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Born As Ghosts by Rage Against The Machine
Born As Ghosts
/w = Pull up on whammy bar
\_/ = Whammy bar dive and release
( ) = Ghost note
B = Bend
R = Release
x = Muted note
Intro
Leave the wah full forward and depress down with tremolo bar
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------|
A|-2----(2)------2----(2)------2----(2)------2----(2)------|
E|-0\__/(0)------0\__/(0)------0\__/(0)------0\__/(0)------|
(^whammy bar)
Chorus
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------7/w(9)--9br(9)--x--7----|--------7/w(9)--9br(9)--x--7----|
D|--2--2--7/w(9)----------x--7----|--2--2--7/w(9)----------x--7----|
A|--2--2--5/w(7)----------x--5----|--2--2--5/w(7)----------x--5----|
E|--0--0--------------------------|--0--0--------------------------|
Listen for this part in the verse:
E|--------|
B|--------|
G|--------|
D|--------|
A|---10---|
E|--------|
Along with this...
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------|
A|-2----(2)------2----(2)------2----(2)------2----(2)------|
E|-0\__/(0)------0\__/(0)------0\__/(0)------0\__/(0)------|
Chorus
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------7/w(9)--9br(9)--x--7----|--------7/w(9)--9br(9)--x--7----|
D|--2--2--7/w(9)----------x--7----|--2--2--7/w(9)----------x--7----|
A|--2--2--5/w(7)----------x--5----|--2--2--5/w(7)----------x--5----|
E|--0--0--------------------------|--0--0--------------------------|
Solo:
Yep, typical Tom solo here. For the first part scratch your pick along the strings and
switch them. For the next bit it gets a bit crazy, and will probably be impossible to
From what I gather Tom uses a custom built Ibanez Talman and hit some kind of touchpad
can recreate the sound of unplugging the jack of the guitar and touching the
etc...
Its whammy and wah for this, and probably recorded from 2 guitars but I'll try my best.
Custom touchpad bit x7
E|------------------------------|
B|------------------------------|
G|------------------------------|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|>->->-<-<-<->->->-<-<-<->->->-|
+ o + o + o + o
Whammy set up a 4th bit
E|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
B|------|------|------|----8-|------|------|----8-|-(8)--|
G|-7----|-7----|-7----|-7----|-7----|-7----|-7----|------|
D|----7-|------|------|------|------|----7-|------|------|
A|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
E|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
Chorus
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------7/w(9)--9br(9)--x--7----|--------7/w(9)--9br(9)--x--7----|
D|--2--2--7/w(9)----------x--7----|--2--2--7/w(9)----------x--7----|
A|--2--2--5/w(7)----------x--5----|--2--2--5/w(7)----------x--5----|
E|--0--0--------------------------|--0--0--------------------------|
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version 2
Intro/Verse
|-------------|
|-------------| with whammy bar pushed
|-------------| clockwise.
|-------------|
|-------------|
|--0--/------|
Chorus
|-----|----------------------|
|-----|----------5b6r5-------|
|-----|----------------------|
|-x-7-|------7b*--------x-7--| * 1/4 bend
|-x-5-|------5b*--------x-5--|
|-----|-0-0------------------|
Verse
Chorus
Solo- Part 1- This is the actual method used by tom morello described
in an interview. Tom has a defected pickup in his custom ibanez here
and can turn that pickup on and off with a knob. He selects the
defected knob and uses a wah wah to give it a rythem, he describes the
sound as termites with teeth and the wah wah gives them chomp. I dont
know if it is possible to put on a broken pickup onto your guitar and
do this, so,if you play along with the record, just play the main riff.
Part 2 of solo- Tom uses a guitar with 2 volume knobs(lots of guitars
have this feature)and turns the neck pickup to zero and the bridge
pickup to 10. By flicking the toggle switch, initially your turning on
and off the guitar. This to is an actual method used by tom, he hits
the low E string while flicking his toggle switch very fast, then he
hits the 17th fret of the D string followed by the 19th on the G
string, then back to the toggle, then the 19th fret on G, then toggle,
then 19th on G, then toggle, then 19th on G followed by 17th on D, then
17th on D followed by 19th on G followed by 17th on D followed by 19th
on G followed by 20 on B.
Drum Roll
Go to Chorus Then come back here
End with
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|-0----0-|
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