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Brand new TIWYSAG is here!!!

You ever struggle with learning endless amounts of scale patterns and trying to link them together? Does the Guitar Grimoire make you grimace? Do you think scales belong on the outside of a FISH?!?!

This video is for you!!!

In this new TIWYSAG, I'm gonna show you the 4 ways you gotta learn every scale if you wanna TOTALLY understand them and break outta patterns!

Snag those assets below and follow along for a raunchy theory adventure with your good buddy Uncle Ben. Lemme know if you've got any questions!

-BE

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This is Why You Suck at Guitar: Learning Scales SUCKS!

Assets for this video, downloadable practice tracks, bonus guitar lessons, and MORE here: https://www.patreon.com/BenEllerGuitars Here's the Major scale video I mentioned (you need this): https://youtu.be/agmKvakQT6g?si=SwuEQvzarjfkd4w5 Snag your official SHRED TILL YOU'RE UNDEAD merch here!!!! https://vonkowen.threadless.com/collections/ben-eller Get sweet deals on all the nice things i use here @Sweetwater !!! Sick deals on all kinds of good stuff: https://imp.i114863.net/jxdA0 This is why you suck at guitar 28: You suck at learning scales! Scales? What are those, something a fish wears on its outsides??? Nah man, they're the basic building blocks of all music, and most players SUCK at learning them.... well, to be more accurate, the way we are taught to learn them sucks. Endless numbers of shapes the memorize, none of them telling us what's REALLY going on inside a scale... all that does is keep you tied to playing PATTERNS instead of MUSIC! But if you take Uncle Ben Eller here's advice and approach every scale 4 different ways, you're gonna be free as a bird and covering that neck in sweet sweet music. Lets go!!!! Using my Jackson USA Virtuoso into a Marshall 1987X Plexi, into the UA OX. What do you want to see on the next TIWYSAG? Let me know in the comments!

Comments

David

Yes! I do indeed suck at learning scales! Thank you Uncle Ben, just what the guitar Dr ordered

Barry Hammock

I do! My fingers can muscle memory the patterns, but my head has to get the ideas under control. Thanks Unc!

Kevin Fairless

Appreciate it Uncle Ben ! I will watch it after work today 🤠

Samir A

This was hard to watch at work cause I wanted to crack up the whole time. I feel 3 notes per string is the best method, it encompasses most of the other techniques, and you can start it on any string. Thanks to the video you did about walking up a scale I like to pick a scale at random and do all the modes up and down the neck. That way you learn the relationship between the modes more better. Ok I guess I should try to do some work now...

Chris Wright

I’m a shredi knight when it comes to E Minor all over the fretboard. My teacher nailed those lessons back in the day. I could honestly see E Minor in my sleep and tell you what mode I’m in. BUT applying that freedom and creativity to other keys is where I SUCK. Help me Ben Kenobi. You’re my only hope.

Chris K.

Great job, UB! Looking at scales on a single string is way more helpful than I would have thought. Have you done anything previously on the modes - or other scale shapes - focusing exclusively on the single string patterns?

Nicole Frymier

Holy shit, where has this lesson been my whole life?

Jesse Canning

You bloody ripper Unc. Love the content lately mate!

Paul McDermott

Great one liners in this one, hahahaha

Michael Kintzer

I like thinking of the Phrygian scale as starting on note 3 of the major scale, so the pattern is 34 5 6 71 2. That way I don’t have to memorize it as 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7. Ick. Same fingerings and patterns you show here, just different mindset, less to memorize.

MrTriggerhappy

Great video Uncle Ben, thanks. Any chance we can get one in future on the anatomy of different modes and scales (i.e. the half/whole step pattern, like you've shown in other TIWYSAG videos)?

MrTriggerhappy

The patterns for major and minor have been shown in other This Is Why You Suck At Guitar videos. Pretty sure Uncle Ben linked the major scale one in the about section of this one.

Héctor

Oh Dear Uncle Ben, I've been on the hunt for the 'This is Why You Suck at Guitar 18: You Don't Know the Major Scale!' lesson you mentioned in your video. However, it seems it might be too old to find on your Patreon. Have you thought about revisiting that lesson and sharing the tabs? Your content is always appreciated! Thanks, as usual. for your much appreciated lessons!

Chio

Maybe your funniest video. Had me LOLing even more than usual.

Sir TogII

I found the downloads for it (tabs only) here but the video is on youtube. Hope that helps

Héctor

Sure it helps, I will look for them, I was using the tags and it was not there. Thanks Togll

Jake Raymor

This was a banger Uncle Ben, great approach, thank you.

Dan Conley

I call crossing the B string the "Warp Refraction Threshold" . Credit to Jon Finn @ Berklee and the amazing Dave Martone for teaching me that!

Will Dennison

Your analogies were on point for this one

Pat wurst

Wow. Thank you uncle B. I JUST LEARNED and understand way more than my pastor ever showed me. Book of knowledge opened