If You Have To Ask Chords

Key- CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays452

If You Have To Ask by Red Hot Chili Peppers is a guitar song. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro and verse :

!-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-!
!-6-x-x-6-x-x-6-x-x-6-x-x-6-!
!-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-x-x-5-!  X4
!---------------------------!
!---------------------------!
!---------------------------!

!-7-7-!
!-6-6-!
!-5-5-!
!-----!
!-----!
!-----!

Chorus :

!------------------------------------------!
!-------10/13------------------------------!
!--------------8/12------------------------!
!-8-10----------------8-10-----8---8---8---!
!------------------------------------------!
!------------------------------------------!

Break :

!-----------------------!
!-10--9--8--5--6--3--6--!
!-10--9--8--3--7--1--5--!
!-9---8--7--5--5--3--4--!
!-10--9--8--3--6--1--5--!
!-----------------------!

Outro :

The same as the intro and finish with :

!------------------------!
!------------------------!
!-5^7--5-----------------!
!---------75-3----------!
!---------------5--3^5---!
!------------------------!
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante