Figure 7 - Guitar Solo The guitar solo is actually preceded by a twelve-measure section, made up of lan ascending melody performed with heavily vibratoed unison bends. The vibrato is slow, wide, and forceful, so be sure to vibrato from the wrist, not from the fingers. Measure 13 kicks off the bonafide 24-measure solo—one of Hendrix's greatest. Recreating these highly idiosyncratic, jam-and-cram phrases with absolute metronomic accuracy is very difficult; summoning up Jimi's blood-of-fie intensity is another matter entirely. The feeling of reckless abandon and skidding wildly out of control abounds, but Jimi somehow makes it all click like clockwork. This is controlled chaos at its best. The entire solo is based on A minor pentatonic (A~C-D-E-G), with subtle use of the ninth, B. OO Guitar Solo NCAA) sre Sr finger Bends Cid ws 8 Fre, a ao igh fee (ah 0 fet. ening 12 ‘Mp. (bent to GH feeds hack, nt picked ee sep 14a t—