How did Jimi Hendrix learn the guitar like that?
I heard that he learned guitar by ear and getting tips from other guitarists.but how did he learn all those blues licks and scales and chords from just learning by ear?How do you think?
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March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
People.Being around various music scenes.
He left home when he was seventeen and toured all around the states and even into Canada for 6+ years…Just imagine all those different perspectives on guitar…
Oh yeah his synesthesia was also part of it!
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Guitar Hero
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
He was self taught from a very early age
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
He taught himself and practiced through trial and error…he had talent.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
cos the guy was born gifted,
with an ear for chords and exceptional innovative skills for expanding his repertoire, he was always trying to get more sounds, and so in the process, discovered and developed amazing stuff
legends are not born everyday
he is a legend
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
mind altering drugs played a roll, years of playing with and for other musicans, just stating the facts for you rookies that don't know anything about mind altering drugs and it's effect on your guitar work
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Practice, practice, practice. Billy Cox, who was bassist in Band of Gypsies, served in the Army with Jimi, where they met. Billy says Jimi was playing guitar every spare moment he had. And some very strange sounds were coming from the barracks even then. Hendrix also practiced scales like a maniac.
He was heavily influenced by the stinging sounds of Albert Collins and the chords of Gatemouth Brown. After seeing them perform together in a club, Hendrix used many of their stage antics (behind the neck, playing with teeth). Hendrix also learned a lot as a sideman before being drafted. For instance, Little Richard's flamboyance was duly noted when Jimi was Richard's guitarist.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
he practised what he thought was right.
as well as naturally being good at guitar
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
lots of practice and drugs
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
His favorite guitarist was Buddy Guy. He saw him every chance he got, even to the point of blowing off his own gigs if Buddy was playing in town. Guy was playing what we think of as “Hendrix style” licks in the 1950s, and Jimi was an apt student.
Then of course there’s practice, practice, practice!
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
practice
he taught himself
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
He learned a lot from blues guitarists Guitar Slim and Buddy Guy and also Johnny Jenkins, a guitarist who worked with Otis Redding in the early 1960s.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Not only was he in the right place at the right time, but had talent and creativeness that came through in his guitar playing.
Yes he was influenced, but you can’t say that there was anyone making sounds like him, he was a genius. But a genius that loved to party.