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** VENICE QUEEN **
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Band: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Album: By the way
Tab and copyright by: Jeffrey Staehli
Date: 18.August.2K2
Email: [email protected]


Hi RHCP Fans!
This is one of my first tabs (the another one is "I could die for you"), but I'm
pretty sure of it to be correct! Well, there are some minor riffs played over the song,
but I've only tabbed the main stuff. THe rest are just recording gimmix ;)
I didn't bother with the timing, etc. It's just an idea to get quicker into it.
Get the RHCP feel yourself... ;)
Well, I splitted the song into 2 parts: the first slower one and the second much muster one!
Anyways, comments and suggestions are as always welcome :]

Strum it!

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- FIRST PART -
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             repeat this part...3x     ending1
    Em    *let ring*
e|:------7-----7-----7---------------:|-----7-----7-----7-----7-----7-|
h|:----5---5-------5---5-----8---7---:|---5---5-------5-----5-----5---|
G|:--4-------4---4-------4-----------:|-4-------4---4-----4-----4-----|
D|:----------------------------------:|-------------------------------|
A|:----------------------------------:|-------------------------------|
E|:----------------------------------:|-------------------------------|


   ...until the chord changes here                                *back to the beginning...*
   Cmaj7                                A7sus4?
e|-0--0---0-0---0--0---0-0----0-0-0-0-|-0--0---0-3---0--0---0-3----3-3-3-3-|
h|-0--3---0-0---0--3---0-0----0-0-0-0-|-0--3---0-3---0--3---0-3----3-3-3-3-|
G|-0--0---0-0---0--0---0-0----0-0-0-0-|-0--0---0-0---0--0---0-0----0-0-0-0-|
D|-2--2---2-2---2--2---2-2----2-2-2-2-|-2--2---2-2---2--2---2-2----2-2-2-2-|
A|-3--3---3-3---3--3---3-3----3-3-3-3-|-0--0---0-0---0--0---0-0----0-0-0-0-|
E|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|


  this is the ending of the first part of the song, before it gets quicker!
    Em 
e|------7-----7----0-------|
h|----5-----5------5-------|
G|--4-----4-----4--4-------|
D|-------------------------|
A|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------|


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- QUICK PART - ("...we all want to tell her...")
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                     *repeat 3x*
    Em                 Cadd9          Asus2                 D
e|:-0-0--0-0--0-0-x-x--0--0--x-x--:|--0---0--0-0--0--0--0---2--2--2-2---2-2--2-2-2--|
h|:-0-0--0-0--0-0-x-x--3--3--x-x--:|--0---0--0-0--0--0--0---3--3--3-3---3-3--3-3-3--|
G|:-0-0--0-0--0-0-x-x--0--0--x-x--:|--2---2--2-2--2--2--2---2--2--2-2---2-2--2-2-2--|
D|:-2-2--2-2--2-2-x-x--2--2--x-x--:|--2---2--2-2--2--2--2---0--0--0-0---0-0--0-0-0--|
A|:-2-2--2-2--2-2-x-x--3--3--x-x--:|--0---0--0-0--0--0--0---------------------------|
E|:-0-0--0-0--0-0-x-x-------------:|--0---0--0-0--0--0--0---------------------------|


Then after having played it sometimes, this change comes right after the last time
you've repeated that Em-Cadd9 riff (after-->Lyrics "best I've ever...")

   A                G                Fmaj7            D7sus2
e|-0--------------|-0--------------|-0--------------|-0----------------------|
h|-2--------------|-3--------------|-1--------------|-1----------------------|
G|-2--strum chord-|-0--strum chord-|-2--strum chord-|-2--strum chord---------|
D|-2--------------|-0--------------|-3--------------|-0----------------------|
A|-0--------------|-X--------------|-3--------------|------------------------|
E|----------------|-3--------------|----------------|------------------------|
 |                                                                           |
 |  arpeggios for guitar 2                                                   |
 |  over the strumming part  (keep them repeated until the chord change!)    |      
e|----------------|----------------|-0-----0-----...|------------------------|
h|-2-----2-----...|-3-----3-----...|---1-----1---...|-3-----3------...-------|
G|---2-----2---...|---2-----2---...|-----2-----2-...|---2-----2----...-------|
D|-----2-----2-...|-----0-----0-...|----------------|-----0-----0--...-------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|------------------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|------------------------|


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- END -
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   A                G                Fmaj7            D7
e|-0--------------|-0--------------|-0--------------|-2-----------|
h|-2--------------|-3--------------|-1--------------|-1-----------|
G|-2--strum chord-|-0--strum chord-|-2--strum chord-|-2-----------|
D|-2--------------|-0--------------|-3--------------|-0-----------|
A|-0--------------|-X--------------|-3--------------|-------------|
E|----------------|-3--------------|----------------|-------------|