To give you a slight understanding: in this riff (riffs are just cool outstanding guitar parts in a song) you can either: play each string on its own, so you only get the tone from that string (the easy way) OR you can play all strings at once, but mute the ones you don't want to hear (difficult). To mute a string you just have touch it with your skin a bit, but not enough to press it down because then it would make a sound. Doesn't sound too complicated in theory, in praxis it's lots of finger acrobatics
This strumming technique is used in a lot of Frusciante’s work with RHCP. I’d argue this song is a great way to practice it because it is relatively easy. Interesting take, but I’d have to say Snow is much more difficult
Agreed. The speed and intricacy of the hammer-on and pull-offs are much harder in “Snow” for me. Being a long time RHCP listener and playing along with their work as I learned, “Can’t Stop” is not easy either, but comes more naturally for me.
Phoenix, AZ back in May. It was one of the most beautiful experiences in my life. I ate a handful of shrooms and danced my ass off - scratched off the bucket list
It is indeed a really hard riff to play because both the left and right hand are very advanced. The left in terms of muting. The right in terms of rhythm. There’s still some ways to go with both here like you said. But one thing you can fix right away: he uses the bridge pickup not the neck. A small thing: In the bit where you say “you’re probably playing it like this”, you played an extra bass note when in your tab above - which is correct - it does’t include it. But when you play your best effort the amount of bass notes is correct again. The main thing though is there are a lot of muted strums and John hits all six strings constantly. Once you get that, you’ll get a lot closer to the riff.
He was literally on a cover of Rolling Stone with John Mayer, and Derek Trucks as “The New Guitar Gods” hahaha RHCP is my favorite band, he gets plenty of accolades and praise
Yeah, with Can't Stop you just have to go for it and strum rhythmically in pocket. Even if it's not clean and you get some ringing out, it still sounds ok. I mean, I struggle with the open string and muting, so I use the 5th fret substitute. Snow though is just a beast to try and keep playing.
Guys making a clickbait video no way he actually believes it's harder. Can't stop requires mastering the muting technique which can be challenging but Snow has a hammer ons that can be tough to master, awkward hand placement, really hard rhythm, and incredible endurance to play that melody over and over again for like 2 mins straight.
I have played snow every day for the past 10 years. I started at 60 BPM, and just played for like an hour a day and slowly moved the tenpo more and more. And I'd I fucked up, I'd just stay at thst tempo until I could play it for 2 mins without a fuck up. I am now at 10bpm more than the studio recording
I didn't realize how badly I needed to see this and think about the sound of this riff to reacquaint myself with how much I love this band. ABSOLUTELY wonderful piece of content here.
Not even gonna try to spell his last name but john F is a genius on the guitar. Some of the most difficult songs I've ever learned are from him (not all RHCP)
@@minisniper99 if anybody is a second iteration of hendrix it has to br marc okubo from veil of maya. His riffs are harder to play than most other bands solos and he makes up his own chords much like hendrix did.
To add insult to injury, I think when he shifts to the D note, he's actually playing the open string D, so you have to work even harder to mute the notes in-between.
Yup that's the most important part of the sound. The lack of skill in this video is astonishing for the amount of likes it has and the fact he's trying to tutor. I'm not trying to be a dick but he made a video that should in theory be about sweep picking and then like.... can't do it
Snow is hard not particularly because of the rift, although it is still the hardest rift of theirs in my opinion, but the dexterity it takes to do it as it's basically the whole song for 4 minutes. Can't Stop is really only difficult because of the muting, other than that there's nothing else to it
I agree. Can’t stop is actually not even hard, but still is one of my favorite riffs. Snow is fkn difficult to keep going without messing up the whole song.
I find no problem playing can’t stop the way John plays it muting the string and being able to strum all the strings and still hit the right notes came natural to me
Brother I’ve been saying this for years and I’m so glad somebody finally addressed it. He strums all the way through and mutes selectively the entire song. It’s absolutely insane
Do you not know how to mute strings with your fingers? It's just a simply funk-style riff. Play it in that style, it's not rocket science. Put some soul into it.
@@TheOutlawMan THEN DO IT. I guarantee you cannot play this now, and I guarantee you couldn’t play then. All you’ve said so far is how easy it is, so when I challenge you to play it, your reply was it’s easy. Then I challenged you again, and said it’s so easy I played it as a kid. Either play it to shut me up, or shut up yourself.
@@StealthySpace7 You sound like that guy that, when he himself struggles to do something, immediatly concludes that it has to be like that for everyone else
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp I sincerely mean it. Been watching for a while. Just sub'd. As good as Marty or better with the shorts. Keep them coming. And Start living the most full experience my friend. It took me almost dieing with nothing to realize I was living a near life experience. YOLO is true. Twice if you're me.
My wife instantly said thats how does ot feel by hendrix chords not steve chords because Im tunded doen half step....funny. She has a good ear. Explained th G D C combo to her. Its in million hit songs....maybe future short to learn from ...peace / out.
I absolutely love the sound of the way it's actually played and I instantly knew his first example was too empty sounding. One of my all-time favorite songs!
@@romanlakes no, those notes are supposed to be muted, it's a hard technique to master. The guy playing here isn't happy with his own technique and that's why it sounds a little off.
@@dannysnow46he’s a master at reaching over and muting with his thumb. I play it with the open d but I have to change my whole hand for that d since I mute all 6 with my index
FINALLY!! YES! Your totally right, this is without a doubt the hardest RHCP riff because John play’s it so groovy and neat without a not wanted note when he’s playing it. He also strums almost ALL OF THE STRINGS and muting most of them without loosing groove… its just amazingly great.
From playing a lot of John Mayer stuff I naturally played “can’t stop” the right way. Mayer uses so much (left and right hand) muting and strumming in single note lines/solos
It’s not that hard to hear the muted strumming in the recording + learning rock riffs by ear isn’t hard at all + your strings are out of tune + you have no bitches + you’ve been playing for 35 years and brag about Can‘t Stop of all songs + L + Ratio.
I have literally been saying this for years!! I always imagine the only way I will be able to play it like him is by removing the strings I don't need 😂
@@randal3122 Wow you're so cool for putting other people down because you think you're better than them. That must mean that you're a very good musician and a respectable person.
@@drakehrdina183 putting people down? because i disagreed with him? im sure he is better than me at guitar, but just because he thinks something is harder than other things doesnt mean thats fact. he basically was saying mutung strings is more difficult than shredding. i said i disagreed because i think this is wayy easier than shredding. i naturally play like this, but i suck at shredding. get that chip off your shoulder creampuff. you sound like a Lib of Tik Tok. not everything is meant to be offensive, so stop getting offended by everything
It’s not at all easy but if you practice it becomes so natural feeling. It took my first year of guitar playing (and a crazy Mountain Dew sugar rush) to one day get it right. After that I could do it with any song ever basically.
I can play it just like on the recording and the best tip I can give is to use your middle and pinky finger for the main parts and your index finger and third finger to mute the rest of the strings and play the bass notes however I still think snow hey oh is harder
Every song by rhcp I have tried to learn has some little movement I've never tried before. Or string skipping that's very hard for me to play up to speed.
@@gunkanjima3408 I mean depends on who plays it. His ability to use chords, whilst nailing those 16th notes and timing the muting just means that it would be a walk in the Parknto play that specific part.
ua-cam.com/video/V59YD_0UN0s/v-deo.html there you go. if it's not clean as fruciante that's perfectly normal. I think that only about 5% of who knows that riff can play it like fruciante. Im playing it when I strum all the strings, but maybe there are some background noises from the strings, maybe from some accidental pinch harmonics or something like that. but withought these Im playing it normally, "like fruciante does it".
‘I could die for you’ Go ahead and look up the chords for that song. Still haven’t mastered that song on account of the shapes alone. Playing almost 20 yrs. Trickiest part of can’t stop for beginners is precise muting with the left hand. Learned it when I was in ~8th grade and the style fascinated me. Mastering can’t stop will open up a lot of possibilities for applying the same technique to Hendrix, SRV, and any funk and funk rock.
This song is a good example of how someone with tons of guitar playing under their belt plays, he can strums all the strings and pick out just the one note he wants with each stroke. I found this one super hard.
@@yeasstt I find most of my students struggle with the number of notes they are responsible for more than a simple muting technique and single note phrases. I’d say stairway to heaven is a basic arpeggio song. The added hammerons and melodic lines make under the Bridge at least a bit more complicated, IMO. Happy playing
Yeah, I’ve got Snow, I’ve got Can’t Stop, but the opening/closing riff of The Longest Wave is something I still struggle with. Klinghoffer plays it so clean, I have no idea how.
I never noticed that, but now it's kind of makes sense. The first version sounds almost mechanical like a synthesizer. The second version with the strumming has a bit more funk.
He's a great guitar player and he was almost kicked out for good, but I'm glad they're all back together and going strong and doing well and their music is still better than ever.
I think snow is still more difficult from a technical standpoint, but you're totally right about can't stop. It's way harder than it seems and most players don't play it the right way. Super hard to get it clean with the mutes but sounding good!
Yoo! Great job dude, sounding dope. You mentioned you're not fully happy with how you're playing it right now, to my ear you're missing a few elements so here you go! First things first, the bass notes are being fretted slightly differently, the first E is correct, then the following D is being played as an open string and the E+A are being muted with the thumb which is why it sounds so slinky on the recording, following that the bass notes on the E are being held with the thumb over the top. Secondly, the right hand should be hitting every single string every time, even the single low E notes, the attack is coming from a really loose wrist and arm coupled with gravity, instead of playing tightly in a box around the strings you wanna be coming up and down with the picking hand pretty much the entire width of the guitar body, so when you're downstroking gravity is taking part (It's waay easier to play this way if you're standing) The last missing ingredient is when you do the ascending 7>9's every second one has an upstroke sitting in-between the two which really brings out the funk Keep on rockin' 😄
I’ve struggled to get this right for years now. I’ve practiced and practiced hitting all the strings like John and still feel like it’s not right. I’m a perfectionist with stuff like that though. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
*Me not knowing an absolute thing about guitar, chords, and riffs:*
Oh wow yeah, now that you mention it that does seem difficult.
Dude plays like a robot. Of course RHCP is gonna be a foreign concept to him. I assure you, this riff is not hard and it is very fun to just jam on.
@@llillico maybe he is tik tok guitarist
@@llillico except it's not difficult if you've played for more than six months
It's insanely easy actually lmao all of their music is easy
To give you a slight understanding: in this riff (riffs are just cool outstanding guitar parts in a song) you can either: play each string on its own, so you only get the tone from that string (the easy way) OR you can play all strings at once, but mute the ones you don't want to hear (difficult). To mute a string you just have touch it with your skin a bit, but not enough to press it down because then it would make a sound. Doesn't sound too complicated in theory, in praxis it's lots of finger acrobatics
This strumming technique is used in a lot of Frusciante’s work with RHCP. I’d argue this song is a great way to practice it because it is relatively easy. Interesting take, but I’d have to say Snow is much more difficult
Agreed. The speed and intricacy of the hammer-on and pull-offs are much harder in “Snow” for me. Being a long time RHCP listener and playing along with their work as I learned, “Can’t Stop” is not easy either, but comes more naturally for me.
Even frusciante has screw the snow intro in live performances
Snow is not harder lol
@@BAKED.BEYOND Although they're both not that hard, snow is definitely more difficult. can't stop would take a new guitarist way less time than snow.
If you can hold a solid C chord snow is really pretty limited compared to the muting and shifting on cant stop---
Just saw them live last week, they were absolutely epic (and loud)
Loud... Doesn't always mean bad, just noise.
Saw them in Chicago back in August, they were great
@@3vo338 op never said it was bad
Vegas in April was wild
Phoenix, AZ back in May. It was one of the most beautiful experiences in my life. I ate a handful of shrooms and danced my ass off - scratched off the bucket list
Bro you gotta play it with your whole arm. Spank that thing!
😏
And you have to more or less play 8th notes the whole time, to get the groove
i agree, his arm is stiffer than a (insert erection joke here {he he insert😁})
@user-ve2im3vf5v yeah this is very poorly played for someone attempting to teach guitar online
He specifies that that isnt how its supposed to actually be played. @jonathanhughes2199
"Frishy auntie"
Honestly the whitest way to pronounce one of the whitest names
@@doomginger8296 i don't know why Is so hard for UK/american pronounce the E, damn. FrusciantE not Fruscianty
@@doomginger8296 it’s not that white of a name 🤣 a super white name is like Dave Smith
@@TheRubberMatch it's italian, last time i checked they still counted as white?
@@user-ts2ny8jg9d how is it one of the “whitest names” tho. Italians are like the least white of white people. Have you ever met a Sicilian ?!!
I can play “Can’t Stop” the way John does it and I still find that “Snow” is a tad bit trickier
Can confirm
same, prolly cuz i play funk
Yes, Snow is quite a lot more difficult
Most of Johns stuff isn’t technically that difficult its just the way he plays it is difficult
Sure
John Frusciante is a genius in a way that only other guitarists and musicians can understand and appreciate!
Nah he's cool and all but his fanboys are so annoying acting like he's the second coming of jesus
@@jedisponge16nah they don’t. they just appreciate talent.
@@jedisponge16 youre thinking of hendrix. people put him as the number one guitarist of all time when frusciante is clearly better in every single way
@@patrickderp1044 aw hell nah are you playing into the joke I can't even tell
@@patrickderp1044Hendrix pioneered for Frusciante man lmao
It is indeed a really hard riff to play because both the left and right hand are very advanced. The left in terms of muting. The right in terms of rhythm. There’s still some ways to go with both here like you said.
But one thing you can fix right away: he uses the bridge pickup not the neck.
A small thing: In the bit where you say “you’re probably playing it like this”, you played an extra bass note when in your tab above - which is correct - it does’t include it. But when you play your best effort the amount of bass notes is correct again.
The main thing though is there are a lot of muted strums and John hits all six strings constantly. Once you get that, you’ll get a lot closer to the riff.
Why would anybody in their right mind want to play that riff?! John Frusciante left the band because of garbage like that!
@@seanmurphy26 what do you mean? He created the riff and loves playing it…
@@Hello_there_obi that song is terrible
@@seanmurphy26 its one of their best songs? Maybe you dont like rhcp and thats fine but cant stop is about as quintessential as it gets
@@Hello_there_obi it’s definitely not one of their best but it’s a good song
Even with strumming snow is still harder to keep up for as long as he does in the song..
Add in doing backup vocals while playing at same time and it’s clear that Frusciante is a force of nature
@@Darmoosh27 Honestly I am convinced that he is a demigod at this point.
exactly, this fool has no clue what he's talking about, snow is much harder
Hmm
He doesn’t strum he picks it lol
Two of my favorite songs either way
RHCP guitar player needs more recognition as a guitar god
John frusciante
he is already universally praised
@nstnct5378 I think flee and the singer get way more praise
He was literally on a cover of Rolling Stone with John Mayer, and Derek Trucks as “The New Guitar Gods” hahaha RHCP is my favorite band, he gets plenty of accolades and praise
Frusciante is a beast!!! Do yourself a favor right now and buy the album "curtains"
He’s hard to replicate that’s for sure
Yes, Frustrante, fun fact, if you translate his name from Spanish to English it means 'frustrating'.
@@looeegee that makes total sense because that's the feeling of trying to play his music on the guitar 😀
@@ehwren Lol, yeah
@@looeegee the same goes in italian
can't stop is actually pretty easy played the correct way, you just need good rythm and practice. While snow, i still can't get down
Agree
dude that’s exactly what i’m saying over here 😂
Yeah, with Can't Stop you just have to go for it and strum rhythmically in pocket. Even if it's not clean and you get some ringing out, it still sounds ok. I mean, I struggle with the open string and muting, so I use the 5th fret substitute.
Snow though is just a beast to try and keep playing.
Guys making a clickbait video no way he actually believes it's harder. Can't stop requires mastering the muting technique which can be challenging but Snow has a hammer ons that can be tough to master, awkward hand placement, really hard rhythm, and incredible endurance to play that melody over and over again for like 2 mins straight.
I have played snow every day for the past 10 years. I started at 60 BPM, and just played for like an hour a day and slowly moved the tenpo more and more. And I'd I fucked up, I'd just stay at thst tempo until I could play it for 2 mins without a fuck up. I am now at 10bpm more than the studio recording
I didn't realize how badly I needed to see this and think about the sound of this riff to reacquaint myself with how much I love this band. ABSOLUTELY wonderful piece of content here.
Yup. All chords, it's sick and I love it
The way he says Frusciante: 👁👄👁
Not even gonna try to spell his last name but john F is a genius on the guitar. Some of the most difficult songs I've ever learned are from him (not all RHCP)
He really is the white Hendrix
@@minisniper99 cringe
@@minisniper99 if anybody is a second iteration of hendrix it has to br marc okubo from veil of maya. His riffs are harder to play than most other bands solos and he makes up his own chords much like hendrix did.
Love the Red Special in the back
Snows harder, it's relentless. Can't stop is easy if you've been playing chili songs for life
Change you are so right you do a pretty good job you see the way his hand is flinging when he's strumming that amazing
To add insult to injury, I think when he shifts to the D note, he's actually playing the open string D, so you have to work even harder to mute the notes in-between.
Kinda strange, he has that tabbed out in this video but he's playing the 5th fret on the a
@@rotor7135 that's because this guy is playing at like a 13 year Olds level
Yup that's the most important part of the sound. The lack of skill in this video is astonishing for the amount of likes it has and the fact he's trying to tutor. I'm not trying to be a dick but he made a video that should in theory be about sweep picking and then like.... can't do it
Snow is hard not particularly because of the rift, although it is still the hardest rift of theirs in my opinion, but the dexterity it takes to do it as it's basically the whole song for 4 minutes. Can't Stop is really only difficult because of the muting, other than that there's nothing else to it
I agree. Can’t stop is actually not even hard, but still is one of my favorite riffs. Snow is fkn difficult to keep going without messing up the whole song.
"Rift"
People will kill me for this but I think can’t stop is their best song and one of my personal favorite songs
I find no problem playing can’t stop the way John plays it muting the string and being able to strum all the strings and still hit the right notes came natural to me
Brother I’ve been saying this for years and I’m so glad somebody finally addressed it. He strums all the way through and mutes selectively the entire song. It’s absolutely insane
Do you not know how to mute strings with your fingers? It's just a simply funk-style riff. Play it in that style, it's not rocket science. Put some soul into it.
@@TheOutlawMan Then you do it. Don’t tell me it’s easy if you can’t do it
@@StealthySpace7 lmfao, I've been able to do it since I was 16. Almost 30 now 🤷♂️
@@TheOutlawMan THEN DO IT. I guarantee you cannot play this now, and I guarantee you couldn’t play then. All you’ve said so far is how easy it is, so when I challenge you to play it, your reply was it’s easy. Then I challenged you again, and said it’s so easy I played it as a kid. Either play it to shut me up, or shut up yourself.
@@StealthySpace7 You sound like that guy that, when he himself struggles to do something, immediatly concludes that it has to be like that for everyone else
Can't stop addicted to shindig
Nice work. You help to keep playing everyday. You really make me think where's my guitar and practice more. Thanks.
Wow thanks man! That’s exactly what I’m going for!
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp I sincerely mean it. Been watching for a while. Just sub'd. As good as Marty or better with the shorts. Keep them coming. And Start living the most full experience my friend. It took me almost dieing with nothing to realize I was living a near life experience. YOLO is true. Twice if you're me.
My wife instantly said thats how does ot feel by hendrix chords not steve chords because Im tunded doen half step....funny. She has a good ear. Explained th G D C combo to her. Its in million hit songs....maybe future short to learn from ...peace / out.
I absolutely love the sound of the way it's actually played and I instantly knew his first example was too empty sounding. One of my all-time favorite songs!
It was missing the high ends of the chords the first time around, thanks for doing that piece of digging
That second time sounded very off to me, surely that string doesn’t get thrown in, at least not fretted there
@@romanlakes no, those notes are supposed to be muted, it's a hard technique to master. The guy playing here isn't happy with his own technique and that's why it sounds a little off.
Also when he's strumming that d note he's actually hitting the open d string not the note on the 5th fret. Truly a divine master
For sure man, thats the thing that seperates this song its the open d, your muting has to be so spot on to pull it off its hard man
@@dannysnow46he’s a master at reaching over and muting with his thumb. I play it with the open d but I have to change my whole hand for that d since I mute all 6 with my index
I’ve always marveled at that lick.
FINALLY!! YES! Your totally right, this is without a doubt the hardest RHCP riff because John play’s it so groovy and neat without a not wanted note when he’s playing it. He also strums almost ALL OF THE STRINGS and muting most of them without loosing groove… its just amazingly great.
No
From playing a lot of John Mayer stuff I naturally played “can’t stop” the right way. Mayer uses so much (left and right hand) muting and strumming in single note lines/solos
Who did you think I was is played very similarly to can't stop
I love the RHCP, and I love the guitar parts because I find them easy to learn!
snow was the first one i ever learned by them. Love that riff. also always wondered why me playing cant stop didn't sound or look right
35 years of guitar playing. Learned by ear. I guess since that’s how I learned, I can hear that in the recording. It’s a blues thing.
Same. Its basically a hendrix sloppy thing.
It’s not that hard to hear the muted strumming in the recording + learning rock riffs by ear isn’t hard at all + your strings are out of tune + you have no bitches + you’ve been playing for 35 years and brag about Can‘t Stop of all songs + L + Ratio.
@@imperialspence5106 did you try and fail at guitar?
@@levigoldsteinbergowitz7391 r/woooosh
@@blakehecker6129 "r/" , you have to go back
Well I don't play, but love RHCP and like your version. I hear the difference, you are great. I watch ev.time I see you.
Taht in its self is cant stop and yes you realise that real is eyes and hey thats why jokes hit and misspelling is key to sucseeeeess giyss
That Red Special in the background hanging there 👀
i play it the right way lmao im happy now
bibchugey😊
@@joeyhardin5903 bigbchugey🤬🤬🤬🤬
He also plays the last 2 shapes with his thumb on the bass note. Shape #2 also has his thumb to mute the low E and A string
Absolutely *LOVE* the intro of that song!
I have literally been saying this for years!! I always imagine the only way I will be able to play it like him is by removing the strings I don't need 😂
ya its really not hard at all honestly. maybe its just the way i play, but that is basic as hell to me
@@randal3122 Wow you're so cool for putting other people down because you think you're better than them. That must mean that you're a very good musician and a respectable person.
@@drakehrdina183 putting people down? because i disagreed with him? im sure he is better than me at guitar, but just because he thinks something is harder than other things doesnt mean thats fact. he basically was saying mutung strings is more difficult than shredding. i said i disagreed because i think this is wayy easier than shredding. i naturally play like this, but i suck at shredding. get that chip off your shoulder creampuff. you sound like a Lib of Tik Tok. not everything is meant to be offensive, so stop getting offended by everything
@@drakehrdina183 seriously, just for my curiousity, do you have short blue hair and a nose ring?
It’s not at all easy but if you practice it becomes so natural feeling. It took my first year of guitar playing (and a crazy Mountain Dew sugar rush) to one day get it right. After that I could do it with any song ever basically.
I can play it just like on the recording and the best tip I can give is to use your middle and pinky finger for the main parts and your index finger and third finger to mute the rest of the strings and play the bass notes however I still think snow hey oh is harder
Both are simple, not something a beginner would play, but it's nothing to be feared
Can’t Stop is difficult!! You’re absolutely correct. The string muting, and timing of the up/down strokes are tricky 👍🏽
Every song by rhcp I have tried to learn has some little movement I've never tried before. Or string skipping that's very hard for me to play up to speed.
Play neon
John mayer neon?
@@jebronlames5997 yes
Laughs in Cory Wong
Stop. Funk is a lot of fun but it’s not advanced
@@gunkanjima3408 I mean depends on who plays it. His ability to use chords, whilst nailing those 16th notes and timing the muting just means that it would be a walk in the Parknto play that specific part.
Frusciante has written some of the grooviest riffs that I've ever heard. Turn it again is my favorite one to play!! So groovy.
I like your red special in the background, I’m a huge queen fan!
Nope. Strumming is easier. Snow is much harder.
Show me the video where you play can’t stop perfectly while strumming all 6 strings muted with each note ringing out by itself.
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp it’s actually not that difficult, sure there’s a learning curve but it’s not nearly as hard as Snow
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp challenge accepted.
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there you go. if it's not clean as fruciante that's perfectly normal. I think that only about 5% of who knows that riff can play it like fruciante. Im playing it when I strum all the strings, but maybe there are some background noises from the strings, maybe from some accidental pinch harmonics or something like that. but withought these Im playing it normally, "like fruciante does it".
Ward for seeing the challenge.
Never heard John's last name pronounced like that. Lol.
This one is taking a long time to master this. Its much harder than it sounds.
thank you so love you shorts good job sir
It’s pronounced “Froo-Shawn-Tay”
Fru-sharn-tay
No, it's fishy auntie. Source; this guy lol
More of a fruh
man your playings so robotic smile, move, feel it
‘I could die for you’
Go ahead and look up the chords for that song. Still haven’t mastered that song on account of the shapes alone. Playing almost 20 yrs.
Trickiest part of can’t stop for beginners is precise muting with the left hand. Learned it when I was in ~8th grade and the style fascinated me. Mastering can’t stop will open up a lot of possibilities for applying the same technique to Hendrix, SRV, and any funk and funk rock.
This song is a good example of how someone with tons of guitar playing under their belt plays, he can strums all the strings and pick out just the one note he wants with each stroke. I found this one super hard.
This guy never knows what he's talking about
And yet I do it anyway. go figure
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp Lmao 🤣😂😅
And here you are, helping no one. At least he is trying, at least he is doing something. Maybe you really could learn a thing or two from him
Seriously, he is guy that doesn't know anything and music
I agree but he's right on this one. Listen to can't stop again. With live performances you can hear the muting clearer
Pronounced “Frushante” though lmao
Not like that either though cause it’s an Italian name… that’s how most Americans say it doesn’t mean it’s correct
You’re absolutely right
Tone is everything. It’s the notes on between that give croutonté his iconic sound.
So you never learned the intro to “Under the Bridge” or the verse? Lol “Can’t Stop” is cake comparatively speaking even if you play it right.
Under The Bridge is also one of their easiest songs imo. It's just basic arpeggios
@@yeasstt hmm what about the verse?
@@yeasstt I find most of my students struggle with the number of notes they are responsible for more than a simple muting technique and single note phrases. I’d say stairway to heaven is a basic arpeggio song. The added hammerons and melodic lines make under the Bridge at least a bit more complicated, IMO. Happy playing
It doesnt matter how the artist plays it, its all about what feels comfortable
That's the funk right there. I can totally hear the difference. That's why I love RHCP! So good.
I’m listening to it right now
I’ve seen the band live and John is a beast at the guitar, he’s one of my favourite guitarists of all time!! ✌️😙
I love RHCP!!
Thats how i play it too! i strum the whole thing and it just sounds soooooo good. The dull notes make it perfect
This video is sick asf 🔥🔥🔥
For me it has to be the longest wave riff, especially the last time Josh it plays in the song
Yeah, I’ve got Snow, I’ve got Can’t Stop, but the opening/closing riff of The Longest Wave is something I still struggle with. Klinghoffer plays it so clean, I have no idea how.
Well done!
This one is definitely tricky. Playing it live and singing the backup vocal lines over it during the verses took quite a bit of practice.
Yup it’s all in the right hand and that guitarist is talented
the speed of snow is just crazy
Love the brian may red special replica in the background
You are correct, sir.
That’s basically how he always plays. Strumming all the strings
Never thought anyone would connect rhcp and difficult songs...
I never noticed that, but now it's kind of makes sense. The first version sounds almost mechanical like a synthesizer. The second version with the strumming has a bit more funk.
There's a lot of work like this, think it's simple until you start listening properly or have access to the sheets then it changes completely.
Oh wow the way John plays it sounds so much better
He's a great guitar player and he was almost kicked out for good, but I'm glad they're all back together and going strong and doing well and their music is still better than ever.
Nice tone ❤
Stilll playing snow hey oh endurance playing that super fast riff that long and every note is ridiculously hard
Strum tip: always down after up (never consecutives ups or downs), mute if you don't want the strum to sound.
That sounds 1000 percent better
I love the BMG on the back wall
Criminally underrated song.
you're absolutely right, from my perspective too
Great point!
I think snow is still more difficult from a technical standpoint, but you're totally right about can't stop. It's way harder than it seems and most players don't play it the right way. Super hard to get it clean with the mutes but sounding good!
Facts. I use this all the time to help students with left hand muting. Once they can play it, it helps fix so many “noise” issues.
Yoo! Great job dude, sounding dope. You mentioned you're not fully happy with how you're playing it right now, to my ear you're missing a few elements so here you go!
First things first, the bass notes are being fretted slightly differently, the first E is correct, then the following D is being played as an open string and the E+A are being muted with the thumb which is why it sounds so slinky on the recording, following that the bass notes on the E are being held with the thumb over the top.
Secondly, the right hand should be hitting every single string every time, even the single low E notes, the attack is coming from a really loose wrist and arm coupled with gravity, instead of playing tightly in a box around the strings you wanna be coming up and down with the picking hand pretty much the entire width of the guitar body, so when you're downstroking gravity is taking part (It's waay easier to play this way if you're standing)
The last missing ingredient is when you do the ascending 7>9's every second one has an upstroke sitting in-between the two which really brings out the funk
Keep on rockin' 😄
I always thought the same. Snow is mainly endurance. Can't stop has more techniques that is incorporated into the song
That’s how I always played it because I learned it quite early when I was playing guitar and it felt easier to strum it than pick it.
I’ve struggled to get this right for years now. I’ve practiced and practiced hitting all the strings like John and still feel like it’s not right. I’m a perfectionist with stuff like that though. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
whoa, thats an easy way to add some complex tone to such a simple riff
Swing that whole arm and put some feel into it man !
John for Shante is one of them best guitar players ever.