Jimi Hendrix - May This Be Love - Guitar Lesson

Are You Experienced

1967 3:10

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About May This Be Love

Tucked toward the end of side one of "Are You Experienced," "May This Be Love" shows a gentler, more reflective side of Jimi Hendrix that guitarists sometimes overlook in favor of his heavier work. The song sits in E major and leans heavily on clean or lightly dressed tone, asking you to play with real touch sensitivity rather than brute force. The chord work is deceptively simple on the surface, but the beauty is in how Hendrix voices his chords and moves between them, so pay close attention to fingering choices and which strings ring openly. There are gentle single-note fills and melodic runs woven between chord changes that reward careful listening before you try to replicate them. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop those transitional fills slowed down until your fretting hand finds the smoothest path. The whole piece is a good reminder that tone control and light picking dynamics are just as worth developing as speed or distortion.

• The song rewards playing with a clean, touch-sensitive tone, making right-hand picking dynamics and chord voicing the real focus for guitarists.
• Hendrix weaves melodic single-note fills between chord changes in E major, so isolating those transitions with slowed-down looping is a productive practice approach.
• The gentle feel of the piece makes it a useful exercise for controlling sustain and avoiding unintentional string noise in open-position chord work.