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
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.
do they mean like what happens 5:11 to 5:15 or 5:59 to 6:08?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).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhBMntUekA4
What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is that what is happening at 0:02 to 0:016 ?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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT0B2K6MWk
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.Jimi would frequently bend the strings upwards, as opposed to the downward bend that most guitarists use.
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
Richard Wilkerson | dreamgate.com
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
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
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What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is that what is happening at 0:02 to 0:016 ?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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT0B2K6MWk
Richard Wilkerson | dreamgate.com