Desecration Smile

Desecration Smile Red Hot Chili Peppers

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This is a great song for practising your chords and playing along.
The song is slow to medium speed so it'll give you good practise at keeping good time.
The song is in standard guitar tuning so there is no need to re-tune.
The chords you will need are:
C#m E Eadd9 Em C Dsus2 G D A
Practise your chords; practise the progressions & then have a go at playing along.
Play the chords in open string position or with barre chords or a combination of the two
You are the rhythm guitarist... it's up to you!

Intro:

C#m / / / C#m / / / E / / / E(add9) / / / [play twice]

Key Change @ 22secs

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play twice]

Verse One @ 32secs

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Verse Two @ 53secs

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Em / / /

Chorus @ 1.16mins

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / /

Lead Break @ 1.37mins

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play twice]

Verse Three @ 1.48mins

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Verse Four @ 2.09

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Em / / /

Chorus @ 2.32mins

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / /

Lead Break @ 2.53mins

C / G / E / / / [Play Twice then Vocal enters @ 3.04mins]

C / G / E / / / [Play Three times]

C / Bm /

Chords @ 3.21mins

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play twice]

Verse Five @ 3.32mins

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Em / / /

Chorus @ 3.55mins

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / (G)

Repeat Chorus @ 4.16

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / /

Outro same as Intro @ 4.37mins

C#m / / / C#m / / / E / / / E(add9) / / /

C#m / / / C#m / / / E / / / E / / /

I have written out the song below without the info on verses, chorus and timings

Desecration Smile Red Hot Chili Peppers

C#m / / / C#m / / / E / / / E(add9) / / / [play twice]

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play twice]

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Em / / /

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / /

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play twice]

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Em / / /

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / /

C / G / E / / / [Play Five times]

C / Bm /

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play twice]

Em / / / Dsus2 / C / [play 4 times]

Em / / /

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / (G)

D / A / E / / / [play 3 times]

D / / / A / / /

C#m / / / C#m / / / E / / / E(add9) / / /

C#m / / / C#m / / / E / / / E / / /

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