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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
Tom Morello has a huge bag of tricks that are unique to his playing, including draggin an allen wrench accross the strings while working the wah and installing a custom "kill switch" toggle in his guitar to get the stutter effect. There are quite a few videos about how to achieve his various techniques, it's pretty interesting.
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killer info, thank you.
i watched the youtube vids on his technique
he goes through several killer tracks and how he plays the licks
he talks a bit re: killing in the name in part 3, but doesn't really reveal the technique
but i struck gold with this interview
10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Tom Morello | GuitarPlayer
The tune that got it all started for Morello has to be ?Killing in the Name,? off the first Rage record. In the space of a few bars we get to hear Morello blur the distinction between major and minor, slam greasy, dropped-D power chords, and employ the extreme dynamics that give the song its depth and power. Before we examine the notes themselves, let?s remember what Morello said back in 2000: ?Dynamics are a big part of the heavy factor for us. They?ve become an innate part of the songwriting process?the quiet parts that build the tension that triggers this huge release that makes 100,000 kids jump up and down.?
The tune opens with huge D power chords that lead into a disturbing bass figure that jumps between the root and the b9. It?s over that bass line that Morello plays Ex. 7a , a line that not only contains the major 3 but also the major 7. Repeat that three times, adding the bend on the fourth pass. Although it?s not notated, the guitar and bass then do a few bars of root/b9 (D to Eb) quarter-note triplets before kicking into the main groove in Ex. 7b. (For the sake of continuity, this is notated as a faster 4/4 tempo, although the drums are actually playing a half-time feel.)
Morello plays the part wide open in the intro and then pulls it back in the verse, picking more lightly and using light palm muting on the power chords. In a later verse he plays the chromatic-flavored blues run in the second ending. Jam along with any of the youtube videos of ?Killing? and you?ll hear how Morello fleshes out the other sections with big power chords, funky, muted chucks, and a Whammy pedal rave-up for the solo. Once you get a feel for the structure, make sure you throw in your own techniques to keep it original. (If you don?t add some of your own trip, you?ll be a mere cog in the very machine against which you claim to rage, which would suck.) Mix in your personality over the ?Killing? groove and soon enough you?ll be paraphrasing the soothing, mellow lyric at the song?s end: ?With all due respect, I won?t do what you tell me.?
