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Rush - Freeze (Part IV of "Fear")
From the album Vapor Trails (Atlantic Records)
Copyright 2002 Core Music Publishing
Music by Lee and Lifeson
Lyric by Peart
 
Transcribed by Travis Lausch
 
Notes:
 
	Unlike my previous submission to the R.T.P., this tab was created
from the ground up. This tab is (I'd say) at least 90% correct, and took me
a long time to transcribe. The time signatures were a bitch to get. (I still
don't know if they're 100% correct), but for the most part, everything is
here.
 
	It sounds like Alex went for some kind of textural feel here (as on
the rest of Vapor Trails), and as such, there is a lot of ad-libbing.
 
 
	[A] Intro
                        N.H.----------------------------------------------|
                        riff A--------------------------------------------|
                2          e s s e    s s e    s s s s e s s s s s s e
	|---------------|--------------------------------------------------|
	|---------------|--------------------------------------------------|
	6---------------|--------------------------------------------------|
	4--|=========|--|--------------------------------------------------|
	|---------------|--3-----------------------------------------------|
	|---------------|----x-x-2.75-x-x-2.75-x-x-x-x-2-x-x-x-x-x-x-2.75--|
 
                    [B] 1st Verse
 
                 The city crouches steaming  in the early morning half-light
 
|---------|---------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
|---------|---------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
|---------5---------6---------------|-------------|-------------|
|----%----4----%----4-------%-------|------%------|------%------|
|---------|---------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
|---------|---------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
 
 
the sun is still a rumor  and the night is still a   threat
 
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|------%------|------%------|------%------|------%------|------%------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
 
Gtr. 3 plays fill 1 twice on 2nd repeat
Rhy. Fig. 1-----------------------------|
    q   q e q   q e    q   q e q   q e
||----------2---2---|----------2---2---||
||----------2---2---|----------2---2---||
5|o-4---4---4---4---|--4---4---4---4--o||
4|o-2---2---2---2---|--2---2---2---2--o||
||--4---4-----------|--4---4-----------||
||--2---2-----------|--2---2-----------||
 
[C] 2nd Verse
 
Slipping through the dark streets and the echoes and the shadows
Something stirs  behind   me      and my  palms      begin    to
 
||------------------|--------------------|-------------------|------------||
||------------------|--------------------|-------------------|------------||
||o--------%--------|----------%---------|----------%--------|------%----o||
||o-----------------|--------------------|-------------------|-----------o||
||------------------|--------------------|-------------------|------------||
||------------------|--------------------|-------------------|------------||
 
 
 
 
         (oh...)
            q   q e q   q e
|--------|----------7---7---|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|--------|----------7---7---|-------------|-------------|-------------|
9----%---5--9---9---9---9---|-------------|-------------|-------------|
8--------4--7---7---7---7---|------%------|------%------|------%------|
|--------|--9---9-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|--------|--7---7-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
 
%II                     (2nd time on D.S.II) To Coda II
[D] 1st Prechorus
 
   Sometimes I freeze     until the light comes
   Sometimes I fly        Into the night
   Sometimes I fight      against the darkness
   Sometimes I'm wrong  sometimes I'm right
 
||-----------|----------|--------------|-------------||
||-----------|----------|--------------|-------------||
||o-----%----|-----%----|-------%------|-------%----o||
||o----------|----------|--------------|------------o||
||-----------|----------|--------------|-------------||
||-----------|----------|--------------|-------------||
 
%              (4th time on D.S.) To Coda
[E]
Gtr. 3 plays fill 2 until section [G]
Gtr. 4 (Clean)             (Play 4 times)
    e e e e e e q     e e e e e e e e
||-----------------|-------------------||
||--------------7--|-------------------||
4|o-----7---7------|------7---7---7---o||
4|o---7---7---7----|----7---7---7---7-o||
||--5--------------|--5----------------||
||-----------------|-------------------||
 
[F] 1st Chorus
 
  Coiled for the spring caught like a creature in the headlights     into a
  desperate             panic        or a tempest of blind fury
  do     do  do  do                 do do do   do  do      do        like a
  cornered              beast        or a conquering    hero
 
||------------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
||------------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
||o-----------%-----------|-------%-------|-------%-------|--------%-----o||
||o-----------------------|---------------|---------------|--------------o||
||------------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
||------------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
 
[G] 3rd Verse
 
                  The menace threatens  closing  and I'm frozen in the
                      not prepeared to   run away and I'm not prepared to
 
Gtrs. 1 & 2 play riff A until section [H]
          2            w                  w                w
|-------------------||------------------|----------------|----------------|
|-------------------||------------------|----------------|----------------|
6-------------------||o-----------------|----------------|----------------|
4--|==============|-||o-----------------|----------------|----------------|
|-------------------||------------------|----------------|----------------|
|-------------------||------------------|----------------|----------------|
 
  shadows       I'm
  fight               I  can't stand to reason or surrender to a reflex
                      I  will trust my instincts or surrender to my fright
                      q   q e q   q e
|-----------------||----------2---2---|-----------|--------------|-------||
|-----------------||----------2---2---|-----------|--------------|-------||
|----------------o||o-4---4---4---4---|-----%-----|-------%------|---%--o||
|----------------o||o-2---2---2---2---|-----------|--------------|------o||
|-----------------||--4---4-----------|-----------|--------------|-------||
|-----------------||--2---2-----------|-----------|--------------|-------||
 
 
 
|--------------------------|----------------------------|
|--------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------%-------------|--------------%-------------|
|--------------------------|----------------------------|
|--------------------------|----------------------------|
|--------------------------|----------------------------|
 
(oh...)
   q   q e q   q e
|----------7---7---|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|----------7---7---|-------------|-------------|-------------|
5--9---9---9---9---|-------------|-------------|-------------|
4--7---7---7---7---|------%------|------%------|------%------|
|--9---9-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|--7---7-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
 
[D] 2nd Prechorus                 (4th time) D.S. Al Coda
 
   Sometimes we freeze     until the light comes
   Sometimes we're wrong   sometimes we're right
   Sometimes we fight      against the darkness
   Sometimes we fly        into    the    night
 
||-------------|----------|--------------|-------------||
||-------------|----------|--------------|-------------||
||o-----%------|-----%----|-------%------|-------%----o||
||o------------|----------|--------------|------------o||
||-------------|----------|--------------|-------------||
||-------------|----------|--------------|-------------||
 
	(+) Coda
	[J] 2nd Chorus
 
	Blood running cold mind going down into a dark place
	desperate             panic        or a tempest of blind fury
	do     do  do  do                 do do do do do   do        like a
	cornered              beast        or a conquering    hero
 
        Gtr. 3 plays fill 2 until section [K]
	Gtr. 4 plays Rhy. Fig. 2 until section [K]
             w
	||------------------------|---------------|-------------|---------||
	||------------------------|---------------|-------------|---------||
	||o--7--------------------|-------%-------|-----%-------|--%-----o||
	||o--7--------------------|---------------|-------------|--------o||
	||---5--------------------|---------------|-------------|---------||
	||------------------------|---------------|-------------|---------||
 
[K] Interlude
                                         Gtr. 1 pays Riff A four times
   w.            +w.          +w.          +w.
|--------------|------------|------------|------------|
|--------------|------------|------------|------------|
6--7-----------|--7---------|--7---------|--7---------|
4--7-----------|--7---------|--7---------|--7---------|
|--5-----------|--5---------|--5---------|--5---------|
|--------------|------------|------------|------------|
                               >            >
 
Gtr. 1
|----------------|--------------|--------------|
|----------------|--------------|--------------|
|--------%-------5-------%------|-------%------|
|----------------4--------------|--------------|
|----------------|--------------|--------------|
|----------------|--------------|--------------|
 
 
[L]
                                         N.H.  N.H.  N.H.---|   N.H.
   e s s e s s e s s s s e s s q     e e  e e  s s e s s s s e  s s
|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
6--9-----9-----9---------9--------5--9/12--12-----12---------12-------|
4--9-----9-----9---------9--------4--9/12--12-----12---------12-------|
|--7-----7-----7---------7--------|--7/10--10-----10---------10-------|
|----0-0---0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0--|------10---1010---10101010---1010--|
(on 5th repeat)
 
    Sometimes   I      freeze (etc...)
                                                   (play 9 times simile)
Gtr. 5 (w/dist.) plays fill 3 until section [M] on 3rd repeat
    e s s e s s e s s s s e s s e     e e  e e  s s e s s s s e  s s
||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||o-9-----9-----9---------9--------5--9/12--12-----12---------12------o||
||o-9-----9-----9---------9--------4--9/12--12-----12---------12------o||
||--7-----7-----7---------7--------|--7/10--10-----10---------10-------||
||----0-0---0-0---0-0-0-0---0-0-0--|------10---1010---10101010---1010--||
 
[M]
                  (4th time) D.S.II al CodaII
    Oh                         (play 4 times)
    q   q  e q   q e     q   q  e q   q  e
||--------------------|--------------------||
||--------------------|--------------------||
||o-------------------|-------------------o||
||o-2---2----2---2----|--5---5----5---5---o||
||--2---2----2---2----|--2---2----2---2----||
||--0---0----0---0----|--3---3----3---3----||
 
        (+)II CodaII
 
	    Oh                         (play 4 times)
                                *Into the night
 
            q   q  e q   q  e    q   q  e q   q  e
 	||--------------------|--------------------||
	||--------------------|--------------------||
	||o-------------------|-------------------o||
	||o-2---2----2---2----|--5---5----5---5---o||
	||--2---2----2---2----|--2---2----2---2----||
	||--0---0----0---0----|--3---3----3---3----||
           *=on 2nd and 4th repeats only
 
[N] Outro
 
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|--------%-------|--------%--------|--------%-------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
|----------------|-----------------|----------------||
 
 
        _______________________________________________________
	| Fill 1                                               |
	|                                                      |
	|   |-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   |-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   5-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   4-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   |-----------------------|-----------------------|  |
	|   |--2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0--|--2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0--|  |
	|                                                      |
        -------------------------------------------------------
 
	_______________________________________________________
	| Fill 2                                               |
	|                                                      |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |--8-8-10-10-8-8-10-8--|--8-8-10-10-8-8-10-8--|    |
	|   4--7-7-7--7--7-7-7--7--|--7-7-7--7--7-7-7--7--|    |
	|   4----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|                                                      |
        -------------------------------------------------------
 
	_______________________________________________________
	| Fill 3                                               |
	|      N.H.--------------------|                       |
	|   |--5-------------------|--5-------------------|    |
	|   |--5-------------------|--5-------------------|    |
	|   6----------------------5----------------------|    |
	|   4----------------------4----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|   |----------------------|----------------------|    |
	|      tremolo pick all notes                          |
        -------------------------------------------------------
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thanks for putting this together! VERY tough song to diagnose. This is the best I’ve seen. One of my fave songs ever and glad to get some insight on playing it.