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What still blows my mind is that Hendrix’s mainstream career was only 3 years long and over 50 years later he has influenced nearly every guitarist to ever pick up a guitar since 1970
Probably since 1967
You can do this when you are THE HIGH PRIEST!
You Sure have that Right. Can any of us imagine, what he would have done had he survived??? Unreal for certain.
I’m not trying be argumentative, but Hendrix played with lots of folks, especially on the Chittlin’ circuit, that helped to make him the great artist he became. You can’t replace that experience.
@@dkelley9661 That experience was more blues not rock and roll, in fact wasn't he kicked out of one band because its leader said that there could only be one showman. Go back and look at the bands, they were blues bands or groups like The Isley Brothers. If he played briefly with Little Richard, that would be the only band that you could say was Avant Garde. No, musically, talent wise, Hendrix was literally decades ahead of everyone else, at the time. If you look at any documentaries addressing WHY HE WAS SO GREAT, they usually centered around his ability to play the guitar coupled with the many complexities associated with riffs and chord changes. Lastly, if you look up Greatest Guitar Player of Al Time, he is usually at the top or near the top.
As a 17 yr old in a garage band in 1967 it’s impossible to express how different he played compared to everybody at that time. It literally “blew our minds”. The first notes of Purple Haze were like nothing anybody had ever heard before. The Wind Called Mary, Manic Depression, Foxy Lady, nobody did that! Unbelievable, mind boggling, etc, set the guitar world upside down. I know his stage presence was also on another level but it’s the music that was so epic. Glad I lived thru that time. Historic
Agree to every word. Must have been amazing to have been there at the time. Hope you're still playing. Best wishes, Grm.
Awesome, man.
I am jealous and wish I lived through that time when he was alive . I remember going out for a work lunch with my future wife and Purple Haze came on the radio as I was driving - everyone in the car except me was chinese, so when it came on it was great for me, since I loved the song so much. The looks I got from those coworkers - you hit the nail on the head, it blew their minds and some of them liked it, like nothing they ever heard before too....too funny how your words lined up with my 'Experience'.
The wind cries, Mary.
Quite literaly "set his guitar upside down"
His voice is so under rated because his guitar playing is so good .I love his singing
Drifting!
Totally agree, I like his lyrics too.
Thing is he never considered himself a singer. But the thing is the man seemed to half style with everything. Guitar, voice, dress.
His singing complemented his guitar playing; his vocals and guitar go together like a hand in a glove!
He didn't have a great voice but it was unique. There have been singers throughout history that aren't great singers but they make their music their own. Bob Dylan, Shannon Hoone, Kurt Cobain, and a few others.
What makes a guitarist the GOAT is having a combination of technical skills x songwriting (commercial success) x stage presence x innovation. Jimi had it all.
Don't forget influence. It is impossible to over-state his influence on guitar players still to this day.
He influenced me to do drugs and smoke purple haze mire than anything 😂
He wasn’t exactly big on the commercial compared to others tbh, people in mainstream don’t like him cos they don’t understand
he's got the soul too. it's more rare than you think
Did you ever see his live shows he had terrible amp settings and was out of tune. He couldn't even read music
My moment of "Ohh, that's why hendrix is unique" was learning castles made of sand... then being like "He is singing and playing that riff at the same time"
Same for me when I learned Bold As Love
@@pingu5462 💯😆
In some songs you can hear when jimi, summs the exact thing that he is playing, his music was in him the guitar was just the tool to let it out
I came to post that exact same thing. I used to think he was overrated, then I learned that tune and began to get it.
@@drax13 🤟💯
Jimi Hendrix was a fearless pioneer and was not bothered to be technically perfect. He was in a way a good example of what Beethoven once said he can forgive a player playing a false note but playing without feeling was unforgivable.....
Talking about perfection with Hendrix is silly . Sure he would play a riff , find it lacking , and play it differently a moment later . But everybody knows he invented the style that still can be heard constantly in today's players , who have the style down , but lack the vision to create their own .
@@jameskennedy721 Exactly he created and others followed....
@@jameskennedy721 tbh a lot of people say his playing is easy or we have it down but really don’t. We haven’t seen anyone play or make music remotely the same since his death. Listen to nine to the universe and you’ll understand no one makes music that can touch your inner soul like that
@@OkTr3y Yes indeed .
Technically perfect doesn't sell 99% of the time.
One shouldn't forget Hendrix's lyrics. The lyrics for Little Wing are beautiful, as are the lyrics for many of his other songs. He was a complete musician. A composer, an instrumentalist, a lyricist, a vocalist, and a performer. One of the greatest of all time.
Completely agree 👍
One shouldn't forget that virtually everything he put out, was written by his white band mates - who by the way were actually better musicians than he was
Please give a source for proof of that. Your comment holds no substance
@@r3b3lvegan89 What would you accept as proof?
Beautiful, but very of their time to do with hippies and free love
No way. It took me a solid thirty seconds to realize I'd just been rick rolled at 0:21. Probably the slickest rick roll I've ever seen.
I had to search what rick rolled means. Imo, using Hendrix as clickbait should carry a mandatory sentence of 3 days behind bars. Using Jimi to bait a rick roll gets you 3 days in the hole with Never Gonna Give You Up on auto repeat..
@@nodaysback8390I understand but Rich Ashley is on repeat and my first semester roommate played “Volunteers of America” enough to damage the album, I smashed it and he wore a piece around his neck. Things are relative but it click bated me into a subscriber.
Before Hendrix electric guitar was simply an electrified guitar. He single handedly turned it into an industry of guitars, amps, pedals and the rest as followers tried to re-create it. Other players created musical lines, Hendrix created soundscapes.
Hendrix is OK. I enjoy most of his music. He is very sloppy though. There is not a lot of variety in the music he plays. There is no good reason to even mention Hendrix in the goat talk.
@@TeutobergForestryService G.O.A.T talk is always subjective in any field, there are strong arguments but no definitive answers. I am merely saying Hendrix was incredibly influential and his legacy is as great as anybody else.
Before hendrix there was clapton, the yardbirds, Garcia, and so many more. I wouldn't say that hendrix completely changed electric guitar from an "electrified guitar" he just did something different. Btw I love hendrix but I dont think he made the electric guitar a different instrument as you propose.
@@robertrice5097 Yes, there were great players as you say but please see the attached on when Hendrix first jammed with Cream . Jack Bruce says "Eric was a guitar player, Jimi was a force of nature". Chas Chandler at the same gig says that when Clapton left the stage he tried to light a cigarette but his hands were shaking saying "Is he really that good?". Other top guitar players felt the same. I am not saying that Hendrix was 'the best', that is being subjective, but the evidence shows that he changed electric guitar playing forever. kzhead.info/sun/frSDl9iJrqaMiXk/bejne.html
@@robertrice5097 Nobody else in the world would think of to play Star Spangled Banner the way he did or how to even approach something like that. That moment changed how the electric guitar was seen forever.
I think the secret to Hendrix was that he was a born natural musician who did it his way. He didn't over-analyse but simply played from the heart with pure feeling and now, today, people like to analyse his style because it certainly was very unique. And that uniquness is what made him so great.
Jimi Hendrix was so uniquely great there will never be another guitar player like him. He was the first electric guitarist to make listening to guitar feedback enjoyable.
@Mervyn Sullivan: Well said!!!
@@RebuttalRecords WORD!!!
Uniquness?? There are thousands of guitarist like that :D Good ones as well as bad ones. I personally know half a dozen, a couple of them being really good. (I'm a piano and percussion player myself.)
@@herrbonk3635 How many are as proficient and advanced as Hendrix was while still maintaining their own sound? This is the same question all the guitarists in London England were asking shortly before Hendrix showed up to a London club one evening and changed many people's lives forever, especially Eric Clapton's.
Theres ONE key factor that makes Hendrix amazing. He was in his early 20s during his whole career. He was a kid and changed everything. Hands down. Nothing more to say.
If 27 is early 20's, then that makes me a 65 year old teenager.
@@michaelelliott3209 he DIED at 27. His career was his during his late teens to 27 so that guys point still stands
Let's just say "he was young". Twenty-three when he made the trip to England, after his formative years with the Isleys, Little Richard and more. He released Are You Experienced at twenty-four, both Axis at Electric Lady Land at twenty-five and played Woodstock at twenty-six, dying just over a year later.
It’s like Randy Rhoads, dead at 25. These guys died far too young.
For me it's about the guitar in Voodoo Child. It's insane. It's out of this world. And somehow, unlike any musician I've heard before or since, he actually, somehow succeeded in encoding his existence into that song and he truly lives again every time it is played out loud. I haven't been able to get over it since the first time I heard it, can you tell lol
With a tone the size of a planet...
On THAT song in particular, the guitar could not be any more perfect...He says EVERYTHING that needs to be said with his axe...Genius is a fair estimation of the monstrous talent on display in Voodoo Child...It's a type of music that reaches deeper than anybody else will ever be able to...I really love that song too, is it slightly obvious? lol
Had a student complain to me that he could not follow along with JH when trying to play along with Voodoo Chile because he was "out of tune." we hadn't reached the level of alternate tunings yet so I had to point out a majority of his songs, like the blue legends that influenced him, were not in E standard tuning, but in E flat standard. And VC slight return was in D standard. I could see the light bulb come on.
@@AdamMcGrath let's talk about that wild string bend around 2:25, it is just.. so massive and extreme, just gorgeous
@@BonesyTucson It is THAT very bend which is my favourite in the entire track because that is the note he bends to bring the whole solo back to reality when it was lost in outer space forever lol Only Jimi can play that bend in that exact place at that exact time and bring everything back together again. Can we acknowledge that the track would not be the same without Mitch Mitchell also???
I guarantee you, had Jimi never picked up a guitar……..can’t even imagine the world we would live in. He impacted everything.
For once or maybe what
nothing would be different besides the fact we had a bit less good music
@@moonashaalright grandpa it’s time for your meds
Everything would be the same except we wouldn't have Jimi Hendrix. And we wouldn't have anyone who sounded like him
Eh
So my favorite thing about Hendrix is how he played around with syncopation. It gave his playing this kind of groove that you don't usually see outside of jazz. He would do these beautifully subtle rhythmic changes that are near impossible to replicate. Sometimes in a solo he would drag ever so slightly behind the beat, then shred to "catch up" and land right on the down beat. I always hear covers of Hendrix and miss that swaying unpredictable flavor he mixed in.
@capitalistraven: I agree w/u for the most part. But when I hear really good covers of Jimi's music I'm simultaneously able to enjoy how well the artist is able to capture so much of the beauty of Jimi's artistry, yet fall a bit short of his unparalleled instinctive genius. That only enhances my level of appreciation for his unique ability that u have stated so well.
Yes! He was constantly pushing and pulling at the beat. And his dynamics were also gorgeous. A lot of imitators just play the notes. They miss all those nuances, and the nuances are key.
Jimi didn't played to the metronome, the metronome played to him. Incredible genius.
Yeh man that's music
that's the best way i've ever read someone describe Hendrix
The difference is that Hendrix had a soul background, not just blues. He'd learnt that the blues had progressed into that lovely major sounding soul sound, and he blended the two. Also, he mixed up timing between a swinging sound chug and a flourish of classical sounding trills. He just soaked everything up; jazz, Indian music, psychedelic, you name it, if it was happening, he took it in.
This touched my heart deeply. Thank you. I love the attention to details and rare footage we see here. I grew up with Hendrix's music. Love his beautiful soul and I love how you explained this!
As a trumpet player, I feel the same way about miles davis. His music was completely unique, his style is easily recognizable, and his playing matches his outward persona of coolness with the suits (and his later fashion) and the raspy voice, and the way he would never introduce his band, or a tune, and would turn his back to the audience while he played, and would just walk off stage when he was done. Miles was friends with hendrix and really liked his music, and even wanted to do some collaborations with him, although it never happened. A lot of his guitar players in the 70s were very hendrix esque with their sound, especially Pete Cosey.
Young man I'm 64 I discovered Hendrix when I was 10. I'm impressed with your observations.
Miles admitted that he wasn't even close to being the best of the best trumpet players in his bio. You're correct. To Miles is was all about a recognizably unique tone and a "round sound". That's why bebop died, because Miles figured out how to play 3-4 notes to replace 25 and it would give audiences the same excitement. Oh, one thing Miles was that he never admitted: the best talent scout in jazz.
I wonder if Miles knew that Jimi was sleeping with his wife
Yes, Roundabout. ❤
@@thebeatnumber he had a big sleeping bag everyone knew it
Little Wing is one of the greatest progressions to play lead over. It truly never gets old.
A uniquely Hendrix invention. Had he never existed, no one would ever imagine it. There are many others that I love, but Little Wing is my favorite.
Greatest nigga to pick up a guitar.
Also ridiculously hard to play for how god damn smooth it sounds 🙏🏽 at least for me. favourite guitar song ever
@@alkholos Def ONE of my top favs of his... ❤
Little Wing needs to be banned.
I'm not a guitar player. I never really played an instrument, but as a choral singer, I spent a lot of time around the music of MANY genres, making music indispensable in my life. I say all that to say - I watch your videos not to "learn" so much as to watch a person who truly loves music and your process of learning. I appreciate you man. Thanks for this, because it warms my old heart.
I was blessed to Hendrix perform in Miami about a month before he passed. I am still excited about that that show!!!!
In the context of his time, Jimi was like no other. He took the instrument far beyond the boundaries of what guitarist of the day could of never imagined. He didn't just play the guitar, he played into it with incredible imagination and fearlessness.
"He killed God, man!"
...,right! & Heartfelt fluidity of spiritual expression!!!!!!
I don’t think Hendrix spent that much time practicing. He was high as balls and didn’t care to learn anything about the instrument. Just lit it on fire and fucked it so white people wouldn’t feel racist. It’s an act. There’s multitudes of better guitarists.
@@elementsofphysicalreality So ignorant and wrong 🤣. Nobody likes an elitist
his time? There's still no one that touches him
You can hear in his music that Jimi loved the blues but he played It with a psychedelic style that took on a whole new sound and I think that’s one reason why guitarists love him. He transcended the norm. There are many, many great guitarists through history.. but as a guitar player, when I hear Jimi’s music It almost sounds spiritual.. sounds corny but you really get a feel that this guy was using that instrument to paint the most colorful pictures.
There is a ton of Mississippi Delta in his style, turned him into a Voodoo Child.
He would really appreciate that. He heard music in his head on a continuous basis. I talked with Billy Cox and he would tell stories of how he would be in the middle of a conversation then just go blank. Something would hit him and he would run and find a guitar. To call it an obsession could be fitting but he viewed music as spiritual for sure. He would tell Billy he went to church for a min when he blanked out and would smile because he knew Billy had to repeat what he was saying because he knew Jimi did not hear a thing he was saying. billy also spoke on the zz top experience when they were booked to do shows with him. They were not nice to him but after his death started saying how Jimi said things about their music that were not true at all. Things like that never bothered him but he was not tuned in to saying anything about it. I think he wanted his playing to be spiritual and would play extended versions when in concert.
@@chizorama Really recommend the Biography of Jimi "Cross Town Traffic" by Charles Shaar Murray. CSM makes a strong case that Jimi was the last of the line of Delta Bluesmen.
@@sd3457 Thank you for the recommendation, I'll have to look into that.
He was SOUL BLUES THOSE RIFFS ARE 2 PENERATE UR SOUL EVERY BING PERCIES UR SOUL ❤
In the early 60's I was privileged to see bands like John Mayall,Clapton, The Who,Faces, but when I saw Jimi play it was something completely different and since that time not heard anything that comes close. If only he had lived longer we would have seen so much more.😢
Its true, he had a lot planned for the future and we never got to hear it. We were cheated.
Love the cuts. Helped my weak music theory memory keep up with what you were relating. Totally agree - Hendrix challenged the status quo. Thanks for this video and please keep 'em coming.
Jimi was from another planet. An assault on the senses. A genius.
Eddie Hazel Mercenary
@@ChuckTaylorixonmedia1 😴😑💤
No. He was the closest to the Earth.
He was just ok
he sucked
One thing that people tend not to mention with Hendrix is. He is considered one of the most influential guitarists and is known as a guitarist. But there are many guitarists that make albums, but the songs a merely backing tracks for their guitar playing, unmemorable songs. But all of Jimi's studio albums, are full of memorable and often iconic songs. I don't think of him as his stage presence so much. He had it, but he didn't need it.
Completely agree. Hendrix may have been a better composer than he was a player which is saying a lot.
Really, all that matters is the song. The art of songwriting. And yes, Jimi was a top tier songwriter. Little Wing, or Castles Made of Sand, or Wind Cries Mary. Waterfall. And so many others. Spanish Castle Magic. He even turns a straight jam (Rainy Day) in to a great song. And he used his guitar to sound out the song that already existed in perfect form in his mind. One can admire the technique of Jeff Beck or Steve Vai or SRV. One can rock out to Page's or Blackmore's memorable riffs and great solos, although I'd say Eddie Van Halen was the only comparably unique talent as an overall song composer. It helped that Eddie was a classically trained pianist (Jump is no accident). But Hendrix was the total package - singer, songwriter, arranger, performer. It's impossible to separate out any one element.
I like to think of hendrix being a perfect mix of Buddy Guy, Wes Montgomery and Curtis Mayfield.
Great comment👏
What he SAID 👆🏾
Fantastic break down and chords lesson. Thank you very much.
My favorite part of Hendrix, even as an enthusiast of the technical shredding, was his ability to develop a mood. Songs like Castles Made of Sand still resonate to this day because he ties every aspect of song writing and performance together into a piece that creates the same feeling for me now as it did the very first time I heard it 30 years ago. He even accomplished that with covers, which is extremely difficult when the song is already known. Best line about Hendrix was from Dylan. After watching Jimi perform All Along the Watchtower for the first time, he was asked what he felt about seeing his song performed by Hendrix. His answer? "It's not my song anymore..."
The very first Rock concert I went to was the Jimi Hendrix Experience. After that nothing came close. And Jimi Hendrix seemed like a genuine good man. I wept at his passing, and still miss him.
I could have sought out a concert of his in the day. If I only knew how " once in a lifetime" it would have been, I would have gone.
Don't forget Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsy's. Watch the documentary.
Im 23 and this is the ONE thing I wish I could experience before I die. Jimi Changed my life.
Hendrix isn't only an innovator of guitar he was drawing influence from many different sources. He is a musical alchemist but also he put so much of his own heart and expression into what he had learnt and he played guitar with a freedom that abandoned technique in favour of exploring raw emotion
Musical alchemist is the perfect term.
Absolutely yes.
Absolutely, Hendrix didn't build songs on technique, rather expressing what he felt at the moment as he puts it. He was a gifted musician song writer and performer but he never sat down to make his music sound that way, he was just playing what was in his head as best as he could, many greats did that back then.
Jeff Beck > Jimi Hendrix kzhead.info/channel/PLrpyDacBCh7Ds5Yp19ELV8E9VldzRx7eO.html
So correct.
I clicked on this video not quite knowing what to expect, and then I didn't want it to end. That's the mark of a good creator. Someone who makes things people don't wanna stop consuming. You're a passionate and talented human being. Thanks.
Hey my friend I got a 1996 Fender Stratocaster USA Jimi Hendrix tribute guitar it’s upside down right handed to where you can look in the mirror and pretend you’re Jimmy being left-handed.. it’s also got Al Hendrix‘s autograph on the front of it..from my understanding There’s three in existence and I have one of them. I love your show brother.🎸
You can be totally unschooled in music, never had a lesson, and still become a great musician. It’s a talent granted to the few that are gifted enough to figure it all out. Jimmy had “it”. He could create music in his head like he was hearing it, and spontaneously transfer that thought into guitar notes at live venues. We call it musical genius. He called it FUN!!! ✌️
what youre describing is being a professional improvising musician lol
Honestly, Electric Ladyland is literally a head and mind trip to listen to in and of itself. It's truly unique, like it was made by someone from another planet who decided to do their own version of a psychedelic blues album, lol. That's how damn weird, deep, and spaced the hell out it is, lol😄😄😄.
it's really not that uncommon. think of how many people just have a knack for drawing, writing, singing, or comedy. when you combine natural gifts with a strong work ethic you get humans like Jimi. My older brother could draw his as off since the age of 5.
I like this guy but his analysis of Hendrix is too academic. Jimi didn't have this approach to music. Hendrix played the music he 'heard' in his head.
Well Siri, it’s not that hard to the gym with which is the funny part of the whole thing why people never end up and give Musician a trait theory. I get some complex idea when really it’s simple.
First concert I ever saw. Got two feet from Jimi onstage on press row when I was 15 years old. Watched his foot close up rocking the wah wah on Voodoo Child. Spanish Castle Magic and Red House too. May 9, 1969. Still the greatest I've ever witnessed and I've heard all the greats. His writing skills were unmatched. He influenced me to learn to really play and work hard at my playing and writing and ultimately spend my career as a serious musician!
i too saw Jimi play live twice and was also in the press row and got to meet him in Toronto when he was busted on May 3, 1969 My girlfriend Linda and I went to see him at the Four Seasons Hotel on Jarvis Street. He was relieved to see somebody and we didnt know hed gotten busted. We talked to him all night, we wanted to leave earlier but he didnt want us to leave him alone. He was so sweet, a gentleman, soft voiced, told us about growing up in Seattle. He asked for our phone numbers and he actually called me when I was out and my mom said someone named Jimi called you. My girlfriend Linda was invited to join him backstage at Woodstock. I was devestated when he passed away. He was very spiritual. A wonderful Sagittarius too.
@@taragreenetarotastro Wow. ♥
@@taragreenetarotastro THAT is some story! I was lucky to have seen him 3 times in the late 60s when I was in college at Berkeley, CA. You topped that by a 1000 fold.
@@taragreenetarotastro This is great!
My first as well. My recollection is spring of '68, but I'll leave that for other interested parties to Google. RPI Fieldhouse in Troy, NY. Sly Stone (I think) cancelled, so it was a short notice panic to get my mom to drive us. I would have just turned 13. Tix were $3. Opener was The Soft Machine, so I saw Andy Summers as too. Who knew . . . ?
Man You killed this. It was so smart and funny and well presented. Will def check out some more of your vids, thnx
Rhythm playing is spectacular throughout the entire Axis album. Completely soulful, funky, musical and unique.
The one thing my father told me about Hendrix was that he played with folks who taught him alot about structure and melody as he often had to fill in for a missing member of the King Curtis band or who ever he was playing for. He adopted well and mastered that pentatonic scale (slave scale) as it was called back when certain people rejected our music. He also played all day long and often woke up in the middle of the night and played until the morning. Gifted and talented, yes but a true lover of music and the drive to figure it out.
Vetted by The Isley Brothers, James Brown & Little Richard
It's the emotion that comes through his playing that's unmistakable. Players over analyze him but can never recreate his magic.
There's no "over-analyzing". He did things that we can understand and build on them. The latter can't take place without the former. Emotion doesn't just "come through", it takes work and skill to know how to do it, and he put in a lot of work doing exactly that sort of listening to both those that came before him and his contemporaries. If you think that's taking away from either listening to or playing the music, then you don't know the first thing about being a musician.
Ya Cole over analyzes little wing here a bit haha. He's young still though so I forgive him.
Dude, this is masterful analysis. Keep up the great work, anyone who knows as much as you do about music (and is this good at explaining it) should make as many videos as possible imo.
The thing about Hendrix I HATE personally was his best music was turning into a Rock Jazz fusion near his death. You listen to Band of Gypsies and the way he did rolls and calls of Message of Love, Changes, Who Knows. And the actual melodies were getting more jazzy. More evoking of a construct versus a walking blues or part. Now saying that still some of my favorite songs are still his earlier stuff like Castles Made of Sand, Little Wing, and Wing Cries Marry. But he was always evolving and My God if he was alive even a few more years the stuff he could do. If you ever doubt Hendrix get some good live recordings of him. He was kind of hit or miss due to drugs and drinking. But when he was on, OMG, no one better in the world. He was the like the equivalent to Guitar that Bruce Lee was to Kung Fu. He was out of this world. Even people in the 1960's that thought they were near the top heard him and bowed down to him.
Late to the party but I liked the direction he was going in right before he passed away too. Band of Gypsys was an epic performance from Jimi, what a groove Miles and Cox laid down at that show. We know the otherworldly guitar that is all over that. I like that jazz/rock jam he did with Larry Young/Khalid Yasin on organ-it showed some nice possibilities. I love his studio work too, can't go wrong with the songs you mentioned. My favorite version of "LIttle Wing", however, is off of the old "Hendrix in the West" album, just gorgeous! And it doesn't have the annoying glockenspiel that almost ruins the studio version. Too many overdubs can spoil the stew sometimes. It's still good but those bells aren't my cup of tea.
Jimi had incredible hands, his thumb was extra long and he used it like a 5th digit, that was his secret sauce, he had incredible hands.He would occasionally hit notes on the G string with his thumb and he always used his thumb for F shaped chords, this allowed him to use five and 6 note chords aka Purple Haze. He had huge hands just like the jazz players of his time. He also used octaves ala Wes Montgomery, Jimi was an innovator and possibly the most important electric guitarist of all time right next to Les Paul and Edward Van Halen.
The hear my train a comin from Jimi play’s Berkeley…watching the film is good too…he’s possessed! And just a kid really
The stuff he was working on when he died was closer to rock/funk than jazz. Funnily enough, the songs that you listed that you like, the guitar playing on those is firmly rooted in R&B. Have you ever been to electric Ladyland could have been written by curtis mayfield. Hendrix was even trying to sing like Curtis mayfield on that. Anyway, that's what jimi was, an R&B player with a jazz drummer, and presented in a rock context.
I think what makes Hendrix great was he wasn't looking at music in an analytical mindset. He was going on feeling and timing. It was always about experimenting. Trying new sounds all the time. So many people break music down to a science and yet the best of us rely on feeling. There's always a tone and time to do it.
Acid made him great.
Thank you for saying it. I’m just a listener of music but this video made me feel like “why that man is doing maths on music for speaking of Hendrix” 111 likes on you comment now haha
Totally agree!
Well based on his lack of quality and clarity, and that he came off more like a drunk Slash than a sober Jeff Beck, then ya i'd call that "experimenting"
I think you just have very poor perception of music altogether lol. Your description of Hendrix isn’t accurate for shit. And all those who knew him would tell you the same.
Not only was he beyond good, he was also humble.
You're probably referencing Mike Douglas show or something like that where Jimmy Hendrix definitely showed his humbleness when said that he was the best guitarist around. His answer was telling of who he really was. He was an excellent fellow.
The truly great are so.
The Dick Cavett show. When Dick eluded to the fact people considered him to be one of the greatest guitarists ever you could tell it made Jimi uncomfortable and he replied something like, "I don't know about that maybe the greatest sitting in this chair at the moment." While many musicians seem to be driven by ego Hendrix exuded humility.
@@bluesman815 By many musicians I take it you mean Clap.
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Well done mate ! Massive guitar fan , keep playing , keep music live ! I used to play drums, over in England ! Big fan of Eric Gales , Ronnie Earl , Satriani Eric Johnson and the guys you mentioned 😘! In the Eighties , when I was in my twenties , I wanted so much to find a guitar player ,who was into the music i loved so much , it wasn't easy.
Loved the commentary, but I kept waiting to hear you rip this song start to finish
love these H.A.T.E. videos, you're great at explaining, storytelling, demonstrating, and contextualizing these great guitarists
Why have I heard contextualizing as sexualizing lmao -and why did I agree-
Not really. First of all, first chord and teach how it breathes. When does this teacher breathe? Between chords. Secondly, remind the students to move their fingers according to what they hear. Thirdly,. This comment will be ignored.
It’s like the most rewarding click bait lol.
Oh that’s why. Kinda cool clickbait lol
Jimi was one of the best concerts that I ever saw. And I was close. He just wailed, screaming guitar then stops on a dime and tunes. he says "for your listening pleasure" as he is adjusting the tuning. He was unique. and he is still influencing guitar players 50 years later.
Great breakdown thank you ! I try to explain the complexity of Jimi but none musical people dont understand. Thank you again.
Jimmi Hendrix was once asked in a Rolling Stone interview "how does it feel to be the best guitarist in the world?" He replied, "I wouldn't know, ask Rory Gallagher."
Fantastic rhythm player, composer, songwriter, huge imagination, fantastic stage presence beautiful singing voice, and he ALWAYS looked and sounded cool. That’s why they’ll never be another Jimi. A true ‘one off’
Everything you said is absolutely true.
Not Jimi but true rock star shit I promise. Look into Yves Tumor.
All true except he couldn't sing to save his life.
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@@DBLRxyz Appreciate the tip!
Hendrix had it all. The ultimate Rock Musician. If everyone listened to Hendrix the world would have an abundance of LOVE.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"~ Jimi Hendrix
Nonsense, the music of Hendrix is not some supernatural transformative magic, and I'm sure there are some pretty awful people that like Hendrix,
@@albertopalma1663 If love is so powerful why have ordinary people been shit on by powerful people for centuries. I think anger is more politically effective.
I have been watching your videos for a few weeks, but the way you broke this down earned you the sub. Nicely done 👍
Like the other greats, it was all the little things that Jimi did that added up to big things. Not just his leads, but like you said, his rhythm playing. His palm muting, his showmanship, his willingness to experiment with all kinds of crazy tonalities and effects, his dedication to the instrument and learning the craft, his openness to new ideas, and the list just goes on. There’s only a handful of people who get to the level he did.
I use to have this discussion with Mike Abdullah our guitar player with the Stylistics, we both knew that Hendrix was so much more then a lead player. His chordal work on ballads like little Wing and Angel were a work of art , in many respects like Mozart passages and his chord work on basic rock/funk groves were laced with riffs and rhythm patterns that made the song special snd his studio overdubbing of lines over lines was frightening. The man was in a class of his own. Even his work with the Isley brothers and little Richard made their music move better.
Ed Kramer and Jimi were incredible mixers, they knew how to play with that sound board, and I love the mixing Kramer did on "Axis", just incredible!!!!!!
@@kwik2hear915 you are so correct Axis Bold As Love is a masterpiece . And this was early in the mixing game. The concept that Jimi had in his head was Way out from the crowd. Ahead of his time
The fact that Jimi was 27 when he passed is mind boggling, he was far too talented, would’ve loved to see how he would be if he was alive still
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He would probably be as dull as Eric Clapton.
Wrote music because of acid.
I thought it was a 28 club with Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison
@@mikenuzzo3323 NO ITS THE 27 CLUB ALSO AMY WINEHOUSE, KURT COBAIN
Jimi changed my life at 11 years old while I was in Jr High and during the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Need I say more? Great video by the way. You’re on your way to greatness!
I like the way you highlighted the Bm Bb7 Am changes because that part's special for me as well. I like to target root and third going through there, and what's cool about that is: the 3rd of Bm is the same note as the 3rd of the Bb7. (So, like eighth note triplets going b, d, b, bflat, d, bflat, a, c, a. I guess what I'm trying to say is the 3rd is the same note for those 1st two chords, and it's fun to highlight that. Ah whatever. Big fun. Liked your video.)
Yes your right his rhythm is often overlooked but his sense of rhythm was the key to his genius.
Mike excellent breakdown. I think a lot of people who think Jimi is overrated don't look at the "big picture" if you will. It's his rhythm playing that has moved me so much. I so much dig his version of "Like a Rolling Stone' from the Monterry Pop festival. My favorite solo from him is "Message to Love" from Band of Gypsies. He just kills it both rhythmically and the way he just blends the solo in is the stuff of legends.
Excuse me for a minute, just let me play my guitar. He killed it in Like A Rolling Stone at Monterey.
Exactly, post Hendrix rock transcended music paradigm.
it's impossible for him to be overrated when literally every guitarist is inspired by him.
Machine gun solo!
First. Cool video mon. I think you have an appeal that is informative and undeniable.. May even encourage and help some folks.. Almost everything you said on a technical level, Hendrix would have cocked his head and wished he could have comprehended, just because he was the curious sort. Even on the most simple terminology 'pentatonic' he would have likely enjoyed hearing about it, heard it before, BUT .. If you hum a few bars I can play it .. Anyway. I thought this was a great video.
You have a GREAT channel! Love your analysis.
I was a Jamaican at the university of Texas, in 1988, having been introduced to Hendrix by my tennis teamate in high school at Gonzales, Texas. I LOVED Hendrix. He was my salvation, from him I branched off into a lot of others, like Ronnie Montrose, and the guys in King Crimson, and Santana, Robert Johnson....the list goes on and on. But when I hear Little Wing, I still cry, or Castles made of Sand. Give thanks and praises for the OG.
I can tell these breaking down and analyzing videos you do come from pure love & passion and that's why they're so great 🖤... Please keep doing them
Are you emo or something?, just asking because many emo people use the black heart instead of red
@@lowgpu1687 hahaha no I wouldn't say I'm emo I just like black hearts...
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Great vid! Loved growing up to Jimi and so many other greats. I read recently how at Woodstock he was blown away by Alvin Lee and TYA. Ever do that guy?
Thanks man! I'm so happy to see Jimi living on in younger musicians! Great job!
My first concert was seeing Hendrix in 1968. That's when I decided to play guitar and of course back in those days Hey Joe was the first song we all "learned". We got the basic chord structure down and could somewhat fake the lead but could never correctly figure out his rhythm playing on that song. The thing though is very few could really learn to play it properly. His rhythm playing on that song and many others including Little Wing was from another planet. Really listen to it and see if you can emulate it. In my book, that is what makes him the GOAT of blues based rock. He is definitely the most sophisticated rhythm guitarists ever. I must say, SRVs version of Little Wing still gives me goose bumps. He was able to capture the essence of the song like no other. Great review!
Artists like Hendrix and Prince just have a 'WOW' factor. They're wired different than the average human. After all these years I listen to their records and watch their concert footage and it never ceased to amaze me.
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Now imagine all of that but rotate your guitar 180 degrees swap all the strings back to their original location and play left handed. That's Jimi Hendrix. He was an alien, and died in 1969. The world of rock was forever changed.
You have a nice, light touch. It is good you demonstrate the minor pentatonic box Jimi was working with. Speak of the modes he was in. Jimi had influenced chord ally by Curtis Mayfield. What does Curtis mean by Doobee Down? A beautiful melody.
Hey Mike. I just subscribed to your channel. I am 72 now and I've been a singer/songwriter most of my life. There are some things you should know about Hendrix. Even though he was left-handed, he always played a righty guitar. The reason for this is not as important as the fact that he somehow turned that into an advantage. One of my favorite things about Hendrix and what makes me a life-long fan is Jimi's creativity. I think this is what makes him great. Many of the live recordings out there don't do him justice since they were usually not recorded well. Jimi always struggled with the problems of the Fender synchronized tremolo bar on his Stratocaster, a problem that has since been cleared up on modern day guitars.. Using this vibrato bar extensively as Jimi did often put the guitar out of tune. I always prefer to listen to his studio recordings since they really showcase his creative talents in the studio. The best way to discover Jimi is to listen to his first album "Are You Experienced" in full. At the time it came out it was so different from everything else and had an almost other-worldly vibe. So many guitarists owe a great debt to Jimi and at least some of them acknowledge this. He gave us all so much in his relatively short career. I'm glad there are young people like yourself who still acknowledge him and continue to enjoy his music. Peace.
I always thought a left handed guitar player. Turning a right handed guitar upside down was crazy. I heard this at some point. Don't know if it's true. His first electric guitar was right handed and had no money to buy a left handed guitar. So he turned it upside down. Apparently when he went to London many people said why don't you try a left handed guitar. Jimi said he would have to learn all over again. You are a musician I work think flipping a guitar upside down would create a little difference in tone. I'm a a musician just wondering.
I myself always wondered this same question too. Until recently, I read the answer. Jimi continued to use a Right handed guitar flipped upside down for several reasons. He could have ordered a Left handed model from Fender anytime he wanted, they more than likely would have given him one free of charge. One reason he continued to use a right handed model was the distance from the Picks up to the Strings. Jimi restrung his guitar using a mismatch of different string Thicknesses / Gauges. Combined, the two, gave him a Unique Sound & Tone. On a different subject, I also listened to Ronnie Wood of the Stones talking in an interview, about when Jimi was his room mate for a short while in London, Ronnie was quite impressed / Dismayed to watch Jimi grab a Right Handed Guitar & play Right Handed with no issue. Another of Jimi's Amazing Talents..!!
@@ScottSMITH-lf2in he’s left handed and plays a right handed guitar but his guitar is still stringed the same way. As the low e string is on top. Unlike someone like Eric Gale who legit plays the guitar upside down so the high e string is on the top. Now that’s what actually trips me.
@@Shredberry ok so his guitar was upside down. But he strung it in reverse did I get that right? If so would that not get a different tone? Again I'm not a musician I'm just interested in how he got that sound out of that guitar.
@@ScottSMITH-lf2in Yes that is correct! It's mentioned in his wiki article under Equipment > Guitars. By restringing his guitar he was able to keep all of the conventional guitar knowledge. In a player like Eric Gale where he legitimately plays the guitar upside down, every conventional guitar knowledge is thrown out the window because everything is reversed. When you hold a guitar in the conventional way, the thickest string, the low E string is on top and the tuning from top to bottom is EADGBE (with the thinest, higher pitch E string on the bottom). However, if you turn it to the other orientation, the lowest string goes to the bottom and your tuning from top to bottom will be EBGDAE, with the thinest higher pitch E string sitting on top. It's a very small technical detail but some people carry this misconception thinking that's why you can't learn Jimi's style but you totally can! :) And of course it does not in any shape of form lessen Jimi's play style and unique sound etc.
Hendrix was a total genius, no one else comes close, rhythm, lead, song writing, making music, originality, no one.
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Because he raised the bar over and over his solos screamed hard!
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Nice Strat dude! Great analysis esp. regarding the music theory part 👍🏻Studio version of Little Wing is on Layla.
I was pretty certain when I followed this link that you did not hate Jimi! I have no real understanding of music theory but your enthusiasm for the topic (and the fact it is one of my fav Hendrix tunes) made the video very enjoyable to watch.Thanks for explaining what goat means - been hearing it for a while and just thought it was from some movie I hadn't seen or just random slang.
Hendrix played even when the notes didn't align perfectly, he was sporadic, and played what he felt, that's why he is so hard to replicate and still a pioneer today, he was a master at improvising
Little Wing is one of my favourite songs ever, a true masterpiece. Can reduce me to tears when the solo hits. Hendrix, as lauded as he is, is still underrated in terms of vocals, songwriting and production.
even the srv version makes me emotional when it plays at the right/wrong time. such an amazing song but so sad that both artists never got to make more music
Agreed. It's unbelievable and way too short.
I agree Hendrix is very underrated as a vocalist / lyricist
Its beautiful, but for me crosstown traffic exemplifies the loose chaotic syncopated lyrical perfection that perhaps we might have heard more of.
@@bobjary9382 I love crosstown traffic. Pure ear candy, I used to listen to it like 10 times in a row lol
So happy to be living in the information age - learned a lot - thanks for making this!
i think a lot has to do with him not "learning" anything. if you learn how to bake a cake, you use taht recipe and the next person can learn and bake that cake and it taste very similar, if not exact. hence, he does not play within the taught structure but rather accomlished what nobody else that i can think of has with a guitar, and thats to just pick one up and play what comes to you and over time understand how to arrange it and make it sound good. a true artist.
Perfect mix of storytelling, theory, playing, and pure entertainment. Love it
Jimmy Hendrix was from a another dimension. we have never experienced anything like this in music history and our live. His virtuosoity and guitar playing is unparalleled.🎹🇱🇷🔥🔥🔥
You are so right S . The first time i heard "The wind cries Mary " it shocked me to the core , so beautifully haunting . I thought this guy`s so special , from a forever grateful Brit .
That's JIMI
Chopin and Kanye though
....and yet you don't know how to spell his name! Go figure!
another dimension of overrated... what does he have that other people dont?? jack and shit..
Great video man ! 🤙 love this! You also got a great sound!🎸
I loved him from the first listen to the last solo learned. Great man.
According to Eddie Kramer, he said that Jimi would overlap and keep laying down different guitar tracks on different songs. Not only that, but Jimi wrote, produced, and played many different instruments on the Electric Ladyland album. It's sad that Jimi was here for such a short time.
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Jimi was a freaking genius rhythm and solo player. Plus like Robert Johnson, he had huge hands so he could play rhythm and solo at the same time..
Thank you so much for this video! So refreshing to see a young man who appreciates some of the greatest guitar players! Jimi, of course, is at the extreme top of my list! By the way, your playing is excellent! Keep going, young man! Loved it!
Perfect, PERFECT explanation of why Hendrix is a landmark moment in guitar history. I was raised on him, grew up learning to play his chops ☺
Just played some Little Wing today and it is timeless. Hendrix only lived to be 27. Imagine what his beautiful mind could have conjured up, had he lived on. We can only be thankful for the blessings he gave us and pay tribute as you have done.
How my god 27 that’s same age Robert Johnson died reincarnation
He planned collaboration with Miles Davis. Some kind of jazzmetal flamenco could be born from such alliance
Amazing the music all those artists in their 20s came up with back then.
@@mariotater1310 Seems to be a mystical or magic #: same age of departure for Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and a few others also...makes u wonder
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, very enjoyable. Love that tone
Insight into the process of curiosity. Good job, dude. With so much "Don't know and finding out is so hard😫," Seeing someone who thinks it's worth putting in the effort, not guitar, but the source of our emotions.
The thing i find so amazing about music is that it can create an existential anchor for countless people. When i was 15, probably before you were born, my only goal as a new guitar player was learning Purple Haze note for note. It took me at least a year. After that, virtually every mainstream rock song was easy to figure out. Now over 30 yeats later you taught me something new about why Hendrix was so good, and he died before either of us were born. I don't know many other art forms that operate that way.
Ofcourse, little wing such a memorable tune covered by many. The intro is gold. You can jam to this tune in an easy pentatonic way but much complexer if you want using arpeggio's. Tip: when you go to the Bb try Bb lydian dominant ( tri-tone substitute for E7) and resolve to A dorian, actually that's a jazz influenced change. Hendrix was a maestro👍
The guitar player that turned everyone's head AFTER Hendrix, was John McLaughlin when he brought Mahavishnu Orchestra to the world. Check out his entire catalog. Mind blowing career. John influenced practically everyone as he blended classical, jazz, blues, rock, funk/R&B, Classical Indian and other styles of music. Probably the top in terms of blending musical genres to create something new, original and different.
The uniqueness of little wing is, Hendrix plays the rhythm with the bass & the lead melody all together. He plays with such passion. The feeling of his guitar playing is so emotional. ❤️🙏💯
As a 13 year old when Jimi first appeared in the U.K. with ‘Hey Joe’ I liked his sound, and then when ‘Purple Haze’ was released, that just made me really sit up and take notice. There was a new programme starting called ‘Dee Time’, a play on ‘Tea Time’, where former pirate DJ Simon Dee interviewed a whole variety of famous people and there were musical acts on as well. I think the very first programme had Jimi on when Purple Haze had been released and I was at family friends home for a visit and asked if I could watch the programme as there was a musician on I wanted to see. When he appeared playing his guitar behind his head and with his teeth, someone asked me in a bit of a horrified way, “This isn’t who you wanted to see is it”? 😂 They weren’t expecting Jimi or my reaction to him. He was so exhilarating and exciting to watch and listen to. I actually also saw his last performance on the BBC, when he stopped playing his own music and became playing ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ as a tribute to Cream, who had recently disbanded, against the wishes of the TV show’s (Lulu at the BBC, or some other title with the Scottish singer’s name in the title) producer, and as a result the BBC banned Jimi from appearing again. I also recall being very sad when my mother gave me the news of his death.
Hendrix was playing with Little Richard on tour in Europe in the late 50's I believe. He wasn't someone that was an 'overnight' success. He'd put in his time. Absolutely brilliant.
He spent a lot of his early career doin the chitlin circuit
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He played with Soul!...Guitar was his outlet to express what he was feeling through music, his songs communicate what we all could do only if we would just tap into it-the life blood of the Universe!😏🙀
Excellent analysis, Mike. I've been listening to Hendrix for 50 years now (yeah, I'm almost 60) and still get floored every time by his soul, musicality, and flawless rhythmic precision. And yes, my little Jazz trio also does our own version of Little Wing!
He's difficult to replicate with timing that flows in and out. Very unique.
Thanks Mike. Really learned something today! Like your style!
Thank you for your breakdown on this iconic song. I'm 70 years old and Hendrix is timeless. His is the only music other than a few Beatle songs I will revisit after all these years. It's obvious he put in the time to master his instrument so he could fluidly express his inner soul.
Mike, good video. I appreciated your enthusiasm for the content, background and production. Hendrix, by the time most of us heard him by name, had already been playing in the background with many other known acts of the the early sixties before placing his flag and claiming title, and I feel this experience helped him develop his own style including the chord embodiments and phrasing we know of as “Hendrix” style.