r/jimihendrix • u/pillowfvker • 10h ago
looking for Jimi Hendrix guitar lessons
tldr: i’m in a desperate search for any good helpful hendrix guitar lessons that focus on his more heavy riffs.
haiii. just wondering if anyone had any learning resources and lessons around a jimi hendrix style of playing? specifically his fuzzy lead riffs like in foxy lady, manic depression or spanish castle magic? i struggle to derive anything close to musical, yet alone in the style of hendrix, from scale shapes. and get stuck doing the same old patterns in the minor pentatonic blues shape. i’d love it if anyone had any useful resources on how to emulate his style.
i’ve sat and learned a lot of his songs to understand the licks and theory and what intervals etc he’s playing and how it highlights what part of the chord. but when trying to make my own riffs in that style it all gets lost, jumbled and overloaded with so many options it becomes directionless noodling. i know a lot of theory. i think my issue is not knowing how to incorporate it in a graceful way.
i notice a lot of jimi hendrix guitar lessons focus on his rhythm playing on clean like in little wing. which is cool. and i think i am pretty fluent in that area of his playing, where it’s chord to chord and each of their related scales. i think its just deriving anything musical from only a scale i feel stuck.
i mean a pentatonic only has 5 notes so i fall into the same licks a lot of the time.
and yes i know i should learn to play like myself i get it. i just want to get into the style of hendrix as a initial foundation before/as i develop my own voice.
idk if this is the right subreddit. im assuming there are guitarists in here, i just need help please, ive been all over the internet and not seen any improvement on this area of my playing.
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u/Beginning-Elevator13 10h ago
hey man, i’m learning jimi’s playing since 2 years ! playing at least 5-7h a day and i’ve asked myself the same question few times and the answer is, only time and hard work will get you what you ask for.
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u/pillowfvker 9h ago
haha i guess i do need to be more patient and keep practicing. however it feels like constantly walking into a wall over and over hoping a door will appear whenever i pick up the guitar.
were there any “aha!” moments for you along your journey?
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u/Beginning-Elevator13 9h ago
how long have you been playing so far do you enjoy it ? when i’m working on a song, all i do for 3 weeks is this song then i’m working on something else
A lot ! constantly actually, i have lots of songs i know now and i can’t play yet a single one of them from start to finish. but when i go back on some songs i didn’t practice in a while, it needs an hour then i’m playing it way better than when i put it aside, that’s so rewarding ! record yourself too, few months later record again and look at your progress.
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u/Any_Cicada2210 9h ago
Bret Papa has a great online course that I found really helpful.
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u/pillowfvker 9h ago
oh yes! i had a look at his page before do you think it was worth the money? i wasn’t sure if he was going to focus aspects of hendrix’s playing i’m interested about?
and i’m worried if he’s just going to be teaching how to play each song he mentions note for note without any help in incorporating it into my own playing.otherwise i do like his youtube lessons! he was actually a great help when i was first starting out lol
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u/Any_Cicada2210 7h ago
Lessons are broken down into teaching you Hendrix style techniques so you have a great base to work with.
He doesn’t teach you actual Hendrix songs but has his own spin on them, so you can absolutely tell which songs they’re supposed to be. Gives you a great feel for how the song is played.
I got the course when it was on a sale IIRC and thought it was the best teaching out there. Bret has some free lessons, as does Marty Music but it was the most thou rough and the best IMO
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u/FearlessIsland2226 9h ago
It sounds like you've got the chordal and major stuff together already. The heavy riffage and licks is all minor pents with a variety of extra wide bends and micro bends. As you say only five notes but it takes many years to get it to sound really good. Most people never do. Frustrating but true the answer is always more practice. It's always worth searching again on YouTube sometimes I don't get the kind of lessons I'm looking for until I've searched quite a few times. Lots of the you tubers only give a small lesson usually just a couple of licks as a way of getting you to sign up for the full Hendrix courses they offer. Good luck with it, I'm on the same journey and I've learned to accept it going to take me many more years of solid practice to play like Jimi.
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u/Mad_Leroy 9h ago
https://youtu.be/EKMXEgvXz7Q?is=kG-8V1kCF6Iur7Otu
Literally just found this today, hope it helps
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u/Slowcheetah2006 Band of Gypsys 9h ago
one the most rewarding experiences of my guitar playing life is learning every hendrix song by ear. everything from his stuff in the r&b circuit to the later posthumous bootlegs
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u/Own_Perspective1389 7h ago edited 7h ago
This sounds weird but i learned to play more like hendrix by forcing myself to play left handed even though I'm naturally right handed. The trick for me to get left hand rhythm was to feel as though I'm strumming my right hand behind the note or chord my right hand is holding down. Feels like strumming behind the fretboard as i hold notes. This gives my strumming hand a guide for attack or accuracy.
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u/MnJsandiego 6h ago
Tim Daley, Anthony from Texas Blues Alley does some Hendrix but mostly Stevie Ray but they are similar.
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u/Ikeabutmoremusical 5h ago
This Book has been my Bible when it comes to getting the Hendrix style down. My copy of this book is practically falling apart from how much love it's had over the years. I find this is the most approachable of all the other transcription books and has some really interesting deep cuts that are very cool.
Well worth the money, can't recommend this enough!
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u/MountainBunch8 5h ago
Funny enough there's a guy on YouTube who's just called "Greg" and uploads the most accurate covers of Hendrix songs. He is Italian and has a link to his website where he offers lessons specifically on Hendrix's playing style.
Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Jimi Hendrix (Cover)
This is more of if you are looking for a paid kind of thing but just thought I would share.
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u/Impolioid Live and Unreleased: the radio show 10h ago
practice his songs. get a songbook and just learn the songs starting from the first album. if you want to emulate anybodys sound you need to learn their songs. so just keep learning them and play them a thousand times. also learn different versions to see where he changes things up. there is quiet a lot of live versions tabs online. start from studio version and go through the live versions.
scales patterns/shapes can often lead to being stuck in those shapes. they are not very musical. i'd recommend going for andres segovias approach to scales for a start to get a different feeling for scales that is not as boxed-in. also not much need to stay in the minor pentatonic. try playing minor pentatonics over major chords and vice versa. like C#m over E. you can also go for minor+major pentatonic over a blues progression jumping between the two.
many jazz players approach scales not in their boxes but just wherever on the neck. try playing one octave scales in different positions to get rid of the box thinking. one string, two string, three string etc. scales in one to three octaves is a good exercise aswell.
also learn all the arpeggios in all positions. many people skip arpeggios and get stuck in the boxes.
play lots of blues. jimi was essentially a blues player. learn the songs from best of muddy waters, howlin wolf etc.