Chords for Hendrix Little Wing Tricks

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_ _ [N] Hey everybody, this is Anthony from SteamySnacks.
It's Free Lesson Friday and I'm a big dummy so I actually left my big professional camcorder
at home and I'm in my office now.
But I still wanted to record a lesson so I'm just using my [Ab] webcam and I'll just do the
best that I can.
This is going to [G] be much lower quality than what I normally like to do.
Hopefully you'll still [Gbm] be able to learn something.
[G] What I'm going to look at today [Eb] is a little something from the Jimi Hendrix [Bm] version of Little Wing.
I know a lot of you guys, like me, have probably focused mainly on the Stevie Ray Vaughan version.
_ [C] But if you listen to the [D] Hendrix version, he [Eb] actually does some stuff that [A] Stevie does
not do because Stevie [Ab] didn't do [Eb] a note for note copy.
_ And I've always [Am] noticed there [B] being two [D] things in the Hendrix version [Abm] that always kind of
stuck out to me as something that I [Gm] wanted to learn but I never took the [Gb] time to do it.
[Ab] So the first one is_
_ _ [Db] And the other [Abm] one _ is_
_ [Gb] _ So [Abm] the same principle is being used in both of those things.
Let's [N] talk about where they happen.
The first one happens [A] right after [Gm]
midway through [Abm] the first chorus.
He's _ [Ebm] _ _ going_
_ _ [Ab] And then he slides up here. _ _
_ _ Basically, let me adjust my camera angle here so you can [A] see what's going on.
What we're going to [Ab] be doing _ is holding these two notes, the seventh fret on [Eb] the [Ab] A and the D string.
Just borrowing with my index finger there. _
[B] And the melody that [A] we're going to be [Ebm] playing _ goes_
_ [Eb] So _ _ [B] 7 to 10 on the A [Ab] string, then up to [Gm] 7 to 9 [Ab] on the D string and back down.
[Gb] _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] But what we're going to be doing [Eb] as we play that melody is holding [A] both of these notes.
So the [Ab] first thing that we play is those two notes together.
Then [B] we play 10th fret on the A string [Ab] while we keep playing the 7th fret on the D string. _ _ _ _ _ _
And then we play those two notes again.
But what's important is that the first time we play it, we emphasize the lower of the notes. _ _ _
But the second time we play it, _ we emphasize the higher of the two notes because we want
it to sound like we're doing it. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ And then the fourth thing we [Eb] play is 7th fret on the A string, 9th fret on the D string.
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] _ Back to those notes again.
_ Back to this one again.
Back down.
So _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ what's being used [Eb] there is kind of [B] like_
_ I think it was with the bagpipes.
They have a tone that rings out continuously no matter what they play.
It's [Ab] kind of what we're doing here.
_ _ These two notes, whichever one of those is being played, kind of feels _ [A] like_
I don't know.
It kind of gives it a droning [Ab] quality.
And then we're just adding other notes into it.
So that's the easy one.
The one that comes next happens right [Bbm] after. _
_ _ [A] _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ _
And it took me a long time to figure out exactly what he was doing because he's [Db] actually playing
[B] what _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] happens to be two consecutive notes on the [B] fretboard. _
_ _ _ Okay?
So I'm going [Bbm] to show you the hard way to play it and then we'll [Bm] talk about an easier way
to do it.
[E] So what you're going to do, if [B] you can reach, [Ab] is you've got to forget about this grip for a second.
You're going to get all the way [Ebm] under the fretboard like _ [B] this.
_ Use your index finger to fret the fifth note on [Ebm] the G string and reach your pinky up here
to the ninth fret on the D string.
_ [Eb] Okay?
So we're going to play these little two note [B] combinations.
_ [C] Then [Abm] you're going to keep this finger here, drop to the seventh fret with [D] your ring finger,
_ _ [Abm] _ _ [B] _
and then bar [Ab] the _ [B] strings to fifth fret with this finger.
_ _ _ _ Okay?
So we've got three two note quartet. _ _ _ _ _
Then [Db] we're going to keep playing the fifth fret on the G string but then drop [E] to the
A string at the eighth [A] fret [B] and then drop to the seventh. _
So this note remains constant [Db] but what we play _ [Gb] [Eb] is_
_ So [B] _ [Eb] _
_ _ that is quite [Dbm] a stretch.
_ [B] _ _
Key is [Abm] to get your wrist around like this [Eb] so that it allows your pinky finger to [Fm] kind _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Db] of_
[F] So you've got to kind of [Ebm] rotate under.
[B] _ [E] _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] Now if you can't do that, there is a way [Db] to cheat by [Gbm] doing it down [G] here.
_ [Bm] _
What you're going to do is fret the first note on [Ab] the_
[B] First fret on the B string _ and _ [Gm] [Ab] then reach up here to [B] the fourth fret on the G string. _ _
_ _ You're [Ab] going to walk down four, [Ebm] two, open on the G [B] string _ _ while you keep strumming
the second fret of the B string. _
And then the [E] last two notes would be [Eb] three to two [B] on the D string. _
_ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ _ _ This will have a fatter sound if you do it [Db] up here because you're using the heavier strings.
And then to get out of that you just _ [B] _ _ [Gb] go_
_ [B] _ _
[Ab] Little hammer on there [Eb] from seven to nine on [Bm] the D string.
_ _ [Ab] Hammer, back off, and _ [Gb] then_
Aside [D] from five, seven, [Gb] back down to three _ _ on the E string.
[Dbm] _ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [Gb] _ Maybe it's two hammer-ons. _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Gb] _ Yeah, I think it's two hammer-ons.
[F] Anyway, those are just two little things that I've heard in the [Eb] Hendrix version of Little
Wing that [F] always kind of interested [Ab] me but I never took the time to learn.
And I had to learn them to teach a student here in town.
And so I figured I'd share that with you today for Free [E] Lesson Friday.
Anyway, sorry about the [N] quality of the video.
I'll try to get back to my normal standards next time I do a lesson.
Thanks. _ _ _ _ _ _