F5 power chord

This lesson i'll teach you how to play the chord F5

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• Chord
• F5

[Krelle1911]

First of all - Tune ur damn guitar!

Second is knowledge. In a PowerChord (X5) there is only two tones. That's where the 5 comes from, cuz a PowerChord is a "fifth" with means you take one tone, and go 5 whole tones forward and play that tone too. When you play them simultaneously you get the (X5) chord. In this case you play the tone F, and when you go 5 whole tones forward from that, you have your fifth-chord. The third finger is your octave, which is, in this case, the F just 1 octave higher.

[theworldofguitars]

@Krelle1911 well the notes in the chord are f,c,f and i disagree that there are only two notes as chords are 3 notes or more so the f5 will be 133, or the chord could also be called a csus4, if my third finger was going to be my octave then i would of put 1x3 as a tab but i haven't, look check any site and see what a 5th chord is

[Krelle1911]

@theworldofguitars Haha, well actually I wont have to cause I already know. Im on 3rd year on the music conservatory so I do know what I am talking about. The chord is called "5" because its a fifth. And a fifth is two notes ONLY. The third you add is an octave to the F. If you add more notes to the fifth, you will get an F.

[theworldofguitars]

@Krelle1911 well it's not technically a chord if it has only two notes!! now the chord i am showing is an "F Power Chord" which holds the notes F,C and F or it can also be called C sus 4 but for this case i'm showing an F power Chord and that's correct as in any power chord you get the same note that's in unison but obviously doesn't follow a major or minor scale and the chord is called a 5th because it's the 5th note of the major scale

[Krelle1911]

@theworldofguitars Yes, that is right. Technically it is not a chord, because the fifth-chords cant be defined as major og minor - or anything else for that matter.

And no, its is not a Csus4 - it would be in an open F chord - but then it is a fifth, the C is the fifth to the F and those two notes make the "undefinanle major/minor" F5.

The chord is a fifth because if you look on a piano, you'll have the "CDEFGAB" notes, and from the F to the C there is five whole tones.

[theworldofguitars]

@Krelle1911 are you sure it can't be a csus4 variant i have a book and the website the guitar buzz both say it too?

[Krelle1911]

@Krelle1911 * ...but WHEN it is a fifth..

[Krelle1911]

@theworldofguitars I made this for ya. Hope you'll see what I mean. /watch?v=voybux7YT0E

[superfag64]

but it helps you out more if i just press f5 on my keyboard because that refreshes the page and gives you more views

[theworldofguitars]

@superfag64

hello right f5 chord hold the thickest string on the guitar known as the "low e" down on the 1st fret then hold the a and d string down on the 3rd fret, or the other way to play it is just don't hold down the d string and play two strings instead if that makes sense?