Rage Against the Machine--Calm Like A Bomb.
Tabbed by john victor--shilohbritt@aol.com.
ok people----if you felt the funk blast when hearing this little ditty, learn these tabs its all 100% correct.
the guitar is in Drop A tuning (yes down 6 1/2 steps from E). You gott have a whammy pedal for this.
set those XP100's to patch 14 (up two octaves)
------------ while tremelo picking the B note push the
--12 (trem.) pedal up untill fully compressed at the
------------ riff. im not gonna list the incriments
------------ in which it rises----you dont need to
------------ duplicate the song THAT much.
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ok that riff that sounds like a bass
is this (remember---its in drop A)
---------------------------------------- this riff
---------------------------------------- even the 1
---------------------------------------- & 1/2 step
---------------------------------------- bend is
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-2--2--0---2---2--0--2(bu-1 1/2 steps---
ok--grab out those wah wah's
ok play this with wah fully compressed and whammy pedal OFF
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--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2- (all in even 32 note beat)
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OK NOW... that heavy korn style riff
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-0h2-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x(etc.)-0-2p0----------- simple)
-0h2-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x(etc.)-0-2p0--2--2---5-
Ok the solo--now this is the part where there are 100 adaptations--my fave involves a sucession of rapid hammers and pulls (shredding)
so you can improvise or create a simple version for your style (its in the key of G--[2 sharps])
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-12p0-0h12-12p0-0h12(etc.)--- -12-12-8--12-12-7-
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OK NOW USE PATCH 13 (8va) TO CONSTANTLY RISE 6 STEPS THEN DESCEND----ALL WITH THOSE BASIC RIFFS.
im not gonaa transcribe the whole damn solo--i think i saw in a mag that the official tab book for TheBattleOfLosAngeles just came out so check it out if you want NOTE FOR NOTE shit. but i would go by this...after its FREE.
OK ---THATS THAT------yes i am a walking dictionary of tabs---expecially for rage so email if ya need something----i love the guitar i...i wont mind
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Michael Average |
#1 by Michael Vanderveen at Sep 29, 2007 at 8:06 AM EST |
| and the riot be the rhyme of the unheard! | |
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James Wanna Be |
#2 by James Makowiecki at Oct 1, 2007 at 9:56 AM EST |
| VoiceOfTheVoiceless has many good points and gets "Widow pig parrot" right on. But I believe you have to look at more than just that line to understand what Zach was going for. "Theres a widow pig parrot/ A rebel to tame/ A whitehooded judge/ A syringe and a vein" The line "Widow pig parrot" is exactly what VoiceOfTheVoiceless said, but the other 3 lines all refer to Mumia Abu Jamal. He is the rebel to tame, the whitehood judge was the racist judge that was on his trial, and "A syringe and a vein" is really powerful, being Mumia's execution by lethal injection. For the rest of the song bdm56 really got it, as well as the others, but the line I would really like is "Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of empires" which shows that after the people destory their oppressors, there is still hope is rebuilding. which is a theme echoed throughout the Battle of Los Angeles CD. This is why I love Rage Against the Machine, no matter how many times you hear a song, you can always find hidden metaphors and meaning in the songs. | |
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jo_silverhawk Average |
#3 by jo_silverhawk at Oct 3, 2007 at 5:27 AM EST |
| try Newman there seinfeld boy | |
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Jimmy Rhythm Player |
#4 by Jimmy at Oct 5, 2007 at 6:12 AM EST |
| "Same bodies buried hunger/But with different last names" refers to the fact that millions die of starvation, yet people just see them as bodies. With different last names. I thought that line was pretty self-explanitory. | |
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Drake Average |
#5 by Drake Bergman at Oct 5, 2007 at 7:41 AM EST |
| I'm suprised no one has written about this song yet, I think it is one of Rage's best. This song is about revolution. It is saying that no matter where you look in the world their is oppression and that there are people ready to fight back against this oppression. 'Calm like a bomb' refers to these people lying in wait so that the oppresser does not realize the danger until the day they go to far and a revolution blows up in their face. | |
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The Great South Lead Player |
#6 by The Great Southern Trendkill at Oct 15, 2007 at 12:11 PM EST |
| first heard this song at the end of the matrix reloaded. good stuff | |
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