Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dark Necessities (Guitar Tab)

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Not a great song to tab because the guitar isn't as sick now that John left. But me and my bros are learning this song so we can cover it and I thought I might help out any other guitarists that were hoping to do the same. Here is the youtube link if you want to see my brothers and I perform this song... [Intro]

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    |P.M - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -|

^This repeats all the way up to that funky bass line

    Then there's this second guitar part in the build-up intro
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------8-----------------11------------------|
G|---10--8--10--8--10-8--10--8--10--8--10-8----8--10--8--10-8------8--10--8--10-8--|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[Verse] There's no guitar for the 1st half of the verse, but this comes in on the 2nd

e|-------------------------|    |---------------------|
B|-------------------------|    |---------------------|
G|-------------------------|    |------------------8~-|
D|--8h10-10-10-10-10-10-10-|x11 |--8h10-10-10-8h10----|
A|-------------------------|    |---------------------|
E|-------------------------|    |---------------------|
   |P.M - - - - - - - - - -|       |P.M - - - - -|
    (with wah)

e|-------------------------|   |------------------------|
B|-------------------------|   |------------------------|
G|-------------------------|   |--8h10-10-10-10-10-10~~-|
D|--8h10-10-10-10-10-10-10-|x3 |------------------------|
A|-------------------------|   |------------------------|
E|-------------------------|   |------------------------|
   |P.M - - - - - - - - - -|     |P.M - - - - - -|
    (with wah)

[Chorus] I can't hear all of the chords, but I recognise a few of them, play these chords and you'll get away with it. It sounds pretty RHCP anyway.

e|---8-------8-------8------10------|
B|---9-------9-------8------11------|
G|---8-------10------8------10------|
D|---10------10------10-------------|  x2
A|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------|
    ^Strum each chord for one bar, strum on 16th notes.

[Verse 2] [Chorus 2] Piano thing [Bridge]

e|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--16-15-13-----14-13--------13-----------(13)~~-----------------------|      Instead of the (13) play
G|-----------15--------15-13-----15-13-10-------------------------------|      11th on the b string the
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------|x2    2nd time
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------| 
   ^This whole section has a tonne of chorus and reverb type stuff on it.
    You could do a lot of sliding or even whammy bar usage to get a sound 
    more like the recording (on top of a heap of chorus).

[Verse 3] [Chorus 3] [Outro/Solo] This whole section has a lot of tremolo effects on it, if you've got a delay pedal just turn up the repeats a lot, I think it has a bit of the 'phase' effect as well, not too sure tho. If you don't have any pedals you could get away with just picking each note a few extra times.

e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--16-(16)-15-(15)-13-(13)---------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------15-(15)--------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------15h17--13h15-------------------------------| x4
A|-----------------------------------------------13h15--8h10--6h8-------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------6h8--------|
   ^If you have a delay pedal or something that will do the job, don't play 
    the bracketed notes.

e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--6------------10-8h10-8h10-10----------------8h10-10-10-------------------8h10-10-10---------|
E|----8-8-8--8-8--------------------8~-8-8-8-8-8------------8b10r8--8-8-8-8-8------------8-8-8-8|
   ^add wah pedal from here to the end of the song.

e|-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------10h12-10h12-----------10-8-7-8---------|
D|--10b12r10-10-10-10--------------10-10-10----------10~~----|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|