A good drummer is a drummer who does not turn his back on the audience.

@@FMATheQuiet Go worship your stone and false prophet and leave him alone. Got it?

Quis fazer o que não tem na música e fez mal

Brady Graham 😂😂

OMG how did I miss this comment?? First of all, thank you! Secondly, DUDE I love watching you on Twitch. You actually inspired me to start live streaming! So thanks, and keep doing what you're doing 👍💪🙏☕

straight sick

Altay Bayraktar the fat black with strip tshirt seemed to enjoy it

I enjoy DT since I was 10 years old. :v

Thats what i thought

Thought the exact thing lol

Thanks Chris, I was ridiculously nervous that day! Mostly just hoping the cameras and recording equipment would work correctly haha. Btw I checked out your channel, really good stuff man!

LMAO, best explanation ever, and it's probably true.

Yesss! That's why 😂😂

I've played on stage, and I was too busy figuring out what to hit next to look at the audience much. So I never saw the expressions on the audience's faces, and I always had to ask the guitarists lol.

Thanks man, I really appreciate that! You should definitely learn it. It's really fluid to play cause Portnoy wrote some awesome parts!

+applejacks971 I agree, unlike many other drummers who attempt this song, you can tell this is well within his ability level and he isn't trying to play something that is just a little too hard for him as it seems to be with many other drummers.

applejacks971 you should watch Marco Minnemann play it, he makes it look easy.

@@the6ig6adwolf Marco's video is my favorite! I love his solo at the end, epic!

@@ChrisJohnsonDrums It's been 2 years and I still haven't taken the time to learn this :( I gotta get on the ball!

I agree

I don't think kids need to understand it, it's cool to show them something different is out there. As a child I loved Beethoven. I didn't know what fugue was, I couldn't even tell you if what I listened to was Beethoven but I still liked it. Now is this gonna resonate with every single one of them? No! But I ask you will this resonate with every single adult? Absolutely not. If even one of the kids walked out there to google dream theater this is a huge success.

I'm giving dog food to the Neighborhood cats for soo long and they eat it very well plus that they haven't started barking so far ...lol

some cats love dog food.

Bonetrussle - Meggalovania

Donald trump lmao

you haven't seen josh steffen played this song

+Sora Uchiha Sorry I forgot him

+Sora Uchiha Josh is an incredible one of a kind drummer very talented dude

Josh steffen does it better than this, but tis is still a great cover

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This generation sucks balls. We need some musical revolution like punk to take out the trash now!

+bad hair .day You see, when kids get really excited or just hear something really loud, the vibrations tend to make some feel sick, but they still enjoy it, i remember that from when i was at my first concert, that was Iron Maiden, and i was like shaking and feeling really bad but i was so overly excited xD! That's HOPEFULLY the case here aswell :). Cheers

+bad hair .day bro these kids were exposed niki minaj, lil wayne and shit like that all their short lives. no wonder they sit through this as if this i torture.

its not even that they look sick they look bored.

I really enjoy performances like this... but I never really pay attention to how bored I look sitting there with a straight face all the time xD

In all fairness, prog rock and metal isn't really something that you head bang to. When I listen to prog metal I usually relax and feel the music. Maybe the kids aren't as bored as they seem.

Ive headbanged to Dream Theater plenty of times!

Matt Crouch finger bang next time

LOL, Just went to Dream Theater Astonishing Live last night. I didn't head bang through most of it because they wanted everyone sitting through 3/4s of the show. But they encored with As I Am and Pull Me Under -- you know dang well I was grooving to that!

I did see a yawn at about 6:13

Nope, they will not learn it. Only thing they will learn is lyrics to some crappy gangsta shit rap.

Hey now...Aquiles is a god

Thanks for the Share!! And I agree, wish I was told about them sooner myself!

Sgt.James Doakes Haha I wish it was a class! Just a one time event unfortunately

Chris Johnson ah thats too bad.

+Son of Anarchy I don't think you ever actually ever see his body do you? It's just kind of assumed. Therefore, I don't believe it.

Thanks! MP has the best rock/metal drum sound! I use that album as a reference whenever I tune/mix my drums.

I'm a guitarist not a drummer and my philosophy is that there's no such thing as "close enough" when it comes to tuning any instrument and drums are no exception. If I can be honest, it's one thing I miss a lot about Portnoy vs. Mangini. Mangini's tone is too "thin" for me. He's an amazing player I'm not taking anything away from him but it's like the difference between Yngwie Malmsteen using a Strat with single coil and Steve Vai using double humbuckers. Both amazing players, but humbuckers give a better tone. Good on you for taking that into consideration when you play. I could tell if nobody else could.

+Aaron Bachelder Hey, another guitarist here, I am a humbucker (active) supporter and, even i use EMG's however I cannot entirely agree with your statement about how Humbuckers have a better tone than Single coils. Remember, 'to each their own'. Me and you may love Active pups, however, most of the people in this world prefer single coil over active, only because most songs were made from single coil pups. Im guessing you're a metalhead for which you support Humbuckers. right?

+Aaron Bachelder There is no such thing as "the best" pickup. :)

"Single Coil over active" doesn't make sense. You can have passive humbucker pickups.

birdingable I only reply to drummers... damnit! haha jk, thanks man!

Haha. Been listening to you playing this song since i found it. Good job bro. More vids pls.

It looks like he was the only one who actually knew the song

I'm grateful anyone would want to watch it once, let alone yearly haha 🙏 cheers

Haha I like that saying! 🙏🙏

@@ChrisJohnsonDrums I won't be a stranger!! I'll try my best to watch your live streams and kick it with you and your people!!!

Thanks man! I saw your cover of Panic Attack, good stuff!

Glad to hear it, thanks and cheers 🙏

I hope so!! Thank you much 🙏

HFpayne17 because there are 47 kids watching him playing there. lol

Thank you, that really means a lot! Here was my take away from months and months (and months) of practicing the song: 1. It all breaks down to groupings of 2 and 3 2. If you listen to anything enough, it will EVENTUALLY stick hahah Cheers

Haha right on man, thanks! I was so anxious that day 😅 but all the cameras/recording equipment worked and I didn't make too many mistakes 🙏

MrPschocher lol, I learned this song by ear

Yeah this isn't actually that difficult

Its not an easy song but as far as prog goes this is pretty beginner stuff lol. Try some AAL for technically difficult

@@blakewarrens3925 amen Blake. Nothing has improved my drumming like learning AAL songs (obviously proper practice on top of that also)

@@blakewarrens3925 Garstka truly Is the GOAT imo.