Members GreenAsJade Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 My drummer just showed me this cool E power chord: 0 5 4 2 2 0 It turns out to be a moveable shape, as well: you can leave the E bass note ringing and play this shape for other chords in E quite nicely - A and B work very well. You can also make the "5" a "4" to good effect. If you didn't already know this, and you go on to write a killer song based on this, make sure you credit me in the cover or somefink, OK GaJ
Members gennation Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 It's the "D" form in CAGED. So, you might want to also source out the movable C form, movable A form, movable G form, movable E form too. It wouldn't be called an "E double power chord", it's simply call a "D shaped E chord" or an "E chord played in the D shape". You're just grabbing the lower octaves because they are there. You don't really HAVE TO do that, but you can because they are there. It's all about the sound.
Members jonPhillips Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 For a more powerful and meaty sounding open E Major chord try changing the fingering from this: To this (swap the 3rd string G# for a 3rd string B and mute the 1st and 2nd strings): Nothing earth-shattering going on here, it just creates a different (and nicer IMO) tonality for your basic E major chord.
Members TrickyBoy Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 My drummer just showed me this cool E power chord: 0 5 4 2 2 0 It turns out to be a moveable shape, as well: you can leave the E bass note ringing and play this shape for other chords in E quite nicely - A and B work very well. You can also make the "5" a "4" to good effect. If you didn't already know this, and you go on to write a killer song based on this, make sure you credit me in the cover or somefink, OK GaJ If you tune the low E string down to D, you can bar the low E as well and it gives you a real "meaty" chord that I think sounds real good with heavy distortion.
Members mosiddiqi Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 Neat. IIIRC, that shape is used for the F# and E chords in the pre-chorus to "Bark at the Moon"..at least the way I play it.
Members gennation Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 Neat. IIIRC, that shape is used for the F# and E chords in the pre-chorus to "Bark at the Moon"..at least the way I play it. Also for Priest's You Got Another Thing Comin'. Quite a few Ratt tunes used that form too.My larger-than-life E chord is this:E--12--B--9--G--9--D--9--A--7--E--0--It's also a great tester chord when you think you're in tune.
Members jonPhillips Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 My larger-than-life E chord is this: E--12-- B--9-- G--9-- D--9-- A--7-- E--0-- It's also a great tester chord when you think you're in tune. Ooo.. that's a nice one...
Members jeremy_green Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 Jade move that sucker down a string so that you add the fifth in the bass to an A string power chord. I love those babies!
Members gennation Posted May 20, 2010 Members Posted May 20, 2010 Ooo.. that's a nice one... I like it with that M3 in it but it can also be played as all Roots and 5ths too by playing the the B in on the B string like so...E--12--B--12--G--9--D--9--A--7--E--0--This is similar to the Peter Townshend A chord...E--5--B--5--G--2--D--2--A--0--E--x--
Members GreenAsJade Posted May 21, 2010 Author Members Posted May 21, 2010 Whoa, I love it how one idea leads to another, and all these wonderful chords come out! :D It wouldn't be called an "E double power chord", it's simply call a "D shaped E chord" or an "E chord played in the D shape". You're just grabbing the lower octaves because they are there. You don't really HAVE TO do that, but you can because they are there. It's all about the sound. Clearly, "double power chord" is my own words, not some "musical terminology". However, I don't think it's "simply a D shaped E chord". A D shaped E chord will have a 3rd in it, like 4 5 4 2 2 0 It's a subtle but very audible and really "effect changing" difference ... of course it is, this is the same thing as with "why is a power chord special?" in the first place. The additional "something special" about the shape I got excited about is that it doubles the octaves of a power chord. This is what makes it worth thinking about as a "double power chord", IMHO. GaJ
Members gennation Posted May 21, 2010 Members Posted May 21, 2010 Whoa, I love it how one idea leads to another, and all these wonderful chords come out! :D Clearly, "double power chord" is my own words, not some "musical terminology". However, I don't think it's "simply a D shaped E chord". A D shaped E chord will have a 3rd in it, like 4 5 4 2 2 0 It's a subtle but very audible and really "effect changing" difference ... of course it is, this is the same thing as with "why is a power chord special?" in the first place. The additional "something special" about the shape I got excited about is that it doubles the octaves of a power chord. This is what makes it worth thinking about as a "double power chord", IMHO. GaJ It's a chord fragment of the D form. The CAGED idea is a full figured method of the fretboard, everything else is a fragment of it.How many times do you play a D chord like this???E----B--3--G--2--D--0--A--0--E----And you still call it a D chord because that's a fragment of the D form. Move it up two frets and it's still a fragment of a D form.Also, a "double barre" chord is a term used to the A form movable chord, since it has two barre's in it.
Members GreenAsJade Posted May 21, 2010 Author Members Posted May 21, 2010 Yep I agree that it's a fragment of the D form. I personally find it special enough to give it it's own name in my head: it's the special fragment of the D shape that doubles the octaves and drops the 3rd. Double ("octaves") power chord ("drop third"). YMMV. Cheers, GaJ
Members mugwump Posted May 21, 2010 Members Posted May 21, 2010 Also for Priest's You Got Another Thing Comin'. Quite a few Ratt tunes used that form too.My larger-than-life E chord is this:E--12--B--9--G--9--D--9--A--7--E--0--It's also a great tester chord when you think you're in tune. I think that's used for the intro to Cherub Rock.
Members Z_Zoquis Posted May 23, 2010 Members Posted May 23, 2010 I'm partial to this for a huge sounding power chord... 0 0 9 9 7 0
Members m90guy Posted May 24, 2010 Members Posted May 24, 2010 I like the movable shapes here for heavily distorted tones. Gives a real brutal sound. Sounds great chugged or ringing out. x x x 11 9 7 xx1197x which of course moves around. I also like for a heavier e 224420
Members GreenAsJade Posted May 24, 2010 Author Members Posted May 24, 2010 I think I might have to write a song called "Big Ole E" that uses all the chord shapes in this thread
Members bigboy78 Posted May 24, 2010 Members Posted May 24, 2010 It's a chord fragment of the D form. The CAGED idea is a full figured method of the fretboard, everything else is a fragment of it. How many times do you play a D chord like this??? E---- B--3-- G--2-- D--0-- A--0-- E---- And you still call it a D chord because that's a fragment of the D form. Move it up two frets and it's still a fragment of a D form. Also, a "double barre" chord is a term used to the A form movable chord, since it has two barre's in it. I'm with GaJ. It is technically E5 over 2 octaves, thus Double Power
Members gennation Posted May 24, 2010 Members Posted May 24, 2010 I'm with GaJ. It is technically E5 over 2 octaves, thus Double Power I'm only trying to help. Take it or leave it.
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