Chord Of The Week 24/8/13: Open Position Power Chords

bigjon

Open-position power-chords across several strings:

C5: x3x013

A5: x02255

G5: 3x0033

E5: 022400

D5: xx0235

B5: x24402 (play 5th string with your thumb)

What are your favourite multi-string open-position power-chords?

viz

The A one's my fave. You are wise and have been recognised appropriately.

mike_l

I believe Kossoff used that A5 in All Right Now......

Not technically an open position but I like

079900

for a held E5, not so much for quick changes/strumming (I like it less for strummy parts)

I also like the 022400 E5

And the G5. As used in Motorheads Ace of spades

*edit*

Why is this in the Guitars section?

Lexie1

I do tend to use this a lot for G  355033 I really like what the open G String does for this, works well in the F position as well.

Whoops, you meant in the Open Position. D'oh.

In that case, I use this quite a bit for D  2X032X or 2X0320 when I want a slightly different voicing.

Fez

Plus 1 for the A5

I concur it should be in Technique.

bigjon

Fez;19299" said:

I concur it should be in Technique.

Moved now

bigjon

mike_l said:

Not technically an open position but I like

079900

for a held E5

Your 355033 for a G5 from last week's Gmajor discussion was another goodie

viz

How do you play that?

mike_l

Thumb the low E string.

1st finger  on high e & B strings

3rd finger on A & D strings

Nicked from Rainbow's Since you've been gone

Next time you see me, I'll show you

bigjon

mike_l said:

Thumb the low E string.

1st finger  on high e & B strings

3rd finger on A & D strings

Nicked from Rainbow's Since you've been gone

I'd do 3rd finger on the A string, 4th finger on the D string instead

mike_l

Also that voicing of G5, can be moved up to the 5th fret for a variation on the A7 (no 3rd)chord

close2u

I didn't see the AC/DC classic

 

e 3

B 3

G 0

D 0

A x

E 3

mike_l

Bigjons first post....

close2u

my bad - need to read more carefully

bigjon

mike_l said:

Not technically an open position but I like

079900

for a held E5, not so much for quick changes/strumming

It's used as a strummy chord in "Ordinary World", which I played at the Earl of Derby jam last week. Also isn't there an early-ish moody Metallica song with an E5 - D - C - B progression where that shape is strummed for the E5 and moved down the fretboard 2 frets at a time for the D and C chords?

Sporky

It's not really a power chord but I really like x02200. Is that an A9 or sommat?

bigjon

Sporky said:

It's not really a power chord but I really like x02200. Is that an A9 or sommat?

A5add9 but often played as an Asus2 leading into an implied or actual A x02220. I'll do another CotW sometime on open 5add9 chords - there are loads of good ones.

mike_l

bigjon said:

It's used as a strummy chord in "Ordinary World", which I played at the Earl of Derby jam last week. Also isn't there an early-ish moody Metallica song with an E5 - D - C - B progression where that shape is strummed for the E5 and moved down the fretboard 2 frets at a time for the D and C chords?

That could be any number of early Metallica songs. The one that's springing to mind is "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" which is (Clean) B5 C5 D5 with a low E and a D drone.

Master of Puppets (Intro) is E5 (12th fret) D5 C#5 C5, then low E /B/Bb/A/Ab/G/F# riff.

Both off the MOP album.

Leper Messiah off MOP has a silimlar descending power chord section (and inverted power chord section)
Feel free to ping me any other questons on these albums

bigjon

mike_l said:

Master of Puppets (Intro) is E5 (12th fret) D5 C#5 C5, then low E /B/Bb/A/Ab/G/F# riff.

That's the one. Moody interlude about 3 & 1/2 minutes in. 8:41 onwards in this link

mike_l

I can't see the link at work, but (IIRC) the clean moody part is Em, Bm7, C, D, but it has been a while. I'll have a check later

corrected, see below

mike_l

To correct myself the part you're referring to is

Em D Csus A(sus2) B D#5 (Played arpeggiated)

CHords

Em 0 2 2 0 x x

D x x 0 2 3 0-2-0(Hammer/pull on high e)

Cadd9 x320x3x (The E note is only played at the end of the bar)

Asus x0x20x

B x2x20x

D# xx120x

with a low G to turn back to the Em

 

Same part is played later with distorted guitars

Hope this helps Bigjon