Xylophone in Neil Peart solo

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weird_dan66 — 19 years ago(July 11, 2006 02:51 PM)

In the Rhythm Method a solo by Neil Peart, there's a xylophone that plays a few bits during the solo . Anyone know who plays it? or is ita recording?

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Workin_Man — 19 years ago(July 12, 2006 10:01 AM)

Yes he does it all.
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peerlessneil — 19 years ago(July 13, 2006 08:47 AM)

Neil is playing it, as he does in "O Baterista, "Der Trommeler," etc.
Check out the
A Show Of Hands
,
Rush In Rio
, and
R30
DVDs. That should clear things up.
The marimba part was originally featured on a tune he recorded called "Pieces Of Eight."

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weird_dan66 — 19 years ago(July 14, 2006 11:40 AM)

Thanks, I will check that out.

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Trooper90 — 19 years ago(July 11, 2006 02:51 PM)

Most of his mallet parts are triggered samples.
Troop

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hackerman6731 — 19 years ago(September 10, 2006 07:14 AM)

well, he's playing it on a malletKat a big keyboard lookin thing with pads
but he plays it all

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PoorlyEquipped — 19 years ago(September 12, 2006 07:26 PM)

yeah he does it all. The keyboard parts and the swing part. He triggers the sounds and the videos.

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Trooper90 — 19 years ago(March 24, 2007 09:57 AM)

I could be way off my rocker, but I have NEVER seen Peart use a KAT. He uses pads and triggers none of which look like a kat.
If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, he uses an 8 pad trigger device. It's not a KAT, having played them, I am confident I have not seen that in his setup.
Again, I could be way off my rocker.
Troop

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caroltrotzuk — 18 years ago(April 15, 2007 11:49 AM)

Actually what he uses is a MalletKAT set up in the same fashion as a xylophone, marimba, chimes, or even piano. He plays the notes as they are on the instrument and does not trigger whole samples. The MalletKAT is also used to trigger the triangle from the "YYZ" intro, the chimes/xylophone from "Closer to the Heart", and the gong finale to his drum solo. Neil also uses FATKAT triggers down by his feet.

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thezosoway — 18 years ago(May 01, 2007 02:16 PM)

he uses a malletkat in R30. those are so awesome. i played steel drums once on them for some crazy jamaica song and it sounded exactly like a steel drum.
maybe tommorow

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hackerman6731 — 18 years ago(March 13, 2008 04:23 AM)

he's been using a malletKAT (yes a malletKAT) since A show of hands,when he got his first Ludwigs back in the mid/late 80s, it's setup on his left side (or right side depending on if he's using the rear electronic kit)

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hackerman6731 — 10 years ago(July 11, 2015 01:38 AM)

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