Technical Rush?

[Superdave]

I'm looking to build up my chops a bit with some quick melodic lines and figured who better than Rush to get down with.

Can anybody throw me a list of the most technical Rush stuff? Thinking YYZ, and other "shred" tunes they have..

[jgroh]

Analog Kid
Digital Man
Malignant Narcissism
Marathon
Force Ten

Those are just some off the top of my head...most of their songs have good energetic bass lines.

[Double Agent]

La Villa Stangiato & Cinderella Man are great tunes from the prog era.

Also, pretty much anything from the Power Windows/Hold Your Fire era will give you a nice challenge. Those albums had the poppiest tunes Rush has ever turned out, which may or may not be a good thing to you, but Geddy was really bouncing all over the map with his basslines in that era. I think it is was his best period as a bassist, even if it wasn't necessarily the best period for the band as a whole in the view of most Rush fans.

[factorplayer]

I would recommend Natural Science and Hemispheres from their classic era... both feature busy, challenging, and fun basslines.

[Ayliffe]

leave that thing alone is pretty technical

and la villa strangiato was mentioned already, but +1 to that.

[reedo35]

+1 on Hemispheres- The Time sig changes are a good challenge, too!

[Basshappi]

Learn Alex Lifeson's solos and chord structures that'll give you a workout!

[alexgeddy]

going from old to new!! in no particular favorites....

What your Doing,
Xanadu (not the spacey intro) but the actual bass riff
+1 to cinderalla Man
Spirit of the Radio...+1 above try to pick up Lifesons guitar lick
Freewill
YYZ --- the solos in tom Sawyer are just a different way of playing YYZ
Vital Signs...good finger exercise
Malignant Narcissism..great for a different feel


Ther's so many good bass lines he has played you could list 3 pages!!
Hope this helps!