Understanding Purple Haze
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- It's not much of an exaggeration to say that Jimi Hendrix reinvented the electric guitar: While his career was cut tragically short, his legacy and his influence have endured, and he's widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists to have ever lived. Purple Haze is probably one of the songs most associated with him, and it in many ways exemplifies his approach to music, using clever twists to help take standard ideas and make them truly unique. Plus, tritones. Lots and lots of tritones. Can't forget about the tritones.
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Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!
some additional thoughts/corrections.
1) Apologies for the notation error around 2:09. The filming process is a largely mechanical one: All the theorizing happens much earlier, so I'm often not really thinking about what I'm drawing, I'm just copying things down from pre-written instructions. I guess I got a couple things jumbled up in my head, and didn't notice at the time 'cause I wasn't expecting errors so I wasn't watching for them. Everything I'm saying in that section is still correct, I just wrote the wrong letters under the wrong notes. Sorry about that.
2) It's worth noting that there's a couple different versions of this song out there, so for the sake of consistency I used the one from the US release of Are You Experienced? (Or, more accurately, off the Deluxe Edition on iTunes, which I'm assuming is the same as the US release, but I wasn't alive in 1967 so I can't confirm that for sure.) A lot of what I said is gonna be true across all the versions, but there's some structural differences so if something I say sounds wrong, do me a favor and double check that we're talking about the same recording. thanks!
My brain went "wait what, is that backwards or is everything I know a lie" at 2:09 haha thanks for clarifying!
Well played with ending fade out! I actually laughed and the wife looked at me funny as I tried to explain! 👏👏👏
It's really cool that you've acknowledged any slight slips, as nitpicky as they may be! But, I mean; as ever; this is just really solid stuff. Great analysis. It's always reassuring to be told that a song you think is awesome is, indeed, awesome :)
No analysis of the dorian solo? Much disappoint
Awesome video but can you please talk slower, as someone who isn’t incredibly well versed in music theory I fine it difficult to take in everything you are saying.
"If you can't read drum notation, don't worry"
Mate, the only notation I can actually read in these videos is the pretty pictures.
Ha! Me too....🤣
Lmao
I don’t understand 75% of what you explain but I still love it.....
Mikey'58 I play guitar and barely understand it Haha
Every time he says something new to me that sounds interesting I pause the video and have to look up what that is... I've had no music theory in school... But this is still awesome, and I love learning the names for the things that I know by ear
For real tho
The bassist, Noel Redding, was a lead guitarist prior to joining the Experience.
Yeah 🤔 the Experience didn’t really need a second one…😐
everyone improves in life.
Yeah, some of the best bassists started on guitar.
I think another interesting thing about the intro riff is that it only uses notes in the pentatonic scale, but it definitely doesn't sound like a typical pentatonic melody - it sounds more complex than just 5 different notes. I think it's a pretty creative way of using the scale.
MaggaraMarine jimi sure knew how to articulate minor pentatonics. The best
rythm can change everything
@@NeloAmaru Not only rhythm, but also register - the melody uses quite big leaps.
@@MaggaraMarine and timbre
I can't imagine a person behind those hands, So i'm just going to keep thinking that 12tone is just floating hands who have gained sentience and like good beats.
So we could say that after living with the Addams Family, Luke Skywalker's hand decided to dwell into music theory on a professional level? Playing with Lurch sure had good influence on him 😀
"which is pretty app..." -- brilliant ending...
Fugo was cautionary but he's full of regret for his actions. I understand him
Rip our nigga cheese boy
I love Purple Haze, one of my favorite stands of all time
Aiden Andre strain! And I love indicas as well! Sedative high is the way to go!
UBASHAAAAAAA
They better animate PHF
Idk man, I prefer the sheer strength and simplicity of Star Platinum
same, didnt get enough screen time tho
I am genuinely impressed at the level of "detail" and nuance you painfully weaved into the MIDI riffs! Kudos, all the bends and slides and hammer-ons are spot on!
Saw him play it, I was never much of a lyrics guy. Assumed it was about dropping acid, like we did the night we saw him in San Francisco. Best concert AND acid trip combined in one. He did the Star Spangled Banner and I could feel jet planes coming in and firing their guns. We were right in front of the stage.
That concert experience sounds pretty cool.
what i would give to have seen him at Monterey Pop
when i teach this song to my students. i always like to point out that the E7#9 chord encapsulates the basic tensions of the blues - the #9 acts like a minor third against the major third already in the chord - just like how the pentatonic scale creates that tension with the chords in any 12-bar blues
are you threatening me master jedi?
Cantaloupe island by Herbie Hancock?
yes. I love that song
Bam-dararam-damdaram
Jesus Christ.... and people tell ME I’m always “Over-Explaining” things. This is god tier level.
I'm too looking forward to Purple Haze Feedback adaptation.
I know right. Can't wait for my boy to get his redeption arc
Is PHF better than GHGR
im sorry about the Rohan OVA
Thank you man! As a guitarist, I've been waiting for this one.
I’ve always interpreted the sharp nine as anticipating the root of the next chord: flat third. Or at least as an explanation for part of why the flat third sounds so good.
Or also as an explanation for why Jimi didn’t use a flat nine or anything else that also sounds very spicy.
Snare drum on all 4 quarters is a common rock device generally used, I think, to increase tension or complement heightened energy in contrast to other sections of the song that put the snare on backbeats. But since the song opens with it here, your analysis may well be correct.
You can also find the "4 on the snare" in many older Techno tracks. On Surgeon's first EP for example, he puts the either the snare or the clap on all quarters on literally every single track. Seriously, see it for yourself!
ua-cam.com/video/lvythlWSHM0/v-deo.html (Magneze: the snare comes at 2:06)
ua-cam.com/video/p28edQtW7T0/v-deo.html (Move: Right from the start you can hear the claps on the downbeats)
ua-cam.com/video/OvgedNSuduY/v-deo.html (Atol: at 3:01)
ua-cam.com/video/96e3qyP6dzA/v-deo.html (Argon: at 0:57)
Yeah, I've actually long been trying to figure out where that beat comes from, because it's a bit of a rock cliche beat (exactly as written out, with four snares on the beats and those kicks on the and of 3 and 4; kick on the 1 optional.) I feel like it's been used a lot in Motown, but I don't know what the source is. As said above, usually used as a contrast to a backbeat section, but I've heard it start out songs as well (like Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl," for instance, or Green Day's "Extraordinary Girl.") The feeling it communicates to me is this kind of a feeling of anticipation as you're waiting for the metronomic click of four-on-the-snare to resolve into a powerful backbeat.
@@pulykamellGoogling for "motown 4 on the snare" turns up a lot of stuff, so yeah, I think people feel like it originated there. I suspect the meaning has shifted, though.
it's a dance beat
and the placement of the bassdrum shows you exactly where you are
nothing confusing about it
@@rusarcher3870I think you're confusing the subject of my tweet and the video ("four on the snare") with the dance beat it's named after, "four on the floor" (which is on the kick drum).
Cute ending. Thanks for this. I love the variety of the songs you take on.
I actually tried writing a song with the Hendrix Chord and the main chord progression I did was D7#9, G7. It sounds kinda funky cuz D7#9 makes tension and wants to resolve to G. And it does go to G but as a dominant 7 seven chord which wants to resolve somewhere as well and repeating the entire progression sounds kinda cool cuz the #9 of D is F (well it's basically E#). And both of those two chords contain an F natural which is why it sounds pretty functional, tension-building and funky.
Can we get Rush. Any Rush song will do, Red Barchetta, Tom Sawyer, Freewill, The Trees, 2112, La Villa Strangiato, Bastille Day, even The Necromancer.
Clockwork Angels?
@@illiantear yes please
Subdivisions would be perfect for one of these breakdown videos.
PLEASE
YYZ?
The first video where I understood the theory. Thank you for your many lessons Lord 12tone
This is excellent on so many levels. Thank you very much sir!
Awesome! Thank you for this.
You make music come alive, i loved this! thank you
Here they come, you know who I'm talking about
Who exactly?
jojo fans?
Yeah!
Is it the "Hendrix didn't know theory" gang?
@@krystakyukitsu1642 You tell me, Zeppeli
Fascinating. Thanks for the analysis.
Disorientation is what "Purple Haze" is all about. Starting with that bucketful of tri-tones that hits you in a jagged rhythm, and then all the other melodic tricks you discuss. And this is because "Are You Experienced?" means "Have you ever tripped on LSD?" (and "Purple Haze" was the nickname for one particular sub-type of LSD). Hendrix is trying to make his music disrupt the listener's consciousness in a way similar to the drug experience (and that was a big part of the music of that era!). He pretty much succeeded :-)
Wow, so many new characters in your drawings! Nice. : )
Awesome stuff!
great that you mentioned that the drumming alone was also extremely new, law breaking and different for that time period.
Absolutely brilliant. A master class; love it Maestro.
Fascinating!!! Thanks.
Thanks a million
I love this video! I'm a huge fan of Hendrix and i think the most important thing to better understand his style of playing is to learn the fingering. It's poetry written in muscle memory.
loved the analysis of the intro.. videos on entire solos would be increadible
Really great analysis! The slightly glitchy MIDI guitar is a little jarring though.
Well, you know how trigger happy the copyright gestapo are!
I'm pretty sure drum beats with the snare on all four beats is largely a Motown thing. (You also hear it in bubblegum, oddly enough.)
Excellent choice! Excellent video!
Please analyse anything off of the Cursive album "The Ugly Organ"!
Django Reinhardt ("J'attadrai") is great to analyze I think.
(Jimi .. no words can give the experience imho. A one in a century prodigy!)
You make cool videos. Thanks
Is the G chord in the verse really a flat 3rd if we’re in E minor? G is diatonic
That was great, good job. Although Hendrix would be like, 'I had this idea and we just laid it down how it happened'.
Im sure he would have said almost the exact same thing hahaha
Are there any videos out there about how to resolve notes?
I am pretty certain Jimi didn’t think of any of this. Either way, it’s a fascinating analysis and thank you for sharing
To me the snare on all four beats just give some march like feeling to the song.
I think it gives a feel of anticipation, like the starting engine of a plane that's taking off.
that fade out at the end got me
This is really effective advertising for Sharpie.
Intro is he wrote a variation of Westminster Quarters aka Big Ben song aka really long doorbell chime. No joke.
Hi, first of all, great work !
Now concerning the drum part of this track, I would say it hasn't rly been "thought" as a disorienting effect. It's actually a pretty common (if not the only one) drum part for R&B records during 60-70's (and especially for Stax).
To me, he just played what inspired him in the years before this record :)
By the way, you can hear a very similar drum part on Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. For the exact same reason in my opinion !
See you and great job on your videos !
Ps: sry if my english wasn't correct
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!!
crazy how he did all of this without really knowing it
If we appreciate that Mitch had a different drumming background than many rock drummers. English sensibilities of song portrayal, marching band and Buddy Rich would all help tell me about that snare on every beat. An alternative way to give us a 1/4 note ride. Anyone remember Ringo riding fast 1/8ths on the crash? Good times. I love your vids. I hated analysis in school, but now enjoy it
Understanding Dream On by Aerosmith?
I'm scared to reply because I don't know if this is a Jojoke or not
Goddamn I love these videos
You are brilliant.
Nice ending 👍
Very interesting!
I know just enough about music theory to be completely confused lol. Keep up the great work helping us understand!
I think all Jimi was thinking when he wrote the song was; "Hey, this sounds kinda cool!"
Can you please upload a video explaining technical terms in depth?
Requesting analysis of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. Thank you very kindly, Sir!!!
Y E S
You are very wise when it comes to theory
I believe the purple haze imagery came from a science fiction story he read where an alien planet had a purple sky instead of a blue one. His original manager, Chaz Chandler (and bass player for The Animals), turned Hendrix on to science fiction and a lot of the imagery that people associate with drugs is actually from the stories he was reading.
7:17 but we all know it's actually "'scuse me while I kiss this guy"
Is that supposed to be funny?
Alexander Vickers no, it’s what he says live on multiple occasions...
@@robertlambert4514 What lol
Brilliant work, many thanks.
How about doing "Wild Is The Wind"?
Love the analysis: was this your PhD thesis?
I need help analyzing almost all tame impala tunes. Kevin Parker seems to be some sort of wizard/genius. It’s quite hard to identify when he’s using modal interchange chords or playing with multiple tonalities and modulations. Or both! Here are some suggestions for videos: apocalypse dreams and solitude is bliss
In early 68 I found out about Purple Haze in the Haight
great quality
Dat outro tho. I lolled at the fade.
Please do an understanding MGMT video 👍🏼 love your videos
"Instead of A, it ends in *G* , and instead of E, it ends in a *D I F F E R E N T G* "
Hey man love the channel- maybe one or two jazzy/pop ones? Idk but maybe some hard bop?
Would love to have you look through Power of Soul aka Power of Love by Jimi. That is an even more interesting masterpiece by him imo.
A video on a King Crimson song would be awesome.
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Jimi Hendrix did not know one iota of music theory. He just made music; his own music; his own way. When we see
people breaking his music down into music theory principles, it’s important to remember that.
...I think it's only now hitting on me that this is the song Bobby McFerrin sings at the beginning of his number performing Bach's Musette in his album with Yo Yo Ma, Hush. I think. I've heard both so many times, but am only noticing a similarity now, weird.
Is there any confirmation McFerrin was ad-libbing Hendrix on that album? Wikipedia says nearly nothing on that album, so I can't be sure, but listening to the opening riff now, I'm just noticing it sounds a lot like what McFerrin sings before singing Musette.
8:26 wish i knew who you were talking about, i can't seem to find any
How about analysing silence and i by alan parson?
What my associate is trying to say... our new brake pads are really cool
4:38 - I don't hear a snare on the 4th beat,
This is the track I'm listening to: ua-cam.com/video/t49Br80XhV8/v-deo.html
Heyy can you examine almost blue by chet baker? I bet it will be a great addition to your repertoire as your first "understanding" video in the genre of jazz. Cheers!
brilliant
Man, this cat knows his shit! A fascinating lecture.
5:15 much like the haze*
A hint - watching tone makes so much more sense with sound on
Can you do a video about one of the longest songs, Iron Butterfly?
I think you mean In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Also that song is long, but there are ridiculously long songs out there (Thick As A Brick, Dopesmoker).
What would be the use and/or context of a VII major chord?
Like just generally where its seen?
Can you do one of these on little wing? Thanks.
That ending was cool
Hi 12tone, could you explain what you mean when you said, ‘’ major triads are just baby dominate 7 chords, ‘’
Great video. Thanks.
I think what he's getting at is that Dominant 7th chords are just major triads with a flat 7th, making them "bigger" than just a plain major chord.
(At the end) I see what you did there. 😉
"... *A PRETTY* APPROpriate way to end....."
Did you get the A and E messed up?
I suppose you could keep doing Hendrix songs forever. If that's not possible, something from OK Computer would be nice, which likely would render more Leaning Towers of Pisa
Can you do a video about what goes on in the minds of all the brilliant artists who don't understand the theory behind what they're composing but make magic anyway?
Great suggestion. I hope they do this. I think that almost everyone probably has their own theory. Like their own naming conventions and ideas about what makes certain sounds and what doesn't. Personalized theory, rather than the standard stuff we learn.
I wouldn't say I'm a great artist, but I write and perform music without thinking about theory, and it's pretty simple. I think if what I'm trying to convey, and start playing. I'll mess up slightly, come up with some stuff out of order or not tied together right, fix it, and that's it. Writing with other people it's basically the same deal, you just have to stay on the same page.
It's like writing an essay or something. The way you come up with what to say is you just think of what you wanna convey and the words just come out. You don't use any rules or understanding of writing consciously, it just happens. You edit afterwords to fix little mistakes and make things more coherent using conscious thought, but the initial words just happen. And even when editing, you don't need to be thinking about rules or guidelines, you just edit stuff, and if it seems to be clearer and neater, you go with it.
@@lobsterbark Hmm, I generally think about what I'm trying to play and then think about how I can express it. I usually think in theoretical terms when starting to like compose, but when improvising, its usually some vague theory (knowing where the notes are and what they can evoke) aided heavily by muscle memory. Do you think what you mean is that your muscle memory comes into action? Its like the memory of a language I guess, a musical language? But I guess there are different ways to feel the memory.
@@forgetful9845 Muscle memory plays into a bit, yeah. If I'm not quite sure where I wanna go exactly sometimes I just play a couple shapes really quickly around where I wanna go till I get an idea from that.
But mostly it's like just coming up with a melody and humming it. Like speaking, your brain is processing the grammar rules and such, but you don't actually think about it or even know how exactly you learned them. You can logically deduce you must have learned it hearing people speak as a baby, and got better as a child, and you probably picked up some little weird details like how you tend to phrase things as you got older. But you don't actually remember any of that or did any thinking about it, from your perspective it looks like it just magically happened.
@@lobsterbark Ahh, so you randomly play some shapes to see if I sounded good? Also about the humming a melody thing, I do that with stuff I wanna sing usually. I think it might be down to all the music we listen to, you know? Like its building a language inside us, just like hearing words as a kid. Its great. But I guess learning extra vocab (more theory) also helps along the way alot, in my case at least.
Jimi Hendrix is one of the top reasons I play guitar and make music!
Purple hazu!
It took Jimi less time to write this song than it took you (and everyone else) to analyze it LOL!! The man was all ear, feel, and soul. The guitar was his lover, and songs were vehicles for his Phoenix like spirit...
Love your breakdowns tho. Thanks!
According to a woman I know that knew him, Jimi worked hard on his songs. Constantly trying to get them right before recording. Kinda one of those 1% inspiration 99% perspiration things.
@@BoopShooBee Yes. People always say Hendrix was about feel, soul and all that hippie BS, but he actually worked hard on his craft. Writing and rewriting until he got it right, just like Beethoven. Lots of heart, of course, but tons of head.
@Josh W Yeah, I get what you mean by "soul" now, and I agree. Just not sure I agree with you when you say he didn't follow traditional structures. Hendrix's songs are very founded on a Tonal System, and he knew very well how to use modes and what were the chords he was using. Now when it comes to overanalysis, that's a different story...
@Josh W Haha, not totally in agreement with you, but that's fine! Hope you're feeling better today!
@J Ward I feel you
All in my brain
Lately things just don’t seem the same