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Rush - Prime Mover

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Chord diagram for D
Chord diagram for A
      
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 22:05:12 -0700 (MST)
From: "Anthony John Zimmermann" <97445@ef.gc.maricopa.edu>
Rush
Prime Mover
Hold Your Fire
Music and Lyrics by Lee, Lifeson, and Peart
Transcribed by Tony Zimmermann
<97445@ef.gc.maricopa.edu>
Comments Welcome
---------------------------------------------------|---2--2----------- ---------------------------------------------------|---3--3----------- --2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2---|---2--2----------- --0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---|---0--0----------- ---------------------------------------------------|------------------ ---------------------------------------------------|------------------

Palm mute, 2x D, 2x
--2--2------2-------------------|---3--3------------------------------ --3--3------3---------2---------|---3--3------------------------------ --2--2------4---------2---------|---0--0------------------------------ --0--0------4---------2---------|---0--0------------------------------ ------------2---------0---------|---2--2------------------------------ --------------------------------|---3--3------------------------------

D Bm A (2x)
Top part: Rhy. Fig. 1
Basic Elemental...
|-----2-P-0----3----2-P-0--|-----2-P-0----3----2-P-0------------------ |-----------3-------------3|-----------3-------------3---------------- |--------------------------|------------------------------------------ |--------------------------|------------------------------------------ |--------------------------|------------------------------------------ |--------------------------|------------------------------------------

| (Two Guitars) |
|--------------------------|------------------------------------------ |--------------------------|------------------------------------------ |--------------------------|------------------------------------------ |--------------------------|------------------------------------------ |--2-----------------------|--0--------------------------------------- |--------------------------|------------------------------------------

(Bm) (D) (A) (Bm) (D) (A)
Alternating currents in a tidewater surge
|--------------------------------------------------------------------- |------------------------------------------------------A.H.----------- |------------------------------------------------2-----<2>------------ |---------------------------------------------2-----2----------------- |-------------------------------------0---/4-------------------------- |---------------------------------------------------------------------

(Bm) (D) (A) (Bm) (D) (A)
Rational resistance to an unwise urge
|----------------------------------------------------3---------------- |------------------------------------/3--2-----------3---------------- |-------------------------------------------2--------0---------------- |----------------------------------------------2-----0---------------- |-------------------------------------------------0--2---------------- |----------------------------------------------------3----------------

G
(G)
Anything can happen
Verses: (Guitars are Nashville-tuned w/4 bottom strings up 1 octave)
(D) (G)
>From the point of conception
(Bm) (E) E:022100
To the moment of truth
(D) (G)
At the point of surrender
(Bm) (A)
to the burden of proof
w/Rhy.Fig.1 (3x)
>From the point of ignition
(E)
to the final drive
w/Rhy.Fig.1 (3x)
The point of the journey
(A)
is not to arrive
(G)
Anything can happen
Guitar Tacet until "Alternating Currents..."
I set the wheels in motion....
--------------------0--------------------------0---------------------- ----------------0------0-------------------0-------0------------------ ------------6--------------------------4------------------------------ --------6--------------------------4---------------------------------- ----4--------------------------2-------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

(C#m) (E5) (B) E5: x799xx
I set the clouds in motion
(C#m) (E5) (B)
Turn up light and sound
(C#m) (E5) (B)
Activate the window
(A)
and watch the world go 'round
Palm Mute: (2x) 1. 2.
--2------------3-------------3----|------|---------------------------- --3------------3--------3----3----|------|---------------------------- --2------2-----0--------2----0----|------|---------------------------- --0------2-----0--------0----0----|--2---|---/-9-~~~~~~--------------- ---------0--------------0----2----|--2---|---/-9-~~~~~~--------------- ------------------------2----3----|--0---|----------------------------

Depress Tremolo bar before
striking note
Outro chords:
D A G
D/F# G E A D/F#: 20023x

Source: http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/rush/hold_your_fire/prime_mover.txt

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