hamza hashmi

the basic shape. on the d-a-d.

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but my rythm guitarist has made a song using standard shaped power chords on drop d, like.

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note: my guitarist has no idea of theory.

so my question is are there any songs that use the second shaped power chord on a drop tuning, because it sounds bad. and i dont want to be jerk by changing the song my guitarist made. give me some good examples.

mdc

I'd be a jerk and change it.

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liampje

It can sound good, have you played the whole piece? Or did you just strum one of those ''standard'' shapes and directly thought you didn't like it?

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Mister A.J.

I see a Fmi7 (or F7, depending on it's function) in third inversion without the third tbh.

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Lol well neither do you, otherwise you'd figure out what notes he was using, to figure out what chords he was playing.

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hamza hashmi

its got a major 6 and a major 2. those are the worst intervals to form a chord with, acording to my taste.

hamza hashmi

but you guys still didnt give me songs which use chords like these in drop tunning.

Sethis

How would that help you?

AlanHB

The lowest note doesnt have to be the tonic, it's been indicated above that the chord in question can be a F7 or Fm7.

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hamza hashmi

Oh i didnt think like that. thanks. i need to solidify my inversion theory.

MaggaraMarine

AC/DC uses that kind of chord in "For Those About to Rock".

It's not in drop tuning, I know, but it's similar chord.

The intro riff goes like this (3rd and 4th time):

E|-------3-----0-
B|----*--3--3--0-
G|-4--4--0--2--1-
D|-4--4--0--0--2-
A|-2--0--------2-
E|-------3--2--0-

It's played a bit higher so it doesn't sound as dissonant. I don't think it sounds bad at all. I would call it B/A in this context (the lead guitar plays B major chord over it).

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What? Another person who doesn't think that cluster chords sound awful? I'M NOT ALONE?!?! YAY!


EDIT: Stupid me confused cluster and thirteenth chords again.

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wait wtf is a major 2

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A major second is equitable to a whole step.

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I do find the major second to be very fair when it's dealing with whole steps.

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