Guitar tab on CaChink: chords + melody · Easy · Drop D (DADGBe) · key of D minor. Playable in the browser — chords strum on tap and the tab plays back in the song's own tuning.
Drop your low E to a D and half this song plays with one finger — the riff that carries the whole back half is literally open D, up to F, up to G on the bottom string. The main riff is slyer: open-D chugs answered by hammered fourths way up at the 11th fret, the "ka-ching" everyone air-guitars. Tom Morello wrote it while showing a student how to tune to drop D, stopped the lesson and hit record. Play it lazy and heavy; the groove is the whole point, and the payoff is dynamics, not speed. Bass side: /tab/killing-in-the-name-bass.
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