Ben Lindholm
emailIf you're looking to shred, our Swedish metal man Ben Lindholm will teach you how! But Ben doesn't stop there - he's a very diverse player who also teaches lessons based around acoustic guitar, lots of great exercises, some Christmas songs, and even some bluegrass and funk lick libraries. Look to Ben for lots more fun and informative lessons on all sorts of guitar topics in the future.
- Instructor Since:
- March 5th 2006
- Total Lessons:
- 416
- Latest Lesson:
- Tapping: Level 4
Acoustic Fingerpicking
Lick Collections
Focus on Lead Playing
Focus on Scales, Arpeggios and Intervals
Metal Rhythm and Riffs
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Tapping: Level 4
In this tutorial, we will leave triad arpeggios behind for a bit, and focus on licks where the notes are closer together, as well as tap sliding.
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I Walk the Line
In this series of country song lessons, Ben Lindholm will teach you "I Walk The Line" by Johnny Cash. Ben will introduce the song to you, then talk about the tuning, tones, and...
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Tapping: Level 3
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to tap harmonics, and we will work on three fairly advanced tapping examples over backing tracks. At the end of the tutorial, I included...
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Alternate Picking: Level 2
In these six lessons, I will talk about the importance of practicing using different styles of picking, and I will show you a few more really useful exercises that will help you...
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Alternate Picking: Level 1
In this four lesson tutorial, I will explain what alternate picking means, demonstrate and talk about alternate picking technique, then show you two simple exercises to get you...
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Tapping: Level 2
In this tutorial consisting of 9 lessons, I will get you started with learning your fretboard horizontally, so you know what notes to pick for your tapping licks. We'll start with...
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Tapping: Level 1
This tutorial will be very beginner friendly. Over the course of seven lessons I will teach you the basic tapping technique, and we'll practice it over a few backing tracks. Let's...
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Funk Lick Library E2
In this tutorial I will teach you 6 more funk licks, this time over a different backing track with swing feel. Make sure you pay special attention to the what the drums and the...
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Funk Lick Library E1
These 16 lessons will teach you easy funk licks in the key of E. The first two lessons prepare you to play the licks and the backing track. The next half-dozen lessons teach you...
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Bluegrass Lick Library G2
Bluegrass Lick Library G2 builds on the Bluegrass Lick Library G1 tutorial. Here I will increase the difficulty a little bit, still keeping it fairly simple as far as bluegrass...
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Bluegrass Lick Library G1
In this first tutorial in my Bluegrass Lick Library series is for the noviceĀ guitar player who wants to venture into the land of bluegrass guitar. I will give you nine simple...
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Two-Note Chords
In these six lessons, I will introduce you to the concept of two-note chords. Then I will show you a small example song, so you can see how they can be used in a musical context.
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The All Chords Exercise
In this tutorial I will show you a great chord exercise that I call The All Chords Exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to practice finding all 12 chords of a certain type...
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Boom Chick Blues II
In this second tutorial in my Boom Chick Blues series, we will build upon what we learned in the previous tutorial and take it to the next level. We will add a few licks to the...
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Boom Chick Blues
In this series of lessons I will teach you a nice way to play unaccompanied blues on just the acoustic guitar. I will show you what to play over the I chord, the IV chord and the...
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GT Channel: Ben Lindholm
The lessons in this tutorial are mostly geared towards hard rock, metal and shredding. But I'm sure novice players can pick up a thing or two too.
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Dance of the Little Swans
In these six lessons, I will guide you through a small section of The Swan Lake ballet, adapted for guitar. We will play it in the key of Am to make the fingerings easier. First...
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Deck The Halls
In this tutorial, consisting of eight lessons, I will teach you my rock arrangement of Deck The Halls. Instead of adding extra guitar harmony to add dynamics to this song, like I...
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas
In this tutorial, we will start by learning this recognizable melody, add harmony to it, and finally learn my rock version of the chords. Ideally, you would need three guitars to...
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Beyond Power Chords
In these lessons I will leave standard power chords behind and show you four types of chords that are just as useful, that you may not have seen before. In the first two examples,...
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The Connecting Game
In this tutorial I will introduce you to a great exercise called The Connecting Game. At the end, I will show you the common chord progressions, and how to apply the exercise to...
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Metal Lead: Get Started
In the following 12 lessons, I will show you an example solo, packed with useful ideas that you can adapt and use in your own playing.
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Metal Rhythm Workout III
In these 15 lessons, we will further build on what we learned in the two previous tutorials. Be aware, this tutorial features riffs that require a lot more from your fretting hand!
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10 Ways To Play Arpeggios
In this series of lessons, I will show you ten of my favorite ways to use arpeggios in a musical context. In the first lesson I'll introduce you to the tutorial, and in the...
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Alternate Picking: Level 1
In this four lesson tutorial, I will explain what alternate picking means, demonstrate and talk about alternate picking technique, then show you two simple exercises to get you...
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10 Ways To Play Arpeggios
In this series of lessons, I will show you ten of my favorite ways to use arpeggios in a musical context. In the first lesson I'll introduce you to the tutorial, and in the...
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Boom Chick Blues
In this series of lessons I will teach you a nice way to play unaccompanied blues on just the acoustic guitar. I will show you what to play over the I chord, the IV chord and the...
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Metal for Beginners I
If you haven't been playing the guitar for very long, the thought of getting into metal might seem overwhelming. But you can come a long way by learning the basics, which is what...
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Beyond Power Chords
In these lessons I will leave standard power chords behind and show you four types of chords that are just as useful, that you may not have seen before. In the first two examples,...
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The All Chords Exercise
In this tutorial I will show you a great chord exercise that I call The All Chords Exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to practice finding all 12 chords of a certain type...
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7 Great Warm-up Exercises
In this series of lessons, I will show you seven of my favorite warm-up exercices, that I pick and choose from when warming up. The first lessons contain exercises that are...
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Bluegrass Lick Library G1
In this first tutorial in my Bluegrass Lick Library series is for the noviceĀ guitar player who wants to venture into the land of bluegrass guitar. I will give you nine simple...
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I Walk the Line
In this series of country song lessons, Ben Lindholm will teach you "I Walk The Line" by Johnny Cash. Ben will introduce the song to you, then talk about the tuning, tones, and...
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Tapping: Level 1
This tutorial will be very beginner friendly. Over the course of seven lessons I will teach you the basic tapping technique, and we'll practice it over a few backing tracks. Let's...
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In The Style of Zakk Wylde
Over the years, Zakk Wylde's style established him as one of metal's pre-eminent guitarists. He's mainly a blues-based pentatonic shredder, and in these six lessons we'll show...
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Alternate Picking: Level 2
In these six lessons, I will talk about the importance of practicing using different styles of picking, and I will show you a few more really useful exercises that will help you...
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Scalar Exercises
In this short tutorial, I will guide you through a couple useful exercises that will help develop your technique. One is a sequence exercise, and the other involves playing a...
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Metal Lead: Get Started
In the following 12 lessons, I will show you an example solo, packed with useful ideas that you can adapt and use in your own playing.
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Tapping: Level 4
In this tutorial, we will leave triad arpeggios behind for a bit, and focus on licks where the notes are closer together, as well as tap sliding.
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Essential Shred Licks
In the following seven lessons I will show you some of the most common patterns used in the shred guitar style. There's the diatonic scalar approach, a few pentatonic patterns and...
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Metal Rhythm Workout
A solid rhythm guitar is key to any song, and this tutorial will give you 9 very good exercises to develop your metal rhythm playing. We will play four 8th note rhythms, and then...
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Bluegrass Lick Library G2
Bluegrass Lick Library G2 builds on the Bluegrass Lick Library G1 tutorial. Here I will increase the difficulty a little bit, still keeping it fairly simple as far as bluegrass...
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Speed Building
In this tutorial, I will show you a series of methods that are very useful when it comes to building speed. With each method, I included an example of me playing, so you can see...
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Two-Note Chords
In these six lessons, I will introduce you to the concept of two-note chords. Then I will show you a small example song, so you can see how they can be used in a musical context.
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The Connecting Game
In this tutorial I will introduce you to a great exercise called The Connecting Game. At the end, I will show you the common chord progressions, and how to apply the exercise to...
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Metal for Beginners II
In this ten lesson tutorial, we'll expand on what we learned in Metal for Beginners I. Here I will recap the first tutorial in this series, then I'll talk about alternate picking...
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Essential Shred Licks II
Just like the first tutorial in this series, this one is packed with really good examples of patterns and techniques used by some of the fastest players in the world. We will...
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Boom Chick Blues II
In this second tutorial in my Boom Chick Blues series, we will build upon what we learned in the previous tutorial and take it to the next level. We will add a few licks to the...
