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"No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age

Strong Songs

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Guitar Tuning - Dropped Tuning

The heart of this song is really in the groove and in the way that the guitar at the base and the drums all interact with one another. You don't usually hear hard rock doing this kind of umpa borderline, like death polka thing that they're doing on this song. I'm not totally sure what his tuning is, but he's defferently getting that low c. That's lower than the bases usual e. So he's just playing in octaves. And he plays that a lot, mixed with a sort of a walking base line that fits with the kind of swing groove that this song has. Will talk alittle bit more about that in a minute.

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