• Song:

    Killing In The Name

  • Artist:

    Rage Against The Machine

  • Album:

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

r.a.t.m
killing in the name
dropped-d
Intro:
|-------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|
|-------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|
|-------------------|---------------11-12--|------------------12b14r12--|
|-------------------|---------11-12--------|-----------11-12------------|
|----------6--6--6--|----------------------|----------------------------|
|--0--0--0----------|-0--0--0--------------|-0--0--0--------------------|

   ---3--- ---3---    ---3---                ---3---


Verse:
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------3h4---------------|
|-----3h5--x-x-------5-----2h3p2--|
|--0--------------------0--2h3p2--|


Pre-chorus:
|--------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------9------------8------------7-------2h3p2h3--|
|----3h5-x-x------3h5-x-x-------3h5-x-x-------0-2h3p2h3--|
|--0------------0-------------0-------------0-0-2h3p2h3--|


Chorus: (Swing or triplet feel)
|-----------|------------------------
|-----------|------------------------
|-----------|------------------------
|--7-7---7--|--7-7-x-7-7-x-x-x-x-x-x-
|--x-x---x--|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
|--5-5---5--|--5-5-x-5-5-x-x-x-x-x-x-
|--0-0---0--|--0-0-x-0-0-x-x-x-x-x-x-
*** you I won't do what you tell me...

|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|--7-7-x-x-7-x-7-----------|
|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x--3--5-----|
|--5-5-x-x-5-x-5--3--5--3--|
|--0-0-x-x-0-x-0--3--5-----|
*** you I won't do what you tell me!!!


Bridge: (Repeat each chord 24 times REALLY fast)
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|--7--9--10-12--14--15--17--19--| this is the part where
|--x--x--x--x---x---x---x---x---| Zack is freaking out
|--5--7--8--10--12--13--15--17--|
|--0--0--0--0---0---0---0---0---|


End:
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|--0--0--0---13-13-13--|
|--0--0--0---13-13-13--|
|--0--0--0---13-13-13--|

   ---3---   ---3---



Killing In The Name Solo



This solo is mostly a blues scale in D.
You gotta use a Whammy pedal to play it successfully.
Set the Whammy Pedal on "2 octaves above".

Section 1) and 2)
Pick the first 6 notes quickly while rocking the 
pedal forward and backwards once for each note.
The 7th note is picked once with the pedal pushed forward.

Section 3)
Hammer-ons: pluck the first note once, and hammer on second note repeatedly
            while pushing pedal forward at a slightly slower rate than 
            in sections 1 & 2.
The last 3 notes of the solo are plucked once with the pedal pushed forward.


NOTE: The Whammy can emit a lot of unwanted distortion on the double octave
      setting. I find playing with the middle pickup on and the tone turned
      almost off will eliminate this distortion.
      It helps if you slightly mute the strings also.

Section 1
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---13---10------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------12---10--------------14-----------------------------------|
|---------------------12---10------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

Section 2
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---13---10------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------12---10---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------12---10----12------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

Section 3   
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---*10h13---*10h13----------------------15----17----------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------13---------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------*10h12---*10h12----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

* Hammer on and pull off rapidly for these
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