Of course at the time of Jimi (he’s my favorite all round player of all time) electric guitar was still in its infancy so no-one noticed these ‘mistakes’ in his lead playing as the perfectionist brigade might today. But the reason the Jimi Hendrix industry is still a $100,000,000 business is no mystery. It lies precisely in this ‘sloppy’ technique. <\/span><\/p>\n When Jimi played – not only was a creative genius on terms of melody and musical ideas and lyrical story-telling – he was totally abandoned to freely improvising without fear or comparison of criticism because there was simply no one to compare him with – so therefore he would experiment on the fly and crucially had no cares about making mistakes. THIS – is where the mystery about why he is still revered as one of the greatest and most innovative and different sounding guitarists ever lies. He played totally fearlessly and confidently where as todays players are often more anal – terrified of making mistakes and so limited in their willingness to experiment on the fly.<\/span><\/p>\n Why is this? – It’s simple – when you try to copy Clapton or Green – all you do is get the notes from a note chart and listed to the track and its done. With Hendrix you can have the notes but to reenact his unusual string bends, weird sounds and and strange happy accidents and mistakes he made with each solo – it’s a whole different ball game. This is the difference between good and genius. He had it and the rest didn’t – so he was totally unafraid to make mistakes to the point where he becomes very difficult to emulate – even Clapton and Townsend admin he left them standing in 67! Though Townsend was also a great player that would experiment and produce his own unique sound.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.101guitars.rocks\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/jimi-3-300x300.jpg\")
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