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- Beginner Power ChordsLEVEL 2Lesson dedicated for beginner players. Strumming power chords is usually the very first step we make, while we start our adventure with electric guitar. When we switch on the distortion for the first time, we should get familiar with some essential differences between chord strumming on acoustic guitar, and chord strumming on distorted electric guitar tone. Here's a lesson that will introduce You to electric guitar rhythm playing.
- Hard Rock RiffingLEVEL 4Learn to play hard rock pentatonic riffs.
- Hard Rock DyadsLEVEL 3Learn how to play "dyads" or double stops in the hard rock manner.
- Vintage Hard RockLEVEL 5Based on Vintage Rock bands like AC/DC where we can find the predominant use of the pentatonic scale in composition and in the solos.
- Super Hard RockLEVEL 5Let's combine influences of Mr. Big, Motley Crue, Velvet Revolver, Jeff Scott Soto, Danger Danger and Gun's & Roses.
- Hard Rock InsanityLEVEL 7A solo from my band, Tirana Rockers
- 9th Power ChordsLEVEL 3I wanna show you a variation of the basic root/fifth power chord, the add9th. As the name says this power chords have, apart from root and fifth and added 9th, that is the same note as the second, just an octave higher.
- Power Chords WorkoutLEVEL 2Riffs using only power chords with different voicings, open strings, and the palm muting technique.
- Staccato Power ChordsLEVEL 2Learn how to make your riffs stand out and cut through!
Feedback
Sinisa Cekic31st August 2011Thanks guys
Bogdan Radovic30th August 2011Great ideas for making simple power chords interesting!
Ivan Milenkovic30th August 2011Some very cool shapes, and cool bass line moves. Many hit songs are based on them.
- Sinisa Cekic29th August 2011
Thanks friends! True, every beginner should enrich the power chords. They are very easy, and sounds interesting.
Kristofer Dahl29th August 2011Excellent Sinisa - we always need more rhythm lessons! I personally find it hard to break away from common grown with power chords
Daniel Realpe28th August 2011excellent lesson! the begining of all rock guitar journey
Ben Higgins28th August 2011This is excellent. A very overlooked and important subject ! And your video quality looks even better
zoom28th August 2011Nice! Some new shapes for me to learn. That's a mean D5/C your got in there.
Great tone.
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Hi GMCers,
In this lesson you'll learn how you can play a certain power chord in several varieties (inverting). For hard rock and metal,this example is mainly the three-note "power chord".
Also, you'll learn how we can stroll keynote along with bass guitar.Power chords are not really chords. Chords are 3 notes or more, whereas power chords only have 2 different notes. A more correct name would be "power intervals" because they only contain two different notes. Usually power chords are composed of the root, a perfect 5th interval, and the root note doubled at a higher pitch (called an octave). Basically they are just like playing perfect 5th intervals and doubling up a note or two.
*I advise you to look at this article related to Power chords.
Find the desired pickup setting. Bridge pickups usually tend to give the heaviest and most aggressive sound but this could vary from guitar to guitar.
Equipment and sound settings:
DAW: Sonar 8,Guitar Rig4 plugin,Ibanez SC3120 Japan Custom
Chord progression: D5/C5/B5/G5
Tuning: standard EADGBE
4/4 , 100bpm
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
Fullscreen: `f`, esc to close
Increase / decrease speed : `+` or `-`
