The power chord and how to play Brain Stew by Greenday

Brain Stew by Greenday Guitar Lesson Part 2

Easy power chord song with rests and the Greenday song Brainstew

Gb5

Part 2 - Let's Add the Percussive Part

Don't worry about reading music. The musiclearning.com beat by beat breakdown will have you playing this in no time and learning a thing or two about written music 🙂

Power Chords
Sixteenths notes
Eighth note and Quarter note rests

Measure 1

Percussive Rhythm Playing

Now we will fill in the space between the power chords with sixteenth note percussive sounds or what I like to call clicks.

Half Speed

A5

2.

The notation file below say repeat 4x however the audio file only repeats twice.

Half Speed

3.

2:07

Now we are going to add a low open E on the (a) of beat 2 and 4.

Half Speed

Note in the audio example I am hitting both the low E and the low A.

4.

This exercise is the same as above however it doesn't have the rests between repeats.

5.

This is half speed with clicks and drums.