Jimi Hendrix "Crosstown Traffic" Lesson [Video]
In this excerpt from How to Play All of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland—available exclusively at the Guitar World Online Store—Guitar World's associate editor and Hendrix expert Andy Aledort shows you how to play the classic rock staple, "Crosstown Traffic."
About How to Play All of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland:
Containing eight hours of lessons on three discs, How to Play All of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland will show you the guitar parts to the entire album, including tracks like “Voodoo Child,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “Gypsy Eyes” and “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland).”
Plus, the accompanying 12-page booklet is filled with the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Electric Ladyland, complete with rare photographs of Jimi Hendrix.Hendrix authority Andy Aledort walks you through every guitar part on Jimi’s timeless masterpiece. What’s more, each track was meticulously recorded and videotaped at Electric Lady Studios in New York, the facility that Hendrix owned and helped design.
- Songs from the album include:
- “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)”
- “Crosstown Traffic”
- “Voodoo Chile”
- “Little Miss Strange”
- “Long Hot Summer Night”
- “Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)”
- “Gypsy Eyes”
- “Burning of the Midnight Lamp”
- “Rainy Day, Dream Away”
- “1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)”
- “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”
- “House Burning Down”
- “All Along the Watchtower”
- “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
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