Thanks for learning why your vibrato on bends USED TO suck! Come hang with me on my Patreon page and get access to SO MUCH bonus stuff! www.patreon.com/posts/106645950?
Dude. Your wife is an absolute legend! Not only is that guitar on my bucket list, but I can’t think of a better birthday gift for my uncle! Happy Birthday!
@beneller I saw the Patreon post that you were looking for a Jem. Then your wife goes and buys you the legendary late 90's floral design? No words there. I remember 30 years ago lusting after that beauty. Wait, that was Aunt Julie. Wait, wrong again, it was both.
First off your guitar playing is phenomenal but your sense of humor is even better, I laugh so damn hard watching your vids man. Pure comedy and solid guitar playing advice in the same video....GOLD
The comedy is his evil plot to trick us into learning the basics that we overlooked when we were just starting out. We're too busy laughing to notice we're learning stuff.
It was a necessary lesson. I've been playing guitar for more than 30 years and I've always had my doubts about the recipe or recipes for good vibrato. Thank you for this lesson.
Finally a video where I'm actually half decent at what you're showing (for once), which is why I've shifted my focus to wanting to know more about Aunt Julie. Stories? Videos? Websites? Address? But don't be mistaken, your vibrato is very good! I don't want you to think that I didn't care....
I barely practiced any lead guitar techniques. Only recently I became interested. Thx for this tutorial! I did it all wrong (bending the string higher) and it always sounded like sheet.
Many of my favourite players are the only player in their respective bands. Lead and rhythm become the same thing when you start to look at the instrument holistically. A big revelation to me recently was Eddie Van Halens massive sound chords are literally just basic triads on the D,G and B strings. Basically, take all the other strings away from your simple cowboy chords. I try to approach things in such a way that lead and rhythm are not separate things, I think it's a limiting way of thinking about it. That being said rhythm should be the foundation. If you can play all the right chords and arpeggios and have groove, that's most of what you need. But knowing lead guitar techniques allows you to add interesting things to your rhythm playing.
One technique that helped me with this and vibratos in general is to to take my index and put it across the strings at an angle. It puts my wrist in the right position to do the swing movement.
Some great tips Ben, thank you, I think this really covered it perfectly. Personally I learned the Yngwie wide sweeping vibrato, something I learned from EVH as well, your wife got you a beautiful present there that's a beautiful guitar, and your Aunty sounds like she needs my number.
Congrats on the awesome new axe and for having an awesome wife to buy it for you. An early Happy Birthday as well 🎁🎂🎉🎈 Great video and great timing for me personally as I'm starting to get more comfortable with bends and vibrato in isolation. Now I can turbocharge my playing with both at once without scaring the neighbourhood cats away 🤘🤘
Ah yes... good ole' wrist vibrato. Definitely THE technique that will define every guitarist's overall sound (imo). Also, definitely one of the hardest to nail consistently. 😵 Still refining it even after watching Uncle Ben's original TIWYSAG seven years later, but I've gotten better since then. 👌🏼👌🏼
Thank You @Beneller. Great topic and show. I been playing guitar for 42 years and teaching for over 20 years. I tell my students all the time work on your vibrato and tone,not your gear.There is more important to have a Great vibrato then play fast.Listen to Gary Moore and John Sykes vibrato.Thanx again Ben
I can't remember someone bringing up vibrato on bends. Also I never hadn't any questions about it. I thought it's matter of practicing. Meanwhile, most of the time I avoided the vibrato on a bend because it sucks when I try. But this is a great lesson and I hope I can implement what is told here! Thanx!
What helps with this is a guitar with a hardtail bridge and a shorter scale. A vibrato system usually counteracts the string tension with springs. When you bend, you put more tension on the string which leads to the springs expanding, what you have to counteract by bending more etc. So the bend is usually wider on a guitar with a vibrato system for the same desired pitch. And a shorter scale equals less string tension in general, what makes bends easier. And now you know why Zakk Wylde plays Les Paul. :D
Wow I remember those Jems hung on the rack in a couple shops in the 90s, very cool - checking in with a 93 rg470 here ...I'm not even messing with that Motley-Julie factoid.
Wtf I’ve been playing guitar for 20 years and nobody ever taught me this. My vibrato on bends just got instantly easier and sound 10x better. Fuckin uncle Ben, thank you brother
I've been trying to learn vibrato with the thumb over and from the forearm for a couple of years now. I want to sound like the first note of the solos from You Shook Me All Night Long or Stairway to Heaven - whole step bend on the G string. I watched some videos (some Clapton interview clip, Pebber Brown, Justin's guitar channel, yours). I understand that it comes from the forearm, and I've seen people do it, but I'm just slightly better than I used to be at it. Before that, I was rocking my hand back and forth along the direction of the string, violin style. I saw you do that in an earlier video you made about different kinds of vibrato. It's still what comes most naturally to me. My watch shakes like a tambourine when I do it though.
Uncle Ben is making us better players by using comedy as a vehicle to trick us into learning simple stuff that we should have learnt way back but were too focused on more flashy stuff.
I cant stand people who's super spastic vibrato is like my epileptic step Dad when he's taking(or shaking) a piss. Seriously, great video for the bending vibrato technique. I'm glad I've been doing everything correct, but being left handed I've never had a problem with control or fretting. I always have to work on my picking technique and speed. Thanks again Uncle Ben, even though I'm old enough to be your Uncle.. lol
I would say you could use the same process when you're doing a vibrato on an unbent note. Basically go from the note being in tune to under or flat, and then back to being in tune again. You don't need to go above the pitch of this note. At least that's how I do it on my saxophone.
If you don’t want the band to shake you down, shake the bend in tune. Well you might still get a shake down, but your vibrato will be good 😂 Also this one has some of the funniest material and delivery yet 😂🔥
Man I’ve been playing for 20 years and still struggle with this. I get what you are saying about it not being an add to an already bent note, but I see a lot of players who don’t take it all the way back down like you do. Yours sounds great, I’m just a bit confused. I’ll keep working on it
Disregard I unpaused and see that you say you don’t have to take it all the way down. Lol. That’s what I get for commenting early. It’s weird man, I’ve got great “non bending” vibrato but just can’t make this sound right
Yup... quality guitars appreciate quite well. I stocked up on used USA Jackson's between early 2000's and 2015 or so for great prices. I could sell any one of them on Reverb and double my purchase cost. But that would be blasphemy.
"Kirk"🤣🤣🤣 Great lesson, Ben. I always found this one of the most difficult things to teach because I think doing it correctly requires using your ear more than anything. If you haven't listened to him, check out Philip Sayce - he's like Hendrix on steroids, and has one of the nastiest vibratos you'll ever hear.
I think my right hand is what sucks most. I can't gallop like Maiden or chug like Slayer. Miserlou is sitting up on top of a mountain laughing and throwing pebbles down at me.
Sometimes I cheat and get a psychedelic waggle by just shaking the string back and forth without touching the sides or the back of the neck. It's fun with fuzz!
Hey, Ben - - - is there any credence for the technique used on nylon string guitars that can be translated to electric? I was brought up on classical guitar, where the vibrato is achieved by playing the noted and "bending" the pitch by manipulating the string along its length by stretching or loosening the string by hand. Does this make any sense? I'm sure - to you - it does. This technique assures a vibrato that takes a chosen note, and then moves it sharp- to flat/sharp-to flat every time. The same way a violin is played; the same way a wind instrument is played. Do the strings of an electric guitar make that outcome impossible?
Thanks for learning why your vibrato on bends USED TO suck! Come hang with me on my Patreon page and get access to SO MUCH bonus stuff!
www.patreon.com/posts/106645950?
Dude. Your wife is an absolute legend! Not only is that guitar on my bucket list, but I can’t think of a better birthday gift for my uncle! Happy Birthday!
@beneller I saw the Patreon post that you were looking for a Jem. Then your wife goes and buys you the legendary late 90's floral design? No words there. I remember 30 years ago lusting after that beauty. Wait, that was Aunt Julie. Wait, wrong again, it was both.
"shaking the ropes like the Ultimate Warrior in Summer Slam '92" made my weekend.
I was literally just watching clips of ultimate warrior before coming here😂
Same here. Came for the vibrato tips, stayed for the WWF throwbacks.
Where else can you learn guitar while watching stand up comedy? Thanks, Uncle Ben!
Ditto
That Floral Ibanez Jem looks NICE.
I like things that are nice!
@@BenEller so does my step mom.......which is why i am not allowed in the main living area anymore.... wink wink
Uncle Bend Eller
By far the best guitaring channel on the internets. Been playing for 35 years, and I still find your content to be fresh and fun.
You know you've been around UA-cam for a while when Uncle Ben starts to actually look the age of an uncle
First off your guitar playing is phenomenal but your sense of humor is even better, I laugh so damn hard watching your vids man. Pure comedy and solid guitar playing advice in the same video....GOLD
The comedy is his evil plot to trick us into learning the basics that we overlooked when we were just starting out. We're too busy laughing to notice we're learning stuff.
I’m old enough to remember your aunt Julie! Even she wouldn’t have me because my vibrato sucked then and it sucks now.
This is a perfectly executed Ben Eller video performance
Hahaha thank you
LOL Shaking the ropes like ultimate warrior at summer slam 92
That was a good one 😆
It was a necessary lesson. I've been playing guitar for more than 30 years and I've always had my doubts about the recipe or recipes for good vibrato. Thank you for this lesson.
Glad it was helpful!
Vibrato bends are this nation’s backbone
12:25 thank you, that little detail is very helpful.
I bought the same guitar in 1990 and sold it in 1994, regret it til today…😢 a real beaut ❤
thank u uncle ben i still have difficulty with pre bend vibrato from time to time
Finally a video where I'm actually half decent at what you're showing (for once), which is why I've shifted my focus to wanting to know more about Aunt Julie. Stories? Videos? Websites? Address? But don't be mistaken, your vibrato is very good! I don't want you to think that I didn't care....
I barely practiced any lead guitar techniques. Only recently I became interested. Thx for this tutorial! I did it all wrong (bending the string higher) and it always sounded like sheet.
Many of my favourite players are the only player in their respective bands. Lead and rhythm become the same thing when you start to look at the instrument holistically. A big revelation to me recently was Eddie Van Halens massive sound chords are literally just basic triads on the D,G and B strings. Basically, take all the other strings away from your simple cowboy chords. I try to approach things in such a way that lead and rhythm are not separate things, I think it's a limiting way of thinking about it.
That being said rhythm should be the foundation. If you can play all the right chords and arpeggios and have groove, that's most of what you need. But knowing lead guitar techniques allows you to add interesting things to your rhythm playing.
thanks for the video aunt julie
You introduced me to the concept of mosquito vibrato and that has forever changed my vibrato. Thank you sir!
Good as always. I was kind of hoping you would get into the double stop bends with vibrato. Extra fun with a floating trem.
One technique that helped me with this and vibratos in general is to to take my index and put it across the strings at an angle. It puts my wrist in the right position to do the swing movement.
Some great tips Ben, thank you, I think this really covered it perfectly. Personally I learned the Yngwie wide sweeping vibrato, something I learned from EVH as well, your wife got you a beautiful present there that's a beautiful guitar, and your Aunty sounds like she needs my number.
Nice gift! I love those floral Jems. But, good luck not wanting to swap out that bridge pickup lol
Man I love the PAF Pro!!
Congrats on the awesome new axe and for having an awesome wife to buy it for you. An early Happy Birthday as well 🎁🎂🎉🎈
Great video and great timing for me personally as I'm starting to get more comfortable with bends and vibrato in isolation. Now I can turbocharge my playing with both at once without scaring the neighbourhood cats away 🤘🤘
Dude thank you so much for this.
Something about this explanation made it click for me after years of being touch and go with this.
Thanks Uncle Ben.
You're rolling me, Ben! 😂 love your lessons & humor.
Thanks! 😃
Good video Uncle Bren! Don't be a dingus!
---Dr. Steve Brule
Ah yes... good ole' wrist vibrato. Definitely THE technique that will define every guitarist's overall sound (imo). Also, definitely one of the hardest to nail consistently. 😵
Still refining it even after watching Uncle Ben's original TIWYSAG seven years later, but I've gotten better since then. 👌🏼👌🏼
I love how this video goes back to the theme of the OG videos of this channel also thank for feeding on my insecurities yes I do suck.
Haha keeping it REAL
Please do a video on how to do tremolo picking! That’s a beautiful Ibanez btw
Great suggestion!
Thank You @Beneller.
Great topic and show.
I been playing guitar for 42 years and teaching for over 20 years.
I tell my students all the time work on your vibrato and tone,not your gear.There is more important to have a Great vibrato then play fast.Listen to Gary Moore and John Sykes vibrato.Thanx again
Ben
Love the dead pan humor. Congrats on the new whip, you got a keeper
Uncle Ben speaks 100% truth
I can't remember someone bringing up vibrato on bends. Also I never hadn't any questions about it. I thought it's matter of practicing. Meanwhile, most of the time I avoided the vibrato on a bend because it sucks when I try. But this is a great lesson and I hope I can implement what is told here! Thanx!
What helps with this is a guitar with a hardtail bridge and a shorter scale. A vibrato system usually counteracts the string tension with springs. When you bend, you put more tension on the string which leads to the springs expanding, what you have to counteract by bending more etc. So the bend is usually wider on a guitar with a vibrato system for the same desired pitch. And a shorter scale equals less string tension in general, what makes bends easier. And now you know why Zakk Wylde plays Les Paul. :D
The most important, but the most overlooked technique.
Wow I remember those Jems hung on the rack in a couple shops in the 90s, very cool - checking in with a 93 rg470 here ...I'm not even messing with that Motley-Julie factoid.
What I realised too late was that vibrato sounds a lot better if you do it to the actual tempo of the song and not just randomly
Now that's a nice guitar!
I actually remember Summer Slam '92. I was 15 years old and thought Ultimate Warrior was the coolest ever! :D
Not was……..still is!
I need this one
Great lesson as always man, but that guitar though 😍😍
For whatever reason, my nemesis has always been the unison bends in the intro to Run to the Hills
Poor Aunt Julie got a roasting on this video, but loved the exercise. Lots of excellent take away tips!
I need to work on my vibrato. Thanks uncle Ben! 👍
"There are no right answers". Finally the pressure's off!
Thank you, Uncle Ben-ds…
Wtf I’ve been playing guitar for 20 years and nobody ever taught me this. My vibrato on bends just got instantly easier and sound 10x better. Fuckin uncle Ben, thank you brother
I've been trying to learn vibrato with the thumb over and from the forearm for a couple of years now.
I want to sound like the first note of the solos from You Shook Me All Night Long or Stairway to Heaven - whole step bend on the G string.
I watched some videos (some Clapton interview clip, Pebber Brown, Justin's guitar channel, yours).
I understand that it comes from the forearm, and I've seen people do it, but I'm just slightly better than I used to be at it.
Before that, I was rocking my hand back and forth along the direction of the string, violin style. I saw you do that in an earlier video you made about different kinds of vibrato. It's still what comes most naturally to me. My watch shakes like a tambourine when I do it though.
You had me at Ying Yang Milkshake !😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent. I been waiting for you to do a video on this for a long time now. Thank you so much Ben!!!!!
Hope you enjoyed it!
I'm so glad you mentioned Whitney, singers should inspire vibrato just as much as fellow guitarists.
The man
That Ibanez is fking awesome
There were a good few belly laughs from this one 😂 great work as always brother 🙌🏽
Uncle Ben is making us better players by using comedy as a vehicle to trick us into learning simple stuff that we should have learnt way back but were too focused on more flashy stuff.
SWEET AXE!!!
i've said this before, best teacher on YT. and hes freakin hilarious
Yngwie’s vibrato is subtle in a ‘more is more’ kind of way 🤫
I swear I thought you’d say bad vibratos are the number one cause of virginity! Oh, well, might as well have
Is that the Excitebike tune or Mike Tyson punch out song in the background at the beginning? Lol
I cant stand people who's super spastic vibrato is like my epileptic step Dad when he's taking(or shaking) a piss.
Seriously, great video for the bending vibrato technique. I'm glad I've been doing everything correct, but being left handed I've never had a problem with control or fretting. I always have to work on my picking technique and speed. Thanks again Uncle Ben, even though I'm old enough to be your Uncle.. lol
The intro to this video hurt my feelings, too close to home 😭😭😭
Your aunt Julie must have been frothing at the gash when she heard this vibrato technique
This helps me so much! Thanks! Also, poor Aunt Julie, I'm sure she doesn't deserve this :(
Nice Vaitar!
I would say you could use the same process when you're doing a vibrato on an unbent note. Basically go from the note being in tune to under or flat, and then back to being in tune again. You don't need to go above the pitch of this note. At least that's how I do it on my saxophone.
It might be a lack of coffee, but Ben looks a bit like Steve Harris, the bassist for Iron Maiden.
I get that often!
That is a gorgeous Ibanez 👌
I Vito your Bratta, but my stepmom likes your vibrato
That was excellent.
Poor Step Dad Kirk Hamster catching strays! 😂... good ol mosquito brats.
Nice tips unk 🎸
Uncle Ben, you are my hero…
Very funny. But some great nuggets towards sounding like a pro.
For some reason, I always think of John Sykes when it comes to vibrato. He is probably one the best to do it.
Think you're missing a pickup there Uncle Ben 😂
If you don’t want the band to shake you down, shake the bend in tune. Well you might still get a shake down, but your vibrato will be good 😂
Also this one has some of the funniest material and delivery yet 😂🔥
Man I’ve been playing for 20 years and still struggle with this. I get what you are saying about it not being an add to an already bent note, but I see a lot of players who don’t take it all the way back down like you do. Yours sounds great, I’m just a bit confused. I’ll keep working on it
Disregard I unpaused and see that you say you don’t have to take it all the way down. Lol. That’s what I get for commenting early. It’s weird man, I’ve got great “non bending” vibrato but just can’t make this sound right
Yup... quality guitars appreciate quite well. I stocked up on used USA Jackson's between early 2000's and 2015 or so for great prices. I could sell any one of them on Reverb and double my purchase cost. But that would be blasphemy.
"KIRK" i knew you were gonna say that lmao
I think we all knew where that was going. 🤣
"Kirk"🤣🤣🤣
Great lesson, Ben. I always found this one of the most difficult things to teach because I think doing it correctly requires using your ear more than anything.
If you haven't listened to him, check out Philip Sayce - he's like Hendrix on steroids, and has one of the nastiest vibratos you'll ever hear.
My bends and vibrato is spot on... but my.. but i cant schred.
Ying Yang Milkshake has one of the best vibrato and doesn’t go well with donuts
👏👏👏👏👏
Eyyyy Ron! Thanks for stopping by, buddy.
Dude. When you get that FP?!?? Epic. I have a 99. Jems are my favorite guitars. I collect them. 😊
You answered the question 10 seconds in. lol
Thanks, very useful… John Sykes is a vibrato master
I think my right hand is what sucks most. I can't gallop like Maiden or chug like Slayer. Miserlou is sitting up on top of a mountain laughing and throwing pebbles down at me.
Aunt Julie knows a lot of stuff!
Sweet Ibanez!
Ben Dover likes this video a lot 🤘
Thnk u uncle ben for dis nice lesson..can u pliz make a video on how to use extended chords..
Noted!!!
Thank u so much..looking forward n eagerly waiting..
Sometimes I cheat and get a psychedelic waggle by just shaking the string back and forth without touching the sides or the back of the neck. It's fun with fuzz!
How do you like the Evos (or Evo 2s?). Very Vai!
Love the EVO set. The Florals have the PAF Pro set, though, which I also adore.
At least can can say with confidence, my bends and vibrato are quite good. I may not be the fastest player, but I can hit all the right notes lol
Hey, Ben - - - is there any credence for the technique used on nylon string guitars that can be translated to electric? I was brought up on classical guitar, where the vibrato is achieved by playing the noted and "bending" the pitch by manipulating the string along its length by stretching or loosening the string by hand. Does this make any sense? I'm sure - to you - it does. This technique assures a vibrato that takes a chosen note, and then moves it sharp- to flat/sharp-to flat every time. The same way a violin is played; the same way a wind instrument is played. Do the strings of an electric guitar make that outcome impossible?
It’s totally doable and useful on electric! Check out my “your vibrato sucks” video, I cover it there.
So… uh… aunt Julie? Single?
Great lesson as always. Off to practice my vibrato.
Flying fingers - that's what I suck at 😢
Hey Aunt Julie…welcome to Front Street! Population, you. 😅
My 2 personnal favourites :
Brandon Ellis
Yngwie Milkshake