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→Puttin the Stank on Power Chords
One thing mentioned earlier was accents. Up until now we've touched on all the other techniques but haven't gotten too much into accents. Power chord strumming relies on some dynamic right hand playing to really bring the chords to life. Using a crunch distortion, each accented strum pushes the distortion and gets a crisp, bright breakup, while other strums are percussive but darker and warmer.
When I say accent, I mean it - I want you to bash those guitar strings, getting some brief fret buzz during the attack of the sound. Remember those examples from [[4th, 5th, and 6th Strings|this lesson]]? Let's revisit Revisit them using but use accents instead of single notes vs. power chords:- everything that you play should be a power chord, and the beats that use power chords should be accented.
== Homework ==