Hi, I'm Bob from Toronto, Canada
this guitar lesson is an introduction to heavy metal power chords and is mainly for beginners a
power chord is a chord made up of two notes as played with distortion like so
The reason that only two notes are used is if you play a chord with all the notes using distortion
Get it up with the real cluttered sound
like this
So cluttered sounds here's the same chords using power
So as far as power chords go less is better
Here's one example the song uses power chords. It's iron man by black Sabbath just a quick demonstration part of it
This is how to play a power chord
Play the F note on the sixth string the top string
And the C note on the fifth string third fret and together
Now here are the chords of the guitar?
power chords starting with E
and be
for stress right third fret G fifth fret 8
seven threat be in a trap see
tenth fret D 12th fret E string
at the fifth string open a
Then the second fret is be
Third fret issy to threat is D
Seven Threat II
eight fret is f
A
Tenth fret is G
12th fret
is 8
if you want you can add a third note to the powerboards, so
the Vf
see
on the fifth string third fret and
fourth string Third fret which is half again
you
Well, I hope this lesson has been helpful, and if you have any questions, please message me
Also, I have several lessons with tabs on my guitar group on Myspace
Go to myspace go go to groups
type in Guitar lessons and
Look for Bob's guitar lessons. That's my group
Bye for now
