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Your methods make sense. Sometimes you just have to be methodical to hit the right progression. Writing is also cathartic, when you finally do create and record an entire song, you feel that you have accomplished a major feat and generate a creative buzz.
This is an article that I wrote about musical resolution
The Key is Resolution -
http://www.musicxspot.com/musicxspotforums...resolution.html
Also, here is one about creating, recording, and producing a song from beginning to end
Raising a Song to Musical Maturity-http://www.musicxspot.com/discount/singer-songwriter-lounge/25373-raising-song-musical-maturity.html
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QUOTE (HowItIs @ Jul 9 2012, 05:39 AM) Not easy but very rewarding (if you're playing acoustic) is Presto. Work your way up to it - it took me the better part of a year to be able to play but I was SO proud when I finally did.
Presto is alot of fun to play. I learned it for the acoustic singalong at Rushcon III. The beautiful thing about Rush songs is that they are highly structured and you can easily play them with other people who know them as well. Also, you can learn alot about music by playing Rush tunes.
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QUOTE (jdouglas @ Jun 26 2012, 10:29 PM) QUOTE (vitalsigns318 @ Jun 12 2012, 01:23 PM) "Fly By Night" was the first Rush song that I learned. It is very easy, I often warm up with this song because it is also very easy to sing. Fly by night is easy to sing? Doesn't he get pretty high up the register on that one? (at least high D, right?)
I'm a girl, so Fly By Night is a perfect song for me to sing, I guess it might be different for a guy.
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They write music that comes natural to them, I do the same thing. Also, to fit Neil's unusual lyrics, they have to be flexible with their time signatures.
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Start with breathing excercises. Get aroebic excercise and your breathing will be deep and natural. Also you can match your pitch to notes on your guitar. Record yourself singing a song and listen to the recording, you can learn alot. Sing in the mirror and make sure that your mouth is completely open and every complete lyric is sung with one breath.
I had trouble singing too, but I have improved quite a bit.
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I used to think the line in FBN was "the chickens are coming and I just can't pretend"
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QUOTE (Jomboni @ Oct 6 2010, 08:36 AM) "He's a little bit afraid of dying, but he's a lot more afraid of your lion."
What kind of person has a pet lion?I do, my cat looks like a little white lion!
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QUOTE (treeduck @ Jun 14 2012, 04:07 AM) QUOTE (go2wrk@95974 @ Jun 12 2012, 07:50 PM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Jun 11 2012, 10:41 PM) QUOTE (Ovningskora @ Jun 12 2012, 12:35 AM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Jun 11 2012, 10:07 PM) QUOTE (Ovningskora @ Jun 11 2012, 11:34 PM) blimey, treeduck must feel like a total arse now! Naa I've posted many a UFO thread, alien peat farmers, evil chilli cocaine conspiracies, bigfoot, 2012, nazis on Mars, flying monkey jockeys, look me up in Random Samples, I'm good...
right right, but never have i seen you falsely rip on the US president
liberal my ass!
I'm neutral mate, all these political parties are one and the same worldwide, 100% for the big corporations, oil, big pharma etc etc. The guys who bought and sold them years ago. The average guy is not even important enough to be a pawn in the game...
Excellent post duck. Agreed 1 million percent.The financial slave's aka "We The People of the world"
not just the U.S. citizen's, are gettin' seriously
riped off by the 1% elite dirtbags, which include
the gangster-bankster's...and it's only getting worse.
These joker's don't care about the little people one ioda...
That's a flippin' fact...sorry to say.
My fiance and I wrote an article the corruption:
http://thedragonline.wordpress.com/2012/04...tille-day-2012/
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QUOTE (gudbuytjane @ Jun 13 2012, 08:01 AM) Just wait 'til you read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan. 
QUOTE (vitalsigns318 @ Jun 13 2012, 07:26 AM) He does the same thing with Shakespeare and many other writers. It's called transformativeness and it's perfectly legal to incorporate one art form into another as long as the context is new. Yeah, and in the case of TSoR, it is an intentional reference to TSoS. I've always felt it was a great contrast to take the idealistic lyrics of Paul Simon from 1966 and turn them over into a statement on how cynical the music industry had become by 1979/80.
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I came across that poem when I was a senior in high school in 1992 and it really brightened my day to find a Neil Peart reference in my English class.
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QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Jun 13 2012, 04:47 AM) Wow you guys!! Has this ever been discussed on The Rush Forum yet after all of these years????
I was at my local used record store as usual going through all the used cd bins as they were playing "The Sound Of Silence."
For some reason my brain picked up on the last part of the song and the lyrical content hit a nerve!!
Check this shit out my fellow Rush fans!!
Did Neil rip off Paul Simon or is it merely a homage or coincidence?
"The Sound Of Silence"
"And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And the tenement halls. And whispered in the sounds of silence."
"Sprit Of Radio"
"For the words of the prophets were written on the studio wall, concert hall.
And echoes with the sounds of salesmen. Of salesmen. Of salesmen."
WTF??????
He does the same thing with Shakespeare and many other writers. It's called transformativeness and it's perfectly legal to incorporate one art form into another as long as the context is new.
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"Fly By Night" was the first Rush song that I learned. It is very easy, I often warm up with this song because it is also very easy to sing.
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CNBC plays them quite often!
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QUOTE (HowItIs @ Jun 10 2012, 06:23 AM) It took me awhile to warm up to it but now I love it - simply a wonderful song. The vocals are superb! And the same line - "...the pilot of Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day..." gives me chicken-skin every time I hear it.
My Grandfather was stationed at White Sands/Alamagordo right after the war. He was an airplane mechanic. The bomb program was something he never would talk about. I wish I could have played him this song.My Grandpap was a pilot in WWII. He received recognition at the Soldiers Sailors Hall in Pittsburgh for landing a plane behind enemy lines in Germany. I remember when the video for Manhattan Project came out, he got mad because I would watch it at his house on MTV just because it was rock and roll.
Rush was right though "All the powers that be and the course of history would be changed for ever more". The A bomb has caused fear in the 20th and 21st centuries just because of its existence.
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QUOTE (CygnusX-1Bk2 @ May 30 2012, 01:31 PM) QUOTE (HowItIs @ May 20 2012, 04:33 AM) I have the S&A book and it's accurate. I was disappointed to see that TWTWB is played in an odd tuning.... 
Same tuning as Hope. When they played this on the S&A tour he used a Howard Roberts Fusion (1 of 2).
Odd tunings make for interesting tunes. I would like to learn Hope, and when I get the guitar tuned properly, I am sure that the song will be easy enough to play. Jimmy Page would often tune his guitar to open tunings, "That's The Way" is very simple to play in open G.
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QUOTE (CrossedSignals @ May 14 2012, 06:48 PM) Great song! Been listening to Presto a lot recently.... until a month or so ago it was the only Rush album I'd never heard all the way through. Scars is definitely one of the best tracks. I love the "scars of pleasure! scars of pain!" line. Gives me chills. I love this song too. Every time I encounter an unpleasant memory or situation, or every time that I remember an experience that I totally enjoyed(like meeting the guys on Vapor Trails), I think about this song. Neil has great insight into the human psyche.
Emotion Detector is another song in the same vein, "Sometimes love can change us, but never quite enough, sometimes we're too tender, sometimes we're too tough. If we get too much attention, it gets hard to over-rule, we must throw ourselves wide open to scorn and ridicule"
These songs remind us that we can achieve emotional balance.
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QUOTE (Lost In Xanadu @ May 31 2012, 08:56 AM) Do you think there is a warehouse somewhere filled with inflatable rabbits, dryers and sausage makers?
I would love to see some of those random props brought out on stage...I saw the Presto banner in a record store in Toronto.
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I liked the Counterparts tour. The slapstick cartoon with the rabbits chasing each other, then the gangster bunny shooting the white bunny, and the bunny angels taking the bunny to bunny heaven. It took me through a quick change series of emotions and kept me totally in the moment. It was a very clever production.
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I'd love to hear Between Sun and Moon, it is derived from a poem that states, "Say yes to self-esteem". It is a great message to hear.
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QUOTE (kkb2323 @ May 29 2012, 02:48 PM) Any show we have had the luck to see, we have always stood the ENTIRE SHOW.
We sing and dance, even air drum and guitar..
Our seats have always been within the first 5 rows on the floor.
This tour CA we have seats in the visually acessable area 1st Sec. Above floor next to stage 106
Geddy's side for HOUSTON. 108 in Universal City 1st row. Sec d in Atlanta.
Has anyone had a problem with NOT being able to stand for the show.
On the floor everyone stands. What about the other sections besides floor seats?
I have had people be upset when I wanted to stand up at a Rush concert. Since then I go out of my way to make sure that I am up close, diehards always stand up at Rush concerts. It is the intensity of their music that requires a standing audience!
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I have a Victorian witch dress that I bought in the mid ninties. I wear it occassionaly on Halloween or New Years. Never thought that wearing it to a Rush concert would be an option. However being that my concert is in early September, with the three layers of rayon, I'd probably get pretty steamed up!!! Although, it might catch the guys attention.
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QUOTE (HowItIs @ Aug 21 2011, 05:01 AM) Ain't it tho? 
A few more of Neil smiling behind the drums - with Alex, Geddy or both
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/laserspray/Rush/neilandalex.jpg
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/laserspray/Rush/GeddyNeil15.jpg
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/laserspray/Rush/trio.jpg
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/laserspray/Rush/P4020015.jpg
See? It isn't just our imagination A Neil smile, that is rare, but he did say "Energy is contagious, optimism spreads..."
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I think it's the economy. Rush puts on the best show for the buck. Fuel prices filter down to everything, it costs lots of money to transport the gear, the band, staff, and the roadies across the continent.
Of course that shows up in the ticket prices and that's why I believe it costs twice as much as it did to see them ten years ago. With unemployment being high and gas prices are up as well, that is probably the reason there are so many tickets left in some venues.
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"Available Light"- 1989, I wonder how Neil feels now.
Obnoxious, intense, robotic method to
in Making Modern Music
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My articles are also up on ezinearticles
The Key is Resolution: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Key-is-Resolution&id=1640734
Raising a Song to Musical Maturity: http://ezinearticles.com/?Raising-a-Song-t...rity&id=3965319