'It's free, it's just a web page, you don't need to sign up for anything. Its a labour of love I've been work on for many years.' Instant subscribe, you're the man.

@julianmorrisco

2 ай бұрын

Agreed. I’ve been playing for only 44 years but I’m really looking forward to heading to the website when I get home. I am always learning, I only came across triads as a formalised concept a few years ago. Yes. I’ve been using them forever but having it laid out as a concept refreshed my writing and playing when I was definitely getting stale. I’m hoping this approach will too. And yes, I also know people are trying to make a buck but it’s incredibly refreshing to not have to at least hand over my precious data to get something I may only look at once. I hope YT sees fit to reward this chap, at least.

@Noel_K.

2 ай бұрын

TRULY, HE IS THE GENTLEMAN....

@emilio1142

2 ай бұрын

Yep

the long suffering daughter is very proud!!! ❤️

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

Awww.... :)

@user-uo9cy2ep2h

2 ай бұрын

His approach I think, is the camera angle on the neck and explanation. Monkey see, monkey do... and it's brilliant!

The fact that your doing all of this for free is a testament of the kindness of the older generation. A true musical veteran.

After watching "do this to improve your soloing", "do that to become faster", "this scale is all you need" for years, this video is what I was looking for, waiting for, longing for. Thank you very much!

Man I'm a programmer and there's just something so heartwarming about someone passionate making a cool web page about something they love, I can tell gathering and putting together all that info took a ton of time, kudos to you. Really informative video too, and I love the insights beyond just the strictly technical stuff. Rock on man.

This is what the real school of rock looks like, Thanks good content.

I can't believe you give it to us for free. A saint

I will do everything I can to make your name be remembered as long as guitat exists. That's how much i'm grateful for your work

You have filled a void in the guitar teaching community. Many teach but very few actually show how to incorporate what you see and learn into proper licks and riffs. Most people have to try and figure that out. Subscribed. Thanks

This is just what I needed to start connecting some guitar concepts that I've been stuck on

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

haha, thanks JAKE(bot)!

I starting guitar at 52 and been playing everyday for two year. Needless to say, there's a lot of ground to make up. Your web app is a massive game changer for me. I just wanted to pass along a sincere thank you for sharing your years of knowledge with this old guy.

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

from one old guy to another! lol

@mrfuriouser

2 ай бұрын

I'm 52 now and just beginning myself... to say this endeavor can be overwhelming would be an understatement! But... this looks doable!

@lawncuttingplusdelta

2 ай бұрын

I’m 57 … started at 25 … played on and off …. I always reach for an acoustic guitar and try to play 10-15 minutes a day . best advice I ever got was , to trust that lights will come on as you progress…. shapes of chords will connect and trust that there are only 12 notes and they repeat up and down a string and across the neck … for some people like me and brian may and mark knoepler lol , we look at the intervals as a little math !! …. I base it from C where there are no sharps or flats , then in other keys you will see how the tone tone semi tone , tone tone tone semi tone … start to make sense….and sharps and flats are simply just like a measurement on a tape measure for example …. I used to be so intimidated by theory and now I just visualize shapes and chords and practice .

@austinsatterfield6792

2 ай бұрын

My uncle started Banjo at about the same age and one thing he said that stuck with me was: "Old people think they can't learn new things as we get older but they forget we have the time experience, we just lost the kids in us that makes new things exciting to learn. Never lose the kid in ya." Or something like that lol.

@dgperforms1

2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks man!!

Wow dude, so glad I came across this, doing this and putting it out for free, makes you a real guitar legend in my book, thanks man!

I’m a guitar teacher myself. This has to be of the greatest resources ever created. Definitely going to be sharing with my students!

LOVED the camera position! Finally someone understood!

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

thanks! yeah there's a few other YT channels showing this viewpoint, but for whatever reason they don't seem to have gotten much traction. But yeah, its kinda hard watching a guitarist and having to flip it around in your mind, especially if you're trying to relate it to an underlying shape or chord.

WTF?!? Holy mother of Rock n'Roll, you are unbelievable! A biggest thank you from your 100th subscriber!

You can say that this video is made with heart.

Man, you should put a "sort by player" option, then we could learn the vocabulary of an specific player! This is truly gold.

@beepbleepboop

2 ай бұрын

huge idea

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

i hear you :) a search function, also being able to hear audio examples, look like they're the most requested features

This is absolutely terrific! What a valuable contribution, thanks for your good work. Your place in heaven is assured.

Been looking for this kind of thing forever, as someone who is self taught I always felt like I was missing crucial foundational stuff

Youre so cool for doing this for free! I love that. I know not everyone can do these things for free but I really think that type of labour of love is what the internet is all about.

Absolute legend, this may finally be what takes me out of my "campfire guitarist" phase. I feel like you covered everything ive ever wanted to know but felt like nobody would tell me!

It's been 6 minutes and I stopped the video to say: This information was what I always wanted to learn about 20 years ago, when I began to immerse myself in the songs of the Rolling Stones and their intertwined guitars. I was fascinated by the work of rhythm guitars. THANK YOU!

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

If I could have one rock and roll wish granted to me it would be access to the original multitrack recording of Jumpin' Jack Flash, to be able to listen to all those different guitar parts. Fascinating!

Just wanted to say here that what you have achieved here is fantastic, and hands down the most valuable tool I've found online whilst being completely free. I have notebooks full of scale, chord and mode fretboard diagrams I've drawn and coloured by hand from formula derivation, but riffs and licks, as you say, is the vocabulary picked up usually from watching others play. So a massive thankyou from me, plus a congratulations on being the first I've seen to create a riff typography like a musical archaeology doctorate. If you ever set up a tip-jar or anything like that, I'd love to buy you at least a coffee or a beer! All the best!

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

7 күн бұрын

"musical archeology", I like that :) Sometimes it feels like an archeologist when trying to dig down through layered guitar parts and figuring out what exactly they were playing

@francisswift6535

7 күн бұрын

@@theBuildingBlocksOfRock My girlfriend is an archaeologist and was as excited to see this as I was, because you've captured that idea of things having a shared genealogy but no terms as such for them...and set to work on grouping or differentiating them by going through 'historical records', and yes, digging down into it to create a typology....much like the Oakeshott Typology for historic swords for example. Please note it is not a comment about age or music being out of date, very much complimentary and not insulting. Again, thankyou so much, absolutely wonderful, have already been using it today to learn things myself as well as teach a new guitar player.

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

6 күн бұрын

interesting, I was trying to think of other genres where things have no name but there are definite relationships between them. I have a new appreciation for the word "typeology"! (never knew what it meant until you mentioned it, looked it up just now :)

Great material, great teaching style, great editing, great diagrams, great examples, great script/talking, great pacing, great playing. Amazing video!

You are a saint among men, thank you.

Kevin's simple web app is undoubtedly the finest guitar-playing resource available. I'm confident in declaring this because Kevin truly understands that all music consists of common, boilerplate elements with sprinkles of uniqueness. Not only does Kevin name and categorize these boilerplate components, but he also provides references to songs that incorporate them. You're the man Kevin!

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

20 күн бұрын

Thanks! The app is a constant work in progress, with several limitations (ex: can't display > 5 frets), housed in a primitive web page, populated with licks and riffs that are just my subjective take on things. But I'm glad you like it!

This man is an international treasure

Hey Kevin 👋😺 Thanks for the free tutorial, too many people try to force a data harvesting app on the unknowing majority. I appreciate you giving us a website that I can view in incognito mode with cookies disabled and adblockers enabled. Takes a kind-hearted, passionate person like you to pass on this knowledge for free, thankyou very much. Music is life ❤

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Thank you friend this is just what I needed!

This is amazing like what else can I say just thank you sir! I get the labor of love thing and you seem to have a certain amount of integrity more so than most but if you ever need any funding, it’s OK to ask, especially when you’re providing something this good. You can let it be voluntary, many of us would be glad to help keep it going for everyone else, when we can.

I'm gratefull God gave us You! You're the best I was looking for some licks to learn... And here I am! Rock on🤘 and hope you get the views you deserve.

This is an excellent lesson. It's like you time travelled from the 70s to teach hands on guitar in 2024. Subscribed and liked. The old school way of learning music by watching and the ear. Thank you so much!!!

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

haha, thanks! dinosaur time travelling :)

Ive never seen playing riffs over chord changes explained in such a concise manner: (9:44). And with context no less.This is how guitar parts are recored in studio, baby chords, triads, etc. Welcome to youtube!

The teacher that I needed in my whole life. ❤

Ive been looking for something exactly like this for so long! Thank god for the internet letting young bucks like me get to hear wisdom from the masters !

21 and learning guitar since I was about 16; this is the best guitar lesson I’ve ever seen for free in ages, kudos to you dude rock on

Omg on 2nd watch this is exactly how we did it growing up! I was born 75'. I know you're giving this away, but you should charge something small like $5 for the app before this blows up. Because it will. Anyone who knows about this stuff will spread the word and share. $5 is affordable and reasonable. You deserve something for all this hard work putting this together. What a gem this is!!! Consider a few bucks for the app... You deserve it! I think of all the people who shell out a few hundred for a guitar course that's confusing. This is how to do it! Learn some stuff and let the theory makes sense as you learn more. I can't praise this system enough!

You're a genius. What a great method to learn!

Extremely innovative and organized. I love this. I’m not a beginner anymore but this is a beginners dream!

this is the most usefull video i have ever watched after learning some music theory

I wish I could hang out with you for 6 months. You are an incredible wealth of knowledge and information. You make everything seem so easy.

This is a brilliant little lesson! I would've loved to have more videos demonstrating small licks and embellishments like this growing up, I wouldn't learn most of those licks until I was already 2 or 3 years into playing.

Great way of teaching. I have about 20 beginner guitar students and I'm always looking for resources.

It's not often these days that youtube will recommend me a video from a small channel I've never heard of before. But thankfully it recommended your video! Great idea, the 'blind spot' riffs/licks have in our guitar vocabulary is something I've definitely I've felt, almost on the tip of my tongue, but never really articulated as it just seemed the natural way of things. You've done a great job articulating it and I will certainly be checking out the app and subscribing to your channell!

You're the best. Thanks for sharing this with us! This is huge! This is easily one of, if not the most musicaly important and comprehensive guitar lessons I've ever seen on the internet and from any guitar player.

This gave me more insight on how to be a better guitarist in twenty minutes than the ten years of noodling before that. Thanks a ton, and please keep creating new content!!! It’s all super useful!

The concept of making everything more visual for guitar students is something important to me, so thanks for making this!

The boomer rock/dad rock sage. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

Great resource, this is what the internet (should be) all about. Thank you!

I'm blown away. No one else on KZread has phrased guitar learning this way. The learning grammar before words thing really blew me away. Also, your app is looks to be an awesome tool for learning. Thank you for your generosity in giving this to us for free, very grateful for it. Subscribed!

You are a truly good man for sharing this with us purely for the joy of helping others. The world is a better place for people like you. Thank you sir!

I recognize all those licks, and have played most of them. I'm not really a newbie, been on and off guitar for more than 25 years. Your vid is very informative. Definitely wished I had vids like these when I was learning and was younger. So easy to learn songs nowadays compared to older times where you had to learn by ear, or by a song book or watching how it's played.

The algorithm is smiling on this video, you deserve it because this is awesome

The "long suffering wife" bit absolutely cracked me up :D

This is a fantastic piece of work. What an effort. Should be one of the greatest guitar learning tools available. Well done, sir!

From a player who grew up learning like this in the late 80s early 90s then got a jazz diploma in 99, I have to say... This might be the best KZread video I've ever seen for beginners and intermediates. Modes are so unnecessary for intermediate or even pros if you know the scale of the key and how see the current chord shape over it to know which chord tone you're targeting. I say the same thing to my friends. You don't have to learn the whole neck for a long time. Learn the main two rock penta positions and a ton of songs. I taught very briefly and all I did was say "What song do you want to learn?" Then Id learn it and show them! That's why they're really there right? This whole idea is incredible. Great job!!!! The Stones riff. The Clapton box( I use this for the penta with the root on the G string b3rd and 4 the on B string, 5th and b7 on high E)... The BB Box. Chuck Berry lick... We had names for everything. Our own language. It's ear training by example!!!

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

6 күн бұрын

"Learn the two main rock penta positions and a ton of songs" -- exactly!

The thing of seeing music theory behind every lick/riff/chord is cool af

As a starting teacher, thank you so much for this. I went straight to metal resources when I started and never paid much attention to rock resources. Now I can make better use of these tools

Hey Kevin, what an amazing surprise to find your channel, I like and share your point of view, and I already know a lot of theory, but I like to make music, learn vocabulary and songs, I think it is the best way. I think your channel will grown up to the moon, best wishes, I will follow very interested. I can see you have a huge acknolegment in music and you did a huge work to classify/find all these material in songs, chords, voicings, riffs, scales.... I am very impressed! Congratulations and thank you very much for sharing Kevin! (sorry for my english, I am from south of Spain)

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

¡muchimas gracias, rafa_guitar! (un poco tarde, dispensame :)

Brother... I Love your App! I just found your channel, and I wish it could've been possible to see this 20 years ago. You laid out exactly how I learned guitar. I'm actually still learning, but I started at like 16, way back in 1993 or something. I progressed very slowly, as I didn't practice every day, plus I was alone in it. I sat with friends every once in a while. I put the guitar away when I had kids - around 2001, which gave me about 7 years of kinda playing. Fast forward to 2018, and I picked it up again. I remembered pretty much everything from before, but I sucked at implementing it. This time, I practiced every day, and the last 7 years I learned a whole lot more than I did the first 7 years, thanks to KZread! But, if I had your App, I would've probably cut most of that time. For me, this is the most intuitive way to learn how to find a voice on the guitar by learning how to combine chords with scales and modes... "The Building Blocks of Rock!" Thank you, Kevin!

OMG! This mic positioning is genius!

Man, this is what I've been hoping to find for years! I've been playing for a long time now but there are so many basic licks I still don't know how to play. (And was too lazy to figure out by myself.) This is gold man! Your work of love is much appreciated and will be by many! I can't imagine how much of your time went into this. I am sincerely grayeful. To your wife also, for sharing her husbands time and attention with a bunch of guitar geeks from around the world. I feel inspired already, and I haven't opened the app yet!

This is so cool. I can tell it's taken a lot of love and labor to make this app. And the fact that you're offering it for free is just over the top cool. I'd gladly have paid for this back in the day. Heck, I'd pay of now! I'm showing this to everybody!

This is revolutionary. Simple as that. It's an educational revolution. Congratulations on the work of your life!

I've been playing for 2 years and this is what i have been looking for since the beginning.Thank you!

So many years in YT and your video is the first one that I've seen for those who wanna play guitar for real.

You are the kind of man that deserves to go down in guitar history I will spread this to all my guitar buddies

I started playing hair guitar in 1985. I was 15. Had a buddy who played, but he wasn't always available. I learned by ear. Was slow going first couple of years, but it developed my ear. Big time. If there's any out of tune going on at all, I can hear it. It SCREAMS, to me.

Hello, old guitarist here. Please keep it up. Your lessons are very valuable. Actually I am a very trained classical pianist, but also play guitar and have for years.

I’ve been playing for a few years, i know my chords, scales, fun riffs and common licks and patterns. I can learn most marty schwartz tutorials in 10 seconds and i can learn things by ear. But getting past that is so difficult, as like you mentioned, licks and little riffs have no real names. I feel like i’ve been stuck for months not knowing what to learn… (i’ve been hearing the term intermediate plateau a lot). This webpage is exactly what i need to get further, thank you so much for your work! The visualizations are perfect, not exactly what to play but just patterns you can work with in all keys. I love it!

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

yeah, I think a lot of players learn chords, scales, but then unsure where to go next. The "intermediate plateau" like you say. Thanks!

that chord you play around with around 12:30 is also used as a moveable shape in “high and dry” by radiohead! this video seriously helped me find a new direction for getting better at songwriting, and i’ve been playing for ~16 years at this point. hella good video dude

@theBuildingBlocksOfRock

2 ай бұрын

Nice, thanks! Just added that Radiohead example to the chord in the app (to see it, go to E/chords in fixed position, then just hit the back button, it's the last chord shape in that category)

Kudos 👏🏻 I appreciate your efforts Sir, thank you very much❤

THIS!!! This is what I have been looking for.🥰

Incredible work! Pls keep it up, your knowledge will be extremely useful for the new generation of guitarists and musician

At first, I thought I have to purchase the app or subscribe with expensive price. 😂 Once I clicked on the link and I just gave a 90 degree bow and salute to this guitar hero❤ You save the world

That chart you have at 6:45 was exactly the route I used to learn a lot of my acoustic guitar. I wish I had this app's information while I was doing it - its laid out SO well. This is really something you got here, it makes so much sense to use and explore. Thank you for making this. I'm going to go and explore as much as I can.

This is so awesome!!! Thank you so much for making this free and so well thought out! So excited to try it

Absolutely love this and your app! As a programmer and guitar player I am 100% loving this!

It's amazing your software is free and doesn't harvest our data. You're the man!

scales are the alphabet and you have to turn them into words is such a good analogy

This is like hitting the jackpot! 🤩 And if I ever do hit a substantial jackpot, I will for sure offer you a share. I would (and will) donate if my income ever allows for it! Thank you SO VERY MUCH, sir! ❤

This is a holy grail for guitar playing, thank you so so much!!!

This is very well informed and presented in a way that’s going to help,so many up and coming guitarists. Thanks for your services.

What a cool concept! I appreciate all your hard work to create such a useful resource for learning guitar!

had to pause the video halfway through because one of the riffs you showed off inspired me to write something. wonderful thing you've made here

Absolutely brilliant. Easy to see that this has occupied you for many many months. Thanks so much for your efforts.

You are awesome! A great teacher, instructor. You put everything together beautifully. BRAVO 👏 👏 👏!!!

Man, this is a really effective way of teaching. Thank you for making this available.

Thank you, you're very kind for offering this service for free, especially as a hands on/visual learner

You just blew me away. I have been playing for 38 years. I play beautifully. But only if I know the song note for note. If I get lost, well, then I'm lost. You just answered the question I have always had, which is why can't I play in a band, or follow along if I F&** up. Now I know why. Because I'm not playing, I'm mimicking. When you said that chords and scales are grammar, licks and riffs are words, it made so much sense to me. I think now I get it. Your video covered a lot. I didn't absorb it all. But you have sparked something in this old guitarist. Thank you.

@duanefogle1666

2 ай бұрын

Even after 55 years of guitar, I've never liked the terms,"riffs or licks." Never knew why either..Thanks for erasing those terms off the chalkboard 🎵🎶🎵🎹🎸🎷🎸

10:10 They do actually! At least in terms of the order of the chord tones from low to high. Drop voicings and their inversions describe this fairly well most of the time. I’m sure there is even more theory to accurately describe chords which I don’t know, but I also think there will always be some room left for interpretation that can’t be 100% laid out by theory. This is an awesome resource you made, I‘ll definitely check it out and play around with it. Looks pretty cool and helpful!

You nailed it. Not only what to do but the repeated licks in many rock songs. When you start playing this would have been so helpful. Took me years to figure it out.

Very inspiring. Thank you very much sir!

Also, I love that even in the first video you are recommending good channels. I have no time for peeps who teach classic songs inaccurately or with plain wrong notes, chords or rhythm and for me thats about 90% of what's out there sadly. I mean, Zappa, Hendrix and Santana - almost impossible to find anyone who nails it right, let alone Mike Bloomfield (my real name).

This is an excellent approach to rock guitar. I've been playing for 20 years, and this would've saved me a lot of time!

You legend. You are doing more for rock n roll than you even know. Also - great observation - theory is grammar (or maybe semantics), and actually playing is learning words.

Man this is such a refreshing take on guitar learning. Probably the best guitar video i have seen in years. No BS approach, this is extremely cool

Not all heroes wear caps. Some play the guitar!!

“You need to start learning some words” THANK YOU. I needed this

This is the single best resource for guitar i've seen in a while. An app, simple tutorial- and its free! Thank you so much.