Hendrix style is part of electric guitar's history. He really opened a door to the new generation of young guitar players Just like Miles Davis did to the jazz world.
Excellent chops and feel for this lesson, there are many people that can play the notes but not make the music, you made. The Hendrix tone come alive. spot on with it.
Perfectly said. You can learn all the notes and where to put your fingers, but that doesn't make it happen. There are only a couple of Hendrix tunes I've ever felt competent enough to cover.
A guitar learnin' buddy of mine summed up Hendrix's style long ago -- mostly blues riffs, with wild bends, played at lightning speed. It was a simplistic view of Hendrix's guitar wizardry, of course, but not too far off the mark. Hendrix did throw in a lot of double note chord + single note playing (like you can hear on his softer songs on Are You Experienced and the other albums), but a lot of his playing is pure blues. I learned most of my blues playing from Hendrix's tracks like Hear My Train A Coming, and Who Knows. Those tracks are a gold mine for learning electric blues guitar. Great lesson, and love the tone.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could create more video lessons on Jimi Hendrix. Your explanations of his music and style are truly masterful. Your professionalism is evident in your work.Your ability to articulate the nuances of his technique and musicality is truly inspiring. Your expertise in this area is unparalleled.
Same here. The crazy tragic part about Jimi is he just kept getting better and better. Loved when he was backed by Cox and Mitchell (I prefer him over Miles). Can’t imagine what he would’ve done throughout the 70s and 80s
I have been playing for years, and I'm still learning a ton from watching your lessons! Sometimes people don't really know the positive effects they are having on peoples lives. You certainly are on mine! Thank you so much!!
Came here for the lick where you bend up a whole tone on the B string and then catch the G string with the same finger. Was not disappointed. What a unique and inventive lick!
In the '60's, to show your guitar skills 'the Wind Cries Mary' was the song to do. Lots of bands had it down, and played it well. This is a really good lesson doing Hendrix clean. Remember, he wrote "Summer Rain" a clean sound and a major hit for Johnny Rivers.
Many players don’t change the rhythm for the solo section, which always seems odd to me, as it’s not that difficult for a rhythm player, and it makes the solo sound great. One can always keep jamming over the main progression if one wants a longer solo.
@@chriscampbell9191 We didnot know that. We just heard it was Jimi Hendrix. Funny though. That was the late '60's and we were busy coving "Soul Man" & "Louie Louie".
Wow ,as always Dave you are # 1,,Jimi big influence for me early and 40 years later..found this on a Monday morning..guess I'm late for work today...thanks so much for your in depth expertise ..
I am on a Hendrix binge right now, but I'll tell Ya ...I never really "got" Hendrix, and I am 62 years old ..The best connection I have is with Jimi Hendrix is Robin Trower, Uli Roth and even Frank Marino and thanks to guys like you Dave who bring his music into a deeper understanding for me. I think if I was kind of "there" in the Woodstock era maybe I'd feel differently.
Thanks David. Great lesson. You deserve a pot of gold for this one. Now go and make a Jimi inspired song for your viewers and I'll be the first to buy it.
When I watch his videos, I feel like I'm sitting across from my cool friend in high school, and he's helping me figure out the guitar stuff I need to know. It's rare you meet (or find on UA-cam) someone that you can connect with musically like this. He delves into the "why" of what's going on, like few out there. Definitely someone you'd like to go have a beer with.
There was a teacher band at my high school in the mid-80's that played various stuff (Loverboy, BOC, other pop stuff), but they played Purple Haze and Foxey Lady. I asked one of the teachers whose songs they were and he directed me to pick up Are You Experienced. Hearing that the first time for me was not unlike those who heard him the first time in his heyday. Everything about that album is mystical, with a virtuoso vibe and mind blowing. Thanks for this lesson, Dave, great breakdown and analysis.
Jimi had great vibrato , like bb king, and a few other types of using vibrato styles. Angus , bb , and gary moore doing bb king, show how important vibrato is . And they do it almost after EVERY phrase.
Putting this amazing lesson in one key really helped me out, David. And the C# Minor/E Major scale and its diatonic modes is my latest "deep dive" key I've been working on! Thanks again, David!
oh yeah is that time again one of the things I look forward too, a new Late Night Lessons. Your lessons are great. I've learned so much in the past few months from your channel from theory,techniques, different chord voicings to discovering new guitar players. Definitely a well rounded channel. Thanks for your wisdom and time
Best Hendrix lesson out there in my opinion. Hit the main points,and nailed his core habbits. What a great teacher you are,and a great player. One thing id love to see one day is YOUR playing. Maybe you improvising over a backing track,and then breaking down how you approach the fretboard. Also, ive always been curious about the amp your using there. Ive never seen anything like it. What’s the story with that thing?
Another great lesson David - keeping it based around one box really shows how Jimi got the most out of the blues scale. Those catch bends are pretty tough huh?
Wow, man! This lesson is again great! I'm sitting here and I'm paying my most attention to the vibrato, while trying some of it myself. It's really the hardest part. Your vibrato is so damn good! That's what I've been thinking since I follow your channel. Every time. I can't do it that effortlessly, wide and relatively fast, while being totally smooth and regular. I'd love to see some advice on your vibrato and what you did to achieve this control. Cheers from Germany! :)
Great lesson, Dave! I'd like to see you do a deep-dive on his masterful rhythm playing, specifically on the songs "Freedom", "Ezy Rider" and the "Killing Floor"! TY!
As I'm sure you know a lot of his creativity came forth better in some of the live recordings, especially in some of the Red House variations where he inserts jazz phrasing and more creative blue phrasing than heard on the studio records. It might be interesting to find snippets of those and do a lesson on them.
God damn dude the last few vids of yours I’ve watched your guitars sound killer. I never practice throwing my thumb over the neck and ignoring my pinky. I’m gonna spend some time on that. Keep rocking!
I would add that big part of his playing was timing. He would slow down and speed up just slightly from time to time. Sometimes it sounded like he's about to lose tempo and make a mistake but he would come back and make it work like nothing happened.
Awesome video. Page and, especially, Eddie used Jimi’s unison bend a lot. I’ve been hoping someone does a video on EVH’s bending licks and ideas too. Thank you for this one.
I like his later writing a lot. "Astro Man", "In From The Storm", "Night Bird Flying", "Driftin'", "Room Full Of Mirrors " are all unusual. His writing was much dark sounding then.
How you doing David? He definitely started all of rock guitar back in the 1960's. Had all his albums. Great to see you doing another episode on Jimi, thanks.
I’m left handed and I always wonder why he didn’t get a proper left handed guitar,was always a hassle to string a right handed for a lefty. Great playing as usual
I'm a lefty too and I used to wonder the same thing. But from what I read and saw about Jimi is that he liked to be hassle free and and hung up free. So he would use borrowed instruments, sometimes poorly tuned or set up instruments and being on the go a lot he would get others to get instruments for him. Also, he understood the features of the upside down restrung Fender Stratocaster, where the pickup configuration and the reversed string order altered the tone slightly. Another great feature to his bag of tricks to stand out from the rest.
He did eventually get the Lefty Flying V from Gibson towards the end. But i also heard he felt that the build quality of lefty strats were not up to par, or something along those lines.
Dave; Man you have captured Jimi's tone .Your neck pickup sounds so much like Jimi, I know its mostly your technique. Can you comment on what pickup you have in the neck position, is it a standard strat pickup?
Awesome as per David !! Have you ever considered a Hiram Bullock lesson ? His version of Little Wing on one of Sting's albums is amazing. There is also a video of Hiram and David Sanborn (saxophonist) jamming together which is truly awesome !
I just got a tube screamer pedal! Sounds really different- and good, Dave! Do you think a wah would be too distracting for someone that’s not very *experienced* ? See the corny shit I did there? :) …or should I try to get one, dude?
Wow I did what you do especially this Hendrick stuff you're laying into you're very groovy cat. What I want to know if you don't mind where did you get that Hendrix shirt I want one please tell me. Okay I don't have a lot of time today but I do want to wish you your loved ones and Friends safe healthy happy weekend and prosperous and healthy year take care of yourself lot of scary things floating around. Sincerely Walter the left-handed bloke. PS please tell me where you got that shirt.
At the beginning, he lets us know the Lesson is with his guitar tuned down a half-step. You're right, but so many players tune their guitars to Eb and then call it E. Must drive keyboardists crazy!
I had a chance to finally get a strat and I let some guitar center salesman talk me into getting a telecaster because I was playing Led Zeppelin while testing guitars. Don’t get me wrong telecasters are cool in their own way but I love Hendrix and I can’t for the life of me play his music on a telecaster. The playability just isn’t there.
On a tele, Hendrix is in the neck pickup. Certainly the absence of a whammy bar is a thing, but it need not keep you from catching his vibe. Just notice that it's not really present in this lesson. So much is in the hand fall... Meaning where and how your fingers land. Start from the thumb over position, playing a major chord how Jimi would, and then take note of what's near your index and ring fingers in the moment.
You need a USB JIMI!!! USB Ace needs a friend!🎵👍😂
Been playing Hendrix for 16 year, have the same 4 books shown here.
As the UA-camr millstap says, hendrix really is the gift that just keeps on giving
Hendrix style is part of electric guitar's history.
He really opened a door to the new generation of young guitar players
Just like Miles Davis did to the jazz world.
"That god damn machine gun"
-Miles Davis
Richie blackmore used double stops and unison bends often ,too,all good stuff.
Excellent chops and feel for this lesson, there are many people that can play the notes but not make the music, you made. The Hendrix tone come alive.
spot on with it.
Perfectly said. You can learn all the notes and where to put your fingers, but that doesn't make it happen. There are only a couple of Hendrix tunes I've ever felt competent enough to cover.
A guitar learnin' buddy of mine summed up Hendrix's style long ago -- mostly blues riffs, with wild bends, played at lightning speed. It was a simplistic view of Hendrix's guitar wizardry, of course, but not too far off the mark. Hendrix did throw in a lot of double note chord + single note playing (like you can hear on his softer songs on Are You Experienced and the other albums), but a lot of his playing is pure blues. I learned most of my blues playing from Hendrix's tracks like Hear My Train A Coming, and Who Knows. Those tracks are a gold mine for learning electric blues guitar. Great lesson, and love the tone.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could create more video lessons on Jimi Hendrix. Your explanations of his music and style are truly masterful. Your professionalism is evident in your work.Your ability to articulate the nuances of his technique and musicality is truly inspiring. Your expertise in this area is unparalleled.
For me, the definitive Hendrix record is The Band of Gypsys...THAT one note in Machine Gun..😳
Same here. The crazy tragic part about Jimi is he just kept getting better and better. Loved when he was backed by Cox and Mitchell (I prefer him over Miles). Can’t imagine what he would’ve done throughout the 70s and 80s
True facts dude.
I only care for the first 3 albums 🙂
I have been playing for years, and I'm still learning a ton from watching your lessons! Sometimes people don't really know the positive effects they are having on peoples lives. You certainly are on mine! Thank you so much!!
Came here for the lick where you bend up a whole tone on the B string and then catch the G string with the same finger. Was not disappointed. What a unique and inventive lick!
Great lesson ... You can never go wrong with Jimi 👍👁👁👍
In the '60's, to show your guitar skills 'the Wind Cries Mary' was the song to do. Lots of bands had it down, and played it well. This is a really good lesson doing Hendrix clean. Remember, he wrote "Summer Rain" a clean sound and a major hit for Johnny Rivers.
Great comment, but "Summer Rain" (a great song) was written by folksinger James Hendricks, a different guy.
Many players don’t change the rhythm for the solo section, which always seems odd to me, as it’s not that difficult for a rhythm player, and it makes the solo sound great.
One can always keep jamming over the main progression if one wants a longer solo.
Jimi Hendrix was his stage name
@@chriscampbell9191 We didnot know that. We just heard it was Jimi Hendrix. Funny though. That was the late '60's and we were busy coving "Soul Man" & "Louie Louie".
Wow ,as always Dave you are # 1,,Jimi big influence for me early and 40 years later..found this on a Monday morning..guess I'm late for work today...thanks so much for your in depth expertise ..
Dave that was a very cool breakdown of Jimi's technique thanks for sharing 😀
I am on a Hendrix binge right now, but I'll tell Ya ...I never really "got" Hendrix, and I am 62 years old ..The best connection I have is with Jimi Hendrix is Robin Trower, Uli Roth and even Frank Marino and thanks to guys like you Dave who bring his music into a deeper understanding for me. I think if I was kind of "there" in the Woodstock era maybe I'd feel differently.
I remember hearing Hey Joe on am radio around 1968
Thanks David. Great lesson. You deserve a pot of gold for this one. Now go and make a Jimi inspired song for your viewers and I'll be the first to buy it.
One of the best lessons on Hendrix’s style - period.
When I watch his videos, I feel like I'm sitting across from my cool friend in high school, and he's helping me figure out the guitar stuff I need to know. It's rare you meet (or find on UA-cam) someone that you can connect with musically like this. He delves into the "why" of what's going on, like few out there. Definitely someone you'd like to go have a beer with.
Same experience for me. Very easy to watch and follow and learn!
Your vibrato is so good you dont even need a univibe!
Great lesson Dave . Jimi had heart and soul in his music. Thank you for putting your heart and soul in these lessons....
Gold mine this channel always come away with something that is useful 🤟
Another amazing lesson! Thanks Dave!🎸 🎸🎸🎸
Thanks for the lesson Dave, really nice playing !!
There was a teacher band at my high school in the mid-80's that played various stuff (Loverboy, BOC, other pop stuff), but they played Purple Haze and Foxey Lady. I asked one of the teachers whose songs they were and he directed me to pick up Are You Experienced. Hearing that the first time for me was not unlike those who heard him the first time in his heyday. Everything about that album is mystical, with a virtuoso vibe and mind blowing. Thanks for this lesson, Dave, great breakdown and analysis.
Fantastic. Great lesson. Thx David
Thank you for your hard work. You make being a guitarist a little more exciting every time you post a video. Cheers brother.
Very interesting!
Jimi had great vibrato , like bb king, and a few other types of using vibrato styles. Angus , bb , and gary moore doing bb king, show how important vibrato is . And they do it almost after EVERY phrase.
Great lesson, thank you Dave
Thanks, David! I definitely need to absorb more Hendrix into my approach! "Hendrix-ims." Love this series!
I kinda feel bad watching this without paying for it. Thank you so much.
great as always thank you
You are awesome. Thanks ! Gonna look at your tabs now to practice
OUTSTANDING lesson!
Putting this amazing lesson in one key really helped me out, David. And the C# Minor/E Major scale and its diatonic modes is my latest "deep dive" key I've been working on! Thanks again, David!
oh yeah is that time again one of the things I look forward too, a new Late Night Lessons. Your lessons are great. I've learned so much in the past few months from your channel from theory,techniques, different chord voicings to discovering new guitar players. Definitely a well rounded channel. Thanks for your wisdom and time
Best Hendrix lesson out there in my opinion. Hit the main points,and nailed his core habbits. What a great teacher you are,and a great player. One thing id love to see one day is YOUR playing. Maybe you improvising over a backing track,and then breaking down how you approach the fretboard.
Also, ive always been curious about the amp your using there. Ive never seen anything like it. What’s the story with that thing?
An Original Improvisation Late Night Lesson by David would be really cool! Great idea!
Thanks for another great lesson...
Finaly, THANK YOU very much! =)
I'm still trying to figure out Jimi.R&B Chitlin Circuit roots who discovered Stratocaster and Marshall combination.Interesting marriage.
hope it's ok to post a link to a really good video on exactly this question. ua-cam.com/video/VjZZHYviWVQ/v-deo.html
Excellent... Jimi, Baby..TY Dave!
Great job analyzing Jimmy's playing styles keeping it in one key was a cool way of showing his different techniques 👏🤘👍
Interesting technique - thumb over the neck blues style, but guitar balanced on left leg classical style.
Another great lesson David - keeping it based around one box really shows how Jimi got the most out of the blues scale. Those catch bends are pretty tough huh?
Really great examples of Jimi's music and his style! Thanks for sharing these tips and techniques!
Ohhhh yeah..... Have not watched yet but I know this will be good!
And you would be right!
Wow, man! This lesson is again great! I'm sitting here and I'm paying my most attention to the vibrato, while trying some of it myself. It's really the hardest part. Your vibrato is so damn good! That's what I've been thinking since I follow your channel. Every time. I can't do it that effortlessly, wide and relatively fast, while being totally smooth and regular. I'd love to see some advice on your vibrato and what you did to achieve this control. Cheers from Germany! :)
Same on the vibrato , David has those gifted guitar hands like Hendrix did.. it would not be the same without good vibrato and he definitely has IT..
EXcellent playing & great lesson - as always! Love your style of interacting and technique & attitude!
Great lesson, Dave! I'd like to see you do a deep-dive on his masterful rhythm playing, specifically on the songs "Freedom", "Ezy Rider" and the "Killing Floor"! TY!
Late to the party but this is my favorite lesson so far.
GREAT lesson - nobody made my fingers flake off callouses like Jimi & SRV 🤣😂 i never had thick index finger pads until i started learning their licks
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My favorite album is The Cry of Love/Valleys of Neptune. Great lesson thanks 🙏
As I'm sure you know a lot of his creativity came forth better in some of the live recordings, especially in some of the Red House variations where he inserts jazz phrasing and more creative blue phrasing than heard on the studio records. It might be interesting to find snippets of those and do a lesson on them.
God damn dude the last few vids of yours I’ve watched your guitars sound killer.
I never practice throwing my thumb over the neck and ignoring my pinky. I’m gonna spend some time on that. Keep rocking!
Perfect video! Perfect timing!
This was a superb compilation. Thank you.
I would add that big part of his playing was timing. He would slow down and speed up just slightly from time to time. Sometimes it sounded like he's about to lose tempo and make a mistake but he would come back and make it work like nothing happened.
Awesome video. Page and, especially, Eddie used Jimi’s unison bend a lot. I’ve been hoping someone does a video on EVH’s bending licks and ideas too. Thank you for this one.
Your a great teacher my brother. Appreciate you .
Really excellent lesson David. Thank you.
Eggggggzelent topic!!
Inspiring stuff. I fancy I hear a bit of Peter Green in your vibrato - which is excellent. 🙂
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Great lesson Dave...Nailed it as usual...
Thanks for this one David. The "catch" has always stuck out to my ear but I've never been able to figure it out. I'll be working on it.
I like his later writing a lot. "Astro Man", "In From The Storm", "Night Bird Flying", "Driftin'", "Room Full Of Mirrors " are all unusual. His writing was much dark sounding then.
As always, just fantastic!
I do those catch bends alot myself when I'm playing lead . I'm not that great but do alot of these licks .
Great lesson thanks.
great lesson, If I could afford a guitar/music teacher It'd be you well done
Fantastic. Brilliant content as usual. Nice one.👍
How you doing David? He definitely started all of rock guitar back in the 1960's. Had all his albums. Great to see you doing another episode on Jimi, thanks.
INTENSE CONVICTION AND FEEL
Late night, appreciate your time.
I’m left handed and I always wonder why he didn’t get a proper left handed guitar,was always a hassle to string a right handed for a lefty. Great playing as usual
I'm a lefty too and I used to wonder the same thing. But from what I read and saw about Jimi is that he liked to be hassle free and and hung up free. So he would use borrowed instruments, sometimes poorly tuned or set up instruments and being on the go a lot he would get others to get instruments for him.
Also, he understood the features of the upside down restrung Fender Stratocaster, where the pickup configuration and the reversed string order altered the tone slightly. Another great feature to his bag of tricks to stand out from the rest.
He did eventually get the Lefty Flying V from Gibson towards the end. But i also heard he felt that the build quality of lefty strats were not up to par, or something along those lines.
Dave; Man you have captured Jimi's tone .Your neck pickup sounds so much like Jimi, I know its mostly your technique. Can you comment on what pickup you have in the neck position, is it a standard strat pickup?
Nice lessonn!! As usual...💪🤘
On a Hendrix bootleg there’s a song, “Peoples, Peoples, Peoples (in C#).” (And that’s beside his use of C# in Spanish Castle Magic - lol.
tank' lesson all blues ' is the best best best
I’d love one of these about Ritchie Blackmore ;)
Brilliant lesson David, could you do a chordplay video on Slade. :)
You are a quality player.
Awesome as per David !! Have you ever considered a Hiram Bullock lesson ? His version of Little Wing on one of Sting's albums is amazing. There is also a video of Hiram and David Sanborn (saxophonist) jamming together which is truly awesome !
Nice tone, David! Can you shed a little light on your fuzz sound for this particular vid? Thanks!
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Nice shirt
Dave, total guitar geek question: Do you remember what pick you were using for this vid? thanks
I just got a tube screamer pedal! Sounds really different- and good, Dave!
Do you think a wah would be too distracting for someone that’s not very *experienced* ?
See the corny shit I did there? :)
…or should I try to get one, dude?
What pedals are you using?
Purple haze solo always sounded classical though I don't do scales
Wow I did what you do especially this Hendrick stuff you're laying into you're very groovy cat. What I want to know if you don't mind where did you get that Hendrix shirt I want one please tell me. Okay I don't have a lot of time today but I do want to wish you your loved ones and Friends safe healthy happy weekend and prosperous and healthy year take care of yourself lot of scary things floating around. Sincerely Walter the left-handed bloke. PS please tell me where you got that shirt.
Is it C minor ?? Not C# minor. Because your tuned down to Eb.!
At the beginning, he lets us know the Lesson is with his guitar tuned down a half-step. You're right, but so many players tune their guitars to Eb and then call it E. Must drive keyboardists crazy!
When I tune my guitar down to D standard tuning, I do name the notes by actual pitch, though. What looks like A Minor I actually do call G Minor.
Frank Zappa licks lesson
Frank!!!!!
read that Hendrix like Curtis Mayfield & stole a lot of his double stop ideas. Highway Chile has some great unison bends.
I had a chance to finally get a strat and I let some guitar center salesman talk me into getting a telecaster because I was playing Led Zeppelin while testing guitars. Don’t get me wrong telecasters are cool in their own way but I love Hendrix and I can’t for the life of me play his music on a telecaster. The playability just isn’t there.
On a tele, Hendrix is in the neck pickup. Certainly the absence of a whammy bar is a thing, but it need not keep you from catching his vibe. Just notice that it's not really present in this lesson. So much is in the hand fall... Meaning where and how your fingers land. Start from the thumb over position, playing a major chord how Jimi would, and then take note of what's near your index and ring fingers in the moment.
Eric Clapton grew a fro 😂
what amp did you use for this lesson ?