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Subdivisions Bass Tab

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Rush: Subdivisions
>From the album Signals (Mercury Records)
Copyright 1982 Core Music Publishing
Music by Lee and Lifeson
Lyrics by Peart

Comments/corrections to Sean Jones <seanj@execpc.com>

Transcribed by Don Dianetti and Sean Jones

                            <*
      h Q   h Q   h Q   h Q     q q Q  8x        q q q q  4x
||----r-r-|-r-r-|-r-r-|-r-r-||---------||-||--------------||------
||-7:-e-e-|-e-e-|-e-e-|-e-e-||*-------*||-||*-4:---------*||------
||-8:-s-s-|-s-s-|-s-s-|-s-s-||*-------*||-||*-4:---------*||------
||----t-t-|-t-t-|-t-t-|-t-t-||--2-2-2--||-||-----2-2-2-2--||------


    h h   h h  3x     Q Q+q   w     e e q e e q   e e q e e q
||------|------||-||--------|----||-----r-----r-|-----r-----r-|---
||*-----|-----*||-||*-------|---*||-----e-----e-|-----e-----e-|---
||*-2-2-|-0-0-*||-||*---0---|-2-*||-----s-0-0-s-|-2-2-s-2-2-s-|---
||------|------||-||--3-----|----||-3-3-t-----t-|-----t-----t-|---


e e q e e e e+  w     q q q q  4x        h+Q   h+Q  3x
----r---------|---||-----------||----||------|------||
----e---------|---||*---------*||-7:-||*-----|-----*||
----s-0-0-4-2-|---||*---------*||-8:-||*-2---|-0---*||
3-3-t---------|---||--2-2-2-2--||----||------|------||


      e e q e e q   e e q e e q   e e q e e q     q q q q
||--------r-----r-|-----r-----r-|-----r-----r-||-------------
||-4:-----e-----e-|-----e-----e-|-----e-----e-||*------------
||-4:-----s-0-0-s-|-2-2-s-2-2-s-|-----s-0-0-s-||*------------
||----3-3-t-----t-|-----t-----t-|-3-3-t-----t-||--2-2-2-2----


 4x        h+Q   h+Q  3x        e e q e e q   e
-||----||------|------||----||------r-----r-|-----
*||-7:-||*-----|-----*||-4:-||*-----e-----e-|-----
*||-8:-||*-2---|-0---*||-4:-||*-----s-0-0-s-|-2---
-||----||------|------||----||--3-3-t-----t-|-----

           *>
e q e e q  3x    Q q e   Q q e   s s s s e e e e   s s e e e e e
--r-----r--||----------|-------|-----------4-----|------------------
--e-----e-*||-3:-------|-------|-----7-7-5---7-5-|-4-4--------------
2-s-2-2-s-*||-4:-------|---2---|-----------------|-----7-5-4-5------
--t-----t--||----3-3-3-|-5---5-|-3-3-------------|-------------5----


   q e q e   Q q e   Q q e   e q q e   e e e q e   e e e e e e
||---r-----|-------|-------|---------|-----------|-------r---r-|----
||---e-----|-------|-------|---------|-----------|-------e---e-|----
||---s-----|-------|-------|---------|-----------|-------s---s-|----
||-3-t-3-3/|-5-7-5-|-3-3-3/|-5-5-7-5-|-3-3-2-3-3/|-5-5-7-t-7-t-|----


Q q e   Q q e   Q q e   e e e q e   e e e q e   e e e e q   Q q e
------|-------|-------|-----------|-----r-----|-------r---|-------|---
------|-------|-------|-----------|-----e-----|-------e---|-------|---
------|-------|-------|-----------|-----s-----|-------s---|-------|---
3-3-3/|-5-7-5-|-3-3-3/|-5-5-5-7-5-|-3-3-t-3-3/|-5-5-7-t-7-|-3-3-3-|---


E E E E    e e e q e   e e e q e   e e e q e   Q e q   e e e q
--------||-----------|-----------|-----------|-------|------------
--------||-----------|-----------|-----------|-------|------------
--------||-----------|-----------|-----------|-------|------------
5-5-7-5-||-3-3-2-3-3/|-5-5-5-7-5-|-5-5-3/5-3/|-7-5-5|-3-3-2-3----

                                    <*
e   e e e q e   e e e q e   E E E E     Q Q   Q Q   Q Q   Q Q
--|-----------|-----------|---------||------|-----|-----|---------
--|-----------|-----------|---------||*-----|-----|-----|---------
--|-----------|-----------|---------||*-----|-----|-----|---------
3/|-5-5-5-7-3/|-5-5-3/5-5-|-7-7-5-5-||--3-3-|-5-7-|-5-5-|-7-5-----


 4x E E E E   E e s E E      e e e e Q   e e e e Q        q q q
-||---------|-----------|------r---r---|---r---r---||-------------
*||---------|-----------|-7:---e---e---|---e---e---||*-4:---------
*||---------|-0-0---2-2-|-8:---s---s---|---s---s---||*-4:---------
-||-3-3-3-3-|-----3-----|----2-t-2-t-2-|-2-t-2-t-2-||-----2-2-2---


q  4x        h+Q   h+Q  3x    e e q e e q   e e
---||-||---------|------||--------r-----r-|-------
--*||-||*-7:-----|-----*||-4:-----e-----e-|-------
--*||-||*-8:-2---|-0---*||-4:-----s-0-0-s-|-2-2---
2--||-||---------|------||----3-3-t-----t-|-------


q e e q   e e q e e q        q q q q  4x        h+Q   h+Q  3x
r-----r-|-----r-----r-||--------------||-||---------|------||
e-----e-|-----e-----e-||*-4:---------*||-||*-7:-----|-----*||
s-2-2-s-|-----s-0-0-s-||*-4:---------*||-||*-8:-2---|-0---*||
t-----t-|-3-3-t-----t-||-----2-2-2-2--||-||---------|------||

                                     *>
          e e q e e q   e e q e e q  3x
||----||------r-----r-|-----r-----r--||
||-4:-||*-----e-----e-|-----e-----e-*||
||-4:-||*-----s-0-0-s-|-2-2-s-2-2-s-*||
||----||--3-3-t-----t-|-----t-----t--||


     Q q e   Q q e   e s s s s e e e   E E E E   Q q e
|----------|-------|-------------4---|---------|-------|----
|-3:-------|-------|-------5-5-7--/7-|-5-4-----|-------|----
|-4:-------|-------|---3-5-----------|-----7-5-|-------|----
|----3-3-3/|-5-7-5-|-3---------------|---------|-3-3-3/|----

Q q e   Q q e   e e e q e   e e e e e e   e e e e q   Q q e   Q q e
------|-------|-----------|-----r---r---|-------r---|-------|---------
------|-------|-----------|-----e---e---|-------e---|-------|---------
------|-------|-----------|-----s---s---|-------s---|-------|---------
5-7-5-|-3-3-3/|-5-5-5-7-5-|-3-3-t-3-t-3/|-5-3-7-t-7-|-3-3-3/|-5-7-5---

                                                            <*
  Q q e   e q q e   e e e q e   e e e e q   Q q e   E E E E     Q
|-------|---------|-----r-----|-------r---|-------|---------||------
|-------|---------|-----e-----|-------e---|-------|---------||*-----
|-------|---------|-----s-----|-------s---|-------|---------||*-----
|-3-3-3/|-5-5-7-5-|-3-3-t-3-3/|-5-5-7-t-7-|-3-3-3/|-5-5-7-5-||--3---

                     *>
Q   Q Q   Q Q   Q Q  4x  e e s s q e   e e e q e   e e e q e   e
--|-----|-----|------||--------------|-----------|-----------|-----
--|-----|-----|-----*||--------------|-----------|-----------|-----
--|-0-2-|-0-0-|-2-0-*||--------------|-----------|-----------|-----
3-|-----|-----|------||-/3-3-2-2-3-3/|-5-5-5/7-3-|-5-5-3/5-5-|-7---


e e e e e   e e e q e   e e e q e   E E E E   E E E  E   e e e q
----------|-----------|-----------|---------|---9-11---|-----r------
----------|-----------|-----------|-------7-|-9------9|-----e------
----------|-----------|-----------|---5-7---|----------|-----s------
7-7-5-5-5-|-3-3-2-3-3/|-5-5-5-7-3/|-5-------|----------|-3-3-t-3----


e   e e e q e   e e e q s s   e e e e s s e   e e e q e   e e q
--|-----------|-------------|---------------|-----------|---------
--|-----------|-------------|---------------|-----------|---------
--|-----------|-------------|---------------|-----------|---------
3/|-5-5-5-7-3/|-5-5-3-5-5-3-|-7-7-7-5-5-3-2-|-3-3-3-3-3-|-5-5-7---


e   E E E E   E E E E    e e e q e   e e e q e   e e e q s s   e
--|---------|---------||-----------|-----------|-------------|------
--|-7-5-4---|---------||-----------|-----------|-------------|------
--|-------7-|-5-4-5---||-----------|-----------|-------------|------
3-|---------|-------5||-3-3-2-3-3-|-5-5-5-7-3/|-5-5-3-5-3-3-|-7----

                                                        <*
e e e e e   e e e q e   e e e q e   e e e q e   E E E E     Q Q
----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------||--------
----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------||*-------
----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------||*-------
7-7-5-5-5-|-3-3-2-3-3-|-5-5-5-7-7-|-5-5-5-5-5-|-7-7-5-5-||--3-3---


 Q Q   Q Q   Q Q   Q Q   Q Q   Q Q   q q q     H   Q Q
-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--------||---|-------
-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----0-*||---|-------
-0---|-----|-0-2-|-----|-0---|-----|-0-2---*||---|-0-2---
---2-|-3-3-|-----|-3-3-|---2-|-3-3-|--------||-3-|-------

                                                                  *>
  H   Q Q      h+Q   h+Q      w+  w+     H      w+  w+     q q
|---|-----|--------|-----|------|---|------|------|---|-----------||
|---|-----|-7:-----|-----|-4:---|---|-3:---|-4:---|---|-2:--------||
|---|-0---|-8:-----|-----|-4:---|---|-4:---|-4:---|---|-4:--------||
|-3-|---2-|----3---|-3---|----3-|---|------|----3-|---|------3----||


Note: Measures bracketed by <* *> should be played on a synth.


==================================================================
==                    TABLATURE EXPLANATION                     ==
==================================================================

----------                ----------                ----t---
----5h8--- Hammeron       ----(8)--- Ghost          ----6--- Tap
----------                ---------- Note           --------
----5p8--- Pulloff        ----------                --------

----------                ----------                -----p--
----5/8--- Slide Up       -----x---- Dead           -----7-- Pop
----------                ---------- Note           --s-----
----58--- Slide Down     ----------                --5----- Slap

----------                ||------|| Repeat         --------
----5~~~-- Vibrato        ||*----*||                ---5^--- Bend
----------                ||*----*||                --------
----------                ||------||                --------

----------                ----------                --------
-4:------- Time           ----------                --------
-4:------- Signature      ----------                --------
----------                ----------                --------

Rhythm:
  w = whole note            W = dotted whole
  h = half note             H = dotted half
  q = quarter note          Q = dotted quarter
  e = eighth note           E = dotted eighth
  s = sixteenth note        S = dotted sixteenth
  t = 32nd note             T = dotted 32nd
  x = 64th note             X = dotted 64th
  ^ = triplet

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==         Created with a demo version of BUCKET O' TAB         ==
==           tablature creation software for Windows            ==
==               For more info email gse@his.com                ==
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Subdivisions Bass Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture james Average	#1 by james at Jul 8, 1972 at 3:02 AM EST
	Great song. Considering others' posts, seems like the song focuses on the conformity and superficiality of suburbs.

No Picture E Average	#2 by E F at May 1, 1974 at 2:44 AM EST
	I think it is rather obvious what this song is about, so I won't go into my own thoguhts, beyond that this is probably my favorite song right now.

No Picture More Cowbell Lead Player	#3 by More Cowbell at Feb 3, 1983 at 7:25 PM EST
	only a band like rush could make a song like this. so deep and it just rocks.

No Picture IvZ Average	#4 by IvZ at Oct 17, 1984 at 2:13 PM EST
	Its a song about non-conformity and how society tries to make people into a conforming drone. This is particularily bad in most cities suburbs where homes are built exactly the same by the same builder, and high school is all about being part of the crowd. This song is of significance to me as a gay man who never felt part of the cliques in high school.

No Picture Randy Wanna Be	#5 by Randy Honey at Jan 28, 2001 at 1:00 PM EST
	To me being an out sider in high school isn't as much the meaning of the song as it is an example being used. It's really more like they are telling about being outcasted in life and how forms of popular society are taught to neglect the abstract and different.

No Picture bigl Wanna Be	#6 by bigl shattuck at Jun 11, 2005 at 10:02 PM EST
	What does this song mean to me? Why, less conformity than freaking AWESOME Rush music. Tied with Limelight for my favorite Rush song, because it's so intricate and complex. It's amazing just three guys do this.

No Picture steffan Badass	#7 by steffan harkins at Aug 14, 2006 at 6:10 AM EST
	This song might describe me right now better than any song out there!!!

No Picture Seth Wanna Be	#8 by Seth Johnson at Aug 30, 2006 at 10:55 PM EST
	There is nothing inherently wrong with suburbia or living in it, if that is what someone desires. A lot of people don't have the desire to go to "the bright lights." This song is clearly more about conformity, which can be found anywhere: the suburbs, in the city, or "the far unlit unknown." In my opinion, the only flaw in this song is the focus on suburbia as the only place where conformity can be found. Popular opinion has been manipulated to belive that The Suburbs are the worst place for conformity. Conformity also occurs when many people seek the same thing, including excitement in The Bright Lights (Everyone else is doing "the cool thing", so why shouldn't I?). That being said, Subdivisions is my favorite Rush song, and the best synth song ever.

No Picture Caitlin Rhythm Player	#9 by Caitlin Carlisle at Feb 24, 2007 at 11:32 AM EST
	one of my favorite rush songs...talks about conformity

No Picture GT Wanna Be	#10 by GT at Sep 7, 2007 at 1:56 PM EST
	the song speaks for itself....