Rock Secrets – The Power Chord
July 2, 2011 1 CommentPower chords may be the most important thing you’ll need to play rock guitar. We’ll show you how they work.
Power chords may be the most important thing you’ll need to play rock guitar. We’ll show you how they work.
We’re gonna get some power chord practice in with a dirty blues riff in the style of the Black Keys. Let’s get to it!
We’re stepping up the challenge a little bit with this killer Deep Purple style riff. But nothing you guys can’t handle!
We’re going 80′s on you today with a little Talking Heads! I can’t wait to get started!
Root 6 power chords should be a snap, so on come the root 5 ones! But these should be cake for you guys!
Here’s another awesome power chord riff, this time in the style of Lifehouse. Let’s get inspirational!
This is one of the greatest guitar riffs ever written, and we’re super excited to teach it! Let’s put those root 5 power chords to good use!
Now it’s time to put together the two types of power chords that we’ve learned! We’ll show you some ideas to make the job easier.
Nirvana helped bring alternative to forefront of popular music with the help of the mighty power chord. We’ll show you how they did it!
Punk rock was helped shaped by the venerable power chord, and today we’ll be checking out a riff in the style of the immortal Joan Jett. Let’s Rock!
Here’s a super cool punk rock style riff ala New Found Glory. So what are you waiting for?
The British are coming! And they’re bringing power chords with them! Let’s show them how to rock!
In this lesson we’re going to learn a super simple yet effective strategy you guys can use to write some killer power chord riffs!
Though we already looked at octaves, we’re going to learn two new shapes today which will increase our guitar vocabulary and really give us a cool biting sound.
Today we’ve got a very cool trick to show you where we’ll make a riff and vary the bass notes to give our riff some direction. It’s a lot of fun!
Today we’ll learn how to use varying rhythms to create a driving, modern rock power chord riff.
If normal power chords are starting to get old for you guys, we’ve got some embellishments you can add to spice up a normal riff and make it super cool.