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The first song I ever learned isn't a rush song, but I'll suggest it anyway. It would be Killing in the Name by RATM. It isn't dry and boring,is still kinna fun to play, and is very easy. its got a few basic parts to it that just repeat.
Edit: another one that I remember from when I'd started playing is Different Strings is easy ...and that song will give you that sense of rhythm for slow songs it'll be good if you can find the Sheet music to the song is also easy for begin reading music...
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.
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.
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.
Musically it's a toss-up between Cygnus X-1(Part I) and The Necromancer. Both songs sound very creepy, mean and dark to me. Cygnus X-1 contains 'the meanest' Geddy's bassline ever. And this vocal melody at the end of song Cygnus X-1 honestly scared me during the first listening:
Thematically, this is one of Peart's greatest achievements. I still think the lackluster production (and some of the inherent cheese to the 80s sounds) is all that's really holding this album back, it excels everywhere else.
This may be a little strange but, What Rush song would you have played at your or a loved ones funeral. I'm sure there are many good choices since Neal's lyrics tend to deal with this subject alot. I haven't choose one yet, so I will leave it up to you fine Rush fans out there to ponder this question.
Many Rush songs were played at my wife's funeral (January of this year). She was a big Rush fan, in fact we met because of Rush. During the funeral, I had them play a CD she had made of all her favorite Rush tunes. They had it playing when my immediate family and I arrived at the funeral home; In the End just happened to be playing when we walked in.
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.
The first Rush song I learned was "In the Mood" - I still like playing that tune. Maybe that's 'cause it was also the first solo I could figure out! A lot of the songs from the first album are simple but really RAWK to play on guitar (IMHO). I really learned a lot about Alex's playing from that album - some of the unusual scales and notes he chose that you can still hear in later songs.
Subdivisions is easy??!? Okay, it's not Hemispheres or anything, but it wasn't easy, at least not for me. That darned arpeggiated chorus is confusing. But the hardest thing for me is going from the B to the Bm/F# and the A to Esus4 in the introduction.
Part of my problem - and I've seen others mention this - is that Alex can go from one part of the fretboard and/or finger position to a completely different one in zero seconds! Me, I need a second to get my fingers there. Alex must be related to The Flash or something!
Just about any bassline - by any band - is difficult to play while singing at the same time. It's easier to play drums and sing (and much easier to play guitar and sing) than to play bass and sing. A bassline often runs contrapuntally to the melody and/or vocal line of a song, so it's like walking forward while spitting backward.
Somewhere I have an article wherein Geddy, Chris Squire, and Will Lee all give advice on singing and playing bass at the same time. They all pretty much say the same thing: learn the bass part first, get it to where it's automatic, and then you only have to worry about the vocal part when it comes time to perform.
I remember one article where the interviewer quoted something to Geddy that someone else had said about him singing and playing bass at the same time, to the effect of "I don't know how he does it; he must have eyes in his chin." To which Geddy wisecracked, "No, they're in my nose!"
It was written in a key too high for Geddy to sing (even back then.) It has a lot of odd time changes and requires every member to play at top notch. It was so difficult to get right in the studio that they took their work from England and mixed it back home in Canada. (It might have been at Le Studio in Montreal, I'm not sure.)
On the Rush In Rio DVD, watch The Trees in stereo, you can hear Alex mess up the beginning of his solo after the middle section. However, it's just the first note and the rest is flawless. It mostly sounds like his finger slipping of a string or something like that.
Got me thinking about the fact that the name Barchetta, to my knowledge, started its use in the late 40s-early 50s by Ferrari. So that would have only been 30 years or so from when the song was written, and that would be assuming his uncle kept it for him in a barn since the car was brand-new.
Then I was momentarily confused by the reference to "the turbo slows across the borderline," when there presumably would not be a turbo on a Barchetta. But then realize it's talking about jumping a train, and that's before he's in the car, duh.
I guess the idea is that Geddy is singing the song in the future (like the 2010s or so, to make the Barchetta the correct time frame), and in 1980 he expects that in 2010 people will be driving air-cars (Jetsons?)?
To me the song was set in a future time, and the exact nature of the car was not particularly relevant, only that it was a classic sports car of great renown. I haven't listened to the song in a pretty long while, but it's a good one.
I just hope I have a non-compliant car (or motorsickle) when we are forced to give up driving! I was relatively inexperienced behind the wheel when that song came out, but it struck a chord (pun intended).
The lyrics from the song were inspired by story in Road & Track back in '73. '73 was when the first really significant changes were happening with vehicle safety standards and emissions controls in the US, and had a major impact on all new cars.
Richard Foster wrote the story "A Nice Morning Drive" where in the future the regulations were so strict the cars became giant barges designed to keep the occupants safe in a crash. The polar opposite of a small Italian sports car.
The Barchetta part was inspired by a Ferrari that was in Las Vegas car museum. The museum was a collection owned by the casino owner. I can't remember now which collection it was (Andy Reid over a CM probably knows). I know the collection was split up a number of years ago, but the car was in the collection during the late '70's. That's when Neil saw the car while they were in town on the tour.
I just found a Scribd copy of "A Nice Morning Drive." I never read it before. The main character has a MGB. If you replaced the MGB with a Miata, and the MSV (Modern Safety Vehicle) with SUV the story could be released today.
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