Freeze

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Rush - Freeze (Part IV of "Fear")

From the album Vapor Trails (Atlantic Records)

Music by Lee and Lifeson

Lyric by Peart

Transcribed by Travis Lausch

Notes:

Unlike my previous submission to the R.T.P., this tab was created

from the ground up. 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.

It sounds like Alex went for some kind of textural feel here (as on

the rest of Vapor Trails), and as such, there is a lot of ad-libbing.

[A] Intro

riff A--------------------------------------------|

2 e s s e s s e s s s s e s s s s s s e

[B] 1st Verse

The city crouches steaming in the early morning half-light

the sun is still a rumor and the night is still a threat

Gtr. 3 plays fill 1 twice on 2nd repeat

q q e q q e q q e q q e

[C] 2nd Verse

Slipping through the dark streets and the echoes and the shadows

Something stirs behind me and my palms begin to

(oh...)

q q e q q e

%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

% (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

[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

[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

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

(oh...)

q q e q q e

[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

(+) 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]

[K] Interlude

Gtr. 1 pays Riff A four times

w. +w. +w. +w.

> >

Gtr. 1

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

|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
6--9-----9-----9---------9--------5--9/12--12-----12---------12-------|
4--9-----9-----9---------9--------4--9/12--12-----12---------12-------|
|--7-----7-----7---------7--------|--7/10--10-----10---------10-------|
|----0-0---0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0--|------10---1010---10101010---1010--|

(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

||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||o-9-----9-----9---------9--------5--9/12--12-----12---------12------o||
||o-9-----9-----9---------9--------4--9/12--12-----12---------12------o||
||--7-----7-----7---------7--------|--7/10--10-----10---------10-------||
||----0-0---0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0--|------10---1010---10101010---1010--||

M

(4th time) D.S.II al CodaII

Oh (play 4 times)

q q e q q e q q e q q e

||--------------------|--------------------||
||--------------------|--------------------||
||o-------------------|-------------------o||
||o-2---2----2---2----|--5---5----5---5---o||
||--2---2----2---2----|--2---2----2---2----||
||--0---0----0---0----|--3---3----3---3----||

(+)II CodaII

Oh (play 4 times)

*Into the night

q q e q q e q q e q q e

 	||--------------------|--------------------||
	||--------------------|--------------------||
	||o-------------------|-------------------o||
	||o-2---2----2---2----|--5---5----5---5---o||
	||--2---2----2---2----|--2---2----2---2----||
	||--0---0----0---0----|--3---3----3---3----||

*=on 2nd and 4th repeats only

[N] Outro

|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|--------%-------|--------%--------|--------%-------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||

_______________________________________________________

| Fill 1 |

| |

	|   |-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   |-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   5-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   4-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   |-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   |--2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0--|--2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0--|  |

| |

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_______________________________________________________

| Fill 2 |

| |

	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |--8-8-10-10-8-8-10-8--|--8-8-10-10-8-8-10-8--|    |
	|   4--7-7-7--7--7-7-7--7--|--7-7-7--7--7-7-7--7--|    |
	|   4----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |

| |

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_______________________________________________________

| Fill 3 |

	|      N.H.--------------------|                       |
	|   |--5-------------------|--5-------------------|    |
	|   |--5-------------------|--5-------------------|    |
	|   6----------------------5----------------------|    |
	|   4----------------------4----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |

| tremolo pick all notes |

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