Rush: Middletown Dreams
From the album Power Windows (Mercury Records)
Copyright 1985 Core Music Publishing
Music by Lee and Lifeson
Lyrics by Peart

Transcribed by Chris Marquardt <cmarq@aol.com>

Some songs have specific patterns that are repeated or just sound neat,
even though the rest of the song may be fairly easy. Rather than tabbing
the whole song, this post only contains some fun patterns to try.
You guitarists would call these "riffs"  :-)

Special key:

C  -as usual
H  -as usual
S  -X-C-  X=regular hit, snares off; C=hand clap sample
T  -1-2-3-4-G  1-4="ethnic" tom samples, hi to low; G=gong bass drum
K  -as usual

Pattern 1 - verses

  q e e e e q  q e e e e q  q e e e e q  q e e e e q
C ------T-T---|------T-T---|------T-T---|------T-T---|
S ------------|----------C-|------------|----------C-|
T G---G-------|G---G-------|G---G-----4-|G---G-------|
K X-X---X---X-|X-X---X---X-|X-X---X---X-|X-X---X---X-|

Other notes are thrown in occasionally, but if you keep this up you
should be able to make it through pretty easily.

Pattern 2a - chorus variation 1

  s s s s s s s s e e s s s s  s s s s s s s s e e s s s s
C ----------------T-T---------|----------------T-T---------|
H X-X-O-O-X-X-O-O-------X-O-O-|X-X-O-O-X-X-O-O-------X-O-O-|
S ----------------------------|--------------------C-------|
T --------------------4-------|----------------------------|
K X---X-----------------------|X---X-----------------------|

Pattern 2b - chorus variation 2 (note additional snare & kick)

  s s s s s s s s e e s s s s  s s s s s s s s e e s s s s
C ----------------T-T---------|----------------T-T---------|
H X-X-O-O---X-O-O-------X-O-O-|X-X-O-O---X-O-O-------X-O-O-|
S --------X-------------------|--------X-----------C-------|
T --------------------4-------|----------------------------|
K X---X-----------X-X---------|X---X-----------X-X---------|


These three patterns will get you through about 80% of the song, with
the guitar solo being a pretty straight 4/4 beat.