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Guitar Lessons - Jimi Hendrix funky-note strumming

Jimi Hendrix made his guitar riffs and solos get down and dirty - learn one of his trademarks!

Hendrix really took this guitar technique to a new level of precision if not reinventing it.

1. This is is difficult technique, stick with it.
   
   
2. It requires a lot of left-hand muting.Watch a video of JimiHendrix and look at his lefthand!
   
   
3. Strum just like you would a chord, butuse more wrist and aim to strum just the strings closest to the note.
   
   
4. When muting with 1st finger, you must flatten the finger so that you touch the 2nd and 3rd string (PICTURE 2)
   
   
5. When muting with 2nd finger, you must touch both the 4th and 5th string(PICTURE 1)
   
   
6. Listen and practice the Exercises until you can do them with out a problem.
   
   

Exercises

EX. 2 (HEAR IT!)

PICTURE 1

PICTURE 2

1. Listen to the guitar lick
   
   
2. Play and count it slowly
   
   
3. Play it with the metronome set between 50 and 80
   
   
4. Gradually speed it up with the metronome
   
   
5. Try it with the slow practice track then, after a while, with the fast practice track
   
   

Lick 1 was created from the notes of this scale

(HEAR IT!) Slow
(HEAR IT!) Fast

Slow Practice Track (HEAR IT!)
Fast Practice Track (HEAR IT!)

• Now practice the B minor pentatonic scale and create some of your own Hendrix funky-note strum licks
  
  
• Practice the whole step and half step bend notes - these sound good with the practice track
  
  
• Experiment with different double notes, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, etc...
  
  
• Jam along with the practice track
  
  
• Listen to a lot of Jimi Hendrix!!