Hope (instrumental)

Hope is an acoustic instrumental from Rush's 2007 album Snakes & Arrows. It was performed on a twelve-string guitar in D Modal (D-A-D-A-A-D) tuning.^{[citation needed]}

"Hope"
Instrumental by Rush
from the album Snakes & Arrows
Released	May 1, 2007 (2007-05-01)
Genre	Instrumental
Length	2:02
Label	Atlantic
Composer(s)	Alex Lifeson
Producer(s)	Rush Nick Raskulinecz

Background

"Hope" is one of the three instrumentals on the Rush album Snakes & Arrows. According to Neil Peart, the title of the instrumental was inspired by the chorus of the ninth Snakes & Arrows track "Faithless", which contains the word "Hope".^[1] It is the band's second shortest studio-album-song, clocking in at 2 minutes 2 seconds. Unusual for Rush's compositions, the song was written by Alex Lifeson alone. It is played on a twelve-string guitar and was recorded in two takes. The second take was "just for the heck of it".^[2]

A live version of "Hope" was nominated for a Grammy Award, which appeared on the compilation disc Songs for Tibet. The song was recorded on May 25, 2008, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.^[3]

See also

• List of Rush songs
• List of Rush instrumentals