Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hard To Concentrate

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hard To Concentrate

Difficulty: Beginner
Rock
2000's

One of the standout tracks from the Stadium Arcadium album with its killer bass-line. To be fair though, which RHCP song doesn’t have one of those! Let’s learn to play Hard To Concentrate on the ukulele.

What Are We Learning To Play?

Below is a video of what you will be able to play by the end of this post. This is a segment taken from my medley of the Stadium Arcadium album.

Ukulele Tabs

We are recreating Fleas majestic bass-line for this song. Im using a palm muting technique in the video to give me some more control of the length of each note. Check out my guide on how to effectively palm mute.

A|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E|---7-----5-----3---5---3-|---7-----5-----3---5---3-|
C|-4-----4-----4---4---4---|-4-----4-----4---4---4---|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|

A|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-----2-------2-----2-----|-----2---------2-----2---|
C|---2---2-----------------|---2---2-----------------|
G|-----------4-----4-------|-------------4-----4-----|