Pete Townsend provides perhaps the perfect instrumental analysis; " He managed to build this bridge between true blues guitar And we quote Yngwie Malmsteen with the perfect conclusion; " Hendrix created modern electric playing, without question He was the first.
He started it all. The rest is history. By now you know the kind of legacy that Jimi Hendrix has left behind, his style and the influence he has had on many guitarists. He had extremely long fingers which must have enhanced his abilities. He did a great Voodoo Child live. Nothing like it! They are all gone. He turned me on to jimmy page , Santana and said this next one is my favorite, Jimi Hendrix Are u experienced album! He had tickets to see him at Madison square garden in October, I loved all 3 guitarist with Hendrix the major stand out , on September 18 the day the music died again!
Jimi was gone but his music is very alive in my soul. March 13, This is a guitar blog. The Man James Marshall Hendrix died on September 18th at the age of just 27, ending an active performance and recording career that had lasted a mere three years as a solo artist and band leader. The Freedom This word can mean many different things to many different people.
Well, how about you actually learn how to play in the style of Jimi Hendrix? Recent Articles. August 23, 10 Best Overdrive Pedals for Blues. Editor's Picks. Best Seller. Joe libby July 5, Roy Smyth September 18, You left the world a better place. Never forgotten. Douglas Campbell July 19, Please ask Bob Dylan the next time you get an interview who he believes is the best guitarist he has ever heard. I would be willing to bet he will answer Bloomfield.
Ron snyder July 17, I just started to get into guitar the summer of , my older Cuz Gave me 3 albums to record on a cassette player I got for my birthday August 1st He turned me on to jimmy page , Santana and said this next one is my favorite, Jimi Hendrix Are u experienced album! Terry Brower April 21, Yes, The Monkees. Going to see Hendrix was so exciting for a beginning guitar player like me, I was blown away by his first album and then the curtain opened up, 3 wildly dressed guys pushing a wall of sound that seemed to be moving the skin back on my face, NO band ever played that loud, NO band looked anything like that and no 3 piece band ever sounded like that.
The oddness of the moment was they were just standing there Jimmy was smiling. It takes courage and deliberation to rise above the constraints of our overly commercialized, peer group oriented, media driven culture and see art for the wonderfully expressive language that it can be.
I believe that true musical maturity comes by opening yourself up to new forms even if they don't immediately appeal to you. As I said earlier, I became interested in guitar pretty young and I was exposed to a lot of sophisticated music growing up. My Mom was big into Classical and Broadway. My Dad liked Big Band Jazz. My best friend's older brother was listening to Elvis etc.
My first great Pop music awakening came with The Beatles. I was 10 in So, even in the Rock genre, I was drawn toward the more sophisticated guitar players with more "chops" and broader harmonic sensibilities The Blues Rock guitar guys didn't really do all that much for me.
It could all sound just too much the same. I needed more variety. By chance, I saw Larry Coryell and the 11th House featuring the Brecker Brothers my 2nd year of college and my life was changed forever. I began to check out all the Jazz "Fusion" guitar players These guys played music that had "balls" like rock and blues, but also had the broader harmonic spectrum of jazz.
So I would have to say that my great guitar heroes were those capable of playing more complex music in a variety of different styles. Though better than many, Jimi Hendrix just wasn't one of them. Jimi was a great talent, but I think in many ways his lack of education prevented him from becoming a better guitar player.
He played a very personal style of guitar that he developed in his own little world. That's why he rarely played outside his "comfort zone". He played with bands he controlled and players he hand picked. People who actually play guitar themselves tend to listen to music differently than those who don't. Non-players often take what they hear at face value and accept it. Players are more capable of saying "I might have done this differently myself" or "There are other ways that this guitar solo could have been approached".
An interesting question you might ask is, what percentage of the audience at a Rock concert is composed of real musicians who truly understand music theory? The answer is not many. And this is where I might point out some of Jimi's limitations. As I mentioned, I have just reviewed the last material he produced before this death and though I am impressed with it's honesty, cohesiveness of vision, expressiveness, energy and pure "riffology", it still leaves something to be desired in my opinion.
Though broader than some discographies, I see Jimi's guitar work as still not straying too far from the Electric Blues Rock, Funk mold we do, of course, have to give him credit as being one of the pioneers who indeed forwarded this genre Some of his attempts at breaking out of that idiom with slower ballads and more complex progressions sound kinda' "forced", contrived and awkward to me.
There isn't a very broad usage of different guitar chord types, consisting mainly of "Power" Chords, basic Major and Minor Triads, a lotta' Major, Minor and Dominant 7 Chords and their extended 9 chords , some Sus Chords and not much else. Let's talk guitar soloing. The easiest chord progressions to solo over are mono harmonic Many, many of Jim's guitar solos are like this.
Even if the song itself contains a more complex chord progression, notice how often the solo section is simplified It's actually pretty easy to sound impressive soloing in these situations. The next easiest guitar solos are ones where the underlying chord progression stays in one key. A high percentage of Jimi's remaining solos fall into this category. Though containing more chord changes than Mono Harmonic solos, you still have the luxury of staying within the notes in one particular scale to form your melody.
I do not hear a terribly broad use of different melodic strategies from him. I don't know whether he knew much about the broader subject of guitar scales.
Harder guitar soloing involves progressions that modulate At it's most extreme, you might be called upon to use a different scale or set of notes over each chord in the progression! Imagine that! Rock guitar players, who can sound pretty impressive in simpler situations, often become totally overwhelmed trying to solo over these types of progressions.
Though Jimi's songs do contain modulations and some odd chord changes, there is again almost none of this in the solo sections. Where he tries, I feel his guitar playing is often less than stellar. Playing over these types of changes routine in more sophisticated styles like jazz requires a more in depth knowledge of scales like your Diatonic Modes Dorian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian etc , Whole Tone and Diminished Scales and even more exotic scales like Lydian b7 and Mixolydian b Throw in some more complex Extended Dominant Chords and it gets even crazier!
You really have to have trained ears to control this stuff. I have no information to suggest that Jimi knew any of this.
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