Among the many things I admire about Mike I'd like to highlight his ability to simplify what is complex. Without deep it advance musical education you can still understand the concepts behind his explanations
I found the air drumming at the end extremely helpful. How he’s able to count this in his head is beyond me, I get the concept but damn the execution is nuts
i've been playing this album (on guitar) for over 16 years and was still iffy on playing this section mike just taught me this literally in 5 minutes. oh :D
Damn, I never thought about it this way, never bothered counting the riffs. Would have saved me a couple headaches, as I play this song a lot with my band but we don't have a keyboardist, so on the keyboard solo section I'm always anxious I might get lost lol.
Yeah I'm surprised, at how difficult some people are saying. Counting too high confuses me so I'm just like ok is this more or less times than the thing I did before, essentially...
That's pretty similar to what we call expansion and reduction in the Konnakol rhythmic system (actually I think it's pretty safe to say that they are using that concept). That being said I had never made the connection with this song before... It makes it even more enjoyable! 😎
this is what missing in all dt songs post portnoy. no more this shrink and grow that function as the buildup.. hell you can find this style mostly in sons of apollo.. it proves that this what portnoy brought to the musical structure and arrangement of dt classic music.
Dream Theater with Mike Mangini is kind of like Black Sabbath with Dio. Still great music with extremely talented replacements, but the magic isn't there.
Funnily enough, me too. I walked into a metal record store while they were blasting this exact section. I had never listened to DT before and thought it's probably some lame progrock or something. It stopped me my right in my tracks. I asked the girl behind the counter what the heck that was and she was just like, oh, that's the new DT. Bought the record instantly.
Very cool. It was interesting to see how keep track of the 'Bars" in sections. In fact watching you recite this reminded me of one of my favorite Rush songs, Bytore and the Snowdog, and the way they counted down its ending. I'm just wandering aloud, but do you guys actually put your efforts down on sheet music while writing it, or do you just recall it from memory.. peace
What we did is wrote 12 bars in 46/49 time followed by 3 bars of 37/24 time and one bar of 4/4...which is uncommon for #dreamtheater , but...prog rock. LOL
Hi! Imagine also that this part is the backing track of solo parts :) I suggest you must hear the 2nd album of the band called "images and words" its, a masterpiece. And if a college teaching progressive metal to students, that album will be the main lesson
@@casuspacis3196 this album has too many styles... Pop. Jazz, fushion, ... Song 2 (another day) its a, ballad that has, saxophone. Song 3 (take the time) verse will remind you michael Jackson. Also at the and great drums. The masterpiece is no 5. (no words)
