Jimi Hendrix Listening guides: technique, style, examples, musical influences, etc.

(this text is a very rough listening guide, but should provide a stepping stone to further study of the music of Jimi Hendrix) Jimi Hendrix, born James Marshall Hendrix in 1942, was an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. Jimi's impact on music, Pop in-particular, has become more apparent in recent times as …

…came around in the end and it sort of changed the music scene completely." Pete Townshend - "I think in many respects he changed the sound of rock far more than the Beatles. He changed the sound of the guitar; he turned it into an instrument. No-one ever before had brought it out and sold it to the public and sold it to people like me - who now believe in it as an instrument. "