Power chord inversions can be useful to achieve more range on a 6 string guitar, as well as allow you to move less around the fretboard. These are kind of like scales, modes, same principle, and are very useful in all styles of music, but this can really help you with your heavy riffing if you’re into the extreme stuff like death metal, black metal, thrash metal, etc.

All of this can make your 6 string guitar come off as a 7 string guitar.

Scales modes, arpeggio inversions, and chord inversions – all intervals, but this lesson concentrates on power chord inversions specifically.

Breaking outside of the simple and everyday run of the mill chords will give you MANY more options and paths to take on the fretboard when fretting. Chord inversions also have a unique sound compared to normal chords, though you usually can’t tell unless you’re listening for it. It’s sort of like drop D, but not really.

When you start using this technique I think you’ll open up a completely new way of playing your metal riffs. Tuning to E standard and STILL getting an amazingly heavy kind of sound is now possible without having to tune down a million octaves. It’s one of my absolute favorite techniques to apply to my writing and I’m positive that when you try it you’ll never go back to only using power chords in the regular way again.

If you work on your downpicking and apply this new technique, heavy riffs await you!
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