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 <lerxst@zeus.jersey.net>
Transcribed by Richard J. Soto <lerxst@zeus.jersey.net> and Chris Iacovella
<corripio@yahoo.com>
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----------|------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------|------------------------
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
---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------
---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------
---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------
-------------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-|--------------
---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------
---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------
---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------
Riff-C Play 3x
-2p0---0-5p0---0-2p0----0------3------------------------------|---------------
-----4-------4--------4---2p0--3------------------------------|---------------
-------------------------------2------------------------------|---------------
-------------------------------2------------------------------|---------------
-------------------------------0------------------------------|---------------
--------------------------------------------------------------|---------------
Riff-D
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|----------
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|----------
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|----------
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|----------
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|----------
-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|----------
(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)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------0-----
----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-------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
