Powerchords
Posted by: m-rouse <m-rouse@...>
> Does anyone around here play powerchords?
yeah, cracked the ceiling in my dorm room in 1974.
> I had a question that I was wondering if anyone's figured
> out. How do you play a VII with a power chord? An example would be a
> B when playing in the key of C.
I would grab the root and the octave and leave out the fifth. The
diminished fifth with distortion is going to sound like a missed
chord no matter what you do.
> I don't see too many dim chords in
> contemporary worship but I do often see examples like G/B.
>
In this examble, the bass is playing the third of the chord. You
would play the G power chord. The B in the bass creates tension that
will probably be resolved by the bass returning to the root, either
resolving the G or at the next chord change. If you are doubling the
bass line instead of following the chord changes, you should just use
single notes or octaves if the bass player is not playing the root of
the chord.