Learn the moveable guitar lick used by AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, and many more
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Video shows the basic lick found in these three songs by AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and Van Halen, and others. Closeups of how to play it are from player viewpoint and include pick hand. Explains how the lick fits into scales and theory, how to move it around the neck, and how to use it in your own playing.
Highway To Hell
You Really Got Me (Van Halen's version, original was by the Kinks)
Good Times, Bad Times
and more
See my other video for overview of my free web app "the Building Blocks of Rock", where this lick and many others can be viewed in a visual library of hundreds of riff, lick, and chord shapes.
You can find the app here:
guitarviz.com/bbr.html
It's not an app like you download from the Apple app store or Android Play. It's just a web page, so all you have to do is open it.
Please leave comments or questions!
cheers, Kevin
0:00 intro
0:32 what's in this video
1:12 how to play this lick
2:34 how to move it along the neck
3:54 how it fits in (scales and theory)
5:39 how to play the examples
8:21 how to use in your own playing
10:14 lick lesson: Highway to Hell
14:36 lick lesson: Good Times Bad Times
18:53 lick lesson: You Really Got Me
22:46 coda and more info
Setup a patron page or something and I will gladly pay for the app, you deserve to be rewarded for your time and effort.
Thank you
This is insane! I strongly urge you to have this app programmed for mobile phones. I promise you, every guitarist in this world would buy this for a couple of bucks without even thinking! And do this fast, before someone steals your idea. Best of luck, you'd really deserve it (and your wife😊)!
Ditto !! … I m a d d and a little dyslexic and for once I feel like I’m looking at the guitar the way I see it … not like trying to read a map upside down lol
100% agree!
I would buy it.
"read a map outside down", I like it! hahaha. Thanks!
I tried this app on an Android device, but no sound. With a little html5 changes i am sure you can make it work.
Just my humble opinion but, you should make a collection of shorts exactly like the first 30 seconds of this one. No commentary, no explanation, just 4 or 5 great licks done in the exact same format as the beginning of this video. I would watch every one, no matter how many you made.
Hard agree!
I'll think about how I can make more of them! 👍
@@theBuildingBlocksOfRock Love it! I'm just thinking there are a lot of us out there who are not 'technically' trained but all we need is to see the lick and practice it to perfect it...thanks so much!
had to stop halfway through this video to comment. thank you, seriously thank you!
I smell a legendary youtube channel in the future!!!
Love the fact this is free help. Refreshing in an age where everything seems to be subscription
I just discovered your channel and am TOTALLY fascinated with what you do!
I too am a old guy who saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Got my guitar shortly after. However I never had the fellowship of people to learn from. I had evey book on EVERYTHING but found it all overwhelming...so I never advanced. In 2016 I discovered UA-cam...no looking back after! I now have my own channel honoring my favorite guitar player...Mr. Keith Richard's. I subscribed to your channel and look forward to learning from you. Just by the books in your library🤔...You have done your homework! You are very unique...AND I Dig It!👍😎❤
Thanks 👍
I don’t generally have guitar ‘heroes’, which probably comes from my overly pretentious punk roots. But if there were any such heroes, Mr Richards would be right at the top of the list.
clear hand cams with the shapes next to it what more can you ask for a breath of fresh air from all the tabs or bad explenations where to put your fingers with a crappy camera angle. ive been using the app everyday since i've discovered it. thanks for all the great work!
I’d buy this as a phone app in a heartbeat.
I just finished a practice session and spent some time with your app. well done Kevin! I really like it. will definitely be using this a lot. I love how it really gives the riffs/licks context and shows you where these things live.
Over 2000 subscribers in 4 days. Onward and upward, big brother!
Man Kevin, your channel is solid gold. Keep up this great work. It's like you came along at insanely good timing in my guitar journey. Thank you!
This is very creative and definitely fills a gap by teaching guitar in the lexicon of classic rock… and in a language that can be used to improvise as well. I especially appreciate the clear views of fingering and picking mechanics…for me it’s always been the mechanics of fingering and picking techniques that hold me back from using more of these licks and riffs! Thanks so much for sharing this!
You are the teacher that I have been looking for all my life. I truly appreciate you!
Totally digging this style of teaching.
Looking forward to more videos, Refreshing new look at teaching the classic lead stuff. Thankx
Most of us mere males are visual learners, this app is going to transform
my beginner/intermediate status to intermediate/good enough a hell of a quicker...
thank you
yeah me too, I'm a visual learner, I always viewed playing by ear as visual patterns and shapes!
I am also very visual. Love this concept
Brilliant, love the in depth explanation of why the same basic idea can sound so different.
As a new player, this style of teaching with a focus on the player perspective helps immensely. Another subscriber. Thank you!
Thank you so much. I really appreciate your camera angles and having great visuals.
Your lessons are very well done and organized , really good job !
Wow. After watching this and your first video, I am blown away. What a cool approach and the Web App looks good as welll. I have happily subscribed.
This channel is exactly what I needed. Please keep uploading. Much appreciated :)
This is exactly what I've been waiting for. I learned my basic chords, scales, etc., but then was pretty much adrift. Learning these licks gives me exactly the direction in my learning that I needed. Thanks a 1 X 10^6 for making these videos and your website.
Kevin, thanks for the effort you put into teaching what you know! I'm excited to start using the app! Thanks!
This channel is amazing and I really love the website too. Can’t wait for more videos.
Thank you so much for this, it’s exactly what I’ve been needing, amazing videos!
Just come across you building block video, brilliant love it like your tab diagrams and what they show more please 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
This is GOLDEN! Thanks!
Very helpful content. This is the perfect speed and level of explanation for me; I've been playing for a few months now
Good solid basics. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you Sir. Subscribed!
As a beginner i love how you teach. Looking forward to using the app and more videos.
I look forward to seeing more of your videos this is really informative stuff
What a great lesson! I'm jonesing for more. Thank you!
I agree 100% with @stgirat and @primastrong! And I've never seen guitar taught this way before. I think it's awesome.
Thank you for covering intervals. When I was learning bass I found that learning my intervals resolved the need to learn shapes or even some licks and understand why and where things work, and how some notes and keys are associated with certain sounds. I find tabs really hard to follow and they don’t teach me much
you are a legend for making these videos
these are the types of lessons i've been searching for!
Chuck Berry always gets the credit for this riff. Chucks guitar playing was heavily influenced by T-Bone Walker. This riff is all over "Stormy Monday".
Yeah, it would be interesting to dig around trying to trace some of these licks back to the origin. Would be like trying to track down long-lost ancestors.
Like Keith Richards says, everything is borrowed from someone else, an accumulation of experience that grows from application@@theBuildingBlocksOfRock
Superb idea. Thankyou and keep em coming.
This guy is something special
You sir are a great teacher and guitar player. I am really impressed with the guitarviz site. I am a beginner guitarist and this is exactly what I needed to help me understand. Thank you for your time and for sharing your talent and abilities. Next Level stuff for sure and I know so many appreciate your work.
Very useful information. Your explanations are easy to understand and follow along with . Thank you for the effort you put into the app. It will be a great tool to help new guitarist improve our skills.
great vids mate, looking forward to checking out the app
I really like where you are going with this concept. I can see you getting to 1m subscribers pretty easily if you build out 100 or so videos like this showing each lick and the songs they have come from. Very cool.
One suggestion for you. A lot of viewers are beginners and a 24 minute lesson as you have here is perfect for them to understand. But you will also have a lot of experienced players who can just be shown the lick and a quick discussion. Then shown the lick at speed and then slowly for the 3 options. Maybe a 5 minute "short" version in total. If its too short the player can always go check the full version out of that lick/riff video.
Best of luck to you.
yeah, I'm thinking the basic structure of each video about a shape is: first 5-10 minutes of overview, then 10 minutes of deeper lessons, showing note by note, slowed down, lots of boring monologue from me. But a good idea to maybe include a brief snippet of the lick at speed and then slowed down earlier in the video. Thanks for the suggestion!
Pure GOLD! 🥳
Keep up the great work!!!
Wow! Great app. Thank you 🙏
Good lesson … I love they lick and it will help me join the dots a little more with the CAGED think. 👍🏻…. I ll look forward to watching your channel grow …. Please 🙏 help me find that little piece I need to go forward …. making sense of how to play with chord changes and when to play major or minor on the 4 or the five etc . would be awesome …
great stuff. you are the man.
Legendary
Love your stuff!! Super helpful for teaching guitar class😂
Great content
Great job and very much needed. I am going to check it out. Agree with the Patreon comment from someone else.
Subscribed. Great video
lov yor video do more
Great great stuff... And excellent explanations and video quality. You could add the link to the video in the app as you add them progressivelly. The video adds a lot to the schematics / text in the app.
great idea, yes!
Greater Teacher
Awesome… I’m in
My Man, we need more of your brilliant lessons. You have helped me with a lot. Thank You
I agree 100%
You are great !!
Spot on.
Thanks ❤
I also would find it helpful to hear and see "a collection of shorts exactly like the first 30 seconds of this one." Its like jamming with others, seeing and HEARING what they are doing.
I'll think about how I can make more of them! 👍
I'd like to tell your long suffering wife how worth while your pursuit is. This is excellent. Thank you guitar Gandhi.
would it be possible also to explain what amp setup is required for this licks?
Thanks in advance and thanks for very informative videos!
Thanks! Hmm, amp setup? I think it all depends on the lick and what type of sound you're going for. Some of those licks are more hard rock / metal, some are just basic rock, others you hear more often as acoustic licks, like those hammer-ons for the basic open G and C chords (under the "riffs" tab)
It took me a while to realise that you were saying the word 'root'.
"Rut" lol
my achilles heel!
There is an identical chord that is in AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" and Journey's "Any Way You Want It."
KISS's cover of 2000 Man immediately comes to mind when hearing this lick.
👍👍👍
I know you said this wasn't about money... but you should have a venmo or something so i could at least buy you a cup of coffee.
Clapton used this lick too
Keith Richards too
🙏🏻👍🏼🍒
Maybe I'm not getting it, but the app is not producing any sound on my computer. I think I'm following your directions but something is not working.
it's not your imagination! there is no sound in the app .Yet. But I agree, the examples need to be heard! even if just a brief little snippet. Sometimes that's all they are, they go by real quick.
Can I just save time and sell my soul to the Chief Commander ??
I must agree strongly w the latest comment. I actually know a guy who designed gambling app for the internet. He plays guitar and keys... anyway.
Isnt that Johnny B Goode?
Yup!
Oh my lord...
Alternative title: How to get incredibly boring and predictable as a guitar player.
how though i meam you can get creative with that girst lick
that sounds like a you problem
😃There's some truth in what you say. But if you don't know it, wouldn't you want to learn it? It's a basic lick. Kinda like learning to walk before you try to start running.
@@OliverCarriere right, like the Randy Rhoads and SRV examples I was playing early on in the video. They take this basic lick and add their own take to it
And most of music is recycled anyways alot of the stuff in rock and blues is passed down @@theBuildingBlocksOfRock
HIGHWAY 88 TO HELL ARIZONA
Looking pretty good. Might be a good idea to list (16 of 52) somewhere in the text.