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This poll ran from June 06, 2011 to June 19, 2011.
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Choice 2 is the best choice here, but once you add the open high E, you can add the low E and the A as weel, what the hell, it's a noisy song
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I tried it and sounds good actually.
x0023x
This is a D power chord. The first 2 choices in this poll are not power chords.
A few months ago I scrutinized a Link DVD to see how he played this chord. A friend had challenged my impression that the high E string was played. So far as I could tell my friend was right both that Link ended this chord on the B string and that Link generally played power chords rather than majors. So, Link is the progenitor of power chords, not just Rumble.
The next question is: Did Link fret the G# on the G string or just damp it?
I believe that the first chord is X0023x ; a D5 chord with an added A on the bottom, no 3rd. The E chord is 022x00, making it an E5. The A chord is also a 5 chord played 0022xx. Only the turnaround B7 and solo, which is an Emajor triad have a 3rd. The added 5 in each chord accounts for the songs girth.
The copyrighted sheet music (1958) has Dsus2 (x00230), not D and not x0023x.
This is the link to it.
http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0051407&
Having said all that, I think it sounds better and more like he played it later as x0023x. I wish he were still around to ask.
Dsus2 sounds wrong, I don't hear a high E in the original recording. Emaj and Amaj are definitely wrong. Sheet music is almost always arranged for piano and often completely wrong for some wierd reason. A good example is the classic "Beatles Complete" book where some of the arrangements and keys bear no resembelance to the actual record. I'm positive it's D5 with an added A on the bottom and no F# or E on top. It just sounds much gnarlier without the 3rd.
I humbly take it back! It is Dsus2! Upon careful listening, I do hear a high E ringing out over the D ( definitely contains the open A on the bottom ), he misses it sometimes though, especially the first time -- which is what was throwing me off. Hat's off to you.
choice two, and played with plenty of attitude.
The title issue is the first chord in Rumble, not later chords. Psychonaut said Link does not include E in the first chord. This leaves this chord as x0023x indeed.
Later chords may be a different matter. Strictly speaking, adding the high E makes it Dsus9 not Dsus2.