There are four main bar chord shapes you can use in your songs: E-shape, A-shape, Em-shape and Am shape (see diagrams below). When you feel comfortable enough you can play your songs using solely bar chords. With practice you can gradually build up the amount of bar chords you put in a song. You can turn any chord into a bar chord, so pick one or two to start with. Bar chords are a bit tricky in the beginning so start with a song and implement bar chords as well as the easier open chords. While you can apply bar chords to any song you like, there are typical bar chord songs that are a perfectly suited for the bar chord practitioner.įor your first bar chord song it’s a good idea to use a combination of open chords and bar chords. Once you have practiced open chords and spent some fair amount of time learning beginner songs you are ready to learn bar chords.
#EASY POWER CHORD SONGS TABS HOW TO#
I’ll also show you how to apply bar chords to a song. Eric Clapton covered the song in 1977, and it has since become regarded as one of his greatest hits.Today I have a great list of songs for learning and improving your bar chords. So make sure you’ve subscribed to Guitar Coach Magazine. Bye for now!Ĭocaine was originally written and recorded by American singer-songwriter and guitarist JJ Cale in 1976. You need to try and make sure that your timing is spot on and that when you are playing the chords they come out very clean, very clear and there is that distinctive gap between the E5 and the D5. I hope you’ve had fun with that and I’ll see you again for another session in the next issue. And that’s all there is to it!It’s such a great riff to play and is actually not as simple as it first sounds. When we hit that B5 we do not let it ring out. It’s the accuracy of the timing that makes the riff distinctive. Next we are going to work our way down the fretboard, still using the same shape, strumming each chord just one, We start by playing the E5 chord, moving down 2 frets to the D5, down two more frets to the C5 and finally down one more fret to the B5. So it’s like 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (letting the D5 ring out on the 5 count). When we play the second D5 chord there is a slight gap. You can see the brilliance of this riff is, first of all, its simplicity, and secondly the timing. Now we play the D5 again and let the notes ring out. Or alternatively use your right hand to stop the strings or notes ringing out. OK, when you’ve played that E5 chord twice, then the D5 and back to the E5, release all the pressure off your hands on your left hand so it doesn’t ring out. Using this same shape therefore (albeit in different positions on the fretboard) means the root note for each power chord you play will always be on the A string. All we need to remember is that the root note of the E5 power chord is on the 9th fret of the string. Because of this I am not going into a lot of detail. All the power chords used in Cocaine use this same shape, but in different positions on the fretboard. So we are now playing the E5 power chord one octave higher than when played in the open position. And then we have the D string where you hold down the 9th fret (the B note), and then the E note which is the 9th fret for the G string. So the Power Chord we have and the three notes we are playing are E, B, E, but this time the E note is on the 7th fret of the A string. What JJ Cale has done, or the Eric Clapton version has done, is to take that E Power Chord and play it further up the neck. So we have an open E, we’ve a B which is the second fret of the A string and we’ve an E note which is the second of the D string, and these are the only notes we play for a power chord. In an E5 Power Chord (open position) we are playing the bottom three notes of the E major chord. I’ll then go on to explaining everything step by step in video 2. In this first video I’ll run through exactly what we’ll be playing so you’ve got a feel for the result we’re aiming for. What we are actually doing is playing the lowest three notes of a major chord and making sure we use the root note for the lowest note. A Power Chord is ‘powerful,’ just as it is described. Now Power Chords are also known as fifths. OK let’s have a look at the Power Chords to start off with.
0 kommentar(er)
