This guy is 67 years old. It's so crazy. Coordination, memory everything are impeccable. Mangini and Rudess please share your secrets. Both are older than 60 and still vigorous like a young boys.
You can tell age is finally starting to catch up, his playing here is not as clean and effortless as once was, BUT, still a solid 9/10 performance, especially considering 6 decades of intense shredding lol That's called technique and taking care of your body!
They practiced A LOT, in a video they were saying they basically had no social life since the band started, no party or time out every week-end, constant work, focus and improvement
I would like to point out the intelligence behind his arrangement of the keyboard parts, when it comes to polyphony and pitch range. He is playing in a very dense mix, lots of drums and guitars, so he he is very careful not to use too many voices simultaneously and choose which region he is playing in, to avoid frequency conflicts with the other instruments. Not doing this leads to problematic mixes and intelligibility issues (not being able to understand the instrument parts easily). He is truly a master. Now we need John Petrucci and John Myung explaining their own parts too...
oh yeah if you're a keyboard player you have to face phase cancellation issues daily while playing live specially, and if you're not aware of that, it's gonna be a mess at any stage. Even though we have to say for professional musicians with high end instruments and tools, it's gonna be way easier, specially if they have a good sound engineer with them all the time, and that's the main point of your post by the way, which is a theme way often underlooked.
I don't think they play it much faster to be honest, at least from all the live versions I've heard. However, you're right that a bit of extra live energy does boost the tempo a bit.
I cannot listen to the songs separately. One Last Time was the first song I heard from DT by accident (I was looking for a song with the same name) and until today is one of my favourite songs from them.
Most of you might already know "The Dance of Eternity" is from the album "Metrospolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory", and that this is a concept album. If you like the song but have never listened to the whole album from start to finish, I sugest you do. It's a great listening experience, I just love it.
I love it, this is the sort of basic stuff that got me into crazier stuff like Ron Jarzombek. If you havent heard it, this song is a good primer for Solitarily Speaking Of Theoretical Confinement. If JP is the grand daddy of tech prog, RJ is the mad evil genius.
Maybe for rhythm, but technically any Chopin or Liszt etude is much more difficult. Most classical musicians would probably struggle to get it really rhythmically precise to be together with the the drums, but in terms of technical difficulty this is nothing compared to classical repertoire.
@@wingcap1448No it isn’t nothing This and The Chopin and stuff are both hard Some maybe be harder then this for different reasons but it still is Extremely hard!!!
@@gabrielwalker4411 It‘s not nothing, mainly because of its rhythmical complexity and required precision. In classical music normally you don‘t have to be that mathematically exact. But in terms of sheer technical difficulty, sorry but it just doesn‘t seem that challenging. One hand rarely has to play more than 1 voice, and there is close to no polyphony except a baseline going on at the same time. No tricky jumps, no awkward hand positions required for anything. Tempo not that fast. The only technically somewhat challenging parts are the octaves during the ragtime solo and the thirds around the 15 minute mark, but the latter also shouldn‘t be that hard at that tempo. Arpeggios and scales don‘t count as difficult unless they are extremely unusual or awkward for some reason, those are standard for any professional pianist/keyboardist.
@@wingcap1448 Yeah I’d Agree with ya I’m sorry if I seemed a little rude. Jordan has told me also some of the toughest stuff he’s played is some of the Chopin and List etudes
Jordan also refered to Ron Thal as a guitar God. :DD Btw, try Thal's ending solo on Jordan's side project Tarkus. One of the craziest prog guitar solos ever.
@@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 Ive Got The Runs Real Bad by the other Ron (Jarzombek) is one of my faves. Its more fusion but Brett Garsed/Shawn Lane solos on Hey T Bone is hard to top for me. Love me some Holdsworth too.
Rudess is in my opinion the GOAT keyboard player in prog rock, PERIOD. They dude is simply impecable, his brilliance goes beyond bounderies and he's a great inspiration. Thanks Pianote for the video.
As a kid I played piano for several years before hearing this song but I never wanted to practice until I heard this. This just made me want to play constantly all of a sudden.
Jordan truly stands in a class of his own. I've heard great covers of this song across all the instruments, but covering it and being a part of creating it and playing it on stage in front of thousands are very different things. One of the best keyboardists/pianists of our time, if not of all time.
Never clicked on a video so fast! I couldn’t imagine this song without the ragtime section it fit so well with the 1920s theme and the black and white I remember the day scenes came out and I heard Dance my jaw was dropped then Myungs bass solo!
The fact that he's practicing how he's going to BREATHE during sections of this song shows that he is among the best to ever play a keyboard. Pure musicality.
The ragtime solo sure is a funny break from all the craziness before and after, but it also fits with the 1928 which is the year the concept takes place. I always thought about it this way and i don't know why no one from the band never mentioned this.
Hey, I'd never picked up on that aspect either. I doubt Jordan had that in mind, but the fact that it fits and you pointed it out is the very essence of Dream Theater fandom! As a group, we DO tend to like picking out the tidbits, the little details and sometimes those details ARE most definitely intended that way! (Octavarium of course is full of little tidbits)
Something that I love I when I see this absolute masters, struggling a little bit to get to the parts done. There is when you remember that they are humans too. You see he making a REAAALLY strong effort to make the song clean, focusing, remembering, singing the parts. He is in Maximum Effort Mode
Long time ago, I listened to this song by accidents and now I'm a big fan of Dream Theater and this song is the best song I've ever listened and played 🎹🎸🤘🥁
It's the first time for me listening to the song while focusing on the keyboard parts. Usually as a fan you are listening to the song as a whole and not necessarily each individual parts. what i noticed is not only the complexity of the song but how many times he changes the sounds during the song. there were at least 4 different sounds he changed frequently during the song. also didnt notice (until now) in a couple spots where he was doubling the guitar part. Noticing how jordan is complimenting the other players as well was kind of fascinating.
Jordan Rudess ( born Jordan Charles Rudes ; November, 4 1956 is an American keyboardist, composer and Software developer best known as a member of the progresive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive metal supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.
This dudes keyboard skills are the best I've ever seen! He can octave jump, pitch bend, add and subtract effects all on the fly, while just crushing amazing riffs, and making it all look easy!!
Saw them in Houston 1992, and they quickly became my overall favorite band at age 21. SFAM is by far one of the best Prog Albums ever! I’m still blown away 24 years later watching this! Many new Dream Theater and side projects of each of the members thanks to this channel.
dude it's a gift to mankind. this video came to me in a moment of a lack of creativity and motivation, and i'm a guitarist and i don't dig this kind of stuff anymore. thanks magician, you saved another soul with your talent.
the only thing this is missing is the reaction to the full performance from the booth. In the other videos those were my favorite parts. Jordan is a lunatic of a keyboardist, an absolute genius on another level. He's a nightmare to every other keys player. Sets the bar on a whole other level... then he breaks it down and makes it look possible... until you try it for yourself.
When we listen to this song, it sounds energetic, dynamic, diverse,super-cool, melodic, unpredictable - full of unusual turns and twists, and more. When the song is broken down, we find it bizarre and not easy (for us) to put it back together. This is why we could note make up anything like this, yet we love listen to it again and again.
While I love Jordan's contributions in Dream Theater, it's in his solo work that you truly see him shine. I implore all listeners to seek out one of Jordan's compositions called "Interstices". A joy to behold.
I remember it took me about a full year to really learn this song on guitar, and it's probably the most progress I've ever had on the instrument in a single calendar year. Years later, I decided to also learn the keys parts, but at least to me they are even harder than the guitar parts, and I am nowhere near as good on piano as I am on guitar. Oh well, one day!
His point about practicing the headspace you need to be in to play lead parts is a really important lesson to learn towards being an effective live player
Wow, that was like the ELP version of Dance of Eternity. I've been listening to that track for years yet there were subtleties in there I had not picked up. Beautiful work everyone and thank God for Mr Rudess!
it's cool to hear some of his impressions of joining the band and what he was trying to do at the time. he's been in the band so long now that you just think of him as one of the guys and don't often hear these kinds of things.
This song is gold, period ! :) I'm an electric guitar guy but the quality of the keyboard writing is out of this world, I have so much respect for Jordan
It's crazy to think that Petrucci, Myung, Portnoy and Mangini are regarded as some of the best instrumentalists and yet after 25 years they are still coming to terms with how creative Jordan is
Yeah or he's just being pretty damn arrogant here, to the point of not even using their names...? This interview felt very off to me. I understand he's a fantastic musician, but so are his bandmates...
@@stysner4580 I think the phrases like "the guitar player" are probably something Pianote wanted, so learners unfamiliar with the band know what he's talking about. I can't imagine he's actually dismissive of the people he's been working with for 25 years
This is exactly what I've been wanting to see since the first time I heard the song I don't know 15 years ago I don't know this is phenomenal and thank you
Fabulous, The incredible thing I think about this musician is his simplicity and humility for being such a brilliant instrumentalist and at the same time such a gentleman in his way of being as a person! congratulations Mr Jordan Rudess.
10:03 "and of course there we have a measure of seven because we kind of added a couple of notes to just uh, confuse the listener and make it progressive." :)
Witness an absolute master at his craft!! I am so grateful to be alive at a time where I have had several opportunities to see DT, and LTE perform live. Thank you Jordan for all you create and put out into the world for others to experience. Forever grateful.
Been subscribed to Drumeo for 3+ years and I can't believe this is the first time I'm hearing of the sibling channels... It's bingin' time! PS. Jordan seems fun AF.
