[shuttertalk]

Found this site with guitar theory lessons and music theory articles! Sweet!
http://www.ibreathemusic.com/

[slejhamer]

Looks cool. You might also like http://www.guitarnoise.com

[dave]

cool maybe now i'll be able to understand the theory behind Henry Seeley's 'cheat chords'

otherwise i'll just have to go to the Planetshakers 'school of music'

[adam]

Cheat chords eh??
Did you go planetshakers?

hahah, 'school of music' to learn some cheat chords

[dave]

yeh i went to the 2005 conference.

well i don't understand how if you push the G string at the 7th fret it is a D chord and by watching the DVD and looking at chords they play and then looking at the sheet music it's supposed to be a D chord????

[adam]

Maybe an inaccurate transcription or some magical tuning

[slejhamer]

well i don't understand how if you push the G string at the 7th fret it is a D chord

What do you mean "push the G string" ?

G string at 7th fret is D, so if you form a chord with that as your root it's D, no? Well really if you played

e 10 (D)
B 10 (A)
G 7 (D)
D x
A x
E x

it's not a true D because you'd have D-A-D, only two notes. What is it? D5 since A is the 5th of D. You could also play open D string like:

e 10 (D)
B 10 (A)
G 7 (D)
D 0 (D)
A x
E x

and have D-D-A-D, still only two notes and still D5.

But if you played

e 10 (D)
B 10 (A)
G 7 (D)
D 7 (A)
A x
E x

you could still call it D5 - or - if you use the A as the root, A4 because D is the 4th of A., and inverted 5ths are 4ths.

Is that what you are talking about? Or did I totally misunderstand you?

[slejhamer]

But if you played

e 10 (D)
B 10 (A)
G 7 (D)
D 7 (A)
A x
E x

you could still call it D5 - or - if you use the A as the root, A4 because D is the 4th of A., and inverted 5ths are 4ths.

And following the same logic, A5 would be:

e x
B 10 (A)
G 9 (E)
D 7 (A)
A x
E x

Just A, the 5th of A which is E, and then A in a higher octave.

Power chords! Rockin'!

[de_axeman]

yeh i went to the 2005 conference.

well i don't understand how if you push the G string at the 7th fret it is a D chord and by watching the DVD and looking at chords they play and then looking at the sheet music it's supposed to be a D chord????

Spirit fingers??? :o

Often they play their power chords using only the root note, re-inforced by the same note but one octave higher.

Using a D-chord as an example:

e x
b x
g 7
d x
a 5
e x

They look like they're strumming all strings, and in fact they are, BUT, they're really only playing the 5th fret on the A-string and the 7th fret on the G-string, and MUTING all the other strings.

This gives you that full doubled-note that you hear sometimes. With generous amounts of distortion, it can sound like a power chord.

[dave]

hrm..........i see

looks like i got some reading up to do!!!!

[slejhamer]

Using a D-chord as an example:

e x
b x
g 7
d x
a 5
e x

...

This gives you that full doubled-note that you hear sometimes. With generous amounts of distortion, it can sound like a power chord.

Yes, but that's not a chord; as you correctly said it's just a doubled note.

But why not make it easier and play:

e x
B x
G 7 (D)
D 0 (D)
A 5 (D)
E x

Or more simply:

e x
B x
G 7 (D)
D 0 (D)
A x
E x

I hate muting strings in the middle...

[de_axeman]

Hmmm... never occured to me to un-mute the open D... :/

Hehehe - guess I'l have something else to play around with tonight!

I'll get back to you on this one slej....