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Kristofer Dahl5th November 2009Awesome topic/lesson Marcus 
I have always wanted to write this kinds of groovy Morello riffs. I am going to give it a new shot - thanks for the inspiration!
Pedja Simovic5th November 2009Awesome riffs and solo Marcus 
Bogdan Radovic5th November 2009Great lesson Marcus! Tune is so groovy!
playaxeman5th November 2009Cool riffs
Stephane Lucarelli5th November 2009Perfect lesson Marcus!
Marcus Siepen5th November 2009Thanks guys
Marek Rojewski5th November 2009So groovy that it's hard to sit still before the screen:)
ItsMe5th November 2009Yeeeah. That really grooves. Great, great lesson
Gerardo Siere5th November 2009Awesome riffs!
Zsolt Galambos5th November 2009Wow I love the groove! You've nailed it man 
i dont know how you do it, but seems every lesson you produce is high qulity and will be very fun to learn. amazing lesson.
Bondy5th November 2009Awesome lesson, defo got the Tom Morello feel to it
berko5th November 2009I totally love this! You really nailed to tone for the solo!
kaznie_NL5th November 2009Very nice riffs man! Awesome 
Will this be a new Blind Guardian hit? 
cool!
newguyatgmc5th November 2009The sound of that les paul with the EMGs is just killer.....
Marcus Siepen5th November 2009I never said you should sit still in front of your computers, feel free to bang your heads and jump around Good to hear that you enjoy this one, again it was a lot of fun for me I doubt though that this will turn into a BG hit, our style is slightly different And yes, a Les Paul with EMG's definitely rules
Jonathan Burgos5th November 2009Cool work partner! Great sound to! great job Marcus!
Jerry Arcidiacono5th November 2009Great lesson and groove Marcus
Ivan Milenkovic5th November 2009I started to headbang, which is a good sign - this lesson rocks
Sensible Jones5th November 2009Great Lesson Marcus, you definitely captured Tom's style!!!
Crazy_Diamond5th November 2009Great lesson Marcus you cover is style really well.... Bookmarked !
Sergio Dorado5th November 2009Amazing lesson, Marcus! Sounds really well!
Adrian Figallo5th November 2009great marcus, nice fat tone over there!
nice to meet you by the way!
NoSkill5th November 2009The tone is amazing man! This is a very cool lesson with some useful stuff. Your precision in playing your rhythm stuff is always impressive. Is that the AxeFX?
Marcus Siepen5th November 2009Thanks a lot everybody, yeah, I also think it is a good sign if you start to bang your head
Yes, since my last lesson (the right hand workout) I am only using the Axe-FX Ultra for all my recordings, amazing amp. Originally I bought it cause I wanted to have a good sounding and light backup for my live setup, but since we will only be touring again next year I decided to keep it here at home unitl then I never thought a modeling amp would get that close to my real amp.
rokchik5th November 2009Tom Morello is one of the reasons I picked up the guitar in the first place so I am very excited to see this lesson Marcus You did one heck of a job too, amazing lesson. I can see Tom bopping around on stage playing this and everything LOVE IT!!! And love the EMG's in the Les Paul. I've been tossing around the idea of changing the pick ups in mine and I really love the tone you got with this lesson. But I'm a bit of a fraidy cat to mess with my LP
Fran5th November 2009Nice one Marcus, it does indeed sound like Morello, and your tone is awesome
THE BUZZARD5th November 2009OMG!!!!hi Marcus, how are you getting that killer tone??? guitar-amp-or effects?? or all of the above? very cool tune bro! oh by the way is that some sort of auto-wah you are using for the solo?? excellent job Marcus!
Gabriel Leopardi6th November 2009Amazing riffs Marcus! You nailed Morello style in this one! I love his style of riffing.
Good job!!
Marcus Siepen6th November 2009Thanks guys About my tone, of course everything you mentioned plays a role, plus the most important thing: my fingers! I will write a bit about how I get my tone in my part of the forum, I think that is a more appropiate place to talk about it. And about changing pickups, don't be afraid, it is no big deal, and depending on what pickups you have in your guitar now you can improve your sound A LOT with better pickups. Check out my lesson about changing pickups if you are unsure about how to do it and feel free to ask me if anything is still unclear.
PS: yes, I used the auto-wah from the Axe-FX Ultra.
Gary8th November 2009Super cool sounding heavy riffs Marcus! The maple wood on you LP is stunning, a real beauty. Is that a class 5?
Great lesson - cheers!
Marcus Siepen9th November 2009Hi Gary, nope that is "only" a standard premium plus, I still have to get class 5, I once saw a blue one that I really fell in love with
Sinisa Cekic10th November 2009Powerful riffing i like it,cool lesson Marcus !!!
Marcus Siepen10th November 2009Thanks Sinisa
Laszlo Boross10th November 2009Perfect riff lesson Marcus! Really nice work.
MirkoSchmidt11th November 2009wow, i love that mix from chords and single-notes!!! the riffing is very cool!
the solo sounds really grewat too!
this lesson will be one of the next things on my to-do-list!
thanks marcus!
Daniel Realpe12th November 2009that is like my dream Gibson, very nice work!
Marcus Siepen12th November 2009Thanks guys By the way, that guitar is also one of my two faves, I just love it. Funny thing is, I got it by accident, actually I ordered a different model. I have been on tour in England when I got the call from Gibson that my guitar arrived, but that Gibson USA sent the wrong one (I originally wanted a Standard Premium Plus in desert burst, which is much darker). They told me though that I still might want to check it out and sent me a picture... 5 seconds later I called them and told them I would like to have that one
kahall13th November 2009At first I did not like this, then I listened to it. Awesome! ;-)
Emir Hot16th November 2009Great riffing Marcus. Very cool
Follow me as I try to capture the style of Tom Morello, his riffs as well as his freaky leads.
Hi everybody!
Today's lesson is dealing with the style of Mr. Tom Morello. He hit the spotlight in the early 90's with a band called Rage Against the Machine, a band that mixed heavy, extremely groovy music with rap vocals, highly political lyrics and high energy live shows. His way of playing is rather conventional when it came to rhythm guitars, he uses a lot of more or less simple pentatonic riffs, but together with his band mates he plays them very tight and they have an incredible groove. I always loved this way of playing, simple, but incredibly effective and powerful!
When it comes to his leads he uses a very different approach, he is no big shredder or a guitar hero in the conventional way, he uses his guitar to create completely new sounds, sometimes it is really hard to believe that his parts were actually played by a guitar, that's why he keeps mentioning that all sounds on his albums were created by guitar, drums, bass and vocals only, no keyboards ;-)
For this lesson I was inspired by a song called "The Worm" from Audislave, his follow up band after Rage Against the Machine broke up. (Actually Audislave is nothing else but Rage against the Machine with former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell on vocals) The riffs are those typical simple power riffs, based on pentatonic licks, and I tried to keep a kind of song structure here, with a main theme part, a verse part, a kind of chorus part, and a solo over the main theme part in the end. For the solo I tried to create something that sounds like Morello without using all of my effects here, it would not really make sense to do something that most of you can't really reproduce, so I only used a wah, some reverb and a bit of delay for the lead part.
Have fun practicing this one, and feel free to record some own variations of the solo, I would like to hear how you guys try to get close to Tom's freaky tone.
Cheers
Marcus
Equipment used for this lesson:
Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Standard Premium Plus with EMG 81 Pickups
Amp: Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra (Mesa Boogie Rectifier)
Drums & Bass: Sample Tank
Recorded with Pro Tools
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