12 MORE Different Kinds of Power Chords | GEAR GODS

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00:00 Intro
1:19 Major 6th
2:26 Tritone
3:29 Major & Minor 3rd
5:19 Major & Minor Triad
6:58 3rd Inversion Dom7
8:39 Minor 7th
9:27 Major 7th
10:20 MinMaj7th
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[@treyxaviermusic]

My songwriting course is finally HERE: bit.ly/SONGWRITINGCOURSE

[@quinnmitchel4075]

I remember when I was first starting guitar like 4-5 yrs ago I remember seeing your old video on powerchords

[@treyxaviermusic]

I created you

[@quinnmitchel4075]

@@treyxaviermusic Ok Im gonna have a quick talk with my mom about that. 😂

[@balrogDCLXVI]

1:19 5ths to major 6ths and 3:29 major & minor 3rds are the essence of black metal

[@MofosRealReviews]

I appreciate you showing it in drop. What I hate about most lesson videos on theory is it’s all in standard tuning and I play in low drop tunings

[@duaneraymond4252]

I've looked at all youtube has to offer on power chords and yours gives the most variation for simple to complex shapes. The others only do the very basic shapes. Well done, man.

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

I mean let's say you do a C power chord all you gotta do is find all the closest C's and G's and just pick and choose. A Power chord is a root and 5th. A root and minor 6th or tritone are intervals.

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

Great video dude!! Makes me want to analyze all the weird power chords I use, actually a bunch of these I use. I think more people need to use the philosophy of who cares what it’s called it sounds good 😂.

[@camf8372]

I LOVE experimenting with chords. Gonna be getting a baritone guitar soon, can't wait to experiment with the chords in this video, on a baritone

[@rickfeith6372]

I love messing with the intervals, learn the sounds of these intervals and drill them into your brain...it will be something that travels with you across genres and throughout your musical journey. Also, that Strat is freaking gorgeousness!!!

[@Ghaos]

Your vid, and the takeaway idea it inspired (adding intervals above and below a P5 intervals to suggest larger chord shapes), helped me finish a song I was stuck on. Thank you for that, and keep up the good work.

[@Oilid]

Cool!

[@elmerjaworski8099]

Thank you Trey for the nice list of chords to play around with 👍

[@bruhtv7215]

2:48 instant Voivod

[@xsantijx]

Thanks for this!!!!

[@heyimjoshnicetomeetya]

Major/minor triads, add9, and 4 note power chords are my favorites to use in drop tunings. Just sound so much fuller.

[@deadsky13]

A lot of these seventh chords I used to play variations of them in jazz band in high school. My guitar teacher basically told me "play a barre chord (dom, maj7, min7) , but take out all the octaves and fifths". Playing them this way really made me learn my intervals besides root-fifth!

[@BcBaxley]

HELL YES 🤘 I feel like once I figured out power cord variations, I figured out my "style"...Such a strong and simple basis for having a more unique / melodic composition. Pick a key, scale, tempo, with a basic idea and then work with variations that help bring out what you are trying to "say" with the riff/song 🤓A topic I nerd out with other musicians for hours...

[@AkselSv]

Really cool stuff! I knew some of these, but not all of them

[@saveursound4now364]

Your awesome man

[@Samm801]

Watched 2 minutes of this, realised I’d rather watch them in order - so I watched the first and now immediately this, and I must say It’s beautiful to see a 5 year difference in a few seconds. Big change! Thanks for the video, I learnt a thing or two.

[@ericsampoll]

Thanks man, a little education , sick tone btw. 😎 guitar 🎸 looks and sounds 👌 🔥

[@notdanwood]

now this is epic

[@treyxaviermusic]

Take a shot every time I say "this one's a bit of a stretch"

[@razeshbudhathoki]

The mitochondria is the powerchord of the cell!

[@baibhabadhikari]

i see what u did there xD

[@abrahamgarcia5975]

I love these power chord variations videos. I've used so many of these in my group because you taught me that using different combos of two or three low strings can make such big sounds. Big thanks

[@SlyHikari03]

3:37 this chord (minor 3rd powerchord) is in a lot of black metal. It’s just this chord tremolo picked for 4 bars and then you scoot it down a semitone for another 4 bars.

[@BlackFlameOfHatred]

yeah black metal is basicly diatonic dyads tremolo picked

[@SlyHikari03]

@@BlackFlameOfHatred yup

[@olonix4780]

I like to think of this "3rd Inversion Dom7" power chord as an add9 power chord with a flattened 5th It's used this way in the chorus riff from "Rose of Sharyn" by KSE

[@syahidmaulanaputra3080]

Wow, remind me a mcr chord and riffs style

[@quinnmitchel4075]

Minor six reminds me of tool kinda

[@marcotixxx]

minor major 7th is my new favorite chord

[@noobasaurusrex9608]

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Trey Bacharach! 🤣 For real tho this was a great video! So many tasty ideas 🤤

[@nokturnalsound2465]

haha "relationshapes" you're a treasure

[@camf8372]

I'm a grunge junky and I love using Chromatic progressions and instead of using 2 and 3 note shapes I use the open bar chord shape, mute out B and high E

[@GameDevMadeEasy]

I knew a couple of the shapes from both videos, but I never knew what they were called. I figured them out by just experimenting.

[@tfwnoyandere]

5:14 is a major second lol

[@elrondhubbard9127]

This is an awesome video. But I think I may have a power chord to add. It's basically a V chord in first inversion. Take any power chord and lower the root by a half step while keeping your 5th in the same postion. It would be the same fingering as a root - minor 6th dyad. Maybe I'm splitting hairs here though lol.

[@treyxaviermusic]

I have that in my first video in this series, this is part 2

[@user-cy8pu3zg5u]

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[@cory-o-cookies95]

I know what I’m doing with my weekend

[@wareya]

did you know???? if you play a major third up high enough it harmonizes with the powerchord and doesn't add any additional nastiness!11

[@nisterror]

Would be nice if you had a section or a second video where you played all the chords back to back without the explanation

[@alexandercarlinmusic9467]

That one major 7th chord sounded like the first overlong chord ngl

[@treyxaviermusic]

Yeah the first chord from Everlong is indeed a major 7th

[@cyborgoftheyear]

I like minor 3rds a lot. Always reminiscent of Disincarnate.

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

A power chord is a root and 5th. It's called a power chord because the perfect 5th is the dominant note and second most stable of the scale. Because of stability it is the basis for all chords unless it's a diminished 5th. It's also called a power chord because the root and 5th is the golden ratio Phi in the western musical scale. We even say Phi in Five like Phive. Seems arbitrary unless you understand why y.

[@andrewpappas9311]

The tritone, the perfect chord for summoning Satan (or if you wanna play Black Sabbath)

[@metal1846]

was your guitar in standard tuning?

[@metal1846]

i'm a beginner and i really didn't understand some of his tutorial

[@morphius747]

I can do half of these

[@TedintheShed]

Dad on Dad guitar playing Dad chords?

[@Riffified]

So you're telling me Green Day LIED TO ME

[@treyxaviermusic]

September is over, it’s time to wake up

[@brunoalves3958]

Aren’t power chords, by definition, root and 5th only?

[@The-Vibrant-Photography]

Did anybody else hear ninja turtles?

[@himeshsinha6821]

U need to tune it down.....a baritone maybe 😂😂

[@himeshsinha6821]

Mayonesguitars are gud though 😂😂

[@Xavfire]

These are diads

[@timothytornado2650]

Wanna learn to play the chords you really need a book with a chord dictionary

[@cabbycabby1770]

Eh... Power chords are 5ths, man. The “power”ful sound comes from the 5th. These are just different dyads.

[@Bwayne3]

lol....I guess you have a new definition of a power chord... 30 plus years of guitar/music training that teaches..."A POWER CHORD refers to a CHORD that contains only the root and the perfect fifth." I guess new teachers make stuff up... lol

[@cabbycabby1770]

Agreed. The “power” in the power chord is directly related to the 5th. These are all good examples of dyads, but not power chords.

[@treyxaviermusic]

seems like a waste of time to quibble about labels when you could be learning some new shit to play but that's just me

[@treyxaviermusic]

Also, if you want to get REALLY technical, there's no such thing as a power chord at all. It's also just a dyad. So just play riffs and have a good time, I already got a music degree and I can tell you it doesn't help with that.

[@Bwayne3]

@@treyxaviermusic wait a second,... I was just making a point of FACT. who's "Quibble"ing here bro?... YOU COULD ALSO JUST USE THE CORRECT TERMS WHEN ATTEMPTING TO TEACH SOMEONE. instead you just pull the "music degree" card... like that a means a dam thing when you're INCORRECT. lol. don't quibble now!

[@treyxaviermusic]

@@Bwayne3 The name of it makes zero difference in the sound of a chord or interval. Call it whatever you want, play it or don't. You clearly already know what a power chord is, so why did you even watch the video? Power chords don't exist in music theory anywhere, so it's an incorrect term by every measure - it's just a colloquialism.

[@timothytornado2650]

Seems knowledgable but plays through the chords too fast and dont give you any diagrams to look at to figure something out

[@treyxaviermusic]

There are diagrams onscreen for every single one

[@timothytornado2650]

Good video but not as a tutorial