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John Frusciante Returns, Part 4

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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How Do You Create Chord Progressions From Scratch?

I was just playing along with the Beatles a lot and learning all their songs. It's almost like I started seeing chords as harmonies rather than chord progressions per se. And I'm starting to do interesting what's called modulations where, like, when I'm doing this, you're basically in a major thing. We're still in an A major thing, but when I go, that chord is unexpected. All of a sudden it has a B minor feel to it when I go to that G chord. The first two of the chords, the brad, brad,. brad is also... There's not a template. Yeah, it's not a formula.

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