The RIGHT Way To Play "Who Knows" by Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
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- Hendrix Forensics! Have you been playing the classic Jimi Hendrix riff from "Who Knows" WRONG this whole time?? Watch and find out!
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Actually, listening to this once, I was finally able to hear the correct riff! And now I can't un-hear it which I guess is a good thing.
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Well, my whole life is a lie.
🤣 Same.
Rhett Shull that makes three lives ruined.
...mine certainly is, I was meant to be a great guitar player ...hey ho
I can’t handle this!!!!!
Now proceed to watch the video
I was at both Friday night Band of Gypsies shows at the Fillmore East.
Amazing!
I panhandled the ticket for the second show. Tickets were $3.50, $4.50 and $5.50. I was fifteen years old at the time. Love your channel.
lucky dog!
@@richardross9296 I can't believe you saw machine gun, power of soul and all of the other songs live on those nights. Man that must of been an experience. Did you have a feeling that this was pretty special and did you know they were recording?
Was there a difference between shows? I'd kill to see the recorded version. I was 9, but Jimi is the reason I play guitar.
I remember walking around the streets of Berkeley, Ca. on the weekends during my high school days jamming the shit outta this lp on my cassette tape recorder, and people lookin at me like I'm crazy. Especially, Black people, because they hadn't been exposed to Jimi. But, after seeing him and actually having the opportunity to come face to face with him @ Berkeley, I found myself in a different world, far as music was concerned. And, I was enjoying the hell out of it!
I love when people go this far into Jimis music
JImi had definite ideas about intros to songs and drum patterns he wanted played as in the famous drum intro to All Along the Watchtower. There was an album called Loose Ends that was just that, studio out takes and such and part of it was snippets of the rehearsals for the Fillmore New Years shows. They were just jamming on Blue Suede Shoes and Jimi had a high hat intro he wanted Buddy to play and Buddy just wasn't getting it. Jimi was singing the part he wanted and Buddy was trying to repeat it but Jimi kept saying, "no, no man. Like this!" and you can hear the frustration in his voice. And this was for a song they were just jamming and weren't going to play at the gig. That's why Jimi regretted not being able to read or write music, it was hard for him to get across what he was hearing in his head to others and he really wanted to do more structured pieces with lots of players doing parts he wrote, not just jamming along.
Hendrix forensics. Nicely done.
Hendrix Forensix! I might have to start a series
@@RJRonquillo Please do dude!!!
@@RJRonquillo Do it!!!
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Hendrix is 🎸 people still trying to figure it out. And this cool cat didn’t bother to play a million notes per second . Just a million feelings and emotions . Way to go man , new sub here 💪👊
Brings me chills to hear this. BOG was my first exposure to Hendrix. Definitely still sounds contemporary and never dated. Awsome!
100% correct. - according to Buddy Miles. I only talked to him a few times, but one of my friends who also happens to be a damn good Hendrix impersonator, was a very good friend of Buddy's. We've talked about this riff, and he told me Buddy confirmed it starts on the lower notes
And if you ever do start a Hendrix forensics series, I'd be happy to put you in contact with my friend. He's spent countless hours talking to Buddy about Jimi
The incomparable Buddy Miles.
I ALSO HEARD IT
FROM BUDDY MILES! After I ASKED HIM WHERE 1 Is, He confirmed it!
100% correct - according to Jimi Hendrix. I have only communicated with him a few times via an ouija board, but during one séance he talked about this riff and he told me it starts on the lower notes.
@@shivasirons8971 thats so cool..
50 years later I still feel lucky and privileged to have seen Jimi at Woodstock. I'll never play like him nor will anyone else.
I’m jealous
I agree, but Randy Hanson comes very close.
Didja ever see the Dead, man? (~)};)
Wrong, This dude has Hendrixs play style down like on other ive seen copy and paste his name here on TH-cam look at a handful of his videos. *Julijan Eric*
Curious if you can recall how was his tone life compared to the engineering and recording?
Mindless self-indulgence: having heard this riff (note the drum entry) correctly scored me the job as a fill-in bassist for the great Randy Hansen on his tour of Germany, who certainly never played it wrong.
Aaaah, typing while watching, of course you mention Randy. You're the best RJ, tell them!
Randy Hansen is criminally underrated. Not only an amazing guitar player, but one of the greatest showmen of all time. I’ve noticed though that a lot of people can’t see past the whole Hendrix act, sadly.
@@marionsmith8707 Thats because in the realm of Art authentic/original self expression is first and foremost. Randy is a great guitar player but the guy doesn't have his own vision. The lesson to learn from Hendrix is to do your own thing. Jimi couldn't stand to look or sound like anybody else.
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I must be a genius because I've always heard the riff starting from the G : )
Tell me your secrets
@@RJRonquillo I think I just heard it from the wrong bar and everything clicked, hahhaha.
BTW, big fan here, cheers all the way from Rio de Janeiro!
Same. Either I misinterpret smthn because I don't think its that hard to hear either since I've been only playing for 9 months lol
@@RJRonquillo he's literally the OG :D
@@ashwinvishwakarma2531 been playing decades but only just recently heard this say 3 times? we should compare notes lol, also i think certain exercises, if a person does them could help too? you know, even if they had heard it a million times as starting in wrong place, i like devising exercises that sort of trip me up ya know?
This video felt like a magic eye painting, and I had no idea what you were saying until all of a sudden I did.
great analogy!
I’ve always heard it on the G,and I wish Jimi could come back and play for us all. As with a bunch of other great musicians that we all miss.
find the new one, we have access to millions now, to me it's not about technically perfect insta players, it is one in million, something fresh and original, we won't know it till we hear it.. it's imagination..
Really interesting area. When a song starts, it can have a certain beat/feel, and your brain seems to fill in the rest - but then it switches and your brain goes "WTF" and then you sync to the new beat etc. What a great way into a song. :)
Great stuff. This has always been my favorite Hendrix. Billy Cox's simple bass lines are so full of life, and funky as hell. Buddy Miles voice is like butter. BTW, that solo you did with Tim was killer.
I remember the day that album came out we listened to it over and over and over again ... happened to be on acid at the time...I vowed I would NEVER defile this music by learning it......week later I knew every song by heart...😎🎼🎸
YES YES YEE RJ!!! I’m yelling in my car I’m so happy you did this video! I knew EXACTLY what you were going to say before I even watched it. THANK YOU!! I have never ever seen anybody play this correctly with the G on the 1. And your video on Hendrix string gauge with the slinkier G string was a revelation! You are ace man!
Excellent work here! One of my favorite albums. Just bought the guitar book for band of gypsies. Such a fantastic live performance by Hendrix.
The hippest thing about this tune is how it oscillates between a swing feel and a straight 4/4 and also his phrasing on the solo breaks has an eerie hue to it and has all these strange black panther/Vietnamese/Indian qualities. Miles Davis said "Jimi was playing all these funny Indian melodies"
Also worth noting that the performance of this song and machine gun from the 2nd night of the Fillmore shows came after Bill Graham critiqued Jimi on the first night, telling him that he shucked and jived but didn't really play. Jimi asked him if he'd would be around for the second show, and the following night he opened with those tunes back to back. After he got off stage he walked up to Bill and said "satisfied, mutherfucka'?"
Bill said, and I paraphrase here: " What followed, with respect to Carlos, Duane and Clapton and all the other greats, was the single greatest performance I have ever heard. He just stood there stock still and played and played. It was emotionally devastating and I don't ever expect to hear it equaled."
Good work RJ. You are digging into the subtleties of Jimi's playing.
True story and after blowing Graham away and seeing his reaction he went out for the encore feeling super validated and did.nothing but the tricks. guitar behind head.with tongue teeth hump ing the strat.....
Thank You. Brought me straight back to the magic of hearing Jimi for the first time and then slowly it becoming it my favourite Hendrix guitar piece.
TRUTH RJ!!!! Top notch work dude. And so entertaining too, loving the pace and slickness of your format atm!
Thanks brother. Band Of Gypsies were fantastic. I absolutely love Buddy's playing. Jimi,Billy and Buddy were insanely awesome together.
That new compilation of all the New Years performances are very much godsend to all of us fans it’s so great to hear everything, warts and all
I love Hendrix over 30 years. He talk with his guitar and made every note Alive. He was a speaking person who knows talking to the people in there soul 😊
Omg, This blew my mind.... 😩 My brain keeps changing the one when I listened to it just now.
Nice video! And nice arguments haha
Buddy Miles: Hey man, where's the one?
Billy Cox: *Shrugs* Who Knows?!?
Excellent forensics work on the riff. All I can say is thank you for the lesson, love the riff
This is a surgical analysis of the facts... being a Jimi fan I can say that this video honors, in a very memorable way, two people... Jimi and R.J. for your excellent analysis. Cheers!!!
Ooooh!! Fabulous!!! Thank you!!! You are so right!! You sound just like the original. Oh God, I LOVE Jimi!!! I love his guitar, his voice, his songs - him - everything!!!
It makes sense RJ!!! Thanks for the video ;)
Finally someone did it! THANK YOU! I've hearing it THIS way, since the very first time i listended to the BOG record.
Great observations and extremely cool video! You have a smooth singing voice too, Bro! Now onto trying to get used to that riff the way that James Marshall Hendrix so clearly wrote it, as you've shown us.
Great Video RJ, Long Live Jimi!!!
Finally! Someone got it right! I met Buddy Miles in LA and I ask him where 1 is, and he confirmed it’s where people think 3 is!
Very enlightening and I’ve listened to this for 25yrs! Makes sense once you mentioned where the singing starts.
All your points are correct, and I’m SO GLAD somebody is finally with me on this one!
Ah, very interesting! I agree with you... I've been starting it on the D, and NEVER thought it was actually on the G note. I wonder what even had you doubting it in the first place. You're like the Indiana Jones of music Archaeology. Good Job researching this, R.J.!
The man comes with cold hard evidence! I love it. Rock on!
reminds me of Kid Anderson "things people play wrong", very cool! a new way of hearing the song after 50 years. Now i have to go back and listen to it.
There's another crazy thought....this is 50 years old and we're still figuring out what Jimi actually did. "Before his time" is an understatement.
Bravo! And no, none of us could ever hear it the way Jimi did because he was from another dimension! He was not of this world. Thank you and thanks to Jimi for expanding our conciousness.
yes, by all means do more Hendrix content! i think all playrers should study him, and you have really nailed his sound RJ. I could listen to you play all day man, I am so impressed with your knowledge, and that one thing you can't really teach, feeling
Actually I saw 'Band of Gypsys' live in Albuquerque, N.M. where he did a double concert, back-to-back in one night. The only time I got to see him.
RJ, loving the 2020 channel features, and your axe tone is great. I see 200K subs this year. Let's make it happen, You Rock...👍🎸🎶🎵🎼
Nice!! Never looked at it like that, makes sense. Totally agree with you!
Yeah.your one hundred percent right,when they start the lines singing it all falls into place,thank you R.J.
Great stuff RJ!
awesome sounds dude
I found out myself before i saw your video and i totally agree. Great explanation, it`s 100% my opinion too.
Love your videos
Ayyy great vid!
Always nailing Hendrix songs!
Nice playing man... you have good ears for Jimi :) He was the man. He had so many "flowers" in his playing. Not many people hear those things :) Randy Hansen is one of those people.
That sounds spot on. Master class.
Great vid!
Has always been G to me. I might have seen someone play that way though (other than Jimi), before I actually picked the guitar to play it myself for the first time. Nice video RJ. This guitar forensics thing is pretty cool.
HI RJ it's funny but I had the same thoughts all my life about this riff. You're completely right and I have the same difficulty to keep on singing my first phrases on the G note while playing. This is the proof that Jimi came for outer space :)
Great Jimi'ism RJ! Happy New Year!!
I've played it since 72 and I agree Rj Good going
Word up! I always kind of wondered about this!
Hot one Jr great tune
Wow,that's beautiful R.J.,I always wondered why Jimis riff sounds backwards,he must have been doing Jazz,Ive been listening to this record since 1979,had a hard time picking up on this on the guitar,I appreciate your insight,another thing is the astonishing octavia riffs and his half step down part of the solo.thank you.this lesson is so cool.
Great content man! I think you are spot on
Thank you!!! This is awesome! And my all time fav Jimi song!! Could you do one on message of love too?!
Makes a big difference playing it the right way. Thanks R. J.!
hey, youre right! i dont think i can change the way i hear it, but i bet whoever is able to change the way they hear it would be able to improvise with a whole new level of creativity over that riff
Hey RJ! Nice (and fun) to see one of your exhibits & research results is a VHS recording of my 1997 TV show!
Yes, I was the guy who invited Buddy and his "New Band Of Gypsys" via the promoter for Italy to perform live and be interviewed, exclusively for my show on TV Capodistria, for the benefit of the cameras and the really packed, enthusiastic audience in the beautiful small hall of the Gravisi Palace, a Venetian historic building in Capodistria, Slovenia.
So, glad to have met Buddy, and Randy and Neil, and brought legends to my hometown, and... glad to have contributed to your discovery (with which, as a guitarist and Hendrix scholar, I wholeheartedly agree, btw)!
😉👍
Gonna follow your channel - if you feel like returning the favour and following mine, there will be some recording and Hendrix related content I believe you will find interesting coming very soon.
Cheers from the Adriatic coast,
AF
Very interesting how this eludes our ears as listeners. To me the reason is how anchoring the D is as the root, and it too lands on a strong beat (3 if we are to take your perspective from the video), pulling our ear to it as though it was beat 1. In that way the song's meter is almost in 2 rather than 4. This reminds me of the question of which chord is tonic in a two chord vamp like on Fire on the Mountain by the Dead. It comes down to the phrasing of the melody in time, to me. And applying that here, as you did, we arrive at the G being the start, the 1, of the Who Knows riff. Well done. These musical puzzles are kind of holding it in your music in your hand like a three dimensional object - to examine the facets from different angles. One viewer sees chaos in a room-sizsd 3D diorama while another one sees a composite picture from disparate elements. That viewer is the one seeing the piece from the perspective intended by the artist. ;)
Well-argued and persuasive!
I think it's a very cool discovery, and makes sense.
You are a genius :-) love your channel...
Wow! Amazing ...
Thank you Sir ✌
Trivia...just a bit of this song was played in one of the Sopranos episodes at the Ba-Da-Bing.
I love this kind of stuff what an awesome video! It’s the video I saw first of yours and it made me way to subscribe!! Nice work!!! I llove this: “you’ve all been playing it wrong!!!” So good man! It’s a super killer sound you have on your guitar!! Since I subscribed and will tell everyone I know about you, would you please be kind enough to tell me how you’re getting that guitar sound? Like pedals, amp or settings that make it work? Thanks in advance my good man!
So glad you ckeared up the big mistake...back then tabs were unheard of no cell phones no internet so you had to go see jimi if you wanted to play it his way the way he was doing that particular tune that week...awesome job Ron....
Hey mr. Great to learn that one. To be honest, I think most guitarists don't do a second tought on it, because it's sutch a simple riff and most of us just say: "oh I got it". Well, playing it like you said made the whole thing more interesting, and proves once again how cool hendrix was. The band weird timming is just debunked my friend. Great job. Thank you.
Agreed ! Love your tone !!
I 100% agree with you @RJRonquillo and am very happy that you made a video about it. I wouldnt say that cover bands are playing it wrong when starting on D but i also wouldnt say that this little detail is little. I think it completely changes the feel of the song with drum fills landing on G and it also make the song great and so fun to play when done as it was intended. And me as a bassist always wondered, why this detail about where the ONE is is so unintuitive for the drummers and hard to explain as even if they know that its on the G, they will start good but sooner or later they start landing the fills on D (or D♭) again xD
I had the Band of Gypsies live at the Filmore East on vhs when I first was learning guitar in 97'. I totally agree with you here. The thing that drove me (drives me) nuts with that incredibly amazing recording is that his guitar is tuned like right in the middle of standard tuning and e flat tuning. So I would always jump back in forth not knowing what he was tuned in. Of course years later I've long figured that out but to the beginner, back before TH-cam, its very confusing.
I always thought the feel of this Tune was weird. Lol. Thanks for figuring this out.
now you mention it it sounds much better withe the G first and works better :) Good job RJ...btw your tone!!! wow you got it man
...I agree "Genius Guy"...Thank you very much ☮️🕊️🎸😉...✨🎇
Great take on Who Know's. In the concert he is tuned down a whole step. Probably to give his voice a rest...Also, you mentioned other recordings..well, THERE ARE. Look into the Baggy Rehearsals. This is where the BOG rented a garage in Manhattan and rehearsed for 3 days straight for the gig at the Fillmore East. They break down Who Knows from infancy to the beginning and with ad lib lyrics...
RJ, you’re the best thing to come out of Detroit since the Ford Pinto, As you stated before Dave Friedman is a Taurus
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New series YEH...NAH: song title
Great video anything Hendrix is tough there’s never one way of doing it. Amazing as always RJ.
you got it right and you're also right that not only is it one of the most classic riffs in rock history (along with Whole Lotta Love, Paranoid and Sunshine Of Your Love) but I find it amusing that so many try it and get it wrong. And the whole song (indeed the whole album) is bluesy and funky as doo doo.
I've always thought this way💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
RJ if you don't already do transcriptions, you should. I'd never catch something that subtle, but those things are really important when you want to capture the nuances of an artist. Especially a crazy cat like Jimi!
I agree, RJ. But as an aside I'd like to say why I think this lp deserves to be considered one of the greatest live albums ever. For one, it captures Jimi at the top of his game. But the other is that it is all new material, played for the first time before a live audience. Who else but Jimi could pull this off? Take Live at Fillmore East by the Allman Bros - they had been playing this same material live for over a year. For Jimi, Buddy and Billy to come out from the practice studio and lay this down was pure genius.
Yup- you are so right. I noticed the same thing from listening to Jimi's solo phrasing on BOG's- he starts every phrase on that down/up beat riff that starts with the G note. You can take it even further by isolating that one particular bar and not playing the descending note riff starting with the D that starts the next bar. It gives the song a whole different dynamic and actually makes a lot of sense, even if it's hard to wrap yer head around it. It's kind of a different take on the "Dolly Dagger" groove.....
U right man can't unsee it!!!!
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great video. every time i played this on guitar it always felt off for some reason. like when you listen it sounds basic pentatonic like playing black keys or something...which subconsciously felt off in a way i couldn't explain. this answers the question i didnt even bother to think to ask haha
I actually played it right, nice video bro
Bro - I'm gonna go play this NOW!
I trust RJ.
This guy is a music college grad & takes music seriously. I wish he offers an online guitar course. I'd love to enroll.
God bless you RJ!
I agree 105%:) and in my experience this is really hard to explain to some drummers. It is a completely different feel to a song if the fills dont land at the right time - if the one is not at G (G flat to be exact).
I just always thought that the way Buddy played made the entire show really, sound so deep in the pocket. Very atypical of what the Experience sounded like, I mean funky. You knew they weren't going to do Little Wing. 😉 Love that record! The intro to Power to Love, goddam!