Chords for John Frusciante - Dani California (Part 2)

_ In my opinion, _ _ _ it's such subtleties that go into _ _ _ _ _ a _ _ treatment like that.
You just can't repeat it twice.
I _ tried, but I couldn't get exactly.
It was missing something.
So I don't think the third verse one is as good as the first two verses, _ but it's still fine.
It has its own thing to it.
[N] And then _ a bunch of guitars come in in harmony, which that's something I figured out in the studio.
I don't even know what I played.
The [D] chords there are [Dm] this_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I [G] shouldn't have hit that E string so hard.
_ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
That's one of those chord progressions [E] I was just really _ proud of. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ I [E] like this chord _ with the E in the bass.
_ _ _ _ _ _ You're playing these _ _ diminished _ notes, so you feel [Bb] like it's all right to move up a
minor [E] third, _ _ _ but you retain that E in the bass, and it's just a really good dark. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[B] And so _ _ while that's going on, there's a bunch of [Bbm] guitars playing in harmony with it.
_ _ I guess like three different guitars.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ And there's like three that play in that group that are _ basically playing along with
the chords there.
And then _ we slowed the tape down and played super high notes [Bb] to go _ like_ _ _ _
They kind of count off one, two, three, four to go into the chorus.
_ _ _ _ _ And [N] they wouldn't be playable on this guitar, and even if I did know what notes it was that
I played, _ _ because we had to slow down the tape and speed it up. _
_ _ But yeah, there's a lot of things like that on the [Bb] album where_
_ _ _ Basically, I've just been exercising my whole part of my brain [N] that _ _ understands harmony
and that understands how to create movement with harmony and how to create depth with harmony.
And those parts of my brain _ _ were just turned on throughout the writing, so when it came
time to record, it was pretty natural for me to just be _ _ [Bb] orchestrating guitar parts in the [F] studio.
_ _ _ _ _ Because once you're thinking that way, it's just logic.
_ It doesn't [Bb] require any real time or any real forethought. _ _ _ _
So yeah, all over the album, I did a lot of harmonizing in [Bbm] the studio, which my brain
definitely didn't retain.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ But leading into that chorus, [Gb] again, there's still the Mellotron coming in, but _ _ _ we really
tried to make it as big as possible with that big buildup with the [Bb] extra chord thrown in
and _ _ _ _ all _ the [N] harmonized guitars.
And then _ _ that chorus, it's a double chorus, and the first half of it is like the other
ones, which is the _ _ _ _ double _ _ -grim guitar with the Boss Turbo Distortion. _
_ And then [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ a guitar part comes in, _ _
_ [Gb] two guitar parts come in, [Bb] they're in harmony with each
other, [C] they're going_
_ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
This sounds funny right now because it sounds like this is the root, but really [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
it's_
[Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Bbm] _ [Bb] And then _ I [B] had _ a harmony to that going on, and _ then three quarters of the way through,
_ [F] _ _ _ halfway through that part coming in, then two other guitars come in on the right [Am] that
are going like that. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
Probably it's either [Fm] that part or something like it, and _
[Dm] _ a [F] harmony to that coming [C] on the right.
So you've got a full [Dm] kind of clean _ [Gm] harmony, _
[F] _ separate [C] groups of [Dm] harmonies going on, [G] one
on the left speaker and one on [F] the right speaker. _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ That's what [Gm] gets fun with harmony, [F] you get one group in one [C] stereo spot and another [Dm] group
in another stereo spot, and you can kind of pioneer to that.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Gb] And [Bb] then we_
_ _ Eddie Kramer came over, Jimmy Hendrix's engineer, and showed us how _ _
[B] _ they [Bb] did tape phasing back
in Jimmy's day.
_ And _ _ _ _ originally, _ _ Ryan and I, we phased Anthony's vocal on the _ whole song _ of Danny California,
but _ _ _ _ _ _ _ we _ [Bbm] ended up _ _ not using the mix that Ryan and I had done that on, _ [Bb] _ and so _ we _ didn't use
that, _ _ but we _ _ _ _ _ did use where we did this tape phasing, right going from the last chorus
into the guitar solo, and _ [Ab] that's actually from another mix.
The _ _ song was mixed twice, [Cm] _ [N] and the part that's being phased is from the earlier mix, and
we didn't know if it was still going to work, but we knew we could never get [Bb] that great
moment again, and because everything's out of phase, the subtle [Ab] differences of one mix
to another didn't end up making any difference, we just edited it right in and [Dm] it worked.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
The whole [Bb] solo _ is doubled, _ I [D] doubled it a month after I did_
The original one was just done when we did the basic tracks, _ _ _ and then the double was
done later, _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ like a month later, and at the very end I'm playing super fast, _ [B] and there
was really no way to double it.
I [Bb] tried, but it was always going to be a little _ different, _ and _ _ it just seemed _ to take away
from the power of [Ab] it, so what I ended up doing was running _ _ _ just that part, the last part
where I'd step on the wah-wah pedal and I'd start playing really fast, [Bb] _ _ _ _ we put it through
my effectron delay where we just set it to one repeat, and we turned it _ [B] _ _ _
_ so you don't
have any original signal, and we just turned it to a really fast delay, [Bb] and we took the
modulator and just made it [N] so it's modulating so _ slowly, and _ _ at just very little depth,
very little rate, _ _ but it makes it so it's not exactly _ [Bb] _ _ _ a _ consistent _ echo, and it ends
up sounding a lot like I'm actually doubling myself, but I'm faking it, _ _ and _ _ it [A] _ makes me
[N] sound like a genius _ _ who can double his own _ _ _ extremely fast playing, which, [Bb] you know, some
things I can, something like that _ I could come close, but [G] it starts to depend so much
on _ [Bb] _
_ _ [A] chance when it comes [Ab] to something like [Bb] that.
_ _ So, _ _ _ [Ab] yeah, _ I think that covers everything.
[A] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _