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- Ben's Vibrato Odyssey 4LEVEL 5An emotive ballad utilizing all the vibrato tricks of Parts 1-3. Classical, circular, wide vibrato & string bending.. it's all here !
- Ben's Vibrato Odyssey 5LEVEL 2A lesson that breaks down vibrato to its barest components so you can finally understand this technique.
- Ben's Vibrato Odyssey 1LEVEL 4A short ballad making use of the classical vibrato technique to improve control and expression.
- Ben's Vibrato Odyssey 2LEVEL 4A short ballad demonstrating the 'circle' vibrato technique.
- Ben's Vibrato Odyssey 3LEVEL 5A short ballad focusing on emotive vibrato in string bending.
- Ben's Land Of LegatoLEVEL 3Etude focusing entirely on legato.
- Ben's Land Of Legato 2LEVEL 4Etude featuring both 16th notes and triplets.
- Ben's Land Of Legato 3LEVEL 6Short etude focusing entirely on legato with 16th note triplets.
- Ben's Land Of Legato 5LEVEL 7A short etude bringing together many aspects of legato in a challenging piece including string skipping, bending and vibrato
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rhoads24th October 2012Yep, this is my next one
Ben Higgins17th August 2012Thank you all again, guys.. this one was really enjoyable to play - made a change of pace and feel from the metal that I normally do
Marcus Siepen17th August 2012Great power blues, Gary Moore or Joe Bonamassa would like that ;-)
Mudbone8th August 2012Ben, you're fantastic at the blues. You should definitely consider incorporating it into your material.
JD_5th August 2012There's some great licks in there Ben! Great to see your personality come through in this style. Awesome
- Ben Higgins3rd August 2012
Thanks for all the great feedback guys
spacebran3rd August 2012awesome! I love your metal lessons, but this is fantastic! I'm learning it right away
Cosmin Lupu1st August 2012Dude! This is very good! You know what
I can't wait to hear you cover some modern dropped metal stuff! I'm sure you'll be killer at it 
JPBluestring31st July 2012Great lesson Ben. No I never thought I'd hear you playing the Blues but what a success. Thanks.
casinostrat31st July 2012Awesome lesson man! The backing would be good for an audio collab as well!
- jmg31st July 2012
Video & tabs for backing track please?
Dieterle31st July 2012Hey Ben ,
Cool !- Ben Higgins31st July 2012Awesome! Just out of curiosity, how do fans at a metal show respond when you switch gears and play something like this? Or do you?
Thanks man. No, blues doesn't feature in any of the stuff I would play live - Opossum31st July 2012
Awesome! Just out of curiosity, how do fans at a metal show respond when you switch gears and play something like this? Or do you?
ItSME331st July 2012great note choice and sound. love it
smolentsev31st July 2012Awesome peace of bluesy stuff!
VilleFIN31st July 2012Nice ! Now I can learn new bluesy licks
Opetholic31st July 2012Oh yeaaa
This is great stuff.. I will try this one out for sure Thanks Ben.- Ben Higgins31st July 2012
Thank you gentlemen.. really enjoyed making this one
St Anger31st July 2012Ooh Yeah
Piotr Kaczor31st July 2012This is absolutely fantastic, Ben! Love it!
Renan31st July 2012That's awesome man! You're playing really good!
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Hi guys and welcome to... something a bit different!
I thought I'd step outside of my normal area and dip my toes into the blues.
I went for a heavy 6/8 groove which is perfect for big, wide obnoxious bends and lazy vibrato. The scale used throughout is the Am Pentatonic scale because it works over all the chords.
In terms of technique, there's nothing too difficult. I use a little bit of chicken picking in the first part of the solo which is basically a combination of my pick and my middle finger. It helps give an aggressive, clipped sound to the notes. You can play this without doing that, of course, but you may not get the same staccato effect.
This lesson will test your bending skills and demand that you let go and inject some passion and feeling into the runs or they will sound as stiff as cardboard. There's no magic formula to developing that feel apart from the magic formula of practise! The only way to get better at something is by...you guessed it, doing it!
Step into the blues, Ben style!
Enjoy
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