Chords for Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix - Riff Guitar Lesson w/TAB - MasterThatRiff! 62

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_ _ [Em] _ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [C] _ [G] So the intro riff to Hey Joe's bass stranded bluesy idea.
_ What we're going to be doing
first of all is playing this kind of unison slide thing.
What I'm doing is I'm starting
off and I'm using my second finger here, you could use your third finger, whatever feels
more comfortable.
I'm going to slide from the third to the fifth fret of the B string.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit the top two strings, I'm going to hit the
B string and the open E string at the same time.
So when I play it slowly it sounds like
this. _
_ This is a grace note slide, it's one of these slides that doesn't exist for any
time, it's really really fast.
[E] _ _ So you have that nice ringing sound there.
_ Once I've done
that [G] I'm going to go with my first finger and I play the third fret of the B string
again and then I play those top two strings once more. _
_ So it kind of goes, _ _ _ this little
phrase sounds like this.
_ _ Now what I'm doing here is I'm going to take my middle finger
and I'm going to slide from four to two on the G string very [A] quickly.
So it's a grace
note slide there.
But then I go and pull off to the open [G] G string, _ kind of like that.
It's
all one motion so it's not really _ _ that idea, it's more of a_
_ And then after I've done
that I do a really [N] quick hammer [E] on, _ _ zero to two on the D string.
And I'm using my third
finger there.
What I'm actually thinking about doing here is forming an E major chord
at the end of that.
So kind of resolving [B] this little lick on an E major chord.
The E major
chord is second finger is on the second fret of the A string, my third finger is on that
second fret of the D string, that's what we've just [E] hammered onto.
And my first finger is
on the first fret of the G string.
Like an E major [G] chord there.
That little first section
sounds like this.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Now the next bit, as I said what I'm doing is I'm holding this E chord.
What I'm going to play is open E string, then I'm going to play second fret D string, then
I'm going to strum the top three strings, then I play open E string again.
_ Now you know
when Hendrix was playing this he wasn't really thinking, oh I think I'll play the E string
then.
He was holding an E chord and just giving it a general strum.
So you don't need to worry
too much about the accuracy of that there.
But if you want [C] to play what's written in
the tab that's what it sounds like.
So we have [D] from this [E] hammer, _ _ _ it's like E string,
second fret of that D string which I'm holding down with my third finger, top D strings and
then open E string.
_ _ Ok so after I've played that E string and E chord, what I'm going
to do now is take my first finger and grace note slide from the fourth to [G#m] the fifth fret
on the A [Bm] string.
_ Now what [E] I've got here is a little sequence that sounds like this.
[G] _ [E] _ _ So
what I'm doing is I'm going to take this first finger and I'm going to bar at the fifth fret
on the A and D [G] strings, just those two strings.
[C] What I do is I precede that with an open E
[E] string, [G] _ _
then I play [Em] open E string [E] again and I move this down one fret so I'm now barring
at the fourth fret, A [F#] and D strings.
_ And then I finish it up playing [E] an E power chord so
I'm barring A and D strings at the second fret and I play that open E string as well
as the A and the D string.
_ Ok so from the grace note slide [C#] it kind of goes.
[Em] _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _
_ Now after
_ that on beat two, I take my third finger and I'm just going to play it at the fourth
fret of the G string while still holding this E power chord.
And what I do is I just kind
of hit that D string and G string at the same time and then I play an open E string. _
Once
again you know, you don't need to be too accurate with this, Hendrix wouldn't have been thinking
about that, he's really kind of [G] just come down, [F#] _ [E] _ you know and he's just strumming away
basically.
But that's kind of what we see in the tab.
I just hit the second fret, the
D string, fourth fret of that G string and then I play an open E string.
So from the
grace note slide that [C#] whole sequence sounds like this.
[E] _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ Now the last little sequence of
the intro riff sounds like [Bm] this. _ _
_ What I'm doing is I'm going all the way up here so
my first finger is now at the seventh fret.
What I'm doing is I'm barring the D and the
G strings at the seventh fret.
Effectively I'm kind of barring all three strings, _ _ _ _ I'm
playing a [D] little D major triad here.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to hit the D
and the D strings together and then I'm going to hammer from 7 to 9 on [Bm] the D string.
[D] So
I kind of [Bm] go, _ then after I've done that [B] I play the G and the B [D] strings together. _
So
you have a little phrase that goes.
_ _ Then I do that again and _ [G] then I end it off by playing
third finger, 9th fret D string, hit that and then slide off.
So the [D] sequence sounds
like this.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _
So if I put all that together and slow it down a little bit, this is what
the riff sounds like. _
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ [Bm] _ _
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