Jimi Hendrix Licks NOBODY Can Play

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[@timmotel5804]

I saw Jimi twice. At the Miami Beach Convention Hall and The Miami Pop Festival. He was always one of my favourites. I'm a drummer since 1965. Excellent work. Thanks

[@underskillednunderpaid]

Respect to you sir, thank you for keeping guitarist and bassist in line and laying down the grooviest grooves possible! haha

[@patriotpizzaman]

It feels like it belongs with the third side of Electric Ladyland. I call it the "Rainy Day Suite". Love Or Confusion is one of my all-time underated Hendrix favs. It should be a prerequisite for humans over the age of 16 to be familiar with it!

[@timmotel5804]

@@patriotpizzaman If i'm correct, Jimi wrote "Rainy Day" at the Miami Pop Festival, when it rained. 3 Glorious Days of Music. I was there for all three days.

[@thedudemkii5381]

Oh the envy I have for you

[@johnballs0540]

Man ur lucky

[@sedwho8518]

Marshall is literally Jimi’s middle name

[@andresolanguitar9795]

Facts

[@mokodo813]

Damn. He played a Marshall, and his middle name was Marshall. What a coincidence.

[@ultimadum7785]

I'm surprised I've never made that connection lol

[@elwolf8536]

Literally !!

[@mokumkat]

Yep and James his first name...

[@jonkerrmusic]

The Hendrix face pop-ups were perfect.

[@BucoBucolini]

Steve Vai himself said it when they were doing that tribute tour a few years back, something like I can play Jimi's notes but I still can't sound like Jimi. Jimi's expressiveness on the instrument is... it's difficult to put in words... it's magical.

[@gthogan]

So true. It’s like the human voice in a way, it can be impersonated but that has limitations.

[@chrisr7419]

Sounds pretentious as fuck

[@BucoBucolini]

@@chrisr7419 which part?

[@dickstryker]

Might sound wierd but it's 100% legit. You can copy the notes but without Hendrick's lifetime of ingrained muscle memory, Hendrick's hands or Hendrick's heart it won't sound exactly like Hendricks. It'll sound like you playing Hendricks. There's a lot of bends and other techniques that are just very unique to eacb individual player. At the highest levels it's often character and inflections that identifies an artist more than level of technique.

[@fep_ptcp883]

It is one of those things that even AI can't nail. The subtleties, the imperfections, the human touch. His guitar had a voice, Jimi was like the messenger who let the instrument speak. You kinda get to ask if the guitar played Jimi or the other way around

[@HB-hl1fm]

One Rainy Wish is his most underrated tune in my opinion

[@danielmakuch3094]

This song takes me to a whole other place

[@fenderfreak215]

That song does not get nearly enough respect. Way ahead of its time

[@trintdaddylandis]

agreed 100%

[@bigmommy_5728]

Yeah man it’s criminally underrated. Same with pali gap

[@greybushgames1]

My absolute favorite song by Jimi

[@bluebay0]

Love the passive aggressiveness towards the Hendrix estate for preventing a demonstration that would likely benefit them one way or another.

[@neonblack211]

lol yeah took me a while to realize that is what was going on... its quite pathetic how protected his license is

[@microchrist6122]

It’s actually insane how good he played guitar his own way before and after himself.

[@cacophonic7]

“Warble away off into the ether…” I love that. That’s going to be the name of my LP.

[@snogglemonkey]

It's the curly guitar cable that's the real secret to Jimi's sound :)

[@Bstonz85]

How though?

[@shhs1227]

@@Bstonz85 by that comment being a joke

[@joelhague5515]

It seems a joke, but the extra cable capacitance rolls off high frequencies and that was a major part of his sound!

[@mexicanelf7213]

Nothing better to start off the day than a music is win video

[@TK-fk4po]

I love that you played them ALMOST - probably to avoid copyright claims, but that actually made them more interesting.

[@werdecurb]

Maybe the title was meant the be a slight at the Hendrix estate. At least that's how I heard Tyler's "I can't play Hendrix, but I can play Hendrix" comments.

[@TK-fk4po]

@@werdecurb Exactly. Ironically the software he was using is officially licensed by the estate.

[@extansegura]

Hendrix state are killing his legacy. Is so sad that money and greed does to art. I'll be waiting to the moment the ownership expires ill do a full cover of every hendrix song as a thank you note to jimmy

[@57stratkat]

Keep up the great work. Your humility and your sense of humor makes your videos very enjoyable. You're a great player too.

[@kleback6660]

My favorite video so far! Great work Tyler!

[@scottmatznick3140]

"played the guitar like a piano" THANK YOU!!!!!! I've been trying to figure out how to put it into words for years. I'm a piano and guitar player and you fuckin nailed it bro.

[@rickjohns689]

Just imagine, Jimi came back to life, and walked into a studio, and was shown this, and was handed a guitar. After the whole futurist shock and awe of how amazing this would be to him, imagine what he would come up. Sometimes we lose perspective of how much cool stuff we have. He had a couple of amps, and couple pedals, and had to crank the shit out of it to get his sound. it's just amazing to step back and look at it like this. It sounds so good.

[@Heatfarmer]

I'm afraid he would end up sounding like a polished turd going up and down endlessly on the fretboard, if he had started playing in the 80's or after

[@connornicholson3944]

@@Heatfarmer nein

[@strato2ostrut]

@@Heatfarmer So true. Theres that rawness and freedom in jimis playing that makes all that crap sound so disingenuous and lifeless

[@CesarCordova]

Nailed it!

[@ebenezerspludge8369]

All along the watchtower, they'll be singing our song forever.

[@Glicksman1]

Jimi's sense of what the next note should be was his greatest musical gift. His musical imagination generated his sound. That he also understood and found such excellent amp and pedal sounds was additional Kismet, but he would have been amazing regardless.

[@suprchickn7745]

One of the finest and most versatile guitarists on KZbin. Tasty stuff, Tyler!

[@brandonparks770]

Love this, you've done something I can't, I can play so close to Jimmi H but can't make my own unique sound it keeps sounding like I'm copying JH or SRV while yours is like a new melt my face . Man I hope you can do a full cover of your favorite songs instead of just these short riffs. Love your work. Keep shedding

[@brandonparks770]

Bad proof reading. SHREDDING what's shedding LUL

[@kenigma4303]

This was great! Maybe in the future you could do full break downs of other guitarists style and sound based on techniques and gear with links to tabs and references to these patterns in songs. It would be epic!

[@kerth54]

The honesty is refreshing. Great video!

[@truegritband1092]

When you pulled out the ES-335 I was hoping you were going to play red house, room full of mirrors, izabella, or some other Hendrix tune that incorporates humbuckers. But I understand why you had to show off that feature of the plug-in because it is pretty unique. Great video!

[@TheGnob27]

Dude this video definitely brought a smile to my face. You're hilarious, and the tones and riffs were fuckin savage. 🤘

[@carldurant8653]

Now I know why Jimi is my favorite since I can remember. I always said his sound was different in ways other than distortion etc. You explain about he didn't follow natural chord progressions. I don't speak music theory, so I'm grateful you unlocked in me what I've been trying to express for over 35 years when I was a young teen😁

[@MatthewvanR.music.]

My fav Hendrix songs are Killing floor,voodoo child,purple haze,Foxy lady,Red House,all along the wacthtower

[@JDStone20]

Great video, you are very close tone wise and technique wise, sounds f-ing awesome!

[@BigJohnDeere100]

"And while I won't be able to play these licks, I will be able to play these licks..." ....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Instantly subbed!

[@riccardofioretti9743]

Guys, why nobody talks about the Woodstock improvisation..?! It drops my jaw every time.

[@dr.lesbien9618]

Woodstock should’ve been nuked. It wasn’t and now all those hippies are in congress demonizing police, spreading Anti-White hatred, sexualizing children, gender propaganda, sympathizing for illegal aliens and convincing Americans to be soft feminized drones. Damn I wish that concert was bombed.

[@tonyqunta32]

Driving South from the Radio One album is phenomenal! What a great guitar sound and amazing playing!

[@kyleroach2581]

This is one of the best videos. All the tone work was amazing

[@averyschick9011]

Love your content tyler keep it up

[@pt5820]

That was fantastic. Thanks

[@bluesignmusic6020]

Great playing and tone

[@rcheezy7501]

I think Jimi is looking down smiling watching this video with us.. amazing work man.

[@christophernoble76]

i love his burning fuzz tone, the one that really is overdriven

[@rockandrollmd541]

Gypsy Eyes is unplayable for me. I think you CAN play them, but don't want a copyright strike ;-)

[@iancostigan5047]

Yeah exactly.

[@progressivehardindustrialslug]

Randy Hansen. I've had the pleasure of opening for him. He can play any Jimmy lick/riff.

[@valeryprokudin1499]

Very nice ad! Inspiring 🎸

[@junbu8958]

Thanks Great job I enjoyed the video

[@DirkBelig]

Guitar Match is dark magic. I've got plenty of guitars, but when I'm bashing out demos it's nice to be able expand on just what my main guitar's pickup and volume options can do without digging out other guitars.

[@Jamie_Wilson]

For so many of these riffs I was like "That's so John Frusciante!". And then I realised that John is so Jimmy and it all made sense.

[@krokovay.marcell]

Except Jimmy never played lukewarm…

[@bradrehn1007]

And his name is either James Marshall Hendrix or Jimi... not Jimmy. If ya can't spell his name ya likely can't play his licks...neither can I...but then devil is in the details of ✌

[@moptop5253]

No, it’s Pali Gap’s beautiful rhythm part that I can never play exactly right. If you know that song before you look it up, you’re definitely a Hendrix fan.

[@SuperCrazylegs26]

Even a lot of Hendrix fans have never heard it !

[@moptop5253]

@@SuperCrazylegs26 yea and it’s quite sad. Beautiful instrumental, horrible movie lmaoooo

[@jackh1570]

Definitely my fav instrumental. It’s just so calm and exciting at the same time

[@keplerhughes4390]

I'm a hardcore Hendrix nut. Pali Gap might be in my top 5 songs of all time. It's filled with such emotion that it has brought me to tears, so many times

[@williamhurrelbrink3324]

Got the rainbow bridge soundtrack on vinyl. Good stuff on that record.

[@nsc217]

You’re talking about Jimi’s live sound or recorded sound? The recordings were more than heavily modded by Eddie Kramer, the unsung hero

[@gangstalker5461]

Kramer is a god, but just listening to the little wing isolated tracks jimis tone is still astounding before production

[@user-lv7ph7hs7l]

I do love his later live sound though, Marshall cranked, fuzz cranked, booster too. He had so much gain, he was well into 1980 heavy metal territory, not quite Randy Rhoads "amps about to detonate" distortion but way more than any pre 1980 Metal album by anyone, Priest, Maiden. Wxcwpt Sabbath maybe, but even then on the most of the early albums for high gain, Tony actually doesn't use that much, Geezer also had a lot of overdrive thaz contributes to the overall sound but some of Hendrix later live tones where just fantastic. I don't known if he had any of his amps modified but you'd at least need a Plexi on full, a fuzz on max and a booster to get gain like that and it didn't get fizzy either, he still had a beautiful clear glassy tone, not some undefined fizzing like some 1960s high gain guitar tones. He had the output on max but the distortion probably pretty low on the fuzz and the man knew how to set an EQ to deal with that much gain long before everyone else. Sure people used fuzzes and screamers but most didn't have that nice a tone, unless you like that but often rich in high end fizz, which I just don't like at all. And really boxy too, Hendrix had that compression going that made everything sound super roubd and smooth.

[@kevinatkab5219]

Cream's I Feel Free opens with the so called "Jimi chord" - that was May 1966, I still think that's the first rock use of the chord in such a pronounced way. Are You Experienced released in 1967.

[@justinm1766]

Cream can never get enough credit. Somehow even Clapton gets overlooked!! His work on Bluesbreakers stands as the standard of electric blues guitar.

[@charlesnill6286]

Jimi wanted to meet Clapton when he first moved to London, he was Jimis hero

[@RavannaBell]

His cover of aware of love and gypsy woman at woodstock was amazing

[@xbeeslebossx]

that’s a pretty deep cut too hard to find online

[@lorenzozambelli1860]

Cool video man, and Euphoria screensaver running behind you sent me in the past.

[@Stereostupid]

That is the most beautiful color of any 335 I've ever seen OMG 😱 it's gorgeous!!! Great stuff

[@lordofleaves257]

Love the dig at Hendrix Studios 🔥

[@ddfdskfhsdkfhdsfd]

Yes, Tyler is a very great guitarist…obviously… keep up the awesome work Tyler!!

[@ogigami]

Nice video, loved it

[@bee5616]

People always reference his early songs as being great such as Purple Haze and Castles Made of Sand but I find his best and most impactful music is often the lesser-known tracks, particularly those from just before he passed away, such as Bolero, Slow Blues, Freedom, Straight Ahead and November Morning. His first album is nice. The guitar playing is pretty good. But if you want to hear him play, i mean reeaally play, listen to the studio jams and outtakes rather than the studio albums.

[@frankfrank7921]

Do you mean the things he never intended for lease? There's a reason it's called an "outtake". .My you are quite the contrarian.

[@frankfrank7921]

"... particularly those from just before he passed away," I'll see your contrarianism and raise you an absurdist. I prefer his playing after he passed away. So much depth yet so minimalist so bare bones if you will.

[@bee5616]

@@frankfrank7921 looooooooool

[@JONTHEWHEREHOG]

Valleys of Neptune is one of his best songs but it was released after he died. Freedom is also really good, was one of the first songs I heard by him

[@kennethbaldonado4348]

Slow blues 🔥🔥

[@willardmeese6222]

sounds great !!!

[@shabblabbat]

Loved it! Keep trying! Fabulous

[@claytonpaul4259]

Love the wisdom speaks hashtag one of my favorite quotes. Also great job on the glockenspiel for authenticity lol. Love your Jimi vids! How was he so good?!?!

[@marcreno893]

Awesome jam bro

[@krisvogel3015]

cant wait to play this for myself with my spark amp. great video!

[@danielflintknapping]

Great video! Was Hendrix pickups swapped or could some of his sound be explained by the fact that he plays a right-handed guitar restringed to a leftie so the pol possions weren't "correct"?

[@matydavus1078]

Cant wait!

[@KING-hn7yr]

Hell yeah !!you got it !!you got it !!

[@ZitherBeast]

More videos like this, that was awesome.

[@seantogher3468]

Man I wish I couldn’t play Hendrix music like that .. Amazing.. thank you

[@markusaurelius777]

Kudos to you sir for capturing the essence of Jimi.

[@willdossett6287]

Keep goin man👍 good job

[@Nieburg2319.]

Hey Tyler I love the channel, I would like to see a instructional video on a list of songs that have the major scale to help me practice bye thanks.

[@thefaultyone2343]

theres such a cool vibe to the new background i love it

[@michaelmattson3515]

Nice job dude.

[@johnsonsjams3439]

You mentioning him playing like it’s a piano just made EVERYTHING click in my head! Idk why I’d never put that together

[@mahatmacote6478]

Not a saxophone? At times I have thought I heard the influence from jamming with his father Al. He even called it "the public saxophone"

[@johnfichtl3711]

great playing!

[@BrenoCarv]

Awesome!

[@davidwilliams3504]

Excellent

[@garywray4875]

The hardest Hendrix bridges to me are in Little Miss Lover and One Rainy Wish, check those out again... BTW, I saw Jimi at the Seattle Coliseum in 1968 while I was stationed at Fort Lewis, WA. WOW, what a show!!!

[@Mmm14829]

The opening on foxy lady pumps me up so much

[@funnyman1588]

Eddie hazel even has a jimi hendrix tribute version of maggot brain I BEG YOU PLEASE. It was the last song I showed and listened too with my dad before I had to give him cpr for 10 minutes and at 24 its fucked me up brother. Music and my guitar are the only things I have and give me a reason other than my dad. I never got to ask him if hes ever heard of parliament funkadelics or if he knew who Eddie hazel is or if he's ever heard it before. We only listened to a artist named dovydas play maggot brain for abiut 20 seconds. After he passed I learned the whole maybe true story of Eddie being told to play the song like his mother had died and it just blows my mind every single time I hear it. You're the best and help give me motivation and help me understand the guitar I'm every aspect. Rock on rocksteady 🤘

[@diegoandrescurbelo3475]

Thanks for repping Walt grace Ty! Hometown!

[@nickangelo4310]

I wish I could give you a golden thumbs up for this one man.

[@Jimmy-nd1qu]

Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorites

[@mpalin11]

Hey, great video! Did you use any pedals in addition to the plugin? Thanks.

[@petrmaryska4646]

*Crazy saxophone solo* Tyler: I am gonna learn this. *Purple Haze* Tyler: I cannot play it. You are such a badass Tyler.

[@molkozero]

I’m pretty sure the joke is that he cannot legally play those songs for these videos. That’s why everything he did was remarkably close. I’m sure he can play all the songs with ease

[@spauldo0163]

Lol all I heard was “I can’t play this jimmy song” to avoid getting de-monetized… still a fun vid man!

[@heavymetal19610]

That was awesome!

[@bmuhamad]

Fabulous.

[@prebird]

On with it!

[@KING-hn7yr]

It's damn good! if I had my eyes closed I think that was Jimi playing , Great Job !!!

[@robertgraves3215]

I love how the kids I jam with nowadays grok upon Dylan, Hendrix , etc. They're like "rock these days is so fake ". By doing this, my son, you are keeping the midnight oil burning. Oh wait that was a song... IMO what Jimi did was all about INTENTION.

[@jesussaddle]

I think its pretty difficult to get an amp model to sound like hendrix with his fuzz effects and studio gear - so impressed that you and Bias are even attempting it. Every once in a while I see someone, like Randy Hansen, who can do a lot of justice to Jimi, and I wonder how much it would take wind out of his sails to use only virtual guitar amp and pedal fx vsts. BTW, doesn't a real fuzz pedal interact with a guitar's electronics in a way that makes it especially nice sounding? Some of those Bias tones sound pretty good, and I certainly wouldn't complain about rehearsing with them. But there's something gentle and smooth about a Hendrix tone, never shrill or harsh - possibly the tape plus the vinyl - or the pedal-guitar interactions and tube stuff in his amps (and as someone mentioned below, the long curly cables do roll off some harshness).

[@neonblack211]

wait I think I finally realized what you were talking about "not being able to play"... this is a copyright issue isnt it.. your attempt at all along the watch tower was brilliant i loved that

[@meridien52681]

Do you have a video on Nick Drake? I'd be interested to see you analyze his sound and technique. This is the second video of yours I've ever watched, and I'd like to see what you do with his compositions. Thanks!

[@bocanadanico]

Joshua turner has an excellent video about nick

[@DrBASSics10]

5:06 is it only me who recognized the John Frusciante tone too?? Well I know Hendrix is Frusciante's influence but cmon😂 the first thing comes to my mind was JF's one😂😂

[@sheldoniusRex]

I heard it too and came looking for this comment.

[@MichaelJones-kq3md]

5:22 Castles made of snow? It's like the sterilised lovechild of Jimi and John's playing.

[@DrBASSics10]

@@MichaelJones-kq3md agreed with that💯

[@Davidtavernor]

I'm spending my evening learning that version of Purple Haze, sounds EPIC. Kudos 🙂

[@ryan1mcq]

Doing a Hendrix vid and not using a Fender is blasphemy!..... Just messing, another great vid dude! Love the channel.

[@darrellminx5459]

I always enjoy your playing. Love the video! Good emulating machine the clean sounds get pretty close but it don't sound like Hendrix. As always like Eric Johnson says it's the sumtotal of all the ingredients. Jimmy had giant hands Jimi played upside down. Jimmy used a weird set of string gauges. The fender strings that he used aren't even made anymore. Then there's signal chain. Jimmy had a box full of wah pedals. Jimmy used cocked wah position as well as his foot of course. Jimmy used Fender Marshall and sunn amplifiers. Those amplifiers were all hand-wired and you can't find mustard caps or any of the others anymore unless you want to Shell out some dough. Jimmy had a tendency to play slightly out-of-tune he didn't care you he would just keep going. I could keep going but it would just get boring. Thanks for the video I love your side trip videos!

[@joshuagibson2520]

Very valid thoughts.

[@MadSonStudios]

what is the black guitar with the lipstick pickups in it?great playing bro..

[@szpackyu]

Any chance you can make a video about how to set bias fx on the computer?

[@darrellminx5459]

Oh yeah one more thing. You have to do a mash-up of pentatonic diatonic chromatic and a few others but a great video thank you!

[@CMHobbies]

Has the recreated PRS Hendrix high end plexi. Plays on a plug-in. (I know it’s sponsored). Honestly impressed with some of those tones.

[@Miki-xh6fb]

I think every serious guitar player had a jimi hendrix phase, where his music suck you in, and you study his music and try to figure out how he did it, you got almost the same equipment, the same string size, amp settups etc, but you realize you can even get close to his expression or to his tone.And then you realize, jimi was something different, like he was born, literally born to play music in a short time and then to die, so that his presence and music still remains a mysterious. Randy Hansen studied jimi for almost 50 years, and he is an unbelievable good guitarist and still can't sound like hendrix. I would loved to see him live...

[@fabriziobignotti6938]

as everyone we very far from his sound and feeling..thats why no-one can replicate....bit it inspires all guitar players and will forever...next saturday is bday by the way..happy bday jimi always rock love roll

[@hesch-tag]

If you want to hear Jimi's unmatched magic in one song, listen to Stone free from the Jimi Hendrix concerts album (Royal Albert Hall). The solo is incredible and the part after the drum solo is pure brilliance.

[@hesch-tag]

@Andrew Korvin Atlanta? Really? I have never really liked the Atlanta performance. It's not bad but it is just so mediocre. His guitar tone really sucked there and most of the performance he was just going through the motions. To be honest I can't fathom that the Royal Albert Hall version of Stone free is not talked about more. It's always Machine gun (which I get) but this version of SF is just brilliant. In fact it's my favourite live recording ever.

[@JONTHEWHEREHOG]

My favorite jimi performance is his San Diego Red House. Its probably his best live performance of any song besides machine gun.

[@hesch-tag]

@@JONTHEWHEREHOG Yes it is incredible although the solo is not his best. The quieter parts elevate it. To me Red house from Randall's island New York pop is every bit as good and the solo is breathtaking. But San Diego's Red house has some of his best playing as well, especially the intro and the wah part. His clean sound there is stunning.

[@darrellminx5459]

Good choice!

[@4thamendment237]

Here's a little trivia -- Stone Free is the first song Hendrix ever wrote. I'm a huge Hendrix fan but I will concede that a lot of his live performances are terrible. He is way out of tune on a lot of them. Two reasons they were so bad were, Number One and most important he was often under the influence of substances when he played and if you get "fussed" up enough, nobody can play well or even play at all. In fact the night before he died at Ronnie Scott's club in London he was so incapacitated he couldn't play. It was sad, and people saw...Look up what Ronnie Wood had to say about seeing Hendrix that night. The other reason is that people expected him to do all of the tricks with the guitar instead of just playing it. He didn't like this expectation and said that it made him feel like they wanted to see "a circus clown." But when he was (relatively) sober and just stood there and played -- well, that's how we got we got his masterpiece Machine Gun from the Band of Gypsies album. Watch that footage -- he's not rolling around on the floor or playing with his teeth -- he's Jimi Hendrix the Guitar Player, not Jimi Hendrix the Circus Clown. Incidentally, Hendrix was INCREDIBLY reckless with his use of drugs and alcohol. On the night he died he took 18 times the prescribed dose of the barbiturate Vesparax which his girlfriend (for the night) had. He then washed them down with an entire bottle of red wine. That kind of thing was not unusual for him, but this time the chemistry and biology combined in a lethal way, and it killed him. Hey, I love Jimi as much as the next guy and probably more than most, but that kind of thing was going to happen to him sooner or later, and more likely sooner. Knowing what I know now, I don't think he would have seen 30. Absolutely terrible loss to the world.

[@digital360]

Bro that first demo track tore me a new... well it really rocked.

[@tylerwilliams8431]

what is it called?