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  • 2:38

    BOOBIES!!!! :D

  • 2:20 - 3:00 Inception explained in Dream Theater speak...

  • You actually don't have to think about time signatures at all, if you just play the song the whole way through. If you do that its merely a collection of individual notes.

  • SO ENAGEE SOUND! SO POWA!

  • How is it called in english that white things on his forearms?

  • @Eddie147741 They are called sweatbands.

  • Problem, Travis Barker?

  • 2:22 Alright. I think I'm done here.

  • It looks like that hair is coming from my head, but it's really chest hair that I grew upwards and stitched to my head.

  • Ow... Time signatures hurt my head...

  • Mike Portnoy is the result of what happens when you discover that you can not possibly find any more challenges with regular time signatures at age 20 :)

  • In Dream Theater, 4/4 is odd.

  • @MlKEPORNTOY lol, your name...

  • 9/8 drumming sounds like when your CD skips

  • this might sound stupid but how do i learn what a this means like 1 bar of 9/4 on top of 2 bars of 9/8. do i have to take like a music reading class or what

  • @LAXdart 9/8 means that 1 bar contains 9 eighth notes (i.e. 9 x 1/8). 9/4 means 1 bar contains 9 quarter notes (i.e. 9 x 1/4). Therefore, 1 bar of 9/4 would take twice as long to play as 1 bar of 9/8 (since the notes are twice as long). So if you played that cymbal thing (hey, I'm a bassist, what do I know?) for one bar of 9/4, you could play 2 bars of 9/8 on the snare and bass drum and they would end at the same time. Oh, and this isn't very easy stuff, so asking this question wasn't stupid.

  • @jeevesthepunk thank you you help alot

  • @jeevesthepunk and where could i learn this like are there specific things to teach this or just music schools

  • @LAXdart its in the general repertoire for any music student.

  • i came up with like a billion ways just to use 9/8

  • i can't even imagine how many women he got back then

  • mp......you're the gorilla of my dreams....

  • Whats the song at 3:05 called? 

  • That open shirt is crying out for a medallion

  • @Fabbydabbydoozy lol....that's great

  • "hey david how did you ace math?" ... "oh you know ... watching mike portnoy drum videos"

  • Claudio Sanchez wishes his hair was that manageable.

  • "Like I said, it's all arithmetic." My, ASS!

  • The hair.....

  • pattern 3...how the hell does he come up with that??!!!! just pure awesomeness

  • What the fuck is a time signature????

    

  • Fun stuff :)

  • Amazing.

  • It's not surprising that Mike and the rest of the DT boys do interesting things like this with odd and even "made up" time signatures; they all went to Berklee School of Music. They're musical geniuses who happen to rock out with their cocks out.

  • so in this one vid, mike portnoy made more sense then all the expert village videos combined by at least 1000 percent

  • I'm surprised this confused people, 3:02 - 3:14 made me suddenly understand so much more of progressive rock time signatures and what they actually do to the music. Like turning a light on this is suddenly simple for me to understand. Thanks for this footage!

  • playing things in odd time isnt that bad, i just dont knw how the fuk mike remembers all of that shit lol

  • YESSSS I GET IT!! I TOTALLY GET IT!! Now I know how to count in 9/8 which is the same as 4.5/4 YAYYUUUUHHH

  • hes so talented. how can anyone keep track of all that crap for whole songs?!?

  • fuck, i stopped trying to keep up about 1/3 of the vid in. insane. the most amazing part is he probably doesnt even have to think about playing these alternating polymeters and what not

  • Finally can play what he is playing here. Took 3 and a half years

  • Listening to Rush and Frank Zappa have seriously transformed my view of rhythm, I really recommend listening to a song by Rush called La Villa Strangiato. It encompasses all you'll need if you're a rocker. Frank Zappa is a whole different ball game.

  • @GuiseppePipes Tuplets galore.

  • @GuiseppePipes La Villa Strangiato is a very good example, another one would be Bill Bruford-Five G, 17/8 time signature.

  • my brain hurts.

  • More like fucking mental section!!!

  • I'm glad that God has gifted me with the ability to understand what the hell Mike is talking about :P

  • And "Niner Blues" by Prison Break

  • Check out "The magnificent Seven " by Prison Break

  • 8:08 Dat face

  • Drum theory sounds so damn complicated.... glad I can learn everything by ear. :D

  • @HolyDeth All theory is complicated when learning but in the end it makes you a much better musician once you understand it and know what is happening and what your doing and not just hitting the drums or playing a guitar.

  • @SocialOutsider

    I actually find it kinda easy. What I find hard is the actual playing lol

  • he looks like jesus

  • @jplanejazz i think mike portnoy might be the only drummer in the world that understands this lol

  • Listing to the 9/8 makes it hard to breathe in rhythm o_O

  • I heard this vid is all a lie, and he only plays in 4/76.25 :P

  • They is Jesus?

  • I didn't know Jesus played drums...

  • @Luke50001 No, John Petrucci plays GUITAR, not drums

  • I love watching these kinds of videos and getting progressive ideas. Then when I jam on them, I know what I'm doin but people just get confused hahaa

  • @GonzoDrummer27 - I agree. This is a great vid showing those Hard Time Signatures. I'm a Bass Player but I should have bought this Vid in the 90s (before the advent of Youtube) and followed Myungs Bass Playing in it cos its great for any Musician to study Time Signatures like this.

  • @soeffingwhat I actually just bought that DVD and it's all very intriguing

  • @JollyJollyJoseph - I might do so as well.

  • Lmao 8:08...

  • 8.06 - 8.10 wtf :D

  • For someone who is self-taught (supposedly) and doesn't have much music theory instruction, he sure knows enough about it! Must be from all he's learned being in DT... LOL

  • @tall32guy

    Well. He went to Berklee and took Music Theory lessons in high school. So I'd say he had quite a bit of instruction.

  • @RedVstheBlue Hmmm! Apparently what I'd read on the Net was incorrect then, or misinformed! Big surprise huh? LOL

  • I got a question... will it blend?

  • hmm this great feel's. lookin @ your legs. u sit really high up.

  • First I took the most generic beat imaginable in this time signature and then hit some piece of my enormous drum set on every off beat. Am I drummer yet?

  • My brain just exploded!

  • he looks like a Guru in the thumbnail

  • Fuck yeah, finally i managed playing in 64 / 16

    oh wait...

  • ...And this is EXACTLY why I love progressive music! It makes the listener THINK!

  • i got lost at 13/8.. the rest i can manage..

  • 2:30 - 3:02 Either he just explained how to travel to other galaxies, or how to have tantric sex for fourteen hours at a time. Or both.

  • Thumbs up for Jewish Fabio

  • 5:14 Cymbal mutting fail... LOL!!

  • such a musical drummer...he's the perfect combination of musicality and technicality

    

  • I LOVE this kind of stuff. Thinking like this and making people who think one thing is coming totally mess them up and make them pay attention to the music and what's goin on.

  • yay DT

  • He's such a hunk. I think I'm having a mancrush on him. I wanna lick his hairy chest.

  • @JtK27 not if i do it first.

  • @JtK27 :D

  • GOT IT!!

  • He used to be so much better..

  • Portnoys awesome!!! i learned alot from this vid! :)

  • looks like jesus with curly hair

  • good demo examples !!

  • I knew a little bit about time sigs before this video, never really understood anyone explaining it in the past but this video has been a great influence to the way i play. 13/8 is fucking immense.

  • odd meters work for some people and don't work for others. I taught myself how to count odd meters on my knees when i had time to kill, and then i was able to play them on drums despite me not even being a drummer.

  • god damnit this stuff is hard!!

    any tips for the "VOICES : PATTERN 4"  segment? (3:02-3:14)

    i cant seem to figure it out and i'm getting really frustrated! some help please?

    mike makes it look so easy....

  • 5:16 his face! x]

  • cheesiest band ever award goes to

  • this guy sucks

    time signatures are not that complex to understand 

  • @javoutube1

    You're right! Mike Portnoy sucks! He's is a piss poor drummer who is not at all influential in the prog-metal community and has never been considered one of the best drummers in the world by professionals!

  • after abt a few month of playing these its realy imporved my drumming, its good to work on theses

  • Pause at 5:16 for epic expression!

  • @SuperJackass75 I see why you have your user name.

  • @khazanah it took you a year to understand bars? wow i'm sorry

  • Look in the hair. The skill is all in the hair.

  • He totally looks like Jesus. 

  • is it just me, or are those sticks purple?

    AWESOME!!

  • It's actually get me nearly a year to know what is he talk about. :P Now I'm understand the whole thing!

  • its hard playing drums....more so when this guy is your inspirer

  • what a bad ass!

  • Looks like 45 people were mind fucked by his counting.

     damn shame

  • Ok here's where I got confused in the begininning with the 9/8 is the counting 1234,1234,11 or 1+2+3+4+11+2+3+4?

  • @HOLYREAPER917 1n 2n 3n 4n 1 1n 2n 3n 4n 1 1n

    like doubling the and off the fourth upbeat

  • @HOLYREAPER917 The easiest way is just to count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 no ands, no e's, no a's. You honestly just count to 9, but make sure you count in 8th notes and youre not doing 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+....etc. etc.

  • i think im gonna stick to 4/4

  • @FamGuitarist Haha I know right!

  • @FamGuitarist Then you'll never be famous.

  • @FamGuitarist - 4/4 is the mainly known Signature, but its good to be able to play all the complicated Time Signatures. Improve your Technique, I intend to do that as a Bass Player.

  • one4technique=realdrummer110=j­eff the janitor.

  • @guitdude09 yes and I fofoled you so easily . But yes I am formerly realdrummer. So? You want to get pwned and owned some more??? hahahahahahaha

  • @one4technique " yes and I fofoled you so easily ." if you had fooled me i wouldn't have written who you were, would i dickhead!?.

  • @guitdude09 It took you two weeks and then because I let key info out!!! I could have fooled your dumbass forever if I chose to..

  • @one4technique dont have a stroke lol.

  • @one4technique if you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all.

  • he could tie beads onto the hair ends, whirl his head around, and get an amazing shaker sound

  • marvelous. god like. borknagar and dream theater should tour together.

  • someone needs to show REALDRUMMER where his rightful place is

  • he looks like jesus on movies haha

  • @asapat101200 He IS Jesus!

  • I got lost from 0.3 - 9.12

  • @bastidador you and me both bro

  • @bastidador LMAO...funny chit dude.

  • @bastidador really?

  • IGNORE THE SMELL OF SEWAGE KNOWN AS REALDRUMMER. ONLY THEN WILL THE SMELL HOPEFULLY GO AWAY!!!

  • @MrMoterhed He apparently closed his account... again.

  • i thought if i was goimg to be a musician, i dont have to learn algebra because they have nothing to do with eachother... oops.

  • Aldous Snow?!?

  • the shirt open? cmon mike...egomania?

  • Nah - epic face is at 5:16!

  • Press all these rapidly (not at the same, individually): 1,2,3,5,6,7. :) I still love you MP!

  • portnoy rules!!! please don't hate 

  • isit me or does mike portnoy look like jesus?

  • That 4/4+5/8 is a great way to get am accesible dance beat to a strange song. Bill Bruford took the same approach on King Crimson's song "Discipline". He's a good teacher of more advanced topics.

  • when music becomes maths it really has lost its soul. this guy is a bank manager in shorts

  • @pittenweem12 Yeah, I know, really. Who likes talent in their music anyway? Why would you even learn about music? When you know a lot about music, you're just not being spontaneous enough. One time, I took a shit on my guitar and recorded it. Sounded so deep and soulful.

  • @666SlayerThrash I agree! I knew there were like minded souls out there. Like your idea about the shit, i'm going to a studio today to try that out. I will credit you of course. all the best my brother in shit!

  • A lot of hair in the 90s it seems.

  • Portnoy has polluted drumming far too ,long. He needs to go to prison for it now..

  • @realdrummer110 dude, why are you trolling all of portnoys videos?? this one, the portnoy vs rev video, some of portnoys drum only videos, and so on. why?? can't you grow up and just stop? please?

  • mike portnoy's so hot.

  • @atrociousvicinity027 You must be skank as hell to say Portnoy looks good..

  • @realdrummer110 Lot of Portnoy hate on this video. Did he molest you or something?

  • hagrid in his prime

  • Now I'll name him Mike Porn-Toy

  • @egbt4 Hey that works for me. :):)

  • Did Sabian tell you to get lost like DT and AX7 you fucking faggot???

  • @realdrummer110 im preatty sure he chose to leave both of those bands

  • @sickstix182 Oh dude grow up. he was asked to leave AX7. I know it was a fill in slot to start. But they didn't want it to continue. Must be cause he was so good huh? Then you can ask anybody that knows DT. He asked to come back and they had their attorney write his attorney and said NO... grow up chump.

  • @realdrummer110 what sort of 60yr old goes around picking on kids every day?, makes fun of the dead to the people mourning them?,and what kind of psyco makes all the racist and low class jokes that you do,and at the sam time preaches about how the lord is his saviour,and that this person and that person are going to hell because they're"fucktards",seriously,a­­ll petty sentiment aside,you really need help,you need to talk to someone,grow up and get a life outside of trolling people.

  • @realdrummer110 and JThrashYT is correct, if you don't like Mike Portnoy, whay do you troll every single one of his video's?.

  • @realdrummer110 id like to know where your getting your information but im positive that mike said we would only help a7x for the year 2010 so when the year ended he left just like he said he would and for dream theater it says in a video that mike wanted to give dream theater a break and he was choosing to leave

  • @sickstix182 You didn't see them asking him to stick around for another year did you? Must be cause he's so fucking good? Yep and now DT wants to take a permanent break from him...hahahaha. real smart guy that Portnoy..

  • @realdrummer110 oh no, 'realdrummer' is back. if you are such a real drummer, please post something of yourself

  • @realdrummer110 if you dont like portnoy, why do you keep trolling every single one of his video's literally for years?.

    

  • @guitdude09  Nobody likes Portnoy. It's not just me...

  • @realdrummer110 Its like you have the PC plugged up your ass, just morning til night trolling every single day of your life, i dont know how you do it, u'r just fucking retarded i guess. I'm finished talking to you, you're a fucking miserable old cunt!, just hurry the fuck up and die already grampa, so someone can make use of that hovel you mope about in.You're just a depressing old fuck, lets see how many more people you can get to hate you each day, miserable old man.

  • @realdrummer110 yo realdrummer your a fag portnoy kicks ass i bet u cant play any of this stuff. he can also play regular time sigs like when he helped out a7x. ur just jelous u pussy

  • @hellnoob11 Hahahaha. If he was any good at 4/4 wou;dn't have AX7 asked him to stay? What's that? yes they would have/ Right ..I agree w/you there..Soon he will just be a simple has been1!!!!!!!!! Sweet!!!!!

  • @realdrummer110 wheres your uploaded drumming videos chump?, none as usual, typical troll, and you admitted that you have been trolling mike portnoy for around 2 years now, is this you trying to convince us that you're NOT a loser?. I dont think its working, maybe tell the daddy suicide story again for sympathy, or was it murder, you have two versions, one where his deathbed confession was about how NASA faked the apollo landings(touching), and one where the hospital murdered him in his sleep.

  • @guitdude09 You mean you have two versions??? hahahahahaha. Cowabunga dude!!! Surf;s up? hang ten ...Like wow man. get back to someone when you have major label interest squirt...hahahahahahahaha

    Pwned...

  • @realdrummer110 so whats your version then, shall i post the link to the page on the moonlanding forum where you said he hung himself and then "spilled the beans" on you about nasa. Then i can show the page where you changed the story to "the hospital murdered him", shall i janitor, get back to someone when you can actually play the drums squirt, because no one believes you "real" drummer.

  • @guitdude09 Write it anyway you see fit. I really doon't care...

  • @realdrummer110 "I really doon't care" if you dodn't care old man you wouldn't have threatened to run me down to everyone that has subbed me haha, dickhead, have you ever thought about stopping drinking.

  • @guitdude09 No I care that you are an ignorant arrogant asshole. That's what I do care about. And I am going to illuminate your so called friends as to how you really are. That's a guarantee.

  • @realdrummer110 " I am going to illuminate your so called friends as to how you really are. That's a guarantee."yep, you keep saying it, but i've yet to feel the ripples, are you sure you're on the correct profile page, i know the internet can be a bit tricky to an older gent such as yourself, but i think you're doing quite ok considering you're drunk most of the time.

  • @guitdude09 You'll reap what you sow. Who knows how long??? Doesn't matter. Tick tock tick tock... it's irrefutable...