Wake Up Bass Tab

		
		Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3 
	

Rage Against The Machine (LP) Tabs:

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Wake Up by Rage Against The Machine

Tabbed by R.AllenCanterbury
This is a real cool song.  Timmy does some neat stuff--variations on what
I call "Riff 4."  Ive tried to pick them up and make note of them when they
happen (by writing my own variation of Riff 4.), but whats written is by
no means what Timmys playing.  It only sounds neat to me.  :)  I think the
entire song is here, at least in format.  A few slides here and there I 
may have missed.  Enjoy!  Keep on Raging!

"Dropped D" tuning (D,A,D,G)

   Intro        Riff 1.                  (x7)
G:------------|---------------------------------|---------------------|
D:------------|*-------------------------------*|---------------------|
A:------------|*-------------------------------*|---------------------|
D:-0-0-0-0-0--|---0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|--0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0--|


   Riff 2                            (x7)
G:----------------------------------------|
D:*--------------------------------------*|
A:*-----------3---0-2h3------------------*|
D:---0---0-0-------------0--3h5--0--3-2---|


    Riff 3
G:----------------------------------|----------------|
D:--------------------0-2h3--0-3h5--|--Riff-2--(x4)--|
A:-----------3--0-3h5---------------|----------------|
D:--0---0-0-------------------------|----------------|


   Riff 4.                    (x6)
G:---------------------------------|------------|--------------|
D:------------3--------5-----------|---REST-----|-Riff-4-(x3)--|
A:--3--5---5-----5--3-----3--3-4---|------------|--------------|
D:---------------------------------|------------|--------------|


G:-----------------------------------------|---------------|---------|
D:---------------------7-7--5-----5--------|--Riff-4-(x3)--|---------|
A:--3--5---5--5--5---5---------7-----7--5--|---------------|--3--5--|
D:-----------------------------------------|---------------|---------|


G:---------------|--------|-------------|---------------|
D:--Riff-2-(x3)--|-Riff-3-|-Riff-2-(x4)-|--Riff-4-(x3)--|
A:---------------|--------|-------------|---------------|
D:---------------|--------|-------------|---------------|


G:----------------------------------------|-------------|-------|
D:--------3--3--5---5--5--7---3--3--5-----|-Riff-4-(x3)-|-REST--|
A:-3--5--------------------------------3--|-------------|-------|
D:----------------------------------------|-------------|-------|


G:---------------|-----------------------------------------------|
D:--Riff-4-(x3)--|---------------3---5--5--7--7--3--3--5--3------|
A:---------------|--3--5---5--5------------------------------5---|
D:---------------|-----------------------------------------------|


G:---------------|---------|--------------|----------|-------------|
D:--Riff-4-(x3)--|---------|--Riff-2-(x3)-|--Riff-3--|-Riff-2-(x3)-|
A:---------------|--3--5--|--------------|----------|-------------|
D:---------------|---------|--------------|----------|-------------|


G:--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D:--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A:----------3---2h3---------------------------------------------------------|
D:--0---0-0---0------5-5-0-3-5-0-5-0----5-5-0-3-5-0-5-3----5-5-0-3-5-0-5-0--|

                                                   (x8)
G:----------------------------------|-------------------|-------------|
D:*--------------------------------*|*-----------------*|-------------|
A:*--------------------------------*|*-----------------*|-------------|
D:--5-5-0-5-0-3-5----5-5-0-5-0-3-5--|--0-5-5-0-5-0-3-5--|--0-0-0-0-0--|


G:--------------------|---------------|---------|---------------|
D:-Riff-1--(x-lots!)--|-Riff-2-(x15)--|-Riff-3--|--Riff-2-(x4)--|
A:--------------------|---------------|---------|---------------|
D:--------------------|---------------|---------|---------------|

  *
G:--------------|--------|-------------|-------------------|
D:--Riff-2-(x3)-|-Riff-3-|-Riff-2-(x4)-|-------------------|
A:--------------|--------|-------------|---------------5--|
D:--------------|--------|-------------|-3--0---(0)--------|
  *Distortion On
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Zeke Average	#1 by Zeke at Jan 11, 2006 at 6:44 PM EST
	I first heard this song, like most people, when Neo hung up the phone (if you haven't seen The Matrix, rent it today). This song shares a lo of the same imagery of the Matrix. In the movie, a group of rebels are trying to get people to "wake up" to the fact that thy are being enslaved by the machines. The agents who try to supress the rebels are like a government (any government, not just the US) who tries to supress people like Nelson Mandela. Also, I'd like to know what Darktoss's problem is. What's so bad about Avril Lavigne's music? Sure, it's pop music, but sometimes you need pop music to make you feel good. Nothing against RATM, but if you only listen to angry music, it makes you an angry person, like Darktoss here. It makes you want to go on a sooting spree, like Mekyl. Also, in response to Ar3s, this song's opening riff DOES sound a lot like Kashmir.

No Picture josh Average	#2 by josh 73h 1337 pw3nr at Aug 23, 2006 at 1:41 PM EST
	This was the first Rage song I heard, possibly my favorite. It really woke me up. I actually learned about it in school with a really really cool teacher. We did a whole analysis of it - there are a lot of really interesting things we interpreted. "The needle, I'll thread" - think of a record player, you know, the needle, relating to music. Of course there's the obvious reference to Muhammad Ali (Cassius). Also J. Edgar Hoover, though some kids thought Hoover meant the vacuum cleaner. I just think it's a great song, and now I always associate it with the Matrix. Which also kicks ass.

No Picture Randy Lead Player	#3 by Randy Lott at Sep 20, 2006 at 9:50 AM EST
	The US government deciding that people who disobey them and are not following their evil capatilist views should be killed, and its asking people to "wake up" to that fact

No Picture Alex Wanna Be	#4 by Alex Zweck at Dec 13, 2006 at 9:20 PM EST
	communism's fault is in that there is no competition, which ceases improvement and advancement. the only way they can advance and improve is through outside influence. communism can not survive without foreign influence....plus the whole natural greed and self destructive nature of human beings...thing.

No Picture Ali Wanna Be	#5 by Ali Friesen at Dec 23, 2006 at 5:08 PM EST
	I thought his friend wouldn't wake up and he got pissed and wrote this song... guess I was way off. Molotov was a great man, LONG LIVE COMMUNISM?

No Picture Dr. Average	#6 by Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacutt at Feb 13, 2007 at 2:42 PM EST
	Luckily I came along to show y'all whats up. Before I begin let me clear up a few points... 1) Zach De la Rocha is a prophet." 2) Avril Lavigne is an evil Commy Bitch (commies cant spell right--Sk8er Boi?! WHAT THE FUCK?!) Now then... Zach is telling all those "cool" people listening to the afore mentioned evil commy bitch and her evil commy band to "Wake up" before the listener turns into an evil commy follower.

No Picture Cody Wanna Be	#7 by Cody Mann at May 3, 2007 at 1:25 AM EST
	i dont know what it means to me, it makes me and my friends wanna go on a shotting spree tho...its so angry, i love it!

No Picture Minkin Rhythm Player	#8 by Minkin MQ at Jun 15, 2007 at 7:15 PM EST
	I on the other hand was never aware the CCIA tried to blame the murder of malcom X on islam, I've always know he was assasinated by the government, who else would want to?

No Picture Aleksandar Average	#9 by Aleksandar Radošević at Jul 5, 2007 at 5:45 AM EST
	The government elimiated people who they thought were dissenters.