6 months ago to the day, on Saturday 8th August, The Fretboard opened and I posted my first Chord Of The Week discussion (on Dminor). To celebrate the half-year birthday of both The Fretboard and Chord Of The Week, here is the Hendrix Chord in it's most famous Purple Haze incarnation -
E7#9: 07678x
and the Foxy Lady version -
F#7#9 2 x 4 (3) 5 5
The middle four strings of the Purple Haze version are a moveable shape with the root on the 5th string (a C-shape in the CAGED system), and the Foxy Lady version is a moveable shape with the root on the 6th string (E-shape in the CAGED system).
The formula for the 7#9 Hendrix chord is 1 3 5 7 #9. Hendrix used it as a I chord, but it's also really good as a V chord in jazz or blues, e.g. the extended E7#9 in the key of Aminor at the end of Cold Shot by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Here are the CAGED shapes for the 7#9 Hendrix chord -
C7#9: x3234x
A7#9: 542010 (you have to cheat and borrow the bottom two strings from a G-shape to get the 3rd and #9 far enough apart)
G7#9: 32333x (or 3 on the top string, but it doesn't sound as good)
E7#9: 022133
D7#9: x54x31 (you have to cheat and borrow the 5th and 4th strings from a C-shape to get the 3rd and #9 far enough apart)
Happy half-year birthday! Not sure how much longer longer I'll keep doing Chord Of The Week - I may get up to a year, we'll have to see.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.