Red Hot Chili Peppers: Can't Stop Bass

Hello GMC!

- In today's lesson we get to cover the famous song "Can't Stop" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is the third single from their 2001 album "By the way". This song was often played as the opening song on their live concerts and it's one of the songs that are almost always included in the live set list.

- In this song Flea is playing one of his most famous slap licks. In this lesson you are going to mix slap and pop with fingerstyle of playing. From techniques - there will be slapping, popping, slapping dead notes, playing fingerstyle, hammer-ons, pull-offs, 16th notes. This song really gives you a fun technique workout.

- There are many interpretations of the song, in this lesson I will show you how I play it. In the lesson we will cover the : intro, verse riff, chorus, bridge and solo parts of the song.

SONG STRUCTURE:

Intro (8 bars)

Pause (8 bars)

Verse riff (12 bars)

Chorus (8 bars)

Verse riff (16 bars)

Chorus (8 bars)

Bridge (16 bars)

Solo (4 bars)

Verse riff (21 bars)

-Tempo: 88 bpm
-Tuning: standard
-Difficulty: intermediate

Equipment I used for getting this sound was: Am Fender Jazz Bass deluxe, equal mix of both pickups with added bass and middle on onboard preamp - then going to the nemesis (eden) amp with a 1x15" and flat eq there.

Feel free to ask me any questions in the lesson's feedback and in my instructor board at the forum.

Enjoy and I hope you'll have a lot of fun learning this song!