• Song:

    Know Your Enemy

  • Artist:

    Rage Against The Machine

  • Album:

    1991-10-23: Cal State N...

For this song Tom uses a Digitech Xp 100 If you don’t have that you can buy it for $250 or just try to get as close as possible with something else. These are the basic riffs of the song listen to the song to hear when to play them. This song is pretty much distorted the whole time and it’s kind of easy except for the toggle switching. (Please Rate)

Standard tuning: EADGBe

(for this part use the toggle switching technique)
Intro:
e-----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------2--------------4-2-------------2----------------------
D-4-2-4-2-4---4-2-4-2-4-2-4----2-4-2-4-2-4---4-2-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3
A-----------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
Riff 1:
e-----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------------
D-----------2-----------------5-4-2----------2-------x6-x4-x2-----
A-4---4-4---0-4-4-4-4---4-4---3-2-0-4---4-4--0-4-4-4-x4-x2-x0-x2--
E-0/2—2-2-0---2-0-2-0/2-2-2-0-------0/2-2-2-0--2-0-2----------x0--
Fill:
e------------------------------
B------------------------------
G------------------------------
D------------------------------
A-12-0-12-0-12-0-12-0-12---/x-
E------------------------------
Riff 2:
e-------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------
D-4------------0-2-3-4----------------
A---------0-2-3-------------0-2-3-2-0-
E---2-0-2--------------2-0-2---------2
Riff 3:
e-------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------9----------------------------------------
G-------------------------------9----------------------------------------
D-------------------------------7--------------------------------5--4----
A-4-4-4-------4-4-4-------4-4-4-7-4-4-4-------4-4-4-------4-4-4--3--2---3
E-2-2-2---0-0-2-2-2---0-0-2-2-2----2-2-2---0-0-2-2-2---0-0-2-2-2--3--2---1
  PM…………………………………………………………………….    Pm………………………………………………………………………


Now the solo is going to look hard but after some practice its easy except for the toggle switching that is going to take a long time to get depending on how familiar you are with that. Use the Xp 100 on patch 27 + = harmony to 5th o = harmony to 4th 

Solo:
   0    +    0    +               w/ Bar               w/bar +1
e------------------------17----------------------------------
B--14---14---14---17-----------------------------------------
G---------------------14-------14-13~~~~~~~---13-14-13-------
D------------------------------------------------------14^---
A------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------

e-------------------1617191716----------------------
B---------141517/19------------191716---------------
G--131416-----------------------------191716-16~~~~~
D---------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------

e-----------17h19h21---------------------------------------------17----------17-
B--17h19h21----------17h19h21---------------------------17h19h21----17h19h21----
G-----------------------------18h19h21----------18h19h21------------------------
D--------------------------------------18h19h21---------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

e-----------17h19h21----------------------------------------------17-
B--17h19h21----------17h19h21----------------------------17h19h21----
G-----------------------------18h19h21----------18h19h21-------------
D--------------------------------------18h19h21----------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------

e-----------17h19h21h19h17----------------
B--17h19h21----------------21~~~~~~~(21)-
G-----------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------

For this part use the toggle switch technique
                                                                          Bend Full
e----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------10----------------------------10-----------10---------------
G---------11--------11-----------11--------11------11----11----11-11-10---9^-
D------11-------------------11--------11--------------11---------------------
A--9-9---9--9-9-9--9--9-9-9---9-9--9-9--9-9--9----9--9--9--9--9--9--8--8-7---
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------

e------------------------------------------------------------- 
B--------------------14----------------------------15---------
G----------14------------14--------------16------------16-----
D------14--------------------14------16--------------------16-
A-12-12--12--12-12-12--12--12---14-14--14--14-14-14--14--14---
E-------------------------------------------------------------

e------------------------------------
B--------------------18--------------
G----------18------------18--(18)---
D------18----------------------------
A-16-16--16--16-16-16--16------------
E------------------------------------
 Interlude:                                               Bend +1½ 
e--------------------------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------5------5-----5-------------------------
D-----------/7~~~~~~~-----------7~~~~-7~~~~-7~~~~~~~~----------------
A---4---2------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------5^---------
  W/ Bar          W/ Bar -1
e--------------------------/
B-/14-/14-/14--14------/
G-------------------    /
D-------------------   /                
A-------------------  /
E-------------------



Key:
                                
/ = slide up

 = slide down

~ = vibrato

^ = bend up




Song Order:

Intro: x 6
Riff 1: x 3
Fill: x 1
Riff 2: x 4
Riff 1: x 3
Fill: x 1
Riff 2: x 4
Riff 3: x 4
Riff 1: x 1
Solo
Interlude: x 1
Riff 2: x 4






Good Song! Enjoy

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