John Frusciante Style Lesson

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   Hi GMC! Today we will talk about the great guitar player and composer John Frusciante. What to say… He has recorded lots of great song and solos with his band Red Hot Chili Pepers. When I listen to his solos I have the same feeling than when I listen to Slash (GNR era) solos. I think that he choose the best notes at every moment. He has not a incredible technique but he creates beautiful melodies in every solo, and for me, this is the most important thing. I don’t care if you play millions of notes in a second or one note, I just want to hear beautiful music.
When Californication album was realised I learnt all the guitar parts and solos and I discovered that John has an interesting way to create melodies. Every time that he begins a phrase he does it with a chord note (of the backing track) and he ends it also with a chord note. This means that most of the time he is playing arpeggios (chord notes) when he is soloing.
I composed this solo inspired in Frusciante using some of his most used licks and style of bending.

Chord Progression:
Am – F – Am – G – Am – G – Am – G – D F – C G – Am – F – Am – F – D F – C G –

Tempo: 100 bpm

Enjoy!



     Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments



Amarok
post 2nd June 2007


Member


Great Lesson Gabriel, thats much better than the shredd stuff!
Ryan
post 2nd June 2007


Member


Very nice
The Uncreator
post 2nd June 2007


Fire Up The Blades, Moderator


Great lesson with some awesome melody, never been to much into Frusciante, but now that i hear this, ill look into him more
lefthandman
post 2nd June 2007


Member


awesome lesson Gabriel! RHCP is one of my favorite bands and Frusciante is one of my favorite guitarists
Layzer
post 2nd June 2007


Member


Hi Gabriel....great lesson....do you like his solo work more than RHCP?
David OToole
post 2nd June 2007


Instructor


That sounds great Gabriel - sweet. Very Chili's! David
Norven
post 2nd June 2007


Member


I got emetions from this solo, Great Work!!
stratman33
post 2nd June 2007


Member


that sounded exactly like him. as usual, great job Gabe.
ace_frehely
post 2nd June 2007


Member


nice, now i can play it to my girlfriend. just kinning.
JVM
post 3rd June 2007


Member


Yeah that definitely sounded exactly like a frusciante solo! I'll be learning this one, thanks gabe.
Gustavo
post 3rd June 2007


Member


gracias gabi
jaja
siempre vienen bien diferetens estilos biggrin.gif
Gustavo
post 3rd June 2007


Member


es parecido a la de califorication o me parece?
JVM
post 3rd June 2007


Member


pareció ser algo semejante a Scar Tissue a mí, Gustavo... tan si, californiacation
Gabriel Leopardi
post 3rd June 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


Thank you guys!!! I'm happy to read your nice words about this lesson!

Hi Layzer: RHCP is also great. I could talk hours about RHCP songs, jams and Flea's bass lines. But this lesson is a guitar lesson about John Frusciante.

Gustavo: Gracias por el comentario! El solo esta obviamente inspirado en ese tema y en otros de ese mismo disco. Tiene para mi los mejores solos que compuso en su carrera.
Eat-Sleep-andJam
post 3rd June 2007


Member


i love you tongue.gif

thanks alot- john
beebo
post 3rd June 2007


Member


congrats!
bmh1109
post 3rd June 2007


Member


great lesson yet again! this is just what i needed.

on a side note thanks for starting to include the extended versions of the backing tracks, its really helpful and fun to play the solo once though then improvise around after it.
Layzer
post 3rd June 2007


Member


he has a few solo albums....im sure you have checked them out....if you havent i suggest you do!!!
Gabriel Leopardi
post 4th June 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


Thanks Layzer! I will listen this albums. I have listened to one of them a time ago and I remember it as a rare album.
Fanman
post 5th June 2007


Member


john's solo stuff is really somethign sweet. anyone who likes this solo a lot im sure would really enjoy and benefit from his solo albums, good music. He has four that i know of: curtains, shadows collide with people, the will to death, and to record on only water for ten days. To record on only water for ten days is in my opinion his best one, if youve heard any of his stuff odds are theyre his more well known stuff and from that album but theyre all great, check em out!
JVM
post 5th June 2007


Member


Yeah, I have water, inside of emptiness (you missed that one!) and shadows collide with people. Pretty good. John is actually a very good singer, perhaps better than kiedis, but kiedis's style works much better for the chili peppers. But you probably already knew that if you've heard any of their live stuff, john has quite a voice.
Gabriel Leopardi
post 5th June 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


Yes! I will try to get some of his cds! I think that he makes amazing backing vocals in RHCP so he could be a very good singer.
Thanks guys!

JVM: Who is the guitar player in your picture? Is he the green day's singer?
lliber
post 5th June 2007


Member


really enjoying this and it is great to have the chord progressions to strum along to it is really helping me to get my rythm something like... more of this please
steve
Josiah
post 6th June 2007


Member


FANTASTIC!
Gabriel, more lessons like this one, please!
sillyman
post 6th June 2007


Member


hey gabriel havnt looked into the lesson yet but judging by the first video its gna be great. Is there any particular method or setting u use to get such a similar tone to frusciante
Gabriel Leopardi
post 7th June 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


sillyman: You can find the secrets inside this lesson. There are a lot of things.. the same kind of licks, the scale choices, the chord progression, the techniques (vibrato & bending) and the feeling. The sound settings are simple. Gibson les paul (frettboard pick up) + clean channel of my marshall amp.
Gabriel Leopardi
post 8th June 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


hey... I forgot to tell you one thing... great pic sillyman!!
sillyman
post 10th June 2007


Member


thanx man chacking it out now
sillyman
post 10th June 2007


Member


wat does da (12) in no. three mean
Gabriel Leopardi
post 10th June 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


It means that when you bend in 10th fret you have to reach the pitch of 12th fret.
Lurgen
post 11th June 2007


Member


Nothing quite beats the feeling of cruising through the entire piece to the backing track without missing a note for the first time.

Great work Gabriel, this lesson just made my day smile.gif
julz_122
post 15th June 2007


Member


hey dude thanks finally ive been waiting so long for this lesson great job biggrin.gif
Ibanex
post 23rd June 2007


Member


How could I oversee this lesson for such a long time. Great Lesson.
Gabriel Leopardi
post 25th June 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


jeje.. it could happen. Thanks!
lilrocker
post 29th June 2007


Member


Amazing solo , has great feeling.
shroom
post 8th July 2007


Member


Thanks for this lesson, been waiting for a JF lesson for ages smile.gif it's really appreciated. Feel free to flood me with more anytime you want and I'll praise you
PacmanProductions
post 14th July 2007


Member


love it...hope u make alot more of "Frusciante-like" solos...oh, and how can i listen to some of Cirse's songs??
PacmanProductions
post 14th July 2007


Member


lol..just learned it in 15 mins...smile.gif
Gabriel Leopardi
post 15th July 2007


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


Yeah!! it's very easy! John plays easy and amazing stuff all the time. You can listen to some Cirse's songs in http://www.purevolume.com/cirse
Jakub Luptovec
post 16th July 2007


Member


Great lesson, my first here on GMC... spent whole day doing this - in 30 mins a have learned it almost whole... rest of day I spent by learning end of part 5 and my hands still wont obey my mind:) Anyways.. great lesson for begginers to have smt to show off:)
Phoenix
PacmanProductions
post 16th July 2007


Member


THANKS GABRIEL!
Travelin' Man
post 18th July 2007


Member


Sounds like how I play when Im practicing my scales...slow and methodic so I am hitting the right notes
RedBuell
post 10th August 2007


Member


Okee this is sweet, i'm a sort of new beginner and here to learn and start of right.

I've been breaking my head about the backing tracks. Chords progression as descibed is Am-F-G-Am-G but if i play along with the backing i play Am-F-Am-F-Am-F it seems to sound better in line with the backing then the Am-G what is describebd in the chord progression or do i have terrible ears....
Mack9658
post 19th August 2007


Member


GREAT LESSON GABE! MY FIRST ONE ON GMC, WELL PLANNED OUT AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND, IT ONLY TOOK ME 40 MINS TO LEARN AND I HAVENT BEEN PLAYING LONG, NICE ONE!!!
Unleash-The-Shred
post 25th August 2007


Member


What settingson your amp did you use to get that tone?
NightFlight
post 1st September 2007


Member


Hi Gabriel! I'm a new member here. Excellent work on the lesson. Nicely done! This is great practice for tone and vibrato. I was playing this with the "Spacy Clean" patch on my GT-6 (adds a little delay, chorus, and reverb). Combine that with the fretboard humbucker on a Les Paul and you can lose yourself in this jam for hours. Again, very nicely done. Looking forward to seeing more of your lessons.
Elios88
post 2nd September 2007


Member


much beautiful one! excused, the guitar for tab is mistaken… is possible? excused my English but I have used a translator…
Proph
post 3rd September 2007


Member


Nice Lesson but i think it isnt just 2 of 10 =D
SRV_is_GOD
post 8th September 2007


Member


Hi-

I really like this lesson and the style of playing. I am not hearing the G shown in the tab when you play the song in the vid. I can hear the Am, the F, the D and the C, but the first section sounds like it alternates between Am and F and the G doesn't sound right when I add it in. Can you elaborate?
SnakeEyes21
post 8th September 2007


Member


Just wanted to say wow this is an incredible lesson as a begginer I thought this would be impossible but you did a great job teaching it thank you very much for remotivating me into a world I didn't think I was good enough to explore.
Nicholas
post 26th September 2007


Member


I really like this lesson, it's the first one I've attempted.
Just one question, Gabriel - when you perform vibrato, what is it exactly that you do with your fingers?
For eg. when performing vibrato on the B string with the middle finger, at the same time you seem to place the other two fingers on the strings D and G.
Can you pls clarify?
Thks!
Loki
post 29th September 2007


Member


This is a totally awesome piece Gabriel! I was suprised how quickly I could learn such an amazing song! I have to work on my string bending tho... I sometimes just cheat and slide haha (works too tongue.gif)

As a beginner, I thank you whole heartedly for releasing such a friendly and wonderful lesson. It has made me seriously realize that "advanced" technique is secondary to good taste and knowledge of the basics. I'm going to focus hard on my theory from here.
blackjack
post 3rd October 2007


Member


outstanding as always gabriel.
maes
post 12th October 2007


Member


it's easy and fun to learn how to play. very nice sound! thanks.
maes
post 12th October 2007


Member


hey gabriel, also what settings did you use on your amp to get that tone?
Ben N
post 14th October 2007


Instructor


very nice.it has alot of feel
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NiTROXiDE
post 15th October 2007


Member


perfect lesson... sounds good smile.gif
francesco
post 17th October 2007


Member


wonderfull and very easy to learn ,
great Gabriel !!!
moez507
post 21st October 2007


Member


hi everyone!! i am a newcomer at GMC .I have been learning and playing the guitar for 7 months now. I think GMC is a great place to be!! This is my first lesson here and it is awesome! Thanks a lot Gabriel for the superb work!However I need some help...what is the meaning of these terms:

| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| b bend
| rb reverse bend
| mb micro bend

i know them vaguely but i want to be sure

or can someone guide me to a lesson on this website that will help me learn these techniques?? :-) thanks in advance
moez507
post 21st October 2007


Member


hi again

how can i listen to the backing tracks...whenever i click on the link next to the video display i arrive at the very first video of the lesson...
maes
post 28th October 2007


Member


welcome moez507, try going to the 101 lessons. there might be some stuff there.
Constie
post 3rd November 2007


Member


Thanks. I like melodic solos much better than shredding, this one is awesome!! wink.gif
moez507
post 6th November 2007


Member


thanks maes :-)
steelavenger
post 11th November 2007


Member


Hi. I had trouble interpreting the chords shown for this lesson. Listening to the backing track I'm sure it is Am F Am F Am F Am F then D F C G and back to Am F etc again. I hope that helps anyone.

Beautiful lesson Gabriel. Thanks!
Luft
post 8th December 2007


Member


Great lesson, well explained and a nice scale to improvise with the backing track. Im new here and Gabriel lessons were important for me to join the site. Nice job Gabriel smile.gif tx!
Joey van den bosch
post 9th December 2007


Member


I love it, thank you.
Tomy Jeon
post 24th December 2007


Member


You're guitar tone is so good.
suneg
post 21st January 2008


Member


Fantastic. I just managed to play my first improvised guitar solo using the licks you showed, along with stuff I just came up with along the way! Now I know why I spent time on Kristoffers Scales lesson :-)
aleando
post 23rd January 2008


Member


Great lesson. Simple yet effective!!
Danilo Capezzuto
post 25th February 2008


Instructor


Really good lesson.