Killing in the Name (Bass) — Rage Against the Machine

Guitar tab on CaChink: bass · Intermediate · Bass Drop D (DADG) · key of D minor. Playable in the browser — chords strum on tap and the tab plays back in the song's own tuning.

The bass side of Killing in the Name, every section of the record in order. Drop your low E to D — the bottom line is written for that string and ▶ Play sounds it tuned down. Commerford shadows Morello bar for bar, so each riff here is the band riff: the queasy Eb-against-D intro, the hammered "ka-ching" main riff up at the 11th fret, the funky blues slink under the verses, the chromatic B–Bb–A sag under "Killing in the name of," and the one-finger D–F–G figure that carries the whole back half of the song. Fingers, not pick, and dig in — the StingRay bark is half the sound.

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