Tom Sawyer
Rush · 1981
Signature fills and a 7/8 instrumental section, a Peart benchmark.
- Artist
- Rush
- Year
- 1981
- Genre
- progressive rock
- Drummer
- Neil Peart
- Tempo
- 88 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- straight with odd-time fills
- Difficulty
- advanced
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The feel
A straight with odd-time fills in 4/4 around 88 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
Form
Intro · Verse · Chorus · Verse · Chorus · Instrumental (7/8) · Solo · Verse · Outro
What to watch
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
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