Guitar World's resident Jimi Hendrix authority, Andy Aledort, demonstrates how the legendary, groundbreaking guitarist still influences the modern rock, blues and R&B styles some most admired players.
In this lesson, we’ll explore how Hendrix’s music has inspired the distinct, signature styles of Melanie Faye, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Marcus Machado, Ayla Tesler-Mabé, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Ayron Jones.
UNDER HIS WINGS
In this lesson, we’ll explore how Hendrix’s music has inspired the distinct, signature styles of Melanie Faye, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Marcus Machado, Ayla Tesler-Mabé, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Ayron Jones.
UNDER HIS WINGS
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00:07 Hey, I'm Andy Allidore and in this video lesson we're going to take a look at six young guitar players
00:19 who show a distinct influence from the great Jimi Hendrix
00:23 that carry on the tradition of Jimi Hendrix's guitar playing
00:27 through their own very distinct styles. We're going to start off with a phenomenal
00:32 woman guitar player named Melanie Fay who's so unique
00:37 and we're going to take a look at her twists, the things she
00:41 likes to do when she plays Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing.
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01:46 Melanie Fay uses a lot of interesting chord voicings and open strings.
01:49 In this example I begin with this
01:54 Eadd9, really nice voicing.
01:57 Do a reverse rate.
02:02 And then this F#7sus4.
02:07 And that just moves up.
02:12 So F# and then this is like Gm7.
02:17 But you could also think of it as like an E9 chord.
02:23 Am7sus2 with the open B.
02:28 And Hendrix does voicings like this in One Rainy Wish
02:32 and May This Be Love, a variety of songs.
02:36 Angel. So after that beginning
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02:46 and then it's this nice switch to Am9.
02:50 And she loves these fast slide pull-offs.
02:57 And then I just play this ascending lick
03:01 to get back to A major. And then I'm going to kick off this
03:05 Little Wing
03:08 sort of emulation.
03:12 And then
03:16 so that's the other thing she likes is these fast hammer pulls.
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03:25 And then this is a really nice
03:28 Ab diminished
03:35 into Am7sus4.
03:39 And then this is very interesting.
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03:48 Sort of this Eb
03:52 and then here Eb
03:57 Am7b5
04:00 and another one of those fast slide pull-offs.
04:03 So you got
04:08 and then
04:10 this is another thing she likes, these quick hammers
04:15 using those open strings again.
04:19 And this voicing
04:24 is a little tough because you have to
04:28 get your fingers in there and then it just moves down.
04:35 So this is a minor 9sus2
04:38 B, goes down to Bb, A.
04:42 And then kind of your typical Jimmy.
04:49 So the
04:54 so
04:58 so Jimmy does stuff like that
05:03 or
05:09 another one of those.
05:13 And then some more open strings, that open G stays in there for the D.
05:24 Typical Jimmy, but then this.
05:31 This is a diminished lick.
05:36 And you can think of that as over the V chord, like this brief reference to
05:43 V7, V, so B7 raised V.
05:50 #5 I was going to say, so
05:58 that's how it closes out.
06:00 Next up is one of the best blues guitar players on the scene today,
06:04 Chris Stone, Kingfish Ingram.
06:06 He likes to play Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" in his sets.
06:09 And like Melanie, he has very unique things that he adds to the tune.
06:14 Really cool, distinct twist. We're going to get into that right now.
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06:38 Now, unlike Melanie Faye, he likes to change the chord voicings a little bit,
06:56 make them a little more interesting.
06:58 So instead of a straight C chord, he plays,
07:02 it's like a C6sus2 or add9, C6add9.
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07:14 And then the same thing like a G69.
07:17 So you're going to have that there.
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07:22 And then Dsus,
07:26 that resolves to D.
07:31 And then Asus, resolves to A.
07:35 And then E minor, unlike E major, which is what Jimmy plays.
07:41 So one more time.
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08:50 All right, for this guitar solo, I got a wah-wah pedal here.
08:54 [MUSIC]
08:59 Start off like that.
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09:13 So it's very Jimi Hendrix-like blues, typical blues rock style.
09:22 And that's how Chris Stone likes to play.
09:26 And then this.
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09:30 It's sort of 16th notes.
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09:36 That kind of thing.
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09:47 That kind of thing.
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09:53 And then second.
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10:04 So it's all firmly just right up here in E minor pentatonic.
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10:14 With the blues scale.
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10:20 And then those high bends.
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10:29 Got a combination of Albert King, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix.
10:34 Another great and very distinct player is Marcus Machado,
10:37 who's more rooted in a classic R&B, contemporary R&B and soul style.
10:44 But there's definitely a Hendrix vibe happening in his soloing,
10:48 mixed with that Curtis Mayfield rhythm part.
10:51 So let's take a look at that right now.
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11:20 Okay, so this Marcus Machado example is sort of rooted in very classic R&B soul.
11:27 We're in the key of E, but we're starting on 3 minor, so G sharp minor.
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11:35 To C sharp minor, 7.
11:38 And then what would be the 2 chord.
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11:41 F sharp minor 7, back to G sharp minor, to A major 7.
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11:46 And then A9 with a B bass.
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11:50 Or A add 9 with a B bass.
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11:53 And you can do your classic Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield.
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12:00 Little single string embellishments within the chords.
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12:15 So when you're holding the chord.
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12:20 You can play these.
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12:24 Hendrix did it all the time.
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12:33 So.
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12:45 And then for the solo over there, you really just play E major,
12:48 which I'll demonstrate now.
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13:38 So the solo begins over G sharp minor.
13:40 And as I said, most of the licks are based on the E major scale.
13:43 So I start right on that G sharp note.
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13:51 And then get to a C sharp.
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13:53 And the C sharp minor 7 chord comes in.
13:56 And then.
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14:02 And then with my melody, I'm just going to follow that chord progression of F sharp minor,
14:06 G sharp minor, A major 7 by going.
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14:19 And just straight up.
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14:24 Pretty much the E major scale to get to this bend.
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14:29 Up to C sharp.
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14:31 And then this fast ascending.
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14:38 Marcus likes playing things like that, and Hendrix does that on Here Am I Tryin' To Come,
14:43 and on Hades Be Loved, all kinds of songs you'll hear him do that.
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14:59 And then over, when we get back over C sharp minor.
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15:08 I take advantage of C sharp minor pentatonic minor.
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15:20 And then another thing he likes is this octave thing.
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15:30 We know Jimmy loved using octaves for all kinds of solos.
15:33 You hear it, of course, on Third Stone From The Sun.
15:37 That sliding.
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15:50 And I kind of wrapped it up with E major pentatonic.
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16:06 Which will work over all the chords.
16:09 Another terrific young player is Ayla Tesler-Mabe.
16:12 She has such a cool style, very unique.
16:15 Again, it's in this contemporary R&B style, her music.
16:19 But the soloing has a heavy blues, a lot of feeling in it.
16:24 So I'll play some examples that are along the lines of her style right now.
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16:54 All right, for this Ayla Tesler-Mabe example,
16:57 we're in C sharp major 7 at the beginning here.
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17:03 And then it switches to what's really like C sharp minor 9,
17:08 even though there's no third in the chord, but it's implied.
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17:13 So major 7.
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17:16 And then 9.
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17:18 Then F sharp minor 7, or minor 9.
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17:25 And then to B9, which is major.
17:28 So one more time, like.
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17:50 And then for soloing, most of the soloing is C sharp major pentatonic
17:53 in major scale.
17:55 And there are definitely Hendrix-isms and also just sort of blues, B.B. King.
18:00 So I'll show you what I mean.
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18:37 So as I said, the soloing over this is mostly C major pentatonic.
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18:49 Very bluesy.
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18:56 But then she does this cool thing.
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19:00 Over that F sharp minor 9.
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19:05 And that's right on F sharp minor 9.
19:08 And you can see it is A major 7 too.
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19:15 And then I went more to like C sharp major scale.
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19:23 And that's where that sort of B.B. King thing comes in.
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19:41 So very bluesy, very melodic, a lot of feeling.
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19:47 And a heavy attack.
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19:51 And then this jazzy.
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20:00 And then into that B.B. King style stuff.
20:03 One of the top blues guitar players on the scene today is Joanne Shaw Taylor.
20:07 She recorded a video recently from Jimi Hendrix's flat, his apartment in London.
20:12 And she did this blues thing, this shuffle, kind of with a canned heat, Charlie Hooker vibe.
20:19 And this example, this next example, is going to be in that style and show,
20:24 demonstrate some of the soloing things that she likes to do.
20:28 And you can hear the connection to Jimi Hendrix.
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20:50 So this rhythm part is just this little vamp in A.
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21:03 It's a shuffle, one and two and three and four and one.
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21:08 It's kind of a very much John Lee Hooker, boogie kind of a thing,
21:12 canned heat going up the country.
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21:22 And it kind of emulates an open tuning like John Lee Hooker would do because it's all A.
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21:32 So you're going between the A string and that A note.
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21:37 And you pull off.
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21:40 And then a.
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21:43 So those are the pieces.
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21:56 And then the solo over that Jimi plays is just this very bluesy thing that
22:02 shows the influence of T-Bone Walker and Chuck Berry and the things that influence Jimi Hendrix.
22:07 So it's Hendrix-y in a way and it has the same influences, but you'll see what I mean.
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22:33 As I said for the solo, it's really this sort of straight blues thing.
22:48 You get over this.
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22:53 And Joe Ann likes to start with this.
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23:00 This Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry-T-Bone Walker, these, you know,
23:05 you bar and band two strings at a time.
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23:18 So it's a very Billy Gibbons, you know.
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23:29 If I take this shape and move it up.
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23:39 And then that quick.
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23:42 And she likes doing that quick slide down.
23:44 Hendrix did that.
23:45 Stevie Ray Vaughan loved to do that.
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23:51 And then back to the.
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23:55 That rhythm part.
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24:14 Last up is a great guitar player named Aaron Jones.
24:17 This is a very Hendrix-y groove on a song called Emily.
24:21 This is along the lines of that song and what he plays.
24:24 Let's get into that right now.
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24:56 This is a very Hendrix-y rhythm part off E.
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25:14 It's almost kind of voodoo child-y, but the groove.
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25:22 It's not like voodoo child.
25:24 But, you know, a heavy riff off the open low E,
25:27 that's something Hendrix did all the time.
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25:36 So that's what I'm playing.
25:37 It's along the lines of Aaron Jones' lick.
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25:57 And then when he's singing on the verse.
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26:04 So playing these little two-note chords.
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26:07 On the A and the D string with the open G in there.
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26:12 Something Hendrix did all the time.
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26:17 You know, he did it in Hey Joe and Here Am I Tryin' to Come
26:21 and in Voodoo Child, all kinds of songs.
26:23 It's something that Hendrix did often.
26:26 So it's pretty simple.
26:27 You just have that.
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26:36 Into the other part.
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26:50 And then back to the first lick.
26:52 So here is some soloing in Aaron Jones' style,
26:56 and that is also very Hendrix-y in terms of sort of heavy blues,
27:00 moving around, you know, that Jimmy ramped up blues rock style.
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27:21 [MUSIC]
27:46 Now let's go over this solo.
27:48 You have the lick.
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27:56 And Aaron likes these oblique bends, very Hendrix-y.
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28:10 So that very dramatic slide down and then back up the one string thing,
28:14 something Hendrix did on Voodoo Child.
28:16 Here Am I Tryin' to Come.
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28:34 Those slides and pull-offs moving quickly.
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28:41 And then back to the fifth.
28:43 [MUSIC]
28:49 So that type of soloing.
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28:55 A quick hammer pull.
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29:01 And then straight to this blues.
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29:11 That type of thing.
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29:14 But if I try to do it slow, sometimes it's hard to do it slowly.
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