Top 10 POWER CHORD Songs - How many can YOU play?

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  • Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
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Комментарии • 132

  • @andycrowley
    @andycrowley  Год назад +20

    Thanks for watching guys! See links to TAB for all 10 songs on this page (all 100% free) www.andyguitar.co.uk/songs/top-10-power-chord-songs/
    Let me know YOUR favourite power chord riffs in the comments here (might do a part 2 to this video!)

  • @brucemyers5913
    @brucemyers5913 3 месяца назад +8

    1:42 - Know Your Enemy
    2:10 - Smoke On The Water
    3:17 - Pour Some Sugar On Me
    3:58 - I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
    6:16 - Seven Nation Army
    7:41 - Rock You Like A Hurricane
    8:51 - You Really Got Me
    10:13 - I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
    11:15 - Basket Case

  • @SH-ii6uo
    @SH-ii6uo Год назад +23

    Green Day - Holiday was one of the first songs I learned to play and was the first time I heard of power chords. Still play it to this day. Love the song and is a great song to try any new guitar out with.

  • @deprinz4711
    @deprinz4711 Год назад +7

    One of the best beginner powerchord lessons on RUclips IMHO. Wish I'd seen this earlier. Thanks Andy!

  • @alansimpson8962
    @alansimpson8962 Год назад +37

    Smells like teenage spirit is a nice challenging power chord song

    • @oscarsizemore9885
      @oscarsizemore9885 Год назад

      That’s bar chords and they’re much harder

    • @legodudd3036
      @legodudd3036 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@oscarsizemore9885 bro what that aint no barre chords

    • @lilhollo420
      @lilhollo420 5 месяцев назад

      @@oscarsizemore9885you Hella wrong😂😂

    • @Sham_Fl
      @Sham_Fl 4 месяца назад

      Power cords are the dumbest thing to play, is so easy

    • @lilhollo420
      @lilhollo420 4 месяца назад +1

      @@Sham_Fl nah, you donk know how to implement the without haveting to strum all strings, arpeggios are a thing

  • @Andy-1968
    @Andy-1968 Год назад +9

    I learned smoke on the water by ear about 34 year's ago without knowing what I was doing 🤣 love your lessons Andy. I really wish I lived somewhere near you so I could beg you to teach me. My last teacher at college was Pete Frampton

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  Год назад

      Great to read Andy! I do offer guitar holidays with www.guitar-breaks.com/ - one announced up there already, more to follow in 2023 - would be awesome to meet you at one! I also do weekly online live lessons where you can ask me anything, request songs etc - that's here every monday www.andyguitar.co.uk/live

    • @djpoopypants4741
      @djpoopypants4741 Год назад

      Wow

  • @fd9717
    @fd9717 Год назад +12

    Dan Hawkins of the Darkness is the master of power chords - he is a riff powerhouse and a rhythm monster.
    If you change the order of the chords of I Believe in a Thing Called Love you get Smoke on the Water.

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  Год назад +5

      Dan Hawkins appreciation 🙌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @TheFairway8
    @TheFairway8 Год назад +4

    When I first started playing guitar way back in the early 80s I’d only vaguely heard about power chords maybe from an interview with Pete Townshend. As a result I only played full barre chords which along with some basic pentatonics became my staple. I must admit though that I’ve never struggled playing the dreaded ‘F’ as I learned it straight away even before many open chords, as you simply slide the shape about

  • @dzidekkrempak6686
    @dzidekkrempak6686 Год назад +2

    Lady Pank riffs are the best - Minus zero, Zamki na pisaku (Hero), Kryzysowa narzeczona (Hustler), Sztuka latania, Titanic, This is only rock and roll etc.

  • @robpace881
    @robpace881 Год назад +5

    That Epi shocked me.. then you explained why and I love it. I still love mine.

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  Год назад

      🙌

    • @zombieparrot2606
      @zombieparrot2606 Год назад +1

      I just got an epiphone LP a week or so ago. I have a Gibson SG but I saw the Epi and I just wanted a new guitar without dropping three grand hahaha. I like it a lot. It sounds pretty darn good. Haha.

  • @italiad1013
    @italiad1013 Год назад +9

    Just about all Sabbath songs got Tony’s power chord riffs to play👍

  • @Deadhansome
    @Deadhansome Год назад +2

    Toto. Love isn't always on time. Cracking riff.

  • @mattruffntuff7177
    @mattruffntuff7177 Год назад +2

    Here are my faves
    John Fogerty rock n roll girls,
    Bush Glycerine
    Blink 182 all small things
    Green Day when I come around
    And almost every song by AC/DC

  • @ricandes
    @ricandes Год назад +2

    Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones. One of my favorites.

  • @marcusadams8067
    @marcusadams8067 Год назад +2

    Can’t Explain and Baba O’ Reilly by the Who. Townshend almost invented the use of power chords in rock/ pop music.

  • @sergedenovo2389
    @sergedenovo2389 Год назад +2

    Merry Christmas everyone!

  • @doordashdude69
    @doordashdude69 Год назад +2

    Power chords are fun. My first song I ever learned on guitar was Smoke on the water, Then came Iron man. And it was all up hill from there. Great Vid bro! Tks

  • @dragon887
    @dragon887 Год назад +6

    Love the list of song you picked, but if I was say a must have, it would be Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit.

  • @echokzn1401
    @echokzn1401 Год назад +2

    As a novice,, much appreciated,, rock on,, 👍

  • @RobertoPasternak
    @RobertoPasternak 8 месяцев назад

    Living After Midnight, All Ramones songs, Good girls dont (The Knack) but some chords are Open with power on it
    Excellent video Andy I follow you since 4 years I believe. I just found this searching today. Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • @cariocatm1359
    @cariocatm1359 Год назад +2

    another easy one is dyers eve by metallica! it's the perfect song for begginers!

  • @outlawmonk3y
    @outlawmonk3y Год назад +5

    I love your vids, could you do one on recommended amp settings for these types of rock songs

  • @jewjr07
    @jewjr07 Год назад

    Thanks and Have a Happy New Year to Andy and everyone

  • @biscuitking7059
    @biscuitking7059 Год назад +7

    100% summer of 69 is a great one, also ABCDEFU Gayle, eye of the tiger as well

  • @lukebonnicihunt
    @lukebonnicihunt 11 месяцев назад

    I started learning guitar around the time this video came out. As of now I’ve been learning for about nine months and this video already feels nostalgic to when I was starting out. This and the first two videos in your electric guitar starter course. Love your videos, they’ve helped me a lot. 🤘

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  11 месяцев назад

      What a great comment, thanks for sharing!

    • @lukebonnicihunt
      @lukebonnicihunt 11 месяцев назад

      @@andycrowley no problem, you’re awesome! 🤘

  • @stevensanger
    @stevensanger Год назад +1

    I always liked buck rogers by feeder that's pretty straight forward

  • @jimmyjimmy951
    @jimmyjimmy951 Год назад +2

    Enjoyable insights as always Andy. 👍🇦🇺

  • @AnthonySmith-cp7yc
    @AnthonySmith-cp7yc Год назад +1

    Great stuff andy _ I've subscribed today 😊

  • @sixxbrisbane
    @sixxbrisbane 8 месяцев назад

    I would have absolutely loved to see Talk Dirty To Me in here

  • @dio5735
    @dio5735 8 месяцев назад

    one song i’ve learnt how to play on power chords is green day’s 16. super simple chords

  • @Hejka39
    @Hejka39 Год назад +2

    Amazing sounds 🎸🎸🎸🎸❤️

  • @gergokerti2362
    @gergokerti2362 Год назад

    Pink Slip /Freaky Friday - Take me away
    Green day - Letterbomb 🤩

  • @fentonxi
    @fentonxi Год назад +2

    Lukin by Pearl Jam all power chords only about 1 min in length.

  • @Andy-1968
    @Andy-1968 Год назад +3

    Just been watching your channel Andy & this came up 😀

  • @davyk4852
    @davyk4852 Год назад

    Great lesson mate. Nice Guitar, I have an Epiphone Les Paul 1959 love it.

  • @demianschultz3749
    @demianschultz3749 11 месяцев назад

    That was actually very useful sir. Liked and subscribed to

  • @joskorivic
    @joskorivic Год назад +1

    All of them 🤘🏻

  • @j4yl4o
    @j4yl4o Год назад +2

    wow nice thank you very much 💕

  • @nickd0to100
    @nickd0to100 Год назад +1

    Great video thank you ❤

  • @rush2124u2
    @rush2124u2 Год назад

    I just found your page and its Rocks...going to sub. Cheers from Canada

  • @AngelMartinez-qs3cf
    @AngelMartinez-qs3cf Год назад +1

    Hey Andy, Happy New Year to you and your family. All the best in your future endeavors with lots of good health and happiness. Tell what amp you using? And what microphone!

  • @craigsnewfoundland2351
    @craigsnewfoundland2351 Год назад +2

    When doing electric guitar lesson, can u mention amp setting. As beginners we need all direction we can get. Thanks

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  Год назад

      OK- for this video I used this $100 headphone amp which doesn't have any amp settings other than clean and dirty ruclips.net/video/ljg2Az4l0cg/видео.html 👍

    • @craigsnewfoundland2351
      @craigsnewfoundland2351 Год назад

      Thank you!!!

  • @joecool5670
    @joecool5670 Год назад

    Favorite Song: 1969 by the Stooges.
    Oh und frohes Neues Jahr.

  • @viktorramirez9171
    @viktorramirez9171 Год назад +1

    Great and helpful Video. I just bought an e-guitar and now I have something to start with. Thank you very much

  • @abhirajahluwalia9712
    @abhirajahluwalia9712 Год назад +2

    Second !! nice vid btw always thought power chords were hard until i tried myself

  • @barettcote4232
    @barettcote4232 Год назад

    KISS Strange Ways, Metallica For Whom The Bell Tolls, Black Sabbath Paranoid, KISS Love Gun, Ace Frehley Rip It Out

  • @kolchak357
    @kolchak357 Год назад +4

    China Grove from the Doobies has a great power chord riff.

  • @jeffreynowotarski8775
    @jeffreynowotarski8775 Год назад +4

    Hi Andy! Your awesome - love your videos. You've been a tremendous inspiration to me learning the electric guitar. I really appreciate all your hard work. That's a great sound with the Epiphone Les Paul Standard; what other equipment are you using to get it?

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  10 месяцев назад +1

      The main thing you're hearing is the Seymour Duncan sh1 Bridge pickup and the amp, which is a Victory sherrif 22. Pickups and amp give most of the sound imho

    • @jeffreynowotarski8775
      @jeffreynowotarski8775 10 месяцев назад

      @andycrowley I appreciate you replying, Andy. I've gotten so much from your videos. I feel as though I owe you. So, I will subscribe to your lesson program. I just have to wait until the end of the year because I'm already subscribed to 2 different lesson programs, and it's too difficult to keep up with them alone. Thanks once again, and I'll let you know when I'm subscribed to show you that I'm a man of my word!

  • @juliodefreitas157
    @juliodefreitas157 4 месяца назад

    Absolutely awesome ❤️ ❤

  • @JMGD20
    @JMGD20 Год назад

    I like that you use Epiphone. My guitar is an Epiphone SG ✌️

  • @robsthedon
    @robsthedon Год назад

    Great stuff!

  • @MrMurphyum
    @MrMurphyum Год назад +2

    Surprised you didn't feature offspring songs.
    They are great even for beginners

  • @Umbra1126
    @Umbra1126 Год назад +1

    Nice

  • @Mario-jn5zq
    @Mario-jn5zq Год назад

    I was lead guitarist in my hand long time ago but my favorite powerchord song was Marilyn Manson's disposable teens

  • @odoibhilin9
    @odoibhilin9 Год назад +1

    Fav power chord song?! The entire blink-182 back catalogue ❤

  • @axelvits1832
    @axelvits1832 Год назад +2

    Could you make a toturial on 'somebody' by bryan adams?

  • @darrenpritchard8911
    @darrenpritchard8911 Год назад

    Ha ha love it, would have gone 'War Pigs' for Black Sabbath and The Hives 'Hate to say I told you so'

  • @tarared7668
    @tarared7668 6 месяцев назад

    I like Basket case too..

  • @sixxbrisbane
    @sixxbrisbane Год назад +4

    We’re not gonna take it

  • @mitchell7692
    @mitchell7692 Месяц назад

    With the D power chord are you supposed to mute string 5 as well?

  • @patrickhuhn9193
    @patrickhuhn9193 Год назад

    Judas Priest Livin’ After Midnight and Electric Eye

  • @wideyxyz2271
    @wideyxyz2271 Год назад

    Andy you need a Mark Knopfler type head band! lol. Great video. Offspring and Blink 182 PCs are some of my favourites.

  • @alexjohnston8889
    @alexjohnston8889 Год назад

    Holy diver by Dio is a great easy power chord song.

  • @sixxbrisbane
    @sixxbrisbane 9 месяцев назад

    Talk Dirty To Me by Poison.
    Blitzkreig Bop

  • @metalliholic
    @metalliholic Год назад

    That Epiphone looks great.

  • @Slideshoww
    @Slideshoww 9 дней назад

    What type of guitar is that?😊

  • @avinjenix8103
    @avinjenix8103 Год назад +1

    Lovely

  • @aods4595
    @aods4595 Год назад +1

    Is no one gonna talk about this tone🥵

  • @nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251

    Doctor doctor by UFO would be a great one to do

  • @choochoochooseyou
    @choochoochooseyou 11 месяцев назад +1

    Where is the link to your band playing that song? Not your fault, but you point up to reference a link that doesn't appear on my mobile device.

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for letting me know! Here's a link to all my live band covers, which all have full guitar and bass tutorials either on youtube or at andyguitar.co.uk ➡️ ruclips.net/p/PL-RYb_OMw7GeCpQdYH1sY_C6IiNW7MVYF&si=nL-dTylXAWMh58wA

  • @trevorsyversen9956
    @trevorsyversen9956 Год назад

    Love Removal Machine --The Cult.

  • @LiamJD182
    @LiamJD182 Год назад +1

    I mean if you want some off the best riffs in the last 10 years and nothing but power chords, look no further than the latest Turnstile album.

  • @sardarbelal3114
    @sardarbelal3114 5 месяцев назад

    could you pls do some power chords rytham?cheers

  • @kryddan666
    @kryddan666 Год назад

    Thank you for all these great tracks. No Ramones tracks :) ? I mean Blitzkrieg Bop :)

  • @tiptizlode4995
    @tiptizlode4995 Год назад

    What model guitar is this please? What year is it? Great tone

  • @maxm6931
    @maxm6931 Год назад

    Somehow your channel name below the video window shows up translated to German as: "Andy Gitarre" which is quite funny because it sounds like "go grab your guitar" in German which is what I'm going to do now!

  • @i5150v1
    @i5150v1 Год назад

    Holy Diver

  • @portsideguitar1981
    @portsideguitar1981 Год назад

    Smells Like Teen spirit was a big omission here! 😮

  • @gomezthechimp1116
    @gomezthechimp1116 Год назад +1

    Jet: Are you Gonna Be My Girl

  • @ohalohuntero
    @ohalohuntero Год назад

    You said you broke these songs down further in other videos do you have the greenday know your enemy video?

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  Год назад +1

      It's in the Top 3 Green Day songs with 3 chords video, on youtube 👍

  • @TKnuckles333
    @TKnuckles333 Год назад

    I smell me some team spirit, baby! 😎🤘

  • @normanmanwaring7162
    @normanmanwaring7162 Год назад

    smells like teen spirit love playing nirvana

  • @scottfair3207
    @scottfair3207 Год назад +2

    Teenage Kicks by the Undertones please Andy. Love that song 👍

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  Год назад +1

      Done here 😊 ruclips.net/video/ekvW-OKYKXg/видео.html

    • @scottfair3207
      @scottfair3207 Год назад +1

      @@andycrowley Sorry Andy I clearly didn't delve deep enough into your video catalogue. Loved the tutorial especially the band setup. Gives me something to aim for 👍

  • @leecollins5698
    @leecollins5698 Год назад

    No easy way out from Rocky IV.

  • @richardkleveringa630
    @richardkleveringa630 Год назад

    Ace Frehley New york groove

  • @paulymullo
    @paulymullo 6 месяцев назад +1

    Good to watch but no tabs or even telling us were ur fingers are ,you just went through them like a bat owa hell,u love the power chords so do i,but i need more info ANDY PLEASEdo a power chord special and just take 2 chords

  • @paulhill1379
    @paulhill1379 Год назад +1

    ✌✌✌

  • @johnhessey2534
    @johnhessey2534 Год назад

    Good video but I 100% thought sneeka like teen spirit might be in there

  • @GraemeSmith-kd5eb
    @GraemeSmith-kd5eb 3 месяца назад

    Do I hear a nappy sniffer (Middlesbrough) accent .😅

  • @garypmcgovern2321
    @garypmcgovern2321 Год назад

    Green Day again. When I come around

  • @villageidiot9867
    @villageidiot9867 Год назад

    Anything by the Misfits.

  • @CC-fi3pp
    @CC-fi3pp 10 месяцев назад

    This is not how people do it, they drop the top string and 1 finger them on the top 2 strings 😂

  • @guitarizard
    @guitarizard Год назад

    If you had said neither it would have rhymed.

  • @epicthings6987
    @epicthings6987 Год назад

    Where is AC/DC ???😢

  • @dixienormous2440
    @dixienormous2440 Год назад

    Satanic devil's horn sign is not cool.

  • @johnny5805
    @johnny5805 Год назад

    Dude, you're still slapping on the fake tan ! It looks like you've been dipped in carrot juice ! It even looks like you're wearing white gloves !

    • @andycrowley
      @andycrowley  Год назад

      You heard it here first guys...🍊

  • @bobbeebobbee6998
    @bobbeebobbee6998 Год назад

    To fast no te to follow sory bye

  • @FAYMprod
    @FAYMprod Год назад

    tough tutorial for beginners into intermediate level. too fast, not enough gfx, discussion of the progressions

  • @gifanniyossam
    @gifanniyossam 7 месяцев назад +28

    Talk too much

  • @variableknife6616
    @variableknife6616 11 месяцев назад

    Dude… good info but drink less coffee. The average JOE can’t keep up~ on to the next vodeo