Uncle Ben Eller's Arpeggios from HECK + Sweep Picking Secrets!

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You trying to sweep like Yngwie Himself?!?! Practice my ARPEGGIOS FROM HECK! This arpeggio etude is a great way to learn common 3 string sweep arpeggio shapes, see how inversions connect, and learn how to make those daring death-defying leaps across the neck! Lets go!!!
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What do you want to learn next? Let me know in the comments!

[@BenEller]

Thanks for learning these arpeggios from HECK! Get the TAB and practice tracks here, and you'll be the next YingYang Milkshake for sure! www.patreon.com/posts/arpeggios-from-89232206?Link&

[@DojCity]

Another fact: Ben really did do the whole lesson with that accent and the insults. It was epic! Sign up today for just a buck a month!

[@thelongestjan]

That was so DAMN Epic! 🤘🤘

[@saboteursweden]

Kinda german accent haha not swedish

[@thelongestjan]

Das stimmt.

[@adaptercrash]

180 bpm no offset 32 bar's in 8/4 good luck with that we just wanted to

[@RockyNeurock]

I am just here to appreciate the super subtle “donut” drop. Good stuff.

[@lyricbread]

I donut plan on passing up on this amazing arpeggio lesson.

[@ethanreed5815]

I know Yinyang Milkshake is known for the insane sweeps and alt picking, but I’d love it if you examined his harmony work like the song Faultline off of the Eclipse album

[@AndrewGrey22]

He has deep passion in some of those blues runs he did on the first album, such as 'Little Savage'. No one really brings up blues when talking about Malmsteen, but I think it shows quite heavily in much of his playing.

[@ethanreed5815]

@@AndrewGrey22 yeah he’s not one dimensional at all. It’s just that his chops are so ridiculous that most people only remember Rising Force

[@metalboy5150]

I can only take so much of Yahweh Mousemeat, but that Eclipse album is something special. "Demon Driver" and "Bedroom Eyes" are both stellar tracks.

[@sleazypete459]

Symphony of the Night!!!!!

[@smyhk2883]

Just noticed your copy of Guitar Grimoire "Scales & Modes" in the background. I've had that same book since the 90's. Highly recommend for all the players out there unfamiliar the "Grimoire" series, as well as the "Chords and Voicings" edition. Thanks again, Ben, for the great content!

[@keihan5]

LMAO, I was searching for it like "where's Waldo?!". Took me five whole minutes! Yeah, I'm blind AF!

[@christopherhuff3123]

I have one too. Has maps of the whole fretboard in any key or types of scales. I've been focusing on harmonic minor.

[@davidcastillo9612]

Dude, you had me cracking up hard. Yingyang was pure gold.

[@CBlackShred84]

Having to fret all 3 strings on the same fret and play it clean is the hardest shape of all time in my opinion lol

[@paulbaglio6295]

For those of you on the fence about Bens Patreon I highly recommend it. The extras for each of these lessons make a night and day difference to your practice routines.

[@BenEller]

Thanks a lot!

[@paulbaglio6295]

@@BenEller no, thank you 🤘🏻

[@rballz]

It's one of 2-3 subs I have left. Ben is a go to for sure. Think I've had it 2 years maybe 3 now. Highly recommend

[@leaharrington4472]

Re using your eyes to target the destination note: In the motorcycle world, the saying is "Look left, go left. Look right, go right. Look down, go down." It's built into our brains. Good stuff.

[@Citizen_JQP]

I too, am i biological step-dad. It's really good to see you back on here, with that awesome SotN background music. Yeah, i hear that. Love it.

[@ponzo1967]

I just happened to catch Malmsteens Rising Force on tour with AC/DC, i couldn't believe how good he was and Jeff Scott Soto was equally impressive. I couldn't rip those arpeggios back in '85 though I thought the dude had some kind of Dragon Magic from Norway happening ✨🐉

[@metalboy5150]

Man, he went to Norway for the magic? Sweden must have been all out! 😂

[@deltalegendsguitaramplific5450]

Thanks Uncle Ben !

[@AndrewGrey22]

My old singer who sucked at guitar used to joke about knowing that guy, Arpeggio. He said he also knew Karate, that other guy. lol

[@nordicguitar8395]

It’s a good thing I wasn’t taking a drink of my coffee when I started this video because I started laughing so hard at Yahweh Mousemeat. Oh Uncle Ben 😂.

[@turnerm33]

And again a new sweet Jackson guitar ❤❤❤❤❤

[@stefanokrivtzoff1593]

Love the Jackson! Love the intro! Too much awesomeness for just one video

[@JimDewdGuitars]

YES! The lesson I've been waiting for! Thanks Ben!

[@Maxharddrive64]

Hey Ben thank you for helping me in my overall "suckiness" The way you view EVH is pretty much how I view SRV. After seeing him live and up close in a smaller venue in Detroit. Something changed in me. I HAD to play guitar...for so long I was on a highway to suck. Thousands of hours later I graduated to MEH..and a few more thousand after that to OK. So. I really do appreciate the vids and the time and effort that goes into them they do help

[@eigengrau1]

Just 2 minutes in; And pretty sure this will be a tremendous video (again) wich will keep me busy a long time ..Thanks a lot Uncle Ben..! 🤘

[@sole__doubt]

Oh man that Jackson is a bolt on, I really love it now. That mint green color is sick too and Im usually a black guitar only kind of guy. Another sick video Uncle Ben.

[@ChrisBrown-oo4bf]

Man, What a great lesson with so much info!

[@BenEller]

Glad you liked it!

[@Deris87]

The palm muting tip really works for those barre/finger roll shapes. Like any good half-assed guitar player I initially just grabbed the tabs, struggled with playing those cleanly, and then came back to the video to find "oh duh, he addressed this exact thing." Thanks Uncle Ben!

[@shalomshalom735]

What a great video Ben. The two tricks you mentioned (eyes on next target note before switching shape and also little bit of palm muting on high strings during arpeggioes) are terrific advise. I will totally practice these. Thanks for this great video man.

[@ethanreed5815]

Fact: Yngwie doesn’t wear the ruffled shirt because he needs a breeze. He does it because he makes his own with his sick licks and he needs some evidence of it.

[@justsomeguy727]

Wait thats so sick. Ive never thought about the whole pinky finger index finger thing to use as a guide for connecting these sorts of shapes like that. Uncle Ben once again blessing us plebians with greatness.

[@PanteRan]

Great lesson cause its melodic and not just a lick...more of that is what i love and recommend

[@DisruptedSinner]

I love this lesson - saved for practice! I'm still also into the yacht rock thing and even got the same captain's hat off of Amazon lol. My wife rolls her eyes when I wear it haha.

[@randallhaney7909]

Oh Dang ..Heck Yeah ! Thanks Uncle Ben.

[@stevenbuckley4433]

Great lesson UB love the Jackson.

[@brianmankus6133]

Awesome lesson!! I’m going to to get to work on this!

[@bestboy897]

Excellent lesson uncle Ben. Learnt these three triad shapes when you made that Marty Friedman arpeggios lesson a couple of years ago. Triads are the answer.

[@jimmyjames4263]

Wow! Great video! I actually watched a whole youtube video without skipping or getting bored.

[@gcr28]

Thanks Ben, great lesson. Working on it now. Great guitar by the way, love those Jacksons.

[@GratefulSeaDog]

Heck of a lesson! Thanks

[@Jeffmetal42]

Love anytime you cover Ying Yang Milkshake. Not really a fan of his (although I do respect his craft/abilities), I just like hearing you talk about him. 🤘

[@Jeffmetal42]

The man does NOT want any donuts!

[@Kriegter]

actually he goes by Yahweh Mousemeat now

[@Jeffmetal42]

@@Kriegter 🤣

[@aramaroian5831]

Came for a new practice pattern stayed for the memes! Top notch content as always!

[@tysonbland8619]

Guitar is sick!!!!❤

[@sketmetal]

Wow, Marty Friedman used that exactly same American Virtuoso on that Jackson Trailer. Amazing, Uncle Ben!!!

[@bladezstudio666]

That Jackson is SAH-WEEEEEET!

[@TJTinerella]

The Ying Yang Milkshake lines are always the best part lol

[@adamfrost3139]

I've been trying to learn "the sleep" from Pantera, of course I'm nowhere near Dime's level but these appregios and scales are very helpful and I think Dime is using these particular modes

[@paulbaglio6295]

"It's not gonna run away"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@clovis2012]

Awesome video Uncle Ben! I want one of those Jacksons soooo bad!

[@mcguimen]

You good very much!! I like very much the your explication. Thank you

[@KaldDodeGitarist]

You gotta talk to people about not having to pick all (or any) of the descending notes of some sweep shapes

[@NoQuadsNoMasters]

So, everyone has this Jackson now. That usually doesn’t make me want anything, but I want one even more now

[@Drtydeeds]

Uncle Ben! Nice touch doing music from Castlevania in there. So happy about that, definitely worth the $1 Patreon sub.

[@BenEller]

Much appreciated!

[@AlexanderDaNova]

Ben you are a genius

[@seanvanblaricom9619]

For whatever reason, that baby sitter line made me laugh my ass off. Such a simple truth lol! Good job!

[@patrickstarr8688]

Yeah uncle Ben 😎

[@ed209v6]

I can out sweep Ben any day of the week. You should see my floors, Ben. 😉

[@mrcurtis73]

Cool video. I’m gonna have to grab my old Ibanez RG 570 and give it a whirl.

[@chrisburzenski2317]

Lol, loved the Yahoo Milkshake bits! The white shirt is a nice touch. I hope it was borrowed.

[@ireliaismyheroine5366]

Dracula's Castle is an epic song you have great taste!

[@ponzo1967]

Jackson makes some purdy gitfiddles 🎻

[@gregdavidson5898]

Starting with an Up-Up. All my decades of starting with a down, in Pentatonic Hell. I don't have the hair anymore for this.

[@matthewbrenn8307]

Thanks UB ! The stare at next position tip was gold! For a second there i thought that maybe yngstie palmtree is your stepdad.

[@darrenwardell3079]

"Mouse Meat" 😂😂😂 Brilliant video. You have a great sense of humour Uncle Ben😂

[@riffmondo9733]

Hilarious. Good job Ben.

[@paulbaglio6295]

Jackson really is ze best.

[@dougsteeleguitar]

Trip out; I started working on Discliples of Hell Archipelagos because I'm so terrible at that barred minor sweep.

[@BenEller]

You can do it, Doug!

[@eLWrAy75]

If you're reading this, I hope your step dad is proud 👏

[@kojam1]

Can't stop watching this! No! It's not because of your locks! LOL. That right hand is a thing of beauty! I can't get over the fluidity, effortlessness economy of it's movement. It's hypnotizing like a sultry belly dancer. LOL. I figured how to play these years ago when Ying Ying Moisturizer first hit the scene, but STILL have learned something in watching your vid. I have to practice the picking you utilize to make mine sound this smooth and fluid. You know, you're pretty good at 'splaining...You should do videos learning people to gee-tar!

[@leannamuir7928]

Boy I love those dark sinister arpeggios This reminds me bit of Theatre of Magic pinball theme. Hell I would love for someone arpeggio that. Great work always Uncle Ben. I hope this helps with the YJM Eclipse intro. Quite tricky. Would anyone think YJM should have is own Pinball machine?

[@hex7401]

the Castlevania cover is insane

[@darrelladams4886]

I would love to see a video collab between you and Jamie Robinson. You’re both great players who put together great exercises.

[@NikolajChristensen]

It's a bolt on body. Not the other way around :). Love it.

[@matthewearl9824]

That's the new Jackson American Virtuoso!

[@Mr.D4yz]

Uncle Ben! Tragic Prince from SOTN in the background! Time traveling now..

[@insearchoftone9602]

Just got say it.... playing that slow with the organ in the background sounded awesome. Jist need a heavy rhythm guitar mixed in and it's gold

[@kojam1]

Whew!!!!!!!!!! For a minute thought you were leaving out the dimished arpeggio. I should have know better and not worried, for you are Uncle Ben, more powerful than, uhm.....

[@Ryan_Messenger]

Heck yam!

[@erichartwell6792]

Jackson is making amazing guitar now man i need that one too the white soloist is just as sick 😷 i wish i got all the good toys i will get good know it the lesson are working i have no quit in me we are working on this a minor run because of you thanks uncle ben you are the best!

[@ianweston9152]

Now do the actual version of Arpeggios from Hell!

[@richardchambers3533]

"Yowie Mousemeat"🤣🤣

[@Dr_Satan]

Yuengling Mombod would be proud.

[@chadr2843]

That RGA’s screamin’ to be shown off

[@dont.tread187]

Yahtzee Mungbean scoffs at this video

[@Javier-qk7ms]

Great lesson. That deserves a donut.

[@jasonsingh8464]

Do you have an in-depth lesson for the still of the night solo?

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

it's the speed that does me in. Great stuff though :)

[@impoopnrightnow906]

*UNCLE BEN!*

[@BenEller]

HI!

[@walkerthompson3320]

Hey Ben, thanks for the continued top notch content. I’m a recent watcher of your channel and have benefited greatly from it. I have a question over your picking approach when ascending or descending arpegios in a cascading way - like 4 notes at a time, each pattern starting 1 note ahead of the last pattern. Would you pick the ascent U D D U D D etc and the descent D U U D U U (assuming a hammer on takes care of the 4th note in each phrase) ? I see this in rick grahams playing, but my issue is my pick tends to get buried when switching from the last sweeping motion to the start of a new cycle because you have to switch to an escape pick stroke when you’re already in the motion of a sweeping stroke. Thanks for any insight!

[@Kriegter]

The secret to Ying Yang's insane arpeggios is unfortunately quit eating donuts. Personally I can't make that sacrifice so i'll stick to Marty Friedman licks

[@jiantjingerjohn]

Fresh :D

[@leaharrington4472]

Yangtze Milquetoast? Yahoo Marshmallow? Yeetboy Mushmouth?!

[@ozi76]

And its not even the weekend yet. 😊

[@Scubasgamecorner]

What do you recommend for a beginner guitar course if I ultimately want to play 80’ style Rock and Metal

[@brandopiansay9557]

Ben tutorial is very interesting....

[@RationalGaze216]

Is there any particular benefit to using a downstroke on the G string rather than an upstroke?

[@joaquinguerra7217]

Please make the videos of tutorials solos of bands

[@BenEller]

Solos by particular bands? I have TONS on here, prowl around.

[@rotatingdriveline3466]

I'm wondering if your Jackson Virtuoso is a better example than mine. I just got this very same model guitar in the awesome Specific Ocean color, and have some build quality issues. Bear with me while I describe them. There is a gap between the bottom of the nut and the headstock about 0.3mm (I can shine a light right through it!), and the nut itself isn't as wide as the neck. The neck is 0.6mm wider than the nut. I've never seen a guitar at this price point where the nut doesn't fit right! Looking at other listings of this guitar, you can see the nut width issue is endemic (insert mom joke here) to many Virtuosos out in the wild. This seems like a design or manufacturing issue, but there are other QC issues: there's a suspiciously screwdriver-tip-sized dent in the back of the neck near the heel, and inside the electronics cavity there are large paint peeling/chipping issues. Annoyingly, but easily rectified: it didn't come set up to Jackson factory specs--the action at the 12th fret was about 0.4mm too high across the board, and the action at the first fret was also about twice what it should be (e.g. around 0.4mm is closer to ideal). There was a piece of metal shim underneath the nut to try to fix some perceived issue from the factory, but all it did was raise the nut too high. Despite all of this, I love the guitar and hope they can rectify it (probably with a replacement specimen). I've already contacted Jackson and hope to hear back soon, but I'm curious if your specimen exhibits any of these problems? Thanks for reading my long-winded comment.

[@hotriffsofthrash]

Uncle Ben, I am having trouble with the transition from the last up stroke on the B string to the down stroke on the G string. It's hard for me to change directions so quickly. Do you have any tips on making the transition easier/cleaner? Thank you or anyone else who sees this in advance. Much appreciated.

[@sleyeminizo275]

Did you mention that a diminished arpeggio can be named by any note in the chord? That could also be thought of as B diminished which is the 2 chord in the a minor scale.

[@JJohnson616]

Dingdang Valvoline

[@jeffblalack64]

Uncle Ben, Geriatric nephew here. I noticed you kept your downward slant pick angle at all times- even during your upstrokes. At higher sweep speeds do you change to an upward slant pick angle-or do you stay with the downward angle? I am a long time beginner and was just inquiring- not critiquing.

[@coolwaterdvr]

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@chadriggs6524]

Uncle Ben, Halloween is around the corner so wouldn’t it be epic to discuss some of Andy LaRocque’s rifftastic work with King Diamond? The Abigail album alone is full of tasty little morsels we’d love to see you break down!