Guitar & Bass
Cochise is played in standard E-A-D-G-B-e and E-A-D-G on the guitar and bass respectively. Tom Morello came across the intro riff by accident. He had a guitar on his lap and his delay pedal set to "slap-back" and, while writing notes for a song, he rapidly hit the strings with a pencil in his right hand. This produced a noise reminiscent of a helicopter. When Audioslave recorded this song, Morello did the same thing, with his Digitech Whammy set an octave lower, and using a flat hand to slap the strings. For the opening riff of the song, while Tom incorporates the helicopter sound on guitar, bassist Tim Commerford plays the bass in a gradual progression from open E to playing all four strings open with a fast strumming technique with his thumb or fingers, while using distortion and a Wah pedal. The verse, as well as the solo part, the bridge and the opening of the song is played on the bass with the use of a type of distortion and a bass Wah-Wah pedal at the same time, giving it Tim's unique sound found on the majority of Audioslave songs.
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