Rush songs

[bra5am]

Can someone name some of the easier rush songs?

 

[TheJimster]

Easy:
Early Distant Warning
Closer To The Heart
Tom Sawyer

 

[moogboy]

Far Cry is fairly easy for me. anything off of their Feedback covers album.

 

[dave64o]

I'm nowhere near Geddy's level and was pretty intimidated by 2112. But once I started paying attention to it I realized that once you learn Movement 1 (Overture) you've already learned the basics of every other movement. It took me a while, but it wasn't nearly as tough as I thought it might be.

 

[mulambo]

Bravado!

 

[El Bajo]

yyz is a tricky one but if you just slow it down and digest each riff then it gets a little easier each time. Hate the song though, sounds greek.

 

[bobba66]

Working Man, Bastille Day, Something for Nothing.

 

[BadB]

The Trees is fairly easy.

 

[MonetBass]

Easy:
Tom Sawyer

Except for the bridge/guitar solo, right?
I can play it, but I wouldn't call it easy.

Limelight and Subdivisions are pretty simple.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

anything off of their Feedback covers album.

Hmm... "Crossroads" may be an overall easy song, but the bassline during the second guitar solo isn't, IMO.

"Finding My Way" is a cool and easy Rush tune, although I think it should be mentioned that including Geddy's tone into the equation would make the whole Rush catalog pretty difficult.

 

[uturnbass]

A song I really enjoyed from Rush was Freewill, pretty easy riff in my opinion, but the solo is a little tricky at parts.

 

[Poop-Loops]

Also learning Freewill right now. I don't know if I'll be able to grasp the solo, but I'll have fun trying.

 

[SlavaF]

Bastille Day
A Passage To Bangkok
most of 2112
Red Barchetta
Closer To The Heart
...pretty much anything off "Rush" (the album)
Far Cry

for a little bit of a challenge, check out "What You're Doing" off the self-titled album, great groove with some cool licks in there too

 

[Baryonyx]

Kid Gloves
Afterimage
New World Man
Roll The Bones

All easy enough, but beautiful songs all the same.

 

[Snarf]

YYZ did wonders for my technique. It's really one of the only things another bass player wrote that I learned all the way through, and most of my technique is built off what I learned through that song. And my thing is jazz. YYZ teaches good jazz technique, take it from me.

So you should learn YYZ!

 

[Daniel Trolie]

I learned that today! YYZ is their best song IMO

 

[Brian S]

Fly By Night is fairly easy.

 

[ThatGermanDude]

why is it that whenever someone asks for an easier rush song people don't take long to suggest yyz? what is a hard song for you?

to the op limelight is not too bad

 

[Brian S]

why is it that whenevr someone asks for an easier rush song people don't take long to suggest yyz? what is a hard song for you?

+1

YYZ can get your chops up but easy it is not, especially trying to play it up to speed.

 

[WalterBush]

why is it that whenever someone asks for an easier rush song people don't take long to suggest yyz? what is a hard song for you?

Mo N' Herb's Vacation isn't exactly easy...

Seriously, speed aside, YYZ IS one of Rush's easier tunes. Try some of the just plain wierd bass lines Geddy did in the '80s, like Big Money or Turn the Page. The way they mixed the albums alone makes 'em hard to hear, let alone play.

Entre Nous isn't bad at all, and Jacob's Ladder is pretty easy to get down if time changes aren't a problem for you.