Mark Zonder Drum Clinic selections

Mark playing a "heavy metal clave", and examples of building a groove and using electronics in playing

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[johnfr1234]

Is this the most creative drummer out?? Listen to the stuff that he is playing in the context of the music. Doesn't need the drum solo to play all of his stuff. Very impressive.

[meetmeatthe1]

I saw Mark fall off of his throne once during "Parallel Lives" (it broke). He immediately recovered and continued playing. A roadie placed another throne under him shortly thereafter. He sat back down and finished the song. All without missing a beat! Even in one of his worst moments, he inspired me.

[FinnGamble]

@ultimatefighter187 The first two DT albums were great. The third was still pretty good, but after that they started repeating themselves in a bad way. I have theory that on I&W Portnoy mostly duplicated what Petrucci had programmed on the demos, so it became very un-drummerlike in a cool way. But Portnoy always pushed DT to be more "metal" (balls and chunk and all that), and that's the direction they went. Now, with Portnoy gone, the interesting stuff seems to be back!

[Ieronymous]

Portnoy is a "show off"...Zonder is the real deal..!!!

[dmb912002]

@ultimatefighter187

Dream Theater in general is over rated...  if not for Berklee music nerds, that band would have almost zero following..

[taturner60141]

Just noticed he is using a matched grip instead of the traditional grip he use to use??

[taturner60141]

and like all great drummers,that left hand just don't sit there idle,waiting for that snare hit...it's always busy doing something that adds that little something extra!

[taturner60141]

I admire all of these guys,As a drummer myself,and I'm not anywhere near as good as them,I look at it like ok,if i was playing this song,how would I play it?I put my own twist on what I hear.I don't think it makes me better or worse,just different interpretation of the music we play

[TheClimb511]

Each of these drummers named in this comment log are all great percussionists. They all bring something very unique. None of them "Suck". Each of them can do different things, which makes them great. I used to think the world of Neil Peart, but then I heard Gavin Harrison play. :-) I can never say that one is "Better Than" the other. I mean, how would you even begin to compare the skills they have?

[Quaellchen]

@ultimatefighter187 wrooong.

[ultimatefighter187]

@jossy2112 i respect your opinon..but portnoy is in no way better....he's almost a rock drummer playing progressive...he has the most simplistic and unoriginal approach to odd times...and dream theater purposly writes songs based on numbers and not just "jamming" or playing....it's why the majority of their songs are boring and or unintresting.

[riffeishonman]

lol come on!

Portnoy is not fast at all, every fast part he just rolls tom tom kick kick in all of the DT songs.

If mark zonder played in DT he would actually come up with way better stuff than portnoy ever made. MP has good stuff but basically he just follows guitar accents all the time.

MP will be back in DT I can bet, Avenged sevenfold is too fast for him and DT makes more money.