Power Chords 2 (Guitar Lesson BC-186) Guitar for beginners Stage 8 English transcript

Justin's Completely Free, Beginners Guitar Course Lesson BC-186.
This is Stage 8, Lesson 6.

This video shows you the Power Chords with a 5th string root note. Time to rock out properly!

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Hi how are you doing, Justin here.

In this video today we are going to be

checking out more Power Chords

this time we're going to be checking the ones

that have a got a 5th string root.

Now every power chord can be found

in two different places,

one with a 6th string root

and one with a 5th string root.

The last lesson that we looked at power chords

we were checking out 6th string root ones.

So I'm hoping that you've got the shape down.

You can move it up and down,

you understand the idea of the root note

and maybe you've played a few riffs as well.

So what we are checking out this time is

power chords with a 5th string root.

So lets have a look at a C5 power chord

So, there's a C5,

you can see here our 1st finger is on the root note

We've got here the 3rd finger and the 4th finger underneath

So it's exactly the same shape

here was our G5

and this is exactly the same shape

but moved down toward the ground one string.

Now the other really important thing to realize

probably the most important thing to realize with this chord

is that the tip of your first finger is touching

the 6th string to mute it.

If you forget to do that, and you hit that open string

often it will sound really atrocious,

especially if you've got distortion on,

so really make sure that the tip of your finger

is almost like you put it on the note normally

and then just kind of push the tip of it up

until you train it to always touch the 6th string.

That mutings of the 6th string are really constraints

and enough it is incredibly incredibly important

it's one of the things that if I hear a student playing

and they are forgetting to hit that 6th string

it's really rank! Especially rock guitar players

that young guitar players

that haven't learnt to do this trick

or haven't mastered it

it's some of the most horrible sounding rock stuff

I've ever heard,

so really, if you gonna focus on one thing

to do with this chord,

make sure it covering that 6th string

and muting it so it doesn't make a sound.

Now, once you've got the chord shape down

for the C, cause I haven't that

if you've got one of the 6th string root down,

you shouldn't find this one too difficult.

The next trick is to have a go at trying to play

some riffs and moving this chord up and down.

We are not worried about changing between

6th string and 5th string yet,

that's gonna come in the next stage.

But what we really are trying to do now is move the

5th string root around, so

we might in a, like it could,

progression might be something like

D C F Bb

quite a common funky little chord progression

and of course

in the process of trying to play these

you have to learn where the root notes are

You have to know that D root note

is found at the 5th fret of the 5th string

and C is found at the 3rd fret of the 5th string

and F is found all the way up at the 8th fret of the 5th string

and you have to remember that that's your 1st finger

who is going on that root note

otherwise you won't be able to play it.

So have a little play around with these

5th string root power chords,

moving them up and down

making sure your stretch is good

Really double checking and triple checking

that the 6th string is covered

and sometimes it's worth even

just deliberately picking the 6th string a bit harder

just to make sure that that note is properly covered.

and of course the 1st and 2nd strings,

the thinnest two strings, are also muted

by the inside of the first finger

exactly as they were for the 6th string root powerchords

which was a, I think a G5 was the one I showed you specifically.

But, have a bit of fun with those.

if you've got an electric guitar

do try playing them with a little bit of distortion as well,

just those open strings ringing out

or if some of the notes should be buzzy

that kind of highlights that, so...

it kind of...

look, it emphasizes your mistakes

so that's why sometimes a good thing to do

is to play with a bit of distorsion

so you can hear clearly

what you're doing wrong and try and fix it.

So have fun with that, rock yourself out

and I'll see you in a sec to talk about

your practice routine for this stage.