Danceable Shred - Ben Levin

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[DBruce]

This is some of the coolest stuff I've ever heard. Genius status confirmed

[hisham_hm]

in this episode: Ben begins by reinventing the Spirit of the Radio riff and we end up realizing that Discipline riffs over modern beats sounds like Polyphia

[flatterswhite]

I forgot that Ben can shred, I guess that says a lot about his humbleness

[karinamaloney]

So many guitarists just get lost in that shred psyche. They're so obsessed with their own virtuosity that they don't stop and wonder if anyone's actually listening to them anymore. I love the self awareness here. Well composed guitar shred is the best. Also, evan and joe are awesome.

[benjamindroogmans]

You might wanna take a look at Thundercat's playing, he shreds like mad but his music is still nice and groovy

[markpagslo]

Is your drummer really a drummer if they don't have Ben saying pizza on one of their pads?

[giladbaruch]

80's King Crimson called and said they were 40 years ahead of everyone

[thalesbentancour]

"TRY TO RELAX YOUR A N U S!"

[dudeman]

Lol the pad thats programmed with the king of the hill quote "I DONT KNOW YOU", that episode is ridiculous. To all who dont know it, Its the one where Bobby gets put in a self defense class by his dad hank because Bobby was bullied in school, but little does hank know its a women's self defense class so they taught Bobby to yell "THAT'S MY PURSE I D0NT KNOW YOU" and then to kick them in the nuts. He ends up kicking Hank in the nuts at some point in the episode haha

[BigDaddyWes]

It's always a great to sit down and analyze your musical idiosyncrasies and patterns you fall into when you go on auto pilot. Trying to play something you've never played before is just as valuable to me as perfecting the things I play all the time.

[taiteo]

part of why hendrix's playing still holds up so well is that it's all of this octave jumping and complex shit, but always done so as more of an embellishment on solid rhythm playing than anything. I feel like that's what so many miss, like, do as many double stops as you want, but unless you have a good sense of rhythm and timing, it's still not going to sound like hendrix

[gab_gallard]

I think this is the ethos of many current math rock bands, and for that same reason is why that particular sub-genre is having an awesome momentum right now. It feels refreshing, shredding with substance.

[davestubbington]

Reminds me of Afro-beat guitar which I think is centred around the traditional drum patterns. As always great stuff, thanks B.

[juno]

This is neat! At some points in the video I thought it sounded kinda like the Touareg stuff that's been getting a bit more attention lately, like Tinariwen, Imarhan and Mdou Moctar. Not to mention a lot of guitar centered British dancepop from the mid 2000s had this exact sound.

[misterfyde]

Ben, you'd love Chon, Polyphia, and SAWCE, they're totally doing danceable shred of all different flavors!

[forrcaho]

The best to my ears was approach 2 (the "tumbao") at 3:29 -- really has an afro-pop feel for me.

[dliessmgg]

The way I would go about this is, I would take the different elements of a drum kit and map them to different pitch areas, and create a groove like that.

[Trisstunes]

I'd recommend looking into bluegrass! They've got some very dance-y shred going on there

[krisluna]

I like how members from my favorite band pop up in your videos sometimes. Thank You Scientist slaps harder than my dad

[mx]

I feel totally identified with your video as a guitar player. A decade ago I used to loved guitar shred stuff (and I still do), but Now I'm into more electronic sounds and also danceable beats.

Thanks for always surprising me with crazy new stuff. Love ya dude <3