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  2. Power chord - Wikipedia

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    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. Power chords are commonly played with an amp with intentionally added distortion or overdrive effects.

  3. Rhythm guitar - Wikipedia

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    A power chord in E for guitar. This contains the notes E, B (a fifth above) and an E an octave higher. In heavy metal music, rhythm guitarists often play power chords, which feature a root note and a fifth above, or with an octave doubling the root. There actually is no third of the chord. Power chords are usually played with distortion.

  4. Palm mute - Wikipedia

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    Muted notes / chords. Generally, it is recognized that full chords (with 3') sound muddy with large amounts of amplification and distortion, unlike single notes and power chords . [ 2 ] Sustain sound coming from each string simultaneously makes large amounts of overlapping overtones after distortion and thus a chord loses its clarity.

  5. Category:Chords - Wikipedia

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    Krenek's chord classification from Studies in Counterpoint.png 328 × 303; 25 KB Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock opening vamp.mid 4.0 s; 334 bytes Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock opening vamp.png 497 × 200; 17 KB

  6. On a Plain - Wikipedia

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    After the second chorus a bridge is played with the power chords F5-E5-A5-G5. The song then goes onto the third verse followed by a final chorus which is treated as the outro with the words, " I'm on a plain/I can't complain " being repeated multiple times until all instruments and main vocals start fading out until the last thing that's heard ...

  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. Harmony - Wikipedia

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    Dyads, the simplest chords, contain only two members (see power chords). A chord with three members is called a triad because it has three members, not because it is necessarily built in thirds (see Quartal and quintal harmony for chords built with other intervals). Depending on the size of the intervals being stacked, different qualities of ...

  9. Slide guitar - Wikipedia

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    This tuning allows for power chords, which contain root, fifth and eighth (octave) notes in the bass strings and conventional tuning for the rest of the strings. [69] Robert Johnson, whose playing has been cited by Eric Clapton , Keith Richards , Jimi Hendrix , and Johnny Winter as being a powerful influence on them, used tunings of standard ...