Guitar Gear

…when you learn a new lick or technique?

After a week-long hiatus from playing, I picked up my Strat and started playing some warm-up licks. Ooo did it feel good!

After about half and hour, I put the guitar down, and went to YouTube.com to see if I could find any videos of John Frusciante. I’ve always admired his no-nonsense approach to the guitar, and wanted to learn some of the technique he uses to play those very cool licks on the Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.

Sure enough, I found some great instructional videos that John has produced. In particular, I found this great video where John explains some Hendrix technique that he learned:

After years of doing this halfway, now that I’ve seen how it’s done, I’m totally jazzed to practice it! For a pretty much pure rhythm guitarist like myself, learning how to add stuff to the things I’m playing is just incredible!