Chords for Power Chord Mechanics - Open Chords With Natural Minor Sequences

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_ _ _ _ With riff 4 we're in a 6-8 time signature, which is quite nice for metal and rock and the main focus here is the
repeating rhythm so using the power chords both A and E _ _ and
Let's have a look at that.
So we do a couple of [A] strums
_ _ _ Followed _ _ _ _ by three palm muted notes on the open fifth string
_ _ And _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] what we're doing is varying this with six notes just as a melodic idea
[B] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [C] Now I'll leave that up to you whether you do alternate picking or just down picking I like down just for consistency
[B] _ _ [A] _ [G] Or [C] you can use alternate
[B] _ _ [G] Which _ works nicely as well _ and really all we're doing from there on in is just varying the power chords.
So we do [E] a _ _
different _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ [E] set of notes [D] _ [B] and _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
_ [A] back to the a sequence _ _ _
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[C] different set of notes
[Bm] _ or [G] _
_ [C] _ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C]
down picking
[Bm] _ back [G] _ _ to the [E] e _ _ _ _ _ _ _
As this nifty two bar single note sequence here
_ [D] _ [C] Which _ [B] _ _ [G] _
is [A] almost like a scalar sequence, which is nice [E] to practice
[C] _ [B] Kind _ [Em] _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ [Ab] _ [N] of reminds me of Iron Maiden
things in the latter half of riff 4
Tend to get a bit more spaced out.
So we just let things breathe a bit from the A to [A] the G
_ _ _ [G] To _
[E] _ _ the E followed by some nice single note [B] stuff
[C] _ [B] _ [A] _ Notice _
_ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _
_ _ [B] _ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] there the E5 there was the rhythm we started with _
back _ [A] _ _ _ _ to A5 _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _
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[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
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_ [C] _ [B] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[C] _ [Bm] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _
_ [C] _ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[C] _ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
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