Hey everyone, I just wanted to say I really appreciate all of the insight, knowledge, and love you have been sharing in the comments in regards to Jimi Hendrix and his incredible playing. My gratitude and appreciation for this guitar legend has been further exemplified from this whole experience! A big thank you to everyone!
If you ever can find a Hendrix album called 9 To The Universe buy it. It’s the most incredible free jazz jams you’ll ever here from Jimi. And check out my Wake Up Ashes on my UA-cam channel too Daniel, there’s some fun guitar work on that tune. I write it all, sing, arrange and play all the guitars. My band is hot too. Peace
I Saw an interview with Eric Clapton here on UA-cam. He tells about the day Henrix died. He was suppose to meet him and he had found a left Stratocaster that he wanted to give him. m.ua-cam.com/video/5r28egj0uis/v-deo.html
I saw Jimi play live 3 times(one time in the front row directly under him), and I met him once. He had huge hands, and when I shook his hand, mine was lost. He never played a song the same way twice. He didn't play the guitar, he became the guitar. He took it everywhere, and even slept with it. It was part of his body and spirit. He didn't think about technique, he was the technique. I miss him even after 50 years!
Me too!! I miss him nearly everyday. As you said he became the guitar!! No one since has even come close! Robert Johnson would be the closest person to Jimi. Although Derek Trucks knows oneness with the guitar I think too! Peace
Insanely great story, The 'he became the guitar' is why i'm here. '50th Anniversary of the Stratocaster has a story in a local paper "SF Chron" in '04. There, they said "Jimi Hendrix played a Strat like he shared it's DNA".. I agree.
@@CDJF1 Absolutely not! SRV also knew oneness with the guitar, thanks for pointing out my forgetfulness. I saw SRV many times. The first was his first tour, maybe his gig upon returning to the states after his first Euro tour supporting Texas Flood his first album. It was at The Boat House in Norfolk Va. He was relatively unknown and the show was poorly attended. I leaned on the stage at his boots the whole night in awe as he sweat and spit all over me! It was a memorable experience to say the least! Check my music channel and listen to Wake Up Ashes. I’d be in interested to know what you think of my guitar style, all the guitars and vocals are me. I’ve heard a lot of comparisons to other guitar players, but I really just want to be Curtis Prince. Peace
Mr. Dan I like you insight on subtleties that to many are oblivious, making them obvious & so provocative.your 16 minutes was loadful of instruction.thnx&peace.
One things for sure ...there will never be another. God bless you Jimi....unequalled, unparalleled, unsurpassed, unstoppable, impossible to copy , unique ..it’s all been said. The one and only JMH.
I was the wood buyer for Fender in the early 80s when I worked for Fender/Rogers/Rhodes in Fullerton, Ca. At the end of the the guitar assembly line was a 10-foot poster of Jimi Hendrix playing his upside down Fender. Fender Company paid homage to Hendrix, because of him Sales of Fender guitars took off and shot through the roof as never before.
During his improvised solo during Woodstock Jimi uses his thumb to fret a syncopated, chromatic bassline under a cyclic chordal riff. The offical video has a nice closeup of his hands.
Love Hendrix- I remember a funny quote from Lemmy about Hendrix- "He had massive hands and fingers like tarantulas - if he didnt make it in music, he would have made a f*ckin brilliant pickpocket!" 🤣
I hope you noticed that he's not playing the E7 sharp 9 at the seventh fret; he's playing it in the open position! The way Brian May does the end of Brighton Rock!
He's using the volume knob to control the amount of distortion/overdrive. He likely turned it up during the solo, then back down into the verse / melody to clean up the sound.
What would happen if it eventually collides with that Machine Gun note from BOG Fillmore? Jimi was more than a guitar player, he was a sonic wizard. Those moments were charged with more energy than we can comprehend.
Ok..we can tell from the funk expression on your face and the head bobbing you're already blown away!! Also, Jimi had large hands and strong fingers! He could bend a bass string up three notes.
It was all so effortless for him...playing and singing. His live playing is some of his best and worst---through no fault of his own. He was put out on the road by his manager for months on end and the poor guy was beyond exhausted at most shows---but even then managed to play some amazing stuff.
There are only three guys in the Band "Jimi Hendrix Experience." Therefore, Jimi is the only guitarist, and he is constantly transitioning between playing rhythm and lead guitar parts. He does this flawlessly. Everything is upside down, because he had to learn on a right handed guitar his daddy bought him from the Sears and Roebucks discount store in Seattle where he grew up dirt poor. This guy taught himself to play chords and riffs upside down! Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones was his Room mate for a while in London, and he said Jimi was equally proficient playing from either side, but preferred the upside down way, "because that's how I learned as a kid." Un freaking believable. He was the best, and the first to do all of the playing with his teeth and behind his back. He did all of these things, back in 1967, and the world had never seen anything, or anyone like him.
dusty827, he wasn’t the first..he got the teeth thing from someone on the ‘chitlin circuit...not that it matters. Jimi took every trick, style and genre and melded it together like an alchemist into something never before seen
So much more refreshing than the “reaction videos” by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Sorry to say but true. It’s all about the guitar, so who better than a guitar instructor to show these things to us.
When you have a strat and a fuzzface as a distortion in the chain, the volume pot on guit is a delicate point to obtain different tonalities, from full solo tone to clean rhythm guitar, that is coz strat has single coils and fuzzface has low impedance input, Jimi used it very wisely
I always used to play with my tumbs since i started to learn some Jimi Hendrix and other blues guitarist. I feel much more comfortable, it doesn't hurt my wrist and my hands are always open and ready to play some free licks at the same time i'm playing chords. I thanks Hendrix for everything i learned from him that become my forces as a guitar player, improve so much my guitar knowledge, my improvisation level and the way i can share my emotions thoo the guitar . The best advice i could give to any guitar player especially if you like blues rock soul funk even jazz.. go learn how hendrix is playing, you will discover yourself more.
Jimi has a special place in my heart> Havn't listened for 30 years . i know lyrics to most songs, young people remember lyrics to music they grew up with .At least I did. I remember hits from 65 when I was 7 yoa. Just recently got back into Jimi. Maybe in 30 years I will get back into him again. When i am 94
Re the volume knob, if you watch the "'scuse me" line, the squeal/feedback starts and he hears it. You can see him turn down the volume and turn it back up just prior to playing.
Stevie Ray Vaughan played a Stratocaster with the wammy bar on top and said Jimi used to visit him at night. Jimi could play right handed or left using a standard strung right handed guitar flipped over or restrung as he preferred. Having the Wammy bar up there with the nobs allows you to use your palms to adjust the volume and tone as you play. Jimi also tested different wiring in his volume and tone on the guitar to give him better control.
I just saw a “rig rundown” with Joe Perry’s tech (Aerosmith), he keeps an axe in his rig that intentionally has the whammy bar on the high side; I might actually use mine more often if it was sort of in the way, or even place it under my strumming arm.
@@jonathannagel7427 It was a Hendrix thing, just like the volume and tone on top, makes them easy to adjust while you are picking. I imagine he learned it somewhere or just caught flipping a guitar but it is handy. Wrap your pinky around the wammy or the first two and use your thumb and or other two to pic or a pick. Palm to push the bar and mute ... Plenty of video of him ...
“I teach guitar, by the way.” Well, it’s Jimi, he came over to England in ‘66, while being a very hierarchical society, every guitarist had to step down a notch over night, number one at once. Many tried, he remains champion, and has the whole top ten still in his pocket as well, despite his short cut life.
I'd have picked "Johnny B Goode", Jimi Plays Berkeley. First known from "Hendrix In The West" , '72. Almost every trick in his book and great to the last feed backed note.
Hear My Train A Comin from Berkeley is one of his most stellar live performances. An old Guitar Player article said that song makes Eddie Van Halen sound like a school boy. Maybe or maybe not, but it's mind blowing
@@jimiray1969. Great pick!!! Fan since RainBow Bridge. Later Blues,,,,critics said it was one of the his best live recorded performances, out of tune or not (someone was flat....Jimi?) Great pick!!!
Something that I found out a while back, is that Bobby Womack and Albert KIng played with their guitars upside down, but kept the strings as they were. ie high E at the top. and low E at the bottom.
Actually, he would force a "super" distorted tone by pushing the volume to the point of feedback , catch it before it screeches , then quickly adjusts tone and rides that sound wave creating a new and unique musical realm. The key is to sonically read the room then place yourself in a spot to manipulate the "air " waves. Genius .
Hey Daniel, Jimi could also play righty almost as well as he could lefty. There's footage of him playing righty out there, one of them is hanging with Keith Richards back stage somewhere. To give you another example of a lefty player, Albert King! Who not only played lefty... but played with the strings up-side down!! Now that's crazy stuff.
@@waydeepinside No Sir, I did not, I got the info from his father. I wrote his dad a letter about a project I was doing in college, he sent me lots of great info about Jimi.
@@tonyljackson152 Huge kudos to You for thinking of such a cool topic in which to write a project on ! It was so very painful to hear Al share when He would talk about Jimi. Honorably, He would still share from His big heart
Eric Clapton said he had bought a left handed stratocaster to give Jimi and was supposed to give it to him at a Sly Stone show but Jimi didn't show up...next morning it was the news he had died
Back in the day a music critic saw a Jimi Hendrix performance and went away with, "Jimi Hendrix doesn't do anything any other guitar player can't do. He just does it differently."
Towards the ends of his life he played E7#9, G7#9, A7#9, instead of regular G and A chords, using his thumb for the root notes in the same position. So the shape of G7#9 and A7#9 are the same as the F#7#9 in Foxy Lady. Just gives a lot more crunch
To get the Hendrix level of gain you need a huge stack of Marshalls turned up to 11. A friend of mine went to see Hendrix at Forrest Hills which is right next to JFK airport and he said that Hendrix was so loud that you couldn't hear the jumbo jets going right overhead. The Marshalls were drowning them out. Thats loud.
Actually I learned something from watching this. I knew Hendrix played with his thumb, but I didn't know he had that kind of reach. I had seen many Hendrix performances, but I hadn't heard this one. I always like seeing new Hendrix videos, if there is such a thing. 😂😂😂
He is the GOAT. . He played a right handed stratocaster guitar upside down. He dethroned Eric Clapton as the GOAT and they became close friends. Eric had bought the only left handed stratocaster guitar he had ever seen and was going to give it to him the day Jimi died.
PS: YOU Know you're bad ass Man,when you have a "Chord" named after you or refered as your chord, in this case 'The Hendrix" Chord. Dayumm. you are Bad Ass!! Theres ONLY sooo many chords to go around and Jimi's got one of them! Ha! He did it first and he got there to show us all how its going and gittin done, Man. amazing to this day. there outta be a Zappa Chord progression of some sort...from the Album One size fits all. play on Jimi,hope you and Frank are up there Jammin out!!
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I'm a lefty. so when I was young and poor, I had to use cheap righty guitars upside down. My first righty guitar was a hot pink South Korean strat copy! My brother brought it home for me when he left the army. I quickly got used to playing it upside down. The controls and especially the 3 way switch was not a problem. The cutaway and balance was! I had 3 before I could afford my 1st American made lefty 79 Stratocaster. to this day I some times hit the controls and 5 way switch on all my lefty strats! The only thing I do not like about strats!
Hey I just came across this vid and thought you'd be interested to know that Otis Rush played lefty BUT ALSO strung for a righty!... he just learned to play backwards. There is excellent old video you can easily find to watch.. really cool!
You just need longer fingers in order to wrap the neck like Hendrix did. I took note, that he also plased the palm from the thumb to the wrist, alongside the edge of the guitar neck.
I was there at the Atlanta Pop etc. His last performance in USA. About three songs in, he asked the light guys to turn off the spots as he couldn't see the audience. Instead of turning them off, they put a colored gel in front of the spots. Made little difference. They had to make their movie, which you now enjoy. I'd rather the movie guys would have given something to him instead of taking something from him. It's been told many times that he was pushed around by the execs and couldn't even play what he wanted to.
I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but he does play that E7(#9) closer to the headstock side of the guitar, starting on the 2nd fret of the D string.
Kurt Cobain was left handed too. In their early videos he played one strung upside down. It's because the "correct" left handed guitars are either cheap student models or really expensive, with not many in between. I play a left handed bass, but I've been looking at Ibanez models because they are symmetrical, but yeah there are still the knob in the way. I heard some people will change them to lower profile so they don't stick out too much.
He may be just muting the strings with his thumb but then I think he had really long fingers. In order to have that much gain you just have to have about 19 Marshalls all turned up to 12. I friend of my saw him playing live. He was playing at some place out in Flushing Medows in NY near the airport and my friend said the amps were so loud that even though jets were flying low overhead the music was drowning out the sound. I agree with you about the volume knob on Strats.
Haha this wasn't a discovery my friend, I have been playing and listening to Hendrix ever since I started to learn the guitar, even covered some Hendrix on various gigs. Im also 24 🤘🏻
I'm far from being a musician, but every time I hear a cover of a Jimmy Hendrix classic, they never seem to play guitar with the same 'crispness.' I do not know how else to put it.
i'm right handed but when i started learning guitar i also 100% remember thinking the whammy bar should be at the top just like Jimi's is too. to this day i routinely reach for the whammy bar and miss cause i don't use it a ton but also never reach low enough. Also, i could never understand why my instructor didn't want me to fret with my thumb. I thought it seemed natural. I eventually quit but when youtube came around i found out i wasn't actually "wrong" and lots of blues guitarists and SRV, Albert King, etc, and Jimi all fretted the the low E with their thumb. So take that guitar teacher of my childhood. lol
Hahaha oh man! Thats too bad your teacher discouraged you from that! Everyone plays different, and if you can take advantage of that technique and you enjoy it, then you're in luck!! Thanks for sharing that man 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Ok, just a few things you didn't mention. Hendrix always played his guitar tuned down a half a step. He did that so he could use heavier strings to get the tone and sustain you're talking about but still be able to bend the hell out of the strings. In fact, in this video it sounds like he tuned down a whole step. He's obviously playing in E but it's tuned to D. Probably so he could go a little nuts playing live. This was pre petal after all, And the thing about playing the guitar turned upside down isn't so much that the knobs are on top but the cutaway on the guitar is reversed. The bottom cutaway on the strat is generally about two inches back from the top one making it easier to get to the high frets. It's just the opposite in Jimi's case. That high "D" he hits towards the end is actually a high "E" which wouldn't be such a big deal except for the fact he has to reach all the way around what is supposed to be the top cutaway. Lucky for him he had huge hands! lol.
I read his nands where really big, that's why he could play rhythm and lead almost at the same time or use his thumb to play almost like a bass on its own
@@danieltownsend8536 I've been fascinated with his legacy, his aura and everything for a loong time. I've seen videos that have been taken down, sadly, where he got insane sounds out of his guitar and did it like nothing was happening!! he was so amazing...
@@joseanl Yeah Jose well said! He really pushed the sonic envelope. He wasn't afraid to tamper with different sounds/effects and it really is incredible to listen to, even today in 2020! I can't imagine how mind blowing that would've been to listen to when his "Are You Experienced" album first hit the streets! He will never be forgotten!
Just a little factoid, Jimmy was such a talented player, when the Beatles released an album on a "Friday" (I'm thinking it was Sgt Pepper's album,) Paul McCartney heard Jimmy playing a couple of the songs from the album (less than 48 hr's later from the release) and is quoted as saying he's {Jimi Hendrix} playing it better than us. I believe the recording studio, is the party responsible for getting a copy of the album to Jimmy. Needless to say this occurred over in England.
Hey everyone, I just wanted to say I really appreciate all of the insight, knowledge, and love you have been sharing in the comments in regards to Jimi Hendrix and his incredible playing. My gratitude and appreciation for this guitar legend has been further exemplified from this whole experience! A big thank you to everyone!
@Roberta Sirgutz that would be Hendrix imo
If you ever can find a Hendrix album called 9 To The Universe buy it. It’s the most incredible free jazz jams you’ll ever here from Jimi. And check out my Wake Up Ashes on my UA-cam channel too Daniel, there’s some fun guitar work on that tune. I write it all, sing, arrange and play all the guitars. My band is hot too. Peace
I Saw an interview with Eric Clapton here on UA-cam. He tells about the day Henrix died. He was suppose to meet him and he had found a left Stratocaster that he wanted to give him.
m.ua-cam.com/video/5r28egj0uis/v-deo.html
@Roberta Sirgutz There is only one Jimi ...James Marshall Hendrix.
My best to you.
@@alancanham2956 dead right !
I saw Jimi play live 3 times(one time in the front row directly under him), and I met him once. He had huge hands, and when I shook his hand, mine was lost. He never played a song the same way twice. He didn't play the guitar, he became the guitar. He took it everywhere, and even slept with it. It was part of his body and spirit. He didn't think about technique, he was the technique. I miss him even after 50 years!
Me too!! I miss him nearly everyday. As you said he became the guitar!! No one since has even come close! Robert Johnson would be the closest person to Jimi. Although Derek Trucks knows oneness with the guitar I think too! Peace
katsujinkin60...Reading my mail?...was listening to Daniel and I knew that...huge hands and long fingers...Stanley Clarke...same kind of things.
Insanely great story,
The 'he became the guitar' is why i'm here.
'50th Anniversary of the Stratocaster has a story in a local paper "SF Chron" in '04.
There, they said "Jimi Hendrix played a Strat like he shared it's DNA"..
I agree.
@@curtisprincemusic You forget SRV??
@@CDJF1 Absolutely not! SRV also knew oneness with the guitar, thanks for pointing out my forgetfulness. I saw SRV many times. The first was his first tour, maybe his gig upon returning to the states after his first Euro tour supporting Texas Flood his first album. It was at The Boat House in Norfolk Va. He was relatively unknown and the show was poorly attended. I leaned on the stage at his boots the whole night in awe as he sweat and spit all over me! It was a memorable experience to say the least! Check my music channel and listen to Wake Up Ashes. I’d be in interested to know what you think of my guitar style, all the guitars and vocals are me. I’ve heard a lot of comparisons to other guitar players, but I really just want to be Curtis Prince. Peace
"I'm stealing that , well done Jimi". - literally every rock guitarist ever
Lol this is true
Mr. Dan I like you insight on subtleties that to many are oblivious, making them obvious & so provocative.your 16 minutes was loadful of instruction.thnx&peace.
Stevie Ray Vaughan be like
@@Roxanneredpanda LMAO 🤣😂🤣
True facts.
Jimi had mountains of swag ! It wasnt just the notes...Jimi touched the soul, still does to this day.
One things for sure ...there will never be another.
God bless you Jimi....unequalled, unparalleled, unsurpassed, unstoppable, impossible to copy , unique ..it’s all been said. The one and only JMH.
There's nobody even in the same building as that guy! - Neil Young
Roy Buchanan was
@@michaeladrian2210 Nope
@@michaeladrian2210 No
Jimi didn't "push the envelope," he blew clean through and kissed the sky!
Most don't know that Jimi only played Guitar for Just 12 years...that's mind Blowing on its own.
Not thrue. Is known for 12 years. He played 7 years at his home.
@@bjeffbuck1369 He got his first guitar at age 15.
"he had fingers like rulers"
Well said!
Dynamite stick fingers
Jimmy Hendrix a legend, man that’s an understatement. He is a god.!!
Man his live stuff is so much crazier than his albums... he would freestyle so much. Amazing!🤘🏼✌🏼
I was the wood buyer for Fender in the early 80s when I worked for Fender/Rogers/Rhodes in Fullerton, Ca. At the end of the the guitar assembly line was a 10-foot poster of Jimi Hendrix playing his upside down Fender. Fender Company paid homage to Hendrix, because of him Sales of Fender guitars took off and shot through the roof as never before.
During his improvised solo during Woodstock Jimi uses his thumb to fret a syncopated, chromatic bassline under a cyclic chordal riff. The offical video has a nice closeup of his hands.
Genius!!!
Everybody Knows he used his Thumb, as do Thousands of Contemporary Guitarists. Nothing New Here. Geez.
"Speak English doc were not scientists " ha ha ha
Love Hendrix- I remember a funny quote from Lemmy about Hendrix- "He had massive hands and fingers like tarantulas - if he didnt make it in music, he would have made a f*ckin brilliant pickpocket!" 🤣
He’s doing this, he’s doing that, he’s doing any fucking thing he wants to !!
Jimi's hands were huge! They ate up that guitar!!
It's quite an awesome thing to witness! That along with his spectacular playing of course
Whatever the fuck he wanted to do was no problem.
First time I have ever scene a music teacher pay homage to the great Hendrix
I enjoyed this video immensely,
Thank You
I hope you noticed that he's not playing the E7 sharp 9 at the seventh fret; he's playing it in the open position! The way Brian May does the end of Brighton Rock!
He's using the volume knob to control the amount of distortion/overdrive. He likely turned it up during the solo, then back down into the verse / melody to clean up the sound.
I think the length of Jimi's fingers is a contributing factor to his exceptional virtuosity .
Love how you showed genuine amazement and explained about it
Thank you! It's all too easy to be impressed by Mr. Hendrix!
Fantastic! Please do more of them.
Next one's coming in the next day or two! Thanks Brian
Love watching you geek out to Jimi !! It’s lovely, when I heard his version of the National Anthem, I knew things were changing !
His national anthem was incredible!
Star Spangled Banner, from Woodstock, when he plays, land of the free, that note is still tearing through space and well on its way to andromeda.
We knew shit was changing then !!
Actually I was playing Mass Effect Andromeda the other day and that note came flying by...
This could quite possibly be the greatest comment in the history of comments
What would happen if it eventually collides with that Machine Gun note from BOG Fillmore?
Jimi was more than a guitar player, he was a sonic wizard. Those moments were charged with more energy than we can comprehend.
@@bigalexg Beetlejuice exploding.
Thank you - an intelligent reaction to Hendrix!
GOOD STUFF brother Daniel ! i really enjoyed this video reaction, great dissection of the master Jimi Hendrix. Keep rockin' steady !
Ok..we can tell from the funk expression on your face and the head bobbing you're already blown away!! Also, Jimi had large hands and strong fingers! He could bend a bass string up three notes.
Goat.......🤘🏻🎸
It was all so effortless for him...playing and singing. His live playing is some of his best and worst---through no fault of his own. He was put out on the road by his manager for months on end and the poor guy was beyond exhausted at most shows---but even then managed to play some amazing stuff.
Never mess with the master. You don't have a chance.
The baddest electric cat of them all..
Started at age 14, was 1976 and will always be the best to me. I love that he is still alive.
Also, Jim's using the 'Hendrix' Chord😊 (7#9) with his pinky on the G and A chords. I've seen him use that alternate form on the open E chord🎸
Keep working hard love your vids
There are only three guys in the Band "Jimi Hendrix Experience." Therefore, Jimi is the only guitarist, and he is constantly transitioning between playing rhythm and lead guitar parts. He does this flawlessly. Everything is upside down, because he had to learn on a right handed guitar his daddy bought him from the Sears and Roebucks discount store in Seattle where he grew up dirt poor. This guy taught himself to play chords and riffs upside down! Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones was his Room mate for a while in London, and he said Jimi was equally proficient playing from either side, but preferred the upside down way, "because that's how I learned as a kid." Un freaking believable. He was the best, and the first to do all of the playing with his teeth and behind his back. He did all of these things, back in 1967, and the world had never seen anything, or anyone like him.
dusty827, he wasn’t the first..he got the teeth thing from someone on the ‘chitlin circuit...not that it matters. Jimi took every trick, style and genre and melded it together like an alchemist into something never before seen
I think buddy guy did it first
T bone walker played with his teeth long before jimi
He could keep talking/singing while playing I've never seen someone doing it like Jimi
So much more refreshing than the “reaction videos” by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Sorry to say but true. It’s all about the guitar, so who better than a guitar instructor to show these things to us.
creative analysis, charming respect, much enjoyment
When you have a strat and a fuzzface as a distortion in the chain, the volume pot on guit is a delicate point to obtain different tonalities, from full solo tone to clean rhythm guitar, that is coz strat has single coils and fuzzface has low impedance input, Jimi used it very wisely
His like a rolling stone at the monterrey pop and jazz festival is an < amazing> piece of music
I always used to play with my tumbs since i started to learn some Jimi Hendrix and other blues guitarist. I feel much more comfortable, it doesn't hurt my wrist and my hands are always open and ready to play some free licks at the same time i'm playing chords. I thanks Hendrix for everything i learned from him that become my forces as a guitar player, improve so much my guitar knowledge, my improvisation level and the way i can share my emotions thoo the guitar . The best advice i could give to any guitar player especially if you like blues rock soul funk even jazz.. go learn how hendrix is playing, you will discover yourself more.
Very well said 🙌🏻
Jimi has a special place in my heart> Havn't listened for 30 years . i know lyrics to most songs, young people remember lyrics to music they grew up with .At least I did. I remember hits from 65 when I was 7 yoa. Just recently got back into Jimi. Maybe in 30 years I will get back into him again. When i am 94
Re the volume knob, if you watch the "'scuse me" line, the squeal/feedback starts and he hears it. You can see him turn down the volume and turn it back up just prior to playing.
I know I will never play like Jimi but it is so fun analyzing his technique and Joe he sound
Nice video , Hendrix is frickin' awesome.
He is the MAN! So inspiring to watch
Stevie Ray Vaughan played a Stratocaster with the wammy bar on top and said Jimi used to visit him at night. Jimi could play right handed or left using a standard strung right handed guitar flipped over or restrung as he preferred. Having the Wammy bar up there with the nobs allows you to use your palms to adjust the volume and tone as you play. Jimi also tested different wiring in his volume and tone on the guitar to give him better control.
I just saw a “rig rundown” with Joe Perry’s tech (Aerosmith), he keeps an axe in his rig that intentionally has the whammy bar on the high side; I might actually use mine more often if it was sort of in the way, or even place it under my strumming arm.
@@jonathannagel7427 It was a Hendrix thing, just like the volume and tone on top, makes them easy to adjust while you are picking. I imagine he learned it somewhere or just caught flipping a guitar but it is handy. Wrap your pinky around the wammy or the first two and use your thumb and or other two to pic or a pick. Palm to push the bar and mute ...
Plenty of video of him ...
Jimi Hendrix the cosmic genius
“I teach guitar, by the way.”
Well, it’s Jimi, he came over to England in ‘66, while being a very hierarchical society, every guitarist had to step down a notch over night, number one at once. Many tried, he remains champion, and has the whole top ten still in his pocket as well, despite his short cut life.
I'd have picked "Johnny B Goode", Jimi Plays Berkeley. First known from "Hendrix In The West" , '72.
Almost every trick in his book and great to the last feed backed note.
Yes absolutely.
Hear My Train A Comin from Berkeley is one of his most stellar live performances. An old Guitar Player article said that song makes Eddie Van Halen sound like a school boy. Maybe or maybe not, but it's mind blowing
@@jimiray1969. Great pick!!!
Fan since RainBow Bridge.
Later Blues,,,,critics said it was one of the his best live recorded performances, out of tune or not (someone was flat....Jimi?)
Great pick!!!
Please keep making videos! you'll make it, you're made for this!
Wow! Thank you so much!
Something that I found out a while back, is that Bobby Womack and Albert KIng played with their guitars upside down, but kept the strings as they were. ie high E at the top. and low E at the bottom.
That's insane!
Never heard of Dick Dale I presume
He uses the meat part of his thumb on low E and sometimes across A for rhythm so his four fingers are free to play lead at the same time.
Actually, he would force a "super" distorted tone by pushing the volume to the point of feedback , catch it before it screeches , then quickly adjusts tone and rides that sound wave creating a new and unique musical realm. The key is to sonically read the room then place yourself in a spot to manipulate the "air " waves. Genius .
Hey Daniel, Jimi could also play righty almost as well as he could lefty. There's footage of him playing righty out there, one of them is hanging with Keith Richards back stage somewhere. To give you another example of a lefty player, Albert King! Who not only played lefty... but played with the strings up-side down!! Now that's crazy stuff.
Jimi taught himself to play lefty when he first started playing as a kid because he broke his arm playing football in the street.
@@tonyljackson152 did You live in Seattle at the time ?
@@waydeepinside No Sir, I did not, I got the info from his father. I wrote his dad a letter about a project I was doing in college, he sent me lots of great info about Jimi.
@@tonyljackson152 Huge kudos to You for thinking of such a cool topic in which to write a project on !
It was so very painful to hear Al share when He would talk about Jimi.
Honorably, He would still share from His big heart
@@waydeepinside Thank you ! Mr Hendrix was a very nice man and at the end of the day, he loved his son.
Jimi got up in the morning, strapped on his guitar and played all the time.
Also the volume he played at is illegal now, the effects are hard to replicate for that reason alone.
His hands and fingers were enormous!
The guitar strap of Jimi is now own by David Gilmour
Eric Clapton said he had bought a left handed stratocaster to give Jimi and was supposed to give it to him at a Sly Stone show but Jimi didn't show up...next morning it was the news he had died
Back in the day a music critic saw a Jimi Hendrix performance and went away with, "Jimi Hendrix doesn't do anything any other guitar player can't do. He just does it differently."
Towards the ends of his life he played E7#9, G7#9, A7#9, instead of regular G and A chords, using his thumb for the root notes in the same position. So the shape of G7#9 and A7#9 are the same as the F#7#9 in Foxy Lady. Just gives a lot more crunch
A real reaction is seeing hearing for the first time , you know too much , for a guitarist i cant believe you never seen his videos before
To get the Hendrix level of gain you need a huge stack of Marshalls turned up to 11. A friend of mine went to see Hendrix at Forrest Hills which is right next to JFK airport and he said that Hendrix was so loud that you couldn't hear the jumbo jets going right overhead. The Marshalls were drowning them out. Thats loud.
Jimi Hendrix didn't die, he just went off to give God electric guitar lessons!!!
THAT is a great comment ☝🏻😎☝🏻
@@danieltownsend8536 thank you very much!!!
Actually I learned something from watching this. I knew Hendrix played with his thumb, but I didn't know he had that kind of reach. I had seen many Hendrix performances, but I hadn't heard this one. I always like seeing new Hendrix videos, if there is such a thing. 😂😂😂
Curly cables are like springs and can ping out of your guitar if you get too excited
Every guitar player that try to play this soung sounds like Eric Clapton. Theres only one Jimi
There's a video of him playing the guitar (as well as most guitarists) with his teeth. That's a challenge for the ages.
He is the GOAT. . He played a right handed stratocaster guitar upside down. He dethroned Eric Clapton as the GOAT and they became close friends. Eric had bought the only left handed stratocaster guitar he had ever seen and was going to give it to him the day Jimi died.
PS: YOU Know you're bad ass Man,when you have a "Chord" named after you or refered as your chord, in this case 'The Hendrix" Chord. Dayumm. you are Bad Ass!! Theres ONLY sooo many chords to go around and Jimi's got one of them! Ha! He did it first and he got there to show us all how its going and gittin done, Man. amazing to this day. there outta be a Zappa Chord progression of some sort...from the Album One size fits all. play on Jimi,hope you and Frank are up there Jammin out!!
I'm a lefty. so when I was young and poor, I had to use cheap righty guitars upside down.
My first righty guitar was a hot pink South Korean strat copy! My brother brought it home
for me when he left the army. I quickly got used to playing it upside down.
The controls and especially the 3 way switch was not a problem. The cutaway and balance was! I had 3 before I could afford my 1st American made lefty 79 Stratocaster.
to this day I some times hit the controls and 5 way switch on all my lefty strats!
The only thing I do not like about strats!
Roy Buchanan use to roll his pinky finger on the volume knob of his telecaster to great effect.
By far the best breakdown of his guitar on this song thanks
Hey I just came across this vid and thought you'd be interested to know that Otis Rush played lefty BUT ALSO strung for a righty!... he just learned to play backwards. There is excellent old video you can easily find to watch.. really cool!
You just need longer fingers in order to wrap the neck like Hendrix did. I took note, that he also plased the palm from the thumb to the wrist, alongside the edge of the guitar neck.
little known fact....he strung his strings in reverse but left the pick ups where they were.....hence the original sound
I was there at the Atlanta Pop etc. His last performance in USA. About three songs in, he asked the light guys to turn off the spots as he couldn't see the audience. Instead of turning them off, they put a colored gel in front of the spots. Made little difference. They had to make their movie, which you now enjoy. I'd rather the movie guys would have given something to him instead of taking something from him. It's been told many times that he was pushed around by the execs and couldn't even play what he wanted to.
Does he also use the open E position minor dominent 7 + 9? Wouldn't the g be the raised 9, since the 9 would be F#
I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but he does play that E7(#9) closer to the headstock side of the guitar, starting on the 2nd fret of the D string.
He had massive hands and could do a bar chord with his thumb! The greatest blues/rock guitarist who ever lived. I would like to hear him play jaz.
I'm subscribing. you're funny and you know your stuff man 🤙🤙🤙
Thanks man! New videos coming soon, I just got a new computer so getting videos out should become easier
Other Hendrix songs to react to
Hey Joe - ua-cam.com/video/nNkhcQ0fhyY/v-deo.html
Him at Woodstock - ua-cam.com/video/MwIymq0iTsw/v-deo.html
These are great recommendations, thanks Turbid! Hard to decide between the two!
OK now I've gotta go listen to the whole song again. And again. And again. And again!!!!!! This old Boomer loved Hendrix.
But look at the size of his hands and fingers. He could practically wrap the neck with his thumb.
Considering he was drugged up out his mind most of the time its even more amazing.
Kurt Cobain was left handed too. In their early videos he played one strung upside down. It's because the "correct" left handed guitars are either cheap student models or really expensive, with not many in between. I play a left handed bass, but I've been looking at Ibanez models because they are symmetrical, but yeah there are still the knob in the way. I heard some people will change them to lower profile so they don't stick out too much.
He may be just muting the strings with his thumb but then I think he had really long fingers. In order to have that much gain you just have to have about 19 Marshalls all turned up to 12. I friend of my saw him playing live. He was playing at some place out in Flushing Medows in NY near the airport and my friend said the amps were so loud that even though jets were flying low overhead the music was drowning out the sound. I agree with you about the volume knob on Strats.
Guitar teacher discovering Hendrix at his thirties.....
Haha this wasn't a discovery my friend, I have been playing and listening to Hendrix ever since I started to learn the guitar, even covered some Hendrix on various gigs. Im also 24 🤘🏻
@@danieltownsend8536 Sorry for the "thirties"
@@isabelfuentesnar1 no worries!
I'm far from being a musician, but every time I hear a cover of a Jimmy Hendrix classic, they never seem to play guitar with the same 'crispness.' I do not know how else to put it.
Exactly there is Jimi and then there's other guitarist. Other guitarist r cool but they're all the same... there's only 1 Hendrix.
See millstap chanel
I was 16 years old and I was there.
That must have been incredible!!!
@@danieltownsend8536 It was great and thank God I had two older brothers who let me tag along.
That truth talented and gifted artis
Jimi could bar the whole fretboard with his thumb
i'm right handed but when i started learning guitar i also 100% remember thinking the whammy bar should be at the top just like Jimi's is too. to this day i routinely reach for the whammy bar and miss cause i don't use it a ton but also never reach low enough.
Also, i could never understand why my instructor didn't want me to fret with my thumb. I thought it seemed natural. I eventually quit but when youtube came around i found out i wasn't actually "wrong" and lots of blues guitarists and SRV, Albert King, etc, and Jimi all fretted the the low E with their thumb. So take that guitar teacher of my childhood. lol
Hahaha oh man! Thats too bad your teacher discouraged you from that! Everyone plays different, and if you can take advantage of that technique and you enjoy it, then you're in luck!! Thanks for sharing that man 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Ok, just a few things you didn't mention. Hendrix always played his guitar tuned down a half a step. He did that so he could use heavier strings to get the tone and sustain you're talking about but still be able to bend the hell out of the strings. In fact, in this video it sounds like he tuned down a whole step. He's obviously playing in E but it's tuned to D. Probably so he could go a little nuts playing live. This was pre petal after all, And the thing about playing the guitar turned upside down isn't so much that the knobs are on top but the cutaway on the guitar is reversed. The bottom cutaway on the strat is generally about two inches back from the top one making it easier to get to the high frets. It's just the opposite in Jimi's case. That high "D" he hits towards the end is actually a high "E" which wouldn't be such a big deal except for the fact he has to reach all the way around what is supposed to be the top cutaway. Lucky for him he had huge hands! lol.
Beautiful tele man
Thank you! It's been a fantastic instrument!
Next to being very long, Hendrix'fingers were terrifyingly strong
I can believe that! He's got a crazy grip on that neck.
I read his nands where really big, that's why he could play rhythm and lead almost at the same time or use his thumb to play almost like a bass on its own
@@joseanl absolutely!!!
@@danieltownsend8536 I've been fascinated with his legacy, his aura and everything for a loong time. I've seen videos that have been taken down, sadly, where he got insane sounds out of his guitar and did it like nothing was happening!! he was so amazing...
@@joseanl Yeah Jose well said! He really pushed the sonic envelope. He wasn't afraid to tamper with different sounds/effects and it really is incredible to listen to, even today in 2020! I can't imagine how mind blowing that would've been to listen to when his "Are You Experienced" album first hit the streets! He will never be forgotten!
u have to listen too machine gun live at the filmore with buddy miles the solo is unreal!!
what kills me and im a guitar player grown up with hendrix that people reacting to hey joe thats early jimi band of gypsyd some of his best work!
machine gun solo NOBODY PLAYS LIKE THAT GUY WAS IN ANOTHER WORLD!!
@@joesmith6524
Miles was asked what seriously turned him on to Hendrix, and he just said: Machine
Gun! (in his semi-croaked kinda whispery way ;-) )
That solo is guitar playing at its best Hendrix playing notes coming from is soul!
what no one talks about is how hard it is to play an instrument and sing at the same time.
And no one was better with guitar
NOT ONE OF THE GREATEST........THE GREATEST...PERIOD
I prefer how close the knobs are on the strat
Some people do! If you enjoy that position of the volume know I feel like it's a great benefit, having such an important control so close to the hand
Just a little factoid, Jimmy was such a talented player, when the Beatles released an album on a "Friday" (I'm thinking it was Sgt Pepper's album,) Paul McCartney heard Jimmy playing a couple of the songs from the album (less than 48 hr's later from the release) and is quoted as saying he's {Jimi Hendrix} playing it better than us. I believe the recording studio, is the party responsible for getting a copy of the album to Jimmy. Needless to say this occurred over in England.
Fantastic knowledge man! Thanks for the share!
Right. This did happen and it was Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, song from the Album by the Beatles Sgt. Pepper. Good show, mate.
McCartney is STILL in shock over it! He's still taking about it.
Jimi Hendrix still making music through me ♾♾