Hendrix had a massive impact on guitarists everywhere. I had the pleasure of seeing him live, every guitarists in town attended, and all of them were stunned! So natural, great songs and riffs , completely effortless.
Hendrix had hands that were immense which allowed him to do things that the average person could never do. However, coupled with being a musical savant, this made for his sweeping talent! Thanks for a great video, Tim!
Yeah… true. But he was also unfortunately a very weak person by all accounts. No backbone, alcoholic, drug addict, and quite the womanizer. Besides his music, he had zero sense of direction, self worth and any personal discipline. This is why he died so young. Still love his immense contributions to rock guitar and music history nonetheless.
He died young because the EMT allowed him to choke on his own vomit whilst in their care. Sure Jimi had his issues but at 27 who didn’t? He had his shit together enough to serve in the Army. I thought he was very articulate and was very well respected by his peers whom were predominantly white. Take a lap Mr. Perfect.
His years on the Chitlin' circuit backing up so many of those soul/R&B bands totally contributed to Hendrix's loose but accurate groove style of rhythm.
How does he do it? I’m a guitar teacher and have been seeking this feature but can’t find out whether it’s painstakingly animated or if there’s some software that’ll do the job!
Also amazing he wrote the tunes! I used play in a band with a guy that went to MI in Los Angeles and he would mention how sloppy Page could be and I would say yeah but he wrote those tunes.
I was raised on Jimi too. Started playing at 12 also,cand here I am at 50, still astounded by man and his playing! Greetings and best wishes from the UK 🙏🇬🇧🎸👍
@@A10011I was in a 60s cover band for 5 years. Worked very hard at trying to teach myself and my bandmates all the nuance that only tribute bands have. We did all the great 60s stuff…sometimes 50 songs a night..by the end our playing as a band was pretty tight. But I cringe when I hear the singing. And I also had a hard time dealing with it when performing. Our playing sounded like the albums, but the singing sucked.
Tim, your lead part in Waite's "Change" is still my favorite short lead. Crisp. precise, imaginative, and that punch-in-the-nose two-note (chord) finish that eluded my sense of its timing for a week -- it doesn't get any better. A lasting contribution to the art of rock guitar.
You had me through the first half of the video with the tabs (even though they're super fast and i have to pause the video) then you got to sky cries mary and lost me cause i can't tell what you're doing. I tend to just get a look at the fretboard to learn as most people tend to yammer too long to hold my attention. I just want to learn it. So when you have the tabs up wien you're explaining, it helps out a lot. Thanks for all your content
That Help! LP cover brought back memories. In the middle sixties our parents would play it for us kids as a treat on the hi fi. First thing I hear in my head is that movie intro with sitar and a James Bond feel that plays for several seconds before dying way until... Help! You I need somebody...
There’s only two ways at this: you either love Hendrix or you don’t know him. Very inspiring video. May I ask what amp/ processing you used on this? The tone is spot on.
Back in the day when that Hendrix nude cover was released my buddy had some good stuff that almost made them move around like yours did in opening segments of this clip .😆😉. Anyway way cool little mini -course you put on for us all today . Mucho thanks Tim 😎👍
This is fn great. For those of us who came after Hendrix, we are bound by knowing that there is perceived effortless perfection that we will all try to use as a tool in our own vernaculars, but will all fall short… which is ok.
Hendrix AINT easy folks. Sounding like a song he did is far easier than figuring out where Hendrix goes on his progression in the song. The complexity of Hendrix goes way beyond the triad like most people have you think. Listen to the fills on live performances to know what you are getting into before ever thinking its easy to even begin playing like Hendrix. Van Halen is far easier than copying intertwining lead and rhythm on a Hendrix level.
Well can't say enough stylish comments on Tim's playing anything... but his Jimi sounds and touch as he gets into the pocket is out of this world and somewhere in Jimi's... I sure wish Jimi and Tim would have been able to play together and oh what a sound they would have exploded. But if they did get to play together... well... then I'd never be able to learn from Tim's out of this world videos. Tim --- Kuddo's dude! Keep on posting --> PLEASE! You are ALWAYS on Point no matter who you are covering! Oh yeah... the way you have your studio setup makes all us wanna be-ers have a concept of how to get our studio's setup as cool as yours. I'm sure it never will... but it still gives me ideas on how to improve! Ed-G
Pixelriffic 😂!! Tim, you’re the Man, man!! Thanks for sharing your stories, experience and knowledge. Love the new and improved graphics. So helpful for those who are needing more specific instructions. 😊
This happened to be the earliest post I could find. So here I'm asking you to represent some dirtier rock guitar of that San Francisco sound.. Sam Andrew, Peter Albin, James Gurley, Barry Melton, and Nick Gravenites. Thanks for all your tips. You make a difference.
While 'Experience' and Axis both have truly *great* moments, everything I love about Hendrix, and his genius was in full force on Electric Ladyland and Band of Gypsies. Were we hearing Keith Richards playing those sort of things in 66 through 68? I wonder who influenced on those types of rhythm parts. I wouldn't think Steve Cropper for influencing Hendrix, but rather Curtis Mayfield.
Tim, you playing is AMAZING! it is very hard to copy Hendrix, as he is one of the unique sounded guitar players. This teaching is great. What I miss here, is the big gap between the video contents and it headline: "Once You KNOW This TRICK..Hendrix Is EASY" - I watched the clip twice and I didn't find a "Trick". And no, Hendrix can be easy for very talented guitar players like you, not for everyone... Hendrix didn't have one "Trick": He was a very good musician - Playing guitar was only one part of his talent. He was innovative in sound, in song writing, and yes, in the unique way he played.
I remember getting a Hendrix compilation album when I was 14 in the 70s in Germany, one I've never seen here in the US. Surprisingly enough this is the song on that compilation that made me realize how damn good he was...not one of his better-known tracks but even as a young teen new to the guitar I knew that the rhythm guitar he was playing was so far out of my reach I almost gave up guitar altogether. I tried to convince myself that it was two or three other guitar players playing along with him in the studio, but the more I listened to it the more I realized It was all Jimi just being Jimi...the genius!! And I still can't play that song worth a crap!
Few guitarist are more inspiring than you are Tim, thanks! Btw, the lead guitars on Living in Oz is among the best from that era i think. I would love to hear your thoughts on a few of them and perhaps breakdowns.
I learned castles about 6 or 7 years ago from your very early video on it plus you taught a killer solo over the whole song which isnt how hendrix did it and its awesome. I spent weeks…months trying to get your solo up to speed. I sooo wanna spend a week on your wait until tomorrow lesson here but alas i committed to a pretty intense jazz course and i have no time left for fun stuff! Lol kidding. The stuff im working on is cool and the teachers amazing but i do miss working on your hendrix lessons!
Thanks for this video Tim. I cant express my feeling for Axis in words. I got in to Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge just as much, but havent found many other Hendrix fan that feel the same way about those albums. Perhaps it just gets too hard to steal licks off those albums as Hendrix continued to mature as a player.
My neighbours Dad took the UK cover pick for ",Electric landlady" ,Mr King, I think they took the tenner that was offered. Great vid, thanks. P.S. the Eb tuning is the ticket !
As Ozzy man would say, "yeah, nah". For me this is an appreciation more than a tutorial. This stuff is amazing and would take me months to even play passably. I could never play this well.
I'm gonna take a guess before watching that it has to do with the way Jimi used 4ths, usually during double-stops. Can't wait to if I was right or even close lol. Love your work Tim! (Haha, I was right, so true too. Once you understand how Hendrix used 4ths/dyads in his rhythm playing, it kinda demystifies it)
nice color on that strat, what is it? and can you explain to me what this pocket everyone is yammering about? yeah yeah I know, i'm in the wrong place but if I wanted abuse that's down the hall :) (older Jimi Ladyland has it all over Axis but Band of Gypsys was tops and I could have BEEN at that late show!!! but i did not have the $5.50 for the ticket (my bud came by asking, but IF he was REALLY a bud he woulda spring for a ticket) and I had a killer house party to go to.
Found my copy in the local news agent for one pound along with the rubbishy top twenty cover stuff had to run home and borrow the money from my grandad
What about the Blind Faith album cover. A topless 11 year old girl. Nowadays that would never get through the censors. Great album though. Ps Excellent playing and great Hendrix songs to demonstrate, especially Castles may of Sand.
I just started playing guitar about two years ago, between shoulder surgeries. Hendrix and Peter Green really get the juices flowing and who someday I can come close too. @officialTimpierceGuiter
@@lqr824 interesting thought. But Stevie tore his fingertips off and had to glue them back on. Maybe you are thinking of particular songs that were more easy going... I think we agree on Clapton not being as noteworthy as the crowds would have it. Cocaine live, though. Amazing and inventive unlike most of his other solos. Songwriting is another matter. Blue Jean blues, Motherless children, good stuff.
FWIW, but I think what established Clapton was he was the first in a short line of guitar players. It started before Cream, when he was with the Yardbirds, and then John Mayal. His reputation was established long before in bands that didn't challenge his talents. Can anyone name the bass and drums of those early efforts? Listen to the live records of Cream. It sounds like a war or knife fight with samurai swords. What would we say, if EC died when he was 27? @@MegaByrds
@@pulsarlights2825 nope. It was 1965. Hendrix was out and about then. Also, living in Oregon, we knew about Jimi before he was famous. He was a star in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1960s.
His guitar faces creep people out 😂 We’re all having fun once you get past a certain point of fretboard fluency, but this guys huge smiles have always creeped me out. He looks like he’s wearing a flesh suit and his face is smiling but his eyes aren’t 😂
@@jeffro. you just have to get to the point where you can improvise without looking. Then you can make any face you want lol. For you or anyone who doesn’t know - the key is really as simple as learning that first position of the minor pentatonic scale, then learn to improvise with that in whatever key. Cool thing about guitar is that changing key is as simple as moving all your shapes up or down a few frets. Not to mansplain but just for anybody reading who wants to be able to close your eyes and play musically instead of feeling like trying to copy. What u wanna do is start with that first position minor pentatonic shape in say A so that would be for each string E 5-8 A 5-7 D 5-7 G 5-7 B 5-8 e 5-8 those would be the frets for each string for position 1 of A minor pentatonic, what anybody who doesn’t know would wanna do is put on a backing track on youtube search for an Aminor backing track and like magic all those notes i just named will work and sound in-key. You can now play an improvised guitar solo. Try different combinations of those notes out, you don’t have to always go in order either. Anyway I know this is long winded but that simple thing unlocked the door for me into being musical on the guitar and got me hooked big time, because I had always struggled to feel comfortable playing rhythm guitar- but that one little thing set me off down the road of being a lead player who can improvise over anything on the spot in any key. Just gotta learn that shape, then work on adding a few more shapes like the albert king and BB boxes, then learn some modes like aeolian and mixolydian. Anyway, that got me to start being able to close my eyes and play with my soul. Just a tip for anybody else out there. Changed my world. Just don’t have creepy cheshire cat grin type guitar faces
