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  2. Power chord - Wikipedia

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    E5 power chord in eighth notes play ⓘ A power chord being fretted. A power chord Play ⓘ, also called a fifth chord, is a colloquial name for a chord on guitar, especially on electric guitar, that consists of the root note and the fifth, as well as possibly octaves of those notes.

  3. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    The suspended fourth chord is often played inadvertently, or as an adornment, by barring an additional string from a power chord shape (e.g., E5 chord, playing the second fret of the G string with the same finger barring strings A and D); making it an easy and common extension in the context of power chords.

  4. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    List of musical chords Name Chord on C Sound # of p.c.-Forte # p.c. #s Quality Augmented chord: Play ...

  5. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the chord is viewed as a C major seventh chord (CM 7) in which the third note is an augmented fifth from root (G ♯), rather than a perfect fifth from root (G). All chord names and symbols including altered fifths, i.e., augmented (♯ 5, +5, aug5) or diminished (♭ 5, o 5, dim5) fifths can be interpreted in a similar way.

  6. Perfect fifth - Wikipedia

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    E5 power chord in eighth notes A bare fifth, open fifth or empty fifth is a chord containing only a perfect fifth with no third. The closing chords of Pérotin 's Viderunt omnes and Sederunt Principes , Guillaume de Machaut 's Messe de Nostre Dame , the Kyrie in Mozart 's Requiem , and the first movement of Bruckner 's Ninth Symphony are all ...

  7. Drop D tuning - Wikipedia

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    Power chords generally mute the higher notes rather than the lower notes. For purposes of making the table easier to read, spaces are provided between each number when the fret number becomes a double digit. Additionally, the highest note in any 5th chord is an octave from the root note so it is not necessary to play it to achieve a 5th chord.

  8. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The standard tuning, without the top E string attached. Alternative variants are easy from this tuning, but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string, it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing (the D chord, for instance, must be fretted 5-4-3-2-3 to include F#, the tone a major third above D).

  9. Chord chart - Wikipedia

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    A chord chart. Play ⓘ. A chord chart (or chart) is a form of musical notation that describes the basic harmonic and rhythmic information for a song or tune. It is the most common form of notation used by professional session musicians playing jazz or popular music.