Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dosed - Guitar Tab

About Dosed

Few Red Hot Chili Peppers songs ask for this kind of patience from a guitarist. "Dosed" moves at a gentle 84 BPM in E minor, and the whole performance lives or dies on touch: soft fingerpicking, clean chord voicings, and a restrained dynamic that most players used to the band's louder material will find surprisingly demanding. The fingerpicked intro and verse pattern are the core challenge here, requiring even spacing between notes and a light right-hand attack to keep the tone warm rather than brittle. Fretting hand muting and smooth chord transitions matter a great deal at this tempo because every gap is audible. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop the picking pattern at a reduced speed until your right hand finds a natural, relaxed groove before bringing it back up. The chorus swells call for a controlled shift in picking intensity without losing the song's quietly intimate feel, which is harder to maintain than it sounds in Funk Rock context.

• The song is played in E Standard tuning, so no retuning is needed, but the fingerpicked parts reward close attention to right-hand dynamics and tone.
• At 84 BPM the tempo is slow enough that any unevenness in your picking pattern or chord transitions becomes immediately noticeable.
• Practising the fingerpicked verse pattern with the Practice Toolbar looped and slowed will help lock in consistent finger spacing before playing at full speed.