The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced

I ordered guitar tabs but got bass tabs instead. Beware! It clearly showed guitar tab cover. I want refund.

Great tablature book, very accurate and helps catching that "Hendrix" feeling with the guitar. A must buy.

This is a fantastic guitar tab book. I wish I had this book back when I was 12 and first started playing guitar. The only reason I play guitar is because when I was 12, I was at Camelot Music in the mall and bought Are You Experienced? on cassette(back in the day before CD's fazed out cassettes.) It was summer vacation and I had nothing better to do so I listened to Are You Experienced? for one week. After that time I had to get a guitar. I started on a old beat up acoustic and quickly moved to a Kramer electric. Then I started taking music lessons. I would bring in my cassette and asked the guitar teacher how to play the solo in Hey Joe. I learned it note-for-note. Its a good solo to start with. A lot of the basic guitar techniques are all in Hey Joe. I was a beginner when I learned it and it wasn't that difficult. The problem I had was guitar teachers don't like to spend the time teaching you an entire song in 30-minute blocks. You just don't have the time for it. So, as a result, you only learn one riff or one part of a solo. I like learning songs from beginning to end. That's why this tab book is great. For those new to tab, the last few pages have a how to learn to read tab section. Plus, unlike some guitar tab books, this one includes the actual music notes. Some of the magazines and other tab books only have tab, which is fine if you are only using it to play guitar on but it doesn't help other musicians. I asked my friend, who plays piano, to play Purple Haze just to hear the guitar licks on piano. It sounded interesting. Anyway, if I had this book back when I was 12, I would have learned all the songs faster. Tab is very easy to learn and should take about 5-minutes or less. Its not that hard to figure out. All the tabs sound great. I play a white Fender strat through a Peavy Rage amp and a Jim Dunlap Crybaby Wah Wah pedal. I use the gain from the amp and the fuzz setting from the Wah pedal. I get a great Hendrix sound just from that simple set up. Anyway, regradless of where you are at in your own guitar playing, pick up this book to take you to the next level.

If you are a Hendrix fan this is definitely a book to have.I question wheter some of the written vocal melodies are accurate but the guitar and bass transcriptions are pretty good and can take you deep into rainbow realms of Jimi`s genius.