 дні тому

    More than one way to skin a cat 😀
    There's also another way called Swiping. Paul has used it a LOT.

  • @leaharrington4472
    @leaharrington4472 25 днів тому +1

    I played it a few times and already a bunch of chicks showed up. What can you recommend for feeding these chicks until they're big enough to fry and eat for dinner? Also, can you explain how to tell the roosters from the hens?

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому +2

      Let them things wander out in the yard and feast on bugs and whatnot, you’ll get the best eggs that way!

  • @bluematrix5001
    @bluematrix5001 День тому

    why dont go from the last not on the string.down stroke, down to the next string (economy Picking)

  • @permanentwaves4621
    @permanentwaves4621 24 дні тому

    What the "other" Paul Gilbert lick? He plays it as much as he does this one. I've found a few people trying to teach it, but i cant understand it. We've all heard it. He usually plays it in A pentatonic, 5th fret "box", but does elsewhere also.

  • @touchtennis
    @touchtennis 25 днів тому +1

    It’s been about 10 years since I was in the first three comments!

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому +1

      You made it!!

    • @touchtennis
      @touchtennis 25 днів тому +1

      @@BenEller I kinda think it means YOU made it! Gone are the days of 10k subs where nephews like me could get a comment in! And seriously it’s nothing less than you deserve. So happy for you.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому

      @@touchtennisdawwww

  • @nicolasignaciodiazcastro2036
    @nicolasignaciodiazcastro2036 25 днів тому

    this is full of intricate string changes
    why no mention about pickslanting?

  • @spoonfedfred2
    @spoonfedfred2 25 днів тому +2

    If I only work on outside picking do I get chicks but no money?

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому

      That’s correct, according to the data.

    • @superflysoulbrother
      @superflysoulbrother 25 днів тому

      Back in the day when I bought the VHS tape, I wound up overdeveloping my outside picking, thanks to Paul. Can concur, got the chick, but not much money.

  • @edbernardmusic3599
    @edbernardmusic3599 20 днів тому +1

    I'd love to watch, and expect you to get revenue, but the ads are too much on UA-cam and the monthly cost much too high.

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  20 днів тому +2

      Practice during the ad break, my man. Those ads pay my bills!

    • @edbernardmusic3599
      @edbernardmusic3599 19 днів тому

      @@BenEller I understand. Post an original and I promise to sit through the ads! BTW, you just happened to be the vid I was on when the rant struck. Absolutely no ill will intended.

  • @HarlanHarvey76
    @HarlanHarvey76 25 днів тому +1

    Hey Ben, been meaning to ask this - are you just interested in morbid skull photos with big teeth or do you have an interest in paleontology?

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  25 днів тому +2

      Haha I’ve been into dinosaurs my whole life! My wife and I also have a big collection of animal bones/skulls, so a little of both!

  • @ukguitarnoodle
    @ukguitarnoodle 25 днів тому +2

    Better get back to the Wank Shop.

  • @spunkybrewster1972
    @spunkybrewster1972 25 днів тому

    But what if I don't want chicks and money? They seem like real bummers.

  • @paulmccusker4305
    @paulmccusker4305 25 днів тому +1

    I just it naturally somehow?? I don't realise I pick like I do.... 🙃