By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Parradiddle Pete]

Hey guys, I'm a gigantic RHCP fan and I wanna learn to play By The Way, i can do all of the parts that arent the funky-assed tom groove which is played with the bass. So does anybody know how to play it?. I have seen the tab and the music to it and it's just plain confusing, can anybody give me any tips on it or even a vid of how to play it :p?
Much appreciated guys
:thumb: Pete :thumb:

[spirit]

The music video has a small clip of Chad playing it. As I recall, it wasn't too tricky, but maybe I'm remembering wrong.

Google?

[aznriceball]

it plays just like a regular high hat funk 3/4 groove..

[Panopticon]

i assume you're talking about the main chorus?

It's like this...

He's keeping time on the floor tom.

Hits small tom on the + of 1 then the mid tom on e of 1.

Like this...

FT|-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
T1|---o-------------|
T2|----o------------|
SD|-------o----o--o-|
BD|-o---o---oo---o--|

Yeah...looks confusing...try it out

[SkaRabbit]

Its fun

[RushHourSoul]

I just play it like this:


T |---------------g|
S |----o----g--o---|
F |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
B |o-o----o--og----|
Hf|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|


Not sure if its on the floor tom, cos I can't really hear it in the mix very well, but I assume thats just cos its turned down a lot.

[Parradiddle Pete]

Thanks for the advice guys, I cant really understand the tabs, but I'll probably print them off and try them out later on when I'm back from school. I presume g=Ghostnote rush hour?
Thanks guys, a vid would help lots if anyone has time :p :p :p

[the fat llama]

whats is hf? i know pretty much evrything else on tab but this confuses me

[spirit]

whats is hf? i know pretty much evrything else on tab but this confuses me

Hi hat w/foot.