Who invented power chords

Feb 4, 2. Posts: 10, Louis "Two Fingered Louie" Hacker. Feb 4, 3. I thought it was Tony Iommi cause he only has two fingers lol. Feb 4, 4. Posts: 9, Feb 4, 5. Age: 51 Posts: 17, Feb 4, 6. Posts: 22, Begging everyone's pardon but I really don't think there's a way to claim someone invented it. Blues player were using it back and the '20 and '30s and I'm sure it preceded them. Maybe it was an old cowboy who went by the name of "Two String" Thompson?

Feb 5, 7. Posts: 17, The basic principle of making a 3-note chord is to start with the tonic of a scale and skip every subsequent note in that scale. The same chord that you make on a piano you can make on a guitar. However a guitar is not like a piano where every note is laid out in a linear pattern. Galley , highway chile , BluesOvertookMe and 2 others like this.

Location: A dystopian nightmare. Jimmy B. I always thought it was that passage from "Mars, the Bringer of War" fro Holsts' The Planets suite that all the hard rock and metal guitarists like to quote. Listen at around to it here played by an ensemble of electric guitarists. Straight power chords "as we know them" Adam9 , xilef regnu and ruben lopez like this.

Location: here. Everyday is a day to protect the richness and vastness of music from being reduced to just the Beatles Matheusms , Mr. Sean , Spadeygrove and 8 others like this. Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Dave Hoos likes this. Location: Midwest via Boston. DrBeatle , Aug 11, Talpa , Mr. Sean , Spadeygrove and 4 others like this. Location: Tasmania, Australia. In the last couple of verses he lets his guitar ring in between the vocal lines. It's obviously not an electric guitar, but it's very effective. Dave Hoos , Aug 11, Sean , Suncola , DTK and 1 other person like this. Location: Atlanta.

Location: Dala, Sweden. Johnny Burnette Trio were doing this a lot in Location: Halifax Nova Scotia.