As a guitarist, have you ever ever felt not significantly motivated to apply? You’re not alone – in truth, you’re within the firm of Radiohead lead guitarist and all-round six-string legend Jonny Greenwood, who confesses in a brand new interview that he hasn’t all the time been completely disciplined on the subject of guitar apply.

Greenwood – who additionally performs guitar in The Smile, a three-piece additionally that includes his Radiohead bandmate Thom Yorke – tells The Unbiased [via NME] that whereas he’s now “hooked” on guitar apply, that wasn’t all the time the case within the early days of Radiohead.

“I’ll sit and play guitar day-after-day now,” he explains. “It’s humorous. It’s one thing I sort of by no means needed to do. I used to mistrust any kind of fluidity and suppose that was one way or the other a part of that factor of technical taking part in. However now I simply really feel totally different about it. And it feels fortunate that my fingers do this stuff.

“I’ve received a sure facility with it, so I’ve determined to simply accept it, and have realised that I actually love taking part in the guitar.”

Regardless of serving to pen a few of British rock music’s most enduring hits alongside Radiohead, Greenwood admits he “all the time felt like a careless guitar participant” who was “all the time lazy”.

“Now, simply by repetition, I’ve received hooked,” he provides. “I’ve simply received addicted and need to play on a regular basis.”

Radiohead reunited final yr to embark on a tour of the UK and Europe, their first exhibits since 2018. Whereas the reunion led some followers to invest about new materials from the Oxfordshire five-piece, we’ve not heard something to counsel new music is deliberate or on the way in which.

Chatting with The Occasions in February, Jonny Greenwood mirrored that “it was nice to revisit songs” on tour, however that he “discovered it unusual to not be doing something new”.

“I assume we’re all doing new music elsewhere now in order that’s the place our inventive energies are going.”

Requested about the opportunity of a brand new album from the band, he replied, “I’ve no thought. I imply, I’m stunned that the tour really occurred and that all of us loved it a lot. However venues get booked to date prematurely. To do one other we must determine now, and even then it wouldn’t occur for 18 months.”

Properly, they’ve agreed to proceed performing exhibits, and are scheduled to play 21 exhibits in 2027 throughout Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia and Saitama, Japan.

Be taught extra at Radiohead.com.

Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Completely immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music expertise and manufacturing at college, and in addition written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Metallic Hammer and MusicRadar.