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Originally Posted by joeydahlia
whats a 5th?
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Where's the rolling eye emoticon?
technically, any two pitches that are exactly five scale degrees apart. Most comomon would be a perfect fifth, better known to rockers as the "power chord"- play an open E and a 2nd fret B, and you're there. A diminished 5th would be a Bb relative to E, while an augmented would be a B# enharmonically, or C in "common parlance," musically speaking.
what I've heard you do in a few of your peices is play a series of notes where you play a note (say, an E), then play it's 5th (B) then play the 5th of THAT note (F#) and then the fifth of that (C#). It gives a "suspended" sort of sound, in that the second fifth is the second degree of the original root, the third is the major 6th of the root or the major second of the first 5th, etc. Very open sounding- Satriani works with voicings like this a lot, and I've heard Petrucci drop these in some of his solos. I like how they sound completely unresolved, myself.
So, any feedback on my playing, since you're so dead-set on getting some on yours?
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