Hendrix - Bending Strings, Bending my MIND!

[rcwilk]

Below are some guitar lead techniques I'm not very clear about from a Hendrix biography*. If anyone has a suggestions, I'd be grateful.



Jimi would also play a bent note on one string bent up and then play the second note on another string on the way down from the first bend.
Example given: during Message from Nine to The Universe (on LP of same name).

do they mean like what happens 5:11 to 5:15 or 5:59 to 6:08?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhBMntUekA4


Another bend technique was to bend one string and fret on a note on second string, but play both notes together during the actual bend - like during the introduction to Highway Chile

What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is that what is happening at 0:02 to 0:016 ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT0B2K6MWk




Jimi would frequently bend the strings upwards, as opposed to the downward bend that most guitarists use.

I would have expected this quote to be the opposite. Don't most guitar players bend strings up, not down? It seems much easier to me.

Thanks for any suggestions! R C

* Quotes taken from Jimi Hendrix Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro and Ceaser glebbeek appendix 2 pp 680-681
1990/1995 St Martin’s press NY, NY

[ToddK]

The person that wrote this clearly did'nt play guitar much, or at all. Or at least, they arent very good with explanations.
I wouldnt waste your time dissecting it.

Move on to a better source.

TK

[rcwilk]

I tried to watch my bends today as I went through Red House. I don't know which way hendrix bends things but I noticed that pretty much if it is one of the three strings (high e, b, g) from the bottom of the fret, I push them, and if its ones on the top I pull them.

Is this typical? It seems the most rational way ( can't really push the low E very far or it goes off the fret! )

RC

[oldguy]

I tried to watch my bends today as I went through Red House. I don't know which way hendrix bends things but I noticed that pretty much if it is one of the three strings (high e, b, g) from the bottom of the fret, I push them, and if its ones on the top I pull them.

Is this typical? It seems the most rational way ( can't really push the low E very far or it goes off the fret! )

RC

Yes, that's the way it's usually done.

[rcwilk]

Another bend technique was to bend one string and fret on a note on second string, but play both notes together during the actual bend - like during the introduction to Highway Chile

What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is that what is happening at 0:02 to 0:016 ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT0B2K6MWk