Rush - I Am The Spirit guitar tab
Victor: I Am the Spirit
From the album Victor (Atlantic Records)
Copyright 1996 Lerxst Music Inc.
Music by Alex Lifeson and Bill Bell
Lyrics by Alex Lifeson
Comments/corrections to Rich Soto
Transcribed by Richard J. Soto and Chris Iacovella
MANY thanks and respect go out to Chris Iacovella for his great
input and excellant insight. I'll play with ya anytime! :^)
Use a clean pretty chorus for Riff-A and a dirty distortion for Riff-B.
Notice how Riff-C is very similar to Alex's famous "Spirit Of Radio" riff.
(Hence this song's title! ) There's a slight digital delay used for Riff-C.
There may be a rhythm guitar under Riff-C in unison with the Bass
playing the B5, B5, B5, B5, A5. But I think it's just a very punchy Bass.
The wobble guitar can be produced using a tremolo pedal. However,
I use a Boss Chorus CE-3 and switch to stereo mode II but
actually run it in mono through one amp through output A to create
the wobble effect.
---0---------2---------------0---------2\------------|------------------------
--------4---------0--2--3---------4-------------0----|------------------------
------4----4----2---------------4----4--------4------|------------------------
--------------------------------------------4--------|------------------------
-2-------------------------2--------------2----------|------------------------
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Riff-A Play 2x
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---2p0--2p0h2---------------2p0--2p0h2------------|---------------------------
--------------0--2--4--5---------------0--2--4vvv-|---------------------------
-0-----3------------------0-----3-----------------|---------------------------
Riff-B Play 4x
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-------------2--2-/-7---7--|--------------------------------------------------
-2--2--4--5--4--4-/-5---5--|--------------------------------------------------
-0--0--2--3-----------7----|--------------------------------------------------
Rhy.1 Play 4x
-2p0---0-5p0---0-2p0---0---------2p0---0-5p0---0-2p0---0-------|--------------
-----4-------4-------4---0-----------4-------4-------4---2p0---|--------------
-------------------------------------------------------------2-|--------------
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Riff-C Play 3x
-2p0---0-5p0---0-2p0----0------3------------------------------|---------------
-----4-------4--------4---2p0--3------------------------------|---------------
-------------------------------2------------------------------|---------------
-------------------------------2------------------------------|---------------
-------------------------------0------------------------------|---------------
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Riff-D
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(Riff-B Play 4x) (Rhy.1 Play 4x) (Riff C Play 3x) (Riff-D Play 1x)
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(Riff-B Play 2x) (Riff-A Play 4x)
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----4---6---4------------4---6---4-----------------------------------2--------
---------------6--4/6---------------6--4\----2---4---2------------2-----------
-4-----4---4--------------------------------------------4--2/4-0--------------
----------------------7----7---7----------2-----2---2-------------------------
Wobble Guitar (Play 1x alone & 2x with Rhy.2)
-------------0--------|------------------------------------0-|-0----|---------
----------0-----0-----|-------------0------------------0-----|-0----|---------
-------4-----------0--|---------6------------------6---------|-6----|---------
----2-----------------|-----6------------------6-------------|-6----|---------
-0--------------------|-4------------------------------------|-4----|---------
----------------------|--------------------------------------|------|---------
Rhy.2 (Play 7x)
-------------------------------------------------12-11-9----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------12-11-9--------7--9--
------------8--9vvv-8-9b-r--8h9p8--------------------------------11\8vv-------
-9----9--11-----------------------9vvv-11-7v7v7-------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Guitar Solo
-----------------------------------------------17--20bvvvvvvv-||--------------
-10--10b--11-12-14--14-15-17---16-17-19--17-19----------------||--------------
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(Riff-B Play 4x) (Rhy.1 Play 4x) (Riff A Play 8x) END