I learned it by ear as a teen in the early eighties. Took me many many hours of practicing to get it right. For some reason, I always found the first of the three solos to be the most difficult part to learn and play, even though it sounds like the easiest of the three.
How would I play the triplets? I'm having trouble with triplets. I'm starting to figure out music and when I first started playing I couldn't play anything with any sort of difficulty. Now I'm able to do so and one obstacle I'm stuck in is triplets
Regarding just the 'verses', I have listened to this for years (especially, slowed down), and agree the phrasing is correct. Note, the second part of each phrase... the three notes in succession are played on the third string (A), NOT the the second (D), as many tabs/notation claim. Great job, catching that!
Excellent version. I like how you added Geddy's soloed part to the mixed track to hilight it. Slowing it down makes it much easier to learn too. Near as i can tell the tabs look right on too, great work presenting it this way!
This is awesome. However, it's still going to be near impossible to play (especially the solo parts), but al least I have a chance now with it slowed down. Thank you so much!!!
Yes - it's a chore. I didn't get the rhythm at all until I slowed it way down. If I practice a lot, I can play it - but I don't quite have the stamina to get through the whole thing.
Yep, that's a whole 'nother issue. It's already difficult enough, but then you have to have the stamina to get through the entire thing! Well, maybe one day... 😊
it has just as much as to do with your right hand fingering to perfect it. Geddy Lee is the man! To me it is to reach a plateau in one's career of achievements.
Gawd, I need this for that fast little bass solo/run from "La Villa Strangiato"! Or the intro run-up in "The Spirit of Radio"...and a lot of other things, who am I kidding...
If you play it at 1.5x speed it’s the normal song. So in case after you master it and want to play at the normal speed with the tabs, there you go. You’re welcome you dingus.
I noticed one mistake in the "verse" riff: the 4 3 2 should always be on the D string. Now the latter half of the riff has 4 2 on the D string and 4 3 2 on the A string when it should be the other way around. Same thing when the riff is transposed a minor 3rd up.
@@ROOTMANZERO No. Listen to the isolated bass track on half speed. I'm 100% sure I'm right (just transcribed the whole thing - BTW, the tab that you can find in tab books also contains mistakes in it, at least based on the picture that I have seen of the first page of that tab). Listen carefully, use your ears. I only used my ears for the transcription, and didn't use any other tabs as a reference. I played the isolated bass track on half speed to hear all the details.
MaggaraMarine Damn! I fear that you’re right. Now to try an unlearn 30 years of playing it that way... Do you have a pdf of your transcription? Cheers.
@@ROOTMANZERO It's on standard notation at the moment, and not 100% complete. I have all of the notes down, but there are some things that I still need to figure out how to notate (the rhythms in the interlude between the intro and the first verse for example), and it probably needs some overall polishing (for example all of the correct techniques like slides, hammer ons/pull offs). It doesn't take long to translate it into tab, though, so that's not an issue. When I finish the transcription, if I remember, I can share it. I think it's kind of stupid that "official" tab books have mistakes like this. And there are plenty of "official" tabs that have mistakes like this. And this is why I never trust what a tab book says, and prefer to transcribe stuff by ear. At the same time, I pretty much internalize the song because I have to listen to it so many times.
CAUTION: This tab is NOT accurate. Lots of wrong notes, but even when it gets the notes right it often gets the fretting wrong. The main riff is egregiously wrong in this. Just listen to Geddy play it live, or watch Tim Starace play it.
I learned it by ear as a teen in the early eighties. Took me many many hours of practicing to get it right. For some reason, I always found the first of the three solos to be the most difficult part to learn and play, even though it sounds like the easiest of the three.
Yeah that articulation is strange and deceptively difficult.
The first solo is certainly the hardest.
For me it's the second
How would I play the triplets? I'm having trouble with triplets. I'm starting to figure out music and when I first started playing I couldn't play anything with any sort of difficulty. Now I'm able to do so and one obstacle I'm stuck in is triplets
@@jeffbassplays Same here
definitely saving this video. It was incredibly easy to pause and play the music. Also, I totally have way more respect for Geddy, having seen this.
I am currently trying to learn YYZ.
This is the most helpful video I have found yet!!!
THANK YOU!
Did you play this song?
Regarding just the 'verses', I have listened to this for years (especially, slowed down), and agree the phrasing is correct. Note, the second part of each phrase... the three notes in succession are played on the third string (A), NOT the the second (D), as many tabs/notation claim. Great job, catching that!
Best educational video out there for this monster! Thank you very much for this post and PLEASE keep at it.
Excellent version. I like how you added Geddy's soloed part to the mixed track to hilight it. Slowing it down makes it much easier to learn too.
Near as i can tell the tabs look right on too, great work presenting it this way!
A MILLION THANKS ETERNALLY !!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much for offering this. My ears need work to hear it. (:
Just freaking awesome! Thx
this is super helpful thank you
This is awesome. However, it's still going to be near impossible to play (especially the solo parts), but al least I have a chance now with it slowed down. Thank you so much!!!
Yes - it's a chore. I didn't get the rhythm at all until I slowed it way down. If I practice a lot, I can play it - but I don't quite have the stamina to get through the whole thing.
Yep, that's a whole 'nother issue. It's already difficult enough, but then you have to have the stamina to get through the entire thing! Well, maybe one day... 😊
Practice,practice practice practice practice practice, then when you think you got it practice practice practice again and again and again again, LOL
it has just as much as to do with your right hand fingering to perfect it. Geddy Lee is the man! To me it is to reach a plateau in one's career of achievements.
amaizing ... and go 1,5 speed when you get from it on 1.0 ... i started 0.5 :D
Gawd, I need this for that fast little bass solo/run from "La Villa Strangiato"! Or the intro run-up in "The Spirit of Radio"...and a lot of other things, who am I kidding...
Agreed! Learning La Villa fully is my New Year's resolution but at full speed it's going to be impossible to learn the solo segment
Thx, helped a lot
Thank you so much! Sometimes it’s hard to hear what’s going on in this song
infinite thank you
awesome!!!
even at this speed its still hard as fuck
If you play it at 1.5x speed it’s the normal song. So in case after you master it and want to play at the normal speed with the tabs, there you go. You’re welcome you dingus.
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Thanks man, great of you to post. Just curious, what are you using to slow the song down and keep the pitch?
Been working on this since 1878
I noticed one mistake in the "verse" riff: the 4 3 2 should always be on the D string. Now the latter half of the riff has 4 2 on the D string and 4 3 2 on the A string when it should be the other way around. Same thing when the riff is transposed a minor 3rd up.
@@ROOTMANZERO No. Listen to the isolated bass track on half speed. I'm 100% sure I'm right (just transcribed the whole thing - BTW, the tab that you can find in tab books also contains mistakes in it, at least based on the picture that I have seen of the first page of that tab). Listen carefully, use your ears.
I only used my ears for the transcription, and didn't use any other tabs as a reference. I played the isolated bass track on half speed to hear all the details.
MaggaraMarine Damn! I fear that you’re right. Now to try an unlearn 30 years of playing it that way...
Do you have a pdf of your transcription?
Cheers.
@@ROOTMANZERO It's on standard notation at the moment, and not 100% complete. I have all of the notes down, but there are some things that I still need to figure out how to notate (the rhythms in the interlude between the intro and the first verse for example), and it probably needs some overall polishing (for example all of the correct techniques like slides, hammer ons/pull offs). It doesn't take long to translate it into tab, though, so that's not an issue.
When I finish the transcription, if I remember, I can share it.
I think it's kind of stupid that "official" tab books have mistakes like this. And there are plenty of "official" tabs that have mistakes like this. And this is why I never trust what a tab book says, and prefer to transcribe stuff by ear. At the same time, I pretty much internalize the song because I have to listen to it so many times.
MaggaraMarine yes please!
I can confirm that Maggara is right. I just ran into this and discovered it on my own as well.
THANK YOU
You are my angel ❣️
Cheers Brdders old chap,
Spiffing work.
May one ask what software thy doth have yew-zest squire.
Ta velly glad for the up dude :-)
Who else is learning this song? I´m doing since 2008.
and this is in time and 1/2. Trying to play it straight time is alsmost twice as fast!!!
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3:51
Where can I download this tab?
Better to learn at double speed then slow down for performance - Chuck Norris
chuck norris is a dumbass if he said that
1.5x for normal speed
its kinda becoming funk
1.5x speed
Still too fast for me :(
Hasta lenta sigue siendo complicada jajaja :(
Why thare is 4 line it most be 6
Efe Kaynak probably because the song was made with a 4 string bass?
bass clef
Very helpful, thank you but this is wrong…whoever wrote this tab has no ear,
CAUTION: This tab is NOT accurate. Lots of wrong notes, but even when it gets the notes right it often gets the fretting wrong. The main riff is egregiously wrong in this. Just listen to Geddy play it live, or watch Tim Starace play it.