Rush · 1981 · drums by Neil Peart
Limelight
From Moving Pictures. Advanced · Odd meters · prog
Tempo
131BPM
- Time signature
- 4/4 with 7/4 and 3/4 bars
- Feel
- Odd meters
- Tempo band
- 120–150
- Difficulty
- Advanced
"Work up to it" opens the tempo trainer at 101 and climbs to 131 in steps of four every eight bars. Members get the climb; everyone gets the click.
What the drums do
Sounds like a straight rock song and is anything but: the riff drops bars of seven and three into the verses, and the guitar solo section sits in 6/4. Count the guitar, not the drums, until the odd bars stop surprising you.
Advanced: Fast, odd, or both; the part is the reason the song is famous.
Neil Peart
- Neil Peart's drum rig in the Rig Vault →The kit, snare, cymbals and hardware, era by era — look for the 1981 setup.
- Log the sessionNote the BPM you got it clean at, and next time starts from there.
More Neil Peart songs
All 3 Neil Peart songs at tempo →
- Tom Sawyer88
- YYZ141
Songs at about 131 BPM
Practise these together: one click, several songs.
- Best of You130
- Fool in the Rain130
- Jump130
- Lingus130
- Easy Lover129
- Before I Forget134