Dave Grohl’s great talent that many don’t notice, according to producer

The producer Nick Raskulineczresponsible for the albums One by One (2002) and In Your Honor (2005) from Foo Fightersrevealed in an interview with the musician and producer Rick Beato who was impressed with the technical quality of Dave Grohl on guitar. Second Raskulineczmost of the guitars recorded on the band’s albums are played by the band himself Grohlwhile Chris Shiflett adds solos and complementary details.

Raskulinecz he knew Grohl when I worked as an engineering assistant at Sound City Studiosin Los Angeles, studio where Grohl had recorded with the Nirvana. The friendship between the two was consolidated due to similar origins, Grohl grew up in Virginia and Raskulinecz in Tennessee, in addition to common 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 producer described Grohl as an extremely precise guitarist and highlighted that he had no idea of ​​the musician’s technical level before the first recording sessions. Collaboration with Grohl represented a turning point in the career of Raskulineczwho later worked with Rush, Alice in Chains, Ghost, Deftones, Evanescence, Halestorm and Mastodon.

Dave Grohl He has a particular approach to guitar, directly influenced by his experience as a drummer. In a 2010 interview with the magazine Guitarist (via Far Out Magazine), Grohl He explained that he sees the guitar as a drum kit, where the low E string works as a bass drum, the A and D strings as a snare and the high strings as cymbals. This perspective guides his riff writing and song structuring.

The musician also applies concepts of drum dynamics to the guitar. In conversation with the documentary filmmaker Sam Jones on the channel Off-Camera of YouTube, Grohl He described how he sets time on the hi-hat or ride during verses and expands the sound with cymbals in the choruses, a technique he replicates on the guitar through suspended notes on the high strings. Grohl stated that this method was developed in a self-taught way, 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 of Rush and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. He began his professional career in the 1980s as a drummer for the punk rock band Scream. In 1990, after the departure of Chad Channingwas presented to the Nirvana put Buzz Osborne of Melvins and was part of the band until its end in 1994.

After the death of Kurt Cobain, Grohl recorded his first album alone Foo Fighters as a therapeutic process. The band later gained other members and achieved worldwide popularity. Grohl also participated in side projects playing drums with Queens of the Stone Age and Tenacious Din addition to forming the Probot and the Them Crooked Vultures next to Josh Homme and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.

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