How to Turn CHORDS Into RIFFS!
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Published 2021-03-05
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Hey kids, its your good buddy Uncle Ben Eller back with another installment of FAQ You! On this installment, i'm answering some amazing questions from my loyal and lovely Patreon community, namely my opinions on Revocation and a really amazing creative question: How do we, as guitar players, turn chord progressions into RIFFS?!?!? I love this question because it really lets us get creative and explore how to apply music theory in a creative way! I use this trick in my songwriting ALL the time, and so should you!
Using my Suhr Modern Satin plus the new REVV 120 mark III in this video.
What questions would you like to see answered in the next video?!?! Let me know in the comments!!!
All Comments (21)
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Thanks for watching this video and learning how to turn your chord progressions into dope riffs! What do you want to learn next?!
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Ben is one of the few guys who kept that feeling of not trying to sell you something through all these years. Sure, money has to be made, but keeping that quality deserves a lot of praise
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Green Acres is the place to be, homey! So I loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly... Hills, that is (oh wait, I'm mixing metaphors, TV shows, songs, and my corpus callosum just hemispherically combusted as a result of synaptic overload). I like that you're an intelligent and gifted player who's dedicated to helping others without being diminutive or condescending in any way. You're slick and appreciated with your quick, subtle, and often obscure references (no bromo). Plus, you're just a friggin' monster player! Thanks for what ya' do.
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This is a great video for bassists to learn filling. Exactly how I learned and continue to do it.
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Finally your video showed up in my subscriptions tab, I think the issue is resolved nowš¤
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Your band Arc sounds really cool, Uncle Ben!!!! "Sleep" sounds wild!!!! Great drumming, too!
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Cheers,loved your major and minor scale lesson,got me playing again and havin fun doing it,will give this a go later.
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Geez iāve been trying to figure out the right video to answer what i couldnāt understand. This nailed it. This unlocked some understanding in my brain that i canāt wait to explore and practice. Thank you
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This cleared a lot up for me. Thank you for the clear explanation and breakdown.
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This is the third video I am watching on the topic. Finally a kick ass riff so I know your method is good!
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Thank you so much this has been one of my biggest questions I never knew exactly how to word it but this helped so much
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Ben Eller, thank you for all that you do. Youāre the best guitar instructor on YouTube in my book. Next to you, Dave Davidson is my all time favorite guitar player, Iāve been listening to Revocation since 2008, got my 7 string Jackson because of him. And my favorite aspect of guitar are making riffs. Thank you, thank you again
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Thanks Uncle Ben, this is gunna make me many more creativerš
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Lightbulb š” just went on. Scale to chords illustration. Still catching up what to do with them but that just opened up a world. Thanks Ben
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Awesome, as usual. Thank you Ben.
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This excellent! I was just trying to figure out how to do this. Ben, you ROCK!
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Dude that Arc riff from Sleep is f'n badass!! I love that kind of stuff. Not to that level of competence but that's exactly how I seem to have always written riffs. Just get a chord progression going and play around with the notes, inflections and positions. Thank you for all these years of free content, great instruction, not just reaffirming that I suck at guitar but telling me WHY (lol) and some killer dad jokes!
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Awesome content. Thank you Uncle Ben!
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The original stuff from your old band sounds really good bro, thanks for sharing !
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Awesome info Thank you for the ideas and the very incredibly simple way you explained them helps a lot I feel like I may have learned something today Thanks uncle Ben
