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Today I want to talk a bit about power chords in guitar.

A power chord is sometimes also called the fifth chord and is probably one of the most easiest and popular chords to play on the guitar.

A lot of Rock, Heavy Metal and Alternative and other genres of music makes use of the famous power chord.

Powerchords is almost always used with distortion on the guitar.

A chord usually consists of 3 notes or more to be considered a chord but the power chord only consists of two notes. The root and a fifth.

If we look at the C major scale:

You will see that the root is C and the fifth note in the scale is G.

Thus to play a C fifth chord we will only use the notes C and G in the C major scale.

The fingering on the guitar would look like this :

E |-----
B |-----
G |--5--
D |--5--
A |--3--
E |------

This chord can also be moved over the fretboard to play the chord in different keys.

A G power chord would look like this:

E |-----
B |-----
G |-----
D |--5--
A |--5--
E |--3---

And an A powerchord would look like this:

E |-----
B |-----
G |-----
D |--7--
A |--7--
E |--5---

Notice that the form or pattern of the chord stays the same.

* I will add some more info to this page so please come and check this page again if you are interested to know more.