Chordplay - The Chords Of Linkin Park

Here's the next episode of Chordplay with The Chords Of Linkin Park. It was twenty years ago when Linkin Park's album 'Hybrid Theory' (released in October of 2000) exploded onto the scene and I distinctly remember teaching their music to loads of my private lesson students at the time, and this lesson revisits some of the ideas floating around on their albums and in their music.

This episode focuses on some of the signature chord-based moves that guitarist Brad Delson revealed in the early days of this band, which includes a healthy dose of stacked power chords, octaves, and harmonics sprinkled into the mix. These elements were very common in rock/hard rock guitar music at the time, as these ideas can also be heard in music from Incubus, 311, and POD (to name a few).

The chord-based riffs and ideas in this lesson include popular songs such as 'Somewhere I Belong,' 'Lying From You,' and 'Easier To Run' from their album Meteora, along with the track 'Papercut' and the newly released and previously-unreleased bonus track 'She Couldn't' from the 20th Anniversary remastered edition of 'Hybrid Theory' that was released last year.

If you're searching for some new twists to power chords and stacking multiple guitar parts together, along with hitting some tasty riffs and interesting ideas hiding in some modern guitar music - this is the lesson for you!

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