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Watch Vulpeck's Joe Dart break down Flea and Victor Wooten's slap bass technique
How Will Smith brought back, er, slap: "The two main slap basslines of our generation were Will Smith samples..."
John Frusciante gets struck with cramp, forcing him to stretch his fretting fingers in the middle of a blistering live solo
The 53-year-old succumbed to cramp despite having one of the most intense warm-up routines around, which includes plenty of finger strengthening and a Sous Vide cooking machine
John Frusciante says this YouTuber’s mindblowing theory on the secret to his Scar Tissue sound is... dead on
The Red Hot Chili Peppers man says Paul Davids’ idea about his Scar Tissue tuning is absolutely right – he just didn’t know he’d done it
Why Flea’s bass track had to be fixed in the mix on Alanis Morissette's hit record
Mix Engineer Chris Fogel: “Flea was way out of time on You Oughta Know”
Watch a 17-year-old John Frusciante shred like a hair-metal guitar hero in newly unearthed footage
One year before he joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frusciante could be found tearing up the fretboard of a Kramer-inspired SuperStrat with two-hand tapping, blinding legato and Floyd Rose whammy bar squeals
John Frusciante says he views bass as the lead instrument in Red Hot Chili Peppers: “I see each song as being like a bass solo where I'm there to support it”
Frusciante and the band have been discussing their connection in a rare full-band interview on 60 Minutes
Jane’s Addiction tap Josh Klinghoffer to fill in for Dave Navarro on upcoming live shows
The former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist will join the fold for a handful of shows this March as Navarro continues to recover from long Covid
We finally have a good look at John Frusciante’s gigantic new Red Hot Chili Peppers pedalboard
A newly posted photo gives us a closer look at the guitar hero’s all-encompassing pedal picks and choice settings
The best guitar albums of 2022
As voted by you, these are the records that blew minds and inspired guitarists the world over
From cosmic collaborations to blistering, chug-powered breakdowns: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
Kick off December with a bang with invigorating new songs from Metallica, Donovan & David Gilmour, Band-Maid, Leap, Jack Gardiner, Bury Tomorrow, Subsonic Eye, Miniature Tigers, and more
