As a teenager, Hendrix had mainly blues and rock 'n' roll musicians like Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, BB King, Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran as role models and having him covered and their songs. In his active years as a guitarist he imitated not only their music, but developed the music style further. He coined the rock guitar much and especially changed their sound. he used in his improvised solos fuzz device, similar to the Rolling Stones in front of him in order to distort the sound, and he took early a wah-wah pedal. Unlike many early rock guitarists who usually used only simple chords or power chords he used in monitoring more complex chords and rock music unusual chord sequences, such as those used hitherto somewhat in jazz. By means of the excessive use of the tremolo arm on his Fender Stratocaster, combined with a complete overdrive the amplifier, Hendrix created entirely new psychedelic, spherically-sounding sounds and playing styles on the guitar - to fit the often surreal lyrics. The best-known example of this unusual expressivity on the electric guitar is his interpretation of the American national anthem at the Woodstock Festival. he produced another sound effect simply by he tuned his guitar a semitone lower, so that in particular the fierce support of the chord playing and deep bass tones used were from him a powerful color. A special way of playing was also the fact that he completed chords with the thumb of the hand grip or played around with single notes. In the late 1960s began numerous rock musicians, especially those who work in the environment of progressive rock with long improvisations that were common only in jazz until then. Besides Eric Clapton Hendrix was one of the first guitarists who zuwiesen solo playing an essential role. Hendrix could make his dexterity and technical abilities here. By bringing the solo guitar such to the fore, changed in the following years, the status of guitarist in the bands. They were of mere accompanists to own stars next to the singer. In this sense, he was the model for the emergence of famous guitarists in the 1970s as Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, Ted Nugent or Tony Iommi. Hendrix was just 27 years old. Just as Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse. And then came the legend of the "Club 27" in the media, because striking many musicians, intentionally or not, with 27 exhaled her life by the bottle, syringe or gun. Jimi Hendrix was born in Renton / Seattle / USA, died in Kensington / London / GB and was in Greenwood Memorial Park / Renton / Seattle / USA, buried.

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