Nice video and some really cool ideas. One thing I like to do to make a fat sounding chord is to add the 5th to the bottom (so like adding 5th fret on the low E string when playing a D chord). I dont do it all the time but when I do I feel like it makes it sound really big.
Yeah those are great! That's essentially what I'm playing at 3:29, but starting on the A instead of the low E. I normally like using them for quad tracking, so have two guitars play regular power chords, and another two play those lower inversions for the thicker sound.
If I’m not mistaken I believe it’s incorrect to refer to all of these as “power chords?” From my understanding a powerchord is specifically a 1 and 5. Sometimes referred to something like E5 or E(no3). Although I do think it works to call all these chords “a powerchord” in the world of guitar but I don’t think that translates the same to other instruments.
Just a note, I'm not calling any of these power chords, I'm just showing how you can alter the 'power chord shape' to form all these other chords. Maybe that wasn't super clear though.
Yeah, it was just a little thing I wrote for the video. Though it sounded super familiar to me when I was writing it. I think there's a song by The Beths that's similar, so that may have been in mind at the time too, haha.
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Hey man, just diacovered your channel and love it. Im also finding some great artist recommendations from you. Do you have a spotify playlist or a full list of artists to check out? Thanks and cheers for the channel.
No problem! I don't really use Spotify personally, so I've only got a playlist for my own productions and the Korean punk video I did a few weeks ago. I might add more in the future though. I did share my favourite albums of 2024 on the community tab too, so you might find some new stuff there to check out. But if you'd like some recommendations for anything specific, or just some of my personal favourites, just let me know!
Rigid 4th? Invented 5ths? Nonsense Perfect 4th. Inverted 5th. And yes it’s the same shape, but music usually has more than one instrument playing at the same time. Whether it’s an inverted 5th or a perfect 4th depends on what the root note (the bass) is doing.
@ pardon me, i meant sus4 (suspended 4th). Perfect 4th would be the interval between the root and the 4th, but not necessarily a chord name. You could call a chord a perfect 4th diad (meaning two, triad meaning three) if it only used two notes (root and 4th) though. Inverted 5th is indeed the same thing and same shape except the difference is you’re hearing the root note as the lower note with a sus4, and hearing the root note as the higher note in an inverted power chord. When playing by yourself its a contextual and mental thing - when playing with a bass player it depends on which note he chooses to play. Speaking of which, not sure why all these chords in this vid are called power chords - a power chord is root and fifth only. This is a video about diads and triads
@@watcherofthemundane also, the word “perfect” in perfect 4th means its the root and 4th, just like a “perfect 5th” means root and fifth. An augmented 4th would be the devils tritone, and so would a diminished 5th. As for when to say augmented 4th vs diminished 5th despite them being the same thing audibly/shape wise, after 22 years of playing? Honestly, no clue. I just call it a diminished 5th all the time because that’s what i typically hear it being called
@@Talkboxeffectistrash Just a note, I'm not calling any of these power chords, I'm just showing how you can alter the 'power chord shape' to form all these other chords. Maybe that wasn't super clear though.
The lesson was great! Very useful as always! But... I've been studying music theory, and while Oolimo is a useful tool, I think it sometimes needs guidance in identifying the basic tone, even if it generates what might appear to be an error. For instance, I don't think anyone would label that particular chord as a sus chord-it must contain at least three notes. If a chord only includes two notes, it cannot be accurately labeled as a sus chord. What Oolimo identified as a sus4 is better understood as either a second inversion of a chord or simply a power chord with the fifth in the bass.
Thanks! I'm not really using it for the labels since I don't particularly care about that stuff anyway. It's just a handy visualiser that I find works better than using my camera and making viewers guess what my fingers are fretting, haha.
Yeah the original idea was just to show how you can take the 'power chord shape' and alter it to form a bunch of different chords. So some are inversions, thirds, sixths, and so on.
1:58 a bit of constructive criticism: "Slash chords" refers to every chord in which the lowest note isn't the root note, so it's much more encompassing than what you described there and you could be misleading people with that terminology. You also made an unecessary distinction between that type of chord and the one you describe in the next section. BOTH are just 6th intervals, the first one is a minor sixth and the second one a major sixth. What's implied by those chords tho is an inversion, just like the ones you describe as inverted powerchords, but instead of having the fifth on the bass note you have the third. Minor sixth interval implies 1st inversion major chord and major sixth implies 1st invertion minor chord. So the header in your guitar neck diagram where it reads "Daug" is misleading. A minor sixth interval could be interpreted as an augmented fifth, but unless there's a major third somewhere supporting that interpretation, that's not what you'd assume. When you describe the inverted powerchord the diagram says "Dsus" and that's also not the preferred interpretation, unless context suggests otherwise (for examples, the forth resolving down to the third). The reason why I'd rather call these invertions rather than slash chords is because you're only providing examples where the bass note is one of the notes of a triad, where slash chords could refer to something like G/A, where A isn't part of the G major triad. Also, the sort of notation you used for the minor sixth intervals only works for major chords (for example E/G#). Once you're using major sixths the notation "E/G" would be objectively wrong, but people could assume that's how you'd notate something like that from the explanation and examples you've given, since you used the slash notation to indicate a bottom and a top note when it actually refers to a whole chord and a bass note, but you left that out of your explanation. Sorry, I just wanted to say this but I wish I had time to structure this comment in a more understandble and straight forward way
Yeah... most of that is pretty incomprehensible to me (not your fault lol, I'm just not a big music theory person). I get what you mean about the slash chord part, though. I've never seen anyone agree on a definitive term for those chords-I've heard "slash," "augmented," "accidental," etc. But I understand your point about the bass line aspect. I mentioned that in a previous video; here, I’m more focused on the shape from a fretting position, rather than the theory perspective. You see them used a lot in punk music, more so than the major 6th, so I guess it'd be nice to have an agreed upon colloquial term for them, haha. Also the 'diagram' wasn't meant to display accurate chord names to what I was talking about, that's just what the program does in real-time. I'm only using it as a visual for the fretboard and fingering positions. I guess it's kinda confusing for some, so I'll crop that out in future videos.
@@SugarpillProd part of the problem is that there are multiple names for a lot of things and it's very contextual. An A# or Bb (same note, different names) played over a D is indeed an augmented 5th interval (the distance between the notes). The context in which it would be potentially a slash chord is if the bass is also playing that D and you're defining it as a Bb/D, where the chord is spelled D, Bb, F or D, F, Bb (music theory goes low to high in pitch rather than position on the neck). It would be fairly common for this shape to resolve up to an Eb chord I think, since the Bb is stable that way. Pretty similar to the main riff from "You're So Last Summer," but a half-step higher if I recall correctly. Also that's pretty standard Bach. Take your pick if you would rather reference Taking Back Sunday or Bach. The context where it would be a D Augmented chord would be where the chord is spelled D, F#, A#. Augmented means the triad is made up of two major thirds stacked, instead of the normal major triad, which is a major third and a minor third (D, F#, A). An accidental is any note that isn't normally in the key. In this case, if the song is in D major for most of it, but you play that D Augmented chord for some reason, the A# itself would be an accidental, not the chord. I saw in your comments that your goal wasn't to teach what these are in a classical music theory sense in this video, but for those who do want to know, here it is. For the record, I think in the context of punk and rock music, there's nothing wrong with calling it a raised 5th if you're just playing those two notes. It gets the point across without splitting hairs.
@@forestcochran4196 Yeah, it'd be nice to have something like panic chords, power chords, and so on, for those shapes in particular. But everyone has a different view on what they should be called. I might just go back to calling them 'NOFX' chords, haha.
@@forestcochran4196 a lot of where people use the term slash chord is in talking about chords with unusual bass notes, like a chord with the notes B, A, C#, E, a major chord over the 9th or second degree. kinda crunchy kinda jazzy etc but you can spell it as a slash chord or as a chord extension like Amajadd9 (A/B) in a rock music context things are gonna be based more on voice leading and dissonance than functional harmony specifically imo, not that it isnt present tho. i wouldnt call the one string apart minor 6th interval shape a slash chord, but i definitely think about it as a thing in and of itself insofar as it's used differently than the major sixth equivalent which i associate with country music and blues guitar i think it probably works to think of it as a kind of power chord, given the association, i definitely think about it as basically the minor 6th power chord
@@random3po yep, this is fine and true as well. It seemed like the poster of this video had some confusion surrounding the terminologies mentioned in his comment above, so my goal was to define those particular terms as they *might* apply. Certainly not insinuating that everyone should be using jazz chord notation for punk music, although if everyone in your band happens to know how to read slash chords, you sure can.
Fifths are over rated I wanna hear more 4ths and 3rds And maybe some 6ths here and there, but i especially like _Minor7 chords;_ _the full bar_ and single notes
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Nice video and some really cool ideas.
One thing I like to do to make a fat sounding chord is to add the 5th to the bottom (so like adding 5th fret on the low E string when playing a D chord). I dont do it all the time but when I do I feel like it makes it sound really big.
Yeah those are great! That's essentially what I'm playing at 3:29, but starting on the A instead of the low E. I normally like using them for quad tracking, so have two guitars play regular power chords, and another two play those lower inversions for the thicker sound.
These kind of videos are super useful, thank you!
No problem! I've got a lot more chord videos planned for the future too :)
weezer did a lot of this on the blue album.
Thank you @NuTacLLC, very cool!
wonderfully explained and great camera angles
Oh thanks! I don't often get compliments on what I'd assume is my fairly mediocre cinematography, haha.
I love your videos especially your post punk videos Thank you so much for posting
Thank you dude, that really means a lot, and I'm glad you're enjoying them!
2:13 nice choice to use a NOFX song about Tony Sly (RIP). When you mentioned slash chords I immediately thought of NUFAN.
Thanks! I've always associated that sound with the 90s Fat Wreck era.
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Seriously, great video.
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Thank you! I’ve been experimenting with power chords too and this was helpful!
No problem, happy to hear that!
Great content as always!
Thanks Louis, I appreciate you checking it out!
Hi how are you rock on dude l am learning to play guitar basic power chords you are a perfect guitarist
Oh thank you! I'm far from perfect though, haha. Best of luck with learning the guitar, and feel free to reach out if you ever have questions!
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If I’m not mistaken I believe it’s incorrect to refer to all of these as “power chords?” From my understanding a powerchord is specifically a 1 and 5. Sometimes referred to something like E5 or E(no3).
Although I do think it works to call all these chords “a powerchord” in the world of guitar but I don’t think that translates the same to other instruments.
Just a note, I'm not calling any of these power chords, I'm just showing how you can alter the 'power chord shape' to form all these other chords. Maybe that wasn't super clear though.
@@SugarpillProdah I see. In any case, great video!
1:54 that sounds really cool. Is this original?
Yeah, it was just a little thing I wrote for the video. Though it sounded super familiar to me when I was writing it. I think there's a song by The Beths that's similar, so that may have been in mind at the time too, haha.
You can hear this in the progression for all things must pass but George Harrison
@@SugarpillProd The Beths A Passing Rain, love the intro to that song and you definitely got really close to it
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Is that an app that you were using when moving the notes around on the fretboard like that? It’s so cool
It's a website called Oolimo. I find it to be a pretty handy teaching tool, especially for videos like this one.
@ thanks, I just bought the app. Been looking for something like this. Thanks for everything you do 💪
I didn't even know you could buy it. I'll have to try and sort out a cheeky affiliate deal with them 😂 But no problem, glad you're finding the videos useful!
Hey man, just diacovered your channel and love it. Im also finding some great artist recommendations from you. Do you have a spotify playlist or a full list of artists to check out? Thanks and cheers for the channel.
No problem! I don't really use Spotify personally, so I've only got a playlist for my own productions and the Korean punk video I did a few weeks ago. I might add more in the future though. I did share my favourite albums of 2024 on the community tab too, so you might find some new stuff there to check out.
But if you'd like some recommendations for anything specific, or just some of my personal favourites, just let me know!
@@SugarpillProd I'll check out that community post, thanks man!
Joyce Manor mentioned! Everytime I think of Joyce Manor, I think of Heart Tattoo.
Ok I was calling them "invented 5ths" too and someone told me it was a rigid 4th. Is it both?
Rigid 4th? Invented 5ths? Nonsense
Perfect 4th. Inverted 5th. And yes it’s the same shape, but music usually has more than one instrument playing at the same time. Whether it’s an inverted 5th or a perfect 4th depends on what the root note (the bass) is doing.
@Talkboxeffectistrash I meant inverted but I guess it autocorrected to invented. Are they the same chord?
@ pardon me, i meant sus4 (suspended 4th). Perfect 4th would be the interval between the root and the 4th, but not necessarily a chord name. You could call a chord a perfect 4th diad (meaning two, triad meaning three) if it only used two notes (root and 4th) though. Inverted 5th is indeed the same thing and same shape except the difference is you’re hearing the root note as the lower note with a sus4, and hearing the root note as the higher note in an inverted power chord. When playing by yourself its a contextual and mental thing - when playing with a bass player it depends on which note he chooses to play.
Speaking of which, not sure why all these chords in this vid are called power chords - a power chord is root and fifth only. This is a video about diads and triads
@@watcherofthemundane also, the word “perfect” in perfect 4th means its the root and 4th, just like a “perfect 5th” means root and fifth. An augmented 4th would be the devils tritone, and so would a diminished 5th. As for when to say augmented 4th vs diminished 5th despite them being the same thing audibly/shape wise, after 22 years of playing? Honestly, no clue. I just call it a diminished 5th all the time because that’s what i typically hear it being called
@@Talkboxeffectistrash Just a note, I'm not calling any of these power chords, I'm just showing how you can alter the 'power chord shape' to form all these other chords. Maybe that wasn't super clear though.
The lesson was great! Very useful as always! But... I've been studying music theory, and while Oolimo is a useful tool, I think it sometimes needs guidance in identifying the basic tone, even if it generates what might appear to be an error. For instance, I don't think anyone would label that particular chord as a sus chord-it must contain at least three notes. If a chord only includes two notes, it cannot be accurately labeled as a sus chord. What Oolimo identified as a sus4 is better understood as either a second inversion of a chord or simply a power chord with the fifth in the bass.
Thanks! I'm not really using it for the labels since I don't particularly care about that stuff anyway. It's just a handy visualiser that I find works better than using my camera and making viewers guess what my fingers are fretting, haha.
@SugarpillProd You're welcome! Yeah, that looks better than fingers :) No offense, your channel is great, I absolutely love it.
cant a lot of these be considered inversions?
Yeah the original idea was just to show how you can take the 'power chord shape' and alter it to form a bunch of different chords. So some are inversions, thirds, sixths, and so on.
The diagrams are nice and all but you need to show more audio examples of how one might use these in chord progressions
I'll make a note to add more examples in future video 👍
@SugarpillProd a follow up vid with you playing riffs would also be cool!
1:58 a bit of constructive criticism:
"Slash chords" refers to every chord in which the lowest note isn't the root note, so it's much more encompassing than what you described there and you could be misleading people with that terminology. You also made an unecessary distinction between that type of chord and the one you describe in the next section. BOTH are just 6th intervals, the first one is a minor sixth and the second one a major sixth. What's implied by those chords tho is an inversion, just like the ones you describe as inverted powerchords, but instead of having the fifth on the bass note you have the third. Minor sixth interval implies 1st inversion major chord and major sixth implies 1st invertion minor chord. So the header in your guitar neck diagram where it reads "Daug" is misleading. A minor sixth interval could be interpreted as an augmented fifth, but unless there's a major third somewhere supporting that interpretation, that's not what you'd assume. When you describe the inverted powerchord the diagram says "Dsus" and that's also not the preferred interpretation, unless context suggests otherwise (for examples, the forth resolving down to the third). The reason why I'd rather call these invertions rather than slash chords is because you're only providing examples where the bass note is one of the notes of a triad, where slash chords could refer to something like G/A, where A isn't part of the G major triad. Also, the sort of notation you used for the minor sixth intervals only works for major chords (for example E/G#). Once you're using major sixths the notation "E/G" would be objectively wrong, but people could assume that's how you'd notate something like that from the explanation and examples you've given, since you used the slash notation to indicate a bottom and a top note when it actually refers to a whole chord and a bass note, but you left that out of your explanation.
Sorry, I just wanted to say this but I wish I had time to structure this comment in a more understandble and straight forward way
Yeah... most of that is pretty incomprehensible to me (not your fault lol, I'm just not a big music theory person). I get what you mean about the slash chord part, though. I've never seen anyone agree on a definitive term for those chords-I've heard "slash," "augmented," "accidental," etc. But I understand your point about the bass line aspect. I mentioned that in a previous video; here, I’m more focused on the shape from a fretting position, rather than the theory perspective. You see them used a lot in punk music, more so than the major 6th, so I guess it'd be nice to have an agreed upon colloquial term for them, haha.
Also the 'diagram' wasn't meant to display accurate chord names to what I was talking about, that's just what the program does in real-time. I'm only using it as a visual for the fretboard and fingering positions. I guess it's kinda confusing for some, so I'll crop that out in future videos.
@@SugarpillProd part of the problem is that there are multiple names for a lot of things and it's very contextual. An A# or Bb (same note, different names) played over a D is indeed an augmented 5th interval (the distance between the notes).
The context in which it would be potentially a slash chord is if the bass is also playing that D and you're defining it as a Bb/D, where the chord is spelled D, Bb, F or D, F, Bb (music theory goes low to high in pitch rather than position on the neck). It would be fairly common for this shape to resolve up to an Eb chord I think, since the Bb is stable that way. Pretty similar to the main riff from "You're So Last Summer," but a half-step higher if I recall correctly. Also that's pretty standard Bach. Take your pick if you would rather reference Taking Back Sunday or Bach.
The context where it would be a D Augmented chord would be where the chord is spelled D, F#, A#. Augmented means the triad is made up of two major thirds stacked, instead of the normal major triad, which is a major third and a minor third (D, F#, A). An accidental is any note that isn't normally in the key. In this case, if the song is in D major for most of it, but you play that D Augmented chord for some reason, the A# itself would be an accidental, not the chord.
I saw in your comments that your goal wasn't to teach what these are in a classical music theory sense in this video, but for those who do want to know, here it is. For the record, I think in the context of punk and rock music, there's nothing wrong with calling it a raised 5th if you're just playing those two notes. It gets the point across without splitting hairs.
@@forestcochran4196 Yeah, it'd be nice to have something like panic chords, power chords, and so on, for those shapes in particular. But everyone has a different view on what they should be called. I might just go back to calling them 'NOFX' chords, haha.
@@forestcochran4196 a lot of where people use the term slash chord is in talking about chords with unusual bass notes, like a chord with the notes B, A, C#, E, a major chord over the 9th or second degree. kinda crunchy kinda jazzy etc but you can spell it as a slash chord or as a chord extension like Amajadd9 (A/B)
in a rock music context things are gonna be based more on voice leading and dissonance than functional harmony specifically imo, not that it isnt present tho.
i wouldnt call the one string apart minor 6th interval shape a slash chord, but i definitely think about it as a thing in and of itself insofar as it's used differently than the major sixth equivalent which i associate with country music and blues guitar
i think it probably works to think of it as a kind of power chord, given the association, i definitely think about it as basically the minor 6th power chord
@@random3po yep, this is fine and true as well. It seemed like the poster of this video had some confusion surrounding the terminologies mentioned in his comment above, so my goal was to define those particular terms as they *might* apply. Certainly not insinuating that everyone should be using jazz chord notation for punk music, although if everyone in your band happens to know how to read slash chords, you sure can.
Root and sixth?? That's a stretch 🫨
Just practice the main riff from Every Breath You Take and you'll get the hang of it... That or carpal tunnel syndrome.
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i knew this when i was kid
Fifths are over rated
I wanna hear more 4ths and 3rds
And maybe some 6ths here and there, but i especially like
_Minor7 chords;_ _the full bar_
and single notes