Rush - Freeze (Part IV of "Fear")
From the album Vapor Trails (Atlantic Records)
Copyright 2002 Core Music Publishing
Music by Lee and Lifeson
Lyric by Peart
Transcribed by Travis Lausch
Notes:
This tab is (I'd say) at least 90% correct, and took me a long
time to transcribe. The time signatures were a bitch to get. (I still
don't know if they're 100% correct), but for the most part, everything is
here.
Obviously Alex went for a textural feel here (as on the rest of
Vapor Trails), and as such, there is a lot of ad-libbing. When you see a riff
that is to be recalled later, don't play it exactly as written.
[A] Intro
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2 e s s e s s e s s s s e s s s s s s e
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[B] 1st Verse
The city crouches steaming in the early morning half-light
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the sun is still a rumor and the night is still a threat
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Gtr. 3 plays fill 1 twice on 2nd repeat
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[C] 2nd Verse
Slipping through the dark streets and the echoes and the shadows
Something stirs behind me and my palms begin to
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(oh...)
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%II (2nd time on D.S.II) To Coda II
[D] 1st Prechorus
Sometimes I freeze until the light comes
Sometimes I fly Into the night
Sometimes I fight against the darkness
Sometimes I'm wrong sometimes I'm right
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% (4th time on D.S.) To Coda
[E]
Gtr. 3 plays fill 2 until section [G]
Gtr. 4 (Clean) (Play 4 times)
e e e e e e q e e e e e e e e
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[F] 1st Chorus
Coiled for the spring caught like a creature in the headlights into a
desperate panic or a tempest of blind fury
do do do do do do do do do do like a
cornered beast or a conquering hero
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[G] 3rd Verse
The menace threatens closing and I'm frozen in the
not prepeared to run away and I'm not prepared to
Gtrs. 1 & 2 play riff A until section [H]
2 w w w
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shadows I'm
fight I can't stand to reason or surrender to a reflex
I will trust my instincts or surrender to my fright
q q e q q e
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(oh...)
q q e q q e
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[D] 2nd Prechorus (4th time) D.S. Al Coda
Sometimes we freeze until the light comes
Sometimes we're wrong sometimes we're right
Sometimes we fight against the darkness
Sometimes we fly into the night
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(+) Coda
[J] 2nd Chorus
Blood running cold mind going down into a dark place
desperate panic or a tempest of blind fury
do do do do do do do do do do like a
cornered beast or a conquering hero
Gtr. 3 plays fill 2 until section [K]
Gtr. 4 plays Rhy. Fig. 2 until section [K]
w
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[K] Interlude
Gtr. 1 pays Riff A four times
w. +w. +w. +w.
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> >
Gtr. 1
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[L]
N.H. N.H. N.H.---| N.H.
e s s e s s e s s s s e s s q e e e e s s e s s s s e s s
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6--9-----9-----9---------9--------5--9/12--12-----12---------12-------|
4--9-----9-----9---------9--------4--9/12--12-----12---------12-------|
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(w/ad-lid vocals)
(on 5th repeat)
Sometimes I freeze (etc...)
(play 9 times simile)
Gtr. 5 (w/dist.) plays fill 3 until section [M] on 3rd repeat
e s s e s s e s s s s e s s e e e e e s s e s s s s e s s
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[M]
(4th time) D.S.II al CodaII
Oh (play 4 times)
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(+)II CodaII
Oh (play 4 times)
*Into the night
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*=on 2nd and 4th repeats only
[N] Outro
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| tremolo pick all notes |
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