Best musician content creator out there, your honesty and unabashed realness when you make your art/lesson vids and content is inspiring as hell, missed you for min when u didn’t upload getting songs done blew my mind thank you for being youself!! All love to ya thanks for reading my endearing word vomit
I’m watching these with my 4-month old son, and his solos have improved so much! His first word will be “motif”. Thanks for sharing your skills with us, Ben!
Very '70 FM slow dancin' album rock. But why use effects at all!? The note choices and phrasing were tasty, especially the bent triads with whammy around 12th fret. However, my take on your dislike of "the fast thing" is that the classic mistake that treble and speed picking make something more interesting, when invariably I have found note choice in middle registers with slow deliberation and fewer distracting effects is better. Just my 2 cents.
Thank you so much Ben! I have to play a show with my band this weekend and there is a section where I have to play an improvised solo. I have been really unsatisfied with what I have been playing but your latest videos where you critique your playing have been really helpful to understanding why exactly I am unsatisfied with them and how to remedy the issues. I really appreciate that you're willing to provide this content free of charge.
Love this series, hope it keeps going since the solos are great and the insight is pretty valuable. Specific instance in this one was the noodle that went nowhere melodically, I also didn't like it on first listen but completely missed why. I just kinda thought "huh, that noodle came out of nowhere and didn't seem to do much, must've been a bad noodle." When he pointed out the melodic emphasis of the ending notes and how it had accidentally been awkwardly repetitive that really rang as true, there was nothing necessarily wrong with the noodle but it just needed to conclude better to fit everything else. That's a much more useful structural note than "just don't noodle at random times."
Really loved this solo especially. Such useful and concrete ways of thinking about solos, which to so many people are just "play what you feel and be impressive." Is your video interlaced?
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez called. He wants you to fill in for him in The Mars Volta
Best musician content creator out there, your honesty and unabashed realness when you make your art/lesson vids and content is inspiring as hell, missed you for min when u didn’t upload getting songs done blew my mind thank you for being youself!! All love to ya thanks for reading my endearing word vomit
Yay more Ben!
I’m watching these with my 4-month old son, and his solos have improved so much! His first word will be “motif”. Thanks for sharing your skills with us, Ben!
Very '70 FM slow dancin' album rock. But why use effects at all!? The note choices and phrasing were tasty, especially the bent triads with whammy around 12th fret. However, my take on your dislike of "the fast thing" is that the classic mistake that treble and speed picking make something more interesting, when invariably I have found note choice in middle registers with slow deliberation and fewer distracting effects is better. Just my 2 cents.
Thank you so much Ben! I have to play a show with my band this weekend and there is a section where I have to play an improvised solo. I have been really unsatisfied with what I have been playing but your latest videos where you critique your playing have been really helpful to understanding why exactly I am unsatisfied with them and how to remedy the issues. I really appreciate that you're willing to provide this content free of charge.
Love this series, hope it keeps going since the solos are great and the insight is pretty valuable. Specific instance in this one was the noodle that went nowhere melodically, I also didn't like it on first listen but completely missed why. I just kinda thought "huh, that noodle came out of nowhere and didn't seem to do much, must've been a bad noodle." When he pointed out the melodic emphasis of the ending notes and how it had accidentally been awkwardly repetitive that really rang as true, there was nothing necessarily wrong with the noodle but it just needed to conclude better to fit everything else. That's a much more useful structural note than "just don't noodle at random times."
Ben Levin is like the Steven Wright of Guitar lessons 😂🎉
I really like seeing your procces thanks!
Thanks, Ben!
Ima just comment to help with algorithms, love u Ben u the man 👁🗨🕳👁🗨
Awesome! Love the swells on the intro and the way the solo grows.
Keep doing these. That is all.
I like this format and hope you make more of these self-analysis videos.
Lotsa Luv Ben❤
I think it’s great to see your thought process and being comfortable with critiquing yourself live imo is super brave. Thank you!
I love the amount (and count) of frequencies you use... and the blend of them... very beautiful vibrations!!!!
Love the series, such a great idea and i think it really helps people out alot!
Really loved this solo especially. Such useful and concrete ways of thinking about solos, which to so many people are just "play what you feel and be impressive." Is your video interlaced?
These are really great! Improvisation has always been mystifying to me, but you do a great job making it more concrete here.