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Originally Posted by Dick Pull
I'm pretty sure I do things normal guitar players never do anyway and that's not a necessarily good thing.
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Not exactly my point.
Most of us either position our thumb on the back of the neck or over the top edge, over the low E string. When Hendrix hung his thumb over the top of the neck, he was actually touching the HIGH E string. He also had exceptionally long fingers, which allowed him to do very unconventional things.
The best example I can think of is this:
The normal fingering for a G chord would use the ring and pinky fingers to press the 3rd fret on the high B and E strings. Hendrix used his THUMB to fret those notes.
Trying to reproduce Hendrix, note for a note, is really a waste of time for conventional guitar players.