Rush: The Camera Eye
From the album Moving Pictures (Mercury Records)
Copyright 1981 Core Music Publishing
Music by Lee and Lifeson
Lyrics by Peart

Transcription by:
     Mauroavilez@aol.com (Mauro Avilez)

Last Updated: 2003-09-29

First, let me say that I?m a novice keyboard player. I?m more of a guitarist.

OK. The chord is on top. However, the notes in parentheses (i.e. G,C,E) denote
which notes to play in the chord. What I also do is use the guitar chords to
play along. Listen to the song for exact rhythm. Enjoy!

Corrections are welcomed (and expected).

Tab:
w= whole note
q= quarter note
dq= dotted quarter
e= eighth note
2w= two whole notes
@= repeat
}= eighth rest

Intro
|4:----Traffic-----|-C--F--Bb--C--F?Bb---|--(Fsus4/C chord)------|
|4:-----Noise------|--first C and F------|--(C,F,Bb,C)-----------|
|----approx 16 sec-|--note held through--|--(hold for 11 meas)---|


Rhy Fig. 1
|@--(C chord)--(G chord)--|--(F chord)----|--(Bbsus2 chord)-@|
|@---(G,C,E)----(G,B,D)---|--(Bb,C,F,Bb)--|--(Bb,C,F,Bb)----@|11x
|-------------------------|------w--------|------w-----------|


Rhy Fig. 2
Faster
|----Db5------|
|@--(Db,Ab)--@|32x
|@-----e-----@|

Rhy Fig. 3
|----C5------|
|@--(C,G)---@|32x
|@----e-----@|


[Play and repeat Rhy Fig. 2 and Rhy Fig. 3] 3x


Rhy Fig. 4
Play chord in whole notes
||@---Db5-----@||     ||@---C5----@||
||@----w------@||4x   ||@---w-----@||4x



(&) Keyboard out for 4 measures

Rhy Fig. 5
||@--C chord--@||
||@-----w-----@||
Grim Faced and forbidding...
Wide angle watcher?


Rhy Fig 6
||@--F chord--@||
||@----w------@||
Angular mass of New Yorkers.
Steeped in the hist?ry of London.


[Play Rhy Fig. 5]
Pacing in rhythm race...
Green and grey washes...

[Play Rhy Fig. 6]
chase through through streets...
mist in the streets...

[Play Rhy Fig. 5]
Head first humanity...
Wistful and weathered...

[Play Rhy Fig. 6]
flow through the streets...
in the streets...


Keyboard out for 8 measures


[Play Rhy Fig. 4]


Rhy Fig. 7
|--Db--Dbsus4--|--Db--Dbsus4--|--Db--Dbsus4--|--Db--Dbsus4--|
|--------------|---- They seem oblivious...
                     Are they oblivious...


Rhy Fig. 8
|--C-?Csus4--|--C--Csus4--|--C-?Csus4--|--C--Csus4--|
   soft spring rain, like an English rain
   quality?  A quality



[Play Rhy Fig. 7]
So light yet endless from a
Of light unique to ev?ry


[Play Rhy Fig. 8]
leaden sky.
city street.


[Play Rhy. Fig. 7] hear song for rhythm


[Play Rhy. Fig. 8] hear song for rhythm


[Play Rhy Fig. 7]
 The building are lost in their limitless rise
 Pavements may teem with intense energy


[Play Rhy Fig. 8]
My feet catch the pulse, and the purposeful stride.
But the city is calm in this violent sea. (#)


[Play Rhy Fig. 7 and 8] 1x (whole notes)

[Play Rhy Fig. 7]
I feel the sense of possibilities


[Play Rhy Fig. 8]
I feel the wrench of hard realities.


Rhy Fig. 9
|@-----Ab7sus4-----------Ab7sus4-------@|
|@----(Ab,Db,Gb,Db---}---(Ab,Db,Gb,Db)-@|
|---------q-------------------q---------|
   The focus is sharp in the city


|--Bbsus2----|
|--(C,F,Bb)--|
|----2w------|
|------------|
|------------|


Rhy Fig. 10
|@--C/G chord--G chord--|--Fsus4--|--Bbsus2--@|
|@----dq----------------|----w----|-----w----@| 5x


[Play Rhy Fig. 2 and 3] 1x


Rhy Fig. 11
			1_________    2_________
||@--Db chord---|--C chord----@||--C chord--|
||@-----w-------|-----w-------@||----2w-----|
||--4 measures--|--4 measures--||-----------|

DS & al coda #


# Guitar Solo
||@--Db chord---|--C chord----@||
||@-----w-------|-----w-------@|| 4x
||--4 measures--|-4 measures---||


[Play Rhy Fig. 7] 1x
I feel the sense of possibilities

[Play Rhy Fig. 8] 1x
I feel the wrench of hard realities.


|--Db chord--|
|-----2w-----|


[Play Rhy Fig. 9]
The focus is sharp in the city.