Limelight - Rush (Bass Cover with Tabs)

Bass cover of Limelight by Rush
E Standard Tuning
Brightness of the Sun: Fake rays and moonlit days

Tabs in this video created by me

Gear I use (Links are Affiliate Links)

Year: 1981
Album: Moving Pictures
Bassist: Geddy Lee
Genre: Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Prog Rock

** Rush is such an awesome band. Moving pictures is a timeless classic and my best friend and I always listen to Rush, AC/DC and KISS together whenever we're together. You've seen me do a lot of AC/DC and KISS, but not really any Rush. I did Tom Sawyer a while back before I did tabs, but the video quality was complete garbage because I was using a laptop camera since my webcam had broken. (I think I might have taken the video down because I was ashamed I let that video quality go up) Well, I've stayed away from most Rush generally because Geddy's tone is hard to nail and a lot of Rush is really hard to play. I've been practicing YYZ since I picked up the electric bass back in 9th grade (Going on 8 years now). My playing is getting better over time, so I think I can start with some of the easier Rush songs and work my way up to YYZ (or maybe just go for it eventually). As far as his tone goes, I'm a college student, so I don't have the money to buy fresh strings as often as I'd like (I replace about once a semester), but even if I had the brand new rotosound 66 strings, I need more experience emulating tone in order to do it justice. I didn't want to let that hold me back, so I picked a pretty solid, general bass tone for this video. I think it worked out well. The main reason I covered Limelight was because I got a request to play Rush and it got me thinking about all of this again. It took a while to tab out the song. Geddy plays it differently live, than this studio version (more little licks), so I just went with what I could hear on the studio version.
Thanks for watching! Enjoy :)

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[ElliYeetYT]

Geddy Lee is a bass goat.
Good Cover, and R.I.P Neil Peart.

[dhuffdrummer]

Bro didn't even look at the bass during the whole solo!!! Bravo

[ElectronicCircuitStuff]

Hi Butch here, thanks for the excellent bass cover! Great song! I've been working on learning this and I'm up to about the 3:00 mark in the video, still a ways to go! Thanks for all of your bass covers!

[laurabellotti]

Lucian says “Good “ and gave a thumbs up.

[JoeyRagu]

Excellent job!!as always SB, keep Rockin plz.

[timothydukeman]

Great job! Bar 54... you have F#F# for the first two notes. I swear I'm hearing F#C#, with an accentuated stop on the C#.

These are the details which keep me up at night.

[Creator_of_Silversword_Lootbox]

Amazing :-) Please, more bass covers from RUSH.

[eym]

:D great cover, great sog.

Greetings from Chile. yes Chile ( we are fighting for dignity)

[nikolaikeyes]

YYZ By Rush should be a very easy song for you to play if you can do Limelight you definitely can do YYZ your a very talented young guy great job props to you!

[marlborofog]

Hey there, great channel, I just discovered it. I was wondering why you play a 5-string on this song, unless I missed something the low string is unused. Nice thumb rest though :-) I was also wondering why you do a lot of playing with one finger (apparently), like at 1:41 bar 65-66 -- for me it wouldn't be a choice, I couldn't do that with one finger anyway, but just wondering why you would CHOOSE to do it with one finger. I'm enjoying your songs, lots of great stuff, thanks.

[johnwhelan]

can you post the warm up video / bass line that we did last night prior to getting started to the play along. I really liked having that to follow along with.

[Zolo]

Where is the YYZ you promised? Go for it!

[austinkirch]

Great Cover! Any chance you could do Aint Wastin Time No More by The Allman Brothers Band?

[ricknelson]

Somebody has to have told you that you look like David Gilmour !

[Ash-sqbs]

Hey SB do you have any tips for playing those grace notes?

[andreaboglio]

Awesome performance of one the best songs ever done! Geddy is a monster and you played it great! Subscribed your channel.. If you want have a look at my channel too

[johnlovatt]

shit are you sure its not geddy with a mask on?