hey joe

[thorn trail]

hey guys, i’m learning hey joe as my first song by hendrix.

i’m learning thru marty music, but here he explains the intro, the chords and some embellishments he does to them, he doesn’t teach the full song tho. is there more to it or does hendrix just repeat the same stuff? i can’t get it by listening 😅

https://youtu.be/oEp3RNg3UPU?si=A7DjhtWV802Y2gLz

[grim cave]

When you listen to the song played by Hendrix - What are the base notes?

The Bass notes typically are the Root notes of the chords.

[thorn trail]

okay thank you! the start has that intro riff and i was wondering if there was more to it further into the music

but thanks!!

[grim cave]

Listen to Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe again all the way through. Then again and again.... And even again 20 or 30 times more.

Then let me know what you think.

Do you believe you can learn songs by ear?

[thorn trail]

yeah hum i been learning and listened to it like 10 times

and looked into the embelishements he does

and damn they are hard

like i understand the concept with the major pentatonic

but the technique to do it

its hard in my opinion

[thorn trail]

ohh i see

but like do people memorize the embelishments?

or is it just improvising

i see alot of people talking about

inverting it like instead of a c major being x35553

they make it x7555

but i saw videos that basically just said that

[urban shoal]

inverting is moving the lowest note in the chord up an octave

this is a different voicing

[urban shoal]

you can

if you're going for as close to original

[grim cave]

The x7555x is really Am

[urban shoal]

and that

if you just played a different C it would be different voicing

[urban shoal]

you can also learn the harmony

[thorn trail]

yeah well i see people going crazy with the pull offs in this progression

and just shredding between the chords

is there anyway to do it in a not so technical way?

[urban shoal]

not really

you wanna play technically complex music

you can just play technically undemanding music

but the result is worth the practice

[thorn trail]

alright

but here

technique matters the most right?

it’s just the major scale with some fast hammer ons and pull offs

or at least that’s what most people do

[urban shoal]

from what i remember the song being it sounds like there's alot more than the major scale with some fast hammerons and pulloffs

also note that most people are not jimi hendrix

[urban shoal]

technique matters everywhere, there can either be alot to learn, or not alot

[thorn trail]

alr

do you recommend something to practice this?

[urban shoal]

the song

find the parts you can't play and break them down as much as you need to. create technical exercises out of those parts that target your weaknesses

[urban shoal]

is it not E major if it's just E B G#?

[grim cave]

Oh yea I meant to denote it as xx7555 to be the Am

[urban shoal]

👍

[grim cave]

@thorn trail

Typically in groups with a bass guitar or keyboard.

Oftentimes, guitarists use parts of chords and not play the Root as the lowest note. -- Which is covered by the Bass or Keyboard.

Playing one finger or two finger parts of chords, like 4 string chords, Triads or Double Stops, frees up other fretting fingers to do embellishments of 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, etc.