Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl (Version 2) bass tab

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Subject: r/red_hot_chili_peppers/breaking_the_girl.tab

Author/Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Title: Breaking The Girl

Words and Music by Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary, John Frusciante and

Chad Smith.

This is the best transcription of this song you'll find on the 'net. This

is close

to how Frusciante plays it - especially the Chorus. 12-string acoustic,

tuned down

a half-step. No Capo. And most importantly: hit the strings as hard as

humanly

possible.

VERSE 1:

I am a man cut from the

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know

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PRE-CHORUS:

C G Am

Feeling so good that day

C G F

A feeling of love that day

CHORUS:

Twisting and turning your feelings are burning your

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breaking the girl

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She meant you no

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harm

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(After 2nd verse, repeat Chorus with this fill at the end, before the

"pots and

pans" break:)

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("Pots and pans" break; repeat many times, I'm too lazy to count)

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(Outro is the same as the Chorus with this fill played over top, fading

out:)

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