Purple Haze🎸CLASSIC INTRO RIFF🎸GUITAR SOLO🎸Steve Costello🎸Jimi Hendrix guitar cover 🎸

#shorts Steve Costello performs Purple Haze, a Jimi Hendrix guitar cover of one of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's greatest hits in 1967, along with Hey Joe. Steve's guitar playing is similar to Jimi's classic blues style, with improvised licks, rock riffs, various chords, bass lines and scales.

Go to Steve Costello's YouTube channel to hear the complete Purple Haze take 2 , plus one other original Purple Haze, and one cover version by Steve Costello. This Jimi Hendrix guitar cover is one of the biggest of Jimi Hendrix Experience greatest hits.

🎸This clip focuses on the style of Steve playing his own version of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo.🎸

🎸This short clip of Purple Haze is an excerpt from beginning of the song.🎸

🎸 Click the link below to hear the complete Purple Haze:

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This excerpt is the intro riff at the start of the song, before the first vocal verse.

Purple Haze - Steve Costello - Vocals, Guitar - studio type cover background version.
The vocal track is Steve's style, not trying to mimic Jimi, and was performed live with the guitar track over this background most likely sometime in the late 1990's.

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Background picture is from The Brass Rail, Middletown, New Jersey in 8-18-2009

Purple Haze song style influences: Jimi Hendrix, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan

The main influence for this studio type rendition is the studio version from the album "Are You Experienced?"

For this version of Purple Haze, the guitar and vocal influence was from the original Jimi Hendrix studio rendition , with some of the influence coming from audience tapes of Jimi Hendrix's live shows.

Some favorite Jimi Hendrix's live shows with Purple Haze':
1-23-1969 Sportspalast Berlin
1-1-1970 2nd show Fillmore - unique with Buddy Miles playing superb drums
9-4-1970 Berlin
5-30-1970 Berkeley - first show
... and many more.

The primary guitar influence for Purple Haze was obviously from Jimi Hendrix, however this version adds to Purple Haze Steve Costello's unique style of playing (which is similar to Jimi's style) based on the structure of the original studio hit Purple Haze.

Listen to the other two Purple Haze version recorded by Steve Costello, and you can hear many difference compared to this version. These other two versions were original and created completely by Steve - background, guitar, bass and vocals, and they have interesting varied structures but still retain the feel of Jimi's Purple Haze including Jimi's live concert versions.

This song is in the Key of Eb, with the guitar tuned down 1/2 step to Eb, and then played with the open "E" strings.

The verse progression is E - G - A / E - G - A / , the intro riff and guitar solo parts are over the E chord.

There are three stops in the song followed by the riff F# - E - D - - B - D - G - B - D - G .

Listen how Steve does his take of the style of a "Jimi Hendrix guitar solo". Feedback sustain with a wawa pedal is tastefully achieved throughout the song with a rich heavy tone. In the first solo the guitar is similar to the studio rendition, but the second solo is unique (the hear the 2nd solo and the entire song, go to Steve's channel.

Purple Haze uses repetition patterns within a four bar period.

The guitar riffs in this Jimi Hendrix guitar solo have a good mix of repetitive and linear motives with feedback sustain (no whammy bar), combined with solid root resolutions of riffs, making listening to this rendition very enjoyable.

Analyzing songs is very enjoyable. Using the Deductive reasoning approach, songs are examined from the song key, down actual waveform frequencies, including the song progression, the analysis of melody including it's motif, contour, rhythm and essential pitches. Actual waveform frequencies are examined using the tool Audacity for PC. Much thanks to Phil at Wings Of Pegasus for all the in-depth great videos, as he is excellent in song analysis and looking at the actual frequencies. Many thanks to Phil for the idea of using the great App VocalPitchMonitor for analysis. Phil's work is very valuable, and one can learn much from him, so it is a good idea to check out his channel.

Enjoy!

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