Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Title: Revolver
Album: Evil Empire (1996)
Drop-D tuning:
(low to high) D-A-D-G-B-E
Intro: (dist.)
Custom guitar effects for approx. 37 sec.
fade in
|-----|---------------------------------------------------------------------
|--0--|---------------------------------------------------------------------
|--0--|---------------------------------------------------------------------
|--0--|--------------------------------3------------------------------------
|-----|--3--4--5-----------3--5--3--5------3--4--5-----------3--5--3--5-----
|-----|-----------0--3--5---------------------------0--3--5--------------0--
------------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-------------------------------3b(4)r-----------------------------------|
-3--4--5-----------3--5--3--5----------3--4--5-----------3--5--3--5-----|
----------0--3--5-------------------------------0--3--5--------------0--|
Gtr. 2 enters
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|-10b--\----------10b-r--\--|
|-10b--\----------10b-r--\--|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
^ very slight bend
Pre-Verse:
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----10---------------10b(11)r------------10b(11)r-------------10b(11)r---|
|-5-------------------------------12------------------12-------------------|
|-0---------0-------0-------------------0-------------------0--------------|
Verse:
|-----------------------| |--------------------|
|-----------------------| x3 |--------------------|
|-----------------------| |--------------------|
|-----10b(11)r----------| |----10b(11)r--------|
|----------------12-----| |--------------------|
|--0--------------------| |-0------------------|
Build-up:
|------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------6--
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--
|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--
|------------------------------------------------------------------
"As he aproaches the door"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------6-------6--------------------------------------------------|
-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7--7-7-7-7-7--7--|
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-7--7-7-7-7-7--7--|
-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5--5-5-5-5-5--5--|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
^ start slowly bending
Chorus:
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------| x3
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------3-----------3-----------3--------------|
|--5----3h(5)-------3h(5)-------3h(5)-------------3--|
|-----0-----------0-----------0-----------0-3h(5)----|
"Hey revolver!..."
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|-------------3-----------3-----------3----|
|--5----3h(5)-------3h(5)-------3h(5)------|
|-----0-----------0-----------0------------|
Breakdown:
The muted parts were made by Tom taking a pencil and holding it,
with his picking hand, and then rocking the pencil back and forth pretty
fast so that the eraser hits the strings & the pencil hits the guitar.
It's pretty messed up but it sounds cool. He also whacks a slapback delay
in there somewhere. Good luck getting to sound right.
Guitar Solo:
|---------------------|
|--10-----------------| x8
|--12b(14)------------|
|---------------------|
|------------x-x-x-x--|
|------------x-x-x-x--|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|--18----------------15-----------10-------10-----------------| x3
|--20(22)------------17b(19)------12b(14)--12b(14)------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------x-x-----------------------------------x-x-x-x--|
|--------------x-x-----------------------------------x-x-x-x--|
|--17-------17-------17-------17-------17-------17-------17-----------|
|--19b(22)--19b(22)--19b(22)--19b(22)--19b(22)--19b(22)--19b(22)------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
^ ^ ^
Bends with ^ under them are bends that don't quite make it to the actual pitch.
2nd Breakdown: Softly and slowly
|-----------------------------------------0-----|
|--6------------6------------3------------3-----|
|--5------------5------------2------------2-----|
|--0------------0------------0------------0-----|
|--3------------0------------0------------0-----|
|-----------------------------------------------|
Guitar only
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------| x2
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------3-----------3-----------3--------------|
|--5----3h(5)-------3h(5)-------3h(5)-------------3--|
|-----0-----------0-----------0-----------0-3h(5)----|
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