What do you call power chords with chord symbols?

[Bobby Timmons]

I was quoting myself so it lost the formatting, why should it matter?

It irrationally peeves me. Although I don't see why you'd purposely do that.

[Woody Sound]

Stanley Clarke often plays "inverted powerchords." 5-1, sometimes 5-1-5, a very cool sound. I have no idea how he notates it, other than written notes.

[Mick-7]

Stanley Clarke often plays "inverted powerchords." 5-1, sometimes 5-1-5, a very cool sound. I have no idea how he notates it, other than written notes.

Then it's a 4th? (an inverted 5th is a 4th). Earlier I suggested a notation for that:
What do you call power chords with chord symbols?

[supersoul]

Then it's a 4th? (an inverted 5th is a 4th). Earlier I suggested a notation for that:
What do you call power chords with chord symbols?

It still sounds like a fifth power chord to me, because it implies the root a fifth down. Maybe it's even heard psychoacoustically, because those are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd overtones of a root a fifth down.
With distortion and a bass guitar below you playing the note, it sounds still sounds mighty as a power chord should, and it leaves a little more room for the bass.

[ragman1]

Hey guys. Simple question that I have no idea.

Power chords are written with a 5, i.e. as C5.

Probably someone's already said that, I haven't read the thread.

[rpjazzguitar]

If you want E A D G in that order, low to high, what chord symbol do you use? I like E4, but I have to include an explanation in the chart.

Freddie did not play one note chords, as I understand it. At least, I've never heard him do it, and his legacy website, with transcriptions says that he didn't do it.

What he did do at times was strum three strings while only pressing one of them all the way down with his left hand. That way, he got the pitch from one note and the thunk from the other two strings. That sounds great. Just playing one note alone does not, IMO.

I don't know if that has much to do with how metal players approach chording. What they have in common, at a minimum, is a careful approach to what notes they want to sound.

[Mick-7]

If you want E A D G in that order, low to high, what chord symbol do you use? I like E4, but I have to include an explanation in the chart

I'd call it A7sus/E; sus chords are often played as stacked 4ths. Same chord with B in the bass would become: G6-9/B (B-E-A-D-G).