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Patreon Extended Cut! I Tried Learning Cliffs of Dover in ONE DAY!

🕑 Added 2024-04-27 16:04:39 +0000 UTC

Comments

Jeremy Jones

Would also like a lesson on your delay and reverb settings for this lesson

Keith

Excellent delivery and so humble! Love your teaching and playing. I thought Eric Johnson was all fast pentatonic until I watched this. It gave me new respect for home. He should pay you for marketing!

JS

This riff makes most of your stepdad's dance with delight! Three thumbs up for this more better post

Chio

Awesome job man. Nailed it

John Bradbury

Hi Ben, I really enjoyed this format. Mostly because we can all follow your approach / workflow to ‘learning’ something which we can also try / adopt / modify for ourselves. Thank you. Do another again soon please!

Wonker

Wow

Michael French

Yes, Ben plays it correctly but the tab is wrong. Should be the G there instead of the F#.

Cormac

This is super fun and helpful! Feel free to do the rest of the song too :)

MrTriggerhappy

Love the video Uncle Ben. It's reassuring to see that even Shred Lords still struggle sometimes. This one has prompted me to go back and listen to the original G3 album.

Felix AP

What about the picking for the first notes? :) I hit first two notes with downstroke then start with a upstroke on the 15th fret and pick it all alternate which means the bend on 15th fret B string is also on an upstroke. That way I dont end up in a Snow (Hey Oh) picking pattern. But its still kind of awkward.

Dave Decker

Hey Ben!!! Great video!! Eric is a beast, but you’ve got this!!👍👍 Can you tell me the amp and effects you used for this video? Your tone was pretty damn sweet!! Rock On 🤘🤘

Paul Davis

Ben, that was soooo good! Would love to see you continue along with this song so we can learn the whole thing. Pretty please??

Christopher Marion

Would love to see more of these strataversary cold learn vids! Maybe SRV’s version little wing? Jimmy’s Machine Gun or Killing Floor? Songs that are still epic, but maybe not with a million different lesson vids on YT

Matt Womack

Couldn't agree more, Pete. I had much the same experience

Chris Wright

Ben, I dream to be a more better guitarer and I’m ashamed to admit that despite watching G3 Live in Denver some twenty years ago, big EJ has not really been on my radar until this year. Holy sh*t d*cks; he is the master. Lonely In The Night is on constant rotation in my house too. What a tune. Cheers from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Camilo Arias

Hi Ben, thanks for the lesson. Such a great intro to get into things I normally wouldn't practice. Small thing I noticed on the TABs. Right before the last note you play 3 times 16-14-17-14-17, yet tab says 16-14-16-14-17. That Flat G was throwing me off. Not a big issue after you pay attention to the video. Cheers!

Matt Martin

Eric should be ashamed for crafting something so challenging.

Pete Mitchell

I've been working on this song my whole life, it feels, and your video was so helpful. Can you also do the outro lick? lol

Christopher Marion

showing up for me now! I was on the web. not sure what the deal was

Randy Craig

It’s the one song that says the pentatonic minor doesn’t have to be blues. He’s a wizard. And I’m glad you chose him.

Ben

Do you have a preset for the FM3?

Thom Marz

For me some of the spread triads in the middle section are a lot easier if I use the G string instead of the D string for the root note.

Thom Marz

Great lesson and as always hilariously entertaining 🤩

Peter Santa Ana

Woah! Phenomenal days work. I shall begin my EJ journey.

Ben Eller

OLAF, METAL!

Ben Eller

so glad to hear that!

Ben Eller

i'm so glad to hear that! like i said in the video, this just was NOT possible when i wasn't aware of his technique set.

JP

BERSERKER ! YEAH 🤟🤟

Todd Nichols

I'm glad you chose this over my Pink Floyd suggestion. I think most of the Floyd stuff is relatively easy to learn. Seeing you work through this was incerdibly informative. I love seeing how you work on some of the parts. In some cases it validates my own attempts and in others gives me new ideas. Thanks!

Matt Womack

I hate those bendies....I dont know how he gets that specific phrasing so fluidly...but, that's why he's EJ and I'm living in your mom's basement I will say though: I learned this song from an "official" tab book way back when and it literally wasn't until this morning that I finally understood how he econ picks this stuff. your deconstruction and explanation makes a WORLD of difference. Thank you!!

Ben Eller

Hit that “cliffsofdovertab” link below the video on here

Shawn T

dont see the tab? the outrage

Gregg Burns

Always wanted to learn this. You da best Mr Dover, Ben.

Shreddy McGuire

I was driving across rural northern Idaho for work one time and I was pacing a Train next to the road, and someone had wiped onto the fuel tank "Men's Asses"... Glad to hear someone else say it!

Joe McKenna

Men’s asses lol you’re showing your age, uncle

David

Ben Dover 😂😂😂😂

MoSt BlEsSeD. tim

Men's asses has me dead still ... 💀 🤣 😂

Neil Goldberg

Yeah, I learned it and played it on my channel and it took me forever to get it down and never sounded like him

Festermooth

I haven't given up on many songs over the years, but this is one of them. Mostly because that first 1.5 step bend will make your ring finger feel like you've been playing a cheese grater with strings after a few billion attempts.

Paul Webendorfer

Oh, and I totally neglected to vote for the Strat song... would still love to see Little Wing and Comfortably Numb.

Paul Webendorfer

Lol, the 'Ben Dover' patch! Not sure I'm comfortable downloading this one. :)

Kasper Beuse Fauerby

Yeah, I'll have to file this one under the "I wish, but not gonna happen..." category! At least I recently got myself an Axe3, so I guess I could download the preset and play around with some nice tonez ;) Maybe take a stab at that very first lick...