Power Chords 2 - Guitar lesson bc - 186 - Guitar for beginners stage 8

Hi how are you doing, Justin here. In this video today we are going to be checking out more Power Chords this time we're going to be checking the ones that have a got a 5th string root. Now every power chord can be found in two different places, one with a 6th string root and one with a 5th string root. The last lesson that we looked at power chords we were checking out 6th string root ones. So I'm hoping that you've got the shape down. You can move it up and down, you understand the idea of the root note and maybe you've played a few riffs as well. So what we are checking out this time is power chords with a 5th string root. So lets have a look at a C5 power chord So, there's a C5, you can see here our 1st finger is on the root note We've got here the 3rd finger and the 4th finger underneath So it's exactly the same shape here was our G5 and this is exactly the same shape but moved down toward the ground one string. Now the other really important thing to realize probably the most important thing to realize with this chord is that the tip of your first finger is touching the 6th string to mute it. If you forget to do that, and you hit that open string often it will sound really atrocious, especially if you've got distortion on, so really make sure that the tip of your finger is almost like you put it on the note normally and then just kind of push the tip of it up until you train it to always touch the 6th string. That mutings of the 6th string are really constraints and enough it is incredibly incredibly important it's one of the things that if I hear a student playing and they are forgetting to hit that 6th string it's really rank! Especially rock guitar players that young guitar players that haven't learnt to do this trick or haven't mastered it it's some of the most horrible sounding rock stuff I've ever heard, so really, if you gonna focus on one thing to do with this chord, make sure it covering that 6th string and muting it so it doesn't make a sound. Now, once you've got the chord shape down for the C, cause I haven't that if you've got one of the 6th string root down, you shouldn't find this one too difficult. The next trick is to have a go at trying to play some riffs and moving this chord up and down. We are not worried about changing between 6th string and 5th string yet, that's gonna come in the next stage. But what we really are trying to do now is move the 5th string root around, so we might in a, like it could, progression might be something like D C F Bb quite a common funky little chord progression and of course in the process of trying to play these you have to learn where the root notes are You have to know that D root note is found at the 5th fret of the 5th string and C is found at the 3rd fret of the 5th string and F is found all the way up at the 8th fret of the 5th string and you have to remember that that's your 1st finger who is going on that root note otherwise you won't be able to play it. So have a little play around with these 5th string root power chords, moving them up and down making sure your stretch is good Really double checking and triple checking that the 6th string is covered and sometimes it's worth even just deliberately picking the 6th string a bit harder just to make sure that that note is properly covered. and of course the 1st and 2nd strings, the thinnest two strings, are also muted by the inside of the first finger exactly as they were for the 6th string root powerchords which was a, I think a G5 was the one I showed you specifically. But, have a bit of fun with those. if you've got an electric guitar do try playing them with a little bit of distortion as well, just those open strings ringing out or if some of the notes should be buzzy that kind of highlights that, so... it kind of... look, it emphasizes your mistakes so that's why sometimes a good thing to do is to play with a bit of distorsion so you can hear clearly what you're doing wrong and try and fix it. So have fun with that, rock yourself out and I'll see you in a sec to talk about your practice routine for this stage.