Seriously, what did Hendrix do that no one before him could?

Question

Please be quite detailed as that's what I can't find. I play guitar so I'll understand what you say.

Answer 1

I knew ,and have had many long conversations with Al hendrix,jimmy`s father,I met him for the first time back in1984 whilst he was in the UK.
Jimmy learnt to play the guitar by marking out the frets on a broom handle but with his natural "ear" he could imagine the sounds and by the time Al could afford his first guitar jimmy could already play it.Jimmmy prefered the fender stratocaster but limitations on it`s design meant he had to buy a left handed one and alter the pick ups to his prefered tone.he also found that he could control the tremelo arm better with it above the strings rather than below and always left the back plate off so the roadies could restring it whilst he carried on playing, he broke many a top string,or was that bottom?
jimmy took the guitar a step futher than anyone else combining blues and rock to produce a new sound,,A radio DJ at the time said" No white radio station will play his music as he was black and no black radio station will play his music because he player white music,but go to his gigs and it`s standing room only"
He took the sound further than anyone imagined it could go surpassing Dick Dale`s surfer sound and Chuck Berry`s rock n roll,He was an inovator and inventor,compared to like groups at the time,Jeferson Airplane, Doors, Greatfull Dead, 10 years After, Who ,Stones, Canned Heat ,Santana he was a league above in style and note complexity,He ,interestingly enough had very long fingers and could cover the whole fret board with one finger enableing him to cross over chords and introduce instant feed back through this technique,his hands were perfect for his music.
He can be coppied but as a hollywood movie mogul once said "It`s been done before" and that`s where his genious lies,he reinvented the way you could get sounds from a guitar both acoustic 12 strigs and electric and it has yet to be bettered,coppied,mimiced and drawn from but not yet betered.
Maybe you could be the one ?
Eric Clapton was argueing about who was to play first at the 1967 Monerey pop festival when jimmy stood up on a table and started to play,he did this for about 4 minutes,when he finnished Clapton left the room "saying who`s gonna follow that?" commenting furthur that "I shall have to go and do some more practise"...
Just a final bit...Jimmy did NOT die in monica Danamans flat on the 18th sept 1970 but died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital,the ambulance crew didn`t know what was wrong with him and left him on his back on the streatcher where he vomited and choked to death...If only hey ??? His last words that he ever wrote were...
The story of life is in the wink of an eye
The story of love is hello and goodbye
Untill we meet again..
Sorry onother add on for you...
Jimmy nearly always played with just 400wats of Marshall amps and used a WahWah peddle, Distortion peddle, and a Cry Baby...all tuned to full spec

Answer 2

Controlled feedback, extreme volume, showmanship no one had used in mass audiences before, the use of special effects no one else had used before, the use of special effects as essential parts of the compositions (think of "Voodoo Chile" with no wah-wah pedal in the intro, etc.), and the use of a playing style in rock that incorporated a "borrowed" technique from classical music where the bass line, rhythm, and melody are all being played on two or more strings at a time such that he could play the composition so it sounded like three guitar players at once. Watch the video from the 1967 Monterey Pop Video, and watch the movie "Hendrix" if you want to learn more.

Answer 3

He created his own music style that did not exist before. He used a lot of feedback in his music which people did not use with guitars at the time and that created a whole new sound that basically was used to later create hard rock and heavy metal. He even played with his teeth or behind his back which also wasn't done before. All that he did was self taught.

Answer 4

Hendrix was before Led Zepplin in that he fused rock with the blues. Hendrix even made Dylan's songs sound natural as rock compositions. Hendrix even made the National Anthem sound better -- he made it sound like a symphony. Hendrix found sounds using feedback as an extra voice for his harmony.

Hendrix was the only artist banned by the US military during the Battle for SE Asia.

If you can innovate anything close to that, let's hear it. I'm tired of Rap. I'm tired of Tehano. I want Rock to rumble again!!!

Answer 5

A self-taught guitarist, Hendrix played a Fender Stratocaster guitar turned upside down ("left-handed") and restrung to suit him. Hendrix pioneered the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers, incorporating into his music what was previously an undesirable sound. He built upon the innovations and influences of blues stylists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and T-Bone Walker, and derived style from rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, and Cornell Dupree, as well as from traditional jazz. Part of Hendrix's flamboyant stage persona may have been inspired by rock pioneer Little Richard, with whom he toured as part of Richard's back-up band, "The Upsetters".

Hendrix strove to combine what he called "earth", a blues, jazz, or funk driven rhythm accompaniment, with "space", the high-pitched psychedelic sounds created by his guitar improvisations. As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas; he was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects during recording.

Answer 6

I truthfully see the position you're coming from; Jimmy web page is the reason I play guitar now, yet to call Jimi overrated is flat-out ridiculous. did you recognize the way many barriers he broke by? Race no longer coated, speaking in effortless words from a musical regularly occurring. as quickly because it receives to that factor, you fairly can not play this stupid sport of "the astounding contained in the international." they are both legends... and as far because the race difficulty is going, Hendrix had to go back and forth in the course of the pond to be oftentimes occurring by utilising people, so as it truly is not any f'n way. (edit) Bolide ?Self Appointed Pastor? is fairly ideal about Jimmy web page dope-slapping you, lol. She brings up a sturdy factor, yet Pagey's truthfully as sturdy, by no ability more beneficial ideal. (edit) @ this isn't united statesa. actual, both web page and Hendrix got here from a relations of inventive guitarists that coated Clapton and Beck (the first to popularize fuzz-distortion). those 4 guitarists are probably the 4 corners of the universe, musically. equivalent, yet of diverse strengths. each and everything else is opinion. That being reported, my customary guitarist contained in the international is Jimmy web page, said heavily by utilising John Frusciante and Jimi Hendrix.

Answer 7

Hendrix could play cords with his thumb and 5 fingers at the same time .

Apparently he could , while playing a 5 finger chord put his thumb over the neck and reach the bottom string with it !

Answer 8

yeah, i know what you mean !

did you watch 7 ages of rock documentary at last night ? apparently 'the crowd stood agog' at the monteray festival when he smashed his guitar up, correct me if im wrong but hadn't pete townsend just done that when the who did their set before jimmy hendrix came on ?!

Answer 9

He played his guitar upside down because he was left handed.

Answer 10

write a song, sing a song and play a guitar very very well