Hey everyone, I just wanted to say I really appreciate all of the insight, knowledge, and love you have been sharing in the comments in regards to Jimi Hendrix and his incredible playing. My gratitude and appreciation for this guitar legend has been further exemplified from this whole experience! A big thank you to everyone!

I saw Jimi play live 3 times(one time in the front row directly under him), and I met him once. He had huge hands, and when I shook his hand, mine was lost. He never played a song the same way twice. He didn't play the guitar, he became the guitar. He took it everywhere, and even slept with it. It was part of his body and spirit. He didn't think about technique, he was the technique. I miss him even after 50 years!

"I'm stealing that , well done Jimi". - literally every rock guitarist ever

Jimi had mountains of swag ! It wasnt just the notes...Jimi touched the soul, still does to this day.

One things for sure ...there will never be another. God bless you Jimi....unequalled, unparalleled, unsurpassed, unstoppable, impossible to copy , unique ..it’s all been said. The one and only JMH.

There's nobody even in the same building as that guy! - Neil Young

Jimi didn't "push the envelope," he blew clean through and kissed the sky!

Jimmy Hendrix a legend, man that’s an understatement. He is a god.!!

Most don't know that Jimi only played Guitar for Just 12 years...that's mind Blowing on its own.

Man his live stuff is so much crazier than his albums... he would freestyle so much. Amazing!🤘🏼✌🏼

"he had fingers like rulers"

Jimi can bar the whole fretboard from the first knukle of his thumb!!, he was 5' 11 but had hands the size of Michael Jordan.

Jimi's hands were huge! They ate up that guitar!!

First time I have ever scene a music teacher pay homage to the great Hendrix I enjoyed this video immensely, Thank You

During his improvised solo during Woodstock Jimi uses his thumb to fret a syncopated, chromatic bassline under a cyclic chordal riff. The offical video has a nice closeup of his hands.

I think the length of Jimi's fingers is a contributing factor to his exceptional virtuosity .

He’s doing this, he’s doing that, he’s doing any fucking thing he wants to !!

Star Spangled Banner, from Woodstock, when he plays, land of the free, that note is still tearing through space and well on its way to andromeda.

Love Hendrix- I remember a funny quote from Lemmy about Hendrix- "He had massive hands and fingers like tarantulas - if he didnt make it in music, he would have made a f*ckin brilliant pickpocket!" 🤣

Ok..we can tell from the funk expression on your face and the head bobbing you're already blown away!! Also, Jimi had large hands and strong fingers! He could bend a bass string up three notes.

Thank you - an intelligent reaction to Hendrix!

He's using the volume knob to control the amount of distortion/overdrive. He likely turned it up during the solo, then back down into the verse / melody to clean up the sound.

It was all so effortless for him...playing and singing. His live playing is some of his best and worst---through no fault of his own. He was put out on the road by his manager for months on end and the poor guy was beyond exhausted at most shows---but even then managed to play some amazing stuff.

His like a rolling stone at the monterrey pop and jazz festival is an < amazing> piece of music

There are only three guys in the Band "Jimi Hendrix Experience." Therefore, Jimi is the only guitarist, and he is constantly transitioning between playing rhythm and lead guitar parts. He does this flawlessly. Everything is upside down, because he had to learn on a right handed guitar his daddy bought him from the Sears and Roebucks discount store in Seattle where he grew up dirt poor. This guy taught himself to play chords and riffs upside down! Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones was his Room mate for a while in London, and he said Jimi was equally proficient playing from either side, but preferred the upside down way, "because that's how I learned as a kid." Un freaking believable. He was the best, and the first to do all of the playing with his teeth and behind his back. He did all of these things, back in 1967, and the world had never seen anything, or anyone like him.

Nice video , Hendrix is frickin' awesome.

When you have a strat and a fuzzface as a distortion in the chain, the volume pot on guit is a delicate point to obtain different tonalities, from full solo tone to clean rhythm guitar, that is coz strat has single coils and fuzzface has low impedance input, Jimi used it very wisely

Stevie Ray Vaughan played a Stratocaster with the wammy bar on top and said Jimi used to visit him at night. Jimi could play right handed or left using a standard strung right handed guitar flipped over or restrung as he preferred. Having the Wammy bar up there with the nobs allows you to use your palms to adjust the volume and tone as you play. Jimi also tested different wiring in his volume and tone on the guitar to give him better control.

Started at age 14, was 1976 and will always be the best to me. I love that he is still alive.

I'd have picked "Johnny B Goode", Jimi Plays Berkeley. First known from "Hendrix In The West" , '72. Almost every trick in his book and great to the last feed backed note.

He could keep talking/singing while playing I've never seen someone doing it like Jimi

Love how you showed genuine amazement and explained about it

The baddest electric cat of them all..

I'm far from being a musician, but every time I hear a cover of a Jimmy Hendrix classic, they never seem to play guitar with the same 'crispness.' I do not know how else to put it.

Hey Daniel, Jimi could also play righty almost as well as he could lefty. There's footage of him playing righty out there, one of them is hanging with Keith Richards back stage somewhere. To give you another example of a lefty player, Albert King! Who not only played lefty... but played with the strings up-side down!! Now that's crazy stuff.

Considering he was drugged up out his mind most of the time its even more amazing.

Also, Jim's using the 'Hendrix' Chord😊 (7#9) with his pinky on the G and A chords. I've seen him use that alternate form on the open E chord🎸

Jimi Hendrix the cosmic genius

Never mess with the master. You don't have a chance.

Actually I learned something from watching this. I knew Hendrix played with his thumb, but I didn't know he had that kind of reach. I had seen many Hendrix performances, but I hadn't heard this one. I always like seeing new Hendrix videos, if there is such a thing. 😂😂😂

PS: YOU Know you're bad ass Man,when you have a "Chord" named after you or refered as your chord, in this case 'The Hendrix" Chord. Dayumm. you are Bad Ass!! Theres ONLY sooo many chords to go around and Jimi's got one of them! Ha! He did it first and he got there to show us all how its going and gittin done, Man. amazing to this day. there outta be a Zappa Chord progression of some sort...from the Album One size fits all. play on Jimi,hope you and Frank are up there Jammin out!!

So much more refreshing than the “reaction videos” by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Sorry to say but true. It’s all about the guitar, so who better than a guitar instructor to show these things to us.

The guitar strap of Jimi is now own by David Gilmour

creative analysis, charming respect, much enjoyment

“I teach guitar, by the way.” Well, it’s Jimi, he came over to England in ‘66, while being a very hierarchical society, every guitarist had to step down a notch over night, number one at once. Many tried, he remains champion, and has the whole top ten still in his pocket as well, despite his short cut life.

I always used to play with my tumbs since i started to learn some Jimi Hendrix and other blues guitarist. I feel much more comfortable, it doesn't hurt my wrist and my hands are always open and ready to play some free licks at the same time i'm playing chords. I thanks Hendrix for everything i learned from him that become my forces as a guitar player, improve so much my guitar knowledge, my improvisation level and the way i can share my emotions thoo the guitar . The best advice i could give to any guitar player especially if you like blues rock soul funk even jazz.. go learn how hendrix is playing, you will discover yourself more.

He had massive hands and could do a bar chord with his thumb! The greatest blues/rock guitarist who ever lived. I would like to hear him play jaz.

Love watching you geek out to Jimi !! It’s lovely, when I heard his version of the National Anthem, I knew things were changing !

OK now I've gotta go listen to the whole song again. And again. And again. And again!!!!!! This old Boomer loved Hendrix.

NOT ONE OF THE GREATEST........THE GREATEST...PERIOD

GOOD STUFF brother Daniel ! i really enjoyed this video reaction, great dissection of the master Jimi Hendrix. Keep rockin' steady !

He uses the meat part of his thumb on low E and sometimes across A for rhythm so his four fingers are free to play lead at the same time.

Something that I found out a while back, is that Bobby Womack and Albert KIng played with their guitars upside down, but kept the strings as they were. ie high E at the top. and low E at the bottom.

Re the thumb...you would enjoy watching Richie Havens at Woodstock!

Goat.......🤘🏻🎸

Jimi son of jesus.🎸🎸🎸

The god of music

Also the volume he played at is illegal now, the effects are hard to replicate for that reason alone.

He is the GOAT. . He played a right handed stratocaster guitar upside down. He dethroned Eric Clapton as the GOAT and they became close friends. Eric had bought the only left handed stratocaster guitar he had ever seen and was going to give it to him the day Jimi died.

To get the Hendrix level of gain you need a huge stack of Marshalls turned up to 11. A friend of mine went to see Hendrix at Forrest Hills which is right next to JFK airport and he said that Hendrix was so loud that you couldn't hear the jumbo jets going right overhead. The Marshalls were drowning them out. Thats loud.

But look at the size of his hands and fingers. He could practically wrap the neck with his thumb.

Fantastic! Please do more of them.

Towards the ends of his life he played E7#9, G7#9, A7#9, instead of regular G and A chords, using his thumb for the root notes in the same position. So the shape of G7#9 and A7#9 are the same as the F#7#9 in Foxy Lady. Just gives a lot more crunch

I was there at the Atlanta Pop etc. His last performance in USA. About three songs in, he asked the light guys to turn off the spots as he couldn't see the audience. Instead of turning them off, they put a colored gel in front of the spots. Made little difference. They had to make their movie, which you now enjoy. I'd rather the movie guys would have given something to him instead of taking something from him. It's been told many times that he was pushed around by the execs and couldn't even play what he wanted to.

Jimi has a special place in my heart> Havn't listened for 30 years . i know lyrics to most songs, young people remember lyrics to music they grew up with .At least I did. I remember hits from 65 when I was 7 yoa. Just recently got back into Jimi. Maybe in 30 years I will get back into him again. When i am 94

Re the volume knob, if you watch the "'scuse me" line, the squeal/feedback starts and he hears it. You can see him turn down the volume and turn it back up just prior to playing.

Eric Clapton said he had bought a left handed stratocaster to give Jimi and was supposed to give it to him at a Sly Stone show but Jimi didn't show up...next morning it was the news he had died

Roy Buchanan use to roll his pinky finger on the volume knob of his telecaster to great effect.

You just need longer fingers in order to wrap the neck like Hendrix did. I took note, that he also plased the palm from the thumb to the wrist, alongside the edge of the guitar neck.

Back in the day a music critic saw a Jimi Hendrix performance and went away with, "Jimi Hendrix doesn't do anything any other guitar player can't do. He just does it differently."

Jimi Hendrix didn't die, he just went off to give God electric guitar lessons!!!

Please keep making videos! you'll make it, you're made for this!

Curly cables are like springs and can ping out of your guitar if you get too excited

i'm right handed but when i started learning guitar i also 100% remember thinking the whammy bar should be at the top just like Jimi's is too. to this day i routinely reach for the whammy bar and miss cause i don't use it a ton but also never reach low enough. Also, i could never understand why my instructor didn't want me to fret with my thumb. I thought it seemed natural. I eventually quit but when youtube came around i found out i wasn't actually "wrong" and lots of blues guitarists and SRV, Albert King, etc, and Jimi all fretted the the low E with their thumb. So take that guitar teacher of my childhood. lol

By far the best breakdown of his guitar on this song thanks

Actually, he would force a "super" distorted tone by pushing the volume to the point of feedback , catch it before it screeches , then quickly adjusts tone and rides that sound wave creating a new and unique musical realm. The key is to sonically read the room then place yourself in a spot to manipulate the "air " waves. Genius .

love Jimi!

I know I will never play like Jimi but it is so fun analyzing his technique and Joe he sound

I was 16 years old and I was there.

Need to keep posting vids, dude, these are good.

Jimi got up in the morning, strapped on his guitar and played all the time.

Hey I just came across this vid and thought you'd be interested to know that Otis Rush played lefty BUT ALSO strung for a righty!... he just learned to play backwards. There is excellent old video you can easily find to watch.. really cool!

You can begin to see what's missing from not having a "Chlitin' Circuit", anymore! Where many of the show guitarists cut their teeth! Jimi was simply repeating tricks he'd learned!

Jimi Hendrix still making music through me ♾♾

try a fuzz face or good clone, his is on all the way through here. Play with the volume knob and discover those possibilities between the volume knob and the fuzz. In that spot where he turns the volume knob, he's changing his sound with the fuzz, you can clearly hear it. He was a master at that, often his clean sound the fuzz was on with the knob backed way down. You picked a great live performance by him, thanks for the video

It's an E9 plus technically speaking, the minor accent on a major E

Just a little factoid, Jimmy was such a talented player, when the Beatles released an album on a "Friday" (I'm thinking it was Sgt Pepper's album,) Paul McCartney heard Jimmy playing a couple of the songs from the album (less than 48 hr's later from the release) and is quoted as saying he's {Jimi Hendrix} playing it better than us. I believe the recording studio, is the party responsible for getting a copy of the album to Jimmy. Needless to say this occurred over in England.

Kurt Cobain was left handed too. In their early videos he played one strung upside down. It's because the "correct" left handed guitars are either cheap student models or really expensive, with not many in between. I play a left handed bass, but I've been looking at Ibanez models because they are symmetrical, but yeah there are still the knob in the way. I heard some people will change them to lower profile so they don't stick out too much.

Jimi could bar the whole fretboard with his thumb

you need to watch some old time real rock. many many great talents, Stevie Ray ,Clapton ,Santana. and watch Gary Moore's cover of Jimi's Red House.

As a guitarist with average-sized hands, it can be frustrating trying to play Jimi's music, but I still love it. Same goes for Pete Townshend and the thumbed root notes in Pinball Wizard (not to mention the fast timing). Long-fingered bastards-I'm envious!

Wes Montgomery jazz guitarist played with his thumb like that also.

Hey Joe live in monterrey he plays with his mouth.check that one out.

I'm a guitarist, too, and find your appreciation of Jimi's playing very appropriate! He was one of the best. He and Page. Have you reviewed any Jimmy Page?

Beautiful tele man

u have to listen too machine gun live at the filmore with buddy miles the solo is unreal!!

Ok, just a few things you didn't mention. Hendrix always played his guitar tuned down a half a step. He did that so he could use heavier strings to get the tone and sustain you're talking about but still be able to bend the hell out of the strings. In fact, in this video it sounds like he tuned down a whole step. He's obviously playing in E but it's tuned to D. Probably so he could go a little nuts playing live. This was pre petal after all, And the thing about playing the guitar turned upside down isn't so much that the knobs are on top but the cutaway on the guitar is reversed. The bottom cutaway on the strat is generally about two inches back from the top one making it easier to get to the high frets. It's just the opposite in Jimi's case. That high "D" he hits towards the end is actually a high "E" which wouldn't be such a big deal except for the fact he has to reach all the way around what is supposed to be the top cutaway. Lucky for him he had huge hands! lol.

There's a video of him playing the guitar (as well as most guitarists) with his teeth. That's a challenge for the ages.

Remember, to get that drive with a plexi… they don’t break up until about 7, no master volume. I would bet his head are dimed. This is the equivalent of a top fuel dragster with the throttle pinned. Almost uncontrollable. We play with our master volume amps and distortion pedals and space age technology… people in a booth adjusting sound etc.… He had… a or had multiple dimed quartets of EL34s, a fuzz pedal and a cry baby… With no one to run his rig but himself. Just controlling that nightmare would be purplexing. But Hendrix incorporated the feedback squeals, moans, popping etc. into his songs… just crazy. Check out the end of third stone from the sun… that amp is breathing.. listen to it creak and pop. I swear it’s alive. Hendrix played guitar, but… he played an amp also…an un blowable, tube monster, made with military grade parts. Like he was going to war with it . Like firing a gun inside your house… people have no clear understanding what 100 watts sounds like. Remember not so long before Harrison’s feedback ( first recorded) in “she’s in love with me and I feel fine” Innovative quirks about Hendrix. Upside down strat strung backwards.. what does that do to the intonation. Using a 3 spring staked vibrolla and still managing to keep a fender in tune? Blackmore couldn’t. The thumb on roots, walkable chords. And glorious feedback. We can learn the cords, the progression, the key and vibe. But come close to follow that…. Wow.. just wow.

He may be just muting the strings with his thumb but then I think he had really long fingers. In order to have that much gain you just have to have about 19 Marshalls all turned up to 12. I friend of my saw him playing live. He was playing at some place out in Flushing Medows in NY near the airport and my friend said the amps were so loud that even though jets were flying low overhead the music was drowning out the sound. I agree with you about the volume knob on Strats.