Power chords

What is it?

Power chords are often played in rock music. Usually they are played with a lot of distortion. They sound fat, mean, great!!!

Actually power chords are the smallest chords around. They consist of only 2 notes, played on 2 or 3 strings. For the music theorists around us: it's the first note and the fifth.

Power chords are most often played with a guitar pick.

What does it look/sound like?

Before I explain all boring stuff, just listen!

I used a pick and played this tab:

Another example, here I strum all chords downwards on each beat:

This is the tab: