Song: Californication
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Album: Californication
Submitted and tabbed by Brandon Williams
e-mail: Bwillia1074@cs.com

This is the correct way to play this song.  Ignore all the other versions!  I found this in the May 2001 issue of Guitar World where John shows how to play the song.  If you think this is wrong, complain to John Frusciante for playing the song wrong...I hope no one does that...

T=thumb

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--/-means to repeat the chord
-/--
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Riff 1:
|--------------------------|
|-------0--1---------------|
|---------------------0--2-|
|----2---------------------|
|-0----------------3-------|
|---------------1----------|

Riff 2:
|-------------------------------1-|
|-------5-----------------------3-|
|----------------4--------2-----2-|
|----5-----------------------0--0-|
|-3-----------5--------3----------|
|----------3--------1-------------|

Riff 3:
|-0------------------------------------0----------3----0------------------|
|-1------------------------------------1----------1----1------------------|
|-2----/--/--/---/---/--/--/---/---/-/-2--/--/--/-2----2--/--/--/----/--/-|
|-2---/--/--/---/---/--/--/---/---/-/--3-/--/--/--3----3-/--/--/----/--/--|
|-0-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------1----------1----1------------------|
                                       T          T    T
Riff 4:
|-0-------------3-------------1------------0----0-----------------3-------1-|
|-1-------------0-------------3------------1----1-----------------0-------3-|
|-0----/---/--/-0----/---/--/-2---/--/--/--2----2--/--/---/--/--/-0----/--2-|
|-2---/---/--/--0---/---/--/--0--/--/--/---2----2-/--/---/--/--/--0---/---0-|
|-3-------------2-------------0------------0----0-----------------2-------0-|