Nick Raskulinecz reveals the Foo Fighters frontman’s astonishing guitar skills and how his background as a drummer shapes his unique songwriting style
The producer Nick Raskulineczresponsible for the albums One by one (2002) e In your honor (2005) by Foo Fighters, revealed in an interview with the musician and producer Rick Beato who was impressed by the technical quality of Dave Grohl on guitar. Second Raskulineczmost of the guitars recorded on the band’s albums are played by the band themselves GrohlWhile Chris Shiftett adds solos and complementary details.
Raskulinecz he knew it Grohl when I worked as a technical assistant at Sound city studiesin Los Angeles, studio where Grohl had recorded with Nirvana. The friendship between the two was consolidated due to their similar origins, Grohl grew up in Virginia and Raskulinecz in Tennessee, in addition to their shared musical interests. The opportunity to produce the Foo Fighters emerged when Grohl he was looking for someone to record an album in the studio he had built in the basement of his home in Virginia, a project rejected by other established producers.
The manufacturer described Grohl as an extremely precise guitarist and stressed that he had no idea of the musician’s technical level before the first recording sessions. Collaboration with Grohl it represented a turning point in the career of Raskulineczwho later worked with Rush, Alice in Chains, Ghost, Deftones, Evanescent, Halestorm and Mastodon.
Dave Grohl He has a particular approach to the guitar, directly influenced by his experience as a drummer. In a 2010 interview with the magazine Guitarist (go Lontano magazine), Grohl He explained that he sees the guitar as a drum kit, where the low E string functions like a bass drum, the A and D strings like a snare drum, and the high strings like cymbals. This perspective guides his riff writing and song structuring.
The musician also applies the concepts of drum dynamics to the guitar. In conversation with the documentary maker Sam Jones on the canal Off camera From YouTube, Grohl He described how he sets the tempo on the hi-hat or ride during the verses and expands the sound with the cymbals in the choruses, a technique he replicates on the guitar through suspended notes on the high strings. Grohl he stated that this method was developed in a self-taught manner, without formal instruction.
Born in Warren, Ohio, on January 14, 1969, David Eric Grohl is a self-taught musician whose initial influences were drums Neil Peart From Rush AND John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. He began his professional career in the 1980s as a drummer for the punk rock band Cry. In 1990, after the departure of Chad Channingwas presented to the Nirvana Put Buzz Osborne of the Melvins and was part of the band until its end in 1994.
After the death of Kurt Cobain, Grohl he recorded his first album alone Foo Fighters as a therapeutic process. The band later acquired more members and achieved worldwide popularity. Grohl he also participated in side projects playing drums with Queens of the Stone Age and Tenacious D, as well as forming Probot and Them Crooked Vultures alongside Josh Homme and John Paul Jones Led Zeppelin.
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