Lesson 8 of 18GuitarBeginner

Power chords

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Frank Doll explains how power chords are built from the root and the fifth, and demonstrates them on a riff in the style of Papa Roach's "Last Resort".

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    • 01. Thirds (the building blocks)

      13:34

    • 02. Exercises on thirds

      3:58

    • 03. Fifths (the 'sound' of rock)

      6:02

    • 04. Power chords

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Music Lesson

Introduction

"Whatever. Lange in songstefer winden Venice musicalis. Tight sein soy good."

Chords and Progressions

  • After "Noctavia of the Geese":
    • Curtain by E and by position.
    • Power chords:
      • Eine B power chord
      • O the Internet (B flat power chord)
      • Und ein C power chord

Riff

"This is riff for the DC Accordel Zurich of D B."

Lesson Continuation

  • Then in gansen tag long C.
  • Here we go.

E Side Quint

"Here's the quinte of the E side. I speichpiel."

Songs Referenced

  • "Last Resort" by the American band Papa Roach
    • E Power Kurt mid Hohenbas an D Power Kurt mid Orenbas
    • C mit Gembas und ha mit Fissimbus

Conclusion

"That's mission sin immer Kurtzi. Pausen this 1000."

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Frank Doll, born in 1972, studied at the Music College Regensburg before reading musicology, German and linguistics at the University of Regensburg. Drawn back to the guitar, he went on to train at the Munich Guitar Institute (MGI). He has worked as an instrumental teacher since 1998, alongside countless performances at home and abroad across rock, pop, musical theatre and light music. He currently teaches in the music stream at the Edith-Stein-Realschule in Parsberg and has run the Musikwerkstatt Frauenberg since 2006. On MusicGurus his German-language Griffbrett Theorie courses map the guitar fretboard systematically - intervals, chord shapes, modal positions and applied theory - for players who want to understand the neck, not just memorise shapes.

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