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the Building Blocks of Rock for guitar
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Riff, lick and chord shapes found in more than one classic rock song.
Building blocks - they may not have names, but string a few of them together, and you get a solo, maybe even a new song riff. Call them what you will - they're repeated patterns heard over and over in rock guitar, now displayed for the first time visually; as simple shapes, like chord or scale shapes.
Building blocks - they may not have names, but string a few of them together, and you get a solo, maybe even a new song riff. Call them what you will - they're repeated patterns heard over and over in rock guitar, now displayed for the first time visually; as simple shapes, like chord or scale shapes.
The most common string bends used in classic rock, part 1
In basic scale shapes, what notes can you bend? When you listen to the rock greats and hear all those soulful bends, what are you hearing? Probably a lot more than that basic third string bend some players never get very far past.
In this video we'll look at three foundational types of single-string bends, across the top three strings, in basic 6th string and 5th string root position (E & A shapes, next video will cover CG&D shapes, along with some open string bends including lower strings). As always, examples are shown up close, from the player view. This video uses over 20 different song examples:
Sunshine Of Your Love
No One Like You
Light My Fire
Voodoo Child
Heartbreaker
Long Time
Red Hous...
In this video we'll look at three foundational types of single-string bends, across the top three strings, in basic 6th string and 5th string root position (E & A shapes, next video will cover CG&D shapes, along with some open string bends including lower strings). As always, examples are shown up close, from the player view. This video uses over 20 different song examples:
Sunshine Of Your Love
No One Like You
Light My Fire
Voodoo Child
Heartbreaker
Long Time
Red Hous...
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Led Zep's "Heartbreaker" second solo shows how to connect basic patterns
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The second solo in "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin is a good example of moving up the neck with licks through all five basic pentatonic scale shapes and the five positions in the CAGED system. Once you know how to move the two basic barre chord shapes around the neck, you're ready to start filling in the gaps with CAGED, and this video has concrete examples to help you do it, including some of J...
Move up and down the guitar neck using these common patterns
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Learn some of the most common licks to move up and down the guitar neck between the two basic barre chord positions. Actual song examples include: Black Dog (Led Zeppelin) Crossroads (Cream/Eric Clapton) Blue Sky (Allman Brothers) Melissa (Allman Brothers) Rude Mood (Stevie Ray Vaughan) Santeria (Sublime) Each example shows how the shape is used in the song. Examples are shown from player viewp...
"Chameleon" shape for guitar - blends into different chords and keys
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Part chord, part riff - this simple shape with an open 3rd string is like a chameleon, blending into different chords, keys, and CAGED positions. Add one note to make it sound like A, another to make it sound like D, etc. Actual song examples include: All Right Now (Free) Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel) Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day) Sugar Mountain (Neil Young) Norwegian Wood (...
Basic lower string riffs and bends with an open A chord
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One of the most basic ways to build guitar riffs from an open A chord is to add in notes and string bends on the fifth or sixth strings. This beginner/intermediate lesson shows examples from: Led Zeppelin: Rock and Roll AC/DC: Back In Black Joan Jett: I Love Rock and Roll Aerosmith: Sweet Emotion Queen: Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You Rush: Red Barchetta the Who: Won't Get Fooled Again, ...
Common "double-stop" guitar lick - Led Zep, CCR, Beatles, Who, and more
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"Double-stops" form common patterns on the guitar neck. Learn one of the most common in this video, with examples from: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Proud Mary, Keep On Chooglin' the Who: Won't Get Fooled Again Led Zeppelin: The Lemon Song, D'Yer Maker, All Of My Love the Beatles: Dig A Pony, Ballad Of John & Yoko Cheap Trick: I Want You To Want Me and more Many examples are shown slowed down,...
Learn common minor chord riffs from Jimi, Keith, Eric, Dime, Neil, and more
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In this video you'll learn how a simple barre across the top strings can be used as the basis for riffing off minor chords. Visual diagrams show several common patterns used, with song examples from: Jimi Hendrix: Angel, All Along The Watchtower Neil Young: Southern Man Led Zeppelin: Since I've Been Loving You Eric Clapton: Let It Grow Carlos Santana: Evil Ways, Black Magic Woman Aerosmith: One...
Learn the moveable guitar riffs used by ZZ Top, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, and more
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In this video you'll learn several different ways of using two barres as the basis for riffs. Closeup video from player viewpoint uses examples from these songs: ZZ Top: I Thank You Boston: Smokin' Rod Stewart/Ronnie Wood: (I Know) I'm Losing You Alice Cooper: School's Out James Gang/Joe Walsh: Funk #49 AC/DC: Have A Drink On Me I also have a short segment on the correct way to play those class...
Chord shapes used by the Beatles, RHCP, Metallica, Van Halen, Fleetwood Mac, and more
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Many guitarists know the two basic barre chord shapes but not many other moveable chord shapes. In this video you'll learn eight different ways of playing the common moveable major chord shapes that look like a C chord. Closeup video from player viewpoint uses examples from these songs: Ozzy/Randy Rhoads: Crazy Train Fleetwood Mac: Never Going Back Again Rascals: Good Lovin' Rush: The Spirit Of...
Learn the moveable guitar lick used by AC/DC, Hendrix, the Beatles, and more
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Learn the moveable guitar lick used in "I Feel Fine", "All Along The Watchtower", "You Shook Me All Night Long", and many other songs. This is one of many riff and lick shapes you can find in my free web app "The Building Blocks Of Rock", available here: guitarviz.com/bbr.html It's just a web page, all you have to do is open it. Nothing to download, and you don't need to sign up for anything. I...
Learn the moveable guitar riff used by Hendrix, Skynyrd, Doobie Bros. and more
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Learn the moveable guitar riff found in "Listen To The Music", "Sweet Home Alabama", "The Wind Cries Mary", and other songs. This is one of many riff and lick shapes you can find in my free web app "The Building Blocks Of Rock", available here: guitarviz.com/bbr.html It's just a web page, all you have to do is open it. Nothing to download, and you don't need to sign up for anything. The first h...
Learn the basic guitar riff used by the Who, Stones, Led Zeppelin, and many more
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Learn the simple guitar riff found in "Hey Hey, What Can I Do", "No Sugar Tonight", "Monkey Man", "My Generation", and others. This is one of many riff and lick shapes found in my free web app "The Building Blocks Of Rock", which you can find here: guitarviz.com/bbr.html (note: it's not an app like you download for your phone. It's just a web page, so all you have to do is open it.) The video r...
Learn the moveable guitar lick used by AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, and many more
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Learn the moveable guitar lick used by AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, and many more
Common guitar riffs and licks - the "building blocks of rock"
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Common guitar riffs and licks - the "building blocks of rock"
Winter is here. Time to hold up in the woodshed with this great channel
Great format. Awesome info. Thank you
Bro, I really enjoyed everything so far, good mike and style.
amazing.
I’ve been self teaching myself for years and your lessons ring the most true and simple to apply to my own playing. 2nd comment on same vid, but thanks again 😂❤
You are a great teacher, thank you!!
How's you new app coming along?... love your lessons and look forward to your app.
@SandyBarris1: I just posted an update on this on my Community page. Thanks for your patience!
Thanks for your reply and update... excited to get your app and future Rock & Roll lessons... Awesome work... and very much appreciated.
What a fantastic lesson. Goldmine stuff. One can take this content and start applying concepts and discovering all kinds of stuff. I am going to drop my kid off at the shelter along with the two dogs and begin seriously woodshedding. It is all about priorities, guitar players understand...
Thanks for the video, Kevin, this is something I think will help me out. I first picked up a guitar in high school in the late '70s. Van Halen had just released their first album, and I had someone show me the chords for Running With the Devil. I took a couple of lessons from a guy a friend of mine was going to, and he called them Power Chords, which I think are usually called Barre Chords now? Well, I did not continue my guitar journey after high school, but I am starting again after all of these years. This video shows more of the style I need to learn how to play. I can play chords and some lead, but I do not know what I'm playing note or chord wise, I just go by what sounds good. This should get me past that so I know what I'm playing as well.
I need to give part of my income to this man.
Great video and great explanations! Thanks!
Sir , you are too talented and fantastic not to do the complete lesson instead of suggesting some one else’s YT channel.
2938484848% excellent.
GREAT stuff, matey! MANY thanks, & Merry Christmas. Captain "Long John" Sinclair.
Bravo
Calm cool dude with a SG that I get it .A old slow feller starting back where dropped guitar 45 years ago and can actually understand You be a sensation there my friend.Cheers
My favorite tunes can't get no better
Looking forward to the app. Any updates on its progress?
@joeturkos6767: yes, still on track for Dec-Jan timeframe. I'll put a notice in Community tab when I get closer!
@ glad to hear that! Thank you for all your work. Cheers!
1:06 That also sounds like "cant you hear me knocking" - Rolling Stones.
@jpdr7081: yes! Keith plays it in open G tuning, but still the same lick, since those strings (the 3rd and 4th strings) stay the same in open G
How do I play this lick in G major?
@Bronx68: the root (red circle) is on the sixth string, so move it to where a G note is on the sixth string. That would be the third fret. Barre your first finger at the third fret, put your third finger two frets higher, at the fifth fret, and bend the string
Helpful channel.
Guitar tablature is as old as the guitar itself.
@dmfrench - yes but for rock guitar you never really saw it in widespread use before the 80's. Not songbooks, not guitar mags (there was only one in the early 70's, Guitar Player, which sadly just died a few months ago). New article from a few days ago on Ultimate Guitar talks more about this: www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/the_rise_of_guitar_tabs_in_the_80s_changed_everything_heres_what_famous_guitarists_thought_of_them-172143
I know these are all in standard tuning, but it's been very cool to me how many of them are easily adapted to alternate tunings, especially the moveable licks. I especially love that you show the scale degrees, they help me quickly adapt the licks to my preferred tuning.
Brilliant app!! Well done and thank you!
The most useful information i've seen in 10 years!🤘
Mr. Kevin M. Please let me say what an absolute treasure you are!!! Lots of folks teaching guitar on YT... However, NONE... and I mean NONE... like you!!!. Believe me...I've looked!!! Congrats on your future success... It's just beginning!!!
3:43 all those things had names you just didn’t know them
@65cquintero - Yes. Like most guitarists back then. Names just weren't widely used. Maybe I was just hanging out with the wrong crowd lol. But I was jamming a lot, playing in different bands, gigging in bars by the time I was 19. So I don't think my experience was atypical.
Beat guitar RUclipsr ever, finally someone shows you how to play only shame is you just started smhh 😂
Very good idea! Nice! Very true!! Vocab and the culture.
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All the disorganized information I had finally makes sense with this application. Thank you very much, sir. Greetings from Peru.
¡Saludos, Julantro!
Please, if you could keep them coming please ,I will by you a coffee if you could tell me how . I have watched many vids and your videos have the best insturctions by far , no lie brother .
Thank you! Mobile app coming soon, you can buy that if you want :) Probably about the cost of two fancy coffees, haha
I struck a gold mine for myself ,, #1 the dude is playing my SG ,#2 playing my kind of Rock & Roll ,#3 Old school like my self . Thank you sincerely
this app is amazing, great work this is history
@Lastvoids (cool name!) - thanks, I'm doing a complete reorg of the shapes in the app while I work on the mobile app. Adding new shapes, new song examples, fixing mistakes.
you must be from the midwest.
Hmm, nope, California (well, born in Oregon). The way I pronounce "root"? :)
Lol, I had thought the same. Californians aren't thought too well of in these parts, but we have to remember that non-urban Cali is still full of good people.
@@theBuildingBlocksOfRock yeah. The way you pronounce root is why I figured. You're alright for a Californian, usually hate you guys.
@@xXDJllamap3tt3rXx The running joke I've heard after moving to California from another state (which is the case many times) is, "You're from here?" There so many people here from somewhere else, it's funny when you meet someone actually from here.
Amazing thank you
Simple and Common sense with a blessed ear goes a long, long way, and thank you for proving it through your videos 🎸🎶🎵💯
Finally, some common sense instead of the typical scrambled terms to the Wizard of Oz😮 After a 2 year hiatus, you've inspired me to resume...Actually, your approach reminds me of the paths I used before I allowed myself to be cast under the spell of the majority of RUclipsr's..🎵🎶🎹🎸🎸
haha, like the CCR song! ("I Put A Spell On You"). Thanks :)
Awesome!
Wow, that’s awesome! I’ve been looking for something like that for years! Thank you very much, sir!!!
Thanks man, this app is just amazing.
Wow! My hat off for you good sir!
Been trying to learn bends for a long time. Thanks. Can you just play the g and b string or do you need to throw in the bottom e as well ?
@georgefinn2054 - Do you mean the top E? (the thinner, higher-pitched string, next to the B string). Sure you can leave that pme out, although then it becomes a slightly different lick, a "unison bend", where the G string is bent up to the same pitch as the B string. Hope I understand your question correctly.
@@theBuildingBlocksOfRock thank you.