I have seen them perfom live in person, and I am very glad to be able to confirm beyond reasonable doubts, that there is indeed a bass solo on Metropolis and that this solo is played by John here.
John Myung is one of the most interesting characters i've ever come across. watching him preform, teach, and even TALK entrances me. this guy is amazing.
All this video he was like: "Now I'll do X" does X effortlessly, yet in a way many other players must have had practiced a year to play it like this blank stare into space: "Social capabilities reloading" "Now I'll do Y..."
I always think that John Myung is the great bassist when I practice bass playing by this one in profile photo. I always thanks to James LaBrie, John Myung and John Petrucci for your sign for my bass at Inchon airport on Oct 2014~!!
Yes. learned a lot. Thank you. There goes sleep. Ill be trying new variations for next little while from what you showed us. Which ultimately lead to a new jam idea. Sun coming up again. Thanks John. Hope you come play Casino Rama some day. Closest Ill get to seeing you live.
I am very aware that I could improve vastly, believe you me. It's really just an "at this point in my life" thing. I'm a full time student, I work (not much at the moment, due to school, so funds are never high), etc. I do owe it to myself. You're absolutely right.
I consider Myung to be one of the quintessential examples of a 'gifted' musician and therefore, a 'gifted bassist' that inspires the majority of most bassists (not gifted-but have to work and practice our asses off to play like the natural gifted musicians do) to practice more, continually increase the level of difficulty of our playing, and inspire us to pass our knowledge and gift of' music on.
Ah, tsk tsk! I can't recommend it enough. Getting a teacher is the most important thing though. It made no sense to me whatsoever just learning all this theory on my own, but my instructor cleared up everything. You can start improv'ing (which is actually very easy) and get a whole new grasp on what the bassist your emulating was thinking when he made the song.
"There's a bass solo in a song called Metropolis, where a I do a bass solo" OMG He's definately amazing, He plays a bass solo into a bass solo, Now i know why he doesn't talk to often,,,!
He does a bass solo on every Dream Theater song with a bass solo, and he does so on the bass, unless it is a Chapman stick solo, in which case he plays a Chapman stick solo instead.
@MattyTheTurner When using 3 fingers, John uses a 3-2-1-3-2-1 pattern. You'll see this clearly in an earlier segment of his instructional video when he's working on right hand technique using pentatonic scales. If you watch that, you'll also notice his pinky finger moves with his other fingers as well (even though he's not plucking with it), as if he's flicking his fingers from pinky to index. Using 3-2-1 feels much more natural than 1-2-3 or 1-2-3-2 anyways; give it a try.
I love watching John playing live. However the camera people never stay on him for long enough. He is so underrated that all those people who like to take the piss should be on their knees grovelling to him. I thought John Entwhistle and Geddy Lee were the best, but John Myung is the best by far.
I've seen D.T. many times, and they never disappoint. Mr. Myung would have been a great bass player for Jean Luc Ponty!! Check out his collaboration with TY Tabor!
And he's only 4 years older than me on top of that. It's one of the best, if not the best music school in the United States. People from literally all over the world go to that school to pursue a music career. A good friend of mine Toshi Iseda went there too, and he's a professional musician, look him up. It's one of the hardest music schools to get into, and Joe Satriani and Steve Vai went there as well. And Alex Skolnick of Testament was one of Satriani's students. Your argument is invalid
No sir! Haha. But I am still active in my bass playing and have long since moved to the world of the six string frenzy. Have I improved? Very much so, but I have never given the time of day to learning such technicalities. Would it improve my playing and what not? I'm sure it would. But I truly enjoy the experimental factor of constantly stumbling onto new things and not having a name for them.
@TheBassMan533 Everything I know I've taught myself. I may not live up to your standards of this "why" with music, but I think I've come a hell of a long way from not knowing how to hold an instrument to formulating basslines in various time signatures and developing my own tapping technique. I don't need to be "hired" to feel and know I'm a musician. So if that's what it takes to live up to your standards, I'm fine defying that.
@TheBassMan533 I don't know where you feel you're getting by quoting me on something I didn't say, but more power to you. I play bass, I'll never take a lesson, and I do a damn fine job. Apparently I'm less of a musician to you because I like to have instrumental jams with my pals instead of trying to "get hired". Whatever pal.
Juilliard, Curtis, New England Conservatory, Oberlin, Yale. My old teacher practiced 6 hours of trombone every day for many years to get into Juilliard. One of my friends who I consider a genius goes to Oberlin. One person I know who went to Berklee practiced recreationally and got in by playing Jaco's Portrait of Tracy, which I can do as well and I play bass occasionally. Another guy I know who went there was just a singer in a garage band. Not saying it's not a good school though.
@baxterserbia And the little bit of theory I learn I get from hearsay, online, etc. I love discovering things without knowing I'm about to stumble upon them. Keeps the experience much more magical for a longer period of time :)
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@MyEggIsBoiled So true. Keeping music intuitive is important, making a science out of it is a big mistake. Comunication with other musicians is easier when you know names and terms for certain things, that`s where theory helped me a lot. Thats what I think is It`s general purpose.
