Jimi Hendrix: Blues

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Summary: Blues You Can Use!
Review:
This is Jimi's quintessential blues album, with covers of great standards and true-to-form originals. His rendition of 'Born Under a Bad Sign' is quite satisfying, with its string scratching, chordal rolls, and tasty wah-wah treatment.

Then there's the climactic highlight of 'Here My Train A Comin' (electric)', from his 5/70 Berkley concert; a performance thought by many, to be Jimi's most comprehensive expoundment upon the genre. And I would concur.

'Red House' is a great jam and not too difficult to get under the fingers. The key to learning any other players stuff, is to listen very closely in identifying the elements and structure, then seek to apply them to your own voice.

This book would be a good place for even a beginner to learn the blues. Because after all, the blues isn't complicated. And Jimi's masterful expression of it didn't come from a place of technical prowess, but rather from a place of deep-rooted and heart-felt meaning.

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Summary: Shortest way to master blues guitar
Review: Jimi Hendrix's guitar style is established based on a dozen of preceding blues masters such as Muddy Waters. "Blues" shows Jimi's rendition of the blues standards performed by the masters. Learning this transcription carefully is the shortest way to master the techniques and licks used by the blues masters. "Radio One" and "Woodstock" transcriptions are also essential for blues guitar students.