Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote
music on a piano for the first time for 'I'mWith You'.
During the band's recent hiatus, bass player Flea enrolled
himself in theUniversity of Southern
California to study
Jazz trumpet, music theory and
composition as well as teaching himself the piano, which really changed his
perspective on how to compose tracks for their latest album.
He said: "I wrote music on piano which is a different approach for
us. I didn't play piano much
before but on this record I composed on the piano and so did [new guitarist]
Josh [Klinghoffer].
"When you write on
the piano, you write rhythm, bass and harmony and
reinterpret it with a rockband.
"We'd never done anything like that before - it had always come
from a guitar and bass and drums."
The band - which also includes singer Anthony
Keidis and drummer Chad Smith - found their new approach to songwriting so
successful they had a huge wealth of material for forthcoming tenth album 'I'm With You', and had to cut it down.
Anthony said: "There was an absurd wealth of musical ideas and if
we lived in a different time and place we could have put out a double or triple
record.
"Writing songs wasn't an issue. It was getting rid of them that was
difficult."
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