Power Chords Lesson
Sunday March 23, 2008
Gamer writes:
I was wondering about the power chords shown on this site. When I search different sites, they show me power chords with two fingers, while this site shows power chords with three fingers. Could you explain the difference to me?
Sure I can. Power chords contain only two different notes, the root and the fifth. Sometimes when guitarists play power chords, they choose to only play these two notes. Other times, however, guitarists will want a bigger, fatter sound to their power chords. So, they'll simply double one of the notes already contained in the chord, only they'll play it an octave higher. This results in a three note power chord. There are still only two different notes being played, one note is simply being doubled. These two and three note power chords are called the same thing, are written down the same way, and can be interchanged with one another without any problem.
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I was wondering about the power chords shown on this site. When I search different sites, they show me power chords with two fingers, while this site shows power chords with three fingers. Could you explain the difference to me?
Sure I can. Power chords contain only two different notes, the root and the fifth. Sometimes when guitarists play power chords, they choose to only play these two notes. Other times, however, guitarists will want a bigger, fatter sound to their power chords. So, they'll simply double one of the notes already contained in the chord, only they'll play it an octave higher. This results in a three note power chord. There are still only two different notes being played, one note is simply being doubled. These two and three note power chords are called the same thing, are written down the same way, and can be interchanged with one another without any problem.
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Comments
No offense, and I hope this doesn’t come across wrong. Because there are no dumb questions, but it seems to me that if your asking this question you need to train on theory a little more as well. Don’t concentrate on just playing guitar, you will need to know a little bit about what your playing or doing as well.