Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Alex Lifeson's Rush-style rhythm


[From bar 1] Make sure you really pay attention to the phrasing of the oddly metered bars. For 7/4 you can hear it being split into 4 and 3. Playing cleanly is the name of the game here.
[From bar 8] Be careful here - you want to get the syncopated phrases in time throughout. The repeated double-stop phrase in bars 12 and 19 gives a Lydian sound due to the E (#4 interval) over the Bb chord.






[Bars 35 and 37] This phrase has quite a wide stretch. It's just a D minor pentatonic phrase, but by dipping into two diferent shapes (shapes 1 and 2), it sounds diferent to a lot of other pentatonic phrases you're likely to hear in blues and rock.

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