Chord Of The Week 12/9/15 - the 'Wind Cries Mary' F/A chord

bigjon

Another tribute set at the Cambridge Blues Jam coming up tomorrow - this time with mike_l marking the 45th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death on September 18th. We've done THE Hendrix Chord already, at 

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/10332/chord-of-the-week-8-2-14-half-year-birthday-special-the-hendrix-chord

 so here's his equally characteristic voicing of a major chord with the 3rd in the bass, which occurs in lots of places including Hey Joe and Little Wing, but especially the run-up at the end of each verse of Wind Cries Mary, which goes up chromatically Eb/G, E/G# and then arrives at the root chord

F/A: x 12 10 10 10 x

The trick is to hammer-on with your third finger to the 12th fret on the fifth string, bouncing off a briefly played F/G x 10 10 10 10 x with your index finger barre-ing the middle four strings. Then for further embellishment there are lots more hammer-ons available using position 1 of the (major) pentatonic scale, so hammer-on to fret 12 on strings 4 and 3, and to fret 13 on string 2.

Any suggestions for other Hendrix chords we could do over the next few weeks?

bigjon

Chord Of The Week Index updated with 110 discussions at

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/598/chord-of-the-week-index

mike_l

45th anniversary of Jimi's death.

bigjon

Oops! Will edit, but just for the record

bigjon said:

Another tribute set at the Cambridge Blues Jam coming up tomorrow - this time with mike_l marking the 35th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death on September 18th. We've done THE Hendrix Chord already, at