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Slipknot - Snuff - Guitar Tab

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About Snuff

Snuff by Slipknot is a heavy track that showcases the band's signature aggressive riffing and dynamic shifts. This song offers electric guitarists a chance to master palm-muted power chords, dissonant progressions, and the contrast between crushing verses and more melodic sections. Learning Snuff helps develop both rhythmic tightness and emotional intensity in heavy music.

  • Slipknot is known for dual-guitar harmonies; Snuff features layered riffs that reward studying both guitar parts.
  • The song alternates between heavily distorted and relatively clean sections, building technical and tonal variety.
  • Palm-muting precision and thick tone are essential for capturing the track's crushing weight and impact.

How to Play Snuff

Tuning: Drop B · Key: C minor · Tempo: 128 BPM

Use the section loop to isolate a passage, drop the speed below 100%, and set the metronome to 128 BPM to build it up to tempo.

Fender Telecaster
Guitar

Fender Telecaster

Jim Root's signature Fender Telecaster pairs a thick mahogany body with a single EMG 81 bridge pickup, delivering the cutting attack and tight low-end needed to cut through Slipknot's dense drop-B mix without traditional offset guitar limitations.

Fender Jazzmaster
Guitar

Fender Jazzmaster

Jim Root's bound ebony Jazzmaster signature model adds substantial mass and sustain to the offset design, housing a single EMG 81 bridge pickup and hardtail bridge that keeps his rhythm riffs locked in extreme tunings with compressed, defined aggression.

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier
Amp

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier

Mick Thomson's preferred Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier head delivers the scooped, mid-scooped tone with aggressive highs and lows that defines Slipknot's chunky, palm-muted riff style in drop-B tuning.

Orange Rockerverb
Amp

Orange Rockerverb

Jim Root's Orange Rockerverb head provides tight, compressed gain with prominent midrange that cuts through the band's dense mix, allowing his rhythm work to stay articulate and defined alongside Mick Thomson's lower-end assault.

EMG 81
Pickup

EMG 81

Jim Root's EMG 81 bridge pickup delivers the cutting attack and tight low-end response essential for maintaining clarity in Slipknot's drop-B tunings, providing active ceramic precision for fast palm-muted passages.

EMG 60
Pickup

EMG 60

Mick Thomson's EMG 60 neck pickup in his signature Ibanez provides warm midrange clarity for lead passages, while maintaining the tight, compressed character needed to stay cohesive with his aggressive bridge-position high-output setup.

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