Tips On How To Play Power Chords

One simple way to learn playing guitar is by learning power chords. When you know how to play power chords you have a good ground on how to play a whole barre Chord. When you know power chords you can basically play what sounds like any songs you like. And it particularly sounds good when it comes to rock and blues songs. But what is power chords. A Power Chord in short, is a mini version of a barre chord. It's made up of two notes (sometime three but mostly two). You can call a Chord an assembly of three or more notes. While a power Chord is usually two notes.

A Little Basic Guitar Knowledge

But first let me just illustrate a few things if you're not used to hold a guitar in your hands or if you don't know yet how everything is called.

We'll begin with the guitar strings. Each one has its own specific ranking number. Beginning with the thinnest one at the bottom we have the 1st string. And when you go up you have the 2nd string, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, and finally (the thickest one) the 6th string.
And then we have the guitar neck separate by frets and spaces. The one at the far end of the neck where the tuning keys are found is the first fret (or first space). And you go all the way up to the guitar body. So the closest you are to the guitar body, the higher the number is.
Then, each finger has its own number too. So the index (the one we are pointing with) is finger one, the major is the second finger, the ring finger is finger three, and the little pinky one is finger Four.

So there you are. With this, you would be able to know a little bit where to position yourself.

Now - For The Power Chords

Here's an example of a power Chord ( I will show you what I think is the easiest way of doing it):

Using 1st finger on the 3rd fret (or space) of the 6th string (the thickest one) and the 3rd finger on the 5th fret of the 5th string - play only those two string to see how it sounds. This one is call the G power string.
Now using the same fingers posture, just slide two fret higher. Like this: 1st finger on the 5th string of the 6th strings and 3rd finger on the 7th fret of the 5th strings. You have the A power chords. If you would add for instance, your 4th finger (the little pinky one) on the 7th fret of the 4th strings it will begin to sound like the full barre chord of A.
And to finish our progression here's what to do. Using that same finger position instead of sliding up and down the guitar neck we gonna go change strings. It's gonna look like this: 1st finger on the 3rd fret of the 5th string and 3rd finger on the 5th fret of the 4th string. Play those three strings to see how it sounds. You got the C power chords.

If We Put Them All Together

It would look something like this:

1st finger on the 3rd fret of the 6th string with the 3rd finger on the 5th fret of the 5th string1st finger on the 5th string of the 6th strings with the 3rd finger on the 7th fret of the 5th strings1st finger on the 3rd fret of the 5th string and 3rd finger on the 5th fret of the 4th string

Strum each one time changing one after another each strumming and you maybe not get a full song yet, but at least the beginning of one. Here is how you play power chords. I hope that this little demonstration helped you.

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