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Lesson 7: Power Chords Power chords are the foundation of many rock, and metal songs. With distortion they can carry a great sound and they're very easy to learn. It's quite simply one position, that you move around all over the fretboard. Nickelback's song "How You Remind Me" was almost all power chords, and it was a top ten single on radio stations all over the world. Regardless of whether you are a nickelback fan or not, power chords are a staple tool for all rock guitar players, they can even be piked into acoustic songs. A basic power chord looks like this:
The red squares represent where your fingers are hitting the notes, and the diagram also tells you which note that position makes. Here is another way of looking at it:
As you can see by the second diagram you can move these shapes all over the fret board, but only use the top four strings. The name of the power chord comes from the root note. Lets bring this example back. The extension for a power chord is a fifth. So this chord would be B 5th, commonly just called B5.
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