Beginners Guitar Lessons – Play Power Chords The Easy Way
How frequently do you look up the check for your favorite song and find a page full of tricky looking power chords?
For some reason years back in the “land of TAB” some clever fellow decided to make power chords tough to play by making all power chords three finger formations.
I have no idea why they did this, as you may discover directly … Two of the notes in the formation are exactly the same letter name.
Since two of the notes in the 3 note power chord share identical letter name no additional harmony is formed, thus you can successfully drop one of these notes and create a far more easy to use 2 finger power chord shape.
The 2 Finger Power Chord :
After a lot of trial and error guitarists discover the best and most “powerful” sound was created by playing 2 notes together, hence the name “power chord”. Technically speaking a chord is three different notes played together, but new music needs new theoretical terminology to describe the sounds.
A nice example of power chords is the intro to “Smoke On The Water” by Deep Purple … Please note these are 2 note power chords often wrongly written as three note power chords.
The First and the Fifth :
The two notes that produce the best results are the first and fifth notes.
Here’s some examples for you to try …
Scale of G : G,A,B,C,D,E,F,G
First note is “G” and the fifth note is “D” when these two notes are played together they produce a “G” power chord.
Regularly power chords are written with a number five after the letter name i.e, G5 is an alternative way of writing a “G” power chord.
Here is an example in the key of D.
Scale of D : D,E,F,G,A,B,C,D
First note is “D” and the 5th note is “A” when these 2 notes are played together they produce a “D” power chord.
And one more example in the key of A.
Scale of A : A,B,C,D,E,F,G,A
First note is “A” and the fifth note is “E” when these 2 notes are played together they produce a “A” power chord.
Two Note Power Chord vs The Three Note Power Chord :
The notes in a 2 note G5 chord are G & D
The notes in a three note G5 chord G,D and G
Are you able to see the duplication?
So, don’t make things hard for yourself …carting that additional note all over the fingerboard is like pulling and elephant up a hill, make it easy and play the 2 note version, it’ll sound a whole lot better.
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