Knock Me Down tab by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Tabs

I was awed into dismay when I saw no trace of this song on the internet. So
I decided to figure it out (guitar-wise). I find that some of the lead
guitar lines are difficult to figure out so I have just transcribed the
simplest chordal parts of this song. I am not sure that most of the minor
chords are sevenths but the song has a cool sound to it and minor sevenths
usually do that. So examine this and write back if you find a problem or if
you want to discuss how it is possible for an object~s dimension to approach
infinity while it~s mass approaches zero while approaching the speed of
light.

The opening riff is:

E MajorE ---------------------|-------------------------|---------------------|---|
BB -------------------6-|-------------------6h8p6-|-------------------6-|---|
G+G -------------------7-|-------------------7-----|-------------------7-|-2-|
D MajorD -------------------7-|-------------------7-----|-------------------7-|-3-|
A augmentedA -----3--0-7-0-3-5----|-----3--0-7-0-3-5--------|-----3--0-7-0-3-5----|-3-|
E MajorE -3h5-----------------|-3h5---------------------|-3h5-----------------|-1-|

Of course you hold the FF chord at the end then the verse appears:

DmDm    Am7Am7 Gm7Gm7
Never too soon to ...
   DmDm    C majorC    Bb majorBb
Being cool too ...
DmDm      Am7Am7   Gm7Gm7
Too much for me, too ...
       A5A5    Bb majorBb
You~re gonna lose ...
E minor 7Em7   Bm7Bm7    Am7*
Don~t be afraid ...
     E minor 7Em7  D MajorD    C majorC
That you hurt ...
E minor 7Em7      Bm7Bm7
Pain~s part of ...
      Am7*
Don~t hide behind ...
    B5B5    C majorC
It~s a lie, ...

    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock me do...
Em(?)
I~m not bigger ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ....
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock me do...
Em(?)
I~m not bigger ...

DmDm  Am7Am7  Gm7Gm7     DmDm  C majorC  Bb majorBb

DmDm      Am7Am7   Gm7Gm7
I~m tired of ....
    DmDm  C majorC  Bb majorBb
I~m not above ....
DmDm     Am7Am7      Gm7Gm7
I~m part of you and ...
      A5A5 Bb majorBb
Why did ...
E minor 7Em7     Bm7Bm7      Am7*
Finding what you~re ....
C#m7C#m7 G#m7G#m7  F#m7F#m7
Being such a ...
E minor 7Em7    Bm7Bm7   Am7*
I pray for you most ...
C#m7C#m7 G#m7G#m7 F#m7F#m7
Now fly away

    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock me down
Em(?)
I~m not bigger ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock me do...
Em(?)
I~m not bigger ...

(very quickly now, the guitar and bass plays:

G+G ---------
D MajorD --------- When the guitar plays the 6th fret (the Bb majorBb note), it also plays
A augmentedA -5p0-7--- a power chord on it and therefore from that note the guitar
E MajorE -------6- plays a series of chords that go:

Bb5Bb5  G5G5 G5/Bb5  F5F5  C5C5  Bb5Bb5

Cool solo part:  A5A5  FF  A5A5  FF  G5G5  FF   A augmentedA

all I just did here was to write down the rhythm chords, I have and will not
do the solo (as little as it may seem). If you listen to the album, you can
figure out how these chords come in. The G5/Bb5 part is when the guitar
slides from G5G5 to Bb5. Listen and you shall hear, my child. Anyway, the
rest goes something like this:

    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock me do...
Em(?)
I~m not bigger ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock ...
Em(?)
I~m not ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ...
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock me down
Em(?)
I~m not bigger ...
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ....
    D5D5       C5C5
If you see me ....
     A minorAm  E minorEm
Knock me down
Em(?)
I~m not bigger ...
    F#5F#5      E5E5
If you see me ....
    F#5F#5      E5E5
If you see me ...
     C# minorC#m G# minorG#m
Knock me down
E MajorE          BB
I~m not bigger ....
    F#5F#5      E5E5
If you see me ...
    F#5F#5      E5E5
If you see me ...
     C# minorC#m G# minorG#m
Knock me down
E MajorE          BB
I~m not bigger ...


C# minorC#m      E MajorE  BB
C# minorC#m      E MajorE  BB

C# minorC#m                   E MajorE         BB
It~s so lonely when you don~t ....
C# minorC#m                   E MajorE         BB
It~s so lonely when you don~t ....


Please escuse all the redudancy and other things. I shall explain the
chords now and how I play them. Please remember that this is my best
estimate of this sad song. If you find any errors or so on could you please
email me. Anyway, before explaining every chords, I must explain that the
Em(?) chord does not really exist. I am not sure if there is another chord
that ends the normal chorus so I presume that the E minorEm chord sustains. So my
denoting Em(?) means that I am not sure if it is the E minorEm chord that is
playing at that time. And also, my ways of playing these chords are not by
gospel. Anyway, here we go:


   E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE
   ----------------
DmDm  x 5 7 7 6 x
Am7Am7 5 7 5 5 5 x
Gm7Gm7 3 5 3 3 3 x
C majorC  x 3 5 5 5 x
Bb majorBb  x 1 3 3 3 x
A5A5  5 7 7 x x x
E minor 7Em7 0 2 2 4 3 3 <-- a very weird way to play the E minor 7Em7 chord
Bm7Bm7 x 2 4 2 3 2
Am7* x 0 2 0 1 0
D MajorD  x x 0 2 3 2
B5B5  x 2 4 4 x x
D5D5  x 5 7 7 x x
C5C5  x 3 5 5 x x
A minorAm  x 0 2 2 1 0
E minorEm  0 2 2 0 0 0
C#m7C#m7 x 4 6 4 5 4
G#m7G#m7 4 6 4 4 4 x
F#m7F#m7 2 4 2 2 2 x
Bb5Bb5 6 7 7 x x x
G5G5  3 5 5 x x x
F5F5  x 8 10 10 x x
FF  1 3 3 2 x x
A augmentedA  5 7 7 6 x x
F#5F#5 x 9 11 11 x x
E5E5  x 7 9 9 x x
C# minorC#m x 4 6 6 5 4
G# minorG#m 4 6 6 4 4 x
E MajorE  0 2 2 1 0 0
BB  x 2 4 4 4 x


Now that I have wasted countless computer space (and if this is printed out,
the trees will die). But I hope this helps out a lot. Bye-bye...