Purple Haze Guitar tab video
Jimi Hendrix
Make your own Purple Haze tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Guitar
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Tuning
- E A D G B E
- Tempo
- 106 BPM
About this riff
The opening riff pairs a tritone-driven octave line (E against B-flat) with the E7#9 'Hendrix chord' stabs, so you need clean fretting and muting between the single notes and the chord hits. The hammer-ons and the thumb-over-the-neck voicing on the chord are the real technique hurdles, and the rhythm sits in a driving, slightly behind-the-beat groove at around 106 BPM. It's worth learning because it teaches dissonant intervals, the 7#9 sound and rock-blues rhythm-lead blending in a single part.
Did you know?
The guitar solo on 'Purple Haze' was the first recorded use of the Octavia, an octave-up effect built by engineer Roger Mayer with input from Hendrix. Mayer reportedly showed the prototype to Hendrix, who liked it enough to use it on the solo about three weeks after they met, during the Olympic Studios overdub sessions in February 1967. Producer Chas Chandler then forbade further experimentation with the effect, deeming it too far out for public consumption.
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