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Red Hot Chili Peppers – ‘Stone Cold Bush’

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‘Stone Cold Bush’ is from Mother’s Milk, the fourth album from Red Hot Chili Peppers. Released in 1989, the album gave the band three hit singles: ‘Higher Ground’, ‘Knock Me Down’ and ‘Taste the Pain’. It was this track however that had the bass players hooked: Flea is on top form throughout, combining tight fingerstyle grooves with aggressive slap lines, and of course turning in a jaw-dropping bass solo. This video course will show you how to play this song, section by section.

For bassists who wish to learn the piece but require additional assistance with some of the techniques required, the following courses (all included in the monthly subscription cost) should prove useful:

A free transcription (with TAB and without) is available for this course. To download it, please visit the Free Stuff page.

This course is 30 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. ‘Stone Cold Bush’

This video is a demonstration of the piece performed on a Mayones Viking 4-string bass, strung with stainless steel Rotosound strings.

2. Course Overview

This video provides an overview of song and the techniques required to perform it. It also contains advice on how to find the right tone for this track.

3. Intro Section

This lesson covers the song’s intro section which consists of two syncopated lines that are reused at several points later in the piece.

4. Verse Sections

This lesson covers the bassline from the verse sections. The bassline here is sixteenth note-based and can be quite difficult to play at this tempo.

5. Chorus Sectionsc

This video covers the chorus sections for the song, which are slapped. The line itself is quite simple, although a lot of aggression is needed.

6. Bass Solo

This lesson covers the bass solo, which is heard after the second chorus. The solo is only four bars long, but Flea packs a lot of notes into those bars.

7. Guitar Solo

This lesson demonstrates the slap bass groove that Flea settles into after the bass solo. This line is also used for the guitar solo that follows.

8. Outro

This video covers the song’s outro. This four-bar section is almost the same as the bass solo, but with a couple of small variations.