Comments on: How did Jimi Hendrix learn the guitar like that?

By: moon_turn_the_tides

moon_turn_the_tides — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

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!

By: adams_caster

adams_caster — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

Guitar Hero

By: Steve R

Steve R — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

He was self taught from a very early age

By: Gypsy Queen

Gypsy Queen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

He taught himself and practiced through trial and error…he had talent.

By: I pity the fool !

I pity the fool ! — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

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

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

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

By: Melting Media EAC

Melting Media EAC — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

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.

By: big al

big al — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

he practised what he thought was right.
as well as naturally being good at guitar

By: livetoride

livetoride — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

lots of practice and drugs

By: mighty_whitey

mighty_whitey — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:20:29 +0000

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!