l or Justin here how you done in this
lesson now we're going to be checking
out a little bit of more advanced power
chord technique and also introduces a
little thing called palm muting which is
a very very cool mainly a rock technique
that works on electric guitar but it
also sounds very cool on acoustic guitar
you can even use it for your 12 bar
blues stuff as well so it is pretty
handy little cool thing to do so the
first thing I want to talk about is
you've now got your power chords with a
six string root and you've also got a
power chord with the fifth string root
so really good exercises to practice
going through any of all of your power
chords and playing them on both the six
string in the fifth string so if you
took say a C power-chord you could have
that as the sixth string root at the
eighth fret or the fifth string root at
the third fret you need the sound
identical you'd also have say G chord at
the sixth string root third fret or the
tenth fret fifth string root you can
hear that one sounds an octave higher
but they're essentially the same chord
so it wouldn't matter if it was written
in the music to play one of them you
play the other wouldn't matter if there
that well that just sounds slightly
different it's up to you to choose so
that's the first thing that's really
important to realize that every chord
power chord can be played in two
different places and also leads to a
little bit of a kind of a confusion as
to which one are you going to choose if
it just says in the music to play C well
are you going to play this thing
well this C goes even another one up
here so which one are you going to
choose well usually you're looking for
the ones that are the easiest to get to
sometimes you might want one that's
further away deliberately because it's
going to sound higher or because you
want to get a sliding effect up to it
but usually you pick the nearest one now
one of the core progressions that we
looked at in the very first one when we
look at a power chord to the sixth
string root was this little sequence
that went F
preflight pay flat 2d flat she's a very
very common for seekers right now of
course jumping around that much if you
have planted a rock band and you're
jumping around you're trying to check
out all the hot chicks up the front and
bash your head around and probably swing
a bottle of Jack Daniels or whatever you
try and do at the same time then you're
the last thing you want to be doing is
looking at your guitar trying to shift
around and get your fingers moving like
that it's just not happening
so what we want to do is try and
simplify that so the movements that you
have to make on the neck aren't quite as
big now the first one chord sequence was
f to be flat now that's a big jump
already that's like a 5 fret jump now we
could also go n to b-flat and stay in
the same fret because F is the first
fret with a 6 string root and b-flat is
in the first fret with a 5th string root
so of course it's going to be a bit
cooler LIGO and the next chord was a
flat no getting around that you're going
to have to make a jump but the next
chord was D flat which is also a big 5
fret jump that we could go a flat D flat
because a flat and D flat are in the
same fret too so now we'd have here
B flat a flat D it's really important is
that you get the idea of trying to look
as you're learning a tune especially if
you're learning like tabs off the
internet or whatever where it just gives
you the cordon you've got no further
instruction that you really think about
which chord you might use and also try
and listen because it is it takes a
little bit of practice but you can learn
to hear where a power chord might be
played if it's this one this one they
sound different right so if you try one
then you try the other one you listen to
a record of the song that you're trying
to play you listen to it and go there
yeah what that sounds like the high one
and you're probably right remember these
little side of head attachments only my
hat I mean that is those things are
really really good at helping you play
guitar because they tell the truth they
say yeah this one sounds right or that
one doesn't sound right so make sure you
get trust your ears that's really
important so have a little fiddle about
where you play what power chords and the
thing that I want to explain to you now
is this thing of palm muting right I
don't play AG power chord so this would
be kind of normal that's part
marketed and the reason it's called a
permute is because we're using this part
of our hand to kind of the outside of
your hand the bit that you might do a
karate chop with if your karate chopping
them they'd really do karate chops but
yeah I think you probably know what I
mean it's that little outside bit of
your hand and you're going to rest that
right on the strings at the back of the
guitar just if you look where the actual
the bridge is which is the bit that this
where the strings are making contact
with the bridge the saddles
you really put you're putting it right
on there just lean up forward a little
bit so you can play your core and you've
got a permute effect now what's
interesting is the further back you go
now we've got no magic because we're off
the back of the end that the palm is not
touching the strings as you bring it
forward you get more and more muted
until you just get clicky and it doesn't
make any sense so any further than say
two inches away from the bridge you
don't really get a sound you just get it
kind of a click so but what you're
really after there is just bringing it
forward that bit it kind of muddies it
up if you were playing like Metallica or
greendell or something like that that
would be a really really cool effect to
be doing especially if you kind of play
some with the the permute and some
without if you don't like
that kind of thing it really it's worth
it being able to play a chord two and
three and four and so the first one open
then two and three and four and are all
muted really good technique to get used
to with this thing where you're resting
it on the guitar it is it does make it
sound kind of heavy especially with a
lot of distortion it gives it that real
kind of rock metal sound but it also
sounds cool with the blue so if we think
back to our regular 12 bar blues rhythm
we have a little bit of pocket that's
pretty cool or again
it's definitely something that you want
to check out there little bit of money
on your 12 bar blues always cents so
have a little bit of an experiment with
this permute see if you can learn to
listen to it so when you're listening to
a track that you're trying to play
you've got the tab out or whatever and
you're trying to figure it out or even
better your transcribing this on by
yourself
when you just use your ears and try and
hear obviously using any permute there
or not and then as you get used to it
and you hear it more and you've played
it more you'll start to recognize it
pretty quickly and be able to use it
whenever you like so I hope you've
enjoyed that and I'll see you for
another lesson sometime really soon
take care bye-bye