Cool thread, I have been doing a lot of "listening" recently and a lot of my favorite bands use 3 or 4 chords. At the moment they are Oasis, Niel Joung, Snow Patrol, White Stripes and a lot of blues to name a few. In my mind what they do well is to create the mood of the piece by playing basic rhythms by with a lot of skill and by changing the dynamics at certain parts of the song. The dynamics being Palm muting, pick agression (light during vocal part more aggressive for intros bridges etc). Snow Patrol are great at creating the mood just look at chassing cars, if you listen to that its a very simple song but the mood the music creates is very emotional.
My plan is now to focus on what I have learnt so far and not try to learn anything new, its time to work on quality to really nail down the simple things like making a "C" chord really ring out or to be consistant when I palm mute.
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