All styles

Pop, rock and metal

Rock on guitar: chords and rhythm.

Rock plays power chords: the root and the fifth, no third, loud and clean with distortion. The I – IV – V and the chord a whole step below the tonic (the ♭VII, here G5) give the riff its drive; mute the strings with your palm to make it punchy.

I – IV – V – ♭VIILevel · Intermediate

The progression

Pick a key: the charts change right below. "Listen" plays the progression with its rhythm; a click on a chord plays it alone, the arrow opens its page.

Key

In A major · 126 BPM
  • A5
    A power chord×××13
  • D5
    D power chord×××13
  • E5
    E power chord×××23
  • G5
    G power chord3fr×××134

The rhythm

One bar of the strumming hand, beat by beat. While it plays, the stroke being played lights up.

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  • strum down
  • down, cut short

In the collection

4

Songs in this style, with their chords or the scale of their solos.

From the same world

The most played chords in the world: four chords on a loop for pop, power chords and palm muting for rock and metal.