Later, Hendrix also used the chord on live versions of “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”. version of the landmark debut album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967’s Are You Experienced. The chord is also implied throughout “Foxey Lady”, which appeared alongside “Purple Haze” on the U.S. “Purple Haze” starts with the mounting tension of its famously staccato tritone intro a tension explosively released when the Experience launches into the verse with Hendrix blasting out a raw and aggressively bluesy E7#9 chord. Hendrix built his siganture hit, 1967's "Purple Haze", around his eponymous chord and one could argue that “Purple Haze” owes much of its sonic identity and appeal to its author’s choice of the more tonally colorful E7#9 chord voicing rather than a more straightforward E major or E7 chord. This chord form got its nickname because it was a favorite of Hendrix, who did a great deal to popularize its use in mainstream rock music. The 7#9 chord is an extended dominant 7th chord with an augmented (sharpened) ninth. As far as we know, no other rock guitarist is so honored.īut what is it about the 7#9 “Hendrix Chord” that makes it sound so dirty, so bluesy, so colorful and so huge? Such is the legend and influence of Jimi Hendrix that the man actually has a chord nicknamed after him.
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