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New series idea: OUR DAILY SHRED!

🕑 Added 2024-02-19 23:38:16 +0000 UTC

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ShredderJeff

interested in some new wank shops, may be some exercises strictly devoted to bends and vibrato? I know you have covered this, but something so intense it makes my hands cramp for a week, and when I return can bend the 2nd fret of my A string 2 full steps with ease, that kind thing?

Danny Beardmore

Great idea! I would love a tapped arpeggio one like the get the funk out solo!

Clayton Waghorn

Great idea. The only con is that for some people a post every day may get a bit much. An idea might be to do a WW based on the daily posts of the week. On subjects, the above all sound good. The only other thing I can think of is riff breakdowns and what said skill of the day goes with them.

Marcoroni

Definetly YES!

Mark Bender

Yes!

Nick P

This would be amazing!

Allan Harris

YEP

Paul

Awesome!

Jamie Goff

I would definitely love something with Rhythm playing as well, like how to make good chord progressions

Brian Hudson

Yeah, I'm up for that mate.

bloodocean

Perhaps a video on a warm up workout where you pick up the guitar cold and get the juices flowing

Saaz Karimi

Great idea. Would love it! A couple of suggestions/ requests. 1. On screen moving tabs if possible. It's way better than static tab screen capture. 2. Film the close up fretboard view . IMO that's much easier to see and more useful than a video capturing the whole body while playing. 3. Record playing at a slow tempo . YouTube slow down feature works but if one slows down to 50 % or below, the pitch becomes unrecognizable. Just my thoughts. Thank you

Eric Anderson

Only if you dress as a priest and become “Father Ben”

Nelson W

Great idea! There is a guy on YouTube that used to do a rhythm workout every so often that was play along that was fun and also good for chops. I can’t remember his name or channel name but I’ll try to find him.

Erik Berg

Some techniques that require adjustment per guitar. Things like pinch harmonics, big bends, etc. Show us how you find the pinch, how you position your hand and how many fingers to use on a 3 half-step bend, etc.

Ralph Ashford

Tabs for abs. In!

Darrin

I’m in!

asi beckerman

Arpeggios

Jean-Rene Duguay

Yes! Super hyped for this!

Ty Barnes

Things I think would be beneficial: hand synchronization, picking exercises, and rhythmic exercises to expand players knowledge of note time values and divisions (whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and each of their related triplets)

Ben Eller

I’ll totally put them up here along with the usual assets!

CJ Lemay

Love this idea, but with a touch of a twist. Make the shred licks from songs from time to time that folks might have trouble with. The opening descending like in the song "Godzilla" as an example. Something similar to your earlier vid on "La Grange"... you rock uncle Ben!

Sophia

Thank you for this! I was wondering if it's possible to have a workout that a player could only do if the position of their hands, and their overall posture, were both correct. Things like where their thumb is on the back of the neck, their wrist angle, the tension they are building in their arm and hand, and how they are seated or standing with their guitar. I struggle with finding the best overall position for playing, and something like this that would make it obvious would be very helpful.

Clint

I do Yoga With Adrienne and Uncle Ben’s! My worlds are colliding!

Fabio Zavatarelli

Would be great, but i would like that the tabs could be availabe for we patreons too. Great Work Ben.

Alejandro Seguí

Who's not gonna love this?

Martin Samm

great - a reason to pick up every day

taraguitar

Brilliant idea Ben. Would be great to run the exercises over common & not so common chord progressions. Maybe take common key change devices and design the exercises over those. Can't wait to hear this new series. Cheers Taz

RubberStig

Gotta look after those permed curls!

Nicholas Anderson

Sounds like a great idea!

Kevin Mcdonnell

Would love an organized way to spend time learning the best chord progression, and rhythm exercises.

d.r.h.

heck yea sounds great!

Sean Kebely

This would be so helpful. Great idea uncle B!

Bobby Bladez

I like this idea!

Jeffrey Coaltrain

Could you recreate some of the outfits and hair styles from Frank Gambale's "Chop Builder"? Would love to see some really gnarly advanced stuff. The scarier, the better.

Chris Wagner

I think that we all really appreciate your constant desire for improvement and finding new things to explore, but personally I would just prefer some input on how to give myself some direction. When I look at the immense amount of material that you've already put out I see a ton of good stuff and honestly don't know what to start with. In any case, keep up the good work! :)

Eric

String switching, speed bursts, hand synch, and anything else that will make me suck less.

Alessandro Capistrano

This will be great incentive to get back on track with my practice!

Jon Bon Scropion

Yes... hand sync exercises, hair care exercises, applied music theory stuff, and alternate picking.

Tim

You da man Ben, thanks!!

Ben Eller

Well, I’ll put the files and practice tracks up here at various tempos (plus guitar pro files), so you’re in luck!

Deep Goswami

I love this idea Ben!!!!!! This will help out so much in terms of structure and a regimented tiny practice routine

Skip Neumann

Learn notes on the neck… something on rhythm- Dream Theater polyrhythms- looking forward to this!

Tim

I like the idea but really don't want to be tied to YouTube to depend on changing speed for the lessons.

David

Genius name - and a brilliant idea! If some of the doses of daily shred could include theory fundamental drills - like exercises to get scales, intervals, triads and all that other fun stuff firmly lodged in our brains - that would be the cherry on the cake as that stuff can be a bit of a slog to stay focused with!

Rod van Stoli

Good ol’ Vipassana. Keeps me off meds!

Mac Meda

Great idea, little workout before work!

Jesse J Covey

Please add play along tabs and metronome.

Mike Wisgi

I love the idea but I kind of treat weekend wankshop like this 🤔

Aaron Peri

Yes! Sounds amazing! I’d love to see all of the above plus some pentatonic based stuff, some exercises with bends, blues based exercises etc as well. Thank you for all you do!

Ryan Mcleod

YES

Ben Eller

Rad! What meditation you doing?

Matt

Solid idea. I’d also suggest a few episodes on writing riffs/solos over (common) chord changes. Seeing how you think (or breaking down how others think, which you do so well) would be amazing.

Sylvain Bouchard

Yes yes and yes... this is what I like the most for my daily improvement. Play along videos. All sort of picking techniques, pick slanting, legato, tapping, sweep, string hopping, strung skipping. Like Freddie used to say: I want it all! And I want it now!!

Brian Newman

Great idea Ben! This would be a great way to get a good variety of different workouts. My wife loves Yoga with Adrienne too:)

Dedé

Pretty cool! After you release a bunch of those videos covering all kind of techniques, it would be great a series like “want to play blues? Here are some must-know licks; wanna play some yinyan milkshake? Gotta know these scales; etc”!

Keith Moreau (Clayton Biggz)

In Ben, we shred!

TJW

maybe have a rule that each video only covers one technique, so more like 30 seconds of verbal intro then 5 minutes of workout, then we could really plug and play them in playlists for routines. And categorize for beginner vs advanced etc.

Rob Pandola

Hell yeah brother!!!! Regarding what I would like to see: I saw Metal Rhythm up there, and I would say something that focused on strictly down picking and then strictly up picking, specifically for DPS and UPS. Hand Synching would also be useful. And I would also add warm-up/exercise specifically for DPS, UPS and Shifting players as well (I think I’m using the right terminology for that lol). Thank you for all that you do Uncle Ben, it’s been a MASSIVE help!!!

Elton Young

Hell yes just what I need - should include a few mins of picking warmup

Paul Baglio

Definitely... especially right hand metal rhythm workouts for us wannabe thrash gods that suck at guitar.

Heckatron

It’s legitimately good at attacking techniques but I think it’s entirely too long. I usually break the sections up but I’d love more variety of tone tempo and more metal focused techniques (like chugging endurance runs, or alternate picking and string switching on 2 and 3 note patterns, or basically all the stuff Ben is known for covering)

Rod van Stoli

Sweet. I’ll add it to my morning routine. Tea, meditation, workout, daily shred

Shreddy McGuire

Chop Builder is a GOAT for sure

Chris Corke

Harmonics pinch, natural,drop D ideas

Andrew Gordon

Chug work out please! Down picking, Gallops, triplets, other varying note divisions, And then how to not stay locked in one hand position in a riff For example if I lock my hand down and hold my pick just right I can chug for days- but then as soon as there’s a lick or a chord on the A string I fall apart like an ass hole

Heckatron

Do it! I’ve been wanting to petition you to do a video about Frank Gamble’s Chop Builder, but this is an even better idea! I think there’s a real opportunity to fill a niche, especially if you can supplement it with your amazing multi-speed backing tracks that you have for the Wankshop exercises. I would pay extra for this kind of content.

Jason Moore

Anything really,I love your lessons bro! 🤟🏻

Andrew Maul

I want "shredding for abs".

istillsuckatguitar

Please consider making it multi-level. For example, "If you a beginner, get to here. If you're intermediate, here. If you're advanced, add this." Etc. Thanks.

Dan Gieschen

I love it. What would be a great is sort of a "skill tree" pathway like video games. I've been playing 20+ years and have some stuff down but am terrible at other things. The Troy Grady stuff was a real eye opener and if there was some organized pathway with materials and guidance I'd be all over it. I've tried to organize it myself but I don't really know thee path so I'm guessing a lot. If I had a 2-3 month course in place that had daily 10-60 min exercised it would really be helpful. You did a great job going deeper into DPS and UPS that was helpful. I find the Try Grady stuff interesting and it makes sense but I'm not clear in the best way to implement it. Also, should I do alt picking or econ first? Another thought while I'm at it... I've been learning solo's off pornograffitti recently (huge Nuno fan. my cat in high school was named Nuno). What would be cool is to take a solo and show the techniques for different section of its. For example, just the solo from Monster has so much in it (double picking, string skipping, legato, picking, etc). Would cool to have a "skill catalog" for that solo and things to practice in an organized way to work up to the eventual goal of learning it.

Brian

Some little like one or two bar licks for this would be great too.

Michael

I love this a lot! Bradley Hall does some 1 minute versions that are super fun so a full fleshed 10 minutes would be perfect

Tcoulston

Great idea, sounds like the old Frank Gambale Chop Builder workout in a condensed format.

Karsten Fliegner

Arpeggios

Nason Renegar

I love this. Just because I am a step dad doesn’t mean I should play like one!

Paul Wilde

I love it. Wonderful idea!

John Cullen

This 🤘🏻

Collin Smith

This is an incredible idea. It'd help me have some structure to what I'm practicing.

John Cullen

The fast clean playing on the beginning of Randy Rhoads Live Suicide Solution on the Tribute album. How to play fast and clean. At times, the faster a lick gets it just seems to fall apart at higher speeds. Cheers Ben.

Dave Huffy

Yeah this is great. I do something similar in jiu jitsu and it helps keep one focused in lieu of all the many options out there to practice. I'm a newcomer to your patreon but I've already been making breakthroughs with the weekend wankshops. So this specific excercise series will reinforce your WWS technical rundowns.

Greg Davidson

I'm not sure how this is that much different than your regular YouTubes. Anyway, I'm not able to play your regular lessons at the speed you do them. I know I can try to match the Step Dad stuff but those particular lines you do don't sound very spiffy when one plays them at the slower speed. It loses it's "pop". Howzabout lessons for those of us regular speed guys who would love some licks/lessons/applications that would sound great even at a "normal" speed? It's not like I have fingers of stone, I just don't shred/sweep/tap that great. You damn youngins.

Bill Kline

Hell yes, this is exactly what I’m looking for! maybe it can help me actually practice purposefully instead of just random noodles and falling in different rabbit holes and then winding up buying more gear