Villanova Junction - Jimi Hendrix (My version)

This is my version of the classic Jimi Hendrix Guitar Solo done at Woodstock. Jimi masterfully constructed this solo and played it so perfectly. It's beautiful. My favorite guitar solo.

I made a few minor note changes to fit my style of playing while preserved the integrity of the song sticking to the main riffs as accurately as possible. I added more distortion and more 'bite' so to say.

I use a 'free floating' Floyd Rose Tremolo profusely throughout the solo. That's my consistent playing style 'riding the 'trem' adding subtle note variations pulls and 'pushes' a lot. It takes some getting used to since your hand is 'free floating' as well leaving only your arm for steady support. And yes the ending cord is a little different (since I wanted to end the song with vibrato and Jimi final cord isn't the best for that). The guitar playing in this song is particularly advanced a lot of 'tricky licks' triads (using 2 fingers) fast hammers (including pinky) and pulls unusual slides and some bursts of very rapid aying. So I would recommend this solo for those into Hendrix's playing style and some experience and a lot of practice!

I use a Floyd Rose Discovery Guitar (has the latest 'Speedloader' system). It also has a bridge 'humbucker' pickup and two 'Stat' sounding 'singe coil' pickups. In this song I used the neck position 'singe coil' pickup. I liked that pickup since it has a lot of tone. Also I used .12 gauge strings and tuned them down a semi-tone as Jimi played it. I wanted to get as much tone out of my guitar as possible. The Amp is a 'Rock Legends' (Marshall 'sim') from Nomad Factory. But due to latency issues I had to use a 'cheap freebee' amp to record the main guitar. Later I added Chorus and Tremolo with a little 'retro' delay. I mixed the song on ASampltude 11 (which is a great program; I highly recommend it) and Magix Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus (which 'crashed' a lot).

OK, the guitar was the easy part (well sort of). Video editing was a 'bitch' (sorry), I'm new to it and my camcorder has no way of 'syncing' to the music (so I had to do that manually - so pardon me if there is any parts that seem out of 'sync'). Most of the tracks are a collection of me practicing, doing the main tracks, and later replaying parts that were poorly recorded (which was a lot) or I wanted to get certain angle, closeup or whatever. Therefore I spent about 2 days getting the guitar stuff done (practicing, 'laying the tracks', etc.) and 8 days doing 'video editing'. Not quite what I expected, but I'm new to it and think I learned a lot while making this video. I put a lot of closeups so you can see how I played it.

I wanted to make something special in tribute to the guitar legend. I'm not a big fan of playing in front of a PC cam with crapy audio and video quality, nor with a 'Hendrix song' or a metronome 'clacking' away in the background. Not to take anything away from those guitarist, they are exceptional guitar players. But I wanted something that would be interesting to watch for guitarist or Hendrix fans alike with some cool audio. Also, I wanted to give it a 'little twist', otherwise might as well just play 'Jimi's' version from Woodstock (It will always be the best version).

Hope you like It! I

Hey The Gig Is Up

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• Villanova
• Junction
• fat
• tone
• Jimi
• Hendrix
• Woodstock
• blues
• cover
• HeyTheGigIsUp
• solo
• guitarist
• instrumental

[parazitul89]

that's good stuff you got there

[1970ES335]

very soulful