@@A10011I was in a 60s cover band for 5 years. Worked very hard at trying to teach myself and my bandmates all the nuance that only tribute bands have. We did all the great 60s stuff…sometimes 50 songs a night..by the end our playing as a band was pretty tight. But I cringe when I hear the singing. And I also had a hard time dealing with it when performing. Our playing sounded like the albums, but the singing sucked.
I just started playing guitar about two years ago, between shoulder surgeries. Hendrix and Peter Green really get the juices flowing and who someday I can come close too. @officialTimpierceGuiter
@@pulsarlights2825 nope. It was 1965. Hendrix was out and about then. Also, living in Oregon, we knew about Jimi before he was famous. He was a star in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1960s.
Hendrix had a massive impact on guitarists everywhere. I had the pleasure of seeing him live, every guitarists in town attended, and all of them were stunned! So natural, great songs and riffs , completely effortless.
@@lqr824 interesting thought. But Stevie tore his fingertips off and had to glue them back on. Maybe you are thinking of particular songs that were more easy going... I think we agree on Clapton not being as noteworthy as the crowds would have it. Cocaine live, though. Amazing and inventive unlike most of his other solos. Songwriting is another matter. Blue Jean blues, Motherless children, good stuff.
FWIW, but I think what established Clapton was he was the first in a short line of guitar players. It started before Cream, when he was with the Yardbirds, and then John Mayal. His reputation was established long before in bands that didn't challenge his talents. Can anyone name the bass and drums of those early efforts? Listen to the live records of Cream. It sounds like a war or knife fight with samurai swords. What would we say, if EC died when he was 27? @@MegaByrds
His guitar faces creep people out 😂 We’re all having fun once you get past a certain point of fretboard fluency, but this guys huge smiles have always creeped me out. He looks like he’s wearing a flesh suit and his face is smiling but his eyes aren’t 😂
@@jeffro. you just have to get to the point where you can improvise without looking. Then you can make any face you want lol. For you or anyone who doesn’t know - the key is really as simple as learning that first position of the minor pentatonic scale, then learn to improvise with that in whatever key. Cool thing about guitar is that changing key is as simple as moving all your shapes up or down a few frets. Not to mansplain but just for anybody reading who wants to be able to close your eyes and play musically instead of feeling like trying to copy. What u wanna do is start with that first position minor pentatonic shape in say A so that would be for each string E 5-8 A 5-7 D 5-7 G 5-7 B 5-8 e 5-8 those would be the frets for each string for position 1 of A minor pentatonic, what anybody who doesn’t know would wanna do is put on a backing track on youtube search for an Aminor backing track and like magic all those notes i just named will work and sound in-key. You can now play an improvised guitar solo. Try different combinations of those notes out, you don’t have to always go in order either. Anyway I know this is long winded but that simple thing unlocked the door for me into being musical on the guitar and got me hooked big time, because I had always struggled to feel comfortable playing rhythm guitar- but that one little thing set me off down the road of being a lead player who can improvise over anything on the spot in any key. Just gotta learn that shape, then work on adding a few more shapes like the albert king and BB boxes, then learn some modes like aeolian and mixolydian. Anyway, that got me to start being able to close my eyes and play with my soul. Just a tip for anybody else out there. Changed my world. Just don’t have creepy cheshire cat grin type guitar faces
Hendrix had hands that were immense which allowed him to do things that the average person could never do. However, coupled with being a musical savant, this made for his sweeping talent! Thanks for a great video, Tim!
Yeah… true. But he was also unfortunately a very weak person by all accounts. No backbone, alcoholic, drug addict, and quite the womanizer. Besides his music, he had zero sense of direction, self worth and any personal discipline. This is why he died so young. Still love his immense contributions to rock guitar and music history nonetheless.
He died young because the EMT allowed him to choke on his own vomit whilst in their care. Sure Jimi had his issues but at 27 who didn’t? He had his shit together enough to serve in the Army. I thought he was very articulate and was very well respected by his peers whom were predominantly white. Take a lap Mr. Perfect.
How does he do it? I’m a guitar teacher and have been seeking this feature but can’t find out whether it’s painstakingly animated or if there’s some software that’ll do the job!
Also amazing he wrote the tunes! I used play in a band with a guy that went to MI in Los Angeles and he would mention how sloppy Page could be and I would say yeah but he wrote those tunes.
I've been playing a longgggg time and Jimi is my guy but when I heard the ISO track on Wait Until Tomorrow I was blown away!!! It was like every R&B lick known to man in one tune.... Incredible!!!
Tim one of my favorite guitarists and my hands down favorite teacher. I started playing when I was 9. now I'm 70. My dad was a pro guitarist so I had a jump on most people around. Tim I've learned so much from your videos. Don Felder, Tom Petty ,Steve Stills, Steve Morse (Ocala) Bo Didley all from Gainesville Florida where I grew up we had a big music scene. Tim can you only imagine if we 'd had the internet and the knowledge we can dig up online today? Tim if you happen to read this I would love to see you do a video on Ain't No Telling off Axis Bold as Love. I've been playing it for years and I'd like to know the right way. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into teaching us all. (Russell)
His years on the Chitlin' circuit backing up so many of those soul/R&B bands totally contributed to Hendrix's loose but accurate groove style of rhythm.
Tim, listen very closely to the main opening lick. You missed another great Jimi-Ism as I call them. The first triad is of course the C#-E-A (A) after the first E but the second time he moves the E (G string, 9th fret) up a whole step to an F# (relative minor, G string 11th fret) for a F# min triad, C#-F#-A. Another one of his slights of hand that no-one catches but it is what makes the song sound different. He always changed everything constantly. He doesn't do that through the song but at the beginning, it sounds right. Try it.
Hi Tim. Ive been watching you for awhile now and I love that you're adding in more explanation in your breakdowns. Explaining all the triad shapes and changes in these songs has really helped me understand how this all relates to the chord shapes around the neck. Ive been playing a long time and learned by ear with tape cassettes but was never taught the CAGED or triad shapes until now and its unlocked a whole new understanding. Please continue to share your knowledge. The world is a better place with this channel around! Thanks
Tim you seem to know all Jimi's tricks. When I hear you play Hendrix it sounds identical to how Jimi's playing it. Thanks for teaching me the right way. It sounds way better.
I was raised on Jimi too. Started playing at 12 also,cand here I am at 50, still astounded by man and his playing! Greetings and best wishes from the UK 🙏🇬🇧🎸👍
As a lefty, Jimi was my everything. The 1st record i bought w/ my own $$ was Axis... started playing abt 10 yrs after he left us- he was still shining very brightly to a skinny nerdy white kid in Pittsburgh. Ps- he was born exactly 1 day after my mom!
I'm old, a little arthritic, and can't read a note of music. I used to play decently, and then life happened! A lot of it!! Will lessons from you work for me, or must I read? Thank you so much for reinforcing the fact that music, and musicians are a positive force!!
Thanks, Tim, for featuring this great rhythm guitar playing on "Wait 'til Tomorrow", one of my favorite songs of Mr. Hendrix. I actually was more impressed with his rhythm guitar playing and song ideas than I was of his soloing (even though his solos were amazing).
best chord progressions in the game. I think it's one of many reasons ppl find him magical. It's really the Curtis Mayfield Gospel/Blues double stop Rhythm/lead and bass together
Tim, your lead part in Waite's "Change" is still my favorite short lead. Crisp. precise, imaginative, and that punch-in-the-nose two-note (chord) finish that eluded my sense of its timing for a week -- it doesn't get any better. A lasting contribution to the art of rock guitar.
Back in the day when that Hendrix nude cover was released my buddy had some good stuff that almost made them move around like yours did in opening segments of this clip .😆😉. Anyway way cool little mini -course you put on for us all today . Mucho thanks Tim 😎👍
For well over 50 years, I have felt that Jimi's biggest achievements and high points were really in rhythm guitar, and making it *feel* like lead. It's what allowed the power trio to feel like a much bigger band. The rhythm playing on "Wait 'Til Tomorrow" was always the benchmark for me. It's not a big stretch from that to Dan Hartman's rhythm work on the Edgar Winter Group's tune "Free Ride". Both are predated by Terry Smith's rhythm playing on J.J. Jackson's "But It's Alright", itself likely inspired by Steve Cropper. There is a moment on Hendrix's later recording of "Night Bird Flying" at the 2:00 mark that is *pure* Steve Cropper, where he strums across a chord and suddenly mutes it. Brilliant. No Fuzz Face required. Indeed, much of Jimi's best work is "clean".
You're my favourite TH-cam guitarist. We're probably similar ages. I gave up for 10 years or so ,it's definently hard to learn over again when you're 50
How did he come up with all of these genius ideas being completely self taught? I have been playing for nearly 30 years (all self taught) and it has done nothing but hold me back and keep me from excelling. Hendrix was just one of those rare geniuses like Mozart or Bach.
First time I heard Hendrix was in 1967, Vietnam. We came out of the field and a new guy had a portable record player and had and a few albums. One was Hendrix. The speaker was probably a 3 inch job on this guys player. All of us where like WTH is this! When I went back to the world I found out. Great times for music as the decade ended and the 70s started. Then the destroyer of worlds showed up, DISCO, and it crushed the great music down to the pedestrian beat. But the revival started in the 80s with EVH etc.....
Tim Pierce, you are hands-down the best when it comes to Jimi Hendrix !! You really bring out the beauty and you are an amazing guitar player in your own right. You inspire me to go over the edge and buy a Stratocaster and try to do this. Your presentation is also amazing and much easier to follow then anyone else. Thank you🙏.
@@timpierceguitar This Hendrix rhythm stuff is great but the stylistic detail seems to always sound like him. How much rhythm playing after him in the 70s was influenced by him but didn't sound obviously derivative like Robin Trower ( although I do like Trower's playing) ? I don't know if the question makes sense but what I'm trying to get at is how can we use some of these Hendrix triads and dyads and have it not bring Hendrix to mind. I suppose don't use some of the ornamentation. Pat Metheny is also known for his used of triad inversions. I wonder if the triad pair concept form jazz, Coltrane stuff could be adapted into rock and then a little bit Hendrix-ized but not to much for instance in E Major, all of this played in sequence A C# E B D# F# C# E A D# F# B E A C# F# B D# Maybe this could actually be played with a little of Hendrix ornamentation because in this case the progression is not what he would play, the flip side of that being if you did play a progression similar to his then put some ornamentation on it unlike what he would do or add a triad or resolution he wouldn't use. Then if you're playing a very Metheny-esque progression add some Hendrix juice to it, recipe proportions but all this sounds good as hypothesis but how would it actually sound
Have to correct you about the Electric Ladyland cover artwork. The naked girls sleeve was the British release, and that image remained as the standard cover in the UK until the mid-1990s CD remasters. Even the first UK CD release used it. But the design was never used in the USA.
Man! That is some awesome stuff! I've never gotten into Hendrix thinking it was too much for my pea size brain but you make it look doable... and the notes to the right are a big help, thanks a bunch!!
First, you have to be a songwriting genius - music and lyrics. Then, you have to have the chops to translate your great song to the guitar. Piece of cake.
Tim I have watch quite a few of your videos. The next statements are not a downgrade but a compliment. Most of the time you are just rushing and not showing people what you are doing. I know you are a great guitar player. This video is great! I think you have shown people that want to take your online lessons what they will get in a way. Be safe and wishing you and your family all the best!
Hey Tim, you just demonstrated why I love to play ‘so loose;’ never associated it to Hendrix before! I think this may be my new fav’guitar video and I’m gonna totally absorb all of it. 👍🏼
I can play like Hendrix but its just not my style of playing. I forced myself years back to play with my thumb and learn those embellishments he does so well that it was second nature. But I just like to play a more jazzy style of playing chords using barre chords and how i do little embellishments is almost like a jazz and bluegrass mix. I started off learning on a classical guitar with a *SUPER thick* but short neck. I think that factor effected how i play and think about playing guitar much more than my influences in music. Even after my classical guitar i went to a steel string acoustic Washburn for several years, and i still have that guitar. Its had alot of work done but its an amazing Washburn from the early 80s. But yeah, i tried to mimic what i was hearing and what i loved to listen to, but i think more than anything my families poverty and lack of instrument choices shaped how i play more than any other single factor. We was dirt poor, going without electricity for periods of time in the Appalachian mountains. So i played whatever my dad stole or found in a dumpster or where ever he got those things from. Lmao. He'd just show up with a bunch of crap and we'd sift through it to see what we got.
I sincerely apologize for enjoying so many of you videos and being a space case regarding the like button!!! I hope I'm speaking for many who will go back and like your previous videos to make up for it. I've never done that for anyone, but you certainly deserve it my musical friend 🎸🎵🎶
Not only was Hendrix a great and creative musician, he was also an intelligent and well spoken man who had clear idea's about how he wanted things to be, and I think you can also see that in the handwritten letter...
Axis bold as love is guitar bible on rhythm blues chops. People don’t really hear it, because someone stole master recording before in 67 before released. The experience had one day to re-record most songs on axis and according to Mitch Mitchell it wasn’t the same. And that was it, they released it.
Once you held up "Axis Bold As Love", I knew exactly which track you were going to play. As a kid, I spent hours on it, trying to understand what I was hearing. Thank you.
Hendrix AINT easy folks. Sounding like a song he did is far easier than figuring out where Hendrix goes on his progression in the song. The complexity of Hendrix goes way beyond the triad like most people have you think. Listen to the fills on live performances to know what you are getting into before ever thinking its easy to even begin playing like Hendrix. Van Halen is far easier than copying intertwining lead and rhythm on a Hendrix level.
This is fn great. For those of us who came after Hendrix, we are bound by knowing that there is perceived effortless perfection that we will all try to use as a tool in our own vernaculars, but will all fall short… which is ok.
@Tim Pierce Guitar Hi there Tim, well done clip you did here. I have all editions by Jimi of the E-Ladyland. Here in Germany we were not so prude about nuditity like other Countries. Same goes with the Poster inside of Queen`s Jazz album. Jimi wasn`t in fact not so happy with the outcome of the Photographies indeed. My personal favorite to this day is the Axxis Album, although I have a ton of Hendrix Albums, I collected over the decades. Many Bootlegs are taken from the same tapes and were copied out to the max, only showing different Cover Art Works. I am glad Eddie Kramer released so many Albums for the Hendrix Family with such great sound to them. Not like the Bootlegs, or the official Albums that came out right after Jimi passed away, because there were only 4 original Henrix Albums back at the time he was alive.Thanx for doing this clip, Mate.
The dyads and triads are part of whole barre chords. Good way to play if you have an accompanying bass guitar. If playing solo and fingerstyle you can use the whole chord and certain inversions to play a fuller version. There are only a few chord shapes involved so it's not too difficult. Most of us play solo so worth learning.
That’s a killer Hardtail Tim. Hardtail strats punch so hard and have a mojo that’s totally overlooked. Loose and accurate is the perfect description of Hendrix and I’d say it’s descriptive of EVH too, Gotta have that swang!!
Thanks Tim . This is one of my favourite JH songs , the guitar playing is masterful and feels like it was mostly improvised the lyrics are great as well . Jimi was a genius.
About the "Electric Ladyland", there were also some other cover art made for french/belgian releases. One of them is a photograph taken by Alain Dister, a french journalist and photographer, and I've got a copy illustrated by the french sci-fi artist Philippe Druillet.
Not only was Jimi a great guitar innovator, but he sang over those chops. Adds another level of complexity to his genius.
It took me 25 years to fully grasp the level of genius in Hendrix.
@@ChristiaanBurgelMany people just don’t get it at all.
@@A10011I was in a 60s cover band for 5 years. Worked very hard at trying to teach myself and my bandmates all the nuance that only tribute bands have. We did all the great 60s stuff…sometimes 50 songs a night..by the end our playing as a band was pretty tight. But I cringe when I hear the singing. And I also had a hard time dealing with it when performing. Our playing sounded like the albums, but the singing sucked.
He had no use for this world that just could not appreciate him.
Even at 73, I still enjoy that amazing Hendrix sound. it never get old
I just started playing guitar about two years ago, between shoulder surgeries. Hendrix and Peter Green really get the juices flowing and who someday I can come close too. @officialTimpierceGuiter
His sound is a standard ❤❤❤
Because it is real music playing a real instrument... and no computers, either.
You've got me by ten years, but I'm right there with you my friend!
Hey man. 73's the new 23. Rock n roll transcends all barriers.
I am 71 now and Hendrix got me playing guitar when I was 13.
58 years, three bands and several CDs.
Thank you, Jimi.
How did you hear Hendrix when you were 13? That would have been before he had released any music, right?
@@pulsarlights2825 nope. It was 1965.
Hendrix was out and about then.
Also, living in Oregon, we knew about Jimi before he was famous. He was a star in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1960s.
Hendrix had a massive impact on guitarists everywhere. I had the pleasure of seeing him live, every guitarists in town attended, and all of them were stunned! So natural, great songs and riffs , completely effortless.
incredible RnB is what I hear in so much of his music.. I always felt that was the key to his rhythm playing
Bold As Love has always been my favorite Hendrix album. I could not stop listening to it as a kid. It was all so beautiful & seemingly effortless.
And to think Jimi wasn't happy with it when released & thought it needed more work.
"Effortless" is a great word for Hendrix and SRV that you wouldn't use with say Clapton.
I remember being surprised at how light and funky it sounded, especially compared to Are You Experienced.
@@lqr824 interesting thought. But Stevie tore his fingertips off and had to glue them back on. Maybe you are thinking of particular songs that were more easy going... I think we agree on Clapton not being as noteworthy as the crowds would have it. Cocaine live, though. Amazing and inventive unlike most of his other solos. Songwriting is another matter. Blue Jean blues, Motherless children, good stuff.
FWIW, but I think what established Clapton was he was the first in a short line of guitar players. It started before Cream, when he was with the Yardbirds, and then John Mayal. His reputation was established long before in bands that didn't challenge his talents. Can anyone name the bass and drums of those early efforts? Listen to the live records of Cream. It sounds like a war or knife fight with samurai swords. What would we say, if EC died when he was 27? @@MegaByrds
Very Cool! I still have my original "Are You Experienced" album that I bought with my allowance in 1967 just as I turned 10 years old.
I can have the crappiest day ever, but when I come across one of Tim’s videos, everything is made right again!
good grief
@officialTimpierceGuiter you’re as official as Biden and just as much a joke.
I’m 64 and I still am crazy about Hendrix! I do so appreciate his playing as well as his writing genius
@@clementineforever 😂 What a lovely thought. If only he did get a long life.
Jimi is my main man! Allways sweet rhythm parts. His music is endless and timless.
The sheer joy on your face when you play is beyond words.
His guitar faces creep people out 😂
We’re all having fun once you get past a certain point of fretboard fluency, but this guys huge smiles have always creeped me out. He looks like he’s wearing a flesh suit and his face is smiling but his eyes aren’t 😂
@@WithCarePlz:
You're strange, you don't speak for anyone but yerself.
I've always said that!
I wish I looked like that when I play.
@@jeffro. you just have to get to the point where you can improvise without looking.
Then you can make any face you want lol. For you or anyone who doesn’t know - the key is really as simple as learning that first position of the minor pentatonic scale, then learn to improvise with that in whatever key. Cool thing about guitar is that changing key is as simple as moving all your shapes up or down a few frets. Not to mansplain but just for anybody reading who wants to be able to close your eyes and play musically instead of feeling like trying to copy. What u wanna do is start with that first position minor pentatonic shape in say A so that would be for each string E 5-8 A 5-7 D 5-7 G 5-7 B 5-8 e 5-8 those would be the frets for each string for position 1 of A minor pentatonic, what anybody who doesn’t know would wanna do is put on a backing track on youtube search for an Aminor backing track and like magic all those notes i just named will work and sound in-key. You can now play an improvised guitar solo. Try different combinations of those notes out, you don’t have to always go in order either. Anyway I know this is long winded but that simple thing unlocked the door for me into being musical on the guitar and got me hooked big time, because I had always struggled to feel comfortable playing rhythm guitar- but that one little thing set me off down the road of being a lead player who can improvise over anything on the spot in any key. Just gotta learn that shape, then work on adding a few more shapes like the albert king and BB boxes, then learn some modes like aeolian and mixolydian. Anyway, that got me to start being able to close my eyes and play with my soul. Just a tip for anybody else out there. Changed my world. Just don’t have creepy cheshire cat grin type guitar faces
yeah. not so. a piano, just horizontal , Guitar horizontal and vertical@@WithCarePlz
Jimi’s rhythm work, was brilliant and so nuanced, I never get tired of listening to it
Hendrix had hands that were immense which allowed him to do things that the average person could never do. However, coupled with being a musical savant, this made for his sweeping talent! Thanks for a great video, Tim!
a thumb to envy
Yeah… true.
But he was also unfortunately a very weak person by all accounts.
No backbone, alcoholic, drug addict, and quite the womanizer.
Besides his music, he had zero sense of direction, self worth and any personal discipline.
This is why he died so young.
Still love his immense contributions to rock guitar and music history nonetheless.
He died young because the EMT allowed him to choke on his own vomit whilst in their care. Sure Jimi had his issues but at 27 who didn’t? He had his shit together enough to serve in the Army. I thought he was very articulate and was very well respected by his peers whom were predominantly white.
Take a lap Mr. Perfect.
BINGO, ad a real black soul, an obsession with constant practice and well we all know
Hendrix wasn’t an alcoholic. He was black, true. Heard he was a reincarnated white man though. Suspicious
Thank you for this video.
I have been listening to Jimi Hendrix since high school. At 71, he is still a treat for the ears.
Tim, thank you so much for the fret board illustrations which really helped in not only listening but seeing the chords, too. A great feature!!
James
How does he do it? I’m a guitar teacher and have been seeking this feature but can’t find out whether it’s painstakingly animated or if there’s some software that’ll do the job!
@@dannyrussell1168 Why don't you ask him? Seems like a helpful guy.
Amazing that he is also performing the vocals while playing this song.
So much to learn from these greats, with Jimi being one of the greatest.
Also amazing he wrote the tunes! I used play in a band with a guy that went to MI in Los Angeles and he would mention how sloppy Page could be and I would say yeah but he wrote those tunes.
@@Pulse2AM Very True
I'd describe much of Page and Hendrix's playing as carefree and spontaneous, from the heart & soul.
@@Pulse2AMexactly 😉
Yes!
Same here on playing the guitar at age 12 back in the 60's. Greatest years of music this country ever had or will ever have again.
I've been playing a longgggg time and Jimi is my guy but when I heard the ISO track on Wait Until Tomorrow I was blown away!!! It was like every R&B lick known to man in one tune.... Incredible!!!
I agree my brother. It's so fluid
Jimi, El Becko and EVH are in a completely different building. Pure genius.
You are a joy to watch. Your personality and technical abilities are excellent
he is one cool dude 👍🏻
Jimi Hendrix played his guitars up to and over 12 hours a day. THAT makes for a greater guitarist. He also had large hands and astral consciousness.
Tim one of my favorite guitarists and my hands down favorite teacher. I started playing when I was 9. now I'm 70. My dad was a pro guitarist so I had a jump on most people around. Tim I've learned so much from your videos. Don Felder, Tom Petty ,Steve Stills, Steve Morse (Ocala) Bo Didley all from Gainesville Florida where I grew up we had a big music scene.
Tim can you only imagine if we 'd had the internet and the knowledge we can dig up online today? Tim if you happen to read this I would love to see you do a video on Ain't No Telling off Axis Bold as Love. I've been playing it for years and I'd like to know the right way. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into teaching us all. (Russell)
His years on the Chitlin' circuit backing up so many of those soul/R&B bands totally contributed to Hendrix's loose but accurate groove style of rhythm.
Exactly!
Precisely
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Tim, listen very closely to the main opening lick. You missed another great Jimi-Ism as I call them. The first triad is of course the C#-E-A (A) after the first E but the second time he moves the E (G string, 9th fret) up a whole step to an F# (relative minor, G string 11th fret) for a F# min triad, C#-F#-A. Another one of his slights of hand that no-one catches but it is what makes the song sound different. He always changed everything constantly. He doesn't do that through the song but at the beginning, it sounds right. Try it.
Hi Tim. Ive been watching you for awhile now and I love that you're adding in more explanation in your breakdowns. Explaining all the triad shapes and changes in these songs has really helped me understand how this all relates to the chord shapes around the neck. Ive been playing a long time and learned by ear with tape cassettes but was never taught the CAGED or triad shapes until now and its unlocked a whole new understanding. Please continue to share your knowledge. The world is a better place with this channel around! Thanks
Tim you seem to know all Jimi's tricks. When I hear you play Hendrix it sounds identical to how Jimi's playing it. Thanks for teaching me the right way. It sounds way better.
I was raised on Jimi too. Started playing at 12 also,cand here I am at 50, still astounded by man and his playing!
Greetings and best wishes from the UK 🙏🇬🇧🎸👍
As a lefty, Jimi was my everything. The 1st record i bought w/ my own $$ was Axis... started playing abt 10 yrs after he left us- he was still shining very brightly to a skinny nerdy white kid in Pittsburgh.
Ps- he was born exactly 1 day after my mom!
I'm old, a little arthritic, and can't read a note of music. I used to play decently, and then life happened! A lot of it!! Will lessons from you work for me, or must I read? Thank you so much for reinforcing the fact that music, and musicians are a positive force!!
No need to read just watch the lesson and you’ll learn
Thanks, Tim, for featuring this great rhythm guitar playing on "Wait 'til Tomorrow", one of my favorite songs of Mr. Hendrix. I actually was more impressed with his rhythm guitar playing and song ideas than I was of his soloing (even though his solos were amazing).
best chord progressions in the game. I think it's one of many reasons ppl find him magical. It's really the Curtis Mayfield Gospel/Blues double stop Rhythm/lead and bass together
Perfect description!!!
Hey Tim, as always your videos are rich with content and truly inspirational.
Thank Tim! I have to add that while Hendrix was doing all that, he was also singing. That adds another dimension to his genius.
Was it not recorded separately when in the studio? Seems like even back then with tape that would be the obvious choice for a producer.
Thanks Tim. When break down these songs you help musicians and the world see the genius behind Jimi’s work. Just amazing stuff.
Tim you have such intimate knowledge of Jimi’s genius, so good to see how its done in slow down mode. Alex in Norway.
Tim, your lead part in Waite's "Change" is still my favorite short lead. Crisp. precise, imaginative, and that punch-in-the-nose two-note (chord) finish that eluded my sense of its timing for a week -- it doesn't get any better. A lasting contribution to the art of rock guitar.
Back in the day when that Hendrix nude cover was released my buddy had some good stuff that almost made them move around like yours did in opening segments of this clip .😆😉. Anyway way cool little mini -course you put on for us all today . Mucho thanks Tim 😎👍
For well over 50 years, I have felt that Jimi's biggest achievements and high points were really in rhythm guitar, and making it *feel* like lead. It's what allowed the power trio to feel like a much bigger band. The rhythm playing on "Wait 'Til Tomorrow" was always the benchmark for me. It's not a big stretch from that to Dan Hartman's rhythm work on the Edgar Winter Group's tune "Free Ride". Both are predated by Terry Smith's rhythm playing on J.J. Jackson's "But It's Alright", itself likely inspired by Steve Cropper. There is a moment on Hendrix's later recording of "Night Bird Flying" at the 2:00 mark that is *pure* Steve Cropper, where he strums across a chord and suddenly mutes it. Brilliant. No Fuzz Face required. Indeed, much of Jimi's best work is "clean".
You're my favourite TH-cam guitarist. We're probably similar ages. I gave up for 10 years or so ,it's definently hard to learn over again when you're 50
How did he come up with all of these genius ideas being completely self taught? I have been playing for nearly 30 years (all self taught) and it has done nothing but hold me back and keep me from excelling. Hendrix was just one of those rare geniuses like Mozart or Bach.
Same here. Exactly.
Hendrix imagination and writing was and is amazing. There have been and are some great guitar players but name one who wrote so many great pieces.
Gee whiz, Tim! Another fantastic and informative video! You are awesome. Thank you.
Thanks for bringing me back to Hendrix!!
Thank you Tim,this tune has always been a foot stomper….his music is a great addition to being alive…☮️🎶🔛🌎
Thats cool Tim thanks!
I have the original cover of Electric Ladyland and Are You Experienced! Jimi is my all time favorite!
😎✌️❤️
Great tablature illustration with purple note positions. Along with watching you play it’s the best teaching instrument I’ve ever seen.
First time I heard Hendrix was in 1967, Vietnam. We came out of the field and a new guy had a portable record player and had and a few albums. One was Hendrix. The speaker was probably a 3 inch job on this guys player. All of us where like WTH is this! When I went back to the world I found out. Great times for music as the decade ended and the 70s started. Then the destroyer of worlds showed up, DISCO, and it crushed the great music down to the pedestrian beat. But the revival started in the 80s with EVH etc.....
I got into disco through the bass of Bernard Edwards. A lot of great music in the disco/funk/dance side of things too.
Tim, You are a genius! You belong to all genres of music, all periods in history and style!
Tim Pierce, you are hands-down the best when it comes to Jimi Hendrix !! You really bring out the beauty and you are an amazing guitar player in your own right. You inspire me to go over the edge and buy a Stratocaster and try to do this. Your presentation is also amazing and much easier to follow then anyone else. Thank you🙏.
Wow, thank you!
@@timpierceguitar This Hendrix rhythm stuff is great but the stylistic detail seems to always sound like him. How much rhythm playing after him in the 70s was influenced by him but didn't sound obviously derivative like Robin Trower ( although I do like Trower's playing) ?
I don't know if the question makes sense but what I'm trying to get at is how can we use some of these Hendrix triads and dyads and have it not bring Hendrix to mind. I suppose don't use some of the ornamentation. Pat Metheny is also known for his used of triad inversions.
I wonder if the triad pair concept form jazz, Coltrane stuff could be adapted into rock and then a little bit Hendrix-ized but not to much
for instance in E Major, all of this played in sequence
A C# E
B D# F#
C# E A
D# F# B
E A C#
F# B D#
Maybe this could actually be played with a little of Hendrix ornamentation because in this case the progression is not what he would play,
the flip side of that being if you did play a progression similar to his then put some ornamentation on it unlike what he would do or add a triad or resolution he wouldn't use.
Then if you're playing a very Metheny-esque progression add some Hendrix juice to it, recipe proportions
but all this sounds good as hypothesis but how would it actually sound
You're a boss for doing so well showing off the true art of the LP. Lovely work as always ❤
Thank you Tim for a fantastic lesson. The neck/chord graphics are a great addition to the lesson. Well done!
Have to correct you about the Electric Ladyland cover artwork. The naked girls sleeve was the British release, and that image remained as the standard cover in the UK until the mid-1990s CD remasters. Even the first UK CD release used it. But the design was never used in the USA.
Man! That is some awesome stuff! I've never gotten into Hendrix thinking it was too much for my pea size brain but you make it look doable... and the notes to the right are a big help, thanks a bunch!!
My favorite guitar player since 67! And the rhythm is the realy good bits!
I love Hendrix
First, you have to be a songwriting genius - music and lyrics. Then, you have to have the chops to translate your great song to the guitar.
Piece of cake.
Tim I have watch quite a few of your videos. The next statements are not a downgrade but a compliment. Most of the time you are just rushing and not showing people what you are doing. I know you are a great guitar player. This video is great! I think you have shown people that want to take your online lessons what they will get in a way. Be safe and wishing you and your family all the best!
Tim, you nailed the description of Jimi's playing with "loose but accurate". Seems impossible but to sound like Jimi you must strive for exactly that.
Hey Tim, you just demonstrated why I love to play ‘so loose;’ never associated it to Hendrix before! I think this may be my new fav’guitar video and I’m gonna totally absorb all of it. 👍🏼
Cool, thanks!
I saw Hendrix live, twice. Amazing show! Especially swtting his strat on fire!
I can play like Hendrix but its just not my style of playing. I forced myself years back to play with my thumb and learn those embellishments he does so well that it was second nature. But I just like to play a more jazzy style of playing chords using barre chords and how i do little embellishments is almost like a jazz and bluegrass mix. I started off learning on a classical guitar with a *SUPER thick* but short neck. I think that factor effected how i play and think about playing guitar much more than my influences in music. Even after my classical guitar i went to a steel string acoustic Washburn for several years, and i still have that guitar. Its had alot of work done but its an amazing Washburn from the early 80s. But yeah, i tried to mimic what i was hearing and what i loved to listen to, but i think more than anything my families poverty and lack of instrument choices shaped how i play more than any other single factor. We was dirt poor, going without electricity for periods of time in the Appalachian mountains. So i played whatever my dad stole or found in a dumpster or where ever he got those things from. Lmao. He'd just show up with a bunch of crap and we'd sift through it to see what we got.
I sincerely apologize for enjoying so many of you videos and being a space case regarding the like button!!! I hope I'm speaking for many who will go back and like your previous videos to make up for it. I've never done that for anyone, but you certainly deserve it my musical friend 🎸🎵🎶
Oh no. Tim dropped a video on a song I’m currently re-obsessed with… guess I’ll be watching this video 150 times now!
W0W! That Hendrix dude, really was pretty good!!
YUP
Tim, thank you for this demo, and BTW, that visualization in real time of the fretboard is fantastic!
Not only was Hendrix a great and creative musician, he was also an intelligent and well spoken man who had clear idea's about how he wanted things to be, and I think you can also see that in the handwritten letter...
Tim understands on many levels how amazing Jimi was. Very informative. Thanks.
Axis bold as love is guitar bible on rhythm blues chops. People don’t really hear it, because someone stole master recording before in 67 before released. The experience had one day to re-record most songs on axis and according to Mitch Mitchell it wasn’t the same. And that was it, they released it.
Lets hope the resrictions from the hendrix family are over and he can be appreciated more than he has been.. great video..thanks
Don't worry...the girl on the right looks just like Michelle Obama. They'll block that.
Tim you are definitely one of the finest instructors ever that's cool
Once you held up "Axis Bold As Love", I knew exactly which track you were going to play. As a kid, I spent hours on it, trying to understand what I was hearing.
Thank you.
Hendrix was the reason I picked up guitar. Great stuff Tim.
Hendrix AINT easy folks. Sounding like a song he did is far easier than figuring out where Hendrix goes on his progression in the song. The complexity of Hendrix goes way beyond the triad like most people have you think. Listen to the fills on live performances to know what you are getting into before ever thinking its easy to even begin playing like Hendrix. Van Halen is far easier than copying intertwining lead and rhythm on a Hendrix level.
Jimi was so very creative and natural. Thank you Tim.
This must be one of the best rhythm guitar lines ever. Do this while you are singing and you'll see, the difficulty will blow your mind.
My favorite channel here, thank you Tim!!!
Beautiful post , brilliant. I find it rare to find a great coach in a great player.
Perhaps your best video
Access to a video like this in the late ‘60’s would have been life changing.
This is fn great. For those of us who came after Hendrix, we are bound by knowing that there is perceived effortless perfection that we will all try to use as a tool in our own vernaculars, but will all fall short… which is ok.
@Tim Pierce Guitar Hi there Tim, well done clip you did here. I have all editions by Jimi of the E-Ladyland. Here in Germany we were not so prude about nuditity like other Countries. Same goes with the Poster inside of Queen`s Jazz album. Jimi wasn`t in fact not so happy with the outcome of the Photographies indeed. My personal favorite to this day is the Axxis Album, although I have a ton of Hendrix Albums, I collected over the decades. Many Bootlegs are taken from the same tapes and were copied out to the max, only showing different Cover Art Works. I am glad Eddie Kramer released so many Albums for the Hendrix Family with such great sound to them. Not like the Bootlegs, or the official Albums that came out right after Jimi passed away, because there were only 4 original Henrix Albums back at the time he was alive.Thanx for doing this clip, Mate.
The dyads and triads are part of whole barre chords. Good way to play if you have an accompanying bass guitar. If playing solo and fingerstyle you can use the whole chord and certain inversions to play a fuller version. There are only a few chord shapes involved so it's not too difficult. Most of us play solo so worth learning.
That’s a killer Hardtail Tim.
Hardtail strats punch so hard and have a mojo that’s totally overlooked.
Loose and accurate is the perfect description of Hendrix and I’d say it’s descriptive of EVH too,
Gotta have that swang!!
Might sound easy but it shows the genius of Hendrix, often overlooked but one of his best albums. Thanks Tim!
Thanks Tim . This is one of my favourite JH songs , the guitar playing is masterful and feels like it was mostly improvised the lyrics are great as well . Jimi was a genius.
Brilliant, Tim! I think it could be said that Hendrix might be the most inventive Rock Guitarist ever.
Best video you ever made bro, absolutely love your Hendrix playing you can really feel your passion for his music! ❤
Amazingly, I’m a guitar player for 30years, I love Hendrix, and I’ve never heard that song before. Wow
I love these Hendrix songs with the cleaner tones, they sing with joy and just good Ole fun.
I thought I'd got this down years ago but was missing a fair bit. Thanks Tim!
Man, this really inspires me to dig deeper into Hendrix's library.
Thank you so much for this. Jimi’s genius always amazes me.
D/G holds it together so well.
Dang, man! I am impressed! I could listen to you break down songs, for hours! I don't know how you do it, but dang!! 👍
At around four minutes he says ‘it’s a quick song. It won’t take too long’ almost sounds like a Hendrix line
About the "Electric Ladyland", there were also some other cover art made for french/belgian releases. One of them is a photograph taken by Alain Dister, a french journalist and photographer, and I've got a copy illustrated by the french sci-fi artist Philippe Druillet.
Great video Tim! Thank you much.
Thank you. I have to put my few cents in.
Jimi Hendrix, "Band of Gypsies- Live", is one of the most amazing albums that I have ever heard.
This is fantastic, Tim. Thank you.
hendrix is an amazing guy- not just player-
his sense of the spiritual- and his native ancestry probably played a huge part in his spirit filled music