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Ultimate Drum Play-Along Rush: Authentic Drum (Book & CD) (Alfred's Ultimate Play-Along) | 
| Author: Rush
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 160824
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Com
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.8 x 0.3
ISBN: 0739057146
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
EAN: 9780739057148
ASIN: 0739057146
Publication Date: September 13, 2009
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| • | ISBN13: 9780739057148 | | • | Condition: NEW | | • | Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. |
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Product Description
Learn to play your favorite Rush songs with these terrific transcriptions and play-along tracks. The CD contains two version of each song: a complete version for demonstration and a play-along version without drums so you can play with the rhythm tracks. Plus the CD contains embedded software that allows you to slow down, loop and even transpose keys! Plus, there are matching guitar and bass editions available! Titles: Anthem
* Closer to the Heart
* Spirit of Radio
* Temples of Syrinx
* Tom Sawyer
* YYZ.
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| Customer Reviews:
 NOT the original artist or recordings of songs October 12, 2009
K. A. Downing
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just a note to all drummers and Rush fans out there - this item does not contain the original recordings of the songs by Rush. The Amazon listing does not state this anywhere and after receiving the item, I was only able to find a small notation of this on the back of the outside packaging, even though there is a very large picture of drummer Neil Peart and the Rush name in a Rush-style font on the front. Deceiving packaging by the publisher and an oversight by Amazon to not note this.
I'm giving this two stars because it still serves it's intended purpose - you can read the sheet music for several Rush songs and play along with songs created by Rush. But the whole thrill of putting your own drums to Rush songs doesn't work when it's a completely re-recorded song by a very average group of unknown musicians.
I'm not writing this review to be snarky in any way - I just want to warn people and help them save their money if they came here expecting to drum along with Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee.
Great Idea bad product March 12, 2010
M. Almand (carrollton, TEXAS United States)
If you value your hearing stay away from this product. I cannot comment on the music becaus you can't hear it over the click track. It's not a subte cick track but an annoying click track that with headphones suonds like your brains are being sucked out.
 Not nearly as good as others of this type - really very bad indeed October 14, 2009
S. Campbell (Mandeville, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It would be hard to overstate how much I was looking forward to this book/CD. I've been a drummer and a Rush fan since 1982. Ever since I bought the Jamie Borden DVD, which was advertised as including drumless play-along tracks, but did not, this has been something of a quest. I pre-ordered this book at first notice, and when it was delayed, ended up ordering another version from the UK (different cover, same book/CD). So, now I have two copies of the same, woefully executed book.
Having enjoyed other books of this type, especially the Hal Leonard Drum Play-Along series, I reluctantly wish this one had not been released. Rush has sometimes been criticized for "protecting their fans" from allegedly substandard products bearing their name. Well, I wish they'd do something about this one. Specifics:
An obnoxious, never-ending click track permeates throughout the play-along tracks. I love having a count-in, but we *really* don't need 8th notes running all the way through "Anthem", or any of the other tracks. It completely kills any fun that we might have hoped for. Other play-alongs do not do this, which makes them more realistic and more challenging. If a click is mandatory, why not a quiet hi-hat click every bar or two?
The music and notation are often incorrect. The end of the "YYZ" intro is one example. 13-tuplets?... no, it's not. Nor are Neil's YYZ solo fills written/played close to the original. "The Spirit of Radio" intro is tricky enough to nail exactly right. If you can do it, don't bother with this, because it isn't even close.
At the end of the day, this is only a product, and only cost $15-$20. So, it's not the end of the world. But, it is a waste of money. Joe King has some great renditions of Rush songs out there, that *are* fun to play along with. Save your money, and go search those out.
If anyone affiliated with Rush is listening: There is a market for this kind of thing. Please consider releasing your own authorized "music minus one" sets. Dave Weckl's band does a great job with this, as did David Garibaldi with Code of Funk. If you make it, we will buy it!
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