It’s a testament to the monumental influence of “Purple Haze” and other landmark Jimi Hendrix tunes that rock guitarists are more likely to refer to the grip in the grid to the right as the “Hendrix chord” than by its proper name, E7#9. If there’s a first-runner-up for the “Hendrix” chord, though, it would have to be the first-inversion major grip shown on the notation/ tablature staves below in A, C, D, and other useful positions. To get that “Hendrix-y” sound whenever and wherever you play the shape, nail the 2nd-to-3rd finger (b3-to-3) hammer on the fifth string—it’s a classic R&B move, but until rock guitarists heard Hendrix’s “The Wind Cries Mary,” few of them had it in their vocabularies.