Of Course PARALLEL 5ths Are Fine! (If You Do This) [Music Theory]

Power chords are NOT parallel 5ths!

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Rather than making this a long theoretical discussion... go at 8:34 in the video above and listen.

What do you hear?

It may be hard to believe, but in this piece I violated one of the most 'sacred' rules of music theory: to not use parallel 5ths.

But like Morpheus says in the Matrix: "Some rules can be bent. Other can be broken."

(As long as you know what the rule is, and why it's there. If you simply try to ignore it... you're going to have a problem!)

Now, maybe you don't know what parallel 5ths are. Maybe you do, and don't care - why should you care about some old-school 'rules' that do not seem to apply to your music?

Maybe you even think that power chords are parallel 5ths (they are not).

And yet... knowing what parallel 5th are and how they can be used is one of the missing ingredients in most musicians skills.

Wait... I said that parallel 5ths are forbidden... and then I said "how they can be used"?

Yes!

Because "parallel 5ths are forbidden" is only half the story.

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