Ben I want you to know, although I joke about the punisher, it's seriously the best damn exercise I've ever found! I'm forever grateful to you for showing it to us...that combined with my Petrucci signature Flow picks is the reason I will never again play at stepdad speed! 😆
Fantastic lesson. Your attention to detail and clear explanations are amazing. Your own guitar playing serves a great model to work towards, too. So clean and flowing. Thank you.
I love Ritchie...and I've studied his style for decades. Yea, he loves the triad arpeggios; uses them a lot. I'm teaching "Ariel" as we speak, and it has a beautiful arpeggio sequence in the outro. Regarding fingering and potential "bleeding;" Ritchie is masterful at right hand damping. He creates such sweet tone through subtle damping. So, I wouldn't rule out some 1-finger/barre fingering with him; he controls the 'bleeding' with that aforementioned right hand. Nice lesson; thanks for sharing.
One of THE greatest who had feel and chops...Riffs galore and slick solos.. I also wanted to add, great explanation Ben on how to adjust your hand picking and wrist to create an easier feel to play this technique
The comparison between resting your hand to sign a paper and palm muting is wonderful. Thank you for that tidbit I can share with my students for years to come.
NOBODY breaks down lessons and techniques better than Uncle Ben!! Uncle Ben's videos are Key to Unlocking the guitar Masters of the World techniques and Improving Yours!!
I've been working at this passage for literally years. I am FINALLY getting it nearly up to speed. Plenty of little tips here helping me out, like the palm muting and the anchoring. Also I was playing the final two triads in the wrong position, the A shape up at 8 and 10. Much harder and a bit dumb of me... 😁 But this middle section is probably even harder than the actual solo, which is saying something!
Hey Ben. Thanks so much for this one. Been a Blackmore fan since I first heard "Hush" on the A.M. radio. Yeah, a while back. I'm just learning, and your tips on palm muting are very helpful. Something I knew about but couldn't quite make work. So good of you to share. I saw the man play live, and have watched all the footage I could find. He picked each note so clean, and with such melodic style. I have seen and heard many legendary players; Richie Blackmore still tops my list.
Very impressive lesson. Your ability to explain how to break this down into subcomponents and then link these sub parts into the whole is the kind of detail that will drive improvement. Thanks!!
Greats stuff, Ben; Ritchie was/is indeed the master. Would love to see you tackle Kill the King; especially the solo to show it's actually doable for us mortals, lol.
Wonderful explanation!! Thankyou for sharing. I really enjoyed this video. Love the subject tune for the lesson too so i guess thats why it makes sense .
Thank you! Ritchie Blackmore was the reason I wanted to learn the guitar - when I first heard Child in Time was a "wtf" moment. All your lessons are great, but having had some problems with this this section I really appreciate this specific lesson. Thank you :)
I only really celebrate one holiday...been that way for decades. April 6, 1974...the first time I saw Purple. Changed everything for me. Most of the show is online here, too.
Way cool lesson Ben! How about Richie's solo in Lazy? Not the live one where he forgets where he is and just stops. :-) I think Richie is a great blues player, but most people think of his "neo-classical" playing and neglect his blues feel and playing, which is a shame.
@@kasperfauerby7389 I agree - there are lots of great solo's by Richie on Machine Head, and a lot of them make great picking exercises - Highway Star being a good example. I learned the solo from Lazy many moons ago, and it's mainly blues and pentatonic scale phrases, but played very fast! Richie's vibrato is very unique, and it's worth noting that he doesn't use the middle pickup on his strat's at all. In fact, more often than not he removes it and just puts an empty cover in its place. His Fender "tribute" or signature strats have no middle pickups.
Just found your channel few weeks ago, really like your way of teaching. Works well for me. I have learned guitar mostly by ear and your tutorials add content and details into that - Even after 30 years of noodling by myself 😄🤘
Great lesson as always. I hope you can cover more rhythm stuff. I always had trouble with that funky guitar riff from Another One Bites The Dust. I hope you can cover that at some point. Hanks!
I was just thinking. I wish someone would do a lesson on the arpeggios in the song " Man on the Silver Mountain" . I do a UA-cam search and Uncle Ben has just what the doctor ordered!
this was one of the hardest guitar parts for me, i learned this song over a year ago and regularly practiced the arpeggio section then would get frustrated couldn't get it up to speed. then once i'm able to play it at tempo but just this section alone it's all good until i try to play the entire song then i get to this section and choke.
Uncle Ben. Could you do a piece on "well dressed guitar" by Steve Morse? I'd like to see your take on the picking. The string skip kills me off. Martin miller does it on his DP medely and interestingly hybrid picks it once then appears to alternate pick the second time . Cheers
It's too bad I don't have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or chron's disease because then I could watch the 101 ads for it that keep interrupting this lesson and maybe, just possibly, benefit from both!
The resting mute is SO weird for me, but makes sense. When i think of muting I think mostly of dead notes, muffling, or chugs, as a prog metal/jazz player. For silence, that's like tonal rocket science, but seems so simple. Nice lesson dude.
It must make you feel really good to know that other UA-cam guitar teachers rely on your channel for material. I won't name names. last time I offered some constructive criticism, a dump truck full of sand fell out of someone's hipster mangina. You do a great job Ben. My playing has improved since becoming a patreon member and practicing your material. Thank you.🙃
Just watched the RJD and Doug Aldrich version from London 2005, and he doesn't even pick through the whole thing. So my point is, nice job and thank you for an awesome lesson once again 🤘
You are correct. Ritchie indeed was cross picking during the execution of those motifs. I’m also a bassist and when cross picking on guitar, my wrist is using the same rotation motion as when I play slap and pop a la Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. Using a metronome helps build precision with increasing speed.
That's how I'd do it if doing a studio version. I'd say you are right, and it is also a great exercise. Next...Burn...which I do pick out, even fast...took years.
Ben, how does the pick thickness affect the technique? I seem to do everything right, but the pick always got stucked on the string when speeding it up....trying to do the curved movement, but with no great success yet....using 1mm pick...thank you
I learned this song in the last 3 months or so.. thinking it would be a fun easy open mic jam... Some days the arpeggios flow.. some days they get shat upon.... long story short... this is a dicey one to pull.. Love the song though.. whole thing is fun to play.
The "turning a key" analogy didn't quite work for me when I was starting with cross picking. What made it click for me mentally was thinking of sitting at a table and "brushing" crumbs away from me for down strokes and "brushing" crumbs towards me for upstrokes. Like the motion you would use to brush crumbs off a table you are sitting at. I think this worked better for me because when we turn a key our arm is extended as opposed to when we brush crumbs away from us at the table our arm is bent like when we play guitar. At the end of the day it's the same motion. I was just losing the mental picture/idea of the motion I wanted on the way from turning the key in the door to plucking the frickin' string. I'm not trying to knock the key analogy. I'm just trying to give another option. :) cheers! And of course, great lesson!
@BenEller Hi Ben, very good lesson. However, I think you might give the isolated track a listen. Blackmore does not play the pattern as you have demonstrated. Interesting, I cannot find a live version where he includes the part. He plays chords instead.
Love the way you teach Ben! I'm an old f**t and and know many of the classic bits that you teach, but I still get a boost from seeing you show how it's done so plainly and concisely, and the way you approach passing along your conceptual practicality in learning. Truly admire your abilities, please keep up the great lessons!
Much easier, and cleaner sounding to play these triads on two adjacent strings. Start on the A note 14th fret G string, F 10th fret G string, and D 12th fret D string. Descend and ascend through the each triad shape in the same four note rhythm. I do find it easier to play the "D" shaped arpeggios on three strings, but use up up down down picking. All notes palm muted.
TAB will be up on Instagram in just a little while! Search #weekendwankshop264 . Had an early soundcheck, I’ll get it up on there shortly!
Uncle Ben, u should sell t-shirts, hoodies, caps and mugs that says ''Less clicking and more picking''
I would 100% buy that merch no doubt!
Ben I want you to know, although I joke about the punisher, it's seriously the best damn exercise I've ever found! I'm forever grateful to you for showing it to us...that combined with my Petrucci signature Flow picks is the reason I will never again play at stepdad speed! 😆
I love rainbow those 70s hard rock albums are amazing
What Ritchie has is the most graceful fluid finger movement on the fret board, it's like a dance, I've not seen anyone else play like that.
Ritchie is the GOAT. More Blackmore please
Fantastic lesson. Your attention to detail and clear explanations are amazing. Your own guitar playing serves a great model to work towards, too. So clean and flowing. Thank you.
I love Ritchie...and I've studied his style for decades. Yea, he loves the triad arpeggios; uses them a lot. I'm teaching "Ariel" as we speak, and it has a beautiful arpeggio sequence in the outro.
Regarding fingering and potential "bleeding;" Ritchie is masterful at right hand damping. He creates such sweet tone through subtle damping. So, I wouldn't rule out some 1-finger/barre fingering with him; he controls the 'bleeding' with that aforementioned right hand.
Nice lesson; thanks for sharing.
One of THE greatest who had feel and chops...Riffs galore and slick solos.. I also wanted to add, great explanation Ben on how to adjust your hand picking and wrist to create an easier feel to play this technique
One of the best lessons I have ever seen. The way you break down all the components (hand position, muscle movement, etc) is excellent!
Mickey DiTrana thanks man!!
The comparison between resting your hand to sign a paper and palm muting is wonderful. Thank you for that tidbit I can share with my students for years to come.
NOBODY breaks down lessons and techniques better than Uncle Ben!! Uncle Ben's videos are Key to Unlocking the guitar Masters of the World techniques and Improving Yours!!
Dick Dastardly thanks man!
followed your wrist movement and managed to get it to speed after 20 years. Thank you you're excellent teacher!!!!
I've been working at this passage for literally years. I am FINALLY getting it nearly up to speed. Plenty of little tips here helping me out, like the palm muting and the anchoring. Also I was playing the final two triads in the wrong position, the A shape up at 8 and 10. Much harder and a bit dumb of me... 😁 But this middle section is probably even harder than the actual solo, which is saying something!
Hey Ben. Thanks so much for this one. Been a Blackmore fan since I first heard "Hush" on the A.M. radio. Yeah, a while back. I'm just learning, and your tips on palm muting are very helpful. Something I knew about but couldn't quite make work. So good of you to share. I saw the man play live, and have watched all the footage I could find. He picked each note so clean, and with such melodic style. I have seen and heard many legendary players; Richie Blackmore still tops my list.
Such a fantastic teacher. You're a legend, Uncle Ben.
Thanks for the great lesson
And breaking it down 🎸
Very impressive lesson. Your ability to explain how to break this down into subcomponents and then link these sub parts into the whole is the kind of detail that will drive improvement. Thanks!!
Your 101's are brilliant. Good job Ben.
Thank you!!! I’ve been screwing this up for YEARS. Now I know why. 👍🏼
Perfect way to teach mate!
Great lesson! I love the tips you offered to on this lesson that can also be carried on to other difficult patterns you might be working on
Thanks Uncle Ben! An encyclopedia of lead guitar in 19 minutes. This rivals the Star Trek episode Amok Time for getting so much in in so little time!
Thank you I am trying to improve this is awesome lesson thanks for slowing it down and technique
My favorite song. My favorite guitar player. Thanks for finally making sense of this tab. I appreciate it very much.
Greats stuff, Ben; Ritchie was/is indeed the master. Would love to see you tackle Kill the King; especially the solo to show it's actually doable for us mortals, lol.
Been having trouble with this section for years. Thanks Uncle Ben
OMG YES YES YES THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS
I have been waiting an eternity for this.
Wow .. Great Tutorial !!👏👏👏
The solo to gates of babylon would be beautiful
Great aproach to arpegios technic and a very clear explanation. I follow you men.
Wonderful explanation!! Thankyou for sharing. I really enjoyed this video. Love the subject tune for the lesson too so i guess thats why it makes sense .
I would seriously kill a man if it meant you'd upload more Ritchie Blackmore lessons!!
Please don't kill Uncle Ben, then.
Nice job Ben as ever!
Legendary hat trick - the song, the band and the player! 🤘
accenting that first note anchors each section in the chain .. excellent point .. and is also how it is done
Wow !!! You really helped me and I was patience enough to listen the whole thing ....which helped me ...your teaching is great ....
Great analysis
Amazing lesson! I never would have figured out that key method!
Thank you! Ritchie Blackmore was the reason I wanted to learn the guitar - when I first heard Child in Time was a "wtf" moment. All your lessons are great, but having had some problems with this this section I really appreciate this specific lesson. Thank you :)
I only really celebrate one holiday...been that way for decades. April 6, 1974...the first time I saw Purple. Changed everything for me. Most of the show is online here, too.
Awesome video Ben!
Great lesson!
Geeeeeeeez... I have been playing this way too complicated. Thanks, Uncle Ben!
Way cool lesson Ben! How about Richie's solo in Lazy? Not the live one where he forgets where he is and just stops. :-) I think Richie is a great blues player, but most people think of his "neo-classical" playing and neglect his blues feel and playing, which is a shame.
"Place in line" from " Who do we think we are" is one of my all time favorites.
@@kasperfauerby7389 I agree - there are lots of great solo's by Richie on Machine Head, and a lot of them make great picking exercises - Highway Star being a good example. I learned the solo from Lazy many moons ago, and it's mainly blues and pentatonic scale phrases, but played very fast! Richie's vibrato is very unique, and it's worth noting that he doesn't use the middle pickup on his strat's at all. In fact, more often than not he removes it and just puts an empty cover in its place. His Fender "tribute" or signature strats have no middle pickups.
Don't forget his slide playing, it's amazing too
Really learnt something there, especially with the “key turning”; thank you so much!!
This is great Uncle Ben! i have to save this one, its worth going over. Great lesson my friend!
Just found your channel few weeks ago, really like your way of teaching. Works well for me. I have learned guitar mostly by ear and your tutorials add content and details into that - Even after 30 years of noodling by myself 😄🤘
Great lesson Ben thanks 💃🎶💃🎶
I was looking for this......thank you!!!!!!!
That's the utmost. Thanks rice man, it is appreciated.
Fantastic!
Excellent!
The intro riff from Hangar 18 is just the chorus lead from man on the silver mountain *MUSTAINIFIED*
Aint it cool how two of the all-tiem great masters of Cross picking played in Deep Purple ;) great video Uncle Ben!
Thanks for this video ! This was the first song I learned completely on guitar.
Tumeni notes! Never got beyond step dad speed for that one.
Thanks Ben 😊👍
Ellerific!
Hell Yes Ben! 🙂👍🏻
Great lesson as always. I hope you can cover more rhythm stuff. I always had trouble with that funky guitar riff from Another One Bites The Dust. I hope you can cover that at some point. Hanks!
I love the way you teach man. Of course it might be because it's Blackmore. Either way, you're technique for teaching is perfect in my opinion!!!
I was just thinking. I wish someone would do a lesson on the arpeggios in the song " Man on the Silver Mountain" . I do a UA-cam search and Uncle Ben has just what the doctor ordered!
this was one of the hardest guitar parts for me, i learned this song over a year ago and regularly practiced the arpeggio section then would get frustrated couldn't get it up to speed. then once i'm able to play it at tempo but just this section alone it's all good until i try to play the entire song then i get to this section and choke.
Uncle Ben.
Could you do a piece on "well dressed guitar" by Steve Morse?
I'd like to see your take on the picking. The string skip kills me off. Martin miller does it on his DP medely and interestingly hybrid picks it once then appears to alternate pick the second time . Cheers
Yes!!
Marshall mentioned 👍
I really appreciate your detail in this lesson. Everything really helped me. The only thing that sucked was all the ads.
Everything begins and ends with Ritchie Blackmore.
He remains the undisputed center of the universe.
So hard yet so fun
It's too bad I don't have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or chron's disease because then I could watch the 101 ads for it that keep interrupting this lesson and maybe, just possibly, benefit from both!
Top Jimmy Hahahaha
Did you really sing so good that the roof fell in and they didn't even stop the show?
@@shilpwift3366 Not I! But the real Top Jimmy, aye! For DLR would never lie!
Loved Rainbow with Dio Best. As well as Sabbath
The resting mute is SO weird for me, but makes sense. When i think of muting I think mostly of dead notes, muffling, or chugs, as a prog metal/jazz player. For silence, that's like tonal rocket science, but seems so simple. Nice lesson dude.
Thanks Uncle Ben! For reminding me I'll always suck at guitar! (Meaning I can always be better. :) )
Always great lessons. Would prefer without sustain, but I can live with it. Probably me moving into the jazz world...
Thanks that's exactly where I am struggling right now. I was trying to sweep picking it, but it didn't sound good.
It must make you feel really good to know that other UA-cam guitar teachers rely on your channel for material.
I won't name names. last time I offered some constructive criticism, a dump truck full of sand fell out of someone's hipster mangina.
You do a great job Ben. My playing has improved since becoming a patreon member and practicing your material.
Thank you.🙃
Sweet Thanks
Just watched the RJD and Doug Aldrich version from London 2005, and he doesn't even pick through the whole thing. So my point is, nice job and thank you for an awesome lesson once again 🤘
You are correct. Ritchie indeed was cross picking during the execution of those motifs. I’m also a bassist and when cross picking on guitar, my wrist is using the same rotation motion as when I play slap and pop a la Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. Using a metronome helps build precision with increasing speed.
Ritchie is a monster guitarist
that section always drove me nuts and made me feel like I had two left feet - for hands ;)
Lucretia. 😎
Also check the crosspicking in the Accept Stalingrad song solo at the end.
Need more Blackmore!
I'd love to see some more Glam Metal riff lessons
That's how I'd do it if doing a studio version. I'd say you are right, and it is also a great exercise. Next...Burn...which I do pick out, even fast...took years.
No diskiles that means it's good place to learn guitar
Awesome maybe you can cover Temple of the king as well always wanted to know how to play Temple of the king
Dude thank you. MOTSM is my favorite song period. I have a tattoo about it in fact. Also I’m nuts. LONG LIVE DIO
Ben, how does the pick thickness affect the technique? I seem to do everything right, but the pick always got stucked on the string when speeding it up....trying to do the curved movement, but with no great success yet....using 1mm pick...thank you
If you play guitar ..you have a guitar hero ( usually several)
Ritchie was and still is mine.
If I had to choose an album
I'm taking "Machine Head"
I learned this song in the last 3 months or so.. thinking it would be a fun easy open mic jam... Some days the arpeggios flow.. some days they get shat upon.... long story short... this is a dicey one to pull.. Love the song though.. whole thing is fun to play.
I think it boils down to that picking process?
If you watch live videos ( which are rare to find quality) Blackmore opts for the chords and no arpeggios. That is how tricky they are!!!!
A reminder to touch my lonely guitar.
The "turning a key" analogy didn't quite work for me when I was starting with cross picking. What made it click for me mentally was thinking of sitting at a table and "brushing" crumbs away from me for down strokes and "brushing" crumbs towards me for upstrokes. Like the motion you would use to brush crumbs off a table you are sitting at. I think this worked better for me because when we turn a key our arm is extended as opposed to when we brush crumbs away from us at the table our arm is bent like when we play guitar. At the end of the day it's the same motion. I was just losing the mental picture/idea of the motion I wanted on the way from turning the key in the door to plucking the frickin' string. I'm not trying to knock the key analogy. I'm just trying to give another option. :) cheers! And of course, great lesson!
David Zamora that works too!!! Brush those crumbs!
Hey Unc, another great lesson. What's in that glass next to that $10kish worth of electronic equipment?!?!?!
Ritchie must be another victim of the PUNISHER!!! 😆
Could you do a video with your top 15(or something) favourite 7string/beritone riffs?
ua-cam.com/video/GmM8n5qKMX4/v-deo.html JDRE YT
Ben Eller oh, i didn’t find that when i searched 🧐
TMNT NES videogame rock version sounding on background? The one that sounds on the map overlay.
David Perez Gonzalez you got it!!!
@@BenEller what a hell of a game. Those jumps on the sewer, the aquatic phase, and the last room before the Shredder...
@BenEller Hi Ben, very good lesson. However, I think you might give the isolated track a listen. Blackmore does not play the pattern as you have demonstrated. Interesting, I cannot find a live version where he includes the part. He plays chords instead.
Love the way you teach Ben! I'm an old f**t and and know many of the classic bits that you teach, but I still get a boost from seeing you show how it's done so plainly and concisely, and the way you approach passing along your conceptual practicality in learning. Truly admire your abilities, please keep up the great lessons!
I always wondered if he hybrid picked it lol now I know.
Much easier, and cleaner sounding to play these triads on two adjacent strings. Start on the A note 14th fret G string, F 10th fret G string, and D 12th fret D string. Descend and ascend through the each triad shape in the same four note rhythm. I do find it easier to play the "D" shaped arpeggios on three strings, but use up up down down picking. All notes palm muted.