Experimenting is a good way to find something that works musically. Tom Morello revealed how he stumbled on the guitar riff on Rage Against the Machine's first single on their debut album. The riff is impressive, and the 1992 song's message is still relevant today.
Tom Morello's 'Killing in the Name' Riff Came From a Guitar Lesson
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Morello, 62, revealed that his riff came first before the rest of the single in a YouTube video. "The main riff actually came up with when I was giving a guitar lesson to someone else," he said. "I was teaching them how to do drop D tuning, which, for you non-guitar players, means all the strings are tuned regularly like they normally are, except for the fattest string, which is tuned down to D."
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He played the riff by chance and interrupted the lesson. "I got my little cassette recorder and I pressed record, save that for myself, brought it to rehearsal the next day, and the boys collaboratively made a song called, 'Killing in the Name,'" he later said.
Tony Iommi and Jimmy Page inspired the guitar player at the time. It's no surprise that now Morello is asked to use his skills for other artists and video games like Final Fantasy XIV.
"It happens all day," Morello said, according to Guitar World. "I do a lot of it, too. I’ve donated guitar solos to younger bands. They’re fans of Rage Against the Machine or Audioslave, and they want me on their songs."
He was featured on songs with The Pretty Reckless, Måneskin, and Babymetal in recent years. Morello has also been politically active and outspoken, which isn't surprising since "Killing in the Name" is political.
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The Song Was Inspired by the Police Beating of Rodney King
Rodney King at the 17th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books - Day 1 at USC on April 21, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.Jerod Harris/WireImage Getty Images
The rap rock song's lyrics focus on people doing what they're told by groups that burn crosses and wear badges, linking the KKK to the police. It builds up to Zack de la Rocha repeating, "F--k you, I won't do what you tell me."
The police brutally beating Rodney King inspired the lyrics. "We wrote that song before we even had a gig," Morello said, according to American Songwriter. "So when we started clobbering people with those riffs and the ‘f--k you’– it was exciting from the very beginning."
The song returned to pop culture after Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd and sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker released their cover of the song with a video of the protests.
"It’s been 28 years since, and every word still applies," Machine Gun Kelly wrote in the caption of his Instagram post.
Unfortunately, the protest song is timeless in this country. And it's amazing to think it all started with a guitar riff.
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