How to Improvise a guitar solo

When we want to improvise a solo on a piece of music, the first thing we need to know in what tone we're playing, it seems a silly thing but it is not at all, believe me. I saw and heard improvise ... alas, not knowing the slightest shade of the base on which to improvise!!!! Everything true!! If the piece is C major, I can use the C major scale, the pentatonic C major, also other, but now let's stop here!!!!!! The important thing to know is on what agreements we are playing, we have already harmonized arrangements that are formed on the C major scale (C major-D min E min-F maj-G maj A min-B dim) Example: if the piece sounds so : C maj-F Major G Major, a classic example of 1st-4th-5th of the scale as we can figure out which notes of the scale we have to use??. First we need to already know the blocks, the box, the positions of the scale of the whole handle of chitarra.This is crucial, because I can play a C in different positions on the handle, depending on the position the note passes from most severe to more acute, we choose us!!! The important thing to explain in the simplest way possible is that we landing on a note in the chord that is playing the base of the piece. In C major, I can leave with me or do or sol (the notes of the chord), when I switch F Major, I can not stay on or do or do (the notes of the chord), between an agreement and the other can multimillion on the scale, but when the solo falls on a chord change I have to respect the rule above. It is not as complicated as it sounds, try playing a known piece, what you want, and you will find that what I am saying is what they do the great guitarists Then everything else comes from the soul and feelings that one has, and then, everything is wonderful, and when it'll take you no more than you'd stop.

Come improvvisare un assolo di chitarra

Quando vogliamo improvvisare un assolo su un pezzo musicale,per prima cosa dobbiamo sapere in che Tonalità stiamo suonando, sembra una cosa stupida ma non lo è affatto, credetemi. Ho visto e sentito improvvisare ahimè..., senza sapere minimamente la tonalità della base sui cui improvvisare!!!!!!!!!!!!Tutto vero!!!! Se il pezzo è DO maggiore, posso utilizzare la scala di DO maggiore, la pentatonica di DO Maggiore, a anche altre, però adesso fermiamoci qui!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! La cosa importante da sapere è anche su quali accordi stiamo suonando, abbiamo già armonizzato gli accordi che si formano sulla scala di DO maggiore ( DO magg-REmin-MImin-FA magg-SOLmagg-LAmin-SIdim ) Esempio: se il pezzo suona cosi:DO magg-FA magg-SOL magg, un esempio classico 1°-4°-5°della scala come riusciamo a capire quali note della scala dobbiamo utilizzare???. Per prima cosa dobbiamo già conoscere i blocchi , i box, le posizioni della scala su tutto il manico della chitarra.Questo è fondamentale, perchè io posso suonare un DO in diverse posizioni sul manico, a seconda della posizione la nota passa da più grave a più acuta, lo scegliamo noi !!!!!!! La cosa importante per spiegarla nel modo più semplice possibile è che dobbiamo appogiarci su una nota dell'accordo che sta suonando la base del pezzo. Nel Do magg posso partire con do o mi o sol (le note dell'accordo), quando passo a FA magg,mi posso fermare sul fa o la o do (le note dell'accordo), tra un accordo e l'altro posso svariare sulla scala, ma quando l'assolo cade su un cambio di accordo devo rispettare la regola di cui sopra. Non è complicato come sembra, provate a suonare un pezzo conosciuto, quello che volete voi, e vi accorgerete che quello che vi sto dicendo è quello che fanno i grandi chitarristi Poi tutto il resto viene dall'anima e dalle sensazioni che uno ha,e alloraaaaaaaaaaa, tutto diventa meraviglioso, e quando la cosa ti prende non smetteresti più.



               

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Joe Perry - Steven Tyler The Aereosmith

During Joe Perry's early years he formed a band with Tom Hamilton called The Jam Band. Steven Tyler, Joe, Tom, Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer eventually joined and the band became Aerosmith. While initially dismissed as Rolling Stones knock-offs, the band came into its own during the mid-1970s with a string of hit records. Chief among these successes were Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976), thanks largely to the prevalence of free-form, album-oriented FM radio. The group also managed hit singles on the radio with songs like "Dream On", "Same Old Song and Dance", "Sweet Emotion", "Walk This Way", "Back in the Saddle", and "Last Child".
During this time, Perry and vocalist Steven Tyler became known as the "Toxic Twins" for their notorious hard-partying and drug use. Aerosmith's crowd earned the nickname "The Blue Army", so called by the band after the seemingly endless number of teenagers in the audience wearing blue denim jackets and blue jeans. The audience was abundantly male with long hair.
Following Rocks, the group began to stumble - drug use escalated and the creative process became hampered by strained relationships within the band. This was highlighted during the recording process for their next album, which was recorded at an abandoned convent in upstate New York. During their time there, Tyler and Perry would spend much of the time in their rooms, getting high, away from the rest of the band, and would often record their parts separately. The band, hampered by heavy drug use and distracted by hobbies such as driving fast cars on the nearby parkways and shooting high-powered firearms in the building's attic, struggled to come up with material. Draw the Line, released in 1977, became a hit nonetheless, going double platinum. However, it was not as successful as their prior efforts, with the singles "Draw the Line" and "Kings and Queens" both charting in the Hot 100, but failing to crack the Top 40. On the album, Perry sang lead vocals on the track "Bright Light Fright". The band toured throughout 1977 and 1978 in support of the album, but increasing violence at concerts (such as bottles, cherry bombs, M-80s, and firecrackers being thrown on-stage, including several notorious incidents at The Spectrum in Philadelphia) as well as the band's heavy drug use began to mar the performances. In 1978, Aerosmith released the live collection Live! Bootleg, released the stand-alone single "Chip Away the Stone", and starred as "The Future Villain Band" in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. For the film, the band released a cover of The Beatles' "Come Together", which would become the band's last Top 40 hit for nearly a decade.
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Eddie Van Halen

Nato ad Amsterdam visse a Nimega sino all'età di 7 anni. Si avvicina alla musica suonando il pianoforte e la batteria. Trova però la sua vera vocazione a 12 anni, iniziando a studiare la chitarra del fratello maggiore Alex. Al momento di formare il primo gruppo, in accordo con il fratello, Eddie passa definitivamente alla chitarra e Alex alla batteria. Il 3° fratello Stefan invece si destreggia come tecnico.

Emigrato nel 1962 con la sua famiglia a Pasadena, negli Stati Uniti, inizia a focalizzarsi sulla musica, esercitandosi assieme al fratello Alex. Entrambi crebbero musicalmente molto in fretta e sviluppano i propri stili studiando prevalentemente Rock, in particolar modo i brani dei Beatles e dei Led Zeppelin.

Nella metà degli anni settanta, i fratelli danno vita ai Van Halen, assieme all'estroso bassista Michael Anthony e all'istrionico cantante David Lee Roth.

La carriera dei Van Halen è caratterizzata da successo immediato e il quartetto sarà applaudito per le sue indiscusse doti musicali. Lo stile innovativo del chitarrismo di Eddie, così come il talento di showman e la presenza scenica di Roth, portano velocemente i Van Halen in cima alle classifiche mondiali.

Tra le canzoni emblematiche del suo stile è da citare Eruption, un brano strumentale per chitarra solista (con un intro di batteria) in cui dà sfoggio di tutti i suoi trucchi pirotecnici e del suo sound personalissimo, ma anche Jump (una delle hit più trasmesse negli anni ottanta) e You Really Got Me cover dei Kinks sono enormi successi. Nella band, egli suona dal disco 1984 anche le tastiere.

Una delle tecniche che lo resero popolare fu quella del tapping, che consiste nel suonare la chitarra con entrambe le mani sulla tastiera, il che permette di suonare intervalli inusualmente ampi per lo strumento e produce un suono molto particolare. Questa tecnica sembra che sia stata da lui "trovata" per caso mentre cercava di riprodurre l'assolo di Jimmy Page, uno dei suoi idoli, in Heartbreaker. 

Brian May The Queen

Brian May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born in Hampton, London and attended Hampton Grammar School (now Hampton School) During this time he formed his first band with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named 1984 after George Orwell's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ordinary Levels and three A-Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. He studied Mathematics and Physics at Imperial College London, graduating with a B.Sc. degree with honours.
Brian May formed the band Smile in 1968. The group included Tim Staffell as singer and bassist, and later, drummer Roger Taylor, who also went on to play for Queen. The band lasted for two years from 1968 to 1970, as Staffell left in 1970, leaving the band with a catalogue of nine songs. Smile would reunite for several songs on 22 December 1992. Taylor's band The Cross were headliners and he brought May and Staffell on to play "Earth" and "If I Were a Carpenter". May also performed several other songs that night.

Brian May has been referred to as a virtuoso guitarist by many publications and musicians. He has featured in various music polls of great rock guitarists, and in 2011 was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Former Van Halen vocalist Sammy Hagar stated, "I thought Queen were really innovative and made some great sounding records.. I like the rockin' stuff. I think Brian May has one of the great guitar tones on the planet, and I really, really love his guitar work." May mainly used the "Red Special", which he designed when he was only 16 years old. It was built with wood from an 18th century fireplace. His comments on the guitar:
"I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike."http://www.booking.com/index.html?aid=369041

Jeff Beck The Yardbirds

Geoffrey Arnold Beck was born on 24 June 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck at 206 Demesne Road, Wallington, England. As a ten-year-old Beck sang in a church choir. As a teenager he learned to play a borrowed guitar and made several attempts to build his own instrument, first by gluing and bolting together cigar boxes for the body and an unsanded fence-post for the neck with model aircraft control-lines and frets simply painted on. When fabricating a neck for his next try he attempted to use measurements for a bass guitar.
Beck has cited Les Paul as the first electric guitar player who impressed him. Beck has said that he first heard an electric guitar when he was six years old and heard Paul playing "How High the Moon" on the radio. He asked his mother what it was, and after she replied it was an electric guitar and was all tricks, he said, "That's for me". Cliff Gallup, lead guitarist with Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, was also an early musical influence, followed by B.B. King and Steve Cropper.
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Eric Clapton Slow Hand "God"

Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 7 January 1929 d. March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 – 15 May 1985), a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec. Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband, Jack Clapp, who was stepfather to Patricia Clapton and her brother Adrian, believing they were his parents and that his mother was actually his older sister. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton was the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather). Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany, leaving young Eric with his grandparents in Surrey.

Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently. Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practised long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records. He preserved his practice sessions using his portable Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder, listening to them over and over until he felt he'd got it right.

After leaving Hollyfield School, in Surbiton, in 1961, Clapton studied at the Kingston College of Art but was dismissed at the end of the academic year because his focus remained on music rather than art. His guitar playing was so advanced that by the age of 16 he was getting noticed. Around this time Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond, and the West End. In 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in pubs around Surrey. When he was seventeen years old Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B group, "The Roosters", whose other guitarist was Tom McGuinness. He stayed with this band from January through August 1963. In October of that year, Clapton did a seven-gig stint with Casey Jones & The Engineers.

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Power Chords o Accordi di 5°

Nella musica rock sono usati sempre e solo Power Chord. In tutti i pezzi musicali rock o altro (musica leggera, e in generale in tutta la musica) con un buon power chord (mi raccomando le ultime 3 corde belle grosse , perché sono quelle che usiamo )risolviamo tutti i problemi di accordi. Tutti i maggiori riff della storia della musica sono costruiti con power chord TUTTI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Da Clapton, AcDc, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Fino alla nostra formidabile musica Rock italiana(vedi Ligabue, il grande Vasco, ma diciamo tutti , utilizzano questo accordo di 5°, per la semplice ragione che è solo un accordo di 5°. Cosa vuole dire accordi di 5°??? Significa semplicemente che se io devo suonare un SOL Maggiore o un SOL Minore con un Power Chord di SOL risolvo il problema. Questo perché, qualcuno si ricorderà perché ne abbiamo già parlato, in un accordo è sempre la 3° nota che determina il modo maggiore o minore dell'accordo.La terza nota di SOL maggiore è SI, mentre il SOL minore ha il SIb. Il power chord di SOL5° ha SOL sulla 1° corda, RE sulla seconda, e SOL sulla terza .Partiamo dall'alto ,dalle corde più grosse. Usiamo l'indice e i mignolo, è più figo!!!!
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Accordatura in SOL o G Tune

Oggi parliamo di una accordatura molta diffusa fra i chitarristi anche famosi (vedi Keith Richards)
Prima di tutto, volevo anche spiegarvi , cosa molto importante per chi segue tablature o spartiti internazionali, le sigle degli accordi in inglese.
Il Do è C, Il Re è D, il Mi è E, il Fa è F, il Sol è G, il La è A, il Si è B.Quindi in inglese un Do maggiore diesis è Cmaj #, ma gli americani dicono D flat ( Re bemolle) che è la stessa nota

L'accordatura aperta  G Tune (Sol) è molto usata perchè puoi fare dei Riff fantastici usando posizioni semplici.
Tantissime canzoni dei Rolling Stones , e in particolare Keith Richards, sono state composte utilizzando l'accordatura aperta in Sol.
L'accordatura in G Tune prevede che il Mi basso diventi Re, basta allentare la chiavetta di 1 tono, il La diventa Sol,devi sempre calare di 1 tono, il Re rimane , il Sol rimane così il Si anche , e infine il Mi cantino va portato a Re.
In questo modo se suoni tutte le corde insieme avrai l'accordo di Sol maggiore (SOL-SI-RE).
In questo modo e con questa accordatura è molto più semplice suonare accordi aperti.
Non ti azzardare a fare assoli con questa accordatura perchè le scale sono completamente spostate dai tuoi box normali.
Un caro saluto e buona musica



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Come si può accordare la chitarra Accordatura standard

Prima di iniziare farei una premessa  importante forse non così importante per chi è alle prime armi o per chi ha iniziato da poco a suonare la chitarra.
La chitarra ha 6 corde, e partendo da quella più sottile che si chiama Mi 1° corda (o Mi cantino), avremo dopo la 2° corda che si chiama Si, poi la 3° Sol, la 4° Re, la 5° La, la sesta Mi basso.
I numeri hanno poca importanza , l'importante è capire il concetto.
Le corde crescono di spessore dalla più sottile Mi cantino fino a salire di diametro al Mi basso.
In un' accordatura 0,10 avremo la più sottile 0,10 il Si 0,13 il Sol 0,15 e via così fino al Mi basso che solitamente è o 0,42 o 0,44.
Ogni chitarrista usa una sua scalatura di corde che preferisce rispetto a altre.
Quindi suonando queste corde a vuoto (senza mettere nessun dito sulla tastiera) avremo le note di cui sopra.
Capiterà che quando leggerai un pentagramma (la musica scritta su fogli musicali con 6 righe e 6 spazi ), la nota più acuta (Mi cantino) sarà indicata nella parte più alta del pentagramma, proprio perchè più acuta.
Solitamente per accordare si parte sempre dalla corda a vuoto La , la penultima in alto, quella sotto il Mi basso.
Poi con una tecnica particolare si accorda tutto il resto.
Provo a spiegartela anche se all'inizio ti risulterà tutto un pò difficile da capire.(non preoccuparti, all'inizio è sempre così )
Quando sei sicuro di avere trovato la nota La sulla 5° corda a vuoto(all'inizio puoi usare  il diapason), dovrai cercare il Re sulla corda del La (è il quinto Tasto sulla tastiera), e così fino a arrivare al Mi cantino
Per adesso penso che basti così
Buona musica

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Доди Батталья Пух Dodi Battaglia The Pooh

Здесь мы говорим о величайшим гитаристом в мире известный итальянский.
Это 'большой любитель слоя, из которых есть также модели, имеющих право на Доди Батталья.
Его соло шокируют и заставляют вас летать высоко, обладает врожденным талантом и уникальным.
Тянет очень длинные ноты и имеет все своим особым способом с помощью рычага на Strato.Credo-Пуха есть что свою гитару и Доди Батталья, безусловно, самый мелодичный и художественного итальянская группа.
Я никогда не видел его в живых и не отрицаю, что я хотел бы присутствовать на концерте, только слушать Доди.
Пух группа, которая приняла его во всем мире имя и престиж Италии с честью и
с предельным уважением.
Что сказать, это отличный гитарист, и я рад, что это итальянская и это наша область "Эмилия-Романья, которая дала много художников и музыку из международных и всемирных

Slash el grupo Guns N' Roses

En junio de 1985, raya vertical fue preguntado por Axl Rose e Izzy Stradlin para unirse a las armas de nueva creación "N 'Roses. Duff McKagan y Steven Adler completaron el line-up. Jugaron discotecas, como el Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy y The Troubadour-y abrió los actos más grandes de todo 1985 y 1986. Fue durante este período que la banda escribió la mayor parte de su material clásico, como "Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child o Mine", "y" Paradise City ", como resultado de su comportamiento pendenciero y rebelde, Guns N 'Roses recibió rápidamente el apodo de" la banda más peligrosa del mundo ", haciendo raya vertical a comentar:" Por alguna extraña razón, Guns N' Roses es como el catalizador para la controversia, incluso antes de que tuviéramos ningún tipo de contrato discográfico ".  Después de ser explorado por varios sellos discográficos, la banda firmó con Geffen Records en marzo de 1986. Ese mismo año, comenzaron la grabación de su álbum debut, pero inicialmente no se logró como raya vertical se había desarrollado un problema de drogas.  En julio de 1987, Guns N 'Roses lanzó su álbum debut, Appetite for Destruction, que hasta la fecha ha vendido más de 28 millones de copias en todo el mundo , 18 millones de los cuales fueron vendidos en los Estados Unidos, convirtiéndose en el álbum debut más vendido de todos los tiempos en los EE.UU.  En el verano de 1988, la banda logró su única EE.UU. N º 1 hit con "Sweet Child o Mine", "una canción encabezada por riff de guitarra de Slash y solitario. En noviembre de ese año, Guns N 'Roses liberados GN' R Lies, que vendió más de cinco millones de copias sólo en los EE.UU. , a pesar de contener sólo ocho canciones, cuatro de los cuales fueron incluidos en la publicada previamente EP Live?! * @ Like a Suicide. A medida que su éxito creció, también lo hicieron las tensiones interpersonales dentro de la banda. En 1989, durante una presentación como teloneros de los Rolling Stones, Axl Rose amenazó con abandonar el grupo si algunos miembros de la banda no se detuvo "bailando con Mr. Brownstone",  una referencia a su canción del mismo nombre sobre el uso de la heroína. Raya vertical fue de los que se comprometió a limpiar  Sin embargo, al año siguiente, Steven Adler fue despedido de la banda debido a su adicción a la heroína,. Fue reemplazado por Matt Sorum de The Cult. En mayo de 1991, la banda se embarcó en la dos-y-uno-mitad-año de uso Your Illusion Tour. El próximo mes de septiembre, Guns N 'Roses publicó los álbumes largamente esperadas Use Your Illusion I y Use Your Illusion II, que debutó en el N º 2 y N º 1, respectivamente, en la tabla de EE.UU., una hazaña no lograda por ningún otro grupo .  Izzy Stradlin abruptamente dejó la banda en noviembre, que fue sustituido por Gilby Clarke de Candy y muertes por la emoción. Raya vertical jugó su último concierto con Guns N 'Roses, el 17 de julio de 1993.  En noviembre de ese año, la banda lanzó "The Spaghetti Incident?", Un álbum de covers de canciones sobre todo del punk, que resultó menos éxito que sus predecesores . Raya vertical y luego escribió varias canciones para lo que se han convertido en el siguiente álbum de la Use Your Illusion gemelos. Axl Rose, sin embargo, rechazó el material. Después de tres años de inactividad, el corte anunció en octubre de 1996 que ya no era parte de Guns N 'Roses.  En su autobiografía de 2007, de Slash afirma que su decisión de abandonar la banda no se basa, como se cree ampliamente, en diferencias artísticas con Axl Rose, pero en las siguientes tres razones: la falta de respeto mostrada por Rose a sus audiencias y la tripulación haciendo que la banda para tomar casi siempre la última etapa en el Use Your Illusion Tour, la manipulación legal que Rose forzados en su grupo compañeros exigiendo la propiedad del nombre de la banda y la desactualización contractualmente a jornaleros,. y las salidas de Steven Adler e Izzy Stradlin




                

ロベン・フォード Robben Ford

バイオグラフィ[編集] カリフォルニア州ウッドレイクに生まれ、ウキアで育つ。10歳の時サックスを始め、13歳の時にギターを手にした。彼の兄弟マーク（マウスハープ）、パトリック（ドラム）と、父を讃えチャールズ・フォード・ブルース・バンドの名で活動し始めた。 18歳の時にバンドはチャーリー・マッセルホワイトのギグを得てプロの活躍をし始める。The Charles Ford BandとDiscovering the Bluesの2つのアルバムも録音した。その後はジミー・ウィザースプーンやトム・スコットのL.A.エクスプレスに参加。トムから離れた後、The Inside Storyを収録する。このアルバムに参加したバックミュージシャン達は後にイエロージャケッツを結成、フォードも初期のレコーディングに参加している。 1986年には一時的にマイルス・デイヴィスとも共演する。1988年には彼のブルースのルーツに還ったアルバム、Talk to Your Daughterを発表。 以後も精力的に活動。共通したブルースフィーリングを持つ、ラリー・カールトンとも共演。2006年には彼と共に来日公演をした。

Фрушанте, Джон John Frusciante RHCP

Фрушанте впервые присутствовал на выступлении Red Hot Chili Peppers в пятнадцать лет, и он быстро стал преданным поклонником. Он боготворил тогдашнего гитариста Хиллела Словака и быстро ознакомился практически со всеми партиями гитары и баса из первых трех альбомов Chili Peppers. Он познакомился со Словаком и после того, как Словак спросил о будущем присоединении Джона, он ответил: «Нет. Я могу погубить дело. Здорово смотреть за группой: аудитория чувствует музыку, ничем не отличается, все как единое целое. В воздухе царила историческая атмосфера, ничто не разочаровывало, звук проходил через аудиторию, когда все прыгают и не возможно усидеть в кресле. Я даже не мог смотреть шоу. Это был волнительный момент, потому что я хотел всё время что то сделать, сломать или перервернуть. Я действительно чувствовал себя частью группы, и все люди в зале тоже были как одно целое.»
Фрушанте подружился с бывшим барабанщиком Дэд Кэннэдиз DH Peligro в начале 1988 года. Они часто зависали вместе, и Peligro пригласил своего друга Фли (басиста Red Hot Chili Peppers) присоединиться. Фрушанте и Фли быстро записали музыкальные партии, Фли позже признается, что, возможно, был день, когда он впервые сыграл рифф на басу «Nobody Weird Like Me». Примерно в то же время, Фрушанте должен был быть на прослушивании для группы Фрэнка Заппы, но изменил свое мнение, так как Заппа строго запрещал незаконное употребление наркотиков в группе. Фрушанте сказал: «Я понял, что я хотел быть рок-звездой, принимать наркотики и получить девочек, и что я не смог бы этого сделать, если бы был в группе Заппы».
Словак умер от передозировки героина в 1988 году, и барабанщик Red Hot Chili Peppers Джек Айронс, не в состоянии справиться со смертью Словака, покинул группу. Оставшиеся Фли и вокалист Энтони Кидис перегруппировались и решили продолжать. Peligro был на барабанах, а DeWayne «Blackbyrd» Мак-Найт, бывший P-Funk, на гитаре. Макнайту, однако, не удалось подключиться музыкально внутри группы. И тогда Фли предложил прослушивание Фрушанте, чьи глубокие знания репертуара Chili Peppers удивили его. Фли и Кидис прослушивали его и решили, что он будет подходящей заменой для Макнайта, который был незамедлительно уволен. Когда Фли сказал Фрушанте о его принятии в Chili Peppers, Фрушанте был в восторге: он бежал через его дом, кричал от радости, прыгнул на стену. Он был в разгаре подписания контракта с Thelonious и, фактически, играл с нарушением закона в течение двух недель, но его непредвиденные прием в Chili Peppers побудило его изменить свои планы.
Тем не менее, Фрушанте не был знаком с фанком, звучанием Red Hot Chili Peppers: «Я не был фанк-музыкантом, прежде чем я присоединился к группе, я узнал все, что нужно знать о том, как хорошо звучали Фли и Хилел.» Через несколько недель из группы за употрбление наркотиков и пониженного интереса к группе был уволен барабанщик Peligro. Вскоре после этого, Чад Смит был принят в качестве нового барабанщика группы и в новом составе группа приступила к записи своего первого альбома Mother's Milk в 1989 году. Фрушанте сосредоточился на воспроизведении фирменного стиля Словака, а не навязывать свой собственный стиль группе. Продюсер Майкл Бинхорн был не согласен, и хотел чтобы Фрушанте играл с нехарактерной нотой тяжелого металла. Фрушанте и Бинхорн постоянно спорили насчёт звучания гитары, и идея Бинхорна в конечном счете взяла верх, Фрушанте постоянно чувствовал давление со стороны студии. Кидис вспоминает: «Бинхорн хотел, чтобы Джон делал то, что ему говорят, и получался почти металлически звучащий гитарный звук. Прежде мы всегда звучали интересно — получался кислотный-рок, а также более облегающий, сексуальный фанк-рок»^[6].