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Show Don't Tell is the first single by the progressive Canadian rock band Rush from their 1989 album ''Presto''. The song peaked at number 1 on the U.S. Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart, the second of five songs by Rush to top the chart. ==Music and song structure== "Show Don't Tell" illustrates Rush's move away from synthesizer in favour of a more guitar-oriented approach; the band favoured a more funk/groove style of play and away from the 1980s style of music typical in the two preceding albums Power Windows and Hold Your Fire. In Rush's music of the late 1970s and early 1980s, their progressive rock is indicated by asymmetric time signatures and lyrics fitting into a concept album, and in "Show Don't Tell", their progressive rock is shown by using a very complex riff played in unison by the members of the band.〔( Bowman, Durrell. "Permanent Change: Rush, Musicians' Rock, and the Progressive Post-Counterculture," PhD dissertation in musicology, pp. 233, 236, UCLA, 2003 )〕 The band chose to use more funk by using extended chord tones, a dramatic pause eighteen seconds into the song and other methods as well.〔( Bowman, Durrell. "Permanent Change: Rush, Musicians' Rock, and the Progressive Post-Counterculture," PhD dissertation in musicology, p. 237, UCLA, 2003 )〕 The funkier song structure proved to be difficult for Neil Peart when he played the drums for the song. He explained in ''Canadian Musician'', " 'Show Don't Tell' begins with a syncopated guitar riff that appears two or three times throughout the song. That was about the hardest thing for me to find the right pattern for. I wanted to maintain a groove and yet follow the bizarre syncopations that the guitar riff was leading into. It was demanding technically, but at the same time, because of that, we were determined that it should have a rhythmic groove under it. It's not enough for us to produce a part that's technically demanding; it has to have an overwhelming significance musically. So it had to groove into the rest of the song and it had to have a pulse to it that was apart from what we were playing." 〔Krewen, Nick. "Rush: Presto change-o" Canadian Musician 12.2〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Show Don't Tell (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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