Oh and btw...Next time you try and lie about ur age.. U might wanna think twice next time about having the year u were born in ur username... Camera99. Lol epic fail
@@dicksteptoe9199 -- What are you talking about, loser? I never put the year I was born in my user name. I just picked a number that nobody else was using, moron. Now I know why your momma named you Dick.
I was at Monterey and asked my Mom what the cool noise was, she told me about Hendrix and I was there 1967. Amazing, will be a downhill path the rest of my life till now and it is climbing back up. Satriani saved me since Dire Straights.... and Jeff Beck is still relevant.
I've found that when an artist covers Hendrix or plays in his style, it tells a lot about the player themselves and their approach to his music and playing music in general. I've seen Jeff Beck cover him, and there tends to be emphasis on the grace of Jimi's playing, along with the wild sounds he could get, because that's where Jeff comes from, demented trills and quirky squawks accompanied by beautiful melodies and dynamics. SRV's approach emphasized the intensity and fire in his playing, along with his emotional virtuosity, and you can hear that scorching element in Pride and Joy. Clapton generally focuses on the songwriting (see his cover of Stone Free)when he covers Hendrix, and in this video, you can hear Satriani's focus on Hendrix's technical virtuosity, and has a disciplined focus, similar to Beck, who also influenced Satriani. In a musical situation, you can bet your ass that either Jeff or Joe would listen intently to what's just been played, be it on drums, keyboard or another guitar, figure four ways to perfectly react to what's just been said, select one, and then play it wonderfully, and it all has to be done in an instant so it seems perfectly natural, which is the standard set by Hendrix's incredible improvisational skills. I consider Beck to be the closest to a current Hendrix as we can get outside of Buddy Guy, and I guess what this rambling comment comes down to is there are two approaches when it comes to the masters: improvised feel and calculated reaction (not to say the two can't coexist, but this is on what the player primarily focuses on and what works for them). Beck is a master of calculated reaction, Hendrix of improvised feel. Satriani favors Beck's approach, and it is most clear when he is playing Hendrix-inspired licks&riffs like he does in this video, as it's the kind of playing that comes from the gut rather than rapid thought.
+Zach Molina Great comment and insight Zach. Hendrix is definitely a benchmark for a majority of Blues based players. And that benchmark seems to gain academic momentum as we get better. When we can first play Hendrix songs as beginners we become aware that "we can do this" and a confidence ensues. As we become more proficient and we reflect back we examine the bigger picture and find profundity. Hendrix's wonderful gift to us all I imagine, just keeps on giving! Play with your Heart!
This is one of the best descriptions of Jimi ever explained. For all of those commenting on Jimi's ability, please be aware that this is Joe Satriani explaining why Jimi is so amazing. For Joe to say, "Outer space delivered this to man to your doorstep" speaks volumes, and should be taken as proof that without Jimi, rock would be very different today. People like Joe understand this.
3:18 "When you're young and you don't know to much about an artist roots...you just think they were delivered to your door step from outerspace"....I remeber when I felt that way about Satch
Why is everyone knocking Satriani? He's just expressing his appreciation for Hendrix and never claims to be as good as he is. I felt the same way when I first heard Jimi and his music will live on forever..
Satch is every bit as good as Hendrix, in fact, it could be argued that he is a technically better player. But comparisons are just foolish. Their styles are very different. By the way, I’m a huge Hendrix fan, Satch, meh, but I appreciate his talent.
The funny thing in this video for me is how Joe expresses his first Jimi Hendrix experience. My response to Joe's playing was exactly the same when I saw the Sony commercial featuring "Summer Song" for the first time. I was forever changed.Thanks Joe for making great music, keep it up.
While Satriani doesn't "play like Hendrix" any more than any other guitarist can, he at least understands where Jimi was coming from. Hendrix is unique in that all his rock contemporaries- Clapton, Townsend, Harrison, Beck, Richards, McLaughlin- virtually every major guitarist on the scene who saw him live- agreed that Hendrix sat untouchable on his own pedestal beyond the rest of mortal guitarists. The reason for this has nothing to do with logic, musical training, or even raw technique. Hendrix was sublime and intuitive and had skills the way Mozart had skill. He was creative, amazingly artistic and natural talent, and he was unbound by ideas of scales and conservative form. He had the natural ability to listen to various forms of wildly varied music, and borrow what he needed into his own vision. He combined chords and licks to form richer, fuller sound than other guitarists, and on top of this, simply pulled raw, unbridled sound into this in ways no one ever has done before on a guitar. This makes him impossible to really copy- no one can "really" sound like Hendrix the way other guitarists can be copied.
Clapton's reaction to his first intro to Jimi is typical to how guitarists of his era felt about him. Jimi was a nobody, a indigent rythym and blues player who scrabbled for years fighting for spots supporting singers in America. Chandler brought him to England after promising Jimi to introduce him to Clapton, who rock fans considered God of the guitar. Clapton at heart was a blues guitarist, who loved Robert Johnson, and more than anything in the world, wanted to reach that heartfelt playing found in Johnson's recordings. Jimi had the nerve to ask to sit in with Cream, Ginger Baker insisted Eric stay on stage for when the newcomer fell apart, and Eric went to light a cigarette as they started to play. Jimi knew exactly what to play, and simply burned Eric to a crisp with Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor. Clapton staggered backstage, and never got the cigarette lit. Backstage with trembling hands Clapton could only ask Chas Chandler, "Is he that good?" God was killed, but the two guitarists became very close. When Jimi died, at 27, the exact same age as Robert Johnson, it's said that Clapton grieved for days, and asked others "How could he leave me like that?" Eric had bought a white, left handed strat for his comrades birthday, and Jimi died the day Eric planned to present him with it. As Clapton put it, "I was stuck in the room with that white strat sitting there." Hendrix stands alone for creative, innovative rock guitar- and has influenced/changed music more than any other guitarist of his era.
dukstuf Great post! I would add a little tidbit to the Eric-meets-Jimi story (taken from another youtube video) : Jack Bruce is quoted as saying: "Eric is a guitar player; Jimi was a force of nature." Truer words are rarely spoken!
You can`t compare John McLaughlin to the other rock contemporaries mentioned here. John is the master extraordinair guitar god. He outshines his own contemporaries in jazz and fusion with his taste and technique. Players like Al Demeola, Larry Corryell, Pat Martino, George Benson and even Pat Metheny (my personal favourite) don`t come close to the virtuosity of McLaughlin. Did you know John gave lessons to Jimmy Page?
Thank-you JS for explaining JH exactly this way...a brilliant analysis and explanation of how Jimi bypasses all guitar lessons and just plays the instrument because it exists in time and space... I saw JH in downtown Wash.,DC with my friends at the Apollo Theater on 14th St.,NW in 1967...We were the only "white boys" there but the crowd was only staring at the stage...WHAT IS THAT GUY DOING TO THAT STRATOCASTER???? I have been listening since that night and I just turned 70 years old...wish he could have lived..he was just starting his career when he was taken........
Hey Joe nice to hear from u,I'm a big Hendrix fan,same hear,I'm a vocalist,and he was always getting a lot of air play,thankfully,in north Jersey where I'm from,but the first time,I think I heard all along the watch tower(a Dylan song)it was Hendix owning it his sound was so unique,and hearing that he was building his own effect equipment made me appreciate his genius and his singing to...any guitar player will tell u singing and playing is tricky because some times singing part goes a little bit in a different direction,and its hard to play because of the split....Hendrix had a great voice as well,but his guitar sound...I'm a big Deep Purple fan and I just listen to my hero Ritchie talk about how he loved Hendrix witch was respectful and not surprising even Duane Allman was a fan...hey I think we all are,just the fact that he played that right handed guitar upside down blows me away....THANKS
Absolutely agree with you!!! Practice and practice and practice, and learn from anyone and everyone you can, and the more difficult a riff is to play, play it more often than the easy stuff.
when I was 13 I watched the first G3 thing for a year or so. I liked Satch's performance much more than Vai's. I couldnt get around with Steve's egomania and show off-ness. I saw no substance in steve1s playing. Even to this day some people refer to him as a kind of mystical, mysterious, spiritualized guitar player, like a guru or something. To me he is no more mystical than a bodybuilder or something like that. All I could see was "See how good I am, see what I can do with a guitar, love me, I'm the best". Whereas Satch had a much more appealing approach to me in those days, more down to earth. Years later I got to understand Eric Johnson, now he is my favorite of the three. Still respect Satriani a lot. But Steve Vai to me deserves a piece of my shit, stupid egomaniac, I cant stand his fans. I wish steve vai didnt exist. Hendrix had it all done in 1967. I cant stand teenagers who think steve vai created the guitar.
I think you're on to something there but honestly Eric Johnson's tone is less than adequate for how good he really is. It almost sounds like he dunks his amp in a fish tank before he starts playing and just kind of throws the mic in there too to pick up whatever sound might come out of it. For what it's worth, I don't think there is a better guitar player out there than joe. The feeling that gets transferred into the music by itself is just outrageous.
GioGuitarDude I respect every opinion, but I personally rate Steve Vai, Malmsteen and even Satch's tones in the lowest, most vulgar and shallow degree concerning guitar tone. I understand that it requires finesse, ability to understand nuances and a refined sonic comprehension to like EJs tones.
exactly how i feel,his stuff is just improvised shit and technique, that sound kinda shitty.But as a player his execution is good, sound wise not so much.
fuck everything else that was one of the most unreal licks ive ever heard and i don't understand why he doesn't play like that more often because that was unbelievable.
sorry to hear your time is so precious that 4 minutes of opinions, from a hugely accomplished and famous guitarist, about The greatest guitarist ever, was something you consider a "waste".
The first time I heard Hendrix was via SRV playing Voodoo Chile on the original broadcast of his Austin City Limits show. It absolutely blew my fucking head all over the walls and ceiling. When the show was over I had my dad pull all his Hendrix LPs out of the cabinet and I've listened to him or played his music on my guitar almost every day since. The man was a gift from the universe.
Hey Joe, I had exactly the same experience with Paganini. Amazing. I couldn't believe it when hearing a piece from him. "Who is that?" What is that?" I was totally taken by it.
This is a really cool dialogue by Satriani. Really like the guy. Nicest guy ever. Not the biggest fan of his music but I think the guy is really cool. Great player don't get me wrong. The title is a bit off though.
Hendrix did a lot of ear training and worked with other great musicians, before he became famous. He did play scales -- pentatonic and mixolydian to name two off the top of my head. I think this is a popular misconception. Hendrix sounds very educated to me. Listen to the complexity of his chords and how he moves a melody through the chords like a pianist would. Maybe never read music, but definitely did a lot of sitting down with the guitar and practicing by himself for hours and hours.
It's called an INTRO....funny how some people need to take any opportunity to criticize. Satriani whoops ass on guitar. He gets to do what he wants. You....however, get to kvetch.
If your living and breathing you've witnessed a inovated genius of Hendrix. No one can duplicate him at all, period. 100,000,000s play his style, but cant be duplicated.
I have just the same story. In the beginning of 90's when i was something like 7 yo I heard Purple Haze in some tv commercial and then a spark has fired up the flame.
I remember an old interview maybe Johnny Carson where Jimmy stated he though Terry Kath (Chicago`s founding member) was a monster player who he admired and considered a better player. Jimmy was humble and didn't boast about his playing. Terry was a monster player and was taught by the jazz great Stu Pearce.
Satriani on an Ibanez doesn't sound like Hendrix :-) I want to like Satriani. He sounds like such a nice guy, and he is for sure skilled. But I really don't like his music and sounds! His technique is for sure sublime!
I feel the same way about Joe. I admire him as a guitarist, but I don't really get into the genre of music. Hendrix could have played any guitar and it would have sounded fine. I like his version of red house with his SG.
really, if always with me and always with u doesnt hit ur soul then damn man, then theres the summer song. Hes compositions as a solo artist is impressive and yes oddly enough he has a lot of odd sounds going on there in his new album.
I feel I can totally sound like Jimi after watching this video. All I need is a guitar, lessons and talent. Well maybe some stacks of Marshalls. The details here about the secrets of Jimi are just amazing. You just have to play the video backwards to hear it. If you just click on the video it's just some guy talking.
***** wtf with you? I'm not encouraging anyone to do that shit. Read again my comment. You must be misunderstanding my comment. Gosh what a judgemental person you are. I feel sorry for your wife.
***** LOL! You accuse me I'm promoting drugs. Show me when I said that? I only said you could never go back. Gosh, human stupidity never ceaces to amaze me. Congratulation old troll. LOL!
Hey i am so old i remenber Joe with long hair lol ! Respect! That what turn me on about his playing he as blues rock foundation i love Hendrix to he could make his guitar talk on great songs with plenty of feel and soul !
So long tine ago: we all love Jimi, so why is that? I am also so addicted to his sound, dont know why that os. I just play his songs in my band Station Four here in South Germany. I play the guitar with my teeth and mouth and that, yeah ....
@LeeChavezMusic that's the new JS2400 model , that's a singlecoil size humbucker designed to emulate the DiMarzio PAF Joe. There's a video of Joe testing it out here on the U Tube
No one will ever play like Jimi. Best you can do is try to understand him as an artist, the times he lived in, how he heard things and what he was trying to do. 👍 Satch.
@Antiks72 Everybody has his own style mate. But let me ask you since you are wondering.....What do you think is easier? Page to play Satch or Vais songs or the opposite?Food for thought.
I was just back from the Vietnam war, and Hendrix was the most amazing person, he and Johnny Winter. Had heard a lot of Beatles, Doors, and Cream overseas but not much Hendrix until then. His music, he, was so profound, it was like every new album I said hey hold on Jimi, I just got used to your last album don't do this to me! His Band of Gypsies album was an 18-wheeled sledgehammer of an album with a space all its own and incredibly soulful.
Joe, Im 51..... I totally had the same experience........ it was like star wars and the confusion of an intelligent guy........... I was almost on my knees.
You know who Hendrix played like? Himself. Nosce Ipsum - Know Thyself. To thine own self be true. The reason we all love certain musicians is because they are themselves.. Don't try to be them because you'll fail anyway. An artist speaks to the world because he must. Let out the thing that wants to create and rest will take care of itself.
@Gonzoidz I'm not a kid and if YOU are left cold by Vai that is fine. A lot of people find his playing clinical and overly technical....at times I have the same issue with Vai. Having said that songs like 'Call it Sleep' or 'Blue Powder' or 'For the Love of God' are songs that take me on journeys that are as vast as any other musical piece I can think of in guitardom.
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@danogzilla Yes I heard Miles say that too in an interview. Jimi didnt know anything about music theory but once you played it for him he'd be like "oh yeah i dig that" and play along right away. Would have loved to hear them play together so much.
Joe u are one of my all time guitar guy I love your playing beside Jimi Hendrix...I saw video that was posted by Texas Blues Alley on line guitar lesson he made a comment about Jimi Hendrix he said Jimi's guitar playing is hard to play or even to sound like him and why u can't sound like him is because his playing is all CAYUSE I've been playing all my life from 12 years old till today i'am 63 years old now flowing you and Jimi most of my life and to here something like this about Jimi just did not sit well with me can I please have your a pinion on this.../ THANK U JOE....
The reason Hendrix sounds different is because he was self taught and, quite honestly, didn't know what he was doing, but in a good way. He wasn't taught to play in the standard way. He had is guitar upside down, he learned on old crappy instruments his own way, he was introverted and worked within his own mind making his music. He honestly did things many ways that students would be taught not to do them. So that's why he was so different and original, and this same thing is true of many of the original black blues players, who also learned in similar ways - on their own, with crappy instruments, often without much guidance or with guidance from other guys who also "did it all wrong". He invented his own chords and scales, etc. because he was winging it on his own. So, guys like Satriani will never be able to play like him, nor will I nor most other people who learn guitar in any kind of structured or traditional way.
A generation has come that has heard hundreds of guitarists who stand on Jimi's shoulders, and they wonder, what's all the fuss about? If they had the historical context of what was contemporaneous with Jimi, perhaps they'd understand. We didn't have anyone even near to him, and that was just the sound. But when you saw him too, the effect was awe-inspiring. (No MTV) Hendrix' effect on me was like what Satch describes, though he took it much further than I. Jimi founded modern electric guitar.
@Gonzoidz: Morello might have shifted more since he started playing, but he still has a long way to go to match up to Satriani or Vai. Both of them are much better technically and musically, than Morello has shown so far.. and probably always will be so. Joe& Vai can take an acoustic guitar and make it sound soulful. Morello needs to play with a lot of electronics to make all those sounds he does.
@Mattydilly I agree where Joe is coming from, because it is often forgotten that a guitar genius' skill, such as Hendrix's, is particularly unique and profound in the way that it is expressed. Hendrix wrote amazing songs AND played amazing guitar. He wasn't just a showman. Therefore technical proficiency disolves into the background when truly examining the greatest guitarists. In my opinion. It is also true that someone may feel more from a Satriani song than a Hendrix song, yes,
I saw Hendrix live in concert. I had 2nd-row seats. Best concert I have ever heard in my life.
The envy is real! I was unfortunately born 20 years after his death, so that is only a dream for me.
No u didn't bro, ur just some teenaged kid that wishes they were. Get real, goofball. Stop lying
Oh and btw...Next time you try and lie about ur age.. U might wanna think twice next time about having the year u were born in ur username... Camera99. Lol epic fail
@@dicksteptoe9199 -- What are you talking about, loser? I never put the year I was born in my user name. I just picked a number that nobody else was using, moron. Now I know why your momma named you Dick.
I was at Monterey and asked my Mom what the cool noise was, she told me about Hendrix and I was there 1967. Amazing, will be a downhill path the rest of my life till now and it is climbing back up. Satriani saved me since Dire Straights.... and Jeff Beck is still relevant.
I've found that when an artist covers Hendrix or plays in his style, it tells a lot about the player themselves and their approach to his music and playing music in general. I've seen Jeff Beck cover him, and there tends to be emphasis on the grace of Jimi's playing, along with the wild sounds he could get, because that's where Jeff comes from, demented trills and quirky squawks accompanied by beautiful melodies and dynamics. SRV's approach emphasized the intensity and fire in his playing, along with his emotional virtuosity, and you can hear that scorching element in Pride and Joy. Clapton generally focuses on the songwriting (see his cover of Stone Free)when he covers Hendrix, and in this video, you can hear Satriani's focus on Hendrix's technical virtuosity, and has a disciplined focus, similar to Beck, who also influenced Satriani. In a musical situation, you can bet your ass that either Jeff or Joe would listen intently to what's just been played, be it on drums, keyboard or another guitar, figure four ways to perfectly react to what's just been said, select one, and then play it wonderfully, and it all has to be done in an instant so it seems perfectly natural, which is the standard set by Hendrix's incredible improvisational skills. I consider Beck to be the closest to a current Hendrix as we can get outside of Buddy Guy, and I guess what this rambling comment comes down to is there are two approaches when it comes to the masters: improvised feel and calculated reaction (not to say the two can't coexist, but this is on what the player primarily focuses on and what works for them). Beck is a master of calculated reaction, Hendrix of improvised feel. Satriani favors Beck's approach, and it is most clear when he is playing Hendrix-inspired licks&riffs like he does in this video, as it's the kind of playing that comes from the gut rather than rapid thought.
+Zach Molina Great comment and insight Zach. Hendrix is definitely a benchmark for a majority of Blues based players. And that benchmark seems to gain academic momentum as we get better. When we can first play Hendrix songs as beginners we become aware that "we can do this" and a confidence ensues. As we become more proficient and we reflect back we examine the bigger picture and find profundity. Hendrix's wonderful gift to us all I imagine, just keeps on giving! Play with your Heart!
longest comment i ever seen on youtube. one of the best 2.
Well said and on point. Just curious-who are your influences?
Never has there been a more true comment.
Incredible please write an essay on this topic
I saw Jimi 3 times in San Diego and the last I jumped on stage and he shook my hand the last time was 1970 I was 17 the greatest experience of my life
After seeing Jimi, Clapton said "I felt like throwing my guitar in the trash" Eric knew what greatness was.
Well said Joe.. Jimi is a legend that has unfortunately passed away, you my friend are a legend that we still have to enjoy.. thank you!
"Joe Satriani talks about Jimi Hendrix"
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This is the kind of description/actual video discrepancy that gets a “Don’t Recommend Channel”.
This is one of the best descriptions of Jimi ever explained. For all of those commenting on Jimi's ability, please be aware that this is Joe Satriani explaining why Jimi is so amazing.
For Joe to say, "Outer space delivered this to man to your doorstep" speaks volumes, and should be taken as proof that without Jimi, rock would be very different today. People like Joe understand this.
3:18
"When you're young and you don't know to much about an artist roots...you just think they were delivered to your door step from outerspace"....I remeber when I felt that way about Satch
That feeling grows stronger when you see "Not of this earth", and "Surfing with the alien.
Why is everyone knocking Satriani? He's just expressing his appreciation for Hendrix and never claims to be as good as he is. I felt the same way when I first heard Jimi and his music will live on forever..
Because the title says “satriani shows you how to play like Hendrix” and then proceeds to talk about him for 4 mins.
What’s the saying? You’re only as good of a player based on how close you come to Jimi.
Satch is every bit as good as Hendrix, in fact, it could be argued that he is a technically better player. But comparisons are just foolish. Their styles are very different.
By the way, I’m a huge Hendrix fan, Satch, meh, but I appreciate his talent.
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO PLAY
Let me fix the title.
"Joe Satriani talks about Jimi Hendrix. Click now!"
That was crap
+lookmanostrings To be fair, Joe says in the intro he's going to talk about Jimi Hendrix, Guitar World must've 'missed' that part hehehe.
The funny thing in this video for me is how Joe expresses his first Jimi Hendrix experience. My response to Joe's playing was exactly the same when I saw the Sony commercial featuring "Summer Song" for the first time. I was forever changed.Thanks Joe for making great music, keep it up.
While Satriani doesn't "play like Hendrix" any more than any other guitarist can, he at least understands where Jimi was coming from. Hendrix is unique in that all his rock contemporaries- Clapton, Townsend, Harrison, Beck, Richards, McLaughlin- virtually every major guitarist on the scene who saw him live- agreed that Hendrix sat untouchable on his own pedestal beyond the rest of mortal guitarists. The reason for this has nothing to do with logic, musical training, or even raw technique. Hendrix was sublime and intuitive and had skills the way Mozart had skill. He was creative, amazingly artistic and natural talent, and he was unbound by ideas of scales and conservative form. He had the natural ability to listen to various forms of wildly varied music, and borrow what he needed into his own vision. He combined chords and licks to form richer, fuller sound than other guitarists, and on top of this, simply pulled raw, unbridled sound into this in ways no one ever has done before on a guitar. This makes him impossible to really copy- no one can "really" sound like Hendrix the way other guitarists can be copied.
Clapton's reaction to his first intro to Jimi is typical to how guitarists of his era felt about him. Jimi was a nobody, a indigent rythym and blues player who scrabbled for years fighting for spots supporting singers in America. Chandler brought him to England after promising Jimi to introduce him to Clapton, who rock fans considered God of the guitar. Clapton at heart was a blues guitarist, who loved Robert Johnson, and more than anything in the world, wanted to reach that heartfelt playing found in Johnson's recordings. Jimi had the nerve to ask to sit in with Cream, Ginger Baker insisted Eric stay on stage for when the newcomer fell apart, and Eric went to light a cigarette as they started to play. Jimi knew exactly what to play, and simply burned Eric to a crisp with Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor. Clapton staggered backstage, and never got the cigarette lit. Backstage with trembling hands Clapton could only ask Chas Chandler, "Is he that good?" God was killed, but the two guitarists became very close. When Jimi died, at 27, the exact same age as Robert Johnson, it's said that Clapton grieved for days, and asked others "How could he leave me like that?" Eric had bought a white, left handed strat for his comrades birthday, and Jimi died the day Eric planned to present him with it. As Clapton put it, "I was stuck in the room with that white strat sitting there." Hendrix stands alone for creative, innovative rock guitar- and has influenced/changed music more than any other guitarist of his era.
dukstuf
Great post! I would add a little tidbit to the Eric-meets-Jimi story (taken from another youtube video) : Jack Bruce is quoted as saying: "Eric is a guitar player; Jimi was a force of nature." Truer words are rarely spoken!
You can`t compare John McLaughlin to the other rock contemporaries mentioned here. John is the master extraordinair guitar god. He outshines his own contemporaries in jazz and fusion with his taste and technique. Players like Al Demeola, Larry Corryell, Pat Martino, George Benson and even Pat Metheny (my personal favourite) don`t come close to the virtuosity of McLaughlin. Did you know John gave lessons to Jimmy Page?
+milestoneman he also gave lessons to Santana.
+dukstuf What? Beck owned Hendrix.
Let me know when he start talking about how to play like Hendrix...
0:20, sizzle chest.
Joe with what he knows can break down any style no matter who played it . I would love to hear those two do an instrumental piece .
Yes - well put. It's interesting to have a guitar lesson without playing, but at times it's valuable to consider why someone like Jimi was so special.
nobody in this universe can show you how Jimi played...end of story.
He described my first hearing of Band of Gypsies.I was 14 years old. It's like a calling. And you are never the same again
thanks Joe this was really informative I think I'm going to put out a Jimi Hendrix album now
"My lack of talent was getting annoying." Good one, Satch.
Thank-you JS for explaining JH exactly this way...a brilliant analysis and explanation of how Jimi bypasses all guitar lessons and just plays the instrument because it exists in time and space... I saw JH in downtown Wash.,DC with my friends at the Apollo Theater on 14th St.,NW in 1967...We were the only "white boys" there but the crowd was only staring at the stage...WHAT IS THAT GUY DOING TO THAT STRATOCASTER???? I have been listening since that night and I just turned 70 years old...wish he could have lived..he was just starting his career when he was taken........
Hey Joe nice to hear from u,I'm a big Hendrix fan,same hear,I'm a vocalist,and he was always getting a lot of air play,thankfully,in north Jersey where I'm from,but the first time,I think I heard all along the watch tower(a Dylan song)it was Hendix owning it his sound was so unique,and hearing that he was building his own effect equipment made me appreciate his genius and his singing to...any guitar player will tell u singing and playing is tricky because some times singing part goes a little bit in a different direction,and its hard to play because of the split....Hendrix had a great voice as well,but his guitar sound...I'm a big Deep Purple fan and I just listen to my hero Ritchie talk about how he loved Hendrix witch was respectful and not surprising even Duane Allman was a fan...hey I think we all are,just the fact that he played that right handed guitar upside down blows me away....THANKS
Joe said, I'm gonna talk about Jimi Hendrix. He literally says talk, the title got it wrong, not Joe
Absolutely agree with you!!! Practice and practice and practice, and learn from anyone and everyone you can, and the more difficult a riff is to play, play it more often than the easy stuff.
Wow Satriani talking ABOUt LACK of talent,damn i love this dude!
You didn't 'show' me but dude you're right Satch, I'm hooked on Hendrix. It's a bliss that you BOTH play. I am forever grateful.
when I was 13 I watched the first G3 thing for a year or so. I liked Satch's performance much more than Vai's. I couldnt get around with Steve's egomania and show off-ness. I saw no substance in steve1s playing. Even to this day some people refer to him as a kind of mystical, mysterious, spiritualized guitar player, like a guru or something. To me he is no more mystical than a bodybuilder or something like that. All I could see was "See how good I am, see what I can do with a guitar, love me, I'm the best". Whereas Satch had a much more appealing approach to me in those days, more down to earth. Years later I got to understand Eric Johnson, now he is my favorite of the three. Still respect Satriani a lot. But Steve Vai to me deserves a piece of my shit, stupid egomaniac, I cant stand his fans. I wish steve vai didnt exist. Hendrix had it all done in 1967. I cant stand teenagers who think steve vai created the guitar.
I think you're on to something there but honestly Eric Johnson's tone is less than adequate for how good he really is. It almost sounds like he dunks his amp in a fish tank before he starts playing and just kind of throws the mic in there too to pick up whatever sound might come out of it. For what it's worth, I don't think there is a better guitar player out there than joe. The feeling that gets transferred into the music by itself is just outrageous.
GioGuitarDude I respect every opinion, but I personally rate Steve Vai, Malmsteen and even Satch's tones in the lowest, most vulgar and shallow degree concerning guitar tone. I understand that it requires finesse, ability to understand nuances and a refined sonic comprehension to like EJs tones.
Steve Vai is a showman for sure but if u hear him being interviewed he is a very humble guy.
GioGuitarDude
thumbs up buddy, saw him live. was amazing
exactly how i feel,his stuff is just improvised shit and technique, that sound kinda shitty.But as a player his execution is good, sound wise not so much.
fuck everything else that was one of the most unreal licks ive ever heard and i don't understand why he doesn't play like that more often because that was unbelievable.
How to waste 4 minutes without learning anything new.
sorry to hear your time is so precious that 4 minutes of opinions, from a hugely accomplished and famous guitarist, about The greatest guitarist ever, was something you consider a "waste".
There is more to learn in these 4 min than any meaningless guitar tutorial
This is only part 1 of 6... the rest is on guitar world's web site.
How to play like Hendrix: watch and listen to Hendrix, not this guy
@Joey Racano especially Marino
The first time I heard Hendrix was via SRV playing Voodoo Chile on the original broadcast of his Austin City Limits show. It absolutely blew my fucking head all over the walls and ceiling. When the show was over I had my dad pull all his Hendrix LPs out of the cabinet and I've listened to him or played his music on my guitar almost every day since. The man was a gift from the universe.
No one can play like Hendrix!!And No one can play like Joe!!!! Joe writes his own music!!!
Joe is one of the greatest guitar player in the world! He is as fluid as they come.
Misleading title. He doesn't show how to play, he just talks about Hendrix.
thank you
Hey Joe, I had exactly the same experience with Paganini. Amazing. I couldn't believe it when hearing a piece from him. "Who is that?" What is that?" I was totally taken by it.
This is a really cool dialogue by Satriani. Really like the guy. Nicest guy ever. Not the biggest fan of his music but I think the guy is really cool. Great player don't get me wrong. The title is a bit off though.
Well said Joe. Hendrix was my guitar hero anf friend.
Sorry Joe, love your stuff, but "how to play Like Hendrix"? Not so much...
Hendrix did a lot of ear training and worked with other great musicians, before he became famous. He did play scales -- pentatonic and mixolydian to name two off the top of my head. I think this is a popular misconception. Hendrix sounds very educated to me. Listen to the complexity of his chords and how he moves a melody through the chords like a pianist would. Maybe never read music, but definitely did a lot of sitting down with the guitar and practicing by himself for hours and hours.
this vid should be called, "Joe Satriani rambles on endlessly and never gets to the point"
why i havent read this comment first befor i watched the video ? =(
"Shows How' should be 'Tells How and a Lot of Other Vaguely Related Sidepoints'. ;)
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I love this, just al pointless talk but all passion.
It's called an INTRO....funny how some people need to take any opportunity to criticize. Satriani whoops ass on guitar. He gets to do what he wants. You....however, get to kvetch.
If your living and breathing you've witnessed a inovated genius of Hendrix. No one can duplicate him at all, period. 100,000,000s play his style, but cant be duplicated.
*"dewd"* Even Hendrix struggled to sound like Hendrix when he was playing live on stage.
People don't get this. A million threads on Gear Page forum asking about achieving hendrix tones when hendrix had a thousand different tones.
I have just the same story. In the beginning of 90's when i was something like 7 yo I heard Purple Haze in some tv commercial and then a spark has fired up the flame.
You can't play Hendrix if you don't have soul, like Satriani, Vai, Petrucci, Hammet, etc etc etc
Vai has PLENTY of soul
I remember an old interview maybe Johnny Carson where Jimmy stated he though Terry Kath (Chicago`s founding member) was a monster player who he admired and considered a better player. Jimmy was humble and didn't boast about his playing. Terry was a monster player and was taught by the jazz great Stu Pearce.
Satriani on an Ibanez doesn't sound like Hendrix :-)
I want to like Satriani. He sounds like such a nice guy, and he is for sure skilled. But I really don't like his music and sounds! His technique is for sure sublime!
Of course. You have to have a Strat to play like Hendrix. Just like you need an SG to play like ACDC. Since, ya know, it's the guitar not the player.
I feel the same way about Joe. I admire him as a guitarist, but I don't really get into the genre of music. Hendrix could have played any guitar and it would have sounded fine. I like his version of red house with his SG.
really, if always with me and always with u doesnt hit ur soul then damn man, then theres the summer song. Hes compositions as a solo artist is impressive and yes oddly enough he has a lot of odd sounds going on there in his new album.
The idea that you can't play Hendrix on anything other than a Strat is absolute bollocks
Stuck in the 70's ?
I feel I can totally sound like Jimi after watching this video. All I need is a guitar, lessons and talent. Well maybe some stacks of Marshalls. The details here about the secrets of Jimi are just amazing. You just have to play the video backwards to hear it. If you just click on the video it's just some guy talking.
TO MUCH TALK AND NOT ENOUGH ACTION !
A really nice, informed talk about Jimi. Especially liked the description of his non-technique. Nice one.
Eric Johnson sounds the most like Hendrix.
@Mattydilly you're right man. the solo off the winterland version is mind blowing
I reckon heavy drug usage does tend to set the mind free ...
free but you can't go back to reality lol
i reckon you're right
***** how old am I? What's your bussines? Me being ignorant? Am I suggesting people to o drugs? Think before you comment.
***** wtf with you? I'm not encouraging anyone to do that shit. Read again my comment. You must be misunderstanding my comment. Gosh what a judgemental person you are. I feel sorry for your wife.
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LOL! You accuse me I'm promoting drugs. Show me when I said that? I only said you could never go back. Gosh, human stupidity never ceaces to amaze me. Congratulation old troll. LOL!
Jimi was tapped into the source of music on some cosmic level . With him it was largely intuitive.
I like Satch a little less after this.
Thats the best satch model guitar. 24 frets, white and awesome. Luvin it!!!
its so true what he said about jimmy. joe, you are my hero and jimmy was my fav.
Hey i am so old i remenber Joe with long hair lol !
Respect!
That what turn me on about his playing he as blues rock foundation i love Hendrix to he could make his guitar talk on great songs with plenty of feel and soul !
So long tine ago: we all love Jimi, so why is that? I am also so addicted to his sound, dont know why that os. I just play his songs in my band Station Four here in South Germany. I play the guitar with my teeth and mouth and that, yeah ....
Just need to start with part two
@LeeChavezMusic that's the new JS2400 model , that's a singlecoil size humbucker designed to emulate the DiMarzio PAF Joe.
There's a video of Joe testing it out here on the U Tube
No one will ever play like Jimi. Best you can do is try to understand him as an artist, the times he lived in, how he heard things and what he was trying to do. 👍 Satch.
really a very nice video. Honest and informative, you can tell he really loves Jimi Hendrix's music.
Agreed; my only complaint is that the title is 100% false advertising.
@Antiks72 Everybody has his own style mate. But let me ask you since you are wondering.....What do you think is easier? Page to play Satch or Vais songs or the opposite?Food for thought.
I was just back from the Vietnam war, and Hendrix was the most amazing person, he and Johnny Winter. Had heard a lot of Beatles, Doors, and Cream overseas but not much Hendrix until then. His music, he, was so profound, it was like every new album I said hey hold on Jimi, I just got used to your last album don't do this to me! His Band of Gypsies album was an 18-wheeled sledgehammer of an album with a space all its own and incredibly soulful.
a very interesting & gracious tribute by Satch
"I don't play guitar, I play amplifier." -Jimi
This is great to hear him speak this way about Jimi!
LSD helped define hendrix' style. he was already brilliant, of course, but it enhanced what he became.
That is some tasty 17 seconds of guitar. I don't understand why any rock guitar enthusiast would not dig that. I wish I could pull it off.
I got super baked and played guitar and sounded like Jimi Hendrix, lesson adjourned.
When Clapton first saw Jimi play, he said "He's like Buddy Guy on acid" :)
Joe, Im 51..... I totally had the same experience........ it was like star wars and the confusion of an intelligent guy........... I was almost on my knees.
You know who Hendrix played like? Himself. Nosce Ipsum - Know Thyself. To thine own self be true. The reason we all love certain musicians is because they are themselves.. Don't try to be them because you'll fail anyway. An artist speaks to the world because he must. Let out the thing that wants to create and rest will take care of itself.
Well said
i met joe before, he wouldent even shake my hand when he was off camera, but he did sign my guitar
Those are great honest insights on Hendrix thank you Satriani.
I agree went to the website and the rest of the interveiw isnt even their anymore.
@Gonzoidz
I'm not a kid and if YOU are left cold by Vai that is fine. A lot of people find his playing clinical and overly technical....at times I have the same issue with Vai. Having said that songs like 'Call it Sleep' or 'Blue Powder' or 'For the Love of God' are songs that take me on journeys that are as vast as any other musical piece I can think of in guitardom.
As a child, Joe Satriani said he lacked talent? Very humble for an excellent guitar player.
Thanks Steve.
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@danogzilla Yes I heard Miles say that too in an interview. Jimi didnt know anything about music theory but once you played it for him he'd be like "oh yeah i dig that" and play along right away. Would have loved to hear them play together so much.
Jimi was one of those people who seen the world throw different eye's but he was DAMN GOOD
I thought the same thing when I heard Van Halen the first time, but Hendrix RULZ also. I think Eruption melted my mind when I was 8 years old.
Joe u are one of my all time guitar guy I love your playing beside Jimi Hendrix...I saw video that was posted by Texas Blues Alley on line guitar lesson he made a comment about Jimi Hendrix he said Jimi's guitar playing is hard to play or even to sound like him and why u can't sound like him is because his playing is all CAYUSE I've been playing all my life from 12 years old till today i'am 63 years old now flowing you and Jimi most of my life and to here something like this about Jimi just did not sit well with me can I please have your a pinion on this.../ THANK U JOE....
Alright, Joe, I wanna see a vid of you back on drums!!
And ol' Campitelli on the guitar!! :D
He is having a conversation with Jimi through the guitar.
RIP ):
The masters of rock right on.bring back rock.
I watched this video...I can now play like Hendrix! :D
hendrix made his axe sound like a wild beast snarling and screeching,,god like !
The reason Hendrix sounds different is because he was self taught and, quite honestly, didn't know what he was doing, but in a good way. He wasn't taught to play in the standard way. He had is guitar upside down, he learned on old crappy instruments his own way, he was introverted and worked within his own mind making his music. He honestly did things many ways that students would be taught not to do them. So that's why he was so different and original, and this same thing is true of many of the original black blues players, who also learned in similar ways - on their own, with crappy instruments, often without much guidance or with guidance from other guys who also "did it all wrong". He invented his own chords and scales, etc. because he was winging it on his own. So, guys like Satriani will never be able to play like him, nor will I nor most other people who learn guitar in any kind of structured or traditional way.
A generation has come that has heard hundreds of guitarists who stand on Jimi's shoulders, and they wonder, what's all the fuss about? If they had the historical context of what was contemporaneous with Jimi, perhaps they'd understand. We didn't have anyone even near to him, and that was just the sound. But when you saw him too, the effect was awe-inspiring. (No MTV) Hendrix' effect on me was like what Satch describes, though he took it much further than I. Jimi founded modern electric guitar.
@Gonzoidz: Morello might have shifted more since he started playing, but he still has a long way to go to match up to Satriani or Vai. Both of them are much better technically and musically, than Morello has shown so far.. and probably always will be so. Joe& Vai can take an acoustic guitar and make it sound soulful. Morello needs to play with a lot of electronics to make all those sounds he does.
This dudes baked like a cookie.
i never really appreciated how much jimi played guitar with his tongue. thanks joe.
@Mattydilly I agree where Joe is coming from, because it is often forgotten that a guitar genius' skill, such as Hendrix's, is particularly unique and profound in the way that it is expressed. Hendrix wrote amazing songs AND played amazing guitar. He wasn't just a showman. Therefore technical proficiency disolves into the background when truly examining the greatest guitarists. In my opinion. It is also true that someone may feel more from a Satriani song than a Hendrix song, yes,
Lesson?
Wow yes,that was really some great Hendrix.
Yeah ! where is the Hendrix demo ?
where are the other parts?