Deep Purple - Kill The King - Guitar Solo Tab

About Kill The King

Few tracks in the Hard Rock catalog push a rhythm guitarist harder than "Kill The King." The opening riff, driving hard in E minor, demands tight palm muting and precise pick attack to keep its aggressive pulse from turning muddy. At 120 BPM the tempo is not brutal on its own, but the relentless sixteenth-note feel and syncopated accents mean that any hesitation in the fretting hand becomes audible immediately. The verse and chorus sections shift between power chords and single-note runs that require you to switch hand position cleanly and quickly, which is where most players start to lose the groove. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop those transitions slowed down until the position changes feel automatic before bringing them back up to tempo. Deep Purple built this track around a muscular low-end riff that sits best on E Standard tuning, so no retuning is needed, but tone control matters: dial in enough gain to get the crunch without losing the note definition in the fast runs.

• The main riff is built around the E minor tonality in E Standard tuning, making open E and A string power chords central to the feel.
• Tight palm muting control is essential throughout, as the rhythm part relies on contrast between muted and fully rung-out chord hits.
• Use the Practice Toolbar to loop the riff-to-chord transition sections slowed down, since accurate position shifts at tempo are the main challenge.