Lick of the Day Jimi Hendrix!

mosiddiqi

mosiddiqi

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About time I did something by Jimi...:embarrassed:

This is very similar to one of my favourite licks of his, taken from the intro solo in "Red House" and beautifully shows off his mastery of mixing and matching the Major/minor pentatonic scales and also those lovely melodic double stop phrases. :love:

The lick sounds like this:

http://www.box.net/shared/qb69asikh3

And looks like this:



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The first part is mostly Bb minor pentatonic/blues scale plus those cool double stops where he plays the 6th and the Maj3 to really nice effect, and the second part is Bb Maj pentatonic.

I have to say Jimi plays it a lot more loose and relaxed than I can manage..:cry:...but hey!..he's Jimi Hendrix!

Enjoy!
 
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mosiddiqi! As soon as I saw you doing some Jimi, I had to look.
Of course, I have to add something, from my own experience.
I haven't heard or played Red House for a long time, a long time,
but I'm thinking it's in G and starts with a seventh chord up the neck,
like an open string D chord, second fret on E, first fret on B, second fret on G.
He plays that G7 chord, letting some feedback come out,
and then he lowers the notes on the G and B while maintaining the E.

That one "Live in the West" version is my favorite live three chord blues progression.
My blues starts with Jimi Hendrix.
I was so sad that I didn't have a Stratocaster and Marshall with effects, for a while.
 
John Watt said:
mosiddiqi! As soon as I saw you doing some Jimi, I had to look.
Of course, I have to add something, from my own experience.
I haven't heard or played Red House for a long time, a long time,
but I'm thinking it's in G and starts with a seventh chord up the neck,
like an open string D chord, second fret on E, first fret on B, second fret on G.
He plays that G7 chord, letting some feedback come out,
and then he lowers the notes on the G and B while maintaining the E.

That one "Live in the West" version is my favorite live three chord blues progression.
My blues starts with Jimi Hendrix.
I was so sad that I didn't have a Stratocaster and Marshall with effects, for a while.
Click to expand...

...Red House is in B (Hendrix downtuned a half step though, so Mo is right)...and the Woodstock version is the greatest one...
 
Yep, it's played as if it were in B, but I couldn't be bothered tuning down..:embarrassed:..so played it as it's heard, in Bb..you can hear something close to this lick just after the drums kick in on the intro :)
 
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Hey mos

on this one , you seem to have that freedom/relaxation in your playing
you were really buzzing along on this one, really a nice one
 
I brought some headphones to this borrowed office so I could listen to Wilmer X and comment, a request,
but I can't find it.
So I listened here, and think the tone is dry and crunchy, if echoed and phased a little, more like the beginning to
"And the Wind Cries Mary".

mosidiqqi! I think what you're describing as relaxed is simply holding the strings down more, filling out the sound.
You don't get more tone and sound by getting too laid back.
Frank Zappa knew laid back, so laid back you form a heap.
 
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