Lockdown Licks no. 64
“Killing In The Name” by Rage Against The Machine.” Played in ‘drop D’ tuning on a Gibson Junior guitar with volume on 7, tone on 5. The sound from the powerful P90 pickup is far from ‘Junior’!
NUX M8 Amp on metal setting gain on 7, bass,mid,treble 6.
Drop D?
Drop D tuning is almost identical to standard guitar tuning, with one exception: the 6th (lowest/bass) string is tuned down a whole step, to D instead of E.
“Killing in the Name” is a protest song by American rock band Rage Against the Machine, featured on their self-titled debut album, and was released as the lead single from the album in November 1992.
In 2009, it became the Christmas number one; this was due to a campaign to prevent The X Factor winner’s song from gaining the Christmas number one in the United Kingdom for a fifth successive year.
