You can do that if you listen to a recording of it enough times, but to be the first ones to write it and learn it? I'm half convinced aliens wrote it and beamed down a cassette tape for the band to listen to.
portnoy : "if i have 9/8 time signature, i will break it down to 4/8 and 5/8, but the guys keep playing at 9/8" it's from one of portnoy lesson. you can never think like dream theatre. it's just impossible
Once you know it by heart after listening and trying to play it a hundred times, you start to get the flow of it and don't remember the whole thing but just know at every bar you play what the next is gonna be
Actually subdividing the bars into smaller groups when there are more than 4 beats is very useful and easier to me than just thinking 9/8. Who cares what the guitarist plays anyway ?
what do you mean if u are a drummer it should not be difficult. Hahaha..its equivalent to the guitar player. If you are a guitarist then it should not be difficult to figure out gurthie or tosin abasi stuff. Hahaha
I've played multiple instruments since the age of three and cannot wrap my head around the complexity of Dream Theater songs, they're technical for the sake of being technical. Luckily they have fans who appreciate this.
That's not really that complex, when you got the rhythms in place you can easily groove to their riffs, but that only applies to the Portnoy Era. With Mangini, they do the same kind of metric but Mangini just can't groove, so he plays polyrhythms and create fucked up beats that are just not fun to listen.
This is actually quite intuitive to play on guitar and you can go on the melody for the timings, for the most part. Counting it makes it far more difficult to play/remember.
I love how no one agrees ok how to actually count their piece, so many different interpretations! This video was the closet to how I count the piece but was still substantially different. Good job!
PirandelloKruger723 yeah I’m learning it on guitar I’m having to get familiar with everything, it’s much more difficult to learn like that with a song like this though
Just Wow. Best video on youtube. I strongly suggest a sequal, maybe where you get a lttle bit of bpm changes and when is x/4, x/8, x/16, x/32... But thank you so much.
I must admit I thought 'hmmm, another TDoE signature video?'.. But it was worth to see.. I lol at the sections when you actually spoke with melody (wouldn't be 'singing' cuz there're no lyrics), like at 3:34.. :)
This is amazing.. A small kid could learn how to count from this video with Dream Theater and an older person would learn how time signatures work again with Dream Theater.. They can educate you actually
I really like this concept, and this is a good video, except I'd just like to point out that some of this is incorrect. For example, at 2:12, you beat the beat on every 5 sixteenth notes, where it is actually on every 4 sixteenth notes. That is an 11/4 measure just like the ones before and after.
I think both ways to think it are equally correct, you just think of a slow down tempo and playing quintolets it makes sense as well Wait actually no, it really sounds like they're playing sextuplets at this part I think it's actually more probably 7/4 where the guitarist plays the first four sextolets of each beat
Usually I go by the pulses in the drum beat. You could count it that way if it makes more sense to you. I usually split them at higher numbers than that, but I figured if I used the bars provided in Mike Portnoy's video, it'd help establish familiarity to whomever watched this. (Plus SOME people don't like it when I count that high. :P)
Finally, someone makes lyrics for this song.
+adam lim hafriz ask John Myung LOL
lol too good man!
Nah, it's a tongue twister with a crazy backing track.
adam lim hafriz wkwkkwkwkwkwk
Wkwkwk akhirnya
This is how Dream Theater learned to count as children.
learn to count with dream theater
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...lol
*dies*
This is is actually a lot easier to play than you think. John petrucci said that he just uses feel and doesn't really count out in his head
You can do that if you listen to a recording of it enough times, but to be the first ones to write it and learn it? I'm half convinced aliens wrote it and beamed down a cassette tape for the band to listen to.
it's not easy to play, but for me it's impossible to create something like this.
portnoy : "if i have 9/8 time signature, i will break it down to 4/8 and 5/8, but the guys keep playing at 9/8"
it's from one of portnoy lesson. you can never think like dream theatre. it's just impossible
Once you know it by heart after listening and trying to play it a hundred times, you start to get the flow of it and don't remember the whole thing but just know at every bar you play what the next is gonna be
Actually subdividing the bars into smaller groups when there are more than 4 beats is very useful and easier to me than just thinking 9/8. Who cares what the guitarist plays anyway ?
im not a drummer or a musician but it's so much fun to watch this...........
its better when you don't understand shit
As a musician I look at this with fascination and horror
@@bassplayer2011ify As a drummer I can confirm this is the correct reaction.
@@Cobalt985 as another drummer I can also confirm
@@rohayek8492 as a drummer i can confirm too 😅😅
I think this video could actually kill a whole aerobics class.
1:55 my favourite part
tadadada tadadada tadadada tadadada ONETWOTHREEFOUR
69
Your awesome man! You just saved me a lot of trouble to learn this song on drums.
Matt Fite
Just use feels
what do you mean if u are a drummer it should not be difficult. Hahaha..its equivalent to the guitar player. If you are a guitarist then it should not be difficult to figure out gurthie or tosin abasi stuff. Hahaha
so I just write down a phone number?
That's a nice idea
1:58
Turn on the captions for that part
:D
I may be a little bit late but there's also another one at 2:53
dinner dinner
It's near 5am and I'm trying so hard not to laugh out loud at this.
This video is pure gold in every sense hahaha
THE CAPTIONS HOLY FUCK
This dude lives a sad, sad life.
Not really
Catherine Feaster Well said.
dinner dinner dinner dinner
Time by Dr. Brown
Yep. Time to trash my drums.
Try headbanging to this lol! Great video though! Really helpful
I know this video is old. But thanks a lot. I learned the first minute of the song thanks to you explaining these odd time signatures.
I've played multiple instruments since the age of three and cannot wrap my head around the complexity of Dream Theater songs, they're technical for the sake of being technical. Luckily they have fans who appreciate this.
That one is especially technical, that's true, but most of their songs also have other dimensions, and being technical is not the thing itself
Hope the solo to "the best of times" will make you change your mind :)
That's not really that complex, when you got the rhythms in place you can easily groove to their riffs, but that only applies to the Portnoy Era. With Mangini, they do the same kind of metric but Mangini just can't groove, so he plays polyrhythms and create fucked up beats that are just not fun to listen.
Its not really complex? LMFAO, that's got to be one of the most ignorant pretentious statement I've heard in couple of months.
To me, blackened by metallica quite hard than this song.
I've been meaning to look up the time signatures for this song for a while.
Thanks for doing this and uploading it, dude.
my drum teacher told me I had to count along with the song I'm playing.
flippingbirds oooooof
After a year, are you fluent in this song?
Always end metal songs in *666* time.
"You pretty much get the picture here"
The fuck I don't
i think this is the best lyrics for the song dance of eternity
This is actually quite intuitive to play on guitar and you can go on the melody for the timings, for the most part. Counting it makes it far more difficult to play/remember.
This is masochist
I just counted.. this song changes time signatures 133 times!! Try to wrap your head around that one lmao
I love how no one agrees ok how to actually count their piece, so many different interpretations! This video was the closet to how I count the piece but was still substantially different. Good job!
I think what really gets me is the time signature changing AS they're also changing tempo. So much rhythmic awkwardness. Jesus.
God i've been looking for something like this for so long... thank you.
One two three four five six seven eight nine
*DUDUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUDUN*
Yeah ok, but what's the time signature for smoke on the water?
I'm not quite sure, I think it was 19/16, commonly utilising a 23/14,5 polyrhythm. But I might be wrong.
26/4
21/32 as far as I know
CJSpot forget all those answers cuz they’re all wrong and the time signature for smoke on water is still a mystery
Mixolydian B6
This is actually entertaining to watch like dang
mesmerizing word and rhyme
the enigmatic story was revealed with this lyric
i can play a triangle
How the f*** did they play this live?
It's honestly not that hard (at least on drums). I don't count it out in my head, I just sort of "know" from hearing the song so many times.
PirandelloKruger723 yeah I’m learning it on guitar I’m having to get familiar with everything, it’s much more difficult to learn like that with a song like this though
@@DanceOfTheDawn5963 After 3 years, I've kind of learnt to feel the rhythm instead of counting it. I'm also a vocalist so it works for me well.
I couldn't resist air-drumming along to this
So, this is hell. You have to write and count out the time signatures for Dance of Eternity and right before it ends, you do it all over again.
A LEGEND.
Thank you so much for making this video!
Helped me so much.
Just Wow. Best video on youtube. I strongly suggest a sequal, maybe where you get a lttle bit of bpm changes and when is x/4, x/8, x/16, x/32...
But thank you so much.
Yoo man!! Thanks a ton for this :')
I think that 11/8 break time part is actually 10/8
That's correct. I messed up there. ^^
@@KKoserYaks fast reaction tho
Thanks
This is why I love Ringo
I must admit I thought 'hmmm, another TDoE signature video?'.. But it was worth to see.. I lol at the sections when you actually spoke with melody (wouldn't be 'singing' cuz there're no lyrics), like at 3:34.. :)
have been listening to this song for decades, never know there are the WTF and Arghhh part. hahaha
This is amazing.. A small kid could learn how to count from this video with Dream Theater and an older person would learn how time signatures work again with Dream Theater..
They can educate you actually
Amazing lyrics
I really like this concept, and this is a good video, except I'd just like to point out that some of this is incorrect. For example, at 2:12, you beat the beat on every 5 sixteenth notes, where it is actually on every 4 sixteenth notes. That is an 11/4 measure just like the ones before and after.
I think both ways to think it are equally correct, you just think of a slow down tempo and playing quintolets it makes sense as well
Wait actually no, it really sounds like they're playing sextuplets at this part I think it's actually more probably 7/4 where the guitarist plays the first four sextolets of each beat
Koi samjha do ye sab yaar
i guess it just makes it a little easier to count for that part. Hey, it works!
Jerimiah is just godly!
Amazing fucking song. Love it, love it, love it. This is an incredible concept album
2:12. Fucking incredible part!!!
This helped out so much, alot of thanks for making it :DDD
I think actually learning the song on drums would be easier than trying to count out the whole song
The subtitles in 2:47
Even though this is from 2012, big thumbs-up for using pencil and paper, instead of a tablet/iPad/computer! :D ;)
04:35 "20 people buy what you think about! 20 people buy one who people busses up! 1 2 3 4 ..."
Great job, man! Don't break your tounge ;-))
my music teacher told me to say sev instead of seven as its one syllable the more you know
Or maybe "sen". Just a matter of personal preference I guess
I find it easier doing “s”
Scrawlings of a madman
this song is one of the holy shit song thats amezing to hear and terrifying to read
The last three time signatures Damn
that's dream theater for ya
Excellent
I laughed the whole video, great video!!!
bridge a is when it gets all wonky sounding
Nice good work sir
That poor Drummer
Alternative title: learn time signatures in 5 min!
Noob questions, how do you decide where to split the bars? For example, in Bridge A you have 63663, why not 63636?
Usually I go by the pulses in the drum beat. You could count it that way if it makes more sense to you. I usually split them at higher numbers than that, but I figured if I used the bars provided in Mike Portnoy's video, it'd help establish familiarity to whomever watched this. (Plus SOME people don't like it when I count that high. :P)
From my understanding, a change in the bass note indicates the end of one bar and the beginning of another.
It's been said that all of the bands phone numbers are in that signature.
I'm out of breath listening to this
He needs extra breath to count along THAT song, i mean seriously
We need more complicated songs as well as Dream theater
When the number song from Sesame Street grew up and took drugs
let's bring this paper to DTs concert so u know how to headband
Genius
All non musicians don't even know the star bangled banner is an odd time song 🇺🇸, or could care.
hardest rap i've ever tryed
Nice font dude!!!
This taught me to count
Very cool video, thanks!
Thank god it's not necessary to know time signatures learning a dream theater song..! :)
Cool lyrics
I love the multiple 666's. Intentional or not. \M/
I do the same thing in class all the time for some reason
kinda ominous how the last three time signatures are 6, 6 and 6...
This song is so easy ... hmm i dnt wanna play guitar anymore ... 😅
Marco at the helm!
04:32 he did sing to the song
category: games
Kick ass !!😎
Easiest song to sing
if you have low inspiration whenever you have to think of a new password... well, enjoy
Last ones were 666. It means we'll all burn in hell for all ETERNITY (while dancing).
Me: *sees amount of time signature changes*
Also me: _Wait. That's illegal._
And is verse 2: 77-78-69? Or 77-68-69 because you counted 78 not 68
You should try a nightmare to remember!! :D
Could you please provide it? It’s really helpful.
After all this i gotta calm down with a slow 4/4 song 😂, mabe "happy birthday to you" . Worlds easiest music.
...this write-out sheet was shown, explained and counted the same way by Mike Portnoy on his drum video. +Ah I see you added a bit more - thanks.
nice job!
nice! :D