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.