RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - "otherside" Tablature

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Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers

This is a quite easy song; I saw a request for it and answered, but it seemed
strange to me the song couldn\'t be found in the archive. So I looked for it
and found 5 or 6 versions, all very similar, some with wrong notes, and all
incomplete - here\'s my version, hopefully a bit better:
comments & so on: Stefano (barleycorn@infinito.it)

lyrics & chords
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Am F C G

Am F C
How long how long will I slide
G Am F C
Separate my side I don\'t
G Am F
I don\'t believe it\'s bad
C G
Slit my throat, it\'s all I ever


Am Em
I heard your voice through a photograph
Am Em
I thought it up it brought up the past
Am Em
Once you know you can never go back
G Am
I\'ve got to take it on the otherside


Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I\'ve got to take it on the otherside
G Am
Take it on the otherside
G Am
Take it on, take it on


How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don\'t
I don\'t believe it\'s bad
Slit my throat, it\'s all I ever


Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray\'s full and I\'m spilling my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I\'ve got to take it on the otherside


Scarlet starlet and she\'s in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I\'ve got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on, take it on


How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don\'t
I don\'t believe it\'s bad
Slit my throat, it\'s all I ever

Em C Em C

Em
Turn me on take me for a hard ride
C
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
Em
I yell and tell it that it\'s not my friend
C
I tear it down, I tear it down and then it\'s born again

Am F C G

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don\'t
I don\'t believe it\'s bad
Slit my throat, it\'s all I ever
How long, I don\'t believe it\'s bad
Slit my throat it\'s all I ever

Em during the verse works best at 7th fret position (079987)

tabs
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Not much to be tabbed:

Am F C G
+ . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . .
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----------------2-----2---4-2-0-|---------------------------------|
|-2-----2-----2-------------------|-2---------------0-----0-----0---|
|-0-------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
|-----------------1---------------|-----------------3---------------|

[this is just the very beginning - there are slight variations on this
figure during the whole song]

[same notes played somewhere else on the fretboard, transcribed by
Gabriel Drolet, guitare@mail.com www.bend.cjb.net]
(Normal Tuning)

Intro/Main riff Some notes
e||------------------------------------|---------------||
B||------------------------------------|-----20----20--||
G||------------------------------------|--16-----------||
D||--------7--7-9-7-5------------------|---------------||
A||--7-7-7------------7-(7-7-7)-5-5-5--|---------------||
E||------------------------------------|---------------||


bridge (\"Turn me on...\" and the instrumental bit right before):
[this actually imitates the bass notes, but it also works on a guitar]

Em C
+ . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . . + . . .
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----2---0-2---------2-0-2-0-----|-----2---0-2---------5---4---0---|
|-----^-----^---------^-------0-2-|-3---^-----^---3-----^---^---^---|
|-0-------------0-----------------|-^-------------^-----------------|
^ ^

2nd time C:
+ . . . + . . . + . . . + . . .
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|-----2---0-2-------5-4-2-4-5-4---|
|-3---^-----^---3---------------5-|
|-^-------------^-----------------|

[a ^ means a staccato]

Stuff to be added to this tab:
- all the little arpeggio played during the verse, on Am/Em
- the little solo after the bridge

Let me know what you can get out of it
Enjoy!
Stefano

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