This is Why You Suck at Guitar, lesson 1: Your picking sucks

Ben Eller542K subscribers

574,950 views

About this video

Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via Reddit r/WeAreTheMusicMakers thread: 17 youtube channels about playing music you should check out (split by category · 82% confidence

Teaches picking technique by diagnosing fundamental errors and demonstrating corrections. Structured lesson addressing mechanics of efficient, clean picking.

A 8-minute video from Ben Eller: “This is Why You Suck at Guitar, lesson 1: Your picking sucks”.

Video by Ben Eller, played through YouTube's embedded player.

Part of This is Why You Suck at Guitar

Related

A Nightmare on Elm Street theme song guitar cover/lesson: Weekend Wankshop 47 Ben EllerArt & Design

40.8K views

Izzy Stradlin Nightrain guitar solo lesson (Guns N' Roses) - Weekend Wankshop 213 Ben EllerArt & Design

52.9K views

The Beauty of Bézier Curves Freya HolmérProgramming & CS

2.23M views

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy Every Frame a PaintingArt & Design

11.3M views

3. Inferno I, II, III, IV YaleCoursesPhilosophy

323K views

The Continuity of Splines Freya HolmérProgramming & CS

1.89M views

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement Every Frame a PaintingArt & Design

10.8M views

Powers of Ten™ (1977)Eames OfficeLectures

9.48M views

The Great Myth of the Medieval Tritone Ban Adam NeelyArt & Design

1.41M views

Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained Great Art ExplainedArt & Design

4.9M views

Painting a Character with Maths Inigo QuilezProgramming & CS

457K views

The Death of Socrates: How To Read A Painting Nerdwriter1Art & Design

4.51M views

A Nightmare on Elm Street theme song guitar cover/lesson: Weekend Wankshop 47

40.8K views

A 13-minute video from Ben Eller: “A Nightmare on Elm Street theme song guitar cover/lesson: Weekend Wankshop 47”.

Izzy Stradlin Nightrain guitar solo lesson (Guns N' Roses) - Weekend Wankshop 213

52.9K views

A 9-minute video from Ben Eller: “Izzy Stradlin Nightrain guitar solo lesson (Guns N' Roses) - Weekend Wankshop 213”.

The Beauty of Bézier Curves

2.23M views

Freya Holmér builds Bézier curves from linear interpolation up, covering de Casteljau's algorithm, derivatives, arc length and their use in games and graphics.

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy

Every Frame a Painting

11.3M views

How Edgar Wright builds jokes out of camera movement, framing, sound and editing rather than dialogue, contrasted with flatter Hollywood comedy coverage.

3. Inferno I, II, III, IV

323K views

Giuseppe Mazzotta reads the opening cantos of Dante's Inferno: the dark wood, Virgil and the structure of Hell.

The Continuity of Splines

1.89M views

A follow-up on splines: the different kinds of continuity (C and G), and how Hermite, Catmull-Rom, B-splines and NURBS trade them off.

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

Every Frame a Painting

10.8M views

How Akira Kurosawa uses movement — of nature, groups, individuals and the camera — to compose scenes.

Powers of Ten™ (1977)

9.48M views

Charles and Ray Eames's classic short film zooming out and in by powers of ten, from a picnic to the edge of the known universe and down to a proton.

The Great Myth of the Medieval Tritone Ban

1.41M views

Investigates the popular claim that the medieval church banned the tritone and traces where the myth came from.

Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained

Great Art Explained

4.9M views

The story of Michelangelo's David: the marble, the commission, the technique and its meaning in Florence.

Painting a Character with Maths

457K views

Inigo Quilez paints a 3D character entirely with maths in a shader, using signed distance functions, smooth blending and lighting step by step.

The Death of Socrates: How To Read A Painting

4.51M views

A close reading of David's The Death of Socrates: composition, gesture and symbolism.