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Calm Like a Bomb

Rage Against the Machine
Bass Tab
★4.7(98)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro Solo

G|-----0-2-------------------------------|
D|-2-4------4-2-0-2-4-5--5-2---------2-4-|
A|---------------------------5-4-0-5-----|
E|---------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------|
D|---------0-2--2--------------------2---0--4-0-2-|
A|-5-4-2-4--------4-2-1-----2--5-2-4---4----------|
E|-----------------------2------------------------|
G|-----0-2---------------------------|
D|-2-4------4-2-0-2-4-5--5-2---------|
A|---------------------------5-4--0--|
E|-----------------------------------|

Verse

G|-----------5/7--|       G|-------------------------|
D|----9-7-9-------|  and  D|----9-7-9--9-7-9--9-7-9--|
A|----------------|       A|-------------------------|
E|-7--------------|       E|-7-----------------------|

"What you say..."

G|-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--------------------|
D|-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--------------------|
A|-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------------5-5--|
E|-5h7-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--5-7-5-7--7-7------|

Chorus

G|------x-----x-x-x----------x-x-------------|
D|------x-----x-x-x----------x-x-------------|
A|------x-5---x-x-x-5--------x-x-5------5----|
E|-5h7--x---7-x-x-x---7--5h7-x-x---7-5----7--|

Solo

G|--------------------------9-7-9-------------|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|-7--7--7--7-5-5-5-5-7--7--------7--5-5-5-5--|
E|--------------------------------------------|

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| x Dead note

| h Hammer-on

| / Slide up

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