I know! My best guess is he just tuned by ear, hitting that perfect major third, instead of trusting a tuner like us mortals ;-)

Would it be so popular if it was tuned correctly. Who knows. Does this mean he plays live with the right tuning?

@@PaulDavids I absolutely tune by ear AFTER tuning with a tuner. Even though it says it's perfect pitch it never rings out right to me. I usually have to tune slightly down on higher note strings to get it to strum perfect. :)

@@PaulDavids haha right 😂👍

so cool :D

​@@formaiaguitar I don't get the impression from my comment that I thought he did ✌️

@@formaiaguitar but he was aware of it

@@leodivine Perfect response to nonsense.

@@leodivine as a matter of fact it might come across that way because of poor wording I guess

Rick Rubin watched it not frusciante. Still amazingly cool

crazy. but not that crazy. paul is one of the foremost guitar players/teachers/influencers on youtube. anyone on youtube who's ever searched anything about the guitar has to have come across one of his videos even if they didn't click on it - including some of the top recording guitarists ever

have you ever heard of the six degrees of separation?

@@360.Tapestry It's actually a bit surprising he said some guy and not Paul Davids, but I guess Rick's a busy guy who doesn't consume as much geet tube as us. Still quite a big ol SRV feather in his cap.

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​@John Frusciante John actually bent it in

Thats funny, of all the songs to tune to, you had to pick that one, too funny, thanks for posting.

Funny shizz

There are different temperaments for tuning that do sound more organic or maybe pleasant is the right word but since the equal temperament is pretty standard you sound out if you use them

And Rubins voice, and the reverence to a guy taking apart a guitar part, wow, so, uh, smile-inducing?

When ur work is recognized by ur idols, there’s no better feeling. Congrats Paul.

It must be a delight for Rick Rubin to watch Paul's videos 😊 😂

I calibrated the scale in my checkout lane to weigh by using what i thought was a 1 lb weight? But it was actually a 1 kilogram weight. I was basically giving everbody banana and apples at half price.

My son always does this when I play 😂 Problem is it sounds like crap cuz I usually use distortion 😅

@@4seiken-594 what are you on about, he's performing his famous avant-garde noise rock piece!

@@4seiken-594 thats cool man, you should encourage it! get him his own guitar and let him make some noise

@@Eralen00 I will when he's old enough, kid just turned 1 year old a month ago 🤣

I loved it!

Frusciante didn't 'de-tune' the guitar, he simply tuned it to make it sound good - 'cause he is in tune with his guitar (I'll show myself out).

It boils down to the guitar being an imperfect instrument - even when you tune the strings perfectly, when you start playing it, it will sometimes sound out of tune as opposed to a harp or piano - the solution to this is a True Temperament Guitar (the frets are not perfectly straight, - but squiggly) Paul has a video on that as well. Steve Vai as well.

@@someguy2744 Pianos have the same tuning problem because they’re also tuned to equal temperament (actually to be precise, they’re tuned with stretch tuning, where it gradually gets more sharp or more flat as you approach the ends of the keyboard). So, even on a piano this interval will not sound “perfect.” That said, guitars have that same problem plus another one: the fret spacing isn’t always perfect, so they end up with additional errors beyond what’s already there from equal temperament.

@@400_billion_suns I did not know that. Thank you for sharing.

@@400_billion_suns i thought strectch was the opposite of equal tempered

was gonna bring this up. i've had instructors get super anal about those intervals hittin exactly right😂😂😂

Justly intoned 5ths are 2 cents sharp, not a full 14. Twelve-tone equal temperament turns out to have fairly good fifths! Something I've noticed is that even when people tune by ear, major thirds aren't a full 14 cents, but something a bit less. I looked at spectrograms of some barbershop quartet recordings once, and on big in-tune chords the major thirds were more like 3-10 cents flat. One reason might be that being any flatter than 13.68 cents sounds worse than having thirds that are a bit sharper.

5ths should be 2 cents sharp, actually. 14c is too much. Not to be that guy, sorry.

how do you do it?

Ahhahah, that's what it was 😁

Same 😂

Came here to say this

Had to rewatch the video just because of this comment. 100% sounds like Wicked Game lol

That I believe it played by playing the B and dropping the whammy bar

Do you really think he would film his reaction before having seen Frusciante's reaction for the first time, so technically before he knew he had the intention for this vid? It's all click bait acting lol And if you believe he did, then you seem to be a person that buy's in willingly some fake stuff.

That's why I'd be psyched

But how did Frusciante immediately know it was Scar Tissue.

​@Some Guy cause his guitar tech told him about the video. In the podcast he says "yeah, my guitar tech told me about it recently"

@@xavierrhcp13 Thanks for telling me. I did not know that.

@Some Guy it's a really cool listennif you haven't checked out the episode. A few times, JF goes into his infamous cryptic stories about voices/spirits. Those were Rubins favorite parts, and so were mine. 😅

Copied Jimi and Hillel

@@Getyabootsoffskinny John Frusciante moved on from copying Hillel & found his own thing very quickly. He joined a band as an 18 year old & made it world famous by the time he was 21.

@@Jimbob-hp6ud this man has made headlines since the mid 80’s.. that far back you could open a book and know this.

@@Jimbob-hp6ud now you say??? 😂😂😂😂😂

what happened to river

AMOGUS???????

Frusciante's humongous :D

jon susciante

Yes. It's impossible to play intro "Running with the Devil" without slight alterations in tuning of 2nd and 3rd string.

Everybody including John knows this from VH

Yeah, but the Ramones did it before

@@patrickhook4424 Of course! They're graduates of Rock'n'Roll High School!

oh don't take this for guaranteed ;)

Real comment

@@reidjames4638 actually, one whole step is 200 cents and a half step is 100 cents. A quarter step (unplayable on guitar, only through bends), is 50 cents.

Depends on the guitar, a some guitars are hundreds of thousands of cents🙃

Honestly what likely happened is he tuned it by ear mid-recording. I play trombone, so I know these random tuning things cuz I have to *and* can feasibly act on them. It sounds more in-tune to a musician even if it’s technically flat in the 12-tone system.

This isn't really just rock. It's just equal tempermant is out of tune. And orchestra would just naturally play these notes at these ratios

You make a great point, I often feel like a D chord is slightly out of tune even tho the tuner says the strings are in tune. Of course intonation can be a bit tricky as well

That's not what he's saying. John played it "slightly out of tune". He didn't measure any cents flat. The bloke making the video measured that.