Power Chords
Power chords (also known as "rock chords" or "fifth chords") consist of only two notes. Technically power chords are not actually chords because a chord requires three or more notes, but as they are used frequently in modern music it is becoming more and more acceptable to refer to these shapes as chords. The three popular power chords in the open position are the A5, D5 and E5. Remember only two strings are played with each chord.
A5
D5
E5
Example 1 is counted "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and". Only down-strums are used. As only two strings are strummed for these chords, only a short stroke of the right hand is needed.
The following example applies the power chords A5, D5, and E5.
Class Sessions
1- Metal Guitar Solos
2- Advanced Rhythm Techniques
3- More Power Chords
4- Metal Lead Guitar
5- Root Six and Root Five Power Chords
6- INTRODUCTION
7- More Scales and Techniques
8- Single Note Riffs
9- Advanced Lead Guitar Techniques
10- Tapping and Whammy Bar Techniques
11- Power Chords
12- Scales
13- Slurring
14- Open String Slurs
15- Whammy Bar Techniques
16- Minor Pentatonic Scale
17- The Chromatic Scale
18- Approach to Practice
19- Rhythm Variations
20- Three String Power Chords
21- Triplet Rhythms
22- Using Accents
23- Quarter Note Triplets
24- The Major Scale
25- Whammy Bar Vibrato
26- Harmonics
27- Off-Beat Rhythms
28- Natural Minor Scale
29- Right Hand Muting
30- Keys
31- Chord Progressions
32- Chord Diagrams
33- Whammy Bar Dive
34- Scale Diagrams
35- Vibrato
36- Metal Lead Guitar Licks
37- The Minor Scale
38- Two Bar Rhythms
39- Pick Harmonics
40- Sixteenth Note Rhythms
41- Whammy Bar Release
42- Harmonic Minor Scale
43- Tablature
44- Touch Harmonics
45- Rhythm Rests
46- Minor Pentatonic Scales
47- Muting
48- Arpeggio Picking
49- Keys and Key Signatures
50- Whammy Bar Dipping
51- The Rake
52- Pick Tremolo
53- Triplets
54- Relative Keys
55- Sixteenth Notes
56- Whammy Bar Flicking
57- Performing in Public