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The lead riff is easy to play and it's a good one for playing along to the song.]]> Easy Songs Clazon https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside/#post-178967 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside/#post-178896 Thu, 25 May 2006 20:08:20 +0000 Easy Songs Elvis https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside/#post-178896 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside/#post-178892 Thu, 25 May 2006 19:33:56 +0000
Another good reason to learn barre chords


Cheers

Matteo]]> Easy Songs matteo https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside/#post-178892 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside/#post-14066 Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:36:27 +0000
First of all a disclaimer: I took the chords from the following site http://guitar.about.com/od/freebeginnerlessons/, in their easy songs section.

So move on:

Chords: just four open chords very easy to play (Am, Em, G, C) plus the F. By the way I noticed that almost Red hot chili peppers ballads are based upon F chord...the the chords are in most cases the biggest difficulty to play their slow numbers.

Chord changes: very easy, the chords always change each measure or every two measure (see the numbers in the brackets) the pattern is the following one

First part of the Verse:
Am (1), Em (1) play 3 times
G (1) Am (1) play twice

Second part of the verse:
Am (1), Em (1) play 3 times
G (1) Am (1) play twice
G (2), Am (2)

Chorus: Am (1), F(1), C(1), G(1) play 3 times

Bridge: Em (2), G (2) play twice

Strumming pattern: the song works well with a d/du/udu pattern or a simpler d/du/u/d, for a better result you could also play the following one:

1st measure: d/du/du/du
2nd measure: d/du/u/du

Also a simple du for each beat could work taking care to accent all the downstrums. So as our master David Hodge would say the pattern is up to you

Ok, enough talking here it is and please let me know any mistake

Matteo

Am F C )
How long how long will I slide )
G Am F C )
Separate my side I don't ) CHORUS
G Am F )
I don't believe it's bad )
C G )
Slit my throat it's all I ever )
Am Em
I heard your voice through a photograph
Am Em
It thought it up it brought up the past
Am Em
Once you know you can never go back
G Am
I've got to take it on the otherside
Am Em
Centuries are what it meant to me
Am Em
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Am Em
Stranger things could never change my mind
G Am
I've got to take it on the otherside
G Am
Take it on the otherside
G Am
Take it on take it on

CHORUS

Am Em
Poor my life into a paper cup
Am Em
The ashtray's full and I'm spilling my guts
Am Em
She wants to know am I still a slut
G Am
I've got to take it on the otherside
Am Em
Scarlet starlet and she is in my bed
Am Em
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Am Em
Push the trigger and pull the thread
G Am
I've got to take it on the otherside
G Am
Take it on the otherside
G Am Em C x 2
Take it on take it on

CHORUS

Em
Turn me on take me for a hard ride
C
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
Em
I fell and tell it that it's not my friend
C
I tear it down I tear it down
Am F C G
And it's born again

CHORUS

Am F C G Am F
How long I don't I don't believe it's bad
C G Am
Slit my throat it's all I ever]]> Easy Songs matteo https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside/#post-14066