Product Description

Includes: Distant Early Warning from GRACE UNDER PRESSURE * Jacob's Ladder from PERMANENT WAVES * Limelight from MOVING PICTURES and others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290346 in Books
• Published on: 1985-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Totally worth the money
This book is incredibly useful if you are trying to learn Rush tunes. Sure you could just sit and learn them from the CD but also having the sheet music speeds things up quite a bit and you will catch things you didn't notice by just listening. People here are complaining a lot about the mistakes, which there are, but I think its a minor point. The fact is, most of the mistakes are totally obvious if you are listening the cd. I think maybe they are mostly transcription errors from the publisher. In any case, most of the book is quite accurate and it will give you a much greater appreciation of Peart's compositions than you ever have had.

Highly recommend for the Intermediate to Advanced Drummer!
I have been using this book for over 12 years now. I received it as a gift during my senior year of high school, and used the book so much that it was literally falling apart. I had to get a replacement. I have also used this book to teach to some of my drum students. Although I have found a few mistakes, the rhythms and time signatures are very accurate.

I find it very useful to not only teach time changes and reading skills, but to teach continuity even when mistakes happen.

Neil Peart's drumming exhibits finesse and is incredibly intricate. The drummer that uses this book will learn not the K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid) method to drumming and timekeeping, but the M.U.S.I.C. (make up something interesting and complimentary) method.

I would highly recommend this book to any RUSH fan or intermediate to advanced drummer looking to add a few more "tools" to their percussive toolbox.

Good idea, but there are a lot of errors
I'm not as good as I would like to be at hearing progressive rock music and understanding what is being played so I was very happy to see this book.

Unfortunately the author isn't very good either. I've spent quite a few hours trying to reconcile what I was hearing with what I was reading.

I would still purchase it for some clues, but you can't take it as gospel. The book states that the arrangements were prepared under the supervision of Neil Peart, maybe he wasn't paying attention. :)