John Frusciante Private GW Magazine Lesson/Interview July 2006
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- Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante sits down with Guitar World magazine and discusses "Under the Bridge." From the July 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine.
0:01 Under the Bridge
4:27 Learning R&B / Soul Style of Rhythm Guitar
8:07 Funk / James Brown Style of Rhythm Guitar
9:59 Chord / Melody Two-Note Inventions
11:20 Soloing Philosophy
15:03 part of the hey solo!
Budah bless you
I know this was filmed in 2011 but I hear part of Red Hot Chili Peppers - Black Summer (2022) around the 10:00 mark
@@sendbitcoin this is in 2006, not 2011
@@sendbitcoin you mean untitled 2
Description updated to remove "former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist". We love you John
So glad he's back!
I’m still in shock man lol
Over the moon that John is back
Fitz beautiful !!!
only former should be in quotes...
john has gone through so many different evolutions...i feel like he's genuinely looked like six different people over the course of his career.
Once the Jesus
@@nik.chintavorn always the Jesus 😁
Ella S - Isn't weird how people you went to school with look so old and different now, but you still look the same as you did in high school? Me too! Jeeze, I'm so glad I'm not old like they are. I could probably still get down to my wrestling weight if I wanted too. This would all turn back into muscle if i started going to the gym.
Yeah, From 1991 to 2002 his look changed SO much! Especially before and after rehab.
Skinny John, Heroin John, Rehab John, Jesus John, Shaved-Head John, Retired John
Who else is admiring this legend in 2019!?
hell yeah!
Every year lol
Yaasss me 😍❤❤❤❤❤❤👏 just mesmerising!!
What a masterpiece!
Yes Sir. His Tone is just unreal...
Who is here after hearing he is rejoining RHCP!?! So stoked.
I can't stop watching him now! I'm super stoked on Chili Peppers all over again!
youtube musicians are edited imbeciles this man played guitar 16 hours a day so with that what you will
Literally everyone who will ever see this.
@@O5FS more like Lo_IQ
Really?!? Thank you Lord! The RHCP weren't the same without em
I still love coming here even after almost 8 years, it feels like im with john frusciante as he plays guitar on his couch
13 years ago now!
Yeah, feet up, can of stella just chillin the fuck out.
same! I've watched this video once every year for five years!
@@niketasdelgato4027 15 years now!
It’s been 8years come back n enjoy this masterpiece
John is just on an entirely different level than anyone I’ve ever heard. It’s like he’s playing from his soul and you can feel it. Amazing.
I think this is one of the most precious videos on UA-cam
Beats the shit outta puppies, huh?
Meredith Richardson - ‘John frusciante beats the shit outta puppies- you won’t believe what happens next’ you’re right Meredith that would definitely get views!
I have it on DVD
Yes indeed
Feels like John sees no difference between being on stage in front of 80.000 people of sitting on a couch with a camera crew when he is soloing. and thats just great
The tone for under the bridge is just... makes my spine tingle. Such a good balance between clean and crunch, meaty bass and the typical strat jangle.
Moreso when he plays the outro with the CE-1 chorus pedal. Heaven!
couldnt agree more
12 years gone and I still feel good coming here again. Love u frusciante
Farhan Alam Me too
Me too 😅😅
I watch this at least once a week
Dishonour I watch it every morning before I start my day
This is everyday bread
Nick García, lol
Great guitar, but John could make anything sound and look great.
There's just something in the way he plays that just makes you understand. It's better than hearing, like you can feel something.
Its extremely therapeutic for my senses 😍❤❤❤❤❤
*Something in the Way..*
_Hmmmm..._
💯
You feel his sorrow an pain when he plays!!! That's what i always liked about John's guitar playing..🤘
Lots of people in the world can play guitar. But John can really play the guitar.
Gotta love that no matter how many times John flies the RHCP coop, the door is always open for him to come back. He's just THAT good.
Hes now back and they made a single!
@@darkarz5331 I remember the single had millions of UA-cam views in a few days
This is a contribution to humanity man. An archive for all the ages.
The way he talks is so adorable 😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😭
@@raisa_cherry35 He talks like that because he did a lot of drugs in the past
Akronys he talks like that because he is totally immersed in his music. he talked like that before he did a lot of drugs.
@@acdcjor Oh 😮
Cam Rocket haha
true artist, he's totally into his playing. so dope to be totally immersed into something whatever it may be. you live it that way
I'm imersed into my own penis. I have tried to blow myself countless times.
My condolences
Goddmit I spit my oatmeal all over my phone 😤😤😢 cuz of thattt
Unless it was actual dope, like frusciante a few years before this interview
@@theredhotchilipepperssexof4269 you really think you're that important that someone is going to take the time out of their day to read that essay?
Even more impressive when you realise that ‘self taught’ back when he was young didn’t involve youtube or the internet
His parents were trained musicians.
@Bob Owens true, but john is a pro musician. He can play other peoples music, his covers span multiple genres. I prefer listening to john with the rhcp, his mastery of music shines when he plays off flea and chad
@Bob Owens that being said, I love his solo work. It's clear, his rhcp stuff was influenced by his solo work. But the guitar work for under the bridge wouldn't have existed without Anthony writing the lyrics first. Best band ever
Learning before UA-cam just sucked (especially if you were shy like me). I had a guitar teacher and Mel Bay books. I think the teacher was sort of a studio/jazz guy - I was listening to Cream at the time, he wasn't. Books were shit too - chords plus some sort of melody in standard notation. I quit for a while. Finally found Stefan Grossman and Arlen Roth with tab and little acetate "discs." And harmonica with the book by Tony Glover. The internet is a wonderful thing.
Arlen Roth books with tab and little acetate records. Tony Glover book for harmonica. The internet is a wonderful thing.
At 10:46 his chord/melody two-note invention demonstration is one of the most beautiful 30 seconds of playing I’ve ever heard. His music always seems to come so deep within him.
Baseline is consistent and simple. Then a nice bit of hammering sliding in the melody. This man's melodies are unreal.
he's so simple when he speaks , like if he doesn t know he' s a genius !
My favorite guitarrist!
So glad to hear how “second nature” it is for you John to just “mute the strings you don’t want to play” while when I play Can’t Stop it sounds like a school bus running over drunk orchestra
technique isn't natural at first. you just gotta put in the hours and your brain will subconsciously fill in the gaps. don't give up, keep practicing
you will be better with practice don't worry ;)
He said “second nature for me now”, practice makes perfect!
Once you get it it's the easiest thing ever
December 15, 2019 JOHN REJOINS RHCP!
Did he actually rejoin?
Unbelievable but yes, he did.
The 2 chord melody just blew my mind. Have been tinkering w this for 2 straight days now and it's so much fun. Such a simple idea that can produce crazy amts of creativity and fun. Thanks so much for this John, you are a legend
Yeah it's great. Mayer does it in his own way. See something like Olivia.
It’s a 2006 interview yet feels so 94.
Probably the shit quality and editing
😍❤😭
ayr1225 it’s the same couch in the 94 vpro. Just missing the cat and Bowie book...and the movie script/mathematic notebook of course lol
Also because he is so laid down
Kinda feels like the second week of July in 1993 to me but I feel ya
What a lesson in not being constrained by a particular genre or style. True artist and a genius of our generation. Can’t wait to hear what comes next. Inspirational guitarist and human being. Love John Frusciante
John is a true guitar master.
Forget all the acid bs i feel this is Hendrix's true enduring legacy this style of playing. John is a very expressive player with great technique and feel i wish i could play like this.
...all the acid? 😢
As of December 16th 2019..John Fruciante is once again a CHILI PEPPER! 😁💪🏿❤
2023 and John still blowing my mind with those riffs
"I just didn't wanna be straight in any way, so like, Chad and Flea did a lot of experimenting with me in the studio." Lol, I love you John, but this is too hilarious not to mention.
cf
11:15 "so you can sit around and have fun with yourself"
Ignatius Jackson and right after he says “I just didn’t wanna be straight in any way”
😆 geez.
cursed
He puts soul even into his simplest demos.
Its not simplest
turn on subtitles and go to 16:08 even youtube knows a guitar can talk in the hands of John Frusciante
It's 2022, and HES BACK YALL!!!! PRAISE GOD
I'm not even a musician but I could listen to this all day
John Frusciante’s legacy will always live on. He’s amazing, inspired me to we’re I’m at today
Ladies & Gentleman... the day has come, HE'S BACK!!
I remember back in the day when I was a beginner on guitar I would come to this video and replay it over and over until I had copied absolutely everything he was doing as close to exactly like him as I could get.
How in the world did you see where his fingers are?
@@foreverseethe With difficulty. I'd look at where his fingers were on the fret and if I couldn't tell exactly which strings he was holding down, I'd pause the video and try out the different possibilities until what I was playing either matched or sounded close enough to what he was playing in my beginner's mind.
@@MrJCMG As a 30 year old who has played since my fingers could fit a guitar, I had to unlearn a lot of bad habits to be able to match this style. For people who learned correctly this may sound foreign, but its hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
I am stressed and sad. So I came here to calm down en feel happy. He and his music mean so much to me!
Sending hugs🤗
The 9:59 section is haunting…there’s a real lonely eeriness to it with such a HUGE dynamic to it as well. John is one of the very few guitarists out there on the global stage who CREATES the music, not WRITING the music. Guy is incredibly talented and looks at it all
From an entirely different view outside the box
wow. This is such a wonderful thing to have John himself break down" under the bridge". I'm a huge Hendrix fan, and I feel there are very,very few guitarists that have ever really captured that Hendrix style of playing. John not only captures a taste of it he adds his own style. I was attempting to pick this up from the recording, and now I find John has done this !! John thank you so much.
His riff goes deep inside my veins and my soul, thank you John for making this life so magical. 🖤
John is my hero. His style is so unique. Just play a Chili song with headphones turned up so you can hear every different little thing he adds on top of each other in his songs. Those little things add up to his big sound. Absolutely incredible.
HE'S BACK!!!!
I know right??? :DD
I've always though John Frusciante's style was the closest to Hendrix so hearing him say this really affirms how I've always idolised his playing from "blood sugar" and prior to that, M'milk.
Can you imagine if John redid this in 4k for 2019
What difference would that make? You can see well enough and hear everything as it is...
Yeah, you would actually be able to see his fingers.
Figures 8/9 are some of the most influential pieces I’ve seen in my years of guitar playing
I remember watching this video back in 2007, this was the reason why I bought a sunburst strat and became a musician. I owe this video my life purpose.
What an amazing guitar player, Red hot chilli peppers just isn't the same without him, definitely up there with the best guitar players of all time
This comment didint age well. :D
@@axwellfifty179 I'd say it did age well :D
This guy really enjoys what he´is playing, even in a demonstration it seems like he´s feeling it
His guitarplay makes me feel high. Love his philosophy, got to do that more often.
For all of you who love the riff at 10:05 its from his song Lou Bergs / Penetrate Time, a beautiful piece...
+Sompn Brurl Not the same riff but it's got the same intervals for the first part I guess. Root and third.
well, its basically a variaton of that riff :)
I don't know, I've learnt the riff on guitar and I'd definitely say it's entirely different but I can totally see the similarities melodically. Low birds is really lovely though and I imagine people who like this riff probably would enjoy that one too. :)
I know you wrote this 3 years ago but I literally came to the comments looking for this answer so thank you :)
@@simcHyt its similar but not intentional. Low birds is fantastic regardless
I hope John is healthy and still writing music
He switched to electronic music
He looks good and healthy. But he's into some real garbage music right now
@@erinhand settle down his beats are fire
A quick google search would have told you all you need to know lmao 😂😂😂
@@NickB-md1oy I know but I prefer this way, try to get a conversation going
He doesn't care how fast, wild or noisy you can be. He's a free soul, and he's flying, and that's all that matters.
Here is a man to whom the word genius can actually be applied without risk of hyperbole. No one has and no one ever will play like this.
@youtube musicians are edited imbeciles actually quite a few junkies have been genius... Sometimes those people have the hardest time dealing with reality
I'm not sure, you can definitely hear the influence of Jimi Hendrix in fig. 3, especially when slowed down. But a genius he certainly is :)
Jon Ronnquist he’s a musical genius
Hendrix? Lmao.
@@nelsonvontitfuk1471 John has stated Hendrix as an influence many times
always been a fav song of mine growing up (under the bridge)..rhcp have always been really timeless. love hearing the musical influence of the piece; hendrix/mayfield.. def a nostalgic staple from my childhood!
I try to pick up on what Frusciante says about playing music. Today when I was playing guitar I think I got a glimpse of what he means. I was playing Snow (Hey Oh) , which is a very repetitive riff. For a minute I just let my hands do the playing, and I let my mind go somewhere else. I found myself playing music, but my mind was in a different place, solely enjoying the sounds coming out of my guitar.
Ive had this too, with the exact same song lol. Though i have to say it only lasted 30 seconds or so before my hands noticed they didnt have my brains attention and fell off.
Pretty impressive to do that on snow which is a pretty hard riff to keep att
Just be like Jon and smoke some weed...it works
you were probably playing a godmack riff
It is repetitive. It is also quite fast with some odd chord shapes. I need to be focused all the time to play it right.
John has been my favorite guitarist for basically my entire life but I only started playing guitar last year and now rewatching all the footage of him with the intention to actually learn something adds a whole new dimension to the experience
Ikr
What he’s explaining here about the muting of unwanted strings is a seriously advanced almost alien technique it blows my mind I struggle to mute one unwanted string 😖
Dood..
Its not alien when uve been playing for 25 years lmao
jimi hendrix and john frusciante, genius’s in every way and I hope to carry the torch one day
can't believe this is free
0:33 Doom Metal version can always make it sound better to my hears
end up here by accident, not trying to learn the riff since i mainly play my own music
but respects sir Frusciante
I could watch him all day. What a player!
Thom Yorke was trying to play like John Frusciante when he wrote the song, reckoner! Pretty damn cool how amazing musicians influence each other!
I dont see how?
Still dont see how.
Belethor scar tissue and reckoner both use those major minor chords with the middle notes suspended those sweet two note chords with the bass treble contrast.
+Belethor Yorke said he went and saw them in concert and like in fig 9, it inspired the playing style seen on reckoner, similar to scar tissue
Sorry guys but reckoner isn’t even his song
One of the greatest guitar players of all time..
I’d stay hours and hours watchin’ him!
This has been said a million times, but under the bridge is beautiful
What a fucking genius.. my admiration for this guy is huge, really. His connection to music is amazing, to say the least. He is really one of a kind!
best guitarist of the last 20 years, at least that i can think of..haha
it just seems really quality guitarists aren't valued in music like they were in the 60's and 70's in particular
I think this is one of the most precious videos on UA-cam
There are many, many great guitarists all over the world. But yeah, you won't hear them in the charts. 😅
This man is my therapy at least 3 times a day I escape to his incredible talent! The most talented guitar player ever!
I have seen this video a million times now, and every time I want to thank the person whose idea it was to make a "how to sound like frusciante"-video with the legend himself instead of a ordinary interview... So thank you whoever it was!
I remember buying the guitar world mag with the cd of this lesson on it.... good times! So glad he's back!
Thank you John. One of my favorite guitar songs from one of my favorite guitar players. I wish he or any of these legends would do formal instruction. I know most of them are to humble but what could be more inspiring or more influential. Anyway thanks for this one John
Can’t think of a guitarist I like more. He’s a genius.
John wore this shirt in the hump de bump music video
He probably had/has no idea :D
Props that you noticed, good catch!
yep hahah
He blends in with the couch
Nice observation
I learned so much from these lessons summer '06. Wasn't online though, had to buy the magazine....learned a lot from all the interviews too. They tracked Stadium Arcadium to tape, right as I upgraded my 4 track tascam to a digital 8 track Fostex. Then the Foo Fighters did ESP&G on tape, and I was bummed I switched to digital.
For people new to recording, the secret is finding the 10 or 12 instruments (drums, elec. drums, perc., clean guitar, dist. guitar, bass, piano, acoustic, synth, vocals, etc.)
Blend up and out from the drums. Keep things pulled back. Double track. No compression. EQ on everything. No excessive effects. Master reverb only. Higher tempo 100+.
You can do this with Ableton, Reaper, Garageband, hardware, free trials, anything. There are a ton of free daws.
Mic your guitars, go direct with bass. Mic a drum kit with overheads, record multiple people singing harmonies into the same mic, add air, cut less and get perfect takes more often.
Tune down a half step.
Sampling has a place.
MIDI is extraordinarily powerful. All you need is a crappy used keyboard with MIDI in/out and a cable.
The VSTs are great.
But trim your shit down. Write music with the same tools over and over so you can develop your sound with those tools.
If you switch tools too often, you'll be good at using lots of tools, but not so good at harnessing the energy to create powerful music.
22 years of guitar. No one ever cared about my rig. Guitar, cable, 2 channel amp.
Everyone is spending too much time being their own Software Support Specialist that they're not sitting down and writing songs, or having experiences to write songs about.
Live your life. Track your music with microphones. Forget about the noise. People will get over it.
Rock n roll is in the heart. Not the sound or the image. It questions itself. People show up for it, pay for it, and consider it a big deal to have live rock music in their backyards.
Write music for the people. Not for their money. Write music in celebration of our existence. Write music that goes into the machine, not out of the machine.
Peace!
One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
their fingers on the guitar are like the stars in the sky, just perfect
One of the great guitarists.
His guitar intonation and sound is so good
When he plays it the guitar sounds like it’s talking, especially in the outro. Amazing. 😊
I could listen to figure 9 all day long... just beautiful♥️
Thank God for giving us people like John to show us a slice of heaven and unity.
"...just try to bend the fabric of reality."
🖤
15:35
Unreal...
impressive wouldn't be enough..... what a Great Musician and spirit..............I'm a huge fan..........can't get enough of this legend who beat dope and transcended to a higher vibrational density.. omg criminally uderated and a phenom on guitar
Man... I could listen to this guy talking music for the rest of my life and be the happiest dude alive! Or dead!
I’ve been coming back to this video at least once a year since 2013. So much to learn from, even just how his hands are positioned
And now the KING is back!!
I feel like I failed at playing a guitar.
I tried n found that's not the gift I have. Now I enjoy listening to it and admire how John's talent is astonishing ly an attention grabber for me.
Ty John for being who you are.♥️🎼🎵🎼🎶🎸❤
What you gave up too soon
Ya I suppose so. I should've tried harder!
He is so sweet and humble while being so f..... amazing. The word music would mean nothing without Jhon.
When I started playing guitar 20 years ago, the main lick of this song seemed impossible to play. 20 years later and not hearing this song in a long time and rediscovering it, all the magic of that lick is just... gone. Thanks me, for progressing.
creative as the universe. what a legend.
Every single note lands perfectly with this one. He's creating magic.
Damm Allready 10years ago Jesus time flies
Who else is admiring this legend in 2022 !!! ?
Bend the fabric of reality.
so much easier to learn to play something when the teacher is just PLAYING and NOT TALKING about what hes doing every 2 seconds,
nice one john
this is what a gift looks like, john best guitar player ever period
So much love and respect I feel for John 🎸☀️