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"Spanish Castle Magic" by Jimi Hendrix

Riff Rundown

Difficulty: Easy - Intermediate

This brisk paced Hendrix riff sure is fun to play once you get it down. Something tells me that the hardest part for most people will be striking the high strings at the end of each measure. Take a good look at the suggested fingering furthur down the page and stick to them and you'll have much more success. Take it slow at first and slowly build up speed until you can play along with the audio sample below. Try to keep it clean, though.

Below is the 4 measures about looped at it's normal speed of 100 bpm.

Here are the suggested fingerings:

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Verse

Here's the part to the verses. It's basically just power chords with an added 5th at the bottom. You can use your 1st and 3rd fingers, or your 1st and 4th fingers to finger the chord formations. Easy stuff!

Below is the riff looped at normal speed (100bpm):

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