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How to play guitar like Alex Lifeson from Rush

A tab lesson with audio example and backing track

Guitar Techniques/BIMM (Martin Cooper), Mon 12 Oct 2009, 4:25 pm UTC

Example: Rush-style lead

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[Bars 35 and 37] This phrase has quite a wide stretch. It's just a D minor pentatonic phrase, but by dipping into two diferent shapes (shapes 1 and 2), it sounds diferent to a lot of other pentatonic phrases you're likely to hear in blues and rock.

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