Song Infobox
Song Information |
Song |
The Camera Eye |
Artist |
Rush |
Game |
Rock Band 2 |
Platform(s) |
360, PS3, Wii, XB1, PS4 |
The Camera Eye - RB2
The Camera Eye is the fifth of the seven tracks that make up Rush's "
Moving Pictures" album.
The structure of The Camera Eye is quite simple: It's one song, played twice through. After a synth opening of about 90 seconds, the first theme begins. It's has a standard rhythm with a series of held notes that should not present too much trouble for the player. The main theme begins at approximately 2:20, with one singular guitar rhythm presenting itself quite often: Dotted quarter note, dotted quarter note, quarter note. That sequence takes up a full measure, and it is prevalent throughout the song. The time signature starts at 4/4, but it changes drastically during the verses, and with the time change comes some chord progression that can get tricky with the changed rhythm. The time goes back to 4/4 quickly, though.
At approximately the 4:40 mark, the guitar rhythm changes to eighth-eighth-eighth-quarter-eighth-quarter through the secondary verses. These two guitar rhythms are the backbone to the song. At 5:50, the final verse is sung: "The focus is sharp in the city", and for all intents and purposes, the song is over at 6:00. Then, the song begins to repeat itself, from the introductory guitar theme straight through everything, only this time, at the 9:17 mark, the guitar solo begins. If you're not careful, the sixteenth-note passage toward the end of the solo will fail you out which can be very frustrating after ten minutes. Once you clear the solo, however, you're very nearly home-free as the song concludes.
The Camera Eye clocks in at 10:39 which makes it the second longest song in either Guitar Hero or Rock Band to date behind Jailbreak (Live). It can be a very frustrating song to FC on either guitar or bass, because of its sheer length and because the most difficult part of the song on guitar (the sixteenth-note passage in the solo) doesn't begin until the 9:52 mark of an 11-minute song. In that fashion, it's similar to
song_gh3_one One∞ from GH3 in length and
chokability.