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Mastering Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar magic

teacher avatar Gabriel Felix, Music Teacher

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome

      1:19

    • 2.

      Chord tricks

      5:08

    • 3.

      Rhythm tricks

      3:45

    • 4.

      Guitar solo tricks

      8:10

    • 5.

      Otherside - Best guitar riffs to develop speed and accuracy

      3:30

    • 6.

      Californication

      3:35

    • 7.

      Suck my kiss

      4:14

    • 8.

      Snow (hey oh)

      6:43

    • 9.

      Californication - Guitar solos tutorials

      5:35

    • 10.

      She’s only 18

      5:55

    • 11.

      The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie - Entire song + Thanks

      10:47

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About This Class

Dive into the vibrant world of Red Hot Chili Peppers' iconic guitar styles with this comprehensive course designed to elevate your playing to new heights.

Whether you're a seasoned guitarist or just starting your musical journey, this course is your ticket to mastering the unique magic that defines RHCP's sound.

Course Highlights:

1. Sizzling Solos: Learn to play some of Red Hot Chili Peppers' most beloved songs and mind-blowing solos. (Charlie, She is only 18 and Californication)

2. Groovy Guitar Riffs: Explore the signature riffs that have made RHCP legendary. Dive deep into the funk-infused guitar lines that define their sound, and master the techniques that bring these riffs to life. (Californication, Snow, Otherside, and Suck My Kiss).

3. Shape Your Sound: Understand and utilize the most common guitar shapes employed by RHCP. From chord progressions to dynamic lead lines, discover the patterns and structures that create the unmistakable Chili Pepper vibe.

4. Scale Mastery: Elevate your improvisation skills by delving into the scales that form the foundation of RHCP's guitar magic.

5. Rhythm Patterns: Explore the syncopated beats and funky strumming techniques that make their songs irresistibly danceable.

Why Choose This Course?

• Comprehensive Curriculum: Covering songs, solos, riffs, shapes, scales, rhythm patterns, and shortcuts, this course provides a 360-degree view of RHCP's guitar magic.

• Accessible for All Levels: Whether you're a beginner or an advanced player, the course is structured to accommodate various skill levels, ensuring a rewarding experience for everyone.

Embark on a musical journey that will transform your playing and deepen your appreciation for the legendary RHCP sound. Let the funk flow through your fingers

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1. Welcome: Hello, my name is Gier Felix Hench. I'm here to talk about my new course. New Course to Red Hass and the Peppers. Yes, one of my favorite bands. We're going to teach you everything about this amazing band songs, guitar solos, Rifs tricks, court shapes that are very common. Adding session that you can find most of these songs and help you improvise and sound like all the four guitar players in this course going to find a complimentary material that's going to help you a lot in several nice songs to develop, sit in a course horn instrument. So hope, enjoy all my lessons. See you in lesson number one. Bye bye be. 2. Chord tricks: Has pepper is very come to use this shape right here. This is a, or the same thing as this one, but the idea is to play strings number 234 or finger number 13. You can play a board as well with your finger number one, string number 12. Okay? If you want to transform the minor, you just need to remove your middle finger and play a board stream number 32. And if you prefer 3.1 you can find the score a minor or a measure in several songs, but especially under the bridge. It's a very nice chord, isn't it? I enjoy a lot. If we compare to the major court, you can analyze that. It's just part of the traditional Akuskijtplayuits. If you remove your strings, number six, string number five, you're going to have the all right, this is the idea on Red House peppers. Most of the case we play parts of the core to create the arrangement or create fine rhythm, fine groove, or even guitarists. Okay, another guitar shape is important to talk is this. With the altert, this case base in, I just put my ring finger one string up, string number five, my pink finger on the string number and I have this score right here. Really come this. A major core with the base in a, right. You can find on californication, most of the case they play this type of chord with the bass, okay? When they want the bass play. Have more space in a song, okay? We have the opportunity to the base, create melodies or improvise or create some kind of, okay, that's why he used this bass. Do not play the bass, let's say we take as example, if you have, you can play like this but it sounds really weird, isn't it? With the full chord, in this case we need to remove strings number 5.4 and play just the bottom part of the cord, right? So Henry have the original. If you have to ask all the four guitar players on right. House peps use this type of technique. They almost never played the entire order. The corn, they play just part of the cord, okay, to create their go, their songs, their arrangement. Another trick that's really coming on, right house pep, use our patients most of the case when people heard about or pago, they think about half metal scales, fast guitar solos, but rare house pepper is used in a very nice way or pagos. When you play the chords. Stead of play, everything is tran like this. You play like node by node. All right. In this case you can find on califoricationport here this Arpagioj F major. As you can see, they use, in a very clever way. The idea is, take the guitar shapes, you already know this one here, or you can play this one that is famous on the guitar shapes. Or think obviously about a scale. We have the option to add the nine right here, Okay? So I could play like, this sounds really good. Or let's say that I'm playing under bridge and I want to improvise with this Arpagio idea, all right? So I could play like this, just creating this arpagio idea and the nine notes on the string number one, right? So SPC sounds really good. 3. Rhythm tricks: Talk about the ad. Most of the kids, they play 16th notes. Play with me, mute everything, and play this. This is eighth notes. Let's try a little bit faster. Instead of playing 12 and 3.4 you're going to play 1234. All right, so I'm going to play a little bit slowly. Let's start with notes. Okay? So 1234 mutes everything. Okay, now let's try 16th notes. 12344 picks four times during the guitar, one single temple, 12 K34. If you play this fast, use the attack with the chords, you're going to play red hot tapers. This is the secret to play red hots. As you can see, if you have to ask for example, is everything on 16th notes. The idea is when you play in this type of groovy, thinking about the 16th notes, this rhythm part should be perfect. You need to attack in the right temple. As exercise, I'm going to attack just on the number 123.4 Let's play together everything muted. Let's start slowly. 12341 And then when I say the number, we're going to play a little bit strong, so it's going to be the strong temple. Let's start 12341 again. 23.41 23.4 Try to play this with me. Okay, let's go once again. 12341234 type of exercise is going to help a lot. So the idea is to put this attack not just in temper 1234, for example, in the second half of temper number three, or in the last 16th notes of temper number four. You can improvise as you want. Okay, let's try if you have to ask, but you can create other guitars and ideas. For example, most of the Red House pepper song has this rhythm session that soap in improvisation. And you can use this type of trick. You can think about the core. Of course, in this case use the scales around the core, okay? The shape that works in the core, okay? Don't think too much. Don't think about all the shapes. Just think about the part of the neck you are playing, the core. All right? If you have a lot of space tmpresation, your song, especially in the song with just the first song that they release. I love the song. Check this out. Improvise a little bit. 4. Guitar solo tricks: Now sit to talk about a solo part. All the four guitar players, they do not use too much guitar guitar licks. For example, in blues it's very common you play some cliches guitar legs. Or in rock and roll, it's this type of pentatonic guitar. Most of the case, Red House peppers do not play guitar licks nor even pentatonic minor scale. Usually they play the full minor scale, okay? And most of the kids, they create melodies, meds that you can sing and memorize easily. Let's take as example, song song is amazing, I think it is, from the Californication album. As you can see, we have this type of melodies. It's easy to remember. It's just sing and stick on your head, your mind. This is the type of guitar guitar solo approach that I want to teach you. Try to be melodic in all the red hot sill peppers type of improvisation. Okay, go to improvise a little bit, check this out. Another trick here is start and finish your melody, or your kind of to lick on the notes. Number 1357 of your scale. In this case right here we are in starting 107, finishing that is minor. As you can see, words really good. If you use this idea, you're going to sound like all the four tor players. Another example is calification during the solo part is in F sharp minor in historan. In a note, this note is the minor third 13547 stick on our root and he plays finish the looking F sharp. So the roots notes, you can stick with the step by step, every single solo Guitar by Regs Peppers. As you can see in the Californication guitar song, he tried to create a melody. He tried to create a dialogue vocal part, but on a guitar. On californication we have this looks like he's singing. All right, So this is the idea. Avoid fast and pentatonic guitar licks. Think about a melody. If you want to sound more like David Navarro or Gloslovak, you can think about octaves, it's really common has pepper. Let's take as an example, my friend, this is the Corll right at the beginning of the tool, but I play just with one single note. I play on the string number five number, start on fred number seven and create this melo just in one single string. Thinking about minor scale but if was David Navarro playing or Iloslovak use the octave is really easy to find. So you just need to play the Park Corn, that is this guitar shape every single time. And this note right here, this ring finger play just right on the string number 53. This string number four is going to sound because of your finger number one. Don't worry about that. You can play like this or use your ring finger and play exactly the same melody that I was playing before. Just with the octaves. Check this out. Really nice, isn't it? Let's play one more time. You find a lot of octaves on Red House peppered Music Another trick that is nice to use is when you want to sound more like yellow or Navajo, they use a lot pentatonic minus scale, right? So let's take a minus and when they create a leak in one guitar shape. So in this first shape can create the same guitar leak or something similar or to complement the first leak octave higher, for example. So I used the same idea, the same group of noses, same shape, but one oct higher, okay? You can improvise and create legs like this. Sounds really cook if you want to sound like Red hot. 5. Otherside - Best guitar riffs to develop speed and accuracy: Time to teach a few guitar ifs. Sport is very important because we are going to understand more about how they, what type of chords they use, what type of skills, melodies, and how to just sound like red hasty peppers. Besides, that's a great exercise to develop course and speed on instruments. Let's have fun. Let's go. My first note is fret number seven, string number five. I'm going to play three times and fret number seven, string number four. However, I play just two times, okay? And I play with my ring finger. Next note is fret number four on string number three. Come back to seven, string number 45, string number 4.7, string number five. Okay? One more time. As you can see, I can play the entire intro with just two fingers, finger number one in finger number two. Okay, Let's play everything together very slowly. Okay? Next part. Everything on a string number five. Frat number 7.5 All right, so you're going to repeat this a few times. However, the last time you're going to play a little bit different. You're going to play the beginning of the leak number 73 times number seven times number seven on string number three, slide to fret number nine. Okay? On the string number 392 times in Fred. Number four on the string number 34 times. Okay, 34 M. 6. Californication : Or you can the base as well. Usually you can find this version with the melody of the base on the Internet. That's why I want to teach you too. So the first part is a minor. We're going to play string number five, finger number two on the F number two. On string number four, string number two, Place frat number one on string number two. All right. So if you prefer, you can play like min or however your finger number three is not necessary because you are not going to pick string number three. Okay? This is the first part. The second part is finger number one in the fret number one on string number six, finger number three. Fret number three on stringer number five, open string string number three. The last note is Fred number two on string number three with your middle finger, right? So this is the original version of the song. Okay, so let's play one more time. First part and second part. One more time Kate. It's very important to prat with me. Now we are going to add a base leak the bassist plays during the song. It's going to sound very interesting. Sorry, I'm going to play this, okay, frat number two on a string number four and you play a very fast hammer on open string on a string number four. Come back to chew and open string on more time. The last note is frat number three on a string number five. Anybody advice on this part is play with your ring finger. Okay, so all right, let's play everything. First part, leak in. Second part one more time. 7. Suck my kiss: This is the main riff. It's a great riff. True Px, speed and accuracy. So the first thing you need to play is 1.3 on string number six, okay? So, and the last note of this part of the F is B flat or A sharp. That is in the fret number one on string number five. So, in the last few notes, rub 1.3 once and again. Alright? So we're going to play the entire first part of this riff once and again, very slowly. You're going to repeat this part a few times, so let's count 123 and after you repeat three times, you're gonna play. All right, so before we play this last part, let's pract a little bit the first part, Okay, it's very important to pract with me. So let's go 34, once again, four. Remember you can't change the speed of this video, okay? It's going to make everything easy for you. Now, let's learn the second part of the riff. So you play in five. This five is three times, alright? Once again, and my device on this part is play with alternating pick, okay? It's going to be easier. After you play, you're going to play exactly the same thing, one string down. So everything on the string number four the same pattern on the string number four. However, you need to play fret number 5.73 times. And finally the last part. That is the same pattern. All right? However, on the string number three, fret number 7.9, All right? And after you play this nine, you play a kind of sliding until Fred number three, okay? So if I play, everything's gonna sound like this, okay. Once and again, very slowly, Brex with me. All right. 34. One more time. Now it's time to pret everything in the first part. In the second part, right? So let's go. 8. Snow (hey oh): Now it's time to learning snow by ready hostile peppers the guitar reef. It's very fast. From this I think that is very difficult as well. Okay, don't worry, I'm here to help you and we're going to learn this guitar by step by step. Okay? So the first thing is to think about this type of core. This type of core looks very difficult, is the same thing as. Okay? But instead of play here, the regular measure, we play right here. That is measure right? Your pink finger fret number seven on the string number five, ring finger, fret number six on the string number four, index finger fret number four on the string number three, and your middle finger fret number five on the string number two. So you're going to pick strings number 543 and come back to string number four. Okay? Next part is, so we have a hammer on on string number 346 and come back to four, Al right, to fret number four and fret number six on the string number 41 more time. All right? And the last note is fret number four, string number three. All right? I'm going to play very slowly. If you want, you can remove your finger number two. All right. The middle finger. Because we are not going to play string number two. It's part of our re, but the composer didn't put in the arrangement. Alright, so let's learn this pattern. Because the other patterns, it's almost the same thing, very slowly. Play with me. It's important to play. You look, you're right. Avoid to play like this, okay? Keep your fingers very close to the fret board, right? The next step, the next part of our F is play exactly the same thing. However, one string up. So going to play everything on the string were finger number four on the string number six is exactly the same, right? First part two times, second part just one time, right? In the port number three is exactly the same pattern. However, we're begin in fret number nine, you need to transpose the same nodes that you play here. Okay? In fret number seven, we're going to play in the fret number nine. All right, String number five, Fret number nine, the same pattern. All right? That's why I said that it is important to understand this first pattern. So let's play one more time. First pattern twice, second pattern, more time. Pattern number 31 time, okay? The next time you play this riff, you're going to play pattern number 12 times T pattern number 21 time. Instead of playing the pattern number three, we have a pattern number four, okay? So you're going to play right here. This is a little bit different, so it's important to explain every single note. Finger number three, you are ring finger fret number six on the string number six. Your pink finger fret number six on the string number five. Okay? Finger number one. Fret number four on the string number four. Come back with your pink finger on the string number five. Fret number six in play on the string number 44. Hammer on to six. Come back to four. Play six on the string number 51 more time. In the last note is string number four. Threat number four with your index finger. All right? So okay, you can play with your finger number three or your pink finger is right. It's gonna sound like this, right? So let's play everything one more time. Very slowly. Play with me, all right? First part twice, part number two, just on part number three. Come back to part number 12 times, part number two and part number four. Then your ref. 9. Californication - Guitar solos tutorials: Time to learn a few guitar solos. And I select the special guitar solos just for you to pre this melodic approach. You play the most common techniques on warehouse peppers that was stock on the course. Let's go first part. So we have our page of F minor pre number ten on the string number 29. On string number 111, string number three. However you play with slide with a band, it's our option 11 again. You repeat this time and play 11, 111-19-1111, on a string number four. Okay, so you can follow the tableture on the screen. All right. Next part is it's 911 string number 4911, string number three versus line. Okay. This is the first part of the Sl. Second part. The beginning is exactly the same, 10.9 however, you play 12. 14 on string number one. Once again, 14 with a slide, 16, Okay? Please my advice you play this slide with finger number three, okay? Next part is mode, so sharp mode, okay? You begin here in Fred 14171614 on string number 117-14-1714 Be careful with this part. 17 on the string number 214. On string number 117, on string number 2.14 on the string number two. All right. So you change the string. Okay, Three bands but they are not regular band. Okay? So you're going to play the band 16 on string number three and keep your finger number one in the threat number 14. On string number two, you pick strings number 2.3 okay, with your pinky. 17, 14, okay, And play the last session of the song. However, before we play this last session, I'm going to play everything once again. Check this out very slowly. Okay? You can add a few vibratos slides as well to improve your, so it's ping for improvisation last parties. So we have a band on the string number one in the fret number 14. Okay. So up and down, 12141214, last part, 1210, string number 212109, string number one. The last note is not so it's fret number ten on the string number two. 10. She’s only 18: Tree is only 18 by red has in the bets. So this solo star, di frat number six on the string number six. So we're having this kind of hammer on. So as you can see, we just use our fingers number one entry. Be careful about that. Try follow my fingers. All right. And when I play the band, instead of goes, I goes down. All right? So be careful what this band is down, normal band. And you play the pull off. The second guitar lick is almost the same. You have this hammer on and pull off. That is very fast. All right? Try to listen to the song and memorize all the notes of the tablet. Sure to learn this sport correctly. This next part, we go to this part of your fret board and you play this. 5335, very nice vibrato. This song, we have a lot of vibrato, hammer on, pull off and band, so be careful about that. After this guitar lake, we play very fast, this auto guitar, We still use the pattern 1.3 the fingers 1.3 but this time we use our finger number two right here. This guitar lick is very fast, so you will need to use this pattern 1.3 That's why I told you in the previous part. Next part, you have this rift fast as well. So you need to play this 354 bend in the threat number six, goes up, goes down and play 4.61 more time. Okay, But vibra, you need to have the sound of one host that if you play lower, you're going to sound like this sharp. So be careful about that. Next part, we have a kind of slide, F number 1012 on string number three. Yeah. You played this at 11 with your finger number one. All right. This time, use your middle finger, next finger. If you're going to play this slide, trying to use your finger number two, finger number three, it's up to you. But my finger number two, it's easier. This next part you're going to play kind of two notes, okay? Frat number 10.8 on string number three. Alright? And you have this, you have this kind of py pooh of several, several times, this part of the song, it is important to use your ears to recognize all the rhythm pattern and how many times are you going to play? All right. I think some parts of the song, some parts of the guitar solo. It's better if you use your ears then memorize all the notes. Okay, This is where has the paper. Of course, you can improvise and create your own version like John Fanta and the other guitar players. Most of the keys you're going to play the hammer on twice. The groups are true. Okay. Be careful again, thinking about this little detail. This next part used to have one more slide, same thing, finger number 21112, and you have one more band in frat number 111-21-1131 more guitar. And be careful with this, okay? It's one whole step and a half, so it's a very nice and Okay, be careful that we want this sound right here, this short. Okay? And finally we have the last part. So you're going to play right here. This finger number three is going to play the band in the frat number 18, and it needs to be on one whole step band. Okay? Be careful about that. Your finger number two is going to help you out. Your pink finger is going to play this 18 frat right here on the string number one. So we're going to play very slowly. This last band was funny, isn't it? Be careful with this band as well, because it's very easy to play the band with the wrong tune. A half step, one whole step band. Be careful about that. But this last part, you just have four notes. This 16, 18. 17 is 18 with your pink finger. We don't have too much notes, but we need to use our dynamic ears to sound like John Cans. And play this Rehouse Lip. Every sound that is amazing. I'm going to play one more time. 11. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie - Entire song + Thanks: Host peppers. The song is amazing and you have a lot of space to improvisation. You need to think about minor scale and improvises during the song. Another thing that is important to talk is use your ears. The songs really hard to reproduce step by step. And of course teaches step by step, no per note. Sometimes you need to use your ears to learn the right approach that I'm going to teach in this lesson. Are you ready? Let's go. Song starting power cord. This song, you can improvise in minor as well. All right, so we have the power cord you just play once. You can play with your ring finger. Sorry, your pink finger or Italia pink finger is up to you and you play this band with vibrato. You play the band going down, okay? And be careful, use your ears to tune your band correctly. Sometimes you can play like this sound completely wrong, okay? It's important to tune this band correctly. You can play this finger number one. It's not a problem at all. And you're going to play this part during verse is part of the song. You can improvise minor groovy, you can play. Instead of play the regular verse, I use octave. I remove my ring finger and play finger number 1.4 I use the 16th notes to play this groovy. It's important to mute everything, Work on 16th notes and attack the right temple. So of course I improvising and using the important notes. Minor scale, that's the root, mind perfect. Fifth, minor seven. That's why I created this groove. That's so nice. Through the core. Sport pink finger F number ten. Be careful with this. This finger number one, as bad you Nech plays very careful, large play. You have minor almost the same. Or just change your pink finger. You're going to play like this 600 shy band. Avoid to play the lowest part of the red. Try to focus the highest part. Strings number 4321. Okay. It's going to sound much better. Next part is a major with a bar right here in mind. Ten frat number 875.10, the second guitar, you have a kind of band, right? So in this part you play fret number 12, Bend the F number 14, goes down 121 more time, but this time you play 14 on the string number four and you have this 12 on the string number five. With this kind of effects, you can play down regular note, slide ten. Okay? But it's important to use your ears sound correctly. Next part, you come back to 12141. More time you play this 15 on the string number two with your pink fingers. When you band goes up, you play this 15, goes down and play 40. Okay. Be careful in this part. Next part of the song will play 15 going down, 14, 13, everything on the string number two. In three we're going to play from the top. You can add this Bert as well is going to sound very nice. Next part is 15 on the string number two you play is going up 15 on the screen, number one going down and to 12 in the next part you bands number 15 on there. Number 115 on the screen, number 2.14 number three and finalize with. This is live. Very nice season is you're going to play everything from the top. Slowly. Try to play for me next part of the song. You come back to Eat Poor, then have a kind of second guitar playing with Walla, the 16th notes, F number nine on string number three. And you take your thumb, finger and index finger to mute the other string. You can use the regular Abba or Automatic Able. In the other part of the song, you play this variation, it's very nice. You play seven to nine, D two, right, with a hammer on. And you play this super hanger on to pull off. So you play 797, slide 45.4 everything on the string number three. So you're going to play, check this out. Of course, you can improvise the sport in minor skill. This is the bridge port and the sport is very scodallic crazy. We have a lot of noisy and started sounds. My shortcut for you is set up your instrument, learn this, these notes, at least the idea of this kind of bridges, latch guitar solo and try to improvise, create your own version. This type of solo probably was recorded just once in just one take. And in the live he cannot reproduce exactly the same notes in the same sounds just because the effects, the noise, the ambience. So it's really hard to explain step by step. But if you want to stand the idea of this bridge, you're going to enjoy a lot and have a lot of fun. You play this 57, can play with kind of hanger on, right this five string number five. Play with this band going down and come back to seven on the string number six. You can play a few bands going down and 87 if you prefer. Open strings, going to sound very nice. Next part, you play seven on the string number five band. One more time, 454. Okay. You can play and pull off you play five string number two, open string, this part is seven in epentring, eight in pens string and you can play some kind of band or you can this part that is Frack number two on a string number 1.15, on a string number two. But of course you can try to improvise and create the sounds and the madness of this session of the song. This last part you play poor several times with this, with this kind of band, you ca, improvising minor. I improvised. And I use a lot of the root notes. Minor perfect fifth and minus seven in improvisation. And of course the 16th notes, you can use the aden part as well. I create a groove using red coupon was really simple, just E notes. The last part, I was surfing with music intervals. Okay? Several types of intervals. Thinking about this. Okay, this is my short cut for you. No time to Px and have fun. This is the last lesson of our course. Thank you so much for watching. As you can see, Red House li pepper is amazing in it and we have a lot of creative things on the guitar, and the old techniques sounds amazing. But now time to plot. Please check my profile on the platform. I have very nice course about guitar, about music styles, blues, jazz, other bands as well. I think I'm going to help a lot in a future. Of course, thank you so much and see you next course. Bye bye.