Now you’ll have to know that the recorded version of this song has all the strings dropped and entire step down. We’re going to learn all those and let’s get started. We are going to learn in this video tutorial the four introductory riffs, the layered riffs as they come up. Now interestingly this song peaked at number one and it was at number one when the World Trade Centers went down in 2001and the song was thusly added to a list of songs that were inappropriate in a 9/11 world put out by radio giant Clear Channel, interesting. My name is Joe Wiles with the Rock ‘N Roll Conservatory and in this video tutorial we’re going to take a look at Chop Suey by System of a Down. It’s standard tuning with the low E string dropped down to a D note. You might recognize this as a simple drop-D tuning. In this tutorial, we use a tuning that sounds like the original, but is a whole step up: DADGBE. In the original song, System of a Down uses CGCFAD tuning, which is all of the strings dropped down a whole step except the low E string, which is dropped down 2 whole steps. This tutorial covers the four guitar parts that make up the introduction to Chop Suey. The lyric, ‘Father, into your hand I commit my spirit,’ is a reference to Jesus’ death on the cross, as, according to the gospels, it was one of the seven things Jesus said while dying.”

Hence the line, ‘I cry when angels deserve to die’. Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. Writer and band member Daron Malakian mentions, “the song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass. Lyrically, the songs deals with seemingly inane issues as well as intense concepts of death and religion. Chop Suey is one of System’s most recognizable and notable songs, having been professionally parodied more than a few times and receiving chart placement around the world. It became a worldwide hit and even survived it’s inclusion on Clear Channels list of inappropriate songs to air after 9/11. Chop Suey appeared on American broadcast radio just before September 11th, 2001.

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