"Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine--bassline


from the self-titled 1992 album
This is 1 of the neglected tracks cuz I never get a chance to listen to the whole cd when I'm driving, so I never really bothered learning it until now, so here ya go.
Created July 16, 1999
Tabbed by: Raq, of course
Dropped D Tuning
^=hammeron
\=slide down

figure 1--what I recall as the "Led Zeppelin sounding part
play this 8 times in beginning

G----------------------------------|
D----------------------------------|
A-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5-|
D----------------------------------|

figure 2--4 times solo; 3 times with guitar

G-------------------------------------|
D-------------------------------------|
A----------3------2^3---------------|
D-0--0-0------0-------0-3-5-0-3-2-|

4th time, he does this; then play previous 4 more times

G---------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------|
A---------3-----5^7-----7^8-----8^9\-|
D-0--0-0-----0-------0-------0--------|

figure 3--verse; he does some weird thing in the middle I'm not sure of

G------------------------|
D------3-----5----------|
A-3-5-----5-----3-3--4-|
D------------------------|

listen for when he just plays these 2 notes

A-3-5---|

back to figure 2 3x's with 4th time thing, then 4 more x's back to figure 3

somewhere he does this instead with the guitar

G--------------------------------|
D------3-3-5--5-5-6--3-3-5----|
A-3-5-------------------------3-|
D--------------------------------|

he also does something else I'll figure out later

back to figure 2 during guitar solo

figure 4--Helmet-like riff

G--------------------------------------------|
D--------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------|
D-5-5-3-5-0-3-5-0----5-5-3-5-0-3-5-3----|

G------------------------------------------|
D------------------------------------------|
A------------------------------------------|
D-5-5-3-5-0-3-5-0----5-5-3-5-0-3-5----|

then just start repeating this

D-0-5-5-3-5-0-3-5-|

back to figure 1, then this

D-5\--|

back to figure 2 until end
he adds fuzz at the end I think

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