little wing: my nemisis

leethal

It truly is a great song to play. I can play it reasonably well, except i really struggle when using my thumb. My hands just aren't big enough; i know jimi had large hands.

To me it seems like a the notes i miss are because of this; i don't think practice would really do much good. Correct me if im wrong. That said; it is great practice to play some of the most beautiful licks ever written, can't beat jimi's tone in this one. (Except May this be love.)

There is a great instrumental of Little Wing where Jimi is playing it with a bit more agression. It actually sounds prettier in my opinion; a must hear! Its on one of his box sets. Great instrumentals of Bold as Love and Angel especially.

Pearl Jam and toast

leethal wrote:

It truly is a great song to play. I can play it reasonably well, except i really struggle when using my thumb. My hands just aren't big enough; i know jimi had large hands.

To me it seems like a the notes i miss are because of this; i don't think practice would really do much good. Correct me if im wrong. That said; it is great practice to play some of the most beautiful licks ever written, can't beat jimi's tone in this one. (Except May this be love.)

There is a great instrumental of Little Wing where Jimi is playing it with a bit more agression. It actually sounds prettier in my opinion; a must hear! Its on one of his box sets. Great instrumentals of Bold as Love and Angel especially.

upload?

Pearl Jam and toast

lucylespian wrote:

I'm thinking it is in G major/Em, but I am happy to be corrected also. I've nevere really found the chords to be too relevant to what is going on as far as the sound goes. The solo is based arouf the Em pentatonic at teh 12th position, but the intro and the verse are not. They are kind of modal riffs which loosely follow the chords.
Look here.............
http://www.sheetmusicdirect.us/search/search.do?keywords=little+wing

and you can buy either the Hendrix or the SRV version for 4 bucks, can't beat that for a bargain. I have a few tabs from that site and they are very good. You will need to have Sibelius Scorch to see them.

True! I just play the lead licks during the verse by 1) using my thumb on the correct root note and 2) just plain figuring out what goes where. Not much else you can do. I've played it so much that it's lodged in my brain now, but I remember it being a bitch to learn.

stevieraveon

leethal wrote:

Great instrumentals of Bold as Love and Angel especially.

I agree....I LOVE that instrumental version of Bold as Love on the Hendrix box set. I prefer it to the album version w/ lyrics. The Little Wing instrumental version is really good too.

who's_pearljam?

Even Hendrix played that differently all the time.

That progression that Ian put up is the basic chord structure and there are so many ways to voice those chords.

Here's a cool Hendrix chord voicing:
Train your fingers to hold this position, and you’ll have some fun!

Low E use thumb
D string - Ring finger and also use that to mute the A string
G string - leave it open and let it ring
B string - Index finger
High E string - Little finger

e a d g b e
3 x 5 0 3 5

Play that cleanly,,it's not easy, but its worth it!,, then hold that structure and slide it up to the 5th fret, then down to the first fret, leaving the g string open and ringing.
That's part of Little Wing and Castles Made of Sand. When you play it, you'll hear what I'm talking about. It's good finger exercise, too!

keeponrockin

Easily one of the prettiest songs ever written.

lucylespian

Actually, I was thinking last night, the solo is in Em natural scale, not pentatonic.
The C note on the B string in the 13th psition is crucial to gettin the sound of the solo right. There are some others you can miss, but not that one.

who's_pearljam?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nePm-L0aa-E

Too bad cameras weren't better then!

ianvomsaal

Here's a lesson for the Intro to Little Wing (not bad since the transcription is below what's being played).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23TSQwamn50

Anyhow - have fun watching (No it's not me).
Cheers . . .

- Ian C.T. vom Saal

leethal

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

upload?

I don't know how man sorry!