Little Wing Guitar Lesson Pt.1 - Jimi Hendrix - Intro 

You my hero

Panu Mattila thx man

I'm sitting here, waiting for the sections to be laid out, and here you are being awesome.

You are the hero we don't deserve

Not all heroes wear capes

What kind of finger strengthening exercises did you do? Please share! I really need your help right now!

@@eknathsravanam3967 practice the hendrix chord embelishments every day. Thats the hardest part.

This is my first time learning it, i started about 10 months ago and i didn’t find this so hard, i also do exercises like chromatic patterns, finger stretching, etc... I’m about 6-7 minutes in but had to sleep due to school.

Wow! just the creative vision to compose this work, aside from the technical mastery to execute it, really illustrates Hendrix's brilliance. It is no wonder he has influenced every generation of rock guitarists since. Thankyou Carl! you have made my life as a guitar hack a better place.

This just happened to me funnily enough. I tried about four times and failed in the first few bars, but now I pretty much learned the whole intro in an hour. I purposely tried to learn some easier but still, Hendrix influenced tracks, like John Mayers Gravity along with some SRV licks to build up my speed and right-hand technique to give me the techniques i needed to learn this.

It’s pain in the ass 😭 Hendrix was insane

Get the chord progression down and do your own enbellishments... make it fun

I agree with Russ. It's traditional to simply learn the intro since it repeats and is such a resolving progression of chords; learn the embellishments (solo elements) and then to give it your own flair, just keep the dive bomb and the wailing (16th fret high e string) G solo note intros.

Took me 4 days to get it down pretty well. Theres so many variations its really worth it. The solo is its own beast but my god does it hit the heart strings so well i gotta know it. Hope you had luck with the licks man!

Jeigh Neither nothing beats these voicings if you only know cowboy chord too ! Sooo soo good

@@overtonesnteatime198 how long have you been playin guitar :D

For those reading this now, try learning a bit, then listen to Hendrix play it on the track (Keep in mind he's tuned down), then try playing it like hendrix. Rinse and Repeat

I'm not sure the part on the B minor is correct. Maybe the melody is a little bit different. The rest is pretty much perfect

I try to watch as many different lessons on whatever song I want to learn and no two are alike.Then I pick the one that is most helpful and go back to it but, I still find parts in most all of them and switch it out and then go back to the favorite and play along with it.I almost always pick songs/solos way above my abilities and learn the notes if it is too fast and play the notes slowly and as much speed up and then I can see the progress after memorizing the solo.It helps me when I start another one and all the pieces fall together.You probably have learned it and more by the time you read this.Happy Playing!!

Idemo u Hrvatsku!

If you have a Mac, after learning the basics here, to learn from a Hendrix recording if he's a half step off, you can also download the video with VDH, drag it into Garage Band, and change the pitch by half a step. Further, you can then change the speed without changing the pitch further. Of course, it introduces noise, but for learning the song it saves re-tuning your guitar every time! Here is a tutorial on the Garage Band part: liveukulele.com/gear/software/transposing-with-garageband/

check the description for his new lesson. goes over every section of the song with him playing the part before he starts teaching.

I've watched this vid at 0.25 slow motion speed for 3 months. I think I am there.

@goblingoblingoblin maybe you should fuck off

ShipBuilding you learn?

@fred nothing wrong with setting a goal to learn a hard song as long as that's not the only thing your doing.

@fred i said, I think I'm there. and i am there.

+napukapu exactly xD

I'm slow as fuck !

consistency my friend i never played guitar before just got one I WILL LEARN THIS SONG!!!! YEAH1!!!!!

me too im going crazy but i will keep trying be nice if i had teacher right here

Don't worry dude the first step at being good at something is sucking at something hell I sucked when I first started out now I can play through it

Willie Opie All of my lessons from the past year or more I play it before I teach it. This is an older video. Thanks for watching!

If you could edit it in and do a separate upload---it would be beyond golden! Either way, thanks for the upload--this is the best instruction I've found on RU-vid for this song

Love it

I was about to ask the same

Here ya go ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ru_mlNYjBOU.html

this is actually how my learning process goes for songs 😂

LOL

...the good message: that Hendrix stuff ist timeless, like classic music

I almost tuned half step down on another guitar so I could change out when needed but I haven't yet.

+Tony Robinson Lol don't worry there is an easier way to play it, just google the tab, and viola

Lol...I think you mean 'Voila!' Playing it on the viola must be just as difficult. Thanks I'll check it out.

Tony Robinson haha no problem my bipedal friend

You are right!people with long fingers take it for granted and don't realise what an advantage it is!

He doesn’t even use his thumb that much

Inspirational

natural born player

I learned this intro in 2 sessions, i've only been playing 3 years or so and i'm 15, when you think about it it's not hard to play just time consuming, and i have time

I’d like to thank you for this video and your Randy Rhoads solo one! The Tribute album is why I picked up the guitar to begin with!

I was actually very surprised that it turned out not as bad as I thought. Electric guitar is better anyways :)

Check out the Monte Montgomery version...

I had never heard of Monte Montgomery. He's quite wonderful to listen to. I also listened to his cover of Sara Smile....Excellent! He sure plays that beat up guitar beautifully.

He is a beast on the acoustic.....

+Facundo Mogor your saying that but i have a short thumb fuck i don't know if i'll be able to play this song :c

+wolf pack you learned it?

marcusfsproductions yes

wolf pack nice.. i started yesterday but cant seem to get the rhythm down :/ annoys the shit out of me

It's a long way buddy, 3 years is not so much. All i can say, practice and learn everything you can and, the most important thing, (for me) try to feel what your'e playing. Like jimi use to focus "Experience" is all. ;)

***** This is totally true and totally overlooked when learning guitar/most things.

David Frame I think it may also have to do with how far you are willing to stretch your mind and creativity. Don't hold back on doing something because its hard or because its not theoreticaly correct you know. and another thing is that guitarists now are so consumed with knowing how to play songs rather then create them, you really can't call someone a guitarist if they can't pick up a guitar and play you something never rehearsed but still sounds like music but don't get me wrong im not saying messing up during this means your not a guitarist because like I said "...something UNREHEARSED..." but yeah nowadays people aren't that good at just playing the guitar in general, its always "can you play little wing? stairway to heaven? smoke on the water?" at the end of the day I think I great guitarist is one that creates as well as he/she covers other great guitar songs.

Hendrix didn't know much theory he knew the minor pentatonic by heart probably but I think he pick up other scales by ear on my opinion he was known to have an amazing ear.

Then again he got tips from local musicians but no one will ever know what they told him could of been the greatest tips of all time lol but, yeah Hendrix for sure didn't know how to read music all though I don't consider sheet music to music theory on my opinion