This is so cool. He’s not a pointless shredder, but so melodic. 🎸

I always wondered why he dropped Ibanez for Music Man guitars. His Picasso Ibanez has to be among the coolest looking guitars I've seen in ages. I'll bet the action is buttery-smooth on that axe.

Man this was a totally different John Petrucci. I still love John Petrucci but I sometimes wish he comes back to more of his fusion based stuff :) so many memories!

Love that Petrucci's Ibanez sound!!! Nowadays Music Man's is nothing to compare. Miss you old Dream Theater :(

his tone is sooo amazing here

I can listen to that tone all day... bring back the old tone, master Petrucci... Marco Sfogli has your old tone...

Dude, this video lesson taught me so much guitar. What is particularly cool about it is the fact that Petrucci was really trying to teach cool and practical things about guitar playing and not just showing off how hard his solos were and how well he could play them. It is like watching a lesson from a master, who brings himself to other people's level in order to truly teach something.

2:31 Ooooo that's baby making music right there...

this is when he had awesome tone.

His old style is soo amazing... God this harmony, GREAT!

John Petrucci Rock Discipline. I had this in VHS when it came out. Those warm up exercises are brilliant and this Example 16 was my favourite part of the set. Brings back so much good memories. The tone and this signature guitar are still epic 😊

0:50 That Sweet Child O' Mine lick

Its been many many years since i first listened to JP and dream theater..my taste in music has constantly changed morphed and evolved..i have heard and seen brilliant musicians and guitarists play...many have become my all time favorite new artists!! But there is still and never will be a better or a more amazing player than JP for me

His tone was 100x better back then..

Love this “dark fusion” sound

love that guitar !

That riffage in the beginning is SOO GOOD

I wish there was a video that went all day for that first one. So melodic and it's in 5/4 which makes it even better

One of the sweetest licks I've ever heard at 1:35, like for real.

I save this video 14 years ago and I’ve watched it probably 100 times! Never gets old ❤️

my god, i started to love Petrucci with this song... i cant even explain how this guy changed my point of view of music in my life... just a genius!

I've spent probably 30 minutes rewinding the lick from 1:03 - 1:06 , it's so good !

its not about the speed and stuff, its how nice and melodic his solos sound what makes him such a genius.

these songs really need to be included on an album, they are sooo good!!! :D

Seriously, his tone is almost too perfect! ITS INSANE!!

Nice to see him smile at the beggining, that just proves how much he loves and aprecciates music! \m/

His phrasing seems more mature here somehow?

This takes me back. Back before John sold guitars, amps, pedals, picks, stays at a private mansion. Back when he quietly hid in the back of a guitar world magazine filled to the brim with grunge crap. Love, 15 year old me

Yes - I&W and Awake era, the best playing Petrucci ever put out! So much more tasteful!

Ahh!! I remember how I practiced to this DVD with my old acoustic guitar back in 2003. It completely changed the way I played. Thank you John Petrucci!

This is the Petrucci I loved.

Petrucci in Ibanez was way better than the present petrucci in Musicman. Ibanez petrucci was very Epic

Incredible! This is one of the best impros I've ever heard.

This reminds me of the Images and Words era... Fantastic!

Beautiful! Unbelievable how beautiful this sounds....

If DT had used this , it would have been a legendary song..

This tone was amazing one ❤️

He looks so happy in the beginning. :)

I love to see John smiling

Best tone EVER...!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such a badass guitarist. I love how the tags say ernie ball music man and yet this was back when he still was with Ibanez

Early Petrucci Is the Best of all of them.

One of the coolest videos on youTube.

What a genius, absolute guitar God.

This was after Images and Words(which had Under A Glass Moon on it) around 94 when Awake come out so really, he already had the lick written for lets say, 2 years before he played that solo there. Just some trivia for ya ;) I could be wrong with the exact dates but for the main part, this Instructional Video was recorded after he had recorded Under A Glass Moon.

I love this song. Such a pity it never appeared on a real CD.

Excellent Playing and Tone 👍🏻💥🎸👍🏻💥🎸👍🏻💥🎸💯

this is the best guitar JP ever played!

Have you noticed most of the great players..Gilbert, Vai, Petrucci all have giant fingers/hands perfect for the guitar. It helps soooo much. I'm stuck with mini sausages for fingers. The struggle is real :'(

wish he'd take some of this and put it in the new solo album. i'd also love to hear gemini recorded properly

Love his tone here ! 🖤🎶🖤

Awesome!

Is this an actual song or just improvisation? Sounds awesome!

those Dimarzio pickups sounds great

this is when petrucci was awesome i loved his ibanez tone the best

this is still one of my fave videos

when Petrucci plays, he just makes every guitar look small no matter how many frets it has...God bless him :)

So fluid.. He's great..

i love how the sound trails off when he flicks into the next pickup position. it works on almost any guitar and sounds cool

I’ll never stop visiting you !!

dammit this is soooo good dream theater shouldve taken this concept and made a song with it

As a response to porpoisefathom (since I can't respond to him because KZfaq sucks donkey balls now), you have no clue what you're talking about. Petrucci uses a number of linear patterns, but is far from up and down. I mean, just listen to the Under a Glass Moon solo. lots of switching between modes in very subtle and clever ways, not to mention some chromatics, and it's very anti-linear. As for Govan, I'm absolutely stunned. There so many examples of him ending on places other than the tonic I don't even know where to begin. He also frequently uses odder patterns and skips degrees within the patterns (and when I mean frequently, I mean A LOT) so to say that he is linear just blows my mind. Govan is one of the least generic and least linear guitar players in HISTORY. Porpoisefathom is a really good example of unfathomable stupidity.

beautiful solo.

Milky chocolate tone with melodic cool licks master petrucci

amazing how his playing doesn't sound dated at all

I so love him when he was using ibanez JPM signature the sound was fucking craziest

Wow... amazing.

Lovely.

Rock Discipline was a very helpful DVD for me. It's kind of antithetical because he doesn't explain scales or gets too involved in theory, he simply goes over right hand and left hand technique and provides you with knowledge of how to improve your "chops" but not necessarily how to play melodic guitar solos.

The way he plays here will always be better than blurring out notes at high speeds. That is-if that is all someone does.

Amazing!!!!😍😍

i love this track

I agree. The Petrucci's Musicman guitars are amazing, especially the bluish one that shines about fifty different colors, but I like the Ibanez sound alot better.

What the title of backing track?

amazing guitar

Great guitar lesson....

This is the real Petrucci! The gifted one who still played with soul and feeling. Now He's just a cold shred machine.....

When he was little, all the bullies at school I insulted, because it was clumsy, overweight, and could be inattentive in class, then she decided not to leave the house more, and so he took a guitar to pass the time, and focused only about her, 24 hours a day, and so was born Petrucci

i know it always gives me shivers

@TheSchrism John Petrucci is probably one of the best, if not the best, guitarplayer when it comes to his technique. It's absolutely amazing how well he controls his guitar. He's definitely one of my favorites.

Reminds me of Andy timmons

...but can he play smoke on the water?

He's so awesome

I wish he still used this guitar!!!

I wish I would find a shirt with a print like on John's guitar : /

Why doesnt he play like that today? Nowadays he sounds so boring =( 90s I like much more 90s Petrucci.

nice. cool guitar

I love the intro, really interesting rhythm.

Yngwie made 96 accounts to hit thumbs down. Probably is setting up another at the moment.

I can do it. Hold my beer

I wish I could ever be this fantastic...

for all those saying that john petrucci has become a "SHREDDER" or isn't "Melodic" anymore... i just have three words for you... "THE SHATTERED FORTREES"... one of his best solos EVER!!!

It's really interesting that, while I like this tone way more than his current one, his early Music Man tone, like the one on his solo album, isn't that different, and it's still awesome. His current (distorted) tone is muddy and has too much chorus.

John Petrucci please go back to Ibanez guitars.

I just listened to it and i liked it. thanks for telling me.

Man thats beautiful art colored on that guitar, I dig it.

ahh the good old days when petrucci used an ibanez not that ernie ball bullshit.

.........BUT DOES HE . . . . . . . . DJENT?????????? B) #BoredAF

it's so 90s, i love it.

John Petrucci, You are the man! Happy Birthday!