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    The document discusses 40 different ways to play a C chord on guitar based on Jimi Hendrix's style. It explains how Hendrix would embellish basic chord shapes with hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides to improvise within and around the chord. The article presents four examples of different techniques for playing two-note dyads on top of the C chord shape in order to demonstrate 40 ways to play the chord. It encourages practicing the different techniques and combining them to expand one's vocabulary for playing chords in Hendrix's signature style.

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    The document discusses 40 different ways to play a C chord on guitar based on Jimi Hendrix's style. It explains how Hendrix would embellish basic chord shapes with hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides to improvise within and around the chord. The article presents four examples of different techniques for playing two-note dyads on top of the C chord shape in order to demonstrate 40 ways to play the chord. It encourages practicing the different techniques and combining them to expand one's vocabulary for playing chords in Hendrix's signature style.

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    40 Ways to Play a 'C' Chord


    BY JESSE GRESS
    February 11, 2014
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    WHAT WOULD JIMI DO? ITS A
    QUESTION I'VE ASKED MYSELF
    countless times over the last four
    decades, particularly when faced with
    creating groovy rhythm guitar parts from
    basic chord charts. Hendrix didnt really
    use a lot of different types of chords, but
    the vocabulary he created with the ones
    he knew was astounding, especially on
    ballads like Hey Joe, The Wind Cries
    Mary, Little Wing, Castles Made of
    Sand, Axis: Bold As Love, and (Have
    You Ever Been to) Electric Ladyland.
    Drawing from the soulful guitar moves of
    Curtis Mayfield and the country piano
    style of Floyd Cramer, Hendrix
    developed a unique collection of
    embellishments and filigrees that
    allowed him to improvise using dyads, or
    two-note chordal fragments, decorated
    with hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides to
    play within and around a basic parental
    chord shape. For the next few months,
    well demystify some of these magical
    sounds so you can incorporate them into
    your own musical vocabulary.
    Take the humble third-position C barre
    chord. Some might think of it as a finite
    entity, but in Hendrix hands, it became
    an entire universe. Fig. A puts this
    transposed A-shaped major triad (root
    on the fifth and third strings) on the grid
    and shows how it connects to the next
    highest G-shaped C chord (root on the
    sixth and third strings). Fig. B adds parenthetical diatonic passing tonesthe 2, the 4, and the 6to the same grid. These are the notes Hendrix used to pair with and weave
    in and out of the chord tones, and this is your world for the next month.
    We begin at the upper end of the chord, with the 5 (G) voiced on top of each dyad. Ex. 1 illustrates ten different ways to hammer- on, pull-off, or slide the 2 and 4 (D and F) in
    and out of chord tones on the top three strings during a single beat. Many feature the same notes and rhythms with subtle variations in phrasing. This is a key concept in
    Hendrixs style, and the idea is to mix and match these moves into one-bar phrases. For instance, try playing bars 7, 1, 10, and 2 back-to-back. See what I mean? The more
    moves you learn, the more options youll have.
    Now that weve established a kind of
    formula, dig into the ten similar 3-on-top
    moves shown in Ex. 2. Here, were
    mostly hammering and pulling the root
    and 2 by shifting into the G-shaped C
    chord and concentrating on the second,
    third, and fourth strings. Get comfy with
    the moves, and then mix and match
    them with the ones from Ex. 1. Follow
    suit in Examples 3 and 4, which feature
    the root and an octavelower 5 on top of
    each dyad, and youll have played
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    circles around that humble C chord 40
    different ways! Finally, pick a nice slow
    tempo and combine any of the previous
    40 ideas while you cruise the four-bar
    chord progressions in Examples 5a and
    5b. Play any C moves as written,
    transpose them to first position for Bb,
    sixth position for Eb, eighth position for
    F, tenth position for G, and eleventh
    position for Ab, and presto! Youve been
    Jimi-fied!
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