That was great @Paul_9207! You’re flying all over the neck and making it look easy. All around great playing, timing, tone, trills, slapping, very nicely done.
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Thank you so much!
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Really nice @Paul_9207
You’re on fire this week.
Keep it up.
Such a good job, any ‘mistakes’ felt like they belonged there…and ain’t that the point for real playing? Awesome.
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Awesome! This is really the only RHCP song I like and now I’m inspired to give it a try 
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Great job.
This bass line has always been a stand out for the way melodic bass can drive a song. Great job on a tricky one.
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This might be my favorite Chili Pepper song. I never tire of it, even after listening to it a million or so times trying to learn it. I remember recording this to cassette off the radio on a “boombox” because the only place you could get the song was The Coneheads soundtrack. I would’ve killed to have Spotify then. I also remember how much I enjoyed @Paul_9207 's cover last September and thinking “I’m not ready for that”, and I wasn’t then. Maybe that’s someone else out there now, keep practicing, you’ll get it!
Anyway, here it is, I hope you enjoy…at least the parts where I’m not trying slap and pop 
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great job! sounded so good.
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I think it’s the same for me. I actually did buy the Coneheads soundtrack on CD but have lost it over the years… I had a lot of fun working on this one even if it had to be done in pieces over many weeks. I decided to go with the Flea bass (a must!) here and applied a black and white filter on the video as a nod to the music video.
Now to some other business, I’m getting frustrated with sync issues in these covers. Ever since I started having an issue with VLC not outputting video when I’m converting MKV to MP4/M4V I’ve been using Handbrake and it seems the video will start off okay but drifts off-sync as we go along 
I think I just need to start outputting directly to MP4 from OBS to avoid this snafu.
If you can forgive the sync in the later half of the video I think I did pretty nicely on the slap part.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy the cover!
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Nice one @cheeze_pizza ! This is absolutely right up there on the list of my favorite RCHP songs, and you nailed it.
My favorite part of this song is the fun little variation around 4:17, and it sounded great in your cover!
How long have you had the Flea bass and what do you think of it? I love the concentric controls, and while I’m not generally a huge fan of relic’ed finishes in general, it just works so well on these and I even love the faded shell pink. I thought long and hard about one of these, but ultimately went another direction. So cool to get to hear you play yours!
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Thanks @fennario !
I’ve had the Flea bass since June 2023 and I quite enjoy it. It’s light-weight and has a great punchy vintage sound. The dual tone knobs also allow you to approximate a p-bass a bit better if need be. It has a vintage neck spec which I also enjoy.
As for the finish, I don’t mind the texture/feeling of the instrument but I feel they do go far overboard with all the dimples and raking on the horns. Road Worn tends to be more relic’d than a Journeyman finish from the Custom Shop. Hope that info helps!
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are you sure to select “constant frame rate” and 29.97 fps? I use handbrake also and it works perfectly for me.
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That might be the key! I’ve tried Constant frame rate but forgot to do 29.97fps. I had it set at 30. Thanks for the info man!
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you bet!
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Glad you did this one, gives me an excuse to listen to this great song again
You sure did, and on those sweet fills!
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Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it.
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