Just being defensive, it?s all good. I think all in all we both love the guitar and I'm in no way an authority when it comes to the subject, I just know I very much enjoy playing...
I see the guitar as a cool tool to made fun and crazy sounds that I enjoy, there's no wrong way to play it, I HATE rules...
Peace niggas!!!!!
I use barre, open and power chords..
Mike isn't "a powerchord guy", he simply mixes open- with powerchords, that's all. Most common punk songs are played with power chords only.
And yea, wolfpits knows the theories. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
We should pool some pentatonic licks, that's more interesting than powerchords. "Play solos like Ness"
or something like that.
by the way
Meanwhile I figured out the chords for charmed life [img]smile.gif[/img]
I think there's enough guitar players here, we should make some kind of sub-furum if you will that's for guitar players/ musicians, make tab for all of the songs we like for play and hear... I've been on other guitar furums, but its hard to find people who like to play the same music as me.
Next time one of you is at a show try to tab out the new song, I got the basic rythum, but I cant remember the chords for the chorus... Maybe if we get a boot we can try to tab out the solo's...
Just an idea!!!
<font size="2" face="verdana, arial">by the way lespaulplayer, power chords arent major. They arent anything except "power chords". If they were major, they would have to have a 3rd, and by defenition, power chords are only the root and the 5th.Originally posted by wolfpits:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="verdana, arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="verdana, arial">Originally posted by lespaulplayer:
With plenty of distortion/overdrive: power chord (usually major)
With a clean/slightly broken up sound: barre
<font color="#FFFF00"><font size="1">[ November 30, 2007 01:24 PM: Message edited by: wolfpits ]</font></font></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="verdana, arial">yeah, i just noticed I put that. oops. I meant for that to be about open chords, yada, yada. I just had a brain fart and didn't put the bit about open chords I guess.
Your right big ballz, it is kinda a stupid question. It's not really a personal preference so much as a matter of funcionality. Good guitar players will have as much as possible in their arsenal so they can play anything. "power" chords are just abbreviated "barr" chords anyways; you guys know that right? A power chord is just the root and fifth of a triad and when you form the traditional barr chord, the root/5th or the root/5th/root just happens to be conveniently on the first 2 or 3 strings. by playing a power chord instead of a barr chord, your eliminating the root/3rd/5th of a triad played on the higher strings. The result is a heavier, more meaty sound.
And Big Ballz is right, you cant play minor chords, 7 chords, etc, because by defenition, a power chord is just the root and the 5th. So in other words, if you want to play the blues or rockabilly learn the different variations of barr chords completely.
I guess the questions is how many fingers do you use in you chord, I personally use 2 the index finger the hold down the root note and my pinky to hold the other 2 notes. A proper G barre chords consists of 4 notes, the root note G, D, G again and B doesn't matter of its an E barre or A barre and that?s the difference between and power chords and a barre, a power chords only consist of two maybe 3 notes to a chord, with a barre you need all four notes to make the chord...
That's the sweet thing about Barres, you can make them 7th chords 9th chords Minors and there all movable throughout the fret board...
Here another cool little trick that most of you already use, but whatever the movable F barre chord, just like other barres you use the root note to find out what chord it is and your already in position to though out solo notes over the chord, very rockabilly way of playing, Setzer fingerpick of that shit...
there's a difference?
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