Descripción
Please allow me to take five minutes of your Saturday morning. I'm still in the process of dialing in the live audio. The Hendrix "Tip of the Day" is to tune your guitar down to D. Actually, I was a little sharp in A423 but that is what I was hearing. In the BoG version, Jimi was tuned to (correction) D as well as on Voodoo Chile. It gives your Strat a bit more oomph plus it's easier to bend on. After perusing all of the Machine Gun versions you guys recommend, I've come to the realization that it's impossible to to a full tutorial on any of the versions. They are soooo long. So, I will do my best to make up my own version and incorporate some of my favorite licks from each version. That flamenco style opening on the 1970 Norman, OK version is unreal. I wish I had a better recording of it so I could hear exactly what he is doing.
Tuning Note and Correction:
The tuning point that I failed to make is, if you have a good strobe tuner, you can adjust it to whatever off key the recording is in so that you can tune easily to a slightly off tuning. I use the Peterson Strobo-Stomp which is programable but my obsolete Strobo-Flip is even easier to program. There have been quite a few times when Jimi's tuning was a little off and I wish I could get my tuner exactly to his pitch. You can also change the cents but I forgot how to do that.
Another tuning example is Hear My Train a Comin' on the Berkeley album is tuned to E but is the mythical Hendrix A reference of A432 instead of A440. This is a good example but I'm not sure Jimi used A432 on purpose.