HENDRIX JIMI, VOLUME 2. A Step-by-Step Breakdown of His Guitar Styles and Techniques. CD TABLATURE

HENDRIX JIMI, VOLUME 2. A Step-by-Step Breakdown of His Guitar Styles and Techniques. CD TABLATURE

Jimi Hendrix - Volume 2

A Step-by-Step Breakdown of His Guitar Styles and Techniques
Series: Signature Licks Guitar
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Format: Softcover with CD - TAB
Author: Chad Johnson
Artist: Jimi Hendrix

Learn 12 more Hendrix signature songs in this detailed book/CD pack featuring a step-by-step breakdown of rock music's greatest guitarist's style and techniques. The CD features slowed-down and regular tempo demos. The songs covered are: All Along the Watchtower • Angel • Crosstown Traffic • Star Spangled Banner (Instrumental) • Stone Free • Freedom • I Don't Live Today • Machine Gun • Third Stone from the Sun • and more.

Inventory #HL 00695835
ISBN: 9780634077722
UPC: 073999087314
Width: 9.0"
Length: 12.0"
104 pages

There have certainly been many musical acts that have changed the face of pop music forever: Elvis, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, etc. However, most bands that affect the musical world in this way usually enjoy fairly long recording careers of a decade or more. Jimi Hendrix turned the music world (let alone the guitar world!) upside down, and he did it with a recording career that lasted just over three years. In this second volume of Jimi Hendrix Signature Licks, we'll explore twelve more classics from the Hendrix catalog. We'll study each one in depth, focusing on the tone, guitar techniques, production techniques, compositional devices, and all the other aspects that made Hendrix the undeniable musical force that he was. From the delicate "Angel" to the mellow otherworldliness of "Third Stone from the Sun" and the magical virtuosic display of "Machine Gun," we'll get a glimpse into all facets of Jimi's unbridled guitar genius. All of the guitar parts are represented on the accompanying recording, and the difficult guitar parts are slowed down and isolated for closer examination. While every effort has been made to duplicate the sounds heard on the original recordings, please remember that there is only one Hendrix; in order to truly experience his music you need to listen to his definitive versions. Now let's get on it with it, and prepare to have your guitarplaying mind blown...

THE RECORDING
Doug Boduch: guitar
Warren Wiegratz: keyboards
Tom McGirr: bass
Scott Schroedl: drums

Recorded at The Dream Factory, Madison, WI
Produced by Jake Johnson
The audio icons in the book to keep your spot on the CD. The track icons are placed after the figure numbers at the top of each figure. When more than one icon appears after a figure, the first track listed is a recording of the figure in full. All other track numbers listed are notable guitar parts played more slowly.

Figure 5-Guitar Solo 3
Hendrix's musical genius simply shines in the third solo. He begins by kicking on the wah wah and climbing up the C# minor pentatonic scale in sixteenth-note octaves. He follows this in measure 3 with a sixteenth-note line out of home base: the C# minor pentatonic scale in ninth position. He remains in this position for the sixteenth-note lick in measures 5-6, but he includes the hip 9th (D#) note for a hexatonic scale sound (C#-D#-E-F#-G#-B). He finishes off this eight-measure section with two unison bends: C# over C#m in measure 7, and D# over A in measure 8, resulting in a colorful Lydian (#4) tonality. Throughout these first eight measures, the articulation of the wah wah pedal results in a beautiful, lazy, behind-the-beat feeling that grabs the attention of the listener and doesn't let go. It's a real lesson in how the rhythmic phrasing of a line can add a whole new dimension to a phrase.
Hendrix turns off the wah for the second section of the solo, which turns out to be the most unique-sounding guitar work in the song. Working from the top two strings of an E barre chord shape, Hendrix creates a descending double-stop motive that alternates the 9th and tonic over the 5th for each of the C#m and B chords. He moves this same doublestop shape down again for the A chord, but abandons the 9th/tonic approach for something even more interesting and ear-grabbing. Here he moves to strings 2 and 3 and slides up into an E/G double stop, implying a bluesy A7 tonality, an unheard sound as of yet. He moves this 5th/b7th double stop up a step to F#/A for the B chord in beat 3, punctuating beat 4 with an A/C dyad-the b7th and b9th of B! Measure 11 is essentially a repeat of measure 9 (with slight variation), but he changes things up again for measure 12. As if not to wear out his newfound harmonic interpretations so quickly, Hendrix fills out the remainder of the measure with a barrage of muted sixteenth-note strums for a purely rhythmic effect. Measures 13-14 are essentially a repeat of 9-10, and Jimi rounds out the section with a series of ascending unison bends that climb through the C# minor pentatonic scale. This results in an eight-measure phrase that makes effective use of the "question-answer" approach, repeating earlier parts of the phrase with alternate endings each time. Make sure and notice the difference that the rock-solid rhythmic delivery plays in this section when contrasted with the first eight measures of the solo. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! 

All Along The Watchtower - Words and Music: Bob Dylan - Album: Electric Ladyland - 1968 
Angel - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - First rays of the new rising sun - 1972 (1997)
The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland - 1967
Crosstown Traffic - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland - 1968
Dolly Dagger - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - First rays of the new rising sun - 1971 (1997)
Freedom - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - First rays of the new rising sun - 1971 (1997)
Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)  - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - First rays of the new rising sun - 1971 (1997)
I Don't Live Today - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced - 1967
Machine Gun - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys - 1970
Star Spangled Banner (Instrumental)  - Adaptation: Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock - 1969
Stone Free - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced - 1966
Third Stone From The Sun - Words and Music: Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced - 1967