JARG Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Maybe I'm partial because I'm a guitarist, but this was great. http://youtu.be/gElx2L1BamE 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I like that guy. I've watched a few of his videos, but that's the first Rush song he's done. I like watching him figure stuff out in real time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I have a feeling that this guy’s family does frequent interventions on him..... :lol: Michael, PLEASE......put the guitar down for a while! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 He's like the Bradley Cooper of video guitar instruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I'm watching him work through the solo now, and he's nailing a lot of it talking about the sus2 and sus4 stuff as being a huge part of Rush's sound. As I'm thinking about it just in my head, and he's talking about the notes Alex is playing, he's essentially outlining the A minor pentatonic scale played over a Dm Dorian progression, at least in places. That allows Alex to avoid the thirds of Dm and G, and even C if he wants to (if the chord is Csus2.) I'm not saying the entire solo is in A minor pentatonic, but you can certainly use it for quite a bit of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Also, is it just me, or do the chords during the chorus sound an awful lot like the chords for Time After Time by Cindi Lauper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JARG Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 I'm watching him work through the solo now, and he's nailing a lot of it talking about the sus2 and sus4 stuff as being a huge part of Rush's sound. As I'm thinking about it just in my head, and he's talking about the notes Alex is playing, he's essentially outlining the A minor pentatonic scale played over a Dm Dorian progression, at least in places. That allows Alex to avoid the thirds of Dm and G, and even C if he wants to (if the chord is Csus2.) I'm not saying the entire solo is in A minor pentatonic, but you can certainly use it for quite a bit of it. Yup. When Alex bends up to that high E rather than going for the F, which is the minor third where D is the tonal root, he removes the tonality of the chord (major vs. minor) and implies that the chord is sus2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I wish he would have tuned down to drop D, though. He acknowledged that the song is tuned that way but he didn't feel like retuning for it. He's missing out on the chords during the "how that rabbit feels" sections, how Alex is fingering them like normal chords but the fact that the E string tuned down to D is making them sound different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeson90 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Damn i was just going to say this I'm watching him work through the solo now, and he's nailing a lot of it talking about the sus2 and sus4 stuff as being a huge part of Rush's sound. As I'm thinking about it just in my head, and he's talking about the notes Alex is playing, he's essentially outlining the A minor pentatonic scale played over a Dm Dorian progression, at least in places. That allows Alex to avoid the thirds of Dm and G, and even C if he wants to (if the chord is Csus2.) I'm not saying the entire solo is in A minor pentatonic, but you can certainly use it for quite a bit of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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