Video Guitar Lesson: Metal Chords & Inversions
Oct 26th, 2007 by Guitar MX Admin
I’ve been pretty interested in learning more about the Rock House instructional DVD’s since the ‘Rock House Donates Guitar DVDs to US Soldiers in Afghanistan‘ post. They have some great samples on their YouTube channel, including this recent one by Marc Rizzo of Soulfly.
This clip is called ‘Metal Chords & Inversions’ from the Metal Guitar (Advanced): Modern,Speed & Shred DVD.
I especially like the 3rd chord. It’s a B5 chord, which is inverted by using the low F# as the bass note, which is the octave of the 5th. It looks like this:

Check out the Chord Construction and Power Chords lessons on this site for more information on building chords. You can find other DVD’s from Rock House here.