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How I Could Just Kill A Man - Rage Against the Machine
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Key:
. - dotted note X - fret-hand mute
() - tied note --3-- - triplet
st. - staccato % - rest
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INTRO/VERSE
Whammy Pedal set to one octave up (with wah?) With the whammy pedal on, slightly
depress the whammy BAR each time you strike a note.
Riff A
E S E H E E Q E E +H
e||-------------------------|-------------------------|
B||-------------------------|-------------------------|
G||-------------------------|-------------------------|
D||-------------------------|-------------------------|
A||-------------------------|----------8-(8)----------|
D||--10-12-10--12----10-12--|--12---12----------------|
E S E H E E Q E E +H
|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|--10-12-10--12----10-12--|--12---10-12-(12)--------||
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CHORUS
Riff B
st.--------| --3--
E E E Q Q E E E E E E S S S S S
||-----------------|---------------------------|
||o----------------|---------------------------|
||-----------------|---------------------------|
||----3---------3--|---------------X-X--3h5p3--|
||o-------3--5-----|--0-0--0-0--0--X-X---------|
||--0---0-3--5-----|--0-0--0-0--0--X-X---------|
st.--------| --3--
E E E Q Q E E E E E E S S S S S
|-----------------|---------------------------||
|-----------------|--------------------------o||
|-----------------|---------------------------||
|----3---------3--|---------------X-X---------||
|--------3--5-----|--0-0--0-0--0--X-X--------o||
|--0---0-3--5-----|--0-0--0-0--0--X-X--3h5p3--||
Riff C
st.--------|
E E E E E Q.
||---------------------||
||o-------------------o||
||---------------------||
||---------------%-----||
||o-0-0--0-0--0-------o||
||--0-0--0-0--0--------||
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BRIDGE
Riff D
S S E. S S S E. S S S E
||---------------------------||
||o-------------------------o|| 7 times
||------%--------%--------%--||
||--2h4----0h2h4----0h2h4----||
||o-------------------------o||
||---------------------------||
last time:
S S E. S S S H
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||------%-------------%------||
||--2h4----0h2h4-------------||
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
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Riff Order:
1st Verse: play Riff A 4 times
1st Chorus: play Riff B 2 times
2nd Verse: play Riff A 2.5 times, then Riff C 4 times, followed by the first 2 bars of
Riff A, then play Riff C 1 more time
2nd Chorus: play Riff B 2 times
Bridge: Riff D (see above for number of times)
3rd Verse: play Riff C 4 times, then Riff A 2 times
Last Chorus: play Riff A 1.5 times, then Riff B 4 times, and end with Riff C 4 times
