I don’t know how he kept the guitar in tune. If you jerk a wang bar, your guitar goes out of tune. But his didn’t apparently. He could bend it in tune. Somehow, by tapping the back of his guitar neck, which he constantly did, and by using the bar, Jimi could control feedback. You would hear a rumbling start; he knew which note would feedback and what harmonic he was shooting for, and then he con-trolled it. Somehow, when he had all the notes open, he would raise the pitch level by using the bar, and he’d get a higher note to feed back, or he would make the bass note feed back harmonically.
 
Jimi would play a bass pattern, and then fill it in with chords, and at the exact same time he would lead by making a high note ring out while using very unorthodox chord positions. He had a massive thumb, which he used like an additional finger, so his hand positions were unconventional for every chord. You couldn’t even tell what Hendrix was doing with his body. He moved with all those tricks that black . . .

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