12 Different Kinds of Power Chords | GEAR GODS 

I love your comment and by no disrespect i suggest that you modify your name (at least among-st your friends) to "Stinky Jenkins".

@@neverifnotfornow LOL

"I'm gonna play with my 2nd finger this time so i can get a little bit bigger of a stretch" XD

@@DustyWookman42019 I hardly ever played with my pinky, until I lost my index and middle finger.

i play with my pinky 😢

teryus De Anda thats the magic of internet ! A lot of people like to insult or hate cause they are behind their screen ... most of them would never say those things face to face ... oh well i liked the video too ! 🤷‍♂️

Great words pal, but let me remember you, this is the Internet, Land of All Vicious Trolls. You can use the magic that makes them lose their powers: just ignore them. Peace!

Q: How many guitar players does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 13 - one to do it, and twelve to stand around and say, "Phhhwt! I can do better than that!"

I am one of those beginners and You nailed it buddy! Agree!

Thats why some people learn to play and others learn to criticize smh

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It's over driven over compressed and thin

@@johnboykin3128 It's overdriven? No way, how'd you figure that out? You're a genius.

@@johnboykin3128 it does sound a bit weak doesnt it

how are you progressing with learning at the moment? I just started like 5 months ago so just curious c:

I wish ypu guys many nights of enjoyable jamz, frusttrating praxtice, and sometimes even discouraging moments lolol. Im 31, been playing since i was 13 and nothing in my life so far (single/no kids) has been a more rewarding, challenging, fun, humbling, aggrevating, or enjoyable investment of my time/money/heart. Man stick with it. Seriously. Never stop pushin yourself to play how you wanna play or sound at that given time, or to achieve what you want to achieve playing guitar. You get out what you put in with guitar, well anything in life really. Its all about discipline. Learn the boring shit. Itll help more than you know down the road. And make sure to learn and at least be aware of proper technique. Especially picking. Bad habits are truly hard to break. And dont let plateaus in your progression/playing discourage you. You will overcome it. Absolutely. I promise. And msot of all, remember why ya started playing. Make sure you know your instrument. Have fun and happy shreddign my dudes

I’ve only been playing for about a week, but I love the guitar very much. 4 years late isn’t TOO late is it lol? I wish you guys the best!

@@annoftheforest3835 how old are you, I started 5 months ago

Same here. Kind of light light bulb and satisfying moment when you realise that the shape you made up and just ran up and down the neck is called a power chord.

or Foo Fighters

+Harry Pray IV Or disturbed.

+Odie50000 or Tool lol

JP, Morse, EJ, Rush many top players use it a lot:)

Eskil the Mark Tremonti chord

I don't understand how he forgot that

I dont understand what this chord is

He said he likes to do this with his pinkie

@mark heyne It is since the octave is basically the same note as the root, but higher, and because it still doesn't have a third.

He did cover it. I always just play the fifth and octave with one finger (ring finger) though, but I see a lot of people use their pinky for the octave. Which makes me wonder if there is some downside to my technique that I am not thinking of...

Or really anything Mark Holcomb touches.

;p

Osmar Garcia staind

Listen to the foo fighters

True that G. I got confused as fucked lol

yeah, cause there's a huuuuge difference, right?

@@LexHansenGuitar it might be to a complete beginner.. 🤔

Because 7 string chords and 6 string chords, at least in a drop tuning are near similar. There’s not a complete massive difference

@@brandonproctor3639 who else would power chord videos be for???

Well that's not actually what it's called, that's a mistake on Trey's part. What he's really playing is a sus2, an add9 by definition has a 3rd, so for example Cadd9 would actually be C E G D.

@@JoshuaConnorMusic dude what are you talking about hes not wrong? Csus2 and C5add9 are the exact same thing!!! your either trolling or have no idea what your talking about

Had the same thought lol his tone is trash

I wouldn't say anything it was an amateur video, but yeah you're right it sounds bloody awful :D

The Cantrell Project it doesn't sound completely horrible, it's just a bit flat.

i love the guy but yep.

That raspiness is what i stay away from besides woofiness

Thanks man! Let em whine, with over 400k views on this I'll take a little hate hahahaha

Gear Gods it just really irritates me that all they care about is the tone and not what you are trying to teach I definitely learned something :)

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Haha

mark heyne line 6 sucks

ThotSticks your opinion

Technically though it's a triad though right, not a power chord hehe

+Austin Hernandez glad I could be of help!

Red Machine Kieran I dont think beginners will even notice the extra string

Red Machine Kieran which I didnt. until you said so. YOU are the cause of my confusion.

I didn't notice it until I saw this. I'm not a beginner but I was confused as to why he was showing E on the diagram and not playing the top string.

Lol u cleared it up for me. I didn’t think to count the strings 👍

@@VOYAGEUR-YT exactly the same, i was like wtf, he is not touching E string :D..he has it wrong, then scrolled a bit and red comments..

how’s the guitar learning going 3 months later?

Yup, Jean does reinforce that massive sound of theirs. This is exactly why bass is one of the most important instruments in metal. Think about how Gojira would sound if Jean wasn’t there. They’d sound good, but not as *massive* as they do with him.

Yep Sylosis are the gods at using that shape :D!

Justin Wilson I've always just called it the police shape haha

kenconify i just call it the opeth power chord

If it was a major or minor add9, that would be true. This is a power chord with an add9. Add9 just means you pop a 9 on top of whatever you've got, because if a chord says for example FMaj9, that implies that it has a root, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth - add9 means you skip everything from the last note of the chord name and go straight to the ninth. That means that it's both an add9 and a sus2. It's a little tough because a power chord isn't a "proper" music theory term - nor is it "truly" a chord, more a construct of the guitar, so I'm making some allowances.

Oh all right, yeah that's the thing with power chords, thanks for the reply !

+Gear Gods LargeSigh is right. Your chord has no third, making it suspended. The distinction between add9/2 and sus2 is that add chords have the third, and by definition the tone is simply added to a "complete" (in a classical sense) harmonic structure with a major or minor tonality , while sus chords do not, thus the 2nd is suspended in place of the third, resulting in an "incomplete" (again, classical sense) harmonic structure with no tonality. It's all about whether your third is there or not.

@@jdjk7 Although you and LargeSigh are not wrong by any means, as I've also made the same call describing it as a sus2. However, I now think of it as an add9 due to the placement of the '2' in the next octave after the 5th, but not before the 5th. To me, that voicing is better defined as a add9. However, if an octave were placed between the 5th and '9th', I would then totally refer to it as a sus2.

Due to the 'power chord' structure being a stripped down, derivative version of the common barre chord, which are just '2nd inversion drop 2' voicings (ex.1-5-1-3-5-1), the majority of the chord tones are placed an octave above the root and 5th, but they're all together in relation to the root. I know a lot of this theoretical semantics doesn't help justify one way over the other, but what I've taken away from learning about all this shit is that there's no 1 "correct" way to accurately communicate these concepts, due to the relativistic nature, but it's all about finding the best description that contextually expresses the situation.