Power Chord Academy

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I've been wondering about those ads, what the curriculum might be?

PC101 Two-finger two-string fifth technique
PC102 Lab: Smoke on the Water & Iron Man
PC131 Barred Power Chords: Two-finger three-string fifth-octave technique
PC132 Three-finger three-string fifth-octave technique
PC201 Palm Muting
PC231 Power Chord Argeggios
PC333 Inverted Power Chords
PC334 Drop D
PC362 Lab: Can You Take Me Higher?
PC467 Power Chord Substitutions: Tritones
PC469 Power Chord Substitutions: Augmented Fifths
PC477 Advanced Studies in Power Chords: Open String Techniques
PC478 Senior Project: Welcome Home Sanitarium

Did I miss any electives :confused:
 
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So tuning your guitar is a prereq?

I think I'm in the wrong class... :D
 
Tuning your guitar? What, you writing your doctoral thesis or something :confused:

Listen, you buy a guitar, it's tuned, right? So if it goes out of tune and you can tell (you probably can't), just buy a new guitar. They only cost like $60 for a good one ;)
 
Or bring it back to the store and have THEM tune it for you. They won't mind, even if you go back again and again...
 
mshilarious said:
PC102 Lab: Smoke on the Water & Iron Man
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Please. Smoke on the Water is 4ths. :D


(I'll go on record saying I actually dig Tremonti's riffing - Scott Stapp got old fast, but he consistently came up with some pretty cool stiff. Bag all you want on the "Higher" lyrics, but the intro riff and chorus riff are actually a fairly interesting use of Drop-D tuning.)
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
(I'll go on record saying I actually dig Tremonti's riffing - Scott Stapp got old fast, but he consistently came up with some pretty cool stiff. Bag all you want on the "Higher" lyrics, but the intro riff and chorus riff are actually a fairly interesting use of Drop-D tuning.)
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Sounds like somebody's got a case of the ol' swine flu.
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
Please. Smoke on the Water is 4ths. :D
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*Ahem* we call those inverted power chords here! And you must be unfamiliar with this gripping instructional video which clarifies the true nature of this famous riff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dl_VNmGO3E&feature=related


Anyway, it's important to note that even though Blackmore used the inverted power chord, every guitarist in the world first learns it as taught in PC102 :p

Wow, these horrid vids never end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn66XxPVKEw&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR26LkINRsU&feature=related
 
mshilarious said:
*Ahem* we call those inverted power chords here! And you must be unfamiliar with this gripping instructional video which clarifies the true nature of this famous riff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dl_VNmGO3E&feature=related


Anyway, it's important to note that even though Blackmore used the inverted power chord, every guitarist in the world first learns it as taught in PC102 :p

Wow, these horrid vids never end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn66XxPVKEw&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR26LkINRsU&feature=related
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PotAYto, PotAHto. :p
 
I am working on a whole series of videos for my Power Chord School where I teach you to play every instrument in Smoke on the Water :D

OK, they are all up now:

Lesson 1: Guitar
Lesson 2: Cowbell
Lesson 3: Organ
Lesson 4: Violin
Lesson 5: Bodhran
Lesson 6: Bass

:D
 
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