Chords for power chord lesson - easy electric guitar lesson

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_ _ [D] Hey, what's up you guys?
[Eb] Marty Schwartz [Db] here with [B] GuitarJams.com.
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Anyway, I'm going to show [B] you a little supplemental [Gb] lesson to your basic power [B] chords.
So we've got kind of a rock lesson going here.
[A] _ _ What I wanted to show you is [E] hopefully at this point you know how to play a power chord.
[Dbm] So like if I said a G power [B] chord, you'd play your index finger on the third fret of the E string.
_ And that's a G note.
And then you [Bb] would add your ring finger to the fifth fret of the A string.
_ And that gives you a [G] G power chord. _ _
_ So that's your basic power chord. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Alright, so let me give you a couple [B] of options that you can play instead of [Bb] that chord.
But it'll still work, _ _ it'll complement [Bm] that chord.
So if there's two guitar [Bb] players in a band, [B] this is something cool.
[Db] Or this might just make your, if [E] you wrote a riff with [B] basic power chords, [D] you could
[C] use some of these ideas to just make it a [B] little more unique sounding.
If you're looking for a new way to play a power chord.
[A] So one thing you can do [B] is you add your pinky [E] to the [B] fifth fret of the D [G] string. _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _
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_ You know, which a lot of people already do.
Nirvana [A] did it, you know, a bunch of others.
But [E] that's a way to thicken up [Gb] the chord.
But what you [Gbm] can do instead is [C] take the low root [B] out and just play those two with one [G] finger. _
_ _ It's kind of like a reverse power chord.
It [Ebm] really [A] emphasizes the sound that's called the [G] fourth. _ _
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And it's [B] real smoke on the water.
It's real [Gm] gritty. _
But so [Dbm] if one guy's playing this, let's just say power chord on the first fret up to the third.
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_ _ _ _ [B] Another guitar player could be [C] playing, you can kind of think of it by adding your pinky
and going, oh, [Bb] those are the two.
Or the root on the D [B] string, you can think of it that way.
If I'm playing an [C] F to a G, you can [B] find the F and the G on the D [F] string.
_ [G] _ _ [C] And play _ [E] the note on the A string with it. _
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_ [E] Now you can [Eb] use two fingers for it.
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[Ebm] And when you do that with one [B] finger, you [F] can do some, _
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_ _ you know, you can start to [Db] add
little [Gb] elements of a scale [Db] in there, like the pentatonic, you know.
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_ _ _ _ [E] And, you know, these aren't original concepts, but some people don't know it yet.
[F] Okay, here's another thing [B] you can do with that chord [E] instead.
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_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ So if I'm playing these [F] two, _ _ I'm thinking of it as [Db] an F power chord.
The [B] root's actually on the third fret of the D.
So what I can do though now, and [Bb] this is like in a [Db] Def Leppard song, for instance, I can
go, [Bb] _
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_ _ [C] _ _ [Db] I can now [B] add my ring finger to the fifth fret [C] of the G.
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_ _ _ _ [G] And then even my pinky to the sixth fret of the B.
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[G] That's still an F power chord.
So watch, if I'm going to [Db] loop an F power chord right [F] here. _ _
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_ _ _ So that's looping, right?
So I can play this two, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
and I can add. _ _ _ _
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So it's the same [C] chord.
It's going to give you a different [Eb] sound. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ So if I play a G power chord, _ _ I can play the fifth fret on the A [Gm] and D instead.
_ _ _ _ _ I can [B] even add my ring to the seventh of the [G] G. _ _ _
_ _ My pinky to the eighth of the B. _
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[E] You know, so _ basically just [Dbm] spark [B] some new concepts for you, that's all.
[D] _ And to [Eb] know that they're there.
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_ _ _ _ [G] You know, _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ it's just [B] a [C] different [B] sound, and it's definitely [Gb] a more complex kind of [Bb] power chord.
So just [D] consider it, and you might [B] actually start to hear it now too.
Hear it in some songs [A] and [B]
just let [E] it creep its way [B] into your [Gm] knowledge.
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