The 12 days of riffmas: learn Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name Of
Day 7: a former UK Christmas number one and an essential drop-d riff from Tom Morello
The 12 days of riffmas day 7: a rite of passage riff for many players who started on guitar in the 90s, Tom Morello makes the single coil neck pickup on his standard Telecaster sound like a weapon of riff destruction here.
Christmas fact: in 2009 Rage Against The Machine became the first download-only UK Christmas number one single with the song by selling 500,000 copies.
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