Hardest Songs to Play on Bass by Rush

Which song is really difficult to play on bass guitar by the band Rush?
The Top Ten
1 YYZ

Oh, man, this is the hardest song I've ever played! Geddy Lee makes it sound so easy to play, but when you try to platy it it's a lot harder than you expected. GEDDY ALL THE WAY!

The bass is just as loud as the guitar and dose mostly the same thing wich is really sick. GO GEDDY LEE BEST BASSIST AND SECOND BEST SINGER (after Jon Bon Jovi) EVER!

Playing this song right now. Some hard bass songs are just boring, but YYZ is really hard and really fun at the same time and it's extreamly fun to play in a band!

Not Only The Hardest Rush Bass Song, But THE Hardest Rush Song Ever, GEDDY LEE IS THE BEST BASSIST EVER!

2 La Villa Strangiato

Ill second this been playing drumbs 4 25yrs it's the hardest on all 3 instruments. I would say the drumming is super insane but than again so is tom sawyer and spirt of radio etc
Pretty much everything up to moving pictures and from when peart started I don't no its all really hard but if you listen very carefully its almost impossible 2 play 2 a T. The drummer before peart was awesome also great fills everything. But no one is as tight as peart that's y he gets the crown plus his off beat drumming very very very hard 2 learn.

La Villa Strangiato is harder than YYZ in therms of empty sounded parts, there is more silences and you must catch up in the exact moment, YYZ may be faster but La Villa Strangiato is more complex and unpredictable (I played only the BASS part, but this applies to mostly to the entire song in every instrument) in many ways.

It took me three months to fully learn this song, and I still miss notes, and can't fully play the bass solo sometimes. Beautiful song. YYZ in my opinion isn't a very difficult song next to this one.

Constant time changes and unpredictable pauses, this songs takes endurance when on drums, and with the long hefty guitar solo and a supporting bassline, this song is deffinitely most difficulty to play out of Rush's diverse library.

3 Freewill

Geddy lees shredding right before the solo... Incredible. All the crap that other bands come up with it seems that the bass does not matter. Well in rush I love how they make the bass important. Keep on rocking!

4 By-Tor and the Snow Dog
5 Circumstances

For me this is the hardest Rush song to learn... Or at least one of the hardest ones! The time signatures change a lot of times, the bass is played pretty fast and everything is so well composed, but hard to play... It's a very good song!

6 The Spirit of Radio

I can barely play this song...

This one is fun!

7 Tom Sawyer

The chorus and verses and what not are easy, but the bass riff underneath the guitar solo is hard to get consistently right.

Not hard at all. Been playing bass for a year and I picked this up in 5 minutes

8 Working Man

Not the hardest song difficulty wise but if you were to play this song exactly like geddy lee remembering each note its near impossible when the jam session hits.

Coming from someone who can play all of the other songs above this, the solo is pretty rough here.

not incredibly hard but probably yht most difficult

9 The Big Money

The most difficult bass line I've ever come across in all of rock and prog- I get blisters on my fingers every time I try to play this one!

Definitely much harder than Working Man, the bass-line in this song is just mind-blowingly hard!

How Does Geddy Play Bass And Sing At The Same Time, I Mean How?!?

10 Leave That Thing Alone

Check out the "Live in Cleveland " version! - All I can say is WOW! From beginning to end Geddy ROCKS! The run at the end is especially awesome!

Totally rocking' bass line, this song definitely highlights Geddy's amazing skills!

Definitely Hard - Sounds Awesome!

The Contenders
11 Malignant Narcissism
12 Natural Science
13 The Analog Kid
14 2112

Your fingers will definitely hurt after a 20 minute song

15 Anthem

307 Bpm!

Some parts are easy enough at this speed, others far more difficult, and the bass is not always to hear on this track so harder on the ear to pick up. Definitely harder than Tom Sawyer and Closer to the heart..

The intro is very hard, and to play exactly what Geddy is playing is very hard.

16 Digital Man

Speed, variety and complexity all in one. Toughest bass line without doubt

17 The Trees

I have not seen anything like this song. The bass intro is incredible and unless you have gigantic hands you aren't playing it

18 Cygnus X-1
19 Marathon
20 Prime Mover
21 Where's My Thing? (Part IV Gangster of Boats Trilogy)
22 Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres

How is hemispheres so low on this list. Oh I forgot that it's one of their lesser known songs, when it should be the most prized. It't probably the band's greatest work of art!

How is hemispheres not after yyz?

23 Limelight

Makes Tom Sawyers bass line look like Hot Crossed Buns.

24 Freeze (Part IV of Fear)
25 Turn the Page

I can play The Spirit of the Radio, I can play Tom Sawyer, and I can kind of play YYZ. But Turn the Page? Freeze? And Circumstances? Come on guys! We're not ranking our favorite songs, but the hardest. And by the looks, most of you don't even play bass... Or just don't know the band that well.

Most of people here is giving a simpathy vote. This is themost genius and impossible Rush song, petty is sited on a album very few people sit down and listen well

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