Dani California Guitar Lesson - Red Hot Chili Peppers - All Chords/Rhythms

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In these two video guitar lessons I will demonstrate how to play "Dani California" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in it's entirety.

The first lesson is dedicated to all the chords, riffs a short melodic phrases that make up a bulk of the song.

The second video takes a note-for-note look at the guitar solo by John Frusciante.

The chords and rhythms are pretty straight forward and simplistic for the most part. Through the verse rhythm we do a have a funky little guitar riff overdub. That little riff moves around a bit and is a bit more difficult than the chord progression underneath.

I chose to concentrate on the main guitar overdubs. Of course I demonstrate all the main riffs but there will be a couple little guitar overdubs that I ignore if they don't have much of an effect on the overall song.

The solo happens in the outro section of the song and uses a lot of catchy hooks and slippery guitar licks to accompany the upbeat feel of the song.

I think I would rate the difficulty level of the Dani California solo at intermediate.

It moves around quite a bit, especially the main melodic hook that opens the solo and is heard throughout most of the solo.

However, after getting the fingerings down it is one of those licks that just feels good to play. I don't know how to explain it, but if you lock into the groove like John Frusciante does while sliding around the fretboard, you will notice that all the notes just seem to be very well placed and fall into the rhythmic pocket perfectly.

After playing through the opening melodic idea with some slight variations a few times, John Frusciante then launches into a flurry of wah drenched fast blues licks and tremolo picking.

Remember when learning this section that it isn't necessarily about getting everything note-for-note because that would be impossible, even for John Frusciante to recreate.

These types of guitar licks are meant to be erratic and to have a flying by the seat of your pants type of feel. Simply learn the patterns to the licks and just go for it. That is all John Frusicante is really doing anyway.

Don't think of it as being sloppily played, think of it as trying to create a certain effect during this climaxing section of the solo.

In any case, I hope you enjoy learning the Dani California solo note-for-note. I feel it is a good look into the soloing style of John Frusciante, at least during his Red Hot Chili Peppers' days.

Enjoy! Carl..

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Frusciante likes to add so many different parts and little details to his songs and this lesson includes almost everything. You're awesome man!

themetalhammer

This is the first guitar lesson of Dani California that shows every little thing in detail . By the way the solo lesson is very good and detailed too . Thank you !

Roflogussecond

Hey bro‘: ein grosses „Dankeschön“ aus Deutschland 🇩🇪!!
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eckispassion

Hey Carl, I just needed to take a minute and thank you man, I was stuck for a month and I couldn’t understand some parts of the song, you man, you make it look easy, Thank you
!!!!

Andreas

This is hands down a perfect tutorial. THANK YOU!

bambitheboy

Thanks Carl, this lesson is spot on, clear and concise. I love the way there is no filler, just everything I need to know to learn this song. Perfectly presented!

XZ

GuitarLessons365Song Carl, You are the BEST guitar teacher on YT. Thanks to you, I learned the full "Paranoid" solo note for note by writing out the tabs while watching the video. Your attention to detail in addition to not rushing & speaking clearly makes learning my favorite tunes enjoyable. QUALITY over QUANTITY any day ! Glad I subscribed...all the best ~

RNFORLAW

Nice! Another great short lesson from Carl giving me lots of tips to go forward with my practice. ❤ thanks Carl! Keep up the good work.

DJKLIBRA

thank you so much for this tutorial, it’s so detailed yet clear enough to be easy to follow along!

caitlinh

Love your site man. You have saved my sanity multiple times!

Thraxxuss

could you do soldiers of fortune deep purple...its nowhere

siddhantgupta

Very nice. I was very close to getting this song down but couldn't get the pre-chorus to sound quite right. Thanks for the lesson. (I realise that you made this years ago, but thanks anyway. :-) )

mrfans

awesome lesson...your tutorials are great....thanks a lot !

tristanarmstrong

When I hear the intro I was like wait I remember that it's super similar if not identical to the chords of Mary Jane's last dance by Tom Petty. I read that Petty himself said he didn't think they were trying to steal and that it's just a common progression in rock music.

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