Chords for Jimi Hendrix Guitar Lesson - Hear My Train a Comin' #3 - Jeff McErlain

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Here's a great take off on the Hendrix classic Hear My Train a-Comin'.
Now there's a lot of versions of this out there,
really similar sound but very different tempos.
And I took a little bit of a brighter one because I like that one.
Now a fun way that he starts it off, _
first of all I should mention I have a Univib on.
That's that awesome Hendrix guitar sound.
That and an Octavia, sort of like Hendrix in a box, which literally they are.
It's a pedal.
[Bb] Okay, so now
[E] _ _ [G] _ [Em] _ [E] _ [Eb] _ _
[E] _ _ _ E minor pentatonic and what I like about this tune in particular is we're adding in the G sharp to kind of brighten it up.
A lot of times when we're playing a bluesy rock thing we play,
we don't play the third, we kind of play a flat third and tweak it a little bit to keep the
tonality ambiguous.
And here we're actually sounding that G sharp, which is the third of the chord to make it kind of happy.
Okay, it's awesome.
So
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So here I'm just basing everything off of the E minor pentatonic scale and adding in my natural third.
So D to E
[A] _ Kind of pedaling off of that low E string.
Now [Em] slide down the G.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ Now here I have that G to G sharp, which is that really cool [E] flat third natural third sound.
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And I'm gonna play off of that until the band [Em] kicks in.
I can do_ _ _ _
_ _ [F] I can bring it down an octave, which I know he does in other recordings as well.
So there's that G to G sharp, [E] E to D.
All [D] [E] right _ _
[D] _ now the main riff, right off an E minor pentatonic scale.
Classic blues [F] lick
dating [Bb] back to you know, Albert King, Albert [Bm] Collins.
[E] _ _
_ _ And we play the main riff. _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ [E] _ _
Okay, so I ended my low E string.
Then my top E and B string and I play them with my middle finger, my ring finger.
Now I'm gonna slide in with my second finger.
Fingering is important [Bm] on this.
_ I'm gonna slide in with my second finger [B] up to the fourth fret.
So A to [Dm] B.
Now I'm gonna grab my D on top.
[Bm] _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [Bb] Now, you know, sometimes when I play it live I might change my fingering.
[Bm] But I like [E] this idea.
[A] _
Because I'm keeping my second finger as the guide on the slide when I slide down to this A. _
So [G] I'm gonna slide down.
[A] _ Bend that note a bit, kind of the flat third, the blue notes or the flat five, the blue note.
[Bb] Grab my D with my pinky.
[G] Open G string, [Dm] then open D.
[E] Hammer on to the E.
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[A] _ _ Now there I change my fingering because sometimes I will.
Now [F] one thing that I'm pretty sure Hendrix is doing is bending behind a nut, which is kind of easier to do on a Fender style guitar.
_ And pulling up that G.
Kind of the G sharp.
And to me this is the coolest [E] part of the whole thing.
_ [A] _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ [E] _ [B] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ [E] That took me the longest time to get together.
It's a little tricky, but work on it because it's pretty cool.
Now we can also use that as a fill later on.
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Where on the verse we'll just kind of playing off the E minor [Em] pentatonic scale.
All right, so now that's what happens next.
We bring it down.
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ [E] Right, just kind of riffing off of that E minor pentatonic scale.
We have that hit on the downbeat and now.
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_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] And the use of a six is really huge in blues and rock.
So I hit my low E string.
[Bm] _ D, B [G] together.
_ _ That great univibe.
I'm going to slide it down a whole step both notes. _
[A] And here I always use my first finger as my guide on my six.
That's the one that stays the same when I change my other [G] finger.
_ [A] [N] I have a C [G] sharp and the A.
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_ [Dbm] Now I bring that up to E and C sharp. So.
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_ [G] _ _ [A] _ [Dbm] _ Now to a D chord.
_ [D] _ So I'm going to play like a D power chord using the open strings.
Open D.
D again and A.
[Gb] [Bb] And I bring up my second finger.
I could finger.
_ [D] You have to kind of drop that note at some point to get those other two, the F and the F sharp.
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[F] And then I go to the Hendrix G to A.
When [G] I say the Hendrix G to A.
My thumb is going to play the bass note of my G chord and I get the triad.
_ G, B and D.
And then I can slide that [A] up a whole step.
[G] As opposed to getting a [F] little too [G] big sounding.
_ [A] _ And [G] what I can do is throw in my pinky and it gives me the 13th of the chord.
I can bounce off of that. _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ [A] _ [G] _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ And then I kind of brought the band up a little bit so I can just throw in some fills, throw in a little more gain.
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_ _ _ _ [Em] And back to normal.
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_ [G] _ [E] _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I think it adds just a really