Can't Stop

This famous track from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a great one to learn. 

It's got a mixture of intermediate rock techniques with some funk flair. I've simplified some parts slightly to keep it from getting too difficult - but nothing that'll keep you from playing along with the song!

The intro is simply a repeated hammer-on with a pattern of an eighth note followed by a quarter note - except the final repetition.

The verse has a neat trick where it sets up a short riff, then repeats it on the off beat in the next bar. The only thing we're changing throughout the bars is which bass note we play. We get 4 repetitions of this riff while the full band slowly kicks in.

Then, we get one last repetition with the last two bars altered to serve as a short pre-chorus. Make sure to let those notes ring.

We have a lot of dead notes in the chorus, this is very much a funk-influenced style of chord strumming. You don't need to hit the E, A, and D strings exactly here, it's more of a guideline. Just aim for a percussive sound.

After another repetition of the verse and chorus, we get a bridge. Here, we're playing triads on the offbeat.

The Bridge culminates in the solo below. It's all single notes with plenty of space between them, but you need to have your full bends and vibrato on point to make the most of these notes!

The song closes on another repetition of the verse, which is perhaps the only unusual thing about this song's structure.

Otherwise, the structure of: "Intro - Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Bridge - Solo" is definitely the most common structure for a rock song. Typically, it would close out on one more repetition of the chorus after the solo.