Great and cool sounding workout must give a try .
very cool lesson, great rhythm playing
Thank you Stephane
Great job and great guitar sound Jerry!
This VST plugin is great - i'n gonna chek it out...
Thank you Toni
Great workout Jerry!
Thank you guys
Great lesson Jerry! Also guitar sounds great through that VST!
Great classic rock riffage man, cool
Thank you Kaznie
Cool to see a new Jerry lesson! And a very nice one
Thanks Gabriel
Cool stuf Jerry! I also like that amp simulator sound!
Thanks Lian & Emir!
I love this stuff. The sound is great with the plugins
really nice lesson Jerry!!! well done
@ Jerry Yes I hope we have a revolution of really good free vsts in front of us!
Thank you Sinisa
Awesome tone and playing man
Thank you guys
That's a great sounding lesson, Jerry. It's a good rhythm workout. Nice selection of power chord shapes as well. Thanks!
Great sound and awesome stuff for rythms!
Sweet rhythm playing man !
Great riff lesson Jerry!
Great sound Jerry!!!
Great workout!
Very cool lesson Jerry. Great power chords workout!
Yes! Great to see another rhythm lesson from you Jerry - if you haven't yet discovered Jerry's rhythm chops be sure to browse through his lessons.
The free vst plugin seems very interesting - I loved your crunchy sound here.
Hi GMC:ers!
With this lesson we're going to see some rhythm parts using only power chords.
What is a power chord? I'm sure most of you know already the answer.
A power chord is the simplest chord we can play, consisting of only the root note of the chord and the fifth. As example, an A5 chord is made by A and E notes.
Many theory books write that a chord is made by three or more notes. In most cases, these books are not talking about rock and modern music, while power chord become famous especially thanks to the early heavy metal bands. Do you know a song called Smoke On The Water??
So, it doesn't matter if we call a power chord a real "chord" or not! On the other side we must know how to play them in different ways. In this lesson you'll find different voicings using also open strings. This means that you can alternate root notes and fifths note in many ways in your fingerings and you'll still get a power chord.
Remember that complex chords can sound messy using a lot of distortion, while power chords will sound good also with an high gain sound.
To record this lesson I used my Washburn N4 (tuned down an half step), EZdrummer and a free VST of the SimulAnalog project for the guitar sound - www.simulanalog.org
If you like the sound and you want to know the settings, please let me know here or in my board and I will be happy to post a screenshot of the interface.
Have fun!