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Mixing Chords

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:19 am
by sprinks41
do guitarists ever mix power chords with basic chords in songs? i thought i remembered seeing Deryck do it a few times when playing live, but i couldnt tell...

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:17 pm
by budgie
i dont see why not

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:46 pm
by upperclasszero
shouldnt be a problem

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:48 pm
by Stef
i do it ^^ god didn't punish me

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:38 am
by Hentaiman
what do you mean by that? there's alot of basic not power chords that won't sound good in distortion, like the power chords.

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:32 am
by Jeremy Kill
sprinks41 wrote:do guitarists ever mix power chords with basic chords in songs? i thought i remembered seeing Deryck do it a few times when playing live, but i couldnt tell...
Yeah Deryck does that on a few songs. In Over My Head, he usually plays a D/A chord instead of D5v.

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:45 pm
by Hentaiman
^

I'm really sucky at chords names, so can you tell whats exactly a D/A and a D5v? :blush:

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:21 pm
by LTS
i'm not good at guitar... i just play single notes lol

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:28 am
by Jeremy Kill
Hentaiman wrote:^

I'm really sucky at chords names, so can you tell whats exactly a D/A and a D5v? :blush:
Don't worry, I had to look those names up from one of my Sum 41 tab books; I'm pretty crummy with chord names too. :razz:

D/A

e|2
B|3
G|2
D|0
A|0
E|--

D5v

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

I'm pretty sure D/A is pretty much the same as Dm, except you don't strum the open 5th string with Dm. All chords including "5" are powerchords and the "v" (Roman Numeral) just tells you the fret that it's played on.

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:26 am
by Hentaiman
Oh, cool, thanx :wink:

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:34 am
by Jeremy Kill
You're welcome! :smile:

Re: Mixing Chords

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:49 pm
by stevie486
some good sites are:

http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/

http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index. ... FA&get=Get

Chords have familes, Major, Minor, Augmented, Add, Suspend, 4th, 5th etc It's lot to explian

Great books i have and recommend to get are:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-Chords-E ... 998&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fretboard-Roadm ... pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-Scales-E ... 065&sr=1-1

I bought most of them out shop called: The Works part from Fretboard Roadramps, which i bought off amazon.

Scales are gr8t thing to learn, can be pain, but can really improve you're guitar playing.