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Patreon Extended Cut! Uncle Ben's Legato Lunacy Workout!

🕑 Added 2024-06-08 13:21:55 +0000 UTC

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John Beadle

Dear Uncle Ben, I struggle with legato that’s not on the E string because I cannot seemingly do decent pulloffs without touching the strings beneath and causing noise. Do I need to be really conscious of muting the other strings with my right hand palm ? Help me Uncle Ben Kenobi!

J

Thanks Uncle B! Needed some legato for my arsenal. I'd like some more legato stuff please.

Ryne G. Schuler

I enjoyed practicing this exercise for the past week or so. My takeaways are that this should definitely be one most players can master as as such it’s a good confidence builder. It sharpens up fretting hand finger independence and timing. Also, it teaches scale fragment patterns that a player can keep in his back pocket to apply to composition/improvisation. Lastly, practice it as an alternate picking exercise as Uncle Ben recommends! It takes on a whole new sound due to the timbre (think that’s the right word) of the picked notes and is a great hand synchronization exercise. I found that 3 of the patterns were no problem getting clean and up to speed, but the second pattern gave me some trouble because I had always only used it exclusively in legato. Oh and use a metronome or the backing tracks especially at first because it’s if it’s not in time, it will sound like garbage. Wish I had Uncle Ben and YouTube when I was a noob Catholic schoolboy guitarist ! I had Mel Bay and printed tabs if I was lucky. The horror!- sheet music. Guitar pro makes learning so much easier. Noob guitarists have it easier than ever. Of course, thanks Uncle Ben! New patreon subscriber! Happy I did! It’s a deal! Stepmom told me so

Steve Losyk

My bad it's in the master DL, not listed...LOL

Steve Losyk

I would love an arpegio /sweep routine.

Sean O

Back of neck.

Ben Eller

back of the neck or picking hand??

Ben Eller

yuppers

Sean O

Thumb position: do you ever "point" the tip of your thumb at the neck, or is it always pressed more flat as if taking a thumb print (for this and barre chords)? Thanks!

Andrew Maul

Just what I needed Thank you uncle Ben!

Mike Sokola

🤣 do you wanna become a pull off pro! 🤣

Wahr Wigglin’

Thanky

Shahar Bar

Domo Arigato Mr. Legato!

JS

Is this part of the Weekend Wankshop series??? #373 ???

Diogo Camacho

This was fun. It was also fun to tie it back to your speed bursts on 4 notes per beat and do some string skipping and legato bursts. It’s clunky but it can be fun too.