Song · Standard tuning

Crash Into Me — Dave Matthews Band

The signature riff barely changes chord at all — it's the same E5 shape held over and over while the bass note underneath walks C⁠#⁠, A, B, back to E, then G⁠#⁠, A, B, back to E. That moving bass against a static chord is what gives the riff its floating, unresolved feel even though the harmony above it never really goes anywhere.

This is the riff's core bass-walk as commonly transcribed, not a note-for-note copy of the full arrangement — open the progression below to hear each real slash-chord bass note in Standard tuning.