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Rush's Most Technically Difficult Song?


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Not sure about drums or guitar, but ive been playing bass and singing for a looong time and have learned every Rush song, I think Geddy's most intricate bass lines are on Power Windows and HYF.

 

But also thinking about singing on top of those busy bass lines, and also how busy Neil is on both of those albums, I would definitely say that was their peak as far as technical ability. Plus they also had all the keys going on at that time, sequencers, triggers, etc... much more going on than anything that came before or after.

 

Its tough to say with guitar because although Alex is great at doing whats best for the song, his technical ability in what he usually plays isnt very high. He's usually just working to fill the sound out more.

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some of them are...

 

Xanadu

CygnusX1

The Camera Eye

Hemispheres

La Villa

Natural Science

 

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Watching Pauliewanna and Martin Periard play Free Will and seeing a couple of others play bass or guitar, that has to be the hardest Rush song I have seen.
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I dunno but I hope it's off the next album...
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QUOTE (tick @ Feb 28 2010, 01:23 PM)
some of them are...

Xanadu
CygnusX1
The Camera Eye
Hemispheres
La Villa
Natural Science

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drumwise, i'd say that La Villa is pretty easy to play. To me the fact that the song is separated makes it easier to know when and what happens whenever i drum to it. I find MP, PW, HYF and specially Presto to be much tougher drumwise. The drum fill in Lock and Key is very challenging and pretty much anything out of Presto is very tough to play.

 

Thats just my .02, anyway

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Yeah in terms of bass and singing at the same time, I always felt that some of the songs off of PoWin and HYF were by far the most difficult.

 

Because most everything before that was pretty straight forward for Geddy most of the time, outside of a little riff here and there. But on those albums he wrote intricate lines even for just the verses, and then sang over them.

 

I remember when I was about 15 by then I had been playing for 3 years, and never struggled with anything prior to those 2 albums, then it was like a whole new learning curve. Much harder than all the previous albums.

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I would throw in YYZ. A lot of players know the riffs, but it's challenging to play CLEANLY and up to speed. I hear YYZ butchered all the time at Guitar Center. sad.gif

 

Also, the bass/drum timing of the intro to TSOR still throws me off after all these years. tongue.gif

 

 

 

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