http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANiaZvdGO8U
This song is in duple meter. 4/4 to be exact. You can tell that the beat and the tempo is pretty consistent throughout the song. Them tempo is rather Moderate not too fast. Although Neil peart gives it the feeling that its moving much faster because of his amazing drumming skills.
The Vocal melodies which are sung by Geddy Lee vary into 3 main sections. His range is pretty wide as he hits very high notes at 0:45 within the song. The chorus doesn’t range too far out but you can hear Lee using Vibrato in his melody towards the end.
The verses are made up of 8 measures whereas the chorus is only made up of 4. The song has a very distinct bridge witch leads into the solo and then back into the main verse.
The texture of the song is homophonic. the main melody is expressed by the singing and when not sung a different melody is played by the guitar.
In this song there are 4 main instruments being heard throughout. The drums, the guitar, the bass, and the keyboard. The drums are consistent throughout while the keyboard and bass comes in and out. The bass and the guitar are the main accompaniment behind the singing. Although if you listen closely to the song you can notice parts where the bass plays the direct octave of the guitar. Thereby doubling the melody.
This is a great song. I think you’re right, I feel it is uncommon in rock and worth pointing out that the bass guitar plays the same riff as the guitar and almost louder then the guitar itself. It has a very almost futuristic timbre.
This song was pretty catchy and I noticed at 2:10 there was some kind of vibrating snake like sound, really curious what that sound was produced by. The guitarist gave off an old school tone, really sets the mood up.