OctavadruMEDLEY [Part 2/2] - DREAM THEATER MEDLEY

Thanks for staying tuned and watch this one!!!

I'm sure you won't regret it, this is my favorite and it's probably the thing you were looking for when you typed octavarium drums in the search bar... Anyway, ENJOY!

This is a medley I made with some of the best parts from Octavarium. Since there is many mellow songs on this album and that there is no instrumental part in every songs, I decided to use only instrumental parts because the video would have been 45 mins and making a medley out of lyrics would have been out of my duty... So don't be sad if there's not the part you're waiting for but I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy this anyway.

I had so much fun doing this because there is some crazy parts from Portnoy that are very challenging to play one after the other (you'll understand more in part2/2). Personally, I think this one was more difficult to play than sysdrumedley even if it looks easiest.

I had three objectives when I made this video: 1) Play every single note or fill or even crash that Portnoy does on the album.
2) Play this medley in one take (because it's easy to make some kind of editing which I would call "cheatditing". It would have been so easy to play segment by segment till it's perfect and then make a video out of it that would look crazy but that is finally not.
3) Even if it's "one take", I wanted to make this video visually interesting for everybody who would like to watch this. My first DT medley was fun to listen but I admit that a 1 angle video can becomes boring (even more if it's an 18 min song like sysdrumedley chaos). So I hope you'll like the 4 angle (with the feet sometimes) concept. I have to admit that Cobus Potgieter was a great influence on that part.
I'm very pleased that I achieved these three objectives and I'm satisfied with the result though there is some mistakes (find out which ones for fun). And, I know, sometimes the snare sounds like "flams" which means i'm slightly off-time... sorry about that.


***SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE RECORDING***

This video is the second time I had the 14 minutes almost perfect because when I did the first one, I forgot to put my front cam to record.

It took 24 takes to have this one.

On this video my left wrist hurts a lot cause I was injured around "take 15". I have an old wrist problem and because I was playing without stopping for hours (some challenging and complicated DT stuff) it came back and I needed to put ice to relief it.

I worked on the track a year ago but I was very busy in the meanwhile. That's why it took so long to record it.

It took three set of sticks to make this video and my Chinese Aax is cracked (you can't hear it, it sounds great anyway)

This album is one of my favorite from DT because there is many references to prog rock history in it. There are some allusions to Pink Floyd as well so that's why I decided to wear the dark side of the moon T-Shirt.




Thanks for watching and reading and please, leave me your comments. ;-)

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[SuperMarttin]

did you made all the drum with the stave method?

[JeffrayFiset]

@SuperMarttin Yes the whole set is stave shells i made except for the left snare which is a Premier.

[Adamkooooooo]

3:44 - what is it? my friend told me that is splash but up side down. is it true?

[JeffrayFiset]

@Adamkooooooo No it's an LP ice bell, iI think it's a 6 inches. It cost me around 30$ two years ago. If you have an old crash that is cracked, you can cut all the material and keep only the bell. This is what Gavin Harrison did to build his chimes that sounds amazing.

Anyways, thanks to ally of you for your wonderful comments, and thanks for watching.

[drumgroovemusic]

wow jeff tight playing man! classy with all the angles too, you can always see everything that you're doing, makes for an entertaining video!

definitely some intense focus to play a piece like this, well done!

cheers

matt

[JeffrayFiset]

@drumgroovemusic Thanks for your comment, it's really appreciated from a guy how play very well like you. Keep your vids coming, it's very refreshing and original to hear you play, I really enjoy every video you post. Anyway... thanks!

[Investrite1]

Fantastic playing !

[phyoaung100]

what a brilliant player . Well done buddy

[SuperMarttin]

@SuperMarttin thanks for the respond, what wood did you used? I made myself a snare with inciense a hard wood. regards from argentine.

[MrBreathMints]

Awesome job! And i came up with a name for your next medley.... A DRUMatic turn of Events!

[UVTex534]

clear octobans=nice touch

[DAJUMUSTARD]

what AMAZING cover!!!!.... I'm really really impressed!!!!.... YOU ROCK!!!! awesome!! congrats!

[LordGuidiX]

well done but. stop make this stupid face. you play good but. u doesn't make a... ahmm u make stupids faces

[vladyyzz]

3:58

Mike portnoy? Way too easy for Jeff ;)

[Adamkooooooo]

@JeffrayFiset aha is it something like sabian radia cup chime? and do you know what mike portnoy use? lp ice bell or something else?

[drumgroovemusic]

@JeffrayFiset you're welcome jeff! thanks for the kindess you've shown me too. : )