Song · 1968
All Along the Watchtower
- Artist
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Released
- 1968
- Guitar
- Jimi Hendrix
- Solo
- Slide
- Wah-wah
What makes the part famous
The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.
Solo
The passage where the guitar steps forward and sings on its own, phrase after phrase.
Slide
A glass or metal tube glides along the strings, so the notes melt into each other.
Wah-wah
A pedal that sweeps the treble and makes the guitar “talk”.
All Along the Watchtower chords
What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.
- Key
- C minor
- Chords
- Cm · Bb · Eb · Ab
The progressions that come back
- Cm
- Bb
Analyze your own recording
Record yourself playing it, or upload a version you have the right to use: the studio isolates the guitar and finds the chords, tempo, strumming and fingerings, with a fretboard video and a PDF.
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