How to Turn CHORDS Into RIFFS!

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!!!

[BenEller]

Thanks for watching this video and learning how to turn your chord progressions into dope riffs! What do you want to learn next?!

[CamRebires]

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

[tejas]

Finally your video showed up in my subscriptions tab, I think the issue is resolved now🤘

[CyberDocUSA]

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.

[sagig]

Hi Ben, great lesson! I also many times am having this challenge of how to solo over chords. I think one thing that can REALLY HELP is if you teach a solo, but not from a note-for-note perspective like many channels, but more from the chord progression perspective. So... for example: if you can do Hotel California and teach the solo but highlight where the chords changes are, why the notes function as they do over these chords, how the solo works out the notes changes during the chord changes ... all of that stuff. This will help dudes like myself tremendously. This is something that's really difficult for me to do and learn. So, I can watch channels that teach this solo, I can even play this solo, but I find it hard to visualize the chords as I play the solo and instead I play the riffs out of memory, but that feels like I don't learn anything and I just memorize stuff, vs. if I could see the chords and understand what changes are taking place then I'd understand the solo a whole lot better. Does that make sense? Do you feel it's something you can (and want to) do? By the way, perhaps you can run a poll asking if people want/don't-want that type of stuff and see what the response is like before you make it in order to be more certain people want it and not just me :) I hope it helps. I love your channel man. I apologize for the long comment. will much appreciate your reply and thought.

[andrewmurray]

This is a great video for bassists to learn filling. Exactly how I learned and continue to do it.

[PooNinja]

Do you have a lesson on turning my stupid ass fingers into Paul Gilbert worthy phalanges ?

Long time commenter first time viewer.

[SuperBrett]

Geez i’ve been trying to figure out the right video to answer what i couldn’t understand. This nailed it. This unlocked some understanding in my brain that i can’t wait to explore and practice. Thank you

[voronOsphere]

Your band Arc sounds really cool, Uncle Ben!!!! "Sleep" sounds wild!!!! Great drumming, too!

[skipkelton]

Oh man....all this time I've been submitting questions to your OnlyFans re-bookmark that entry....

[skylershary]

Ben Eller, thank you for all that you do. You’re the best guitar instructor on YouTube in my book. Next to you, Dave Davidson is my all time favorite guitar player, I’ve 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

[ToddGillespie]

Man, I almost forgot about chords. I’ve been noodling too much. This is a great lesson!

[neilmartin]

You had me at Green Acres. 😂
Love that black satin finish on your guitar.

[tboyE]

FINALLY. A how-to on picking up early 2000's college chicks

[serdavezilla]

Thanks Uncle Ben, this is gunna make me many more creativer👍

[rjcummings]

This cleared a lot up for me. Thank you for the clear explanation and breakdown.

[unklstepbilly]

Lightbulb 💡 just went on. Scale to chords illustration. Still catching up what to do with them but that just opened up a world. Thanks Ben

[martynspooner]

Yeah you so nailed it, thanks for putting it out there for us bedroom guitar players. Much appreciated.

[brshreds]

Man, small world. One of my teachers in college also taught and is friends with Dave Davidson. I recently watched a clinic the two of them did talking about combining metal and jazz influences, and it was just killer. I know I'm on the right track when I keep seeing the same good information pop up in different places!

[Archangel_Michaels]

I've been following you for years... just discovered that I wasn't even officially subscribed, wow trio !
Well I'm SUBSCRIBED for sure now 👍
Thanks Ben !