After 497 hours of Banjo - Jimi Hendrix Taught Me This

I think I finally know what the Banjo Bounce is, and Jimi Hendrix helped me understand it.
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Paul Davids's video on Jimi Hendrix song:
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My instructor:
Mike Leatherman
www.morganhillmusiclessons.com/

[@archstanton3763]

Great video and fantastic playing. Jimi Hendrix is most definitely inspirational and I really enjoy watching Paul Davids channel, he’s nice and laid back yet throughly watchable.
Thank you !

[@2000HoursofBanjo]

Thanks for the comment. I found Paul Davids channel just recently. He runs a great channel, and of course, that beard of his is epic.

[@zloidooraque0]

wow you invented shuffle

[@stvnnmnn]

When you played it straight, it was just perfectly even, but with that bounce, my head started nodding along with you. Nice! Playing it straight just doesn't have a rhythm. It is hard, but you can try it in the songs that you are up to speed on. To me, it feels like galloping on a horse. Bum ba di da, bum ba di da, bum ba di da. Maybe Mike has some pointers on how to do it properly or what the exact rhythm is.

[@stvnnmnn]

@@markburry9989 Wow, how did I miss that? LOL

[@mackplaysbanjo]

Very cool man. If you want to hear some truly exceptional bounce, listen to Allen Shelton play. One of the greats, and famous for his bounce--his album Shelton Special is really good

[@2000HoursofBanjo]

Thanks, I hadn't heard of Allen Shelton. That is some pretty amazing playing.

[@mackplaysbanjo]

@@2000HoursofBanjo his bounce is the best!

[@bertwesler1181]

Why do people never get the fact that people like Jimi COULD NOT KEEP TIME. (Chuck Berry neither)
Any effect that had on the music was incidental. If Jimi didn't have the genus of
Mitch Michelle who could just follow Jimi where ever he rambled, Jimi would never have been famous.

[@2000HoursofBanjo]

Your comment sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I didn't listen to Hendrix growing up (more so Tom Petty and ZZ Top), so this issue with his timing is new to me. But from what I gather from the Paul Davids video, if Hendrix played with different timing on a song every time he played that song it's a fair question to ask if it was intentional or not. It looks like some call his playing sloppy and some call it genius, and some call him a sloppy genius. Being sloppy and being a genius are not mutually exclusive. Do we argue Jackson Pollock is a sloppy artist because he didn't stay between the lines? Some might, but he is a genius none the less. Your statement, "If Jimi didn't have the genius of Mitch Mitchell who could just follow Jimi wherever he rambled, Jimi would never have been famous", is an interesting perspective. I suppose you could just as rightly ask if Mitchell didn't win the coin toss against Aynsely Dunbar which won him the spot in Hendrix's band (which is a crazy story, if true), would we know the name of Mitchell outside of his child acting? Maybe. Regardless, Mitchell and Hendrix played together and made music history for the likes of Paul Davids to analyze on CZcams and for me to watch so I can figure out what the Banjo Bounce is...and in the end, that's all that really matters ;) Thanks for the thought-provoking comment!

[@GoodRNG]

Ask 10000 people who Jimi Hendrix is and then ask them who Mitch Mitchell is. Mitch Mitchell was an amazing properly trained drummer who JUMPED at the chance to play with Jimi Hendrix. If you really believe he was the catalyst for Jimi’s fame I’d like to hit whatever you’re smoking for real.
Lastly: please provide a link to Jimi playing without a drummer in which he’s out of time.