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Tab: Play blues like Jimi Hendrix

Lick 3: Towards the end of this lick the guitar's vibrato unit comes into play; not only where I use it to dip the solo's final notes, but also in the way that bending the third string makes the second string go slightly flat. You'll hear this quirk of the Stratocaster in many of Jimi's solos. It doesn't offend me at all; it's simply a guitar and a guitarist in action, and what's wrong with that?