Learn Six Modern Interpretations of Jimi Hendrix | Guitar World
Guitar World's resident Jimi Hendrix authority, Andy Aledort, demonstrates how the legendary, groundbreaking guitarist still influences the modern rock, blues and R&B styles some most admired players.
In this lesson, we’ll explore how Hendrix’s music has inspired the distinct, signature styles of Melanie Faye, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Marcus Machado, Ayla Tesler-Mabé, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Ayron Jones.
In this lesson, we’ll explore how Hendrix’s music has inspired the distinct, signature styles of Melanie Faye, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Marcus Machado, Ayla Tesler-Mabé, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Ayron Jones.
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00:07 Hey, I'm Andy Allidore and in this video lesson we're going to take a look at six young guitar players
00:19 who show a distinct influence from the great Jimi Hendrix
00:23 that carry on the tradition of Jimi Hendrix's guitar playing
00:27 through their own very distinct styles. We're going to start off with a phenomenal
00:32 woman guitar player named Melanie Fay who's so unique
00:37 and we're going to take a look at her twists, the things she
00:41 likes to do when she plays Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing.
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01:46 Melanie Fay uses a lot of interesting chord voicings and open strings.
01:49 In this example I begin with this
01:54 Eadd9, really nice voicing.
01:57 Do a reverse rate.
02:02 And then this F#7sus4.
02:07 And that just moves up.
02:12 So F# and then this is like Gm7.
02:17 But you could also think of it as like an E9 chord.
02:23 Am7sus2 with the open B.
02:28 And Hendrix does voicings like this in One Rainy Wish
02:32 and May This Be Love, a variety of songs.
02:36 Angel. So after that beginning
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02:46 and then it's this nice switch to Am9.
02:50 And she loves these fast slide pull-offs.
02:57 And then I just play this ascending lick
03:01 to get back to A major. And then I'm going to kick off this
03:05 Little Wing
03:08 sort of emulation.
03:12 And then
03:16 so that's the other thing she likes is these fast hammer pulls.
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03:25 And then this is a really nice
03:28 Ab diminished
03:35 into Am7sus4.
03:39 And then this is very interesting.
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03:48 Sort of this Eb
03:52 and then here Eb
03:57 Am7b5
04:00 and another one of those fast slide pull-offs.
04:03 So you got
04:08 and then
04:10 this is another thing she likes, these quick hammers
04:15 using those open strings again.
04:19 And this voicing
04:24 is a little tough because you have to
04:28 get your fingers in there and then it just moves down.
04:35 So this is a minor 9sus2
04:38 B, goes down to Bb, A.
04:42 And then kind of your typical Jimmy.
04:49 So the
04:54 so
04:58 so Jimmy does stuff like that
05:03 or
05:09 another one of those.
05:13 And then some more open strings, that open G stays in there for the D.
05:24 Typical Jimmy, but then this.
05:31 This is a diminished lick.
05:36 And you can think of that as over the V chord, like this brief reference to
05:43 V7, V, so B7 raised V.
05:50 #5 I was going to say, so
05:58 that's how it closes out.
06:00 Next up is one of the best blues guitar players on the scene today,
06:04 Chris Stone, Kingfish Ingram.
06:06 He likes to play Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" in his sets.
06:09 And like Melanie, he has very unique things that he adds to the tune.
06:14 Really cool, distinct twist. We're going to get into that right now.
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06:38 Now, unlike Melanie Faye, he likes to change the chord voicings a little bit,
06:56 make them a little more interesting.
06:58 So instead of a straight C chord, he plays,
07:02 it's like a C6sus2 or add9, C6add9.
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07:14 And then the same thing like a G69.
07:17 So you're going to have that there.
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07:22 And then Dsus,
07:26 that resolves to D.
07:31 And then Asus, resolves to A.
07:35 And then E minor, unlike E major, which is what Jimmy plays.
07:41 So one more time.
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08:50 All right, for this guitar solo, I got a wah-wah pedal here.
08:54 [MUSIC]
08:59 Start off like that.
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09:13 So it's very Jimi Hendrix-like blues, typical blues rock style.
09:22 And that's how Chris Stone likes to play.
09:26 And then this.
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09:30 It's sort of 16th notes.
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09:36 That kind of thing.
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09:47 That kind of thing.
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09:53 And then second.
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10:04 So it's all firmly just right up here in E minor pentatonic.
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10:14 With the blues scale.
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10:20 And then those high bends.
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10:29 Got a combination of Albert King, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix.
10:34 Another great and very distinct player is Marcus Machado,
10:37 who's more rooted in a classic R&B, contemporary R&B and soul style.
10:44 But there's definitely a Hendrix vibe happening in his soloing,
10:48 mixed with that Curtis Mayfield rhythm part.
10:51 So let's take a look at that right now.
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11:20 Okay, so this Marcus Machado example is sort of rooted in very classic R&B soul.
11:27 We're in the key of E, but we're starting on 3 minor, so G sharp minor.
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11:35 To C sharp minor, 7.
11:38 And then what would be the 2 chord.
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11:41 F sharp minor 7, back to G sharp minor, to A major 7.
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11:46 And then A9 with a B bass.
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11:50 Or A add 9 with a B bass.
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11:53 And you can do your classic Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield.
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12:00 Little single string embellishments within the chords.
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12:15 So when you're holding the chord.
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12:20 You can play these.
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12:24 Hendrix did it all the time.
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12:33 So.
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12:45 And then for the solo over there, you really just play E major,
12:48 which I'll demonstrate now.
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13:38 So the solo begins over G sharp minor.
13:40 And as I said, most of the licks are based on the E major scale.
13:43 So I start right on that G sharp note.
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13:51 And then get to a C sharp.
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13:53 And the C sharp minor 7 chord comes in.
13:56 And then.
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14:02 And then with my melody, I'm just going to follow that chord progression of F sharp minor,
14:06 G sharp minor, A major 7 by going.
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14:19 And just straight up.
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14:24 Pretty much the E major scale to get to this bend.
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14:29 Up to C sharp.
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14:31 And then this fast ascending.
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14:38 Marcus likes playing things like that, and Hendrix does that on Here Am I Tryin' To Come,
14:43 and on Hades Be Loved, all kinds of songs you'll hear him do that.
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14:59 And then over, when we get back over C sharp minor.
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15:08 I take advantage of C sharp minor pentatonic minor.
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15:20 And then another thing he likes is this octave thing.
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15:30 We know Jimmy loved using octaves for all kinds of solos.
15:33 You hear it, of course, on Third Stone From The Sun.
15:37 That sliding.
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15:50 And I kind of wrapped it up with E major pentatonic.
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16:06 Which will work over all the chords.
16:09 Another terrific young player is Ayla Tesler-Mabe.
16:12 She has such a cool style, very unique.
16:15 Again, it's in this contemporary R&B style, her music.
16:19 But the soloing has a heavy blues, a lot of feeling in it.
16:24 So I'll play some examples that are along the lines of her style right now.
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16:54 All right, for this Ayla Tesler-Mabe example,
16:57 we're in C sharp major 7 at the beginning here.
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17:03 And then it switches to what's really like C sharp minor 9,
17:08 even though there's no third in the chord, but it's implied.
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17:13 So major 7.
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17:16 And then 9.
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17:18 Then F sharp minor 7, or minor 9.
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17:25 And then to B9, which is major.
17:28 So one more time, like.
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17:50 And then for soloing, most of the soloing is C sharp major pentatonic
17:53 in major scale.
17:55 And there are definitely Hendrix-isms and also just sort of blues, B.B. King.
18:00 So I'll show you what I mean.
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18:37 So as I said, the soloing over this is mostly C major pentatonic.
18:42 [MUSIC]
18:49 Very bluesy.
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18:56 But then she does this cool thing.
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19:00 Over that F sharp minor 9.
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19:05 And that's right on F sharp minor 9.
19:08 And you can see it is A major 7 too.
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19:15 And then I went more to like C sharp major scale.
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19:23 And that's where that sort of B.B. King thing comes in.
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19:41 So very bluesy, very melodic, a lot of feeling.
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19:47 And a heavy attack.
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19:51 And then this jazzy.
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20:00 And then into that B.B. King style stuff.
20:03 One of the top blues guitar players on the scene today is Joanne Shaw Taylor.
20:07 She recorded a video recently from Jimi Hendrix's flat, his apartment in London.
20:12 And she did this blues thing, this shuffle, kind of with a canned heat, Charlie Hooker vibe.
20:19 And this example, this next example, is going to be in that style and show,
20:24 demonstrate some of the soloing things that she likes to do.
20:28 And you can hear the connection to Jimi Hendrix.
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20:50 So this rhythm part is just this little vamp in A.
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21:03 It's a shuffle, one and two and three and four and one.
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21:08 It's kind of a very much John Lee Hooker, boogie kind of a thing,
21:12 canned heat going up the country.
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21:22 And it kind of emulates an open tuning like John Lee Hooker would do because it's all A.
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21:32 So you're going between the A string and that A note.
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21:37 And you pull off.
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21:40 And then a.
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21:43 So those are the pieces.
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21:56 And then the solo over that Jimi plays is just this very bluesy thing that
22:02 shows the influence of T-Bone Walker and Chuck Berry and the things that influence Jimi Hendrix.
22:07 So it's Hendrix-y in a way and it has the same influences, but you'll see what I mean.
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22:33 As I said for the solo, it's really this sort of straight blues thing.
22:48 You get over this.
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22:53 And Joe Ann likes to start with this.
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23:00 This Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry-T-Bone Walker, these, you know,
23:05 you bar and band two strings at a time.
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23:18 So it's a very Billy Gibbons, you know.
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23:29 If I take this shape and move it up.
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23:39 And then that quick.
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23:42 And she likes doing that quick slide down.
23:44 Hendrix did that.
23:45 Stevie Ray Vaughan loved to do that.
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23:51 And then back to the.
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23:55 That rhythm part.
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24:14 Last up is a great guitar player named Aaron Jones.
24:17 This is a very Hendrix-y groove on a song called Emily.
24:21 This is along the lines of that song and what he plays.
24:24 Let's get into that right now.
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24:56 This is a very Hendrix-y rhythm part off E.
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25:14 It's almost kind of voodoo child-y, but the groove.
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25:22 It's not like voodoo child.
25:24 But, you know, a heavy riff off the open low E,
25:27 that's something Hendrix did all the time.
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25:36 So that's what I'm playing.
25:37 It's along the lines of Aaron Jones' lick.
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25:57 And then when he's singing on the verse.
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26:04 So playing these little two-note chords.
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26:07 On the A and the D string with the open G in there.
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26:12 Something Hendrix did all the time.
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26:17 You know, he did it in Hey Joe and Here Am I Tryin' to Come
26:21 and in Voodoo Child, all kinds of songs.
26:23 It's something that Hendrix did often.
26:26 So it's pretty simple.
26:27 You just have that.
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26:36 Into the other part.
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26:50 And then back to the first lick.
26:52 So here is some soloing in Aaron Jones' style,
26:56 and that is also very Hendrix-y in terms of sort of heavy blues,
27:00 moving around, you know, that Jimmy ramped up blues rock style.
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27:21 [MUSIC]
27:46 Now let's go over this solo.
27:48 You have the lick.
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27:56 And Aaron likes these oblique bends, very Hendrix-y.
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28:10 So that very dramatic slide down and then back up the one string thing,
28:14 something Hendrix did on Voodoo Child.
28:16 Here Am I Tryin' to Come.
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28:34 Those slides and pull-offs moving quickly.
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28:41 And then back to the fifth.
28:43 [MUSIC]
28:49 So that type of soloing.
28:51 [MUSIC]
28:55 A quick hammer pull.
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29:01 And then straight to this blues.
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29:11 That type of thing.
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29:14 But if I try to do it slow, sometimes it's hard to do it slowly.
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