RUSH Drummer Neil Peart Welcomes Baby Girl; Alex Lifeson Records Instructional Videos For Apple's GarageBand
August 24, 2009, 15 years ago
The following update has been posted at RUSH's official website:
"The Rush family congratulates (drummer) Neil (Peart) and his wife Carrie on the birth of their healthy, beautiful daughter Olivia Louise Peart."In other Rush news, Rush Is A Band Blog reports:
In his recent Classic Rock presents... Prog interview, one of the things Alex Lifeson mentions being involved with during Rush's break from recording/touring is Apple's GarageBand software.
GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts, and is included in all shipments of iLife. The most recent version of the software (iLife '09) includes music instruction, allowing users to buy instructional videos by several popular artists such as STING, NORAH JONES and BEN FOLDS.
Alex Lifeson recently recorded some of these instructional videos for a few of Rush's hits as he described in the interview:
"The Apple thing was fun", he says by way of explanation. "They have this new thing on the Garageband software [the mini-home studio affair that is part of Apple's iLife bundle] where songwriters and musicians teach people how to play their songs. It's great, you'll be able to download me. I went in and they filmed me for four days doing a song a day: 'Tom Sawyer', 'Limelight', 'The Spirit Of Radio' and 'Working Man'. It's really comprehensive stuff and you can slow it down to really watch what I'm doing. It was odd, you realize how difficult it is to play some of those solos slowly, especially on something like 'Working Man'."I'm not sure how much time I spent on that solo originally, I didn't know better, I was a kid when I wrote that. But I loved doing the GarageBand stuff, though, and the end result is just great. When you're learning to play with just notation it's not the same - what the right hand is doing is so important and you never get to see that stuff."
Stay tuned for further updates.
