Jimi Hendrix Guitar Lick in A Major

Video Transcript

"Alright, here is a cool A major pentatonic lick using the A major pentatonic scale. This lick uses double stops which are two notes played at the same time, something you might hear Jimmy Hendrix play. I'm going to play this for you four times so let's check out what it sounds like. 3, 4. Okay, let's take a better look at this Jimmy Hendrix style lick. We're going to use double stops here which are two notes that are played at the same time. One of those two notes has motion meaning it's going to move while the other notes stays the same. We start right from the beginning of the lick with this, so what I've got is my first finger on the fourth fret of the G string and my second finger on the fifth fret of the B string. The note that's going to move is the note on the G string and what I mean by move is we're going to use a hammer on, so let me show you what I do here. The note on the B string stays the same but the note on the G string gets hammered on. Play it together sounds like this. What you want to be careful of is sloppiness making sure that the finger, your third finger hammers on that note doesn't touch the B string and cuts the note off. You don't want it to sound like, it's going to sound out the key that way and then we move one fret up and we buy the fifth fret with our first finger and you're going to do the same type of thing where the high E string note on the fifth fret is going to stay the same but the note on the B string is going to change. In this case, we're hammering on and then going back to the original position which is both notes on the fifth fret. Then you're going to reach down for a single note on the seventh fret on the D string. After that note, you'll head back where you started the lick on the fourth fret of the G and the fifth fret of the B and this time instead of just hammering, you're going to go back to the original position. So, from the beginning and you can see that I just made the mistake that I just told you not to do, it sounded out of key, so let me, let me clean that up, and then at the end what you're going to do is reach down for your A note on the seventh fret of the D, the E note on the seventh fret of the A string and back to your A note which is the key that were in A and I give it a little bit of a shake. I shake the string for somebody brought to at the end. Now, you will notice on our tablature that we have it notated that you use your pinky for the seventh fret note. If you're more comfortable using your third finger there, that's totally fine, do what's easiest for you. So, all together slowly, the lick will sound like this. 2, 3, 4. Now, what I want to do is I want to play the lick twice slowly along with the backing tracks so you can hear it in context. 2, 3, 4. Now you have it."