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October 28th, 2010, 02:12 PM
#1
If you know Curtis' understated style you'll hear it surface frequently in Jimi's music, especially when he wilds down and get's soulful or dreamy in parts, or moreso in full songs like Drifting, Angel, Little Wing. Jimi took from everybody.
Here's a music lesson incorporating Jimi and Curtis' similarities http://markweinguitarlessons.com/for...urtis+mayfield
Last edited by msteeln; October 28th, 2010 at 08:56 PM.
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January 18th, 2011, 12:19 PM
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Finally I took some time to research on this and got myself a couple albums by the Impressions. I wanted to focus on Mayfield's earliest works, before Hendrix's 1967 album.
I've found those "typical" licks in the songs "I'm The One Who Loves You", "Gypsy Woman", "You've Come Home" and "As Long as you Love me" from The Impressions 1963 album (their debut, I believe). Mayfield was the lead singer and guitarist in the group. The songs must be available for a free listening in Youtube
A certain guitarist said "Hendrix was Mayfiled, only louder", what I've found to be an enourmous exaggeration. Many soul guitarists of the early 60's played in that style, using those major scale hammer-ons and pull-offs (Cropper, per example). Maybe Mayfield was the first to do that often in a soul record though. Usually these licks appear in the Impressions songs quite briefly, I mean, they are usually not up front and are quite short, you have to pay attention or you might miss them.
I'll start listening to their 3rd album now and I'll report what I find.
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January 18th, 2011, 02:49 PM
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'Jimmy' sat all day at the studio Cropper worked at hoping to meet him, finally the secretary told Steve a guy was across the street, he then met Jimi and was excited to hear that Jimi was the guy who played a certain little riff on a single by Don Covey that he loved, and they became good friends.
The new-ish book by Steve Roby, Becoming Jimi Hendrix, is a great read.
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January 18th, 2011, 06:27 PM
#4
Well Jimi was infruenced by Curtis on his chording but thing there were some
others that never hit the internet in their life. They were guys that played
clubs and gospel on Sundays. They most often used chord substitutions
like playing an Am7 over a CMaj chord with an arpeggios line of note
movements.
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January 19th, 2011, 11:52 AM
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It can probably be counted as true that most of the greatest players were never heard by the masses. Jimi's own family say there were better guitarists than Jimi in Seattle's hot bed of 50s/60s talent alone. Jimi had the goods, and timing finally was on his side in '66, the year he'd actually been dreaming would be 'his year'.
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January 19th, 2011, 01:12 PM
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January 19th, 2011, 01:43 PM
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I listened to all the "One by One" album by The Impressions today and the only report I'll make is about the song "Need to Belong to Someone" - classic "Mayfield-Hendrix-esque" rhythm playing, even the leslie speaker is there (or what seems to be one). All the other songs are too orchestrated, not really my favorite style of soul music, though "Is Not Unusual" is a classic.
You guys wanna hear some more great rhythm playing? Listen to the guitar in Al Green's "Too Tired of Being Alone" and "I'm in Love" by Wilson Pickett, recently I got Pickets' A Man and a Half double CD edition but I still have to take a deep listen.
I think I'm getting some early Al Green as well soon.
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