This is Why You Suck at Guitar, Lesson 36DD: Your Vibrato SUCKS

It's a wounded bird! It's a drunk mosquito! It's Stevie Nicks! NOPE, it's... your horrible vibrato! Bad vibrato ruins lives. "But Uncle Ben", you say, "I can sweep faster than Yngwie's maid, and my picking is faster than a cheetah on a speed boat"... it doesn't matter. If you land on a note and give it a disgusting spastic wiggle, you send a very clear message that you don't know what you're doing. Lucky for you, i'm here to expose to you why your vibrato made your real dad abandon you so long ago.
I'm going to take you through the 4 main styles of vibrato (finger, wrist, side to side, and circular {aka Vaibrato}), show you how to stop making them sound terrible, then wrap you up with a handful of Illuminati ProTips before turning you loose on the world, armed with the secrets of the Shredi Knights. You're welcome, in advance.
Rocking my Ibanez RG470 with Dimarzio pickups, through my always-amazing Kemper Profiler, Matrix GT800FX power amp, and Avatar 2x12 speaker cabinet. Best gear ever.
Thanks for watching kids. Let me know what you suck at, and i'll help you out. Cheers!

[RGMDG]

Your straight faced humor and innuendos had me laughing out loud. Great lesson, I will be watching more. Thank you..

[jesusfreakize]

I may not shred, but my vibrato makes the ladies melt.

[BADWlNG]

I never realized I was such a guitar submissive. However, you pointing out how much I suck feels warm and caring. I know you are just tearing me down to build me up again, so I feel safe. :-)

[chriszoupa]

I've only just started taking this aspect of my playing seriously. You will be a rivalling YouTube superpower one day Ben... And you must be stopped. If there's a swarm of harpies outside your house... I summoned them.

[VoyageOne]

Amazing lesson and hilarious to boot. "Clowns who hit trash cans in Slipknot".

[DavidTimovski]

I watched 30 seconds of this video and decided you were the man to teach me the vibrato. You have acquired my whole faith in the span of your intro. I'm just another man who wants suddenly occurring explosions when I play.

[paulmcallister]

Dude!!!. I've just started playing and I could not figure this out for the life of me. You've just made it absolutely clear. Thank you so much.

[jwilde]

OMG, I've been playing for over 30 years, and I like to think I'm a fairly good player. I massively struggled with my Vibrato in the beginning, and I got so frustrated learning what my teacher called "hand" vibrato, that I quit lessons, and invented my own hybrid of finger vibrato, and side-to-side vibrato. I have gotten pretty proficient at this bastardized technique, and I don't think anyone could really tell... but I could. When I would listen to the top players, sure, I could play almost anything I heard and practiced, but it never sounded as good as the person I was emulating. I knew all along it was my vibrato technique, but I never admitted it until a year ago. That's when I started watching countless video after video trying to learn the proper technique. This always resulted in me getting frustrated as hell, and going back to my old method. ... Until Now! (sorry to be dramatic, but it really was life changing. I mean I'm 48 and I've played for 33 years and I never felt 100% confident in my playing until I watched your video about an hour ago, and in just one hour, I have improved my technique a ton. Nobody explained it right, until I saw your video. Nothing against the other teachers, they're not stupid, and I'm not either. It's just when you've done something a certain way, the wrong way, for 33 years, it's extremely difficult to unlearn and relearn. The "door" analogy (specifically being half-open) just clicked with me. Thanks so much for the help. Thank God for YouTube.

[damianokane]

Watching these videos for entertainment almost as much as the actual lessons. The sweep picking lesson was awesome. Thanks Dude.

[zucozampa]

I play guitar since 15 years. You made me improve and better understand vibrato in only 30min. Great video

[FrankTaylor]

Yeah..discovering this series has gotten through to me, where others haven't worked. Just a fantastic job, it must've taken a long time and a lot of work to do these. Really appreciated Sir, thank you!

[TomasThunder]

Please do a 'Your bending sucks' video. Would be awesome.

[samuel_]

Omg this the
most authentic and perfect vibrato tutorials in YouTube...thank u sj much👍

[LMDAVE]

As long as I've been playing, I never stopped to perfect my vibrato or pinch harmonics...this can be seen on my latest YJM Evil Eye solo video, like hitting a brick wall on the vibrato. Glad I found your vids,  they're cool and funny.

[davidb]

Clear even vibrato is a crucial guitar skill. You’re the first YouTube teacher that I’ve seen to offer this kind of lesson — how to hold your hand, what the vibrato motion should feel like, etc. Thank you! I think you’ve improved my technique immeasurably.

I’ll let the other guys rip the fast-pick solos. I’m gonna be practicing my vibrato.

[sinjon]

Did this guy seriously just slam Stevie Nicks? No, man, no!

[calusalin]

Bro, I'm a newbie on guitar as I started playing like 2 months ago, but your videos got me going big time . It finally sounds like a guitar and not like a frog vomiting . Thank you !

[LunargleLovegood]

Man I feel bad for Kirk. Everyone's bashing him nowadays 😂

[cleavey]

Lesson 36DD - that was real handful!
You have a real gift for teaching Ben, keep them coming.

[old-flabbyman-thighs]

Another great way to learn better vibrato is to play David Gilmour stuff.