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Summary: Learn about playing power chords when playing harmonics on electric guitar in this free guitar lesson video from our expert music instructor and rock and roll professional.

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Casey Cormier Casey Cormier has been playing both the guitar and bass for ten years, performing in rock and roll clubs along the New Jersey Coast as well as in New York Cit... read more

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Playing Power Chords: Guitar Harmonics

CASEY CORMIER: Okay, in the opposite end of the partial chords, where we're playing on the G, B, and E string, we have power chords. Okay, power chords are basically going to be based on the lower strings, they might touch the G string, but they are basically, the bass notes of a bar chord. So, remember, so we have the bar chord, E type major bar chord to play A major. We have our distortion amps, we're going to use that for power chords. Okay, now if we just ignore everything except for the root A, the fifth scale degree, the E, and the octave here. This is our set for our power chords, okay. And this is our bass notes, anywhere we go. So, this A, remove everything down, we keep this--remember we're two frets apart. This is G, A, G, same thing on the D string, you start the same shape here, on the A string, sorry, and now we have a D power chord. We're down two frets, we have C. Now try sliding from one power chord to another. That's to keep the pressure on, and you have to try to lead with these two fingers and sliding down. You can pall mute the power chord so you can make them sound more crunchy, but you always want to pick down, you don't want to alternate pick. You just don't sound as good, unless you're going to do a galloping feel, but if it's all chord notes, or all eighth notes, make sure you're always strumming the notes where your fingers are on.

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