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Bullet In the Head by RATM
Tabbed by Paul Fivey p.fivey@dundee.ac.uk
This is a correction of a pretty good tab by R.Allen Canterbury
which only had a couple of little niggles.
Firstly, no pick!
Tim Commerford has never used a pick on a RATM record that I know
of (although I may be wrong) and certainly never uses one live
no matter what certain transcriptions, especially Guitar World's
"Ghost of Tom Joad (live)," may say. If you're gonna make muted noises
you need to make them with your fingers, not a pick.
This riff is based around what Tom Morello refers to as a Hendrix chord:
This is EADGBE: 076780 on a six string guitar or 0767 on bass.
Its the chord that Purple Haze is based around and it crops up
in RATM songs like Vietnow and Testify.
Verse riff:
G-----------------7--
D-----------------6--
A--7-7--7-7-7--------
E--------------0-----
Occasionally, it varies as:
G------------------6/7--
D------------------5/6--
A--7-7---7-7-7----------
E---------------0-------
or
G----------------------7~9---
D------------------7~9-------
A--7-7---7-7-7---------------
E---------------0------------
And in the live long form video he varies it at one point as:
G-------------------7--
D-------------------6--
A--7-7-----------------
E----------------0-----
Chorus:
G-----------------------------------
D-----------------------------------
A----------0--------2-------0-------
E--0---3----------------3-------0---
Outro:
G-----------------------------------
D-----------------------------------
A--7-7-7-7-7-5----------------------
E--------------5-6-5-0-3-5-3-0-0-0--
Play this many.many times
then:
G------------------
D------------------
A--7-7-------------
E------0-0-0-0-----
a few times and end with multiple E notes at the 7th fret on the 3rd string.
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
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Carter Wanna Be |
#1 by Carter Wilson at Mar 3, 1975 at 4:11 PM EST |
| believing everything your government says and all that is pointless and stupid try opening your eyes, or else you're just another brainwashed zombie | |
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Shavo Odadjian. Average |
#2 by Shavo Odadjian.... The REAL BassMasta at May 6, 1977 at 1:03 AM EST |
| heh, Even more infuriating is the people with "support our troops" on their giant gas hording suvs its like saying "support our troops, we need that oil!" | |
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Kevin Average |
#3 by Kevin Toutkoushian at Jun 3, 1977 at 11:16 PM EST |
| Both of you are saying basically the same thing. The 'in house drive-by' is talking about how the media delivers the metaphorical 'bullet in the head' via your TV, radio, magazines, etc. | |
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cash Wanna Be |
#4 by cash putnam at Feb 7, 1980 at 11:10 AM EST |
| THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS SONG WAS ON MY M8Z IPOD N I THINK ITS AMAZING! I'D NEVER HEARD OV RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE N NOW ITZ LIKE ONE OV MY TOP BANDS! LOL! xXxXx | |
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butters Average |
#5 by butters at Nov 24, 1985 at 4:09 PM EST |
| atthedrive-in is annoying. RATM have got a great way of getting their message across to people and they just happen to be making money of it. If you like you can ignore their countless donations to useful charities. Their way of spreading the word sure beats your way of bad mouthing people who are better off than you. What do you listen to? Eminem? Sorry for ignoring your advice renegrenade. He was pissing me off. I thought the stuff on people's cars was something about the jesus fish? Im Australian so I miss out on these little messages Here in Australia we dont all talk likethe crocodile hunter. Fuck I hate that guy. | |
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Zach Average |
#6 by Zach Eisenman at Apr 30, 1992 at 9:32 AM EST |
| sorry i no how late this is but i think that the yellow ribbon line relates back to ancient china were the yellow turbans were rebbiling aginast the han and they wore yellow ribbons, they started been the peacefuk type but then strated to kill people and started been terroists whihc is a complete contradiction to there slogan "long live the way of peace" | |
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Dylan Average |
#7 by Dylan Rolfe at Dec 22, 1993 at 7:31 PM EST |
| I can't say I doubt this will do any good but if we really want "AttheDrive-in" to shut the fuck up we have to ignore him. I realize that by stating this I'm recognizing him, but he posts this shit on so many RatM forums and we just need to ignore this attention hound. On the note of the song's meaning I have to agree with most of you guys about how the media and these corporations are making you braindead which can be even more dangerous than "a bullet in your fucking head". Also yellow ribbons is (imho) speaking about the yellow ribbions we in the (supposedly) good 'ol USA use to show support for our troops. If you look how many people have yellow ribbon stickers on their cars for this Iraq war it's disgusting. | |
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Benjamin Average |
#8 by Benjamin Nield at Dec 20, 1995 at 1:41 AM EST |
| This song is about how media and the material products of the new age have great influence on today's society and culture. It is suggested here that through these, a sort-off brainwashing or 'mind rape' occurs; media is thus used as a way to sell propaganda or political messages, and is thus a potent weapon against the people, much like a 'bullet in the head'. | |
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Owen Wanna Be |
#9 by Owen Ellis at Feb 4, 1997 at 11:54 AM EST |
| Atthedrive i really dissagree wtih you, they want to spread there message, Yeah they got rich of it but if they got rich they would stop protesting right now, the rest of the band did, but zachs still protesting hes still going all out | |
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Howwhywyz Howwh Professional Badass |
#10 by Howwhywyz Howwhyam at Nov 8, 1997 at 12:43 PM EST |
| "A bullet in ya head (8 times, building to a shout) A bullet in ya head (7 times, shouted/screamed) Yeah! (Sustained to end of drum roll)" That's what i call punctual lyrics:) | |
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Jason Rhythm Player |
#11 by Jason at Nov 21, 1997 at 7:51 PM EST |
| i dont think he knows what a drive-by is. drive by = driving past someone while shooting at them. The premise of this song is that you're being metaphorically shot in the head by TV, the bullets aren't killing you they're just making you brain dead. | |
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Mark Average |
#12 by Mark McL at Nov 11, 1999 at 6:40 AM EST |
| The in-house drive by is the commercials, news and assorted crap that is pumped into your house (and thus your head) via your television. We are the "victims" when we feed into believing all the crap that thrown at you. "Believin' all the lies that they're tellin' ya Buyin' all the products that they're sellin' ya" | |
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Paul Average |
#13 by Paul at Jul 18, 2002 at 6:12 PM EST |
| angst is fucking gay...you loser | |
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alex Lead Player |
#14 by alex beaulieu at Dec 26, 2006 at 10:46 PM EST |
| I know what you mean Aneurysm, it's quite pathetic when people conform to mainstream society, and become victims. That's why I'm in debt to Rage for waking me up, so I could realize what was going on around me. There be no shelter here The Frontline is everywhere RATM Forever | |
