The spirit of radio-Intro, After an hour I give up

[Langueta]

What the **** is geddy lee playing at the 14 to 16 second???
Here is a link of a guy who plays the song in an outstanding way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtmWq...eature=related

On his version it is between 16-18 second

Can someone post the rithm and the notes please...

Thank you!!

[Gegatso]

The whole tab is right here: http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/r/rush/...dio-btab.shtml

[Langueta]

But that it is wrong!!
I tried to play it with that tab, and it is different

[wb20]

Wow! That's impressive! I knew Geddy was awesome, but had never seen an up close demo, or anyone that could follow it that well. See similar progression @ about 3:40 into the same.

[Audiophage]

Do you have anything to slow down the recording?

[jgroh]

We recently toyed around with this tune in our set list and I had the same issue. I figured every other part of the song out 20 years ago but always faked that fast run. I wanted to get it right and found out that just about all the tabs out there were not accurate. I found one, and if I can dig it back up again Ill post it, that was close. Its still a fast run thats tricky because you need to stay with your drummer when he is doing a fast fill...not as easy I had thought!

Maybe message that guy in the youtube video to see if he can help you with a tab? (Im at work and cant get on youtube from here so I dont know who or what you linked to there)

[mrokern]

Originally Posted by jgroh

We recently toyed around with this tune in our set list and I had the same issue. I figured every other part of the song out 20 years ago but always faked that fast run.

Yup, that's usually where my fingers start to say, "Ha, you're funny! Keep trying, we'll just sit here pressing whatever strings we want in the meantime."

-Mark

[mfratt]

Well this makes me feel better about my playing. I thought I was having a hard time only because I'm a newbie

[brandtb]

OK, folks...I used QuickTime to slow down the video some and got this transcription of the intro...I'm sorry I can't give more rhythm notation, but the notes are there. I've tried to break it into licks to make it easier to follow.

I'm not going to claim perfection, but it is certainly something to work with:

(edited with minor corrections)

<pre>

The Spirit of Radio intro (tricky runs)

transcribed from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtmWq7yShSc&feature=related

First part of opening
   W   staccato                   e^e^e   e^e^e
|------7-7--------4-6-4-4---2-2---2-2-----2-2-----------------------------
|----------R--------------R-----R-----0-R-----0----0-4-5-7-5-4-0-0-H-2----
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|--0----------------------------------------------------------------------
   \---opening----------/   \-opening lick 2--/    \--lick 3-------/

Second part of opening
   W  staccato                               change hand position here
|----------------7-5-4---4------------------------------------------------
|----------------------7---7-5-4---4-----------4---2-0---0----------------
|-----0-0------------------------7----7-5-4--2---------4---4-2------------
|--0----------------------------------------------------------------------
                 \------fast run-----------/  \-part 2-------/

MY ALTERNATIVE TO Second part of opening
Fast run transposed down to lower position
|----------------7-5-4-2-4-2-0--------------------------------------------
|------------------------------4-2-4--2-0------4---2-0---0----------------
|-----------------------------------------4--2---------4---4-2------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 \------fast run-----------/  \-part 2-------/

Next section of intro...

This 4x                       Main progression, etc, etc
(the way I play it, YMMV)      E  B G#    A     B
|--------------------------|----------------------------------------------
|-*-------------------2--*-|----------------------------------------------
|-*---------0--2-3H4-----*-|-----2-------0(x5)-2--------------------------
|---0-2-3-4----------------|---0---4(x8)----------------------------------


</pre>

Good luck!

Brandt

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by Langueta

What the **** is geddy lee playing at the 14 to 16 second???
Here is a link of a guy who plays the song in an outstanding way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtmWq...eature=related

On his version it is between 16-18 second

Can someone post the rithm and the notes please...

Thank you!!

Hey! Maybe you already figured it out, but anyway I've just uploaded a video playing the whole song plus the intro slowed down to 50%. Hope it helps. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VujDP458Ri0&fmt=18

[Craig_S]

The timing is odd. I sat down with this one a long while ago.

Here's what I got for the quick part (H = hammer on. 777 = three finger triplets):

---77754-----------------------------------
---------7-7774-4------2H4-2--------------
----------------7-7640-------5-542--------
------------------------------------0------ ect...

EDIT: You'll have to excuse my tab. I have never used or written it. I'm sure you'll get the idea.