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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
None of that means jack **** unless you know what you're doing. Hendrix took an awful lot of **** from other places like motown and funk. If hendrix didn't know what he was doing specifically, the players whose licks he was modifying and using certainly did.
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He did know what he was doing, subconsciously. That's the art of the guitar solo, though. It's an accumulation of subconcious efforts. That is why you solo over the chords. If you want to follow theory 100% blatantly, don't solo at all. To do a prewritten solo destroys the spontaneous invention that makes a solo work. Hendrix, again, is a great example of this. There's a reason why his band would continue playing chords, and he'd go off into lala land playing randomly whatever worked for the time, and moment. The expression of spontaneous feeling.