Chords for Tom Morello Lesson part 1

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_ _ _ _ _ We're here in the studio here today with what is nearly the stock
Tom Morello setup.
This is the
Marshall 22 of JCM 800 2205 50 watt head
With channel switching and with the name blocked out so that no endorsements are given or asked for
This is not my cabinet normally.
I have a 4 by 12 PV cabinet
That I use that sounds like my sound this is the cabinet
They had here at the office of guitar world which we're using today
Which is going to sound pretty close, but it's not exactly what I use as far as the pedals go
There's a ancient cry ancient early 80s crybaby wah-wah pedal there
I believe it's missing one little hoof the original digitech whammy [G] pedal
indispensable to making pterodactyl noises the
Boss digital delay pedal there [G#m] the dod equalizer pedal which is only used when I wish to go to 11
It's just flat across as you can see and then this goes up a little bit
It also has the sweat guard on it there when I'm playing a rocking show in a hot venue
The pedals would sometimes short out and you can't have that so that's my tech put a sweat guard on that
[G] For personal hygiene as well, and then the MXR phase 90 which I really don't use for anything
There and it's a beautiful orange pedal at the end of the line there as far as guitars go we've got two here today
But this is the sole power guitar which has been my primary guitar for all of the audio slave
songs and concerts for
Songs that are tuned in regular [G#] 440 and for the drop D portion of our demonstrations today
We've got [F] the new Gibson Les Paul that I've been using [G] on the latest record revelations _ _ _ _ _ _
When it comes like sort of creating new stuff
I never really kind of go into the process going and now I will create a new sound.
It's just
in messing around on the guitar sort of different it's
concentrating on the happy accidents and the
Eccentricities that just sort of occur and rather than letting that go by as a glitch or is sort of a one-off
I'll practice something so if I were I don't know is the set the delay sort of at a random
Setting and then step on it would sort of see what [G#] that sounds
[G] Okay, that kind of has like sort of a slap back he sounds so the first thing you know
And then it's just I have a very very simple setup
But by sort of manipulating in different ways we can see what happens so that's on kind of a slap back delay
So what if we were to use the toggle switch with the [E] slap back delay?
What might occur?
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[C] _ _ _ [E] _ [B] interesting whatever [G] then we might
See what happens if we [E] click on a little while that
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[A] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ [F]
All
Right that's something that might could end up as music down the line
when I started using the toggle switch as a as a
Picking technique it was not it was on a guitar that had two volume knobs [G] one of them turned to tan the other turned to
Zero and by flicking between the two pickups that caused the on-off switch this one on this guitar was not
Designed with two volume knobs and or a toggle switch so I had this one put on but can work on any guitar
It has two pickups and two to a volume knob for each pickup
So this one is customized, but you do not need a customized guitar in order to do the toggle switching _ _ _ _ _ _ the whammy pedal for me
Was it was a great?
Invention because I never had the patience like when you get your original record deal you get a couple of thousand dollars to spend on
Gear so everyone runs down a guitar center and buys
boxes of stuff that blink well of course I did that too and
Then I didn't have the patience to read any of the manuals and plugged them in and they just they drained all the sound
I just kind of kind of crappy so when I heard that there was a
Harmonizer in a stomp box, but I got to get me one of those it was right around the time
Of the beginnings of Rage Against the Machine where I was basically designated to be the band's DJ
And I found with some very simple manipulations of a very simple pedal that all of a sudden the guitar
For me was finding a lot of very new sonic possibilities
I mean the uh in the most sort of obvious one which was the one thing I've also had sort of always had the
sort of the credo with my pedals like
_ Subtlety isn't so high on my list of things because like I used to go
You know when you first go into a guitar store, and you try a delay pedal you turn all the knobs up
And it sounds crazy, and it's beautiful and awesome then later on you know you you know you're playing in a band
So you got to ratchet everything back for a little analog analog sustain
I always kept my mindset with the first trip to the guitar [E] store to see what how crazy it would get and you know a lot
of things with like the
With the whammy pedal.
It's the you know the two octaves up helped to really emulate that kind of
Southern California gangster rap sound and it's like you know [F#] dr..
Dre was [G#] very influential and
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[N] _ _ There's _ _ like four notes like that with a hip-hop groove underneath it all of a sudden
You know change the way that I looked at music, and I started studying very much more
DJs rather than guitar players and trying to emulate those songs _ _ _ _ _ when you want to rock hard children lean [F#] on f-sharp _ _ _ _ _
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[Gm] Just octaves on f [F#]-sharp, but just bounce bounce the field and then a little riff that goes _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ [F] _ [E] _ [F#] _ [A] _ _ [F#] _ _
[N] And that's the first group which is played with the somewhere on the sweep of the of the wah there to for extra menace
That's sort of like ghetto boys.
That's what we were going for on that was sort of like a ghetto boys [Bm] menacing
Houston sixth Ward
It _ [F#] leans _ [B] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G] on the octaves a lot, but then adds in the sort of the dissonant notes on the first [A] chord
I'm just [F#m] [E] two [F#] notes and muting the ones [B] in between
[F#] the octave _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] The a [F#] strings never played in that _ _
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Bulls on parade _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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