Artist - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Song - Californication
Album - Californication
Standard tuning
Key
p - pull off
h- hammer on
/, s - slide
B - bend

Intro, main riff
E|----------------------------------------
B|-------0-1-1-1p0---------------------
G|--------------------2---------0-2-----
D|----2------------------------------0--- (4 x for the intro)
A|-0------------------------3----------3-
E|------------------------1---------------

Verse, starts same as intro, play this twice or until Anthony sings, ‘And if you want these kind of dreams….’ Than play
Riff 2
                                         D         
E|-------0-----------------------------2
B|----------------0--------------------3
G|----0---0------------------2--------2
D|--------------0---0---------------0--
A|--3---------------------3------3-----
E|------------3--------1----------------

Then Riff 3
AMinor	 F
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-1-1-1-1| These are played at a 1+a2+a3+a4 timing. Play until 
|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1| ‘Pay you surgeon….’ Until the chorus.
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2|
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|

Chorus
The chorus are C G D and Am, each chord played twice. I don’t know the solo, so this is all you need to know.

Arrangement
Introx4
Riff 1 x2
Riff 2 x1
Riff 1 x2
Riff 2 x1
Riff 3 x1
Chorus
Just repeat this and you have your song, minus a solo. Please rate this tab, I am surest of sure that this tab is the best of all my tabs I have posted. Have fun playing this great song. Chilis rule. Any problems mail me at im_still_alive6@hotmail.com. Thank you.