Hello Youtube, Justin here, I know it's been a little while since
since I've been around doing some lessons I've done a few songs the other week.
So I'm full of make this a good one.
And today we're going to look at some of the classic kind of licks
that Jimmy Hendrix used to spice up his rhythm playing
I couldn't possibly cover all of Jimmy Hendrix's cool tricks
in one little ten minute lesson, I'm just gonna kind of single out two of them.
Both of them work around a Major chord.
This is not a beginner's lesson, this is kind of like you know already your
barre chords. You're looking of make them sound a little bit funkier.
Basically the two tricks before we go to a closeup and I'll show you what's going on.
I'm just gonna use a little C barre chord here,
like an A Shape C chord with a fifth string root.
And, the little trick that Hendrix uses a lot is putting
what's referred to as the third of the chord, which in this case is the note E,
on the bottom. .... to get this kind of sound.
So, once you get into that it sounds quite funky as it is. ...
That kind of thing. So you're sliding up by using the third finger.
I'll show you this in a closeup in a sec. Then putting the rest of the chord down.
Now, once you're up there and you've got that third on the bass
there's all sorts of little, you know ....
little tricks and stuff that you can use and it's a really nice little
rhythm guitar trick, it works in almost every situation not necessarily Hendrix,
John from the Red Hot Chili Peppers uses it a whole heap.
Yeah, loads of great guitar players uses it all the time, John Mayer, there's loads
of guys uses it, once you get the trick you kind of recognize it, I'm sure.
So, that's the first one, that's with the fifth string group,
and the other one I'll show is with the sixth string group,
which is this kind of thumb over technique, the thumb plays the bass note
and the first, second and third fingers play the chord
and that frees up your little finger to do .....
You find a million little tricks you can use with that.
"Under the Bridge" uses a lot of those tricks there with the E Shape
barre chord Hendrix's style. So before I gas on any longer
I'll go to a closeup and show you exactly how to do this stuff.
See you in a sec.
So, let's start off with having a C chord.
And you can see here my first finger is playing the note C, which is the 3. fret,
my third finger is barring the 4., 3. and 2. strings,
there a little barre, .., making sure that the third finger lifts up enough to mute
the thinnest string there. If you're not sure about that check out the
the lesson I did on Youtube, I think it's called "Master your Barre chords" and this
is probably part 2, but I can't remember, it's also on the website,
the Justinguitar.com thing. So, .... there's the first chord, now if you roll
your third finger, like that, over on to the note D which is on the fifth string,
play it, ... and slide it up two frets, so it's now on the note E, which is
the third of the chord of C, think of it's like the third note of the scale,
...., that's the third of the chord, and first finger is now replacing
the notes that the third finger used to hold down. That's the initial chord
now first finger is replacing those three and third finger is down on that note E,
This is a pretty funky little trick, anyway just by itself ....
Just by itself it will be quite nice if you're playing C chord for a long time.
Now, once you're up there, there's a few little tricks you can do
a really common Hendrix trick is to move that first finger over so it's now
covering the fifth string as well and then to pluck the fifth string and the fourth
string together ... and hammer down that third finger.
If you don't put the third finger down right it will mute the fourth string
and it's really important that ... you still here this note
that note has to be ringing the whole time, ... while the other one changes,
otherwise it sounds like this and you just end up with one note
doesn't sound anywhere near as cool. So, if you start with these two,
I'm just plucking the 5. string and the 4. string.
Actually I am touching the 3. string a little bit as well,
but it doesn't really matter how many of these extra ones you hear.
The most famous example of that is "Wind Cries Mary" by Jimmy Hendrix
which has this little ....it's not in that key, it's in the key of Eb
but it's that kind of idea. So that's a good little trick.
Now as well as having that hammer-on there, you can also hammer-on the third
finger on to the seventh fret of the fourth string or of the third string
each time plucking so if you're hammering the third finger down on the fourth string
.... you're also plucking the third string the same time ....
The same if you put the hammer of the third finger on the third string
seventh fret, you would..... you would also make sure that this
note on the second string is ringing out. ...
Let's put it in the context for a groove for a sec ...
You can hear it's a pretty usable little thing.
Now as well as hammering-on you can also do a hammer-on and flick-off ....
Lots of nice little licks there for you to muck around with,
that one was just plucking these two, the second and third strings and
doing the hammer-on on the third string,
then the next two strings down. But I mean down actually I mean up physically
but down like the pitchwise going down, hammer-on, flick-off....
It's just a slide that last one. Pick, hammer, flick-off, slide, strum...
Loads of little licks like that, so that's the first one, that's the trick
and ... follow the same chord.
Hello I was just editing this thing and it came in quite a bit over 10 minutes so
I've cutted it into two, so if you want to get the rest of the lesson then check out
the kind of the E grip kind of a tricks for Jimmy Hendrix
and check out my Hendrix rhythm part two and I'll show you one of those
extra little bits and chord progressions to play about with them
a little bit about sound. So see you in a bit.