Be yourself audioslave аккорды
Be yourself audioslave аккорды
\»Be Yourself\» is a song from the Audioslave’s second album \»Out of Exile,\» released in 2005. \»Be Yourself\» was released on February 2, 2015, as the first single off the album, while the album itself came out on May 23, 2005.
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Story behind the song
In an interview with Launch Radio Networks, lead singer Chris Cornell explained the background of the song: \»The ‘Be Yourself’ part really just came from a lot of things that I’ve gone through in my life and a lot of different changes and all the different tragedies and all the horrendously stupid mistakes I’ve made in my personal life, and wanting to be able to make up for those things and wanting to be able to not be ashamed, all that stuff. You know, that’s the one thing about getting older that’s better, and this song kind of says it so simply, to a degree that 10 years ago I would’ve been embarrassed to put it in a song ’cause it is so simple. But there it is.\» [1]
Bassist Tim Commerford admitted that he was getting the inspiration for his bass lines from jazz. So \»Be Yourself\» bass line is heavy influenced by the Coltrane ballad \»Naima.\» [2]
The song topped the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks and the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for four weeks in 2005.
Music videos
Official music video
The music video was recorded in an old hotel in Los Angeles and directed by Francis Lawrence, who is best-known as the director of films Constantine (2005), I am Legend (2007), Water for Elephants (2011), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), and both parts of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (2014-2015).
Chris Cornell admitted, that Audioslave formed the concept of the video on The Beatles’ clip \»Let It Be.\»
The idea really was coming from ‘Let It Be,’ just the way the footage looked to me. If you watch \»Let It Be,\» the look of the film makes the band look like it’s an important happening. I just wanted to look important, like things looked when I was a child. [3]
Live version
The song was performed on Much Music on October 6, 2005.
Chris Cornell performed this song live with Yogi Lonich, Peter Thorn (guitars), Corey McCormick (bass), and Jason Sutter (drums) in Buenos-Aires in 2007.
Chris Cornell played an acoustic version of the song at Trianon in Paris in 2012.
Notable covers
Viktoriya Yermolyeva made a piano cover of the song in 2017.
Gear and settings
Guitars
Tom Morello
Soul Power was Tom Morello’s main guitar in standard tuning in Audioslave. This guitar is a modified Fender American Stratocaster.
Main features of this guitar include:
Tim Commerford
Tim Commerford used Fender Jazz Basses in Audioslave. These basses often have customized fingerrests.
Tim Commerford’s Fender Jazz Bass in natural finish. He plays on this bass in the official video.
Amps and effects
Tom Morello
Tom Morello gear is well-documented. Tom used Marshall JCM 800 2205 amp head with Peavey 4×12 Straight-front cabinet.
His Pedalboard included:
Tom Morello gear in 2004. Image via www.guitargeek.com
Tim Commerford
For the recording of \»Out of Exile\» album, Commerford used 3 amp and cab systems. One Ampeg SVT-2PRO feeding a full-range clean signal into an Ampeg 8×10. The other two Ampeg SVT-2PRO heads feed two incrementally greater levels of dirty tone to Ampeg 4×10 cabs. The full-range rig runs all the time and he switches in the distortion rigs for an even bigger sound. [2]
Tim is secretive about his pedalboard. Though, the inner cover of \»Out of Exile\» shows his pedalboard.
1. Boss OC-3 Super Octave. 2. Sadowsky Outboard Pre-Amp/D.I. 3. Custom ABY Amp Selector. 4. Custom \»Full on\» Overdrive. 5. Aphex Punch Factory. 6. DC-Brick Multi-Power Supply. 7. Two Dunlop 105Q Bass Wahs. 8. Boss DD-3 Delay. 9. Some Custom Pedal [5]
Nevertheless, it’s possible that this picture shows effects that he didn’t use at all and just have them here as diversions. [5]
Amp settings
Wah-wah effect is in use during the whole guitar solo.
Tuning
Bass: standard tuning (E A D G).
Song key
The song is written in the key of B minor.
Techniques
The main riff of the song is based on the use of slides. Choruses are played with chords.
Though there is only one guitarist, Audioslave use guitar overdubs, most notably in the solo and in the final chorus.
Song breakdown
The song has the following structure:
The intro starts with chord strum, followed by hammer-on/pull-off combination and arpeggio. This line repeats 2 times. Then the main guitar riff comes in.
Verses of the song are played with the main riff too, though at the very end of verses there’s a set of power chords.
Choruses are based on the chord strumming.
The interlude gives back the main riff.
One of the most notable parts of the song is the solo, which is played with wah-wah effect. The solo can be basically divided into 3 parts. The first one is just a single note riff. The second adds hammer-ons, and the third part introduces double stops with a lot of bends and releases.
The bridge is based on arpeggios with occasional slides.
The final chorus starts with power chords, played with the increasing intensity. Then there goes a repeat of the second chorus with the added line of the guitar solo, played with wah.
Recommended lessons
Guitar lesson with tabs
This guitar lesson is in Portuguese, but all the tabs are presented, so it’s easy to view.