Chords for Chad Smith & Flea - Breaking The Girl lessons

_ _ _ _ Grew up in Detroit, _ Michigan, the lovely Motown,
and I was very influenced by _ all the stuff on the radio.
And I started playing the drums when I was seven.
And my father _ _ went to, like, a Baskin-Robbins ice cream-type place
and went in the alley and stole, like, the big, you know,
the things that you scoop the ice cream out of.
And that was my first drum set, with these little Lincoln Log,
little children's play drumsticks.
So I started out with the finest equipment,
and that's how I really, you know, progressed so quickly at an early age.
But [Bb] from then, I basically played in, like, school bands and stuff,
and never [C] really took any formal lessons.
[Bb] Mostly my real influences were just listening and playing with other people on other records.
I played, I jammed with Led Zeppelin, I jammed with Black Sabbath,
I jammed with Hendrix, I jammed with The Doors, and _ _ Motown, _ Iggy Pop.
There's, like, Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown, all these people.
I'd put the headphones on and I'd play along [Bbm] to them.
And the really important thing that I tried to do,
because there's so many different styles there,
is I really tried to get into the feel of what these drummers were,
how they were injecting their personality into [Bb] their bands.
Like, when Bonham was [B] a big influence,
and my brother, I listened to all his records,
because I didn't have any, so he used to play them,
but I had some pretty cool influences.
But with Bonham, he was so funky.
Most people don't think of John Bonham as a funky drummer,
but he was really funky and thrifty with his parts,
and just with the heavy foot.
_ So I'd try to sound like John Bonham when I played with Led Zeppelin, you know.
And then when I'd go and, say, play with, you know,
_ _ any of the groups that I'd emulate,
I'd really try to sound like the drummer,
and therefore, with the different styles,
try to plug into what they were doing.
So that was a big [B] learning thing for me.
And it was really fun.
I used to drive my mom crazy.
She'd be, like, _ flashing the light on and off in my bedroom.
_ And I'd be like, uh-uh, [Bbm] and I'd be in this trance,
you know, because I was just, I was, like, in the band.
It was great.
[Bb] _ _
_ _ So another really big influence was
Mitch Mitchell's drumming with Jimi Hendrix,
and I got turned on to that at a pretty young age.
And so _ _ basically, one of the tunes
_ _ [Bbm] on Blood Sugar called Breaking the Girl
has this sort of three feel.
And I was playing a part that really wasn't jelling that good.
It was okay, but it wasn't [Bb] really happening.
And I think Flea made the suggestion of,
you know, think manic depression, you know,
think, you know, it's doing like a tom roll thing.
So I went, ah, and ended up
becoming a real integral part of the song.
So I'm gonna play that now and give you a little idea
of how it sounded before and then after I added the fills
and check it out.
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And then after the manic depression _ suggestion,
I threw this in there. _ _ _
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Now I'm gonna play along with the track
and you see how it works, okay?
Check it out.
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[Bbm] So_
You're [Abm] burning, you're feeling [Gb] the burn
[Eb] You're breaking the [B] chain
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[Bbm] You're no [Abm] better than I [Ab] am
But still [Eb] you're breaking the [Bbm] chain
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