Red Hot Chili Peppers – ‘If You Have to Ask’

This song is from Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the fifth album from Red Hot Chili Peppers. This song features some killer fingerstyle funk grooves from Flea, as well as some overdubbed lines.

The bassline for this song was performed on a 4-string bass with each string detuned a whole step (D-G-C-F). Tuning in this way makes the verse bassline a little easier to play, although it is also playable in standard tuning, with a detuned E-string. In this course the song will be demonstrated in standard tuning.

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