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Hi my name's Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory on behalf of Expert Village.
In this segment, we're going to talk a little bit about power chords. Power chords are a
Rock and Roll staple. You got to know how to play them. To play a power chord, they
can either be, you'll put your index finger on the low E string or the A string here.
You're going to put it anywhere on here. Let's say here for instance and then we're going
to put our ring finger two frets up on the string higher and then two frets up on the
string higher as well. This particular power chord is a G sharp power chord. This is a
G sharp note, this is a D sharp note, and this is another G sharp note. You strum these
three strings and you have a power chord. A power chord rooted on the A string looks
very similar. Same form, you just root it on the A string. Now if we're going to play
like Kurt Cobain, you got to take your middle finger here and lay it over the low E string.
So when you hit it, it doesn't ring out. Any time we do a power chord on the A string that's
rooted on the A string here, we want to lay our middle finger over and mute out that low
E string. You could put these power chords anywhere on the low E or A strings. Okay?
Now that we're done with power chords, in the next segment we're going to talk about
the F minor scale. It's the scale that Kurt Cobain used to solo for "Smells Like Teen
Spirit". I'll see you there.