Mixing Chords

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do guitarists ever mix power chords with basic chords in songs? i thought i remembered seeing Deryck do it a few times when playing live, but i couldnt tell...
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i dont see why not
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i do it ^^ god didn't punish me
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what do you mean by that? there's alot of basic not power chords that won't sound good in distortion, like the power chords.
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sprinks41 wrote:do guitarists ever mix power chords with basic chords in songs? i thought i remembered seeing Deryck do it a few times when playing live, but i couldnt tell...
Yeah Deryck does that on a few songs. In Over My Head, he usually plays a D/A chord instead of D5v.
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I'm really sucky at chords names, so can you tell whats exactly a D/A and a D5v? :blush:
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i'm not good at guitar... i just play single notes lol
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Hentaiman wrote:^

I'm really sucky at chords names, so can you tell whats exactly a D/A and a D5v? :blush:
Don't worry, I had to look those names up from one of my Sum 41 tab books; I'm pretty crummy with chord names too. :razz:

D/A

e|2
B|3
G|2
D|0
A|0
E|--

D5v

e|--
B|--
G|7
D|7
A|5
E|--

I'm pretty sure D/A is pretty much the same as Dm, except you don't strum the open 5th string with Dm. All chords including "5" are powerchords and the "v" (Roman Numeral) just tells you the fret that it's played on.
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Oh, cool, thanx :wink:
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You're welcome! :smile:
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some good sites are:

http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/

http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index. ... FA&get=Get

Chords have familes, Major, Minor, Augmented, Add, Suspend, 4th, 5th etc It's lot to explian

Great books i have and recommend to get are:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-Chords-E ... 998&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fretboard-Roadm ... pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-Scales-E ... 065&sr=1-1

I bought most of them out shop called: The Works part from Fretboard Roadramps, which i bought off amazon.

Scales are gr8t thing to learn, can be pain, but can really improve you're guitar playing.
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