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AlexLion7th May 2009Cool lesson! I love to use those 
TheOldOnes7th May 2009Nice lesson! I remember a friend showed me these about a year ago and I spent the next week modifying everything in my repertoire. Nevertheless, I forgot about them after a time and its very nice to have a lesson in your repertoire to remind us how cool these are to use. Cool idea about making the chords sound bigger! It really works well!
Joe Kataldo7th May 2009Thanks Guys 
Gerardo Siere7th May 2009Very clever idea, thanks Joe.
Ivan Milenkovic7th May 2009Great stuff for some progressive rock/fusion style riffing & rhythm work!
Emir Hot7th May 2009Awesome approach
Sensible Jones7th May 2009Great lesson Joe!! I love the sound of add9's!!!
Hisham Al-Sanea7th May 2009nice one Joe.good work
Alexiaden937th May 2009Cool lesson, Joe ! Very inspiring
Vasilije Vukmirovic8th May 2009Cool lesson, reminds me of some Petruccis stuff.
Pedja Simovic8th May 2009Cool lesson Joe, dig it a lot man !
Gabriel Leopardi8th May 2009My favourite chord. Good job Joe, your tone is always awesome.
Bogdan Radovic8th May 2009Very good rhythm lesson Joe!
Joe Kataldo8th May 2009Thanks
Sinisa Cekic8th May 2009Useful chords Joe,cool lesson
Muris Varajic8th May 2009Nice riffing Joe!
playaxeman8th May 2009Hi Joe,
Reminds me of a band called Rush.
Cool!
Stephane Lucarelli9th May 2009Cool, useful chords Joe!
Zsolt Galambos11th May 2009I love the sound of these chord! Great lesson, Joe!
misterj11th May 2009Love the lesson! Which guitar is that?
Joe Kataldo12th May 2009a Mayones Setius custom Joe Kataldo
MigeZ13th May 2009Thanks this is realy usefull becouse my own new song<3 is based in these chords (9th Power Chords) and I love the sound of them. Cheers mate 
kevvyg22nd May 2009Very useful Joe! Sounds very much like early Rush... I guess I've discovered part of Alex Lifeson's sound! Yippee!
KG
Hi guys, Joe Kataldo here today I wanna show you a variation of the basic root/fifth power chord, the add9th. As the name says this power chords have, apart from root and fifth and added 9th, that is the same note as the second, just an octave higher:
Ex.
Gadd9
R - 5th - 9th
G - D - A
The whole study uses only this kind of power chords, trying to explore their musical and rhythmically possibility in full. Two main shapes are used the one explained above and an inversion of it made of 5th root 9th 5th:
Ex.
Gadd9 inversion
5th - R - 9th - 5th
D - G - A - D
First part of the study is a fast driven rock, all down stroke picked with palm mutin on bass notes, second part is more open sounding with arpeggiated parts
Pro Tips
To make power chords sound huge, like the last Badd9, instead of strike chords, slightly drag across strings
Have Fun!
Joe Kataldo.
