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September 2, 2012 at 9:00 pm #4204
Hi AM:
Perhaps it is my difficulty in reading tabs but I find with Jimi Hendrix premium lesson that the tab does not match Brian’s video instruction; or is the tab just secondary to the lesson and not to be used to learn the song?
Muddy
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September 4, 2012 at 2:49 am #8403
Hey Muddy, when I create the tabs for lessons I usually do it before the lesson is created and sometimes I might stray slightly , but it should be pretty close to accurate. I haven’t noticed anything in the Hendrix tab that is really that far off? Just use the tab as a guide and you should be fine.
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October 28, 2012 at 9:39 am #8560Anonymous
Hi Mud,
I thought the tab was dead on accurate.
Did you jump right to the tab after watching Brian’s demonstration of the lick (as I almost always do)? If so, then you might be missing the link that puts all the tab into perspective.
This was one of the best lessons I ever had because Brian described changing the voicing of a chord to make it easy to do the Hendrix style HOs and POs. Once I saw the fingering changes, and new chord shapes, the tab instantly made sense. I was thinking maybe this same thing happened to you, since I usual just go straight for the tab — immediate gratification kinda thing.
Brian — I think this was one of the most important lessons I’ve had; kind of a conceptual breakthrough for me. You covered so many mechanics and techniques (beyond the actual licks) that I haven’t heard presented in such a simple way. For example, the voicings as mentioned above, the D shape trick, etc. Absolutely killer lesson. Thank you so much! I ordered this lesson ages ago, but rhythm stuff has been so challenging for me that this gem was just sitting on my hard drive while I wasted time trying to reverse engineer Hendrix fingerings from Songsterr tabs, etc.
Another lesson I learned here is how two-dimensional tab is. I think it’s more of a guide than a turn-key sort of thing. One example that will hopefully crystallize this notion is bar 19. Had I not watched the videos, I would immediately assume that this was some alteration of the Am shape (a hammer on with the middle finger) since what follows is the Am chord. Of course, we learned about the use of the D shape up the fretboard, and that epiphany altered the way I look at the tab.
But by far the best example I can come up with is the part that involved the voicing change. In bar 5, we see a C chord, and the subsequent notes didn’t seem to tie into that shape with any rhyme or reason until Brian explained the voicing change of C on a higher fret. So the notes are all fragments of the new C shape. Hopefully I made that sort of clear.
Again, Brian — kudos on this. Brilliant stuff.
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October 28, 2012 at 7:14 pm #8562
Hi Am:
Thanks for your comments on the style lesson. I kinda put this one away for a bit as I realized I was trying to play it too literally. I agree with you; It is an excellent lesson and when I came back to it I was playing something with same the changes but not as Brian had outlined it but in the spirit of the lesson.
This is what I got from this exercise:
“Hendrix style HOs and POs” Tabs can’t really chart the timing and dynamics of those moves but this lesson improved my technique greatly. I have applied this to many different songs. Practice will only make this more fluid.
Playing the C chord as a barre on the 5th fret and moving it up 2 frets so you are position for the POs for the A minor thingy. This is useful for other barre chords as well as C try it with barre D.
The movable D shape that is F that becomes a small G before going back to A minor. I am always trying to map out the fretboard so if I play a shape like the D thing in a position I now want to know what notes I am playing and what that chord is called.
On Hendrix: I am now working on Hey Joe and a lot of what I absorbed from Brian’s lesson I have applied to this song. Woodshedding on the main solo which takes a lot of finesse; I’ll get there someday.
“Sometimes when I play the guitar, I feel like I am dancing with God. And although I step on her toes from time to time, she is content to let me lead.” Anon.
Muddy
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October 28, 2012 at 7:14 pm #8563
Thanks Alex! Awesome picture of your fingers too by the way 🙂 – You’re right in your analogy that tabs are one dimensional… it’s a combination of the tab with the lesson that is probably the most efficient way to learn… and to be honest the REAL learning will be trying to apply these techniques to chords that you’re playing in other songs.
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October 29, 2012 at 10:14 am #8565Anonymous
Mud — I figured you took the same path as I did. So strange how we can look at something and make assumptions when there’s a completely other perspective to it. Sort of a metaphor for life, ins’t it? As I mentioned, this was a landmark lesson for me in that regard. Very cool that you’re applying these voicings to Hey Joe. That’s definitely on my To-Do list. My big dream goal is to play Bold As Love and Lenny before I die. Man’s got to have dreams, right?
@Brian — “One dimensional” is the more fitting term for tab, indeed. So yes, next step would be applying these concepts in the real world, but that’s way beyond the horizon for me. Need to do this lesson a few times. Thanks again. Do you have any other premium lessons in the works? You are definitely among the very best teachers I’ve found. You break stuff down so well. Perfect. -
December 30, 2012 at 1:13 am #9072
unless I’m misreading something the tab, as I’ve downloaded anyway, doesn’t correspond fully to the lesson in the G “Little WIng” bit. No problem and not a criticism as I think the vid lesson is ace. The better players amongst you probably don’t rely on the practice and repeat to the tab as much as us clunkers. If the tab is a guide and the lesson has variation no problem, it’s a great lesson with depth to it.
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