The Taxman Cometh: Jimi Hendrix Chord, Chord of the Week for April 17, 2007

This chord is labeled as a E7#9. Don't tell your jazz musician friends, but a #9 is really a flat 10. There is an D7#9 in the Beatles' song "Taxman", if memory serves. If you don't know what a sharp nine is, it's time to bone up on your music theory. Don't worry about that now, though.

Grab a guitar and play it!

Wham! There it is: "The Hendrix Chord."


I've heard guitarists refer to this chord as "The Hendrix Chord." It's featured in a lot of Hendrix original compositions, most famoustly, as the tonic chord in "Purple Haze". Stevie Ray Vaughan likes it quite a bit, too. Check out "Testify," and "Mary Had a Little Lamb".

This is a pretty good vid on more "Hendrix Chords":



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