not many people know that JIMI was the best bluesman there was. the end of his life [ career ] he really got back to his roots, the blues!!! if he would have lived on can you imagine where the blues [ electric blues ] would be OMG !!! THNX STEVE FOR ALL YOUR HELP
Yes exactly the very best. His hammer-on pull-off licks are unmatched. He always used to come up with new licks and keep it interesting. A good example is Bleeding heart Royal Albert Hall. Normally I don't have much trouble finding out how to play blues licks but with Jimi it is an entirely different matter.
The dynamic is what sounds good in these hendrix slow blues tunes. When he bends those notes it really hits you. You start off with a nice calm rhythm and then slide into a big bend that has the effect of a tornado siren going off before you see the clouds. Brilliant stuff great lesson video as always.
i appreciate your camera angle. i was taught by a left handed player and i find that it is really hard to follow a right handed teacher now, but this view is great!
Period. In my humble opinion you are the best blues professor I ever have. "You enjoy , with a lot of passion, what you're doing." Like C. Santana said: si no tienes corazón, alma, y cuerpo...no podrás transmitir al publico esa sensation. Fonsito from Puerto Rico, USA
Awesome stuff, man. Probably my favorite Jimi tune... That TONE just always kills me. Positively massive.. and you nailed it pretty much spot on! Don' t forget to throw in the sweet little fill that ends w/ him doing a behind the nut bend on the open G string.
good job on this !! I'm a HUGE Hendrix fan and I was watching your other video " why it's so hard to sound like Jimi Hendrix " and I saw you disabled the comments ,, I can only imagine what people were saying but I understand why you made it,, one of if not the greatest innovator in rock/blues guitar and I've always gravitated towards his gritty amazing powerful tones and playing,, nice job !! I've followed you at Stevie Snacks and know you're a huge SRV fan and you do a great job there too,, keep up the great work
Well the anticipation for this was certainly worth it! I still haven't even started the thanks giving ballad yet (due to uni) but I'm going to buy this. I have no doubt it will be worth it, your methodological approach to teaching guitar is something which really works. Not many people have what you have, well done and thank you for your dedication to teaching.
Awesome stuff. This is my favorite Hendrix tune of all time. I think. Maybe it's Hear My Train A'Comin. Or Machine Gun. Red House maybe? Hell I dunno...I love all his blues stuff. The Scorcese Jimi CD is great. Anyway, yeah--I'm pre-ordering right now. Thanks Anthony!
i can tell this guy have perfect pitch because 1. the notes seem perfect 2. he's up an octave in the intro and people with perfect pitch usually struggle to tell the difference between octaves
The reason why he tuned to D for this song is because JIMI was anything, but conventional...he wasn't afraid to step outside the box and do his own thing...which is how we have such incredible guitar playing and songwriting out of him...he simply felt like tuning down. Jmho 😉😉
Good sound, very convincing. I saw the other video about why it is hard to play Jimi Hendrix and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Jimi Hendrix was notorious for playing what he was feeling and not what would look good on paper because I am pretty sure he had no idea how to read music. I also heard he lost his mom at a young age so he used the guitar to cope with the stress of losing a parent. I think it is hard to play Jimi Hendrix because he figured out how to express his soul and feelings through a instrument rather than learning music by studying music theory. I have heard people say he is overrated but it is funny because if they tried to play some of his toughest stuff they wouldn't know what the hell was going on. Two examples are hard Jimi Hendrix songs off the top of my head are Peace in Mississippi and Machine Gun
Jimi also popped acid in the studio and more than likely on tour- not many people can handle playing that high but Jimi, praise be his name, turned it into something else to say the least -It was a known fact he like "experimenting" with various substances....wanted to "see and hear everything."
That was really cool to see you in the "behind the scenes" mode - very impressed. You have really proven to improve the quality of your production level. You could see that in your videos but now we get to actually see it for real. Really appreciated this video too :-)
really like your playing on this,I love playing this too...also love the look of the strat you use.its got a beautiful tone and looks very playable,I don't usually play starts,but I would like that one :-).
He does go into some modal stuff, aside from the minor pentonic, when he call and responds with Windwood on this song (Playing riffs in G Major within the D Vamp) But that must be in your lesson 2. I always wondered if he used Slack-Key Tuning, or "Open D" in this one (D-A-D-F#-A-D) Great video thanx!
this is my most fave song of Jimi, not the voodoo child (slight return - fast version) ... but this !!! as Ross Echols said: that riff is completely nasty !!!!!! nasty as fuck!!!! love it!!!! noones makes these songs in these days!!!! Even Mayer can´t come with anything similar or close to this !!!! this is completely badass, the most kicking ass blues ever!!!!!!
You're an amazing guitarist my friend. You really achieve his sound while making it into your own. Much more so than other guitarists I've seen emulate his music. This video was incredibly helpful to me. Thank you for posting it.
Where did that drum track come from? I think tuning down to D brings this to a whole different level. I was always able to pick out the main riff (but did it in the first few frets, never picked up on the slide to the 5th fret) but in standard it just doesn't have the same feel. Close, but not the same. I wish I had one strat with the trem blocked so I could tune down easily - I use an older Epiphone I got when I was 15 to tune down as there is no trem system.
That was incredible! I see below you mention you were using a Malekko Helium, can I please ask what other gear was involved in that incredible tone? Is it just the Helium, fingers and amp? If so, whatever amp you use was built just for you :-) With the lessons do you include the backing tracks? Cheers Jeff.
What key is the guitar tuned to??? Dropped a whole step? Also, are you using any delay or just reverb? What effects and amp are you using?, I saw below the Malekko Helium for distortion (what setting are you using on the Helium?). Your tone is just fantastic. I can't wait until Wednesday when I will have time to work on this. If it works out for me, I buying in to your DVD program. Best looking and most accurate tutorial I've seen in some time.
So- we can’t buy and download the lesson..-we have to always be connected? That’s hard because I want to buy the lessons, but don’t want to be lumped into a subscription forever as I don’t always have time to practice, as I wish I did. And I tend to play a lot in my garage where my internet connection is terrible.
I thought you were gonna talk about getting that tone lol, but nice video anyway. Check out millstaps vintage bassman sound, it's ridiculous - search for "1960 Tweed Bassman-Hendrix Tone Sound Check #1" :D
I'm a subscriber and i can't find this breakdown on the TBA site. It lists Red House and Voodoo Chile Blues in the same section, does a full breakdown with tabs and video of Red House (though played differently due to not being tuned down to Eb) but for Voodoo Chile blues theres just a demonstration video. Where is the tab for what you're playing here?
Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention John. While you can always search and find all of our courses using the Pro Player's built in browser, I had a bug in my course main pages that prevented the different links to the different lessons in this course from all showing. Here's a direct link to that lesson in the Pro Player: texasbluesalley.com/watch/6087
Mike Ackerman For any Free Lesson Friday or Tone Tuesday videos I post here, if you look for the link in the description, it will take you to that video's "home" on TXBA, and on that page you can see a list of all the gear I used when shooting it. I forgot it for this video, but here it is: txba.ly/v7ep
The ONLY way to be any where near Jimi is to become a " FIRE breathing Dragon " so to speak. If your not so completely immersed in the moment of where that dragon is taking you, your not going to play Guitar like Jimi. He used the guitar as an instrument of sheer Magic. Does that description sound like anything you have ever tried? It's not about playing like Jimi, but transforming into a magical creature. Personally I haven't seen or heard anyone do that since Jimi. Maybe John Macglauclan on the album Jewels from the Emeral Beyond. Peter Townsend said that when Jimi played he transformed into someone or something else. If your not into music to reach the beyond, the forget about aspiring to get to the level of the Great Master musicians of the past centuries. If your not aspiring to express that then you & thousands of other musicians just don't understand music or what Life is about.
Jimi was the best and most interesting bluesman. He always came up with new and interesting phrases.
He played LONGER than everybody else...
That intro was all kinds of bad ass...
Things like this really make you realize how incredible Jimi was!
That tone is to die for
That riff is a mean, nasty, growling, snarling, burning hunk of funk
not many people know that JIMI was the best bluesman there was. the end of his life [ career ] he really got back to his roots, the blues!!! if he would have lived on can you imagine where the blues [ electric blues ] would be OMG !!!
THNX STEVE FOR ALL YOUR HELP
Yes exactly the very best. His hammer-on pull-off licks are unmatched. He always used to come up with new licks and keep it interesting. A good example is Bleeding heart Royal Albert Hall. Normally I don't have much trouble finding out how to play blues licks but with Jimi it is an entirely different matter.
This guitar tone is scary as hell he definitely knew how to make this tone growl at you.
And what made Jimi want to play this so spooky.
I absolutely love those wide intervals, octaves and pedal tones! Fantastic, thanks
The dynamic is what sounds good in these hendrix slow blues tunes. When he bends those notes it really hits you. You start off with a nice calm rhythm and then slide into a big bend that has the effect of a tornado siren going off before you see the clouds. Brilliant stuff great lesson video as always.
i appreciate your camera angle. i was taught by a left handed player and i find that it is really hard to follow a right handed teacher now, but this view is great!
Period. In my humble opinion you are the best blues professor I ever have. "You enjoy , with a lot of passion, what you're doing." Like C. Santana said: si no tienes corazón, alma, y cuerpo...no podrás transmitir al publico esa sensation. Fonsito from Puerto Rico, USA
Awesome stuff, man. Probably my favorite Jimi tune... That TONE just always kills me. Positively massive.. and you nailed it pretty much spot on!
Don' t forget to throw in the sweet little fill that ends w/ him doing a behind the nut bend on the open G string.
That is a BEAUTIFUL rendition of my FAVORITE Jimi Hendrix cut you played in it!
Tasty playing - you've got the right feel !! And not over-distorted - guitar sounds great.
Take my money is correct!!!. Just finished setting up my Strat. Now heading to TXBA to get my order in....Merry Xmas tooo me!!!
Texas Blues Alley doing a Jimi Hendrix series? Should I just put all my financial info here? :)
I wouldn't say that's a bad idea, but legally I have to say that's a bad idea.
I just saw this and holy f$ck that tone & song sound sick!
Such a wicked tone.
Sweet baby Jesus!!! TXBA dropping some Jimi...Xmas came early
This is a fantastic lesson - very accessible and full of amazing licks! In particular, the lick at :47 is just stick-to-your-ribs good!! Nasty-good!
holy mofuggin shit this gave me goosebumps
Your fingertips are black and not from frostbite
Oh man! I need to hurry up and get through the thanksgiving special so I can move onto the upcoming jimi lesson... need more time in a day!
Normally I don't stack lessons up this close together, but the holiday shopping season messes with my schedule.
Wow!!!! This is what I need in my heart.
this top down view is so cool, almost feels like im playing
good job on this !! I'm a HUGE Hendrix fan and I was watching your other video " why it's so hard to sound like Jimi Hendrix " and I saw you disabled the comments ,, I can only imagine what people were saying but I understand why you made it,, one of if not the greatest innovator in rock/blues guitar and I've always gravitated towards his gritty amazing powerful tones and playing,, nice job !! I've followed you at Stevie Snacks and know you're a huge SRV fan and you do a great job there too,, keep up the great work
Well the anticipation for this was certainly worth it! I still haven't even started the thanks giving ballad yet (due to uni) but I'm going to buy this. I have no doubt it will be worth it, your methodological approach to teaching guitar is something which really works. Not many people have what you have, well done and thank you for your dedication to teaching.
Awesome stuff. This is my favorite Hendrix tune of all time. I think. Maybe it's Hear My Train A'Comin. Or Machine Gun. Red House maybe? Hell I dunno...I love all his blues stuff. The Scorcese Jimi CD is great. Anyway, yeah--I'm pre-ordering right now. Thanks Anthony!
This sounds so great.
Really nice! Looking forward to get all these lessons.
i can tell this guy have perfect pitch because 1. the notes seem perfect 2. he's up an octave in the intro and people with perfect pitch usually struggle to tell the difference between octaves
man that was some slick playing. thanks for the lesson.
The reason why he tuned to D for this song is because JIMI was anything, but conventional...he wasn't afraid to step outside the box and do his own thing...which is how we have such incredible guitar playing and songwriting out of him...he simply felt like tuning down. Jmho
😉😉
And Jimi was untouchable when it comes to the guitar.
Best ever thank you
Good sound, very convincing. I saw the other video about why it is hard to play Jimi Hendrix and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Jimi Hendrix was notorious for playing what he was feeling and not what would look good on paper because I am pretty sure he had no idea how to read music. I also heard he lost his mom at a young age so he used the guitar to cope with the stress of losing a parent. I think it is hard to play Jimi Hendrix because he figured out how to express his soul and feelings through a instrument rather than learning music by studying music theory. I have heard people say he is overrated but it is funny because if they tried to play some of his toughest stuff they wouldn't know what the hell was going on. Two examples are hard Jimi Hendrix songs off the top of my head are Peace in Mississippi and Machine Gun
Jimi also popped acid in the studio and more than likely on tour- not many people can handle playing that high but Jimi, praise be his name, turned it into something else to say the least -It was a known fact he like "experimenting" with various substances....wanted to "see and hear everything."
That was really cool to see you in the "behind the scenes" mode - very impressed. You have really proven to improve the quality of your production level. You could see that in your videos but now we get to actually see it for real. Really appreciated this video too :-)
really like your playing on this,I love playing this too...also love the look of the strat you use.its got a beautiful tone and looks very playable,I don't usually play starts,but I would like that one :-).
Great great stuff brother,
thanks
Great lesson!
Rock on man! Love me some Jimi blues \m/
Really? it sound SOOOO smooth, I can't get that tone!. also, you only used reverb, no delay right?
Doc D The reverb is added during mixdown, and it's a gated reverb which adds a bit of delay.
Looks great Antony.
Man that's very good...♥️♥️♥️♥️
He does go into some modal stuff, aside from the minor pentonic, when he call and responds with Windwood on this song (Playing riffs in G Major within the D Vamp) But that must be in your lesson 2.
I always wondered if he used Slack-Key Tuning, or "Open D" in this one (D-A-D-F#-A-D) Great video thanx!
Sweet. Just sweet.
Fucking monstrous tone!
this is my most fave song of Jimi, not the voodoo child (slight return - fast version) ... but this !!! as Ross Echols said: that riff is completely nasty !!!!!!
nasty as fuck!!!! love it!!!! noones makes these songs in these days!!!! Even Mayer can´t come with anything similar or close to this !!!! this is completely badass, the most kicking ass blues ever!!!!!!
Awesome
You're an amazing guitarist my friend. You really achieve his sound while making it into your own. Much more so than other guitarists I've seen emulate his music. This video was incredibly helpful to me. Thank you for posting it.
Nice neck. Looks like warmoth, pau ferro, 6100 frets, roasted maple?
What a beautiful guitar!!!!! Would you please tell me more info about that gorgeus sounding beauty?! Texas Blues Alley
Luis Maza 96 Mexican strat.
Texas Blues Alley Did you changed the pickups?
Luis Maza txba.ly/v7Jf
Texas Blues Alley thank you!!!!! Great content in your website!!!!
hello Texas Blues Alley, can you please tell me your blues junior settings for this Voodoo chile blues tone? It would help me a lot. Thank you.
Hey brother, you've nailed tone , feel amazing job. Please tell me what amp , settings and pedals please 🙏🏻
Great stuff man. In one of your next lessons can you you give us us a quick rundown how you get the monster tone?
Holy shit that sounds good great.
Awesome!
jimi had extraordinarily long fingers. he could do things mere mortals cannot.
Playing guitar can make your fingers longer
Where did that drum track come from? I think tuning down to D brings this to a whole different level. I was always able to pick out the main riff (but did it in the first few frets, never picked up on the slide to the 5th fret) but in standard it just doesn't have the same feel. Close, but not the same. I wish I had one strat with the trem blocked so I could tune down easily - I use an older Epiphone I got when I was 15 to tune down as there is no trem system.
That was incredible! I see below you mention you were using a Malekko Helium, can I please ask what other gear was involved in that incredible tone? Is it just the Helium, fingers and amp? If so, whatever amp you use was built just for you :-) With the lessons do you include the backing tracks? Cheers Jeff.
my god that fat bass..that clean sound and slight gain...amazing sound
Thanks for all the details! Too bad there is no translation, my English is bad. Kiss from France.
What key is the guitar tuned to??? Dropped a whole step?
Also, are you using any delay or just reverb? What effects and amp are you using?, I saw below the Malekko Helium for distortion (what setting are you using on the Helium?). Your tone is just fantastic. I can't wait until Wednesday when I will have time to work on this. If it works out for me, I buying in to your DVD program. Best looking and most accurate tutorial I've seen in some time.
Doc D Yes, tuned to D. Can't remember exactly which settings on the pedal, but with a conservative amount of octave, one of the fuller settings.
So- we can’t buy and download the lesson..-we have to always be connected? That’s hard because I want to buy the lessons, but don’t want to be lumped into a subscription forever as I don’t always have time to practice, as I wish I did. And I tend to play a lot in my garage where my internet connection is terrible.
Great FLF.
I thought you were gonna talk about getting that tone lol, but nice video anyway. Check out millstaps vintage bassman sound, it's ridiculous - search for "1960 Tweed Bassman-Hendrix Tone Sound Check #1" :D
Nice,real Nice,very close.
I. Love. You.
What pickup did you use the most in the intro? That was a beautiful sound.
The neck pup
Um Badass
I'm a subscriber and i can't find this breakdown on the TBA site. It lists Red House and Voodoo Chile Blues in the same section, does a full breakdown with tabs and video of Red House (though played differently due to not being tuned down to Eb) but for Voodoo Chile blues theres just a demonstration video. Where is the tab for what you're playing here?
Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention John. While you can always search and find all of our courses using the Pro Player's built in browser, I had a bug in my course main pages that prevented the different links to the different lessons in this course from all showing. Here's a direct link to that lesson in the Pro Player: texasbluesalley.com/watch/6087
Holy crap you sound great
I'd love to play like that one day but I'm stuck with a $100 acoustic Yamaha lmao one day, one day.
Starting on acoustic is the best, you have to work for bends and work on your technique a lot more, but it really does pays off in the end :)
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This is great
Are you using your Billm modded blues jr on this?
do you use any effects pedals to get that sound ??
What are you using for the octave?
Nice. Looking at the website but there is no contact info If I have questions. Bummer
texasbluesalley.com/hq/contact
Wow! Nice! Do you explain you amp and pedals anywhere? Thanks keep up the good work.
Mike Ackerman For any Free Lesson Friday or Tone Tuesday videos I post here, if you look for the link in the description, it will take you to that video's "home" on TXBA, and on that page you can see a list of all the gear I used when shooting it. I forgot it for this video, but here it is: txba.ly/v7ep
@@Texasbluesalley Dead link. Gee, I'd pay for that info.
@@nicholaswells9659 Thanks: texasbluesalley.com/woodshed/free-lessons/the-sound-of-voodoo-chile-blues-by-jimi-hendrix
The link related to the used gear is no more working ...
What string gauge do you use?
Very cool. Velvet fuzz in action here?
Malekko Helium
Let's hear some of your music.
👍
Anthony you are starting to look like tony stark with all that gear around you
The ONLY way to be any where near Jimi is to become a
" FIRE breathing Dragon " so to speak. If your not so completely immersed in the moment of where that dragon is taking you, your not going to play Guitar like Jimi.
He used the guitar as an instrument of sheer Magic. Does that description sound like anything you have ever tried? It's not about playing like Jimi, but transforming into a magical creature. Personally I haven't seen or heard anyone do that since Jimi. Maybe John Macglauclan on the album Jewels from the Emeral Beyond. Peter Townsend said that when Jimi played he transformed into someone or something else. If your not into music to reach the beyond, the forget about aspiring to get to the level of the Great Master musicians of the past centuries. If your not aspiring to express that then you & thousands of other musicians just don't understand music or what Life is about.
dig! col! ds - !!!
its a shame it isnt a half step
Something is missing????
Think why your attitude about not understanding Jimis style of playing is because most guitarists played notes Jimi painted sound
The audio and video are out of sync.
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