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With Jimi In Mind

Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Haynes Inflection & Vox AC15 C1 Difficulty | 15 mins per example

IN THIS ISSUE, I hope to demonstrate just a few of the different skills used by Jimi Hendrix that made his playing so fascinating and impossible to categorise. There are five examples, primarily inspired by the solos and rhythm parts on his version of Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower.

I believe Jimi recorded most, if not all, of the parts on that track using a Gibson Flying V, but this was relatively unusual, so I have gone

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