The Jordan Rudess Interview
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
- This episode of Sounding Off features Dream Theater Keyboardist Jordan Rudess. Here is Jordan's Biography:
Voted “Best Keyboardist of All Time” by Music Radar Magazine, Jordan Rudess is best known as the keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire for platinum-selling Grammy- nominated prog rock band, Dream Theater.
At nine, he entered the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division for classical piano training, but by his late teens he had grown increasingly interested in synthesizers and progressive rock music. Against the counsel of his parents and tutors, he turned away from classical piano and tried his hand as a solo progressive rock keyboardist.
After performing in various projects during the 1980s, he gained international attention in 1994 when he was voted “Best New Talent” in the Keyboard Magazine readers’ poll after the release of his Listen solo album. Two of the bands that took notice of Rudess were The Dixie Dregs and Dream Theater, both of whom invited him to join. Rudess chose the Dregs, primarily as being a part-time member of the band would have less of an impact on his young family.
During his time with the Dregs, Rudess formed a “power duo” with drummer Rod Morgenstein. The genesis of this pairing occurred when a power outage caused all of the Dregs’ instruments to fail except Rudess’, so he and Morgenstein improvised with each other until power was restored and the concert could continue. The chemistry between the two was so strong during this jam that they decided to perform together on a regular basis (under the name Rudess/Morgenstein Project or later RMP) and have released a studio and a live record. RMP did a short U.S. tour in November, 2013.
Before joining Dream Theater in January 1999, Jordan connected with John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, bassist Tony Levin of King Crimson and Peter Gabriel notoriety, and recorded two albums with “Liquid Tension Experiment.”
Rudess has been the full-time keyboardist with Dream Theater, since the recording of 1999’s Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. He has recorded seven other studio albums with the group: 2002’s Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, 2003’s Train of Thought, 2005’s Octavarium, 2007’s Systematic Chaos, 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings , A Dramatic Turn of Events, the self titled Dream Theater, as well as their newest album, The Astonishing, a Rock Opera. The story was written by John Petrucci with music written by John Petrucci and and Jordan Rudess.
. Musicians all over the world subscribe to Rudess’ Online Music Conservatory, which offers a full range of courses in everything from harmony and rhythm to improvisation, ear training and technique.
You can follow Jordan at:
www.jordanrudes...
/ jordanrudessofficial
/ jcrudess
Another great interview. If you flip Rick or Jordan upside down, they'd be twins.
omg this kill me xD
jajajaja that`s true!!!
Hahahahahahaha! xD
Youse a damned fool, bro! LMAO!
Ah ah !! Excellent one 😂
The fact that Jordan's family had nothing to do with music is unbelievable to me. But the fact that his family supported and invested in that interest is even moreso. Shoutout to Mr. Rudess' parents for blessing us with this amazing man and his incredible talent the world is blessed to hear.
Now that’s incredible,99 percent of the talented musicians today get it from their musical parents,respect to this man.
As a 30 year Dream Theater fan, this video is like looking at...the face of God.
I don't know what is more incredible here...Mr. Beato's questions and overall interview chops or Mr. Rudess' answers and willingness to show his soul, his musical soul, to the world.
Thank you both very much. This is a really, really special video.
You can tell what makes Rick such a great interviewer is his genuine love and interest of the craft
Rick, I love how interviews by you sound like conversations with friends. The musicians open up, and the audience gets so much more out of them. This is my favorite so far.
Wow, I loved this interview! A lot of these topics were incredibly fascinating to me, as someone who is from the classical music world and new to synthesizers and other genres... 🙏 Also, Rick you are so great at interviewing.
Rick ,We keyboardist all love Jordan Rudess and you as well. I have known him since his days at Korg when we all still had long curly dark hair. I was working at Kawai as the Mid - west product & sales rep. I must admit to be one of those people you both talked about who don't read music. Taught to by play Sax & Clarinet by ear. As It was my Aunt Theresa about 7 yrs. older than us was forced to baby sit us. So the three of us, her brother Johnny my Uncle 5 weeks older than me and myself. She played 28 instruments & good at all of them. She kept us busy as she'd hand us the Sax or Clarinet showed us its natural scale and would them say okay Ricky you play this part Johnny play this and we'd copy her.
She didn't teach us to read what we were playing, but we had great fun as she conducted our little threesome playing Guitar /Accordion we also sang harmonies. We moved on I loved the $5 Piano & we built Johnny as Drum kits of boxes & metal canisters. She then led us to entering local Talented Teen contests. Her being the teen. We won many our family bought a Rogers Drum set & I won a cheesey Porta Organ, We did great until we got to Jr. high the teacher believing Theresa had taught us everything she knew. As she held a place of honor there & in our high School filling a trophy cabinet in each. The school held us in high regards. with Great promise for us to continue in her footsteps. Being the new replacements of her. We shared 1st chair in Woodwinds, but we wowed & entertained our classmates with Rock tunes on Piano & Drums often playing intro bits on Trumpet & Sax with one hand and sang harmony like the almost brothers we are. One day the Music Director gave us sheet Music for a song we had never heard. So we did our usual stick as we did with Theresa play us a few bars ? No you guys have to be able to play it from the written page it how we win when we compete in Statewide events..Um dha we don't know how to? Stop kidding me you guys, no in unison we don't read, so just play us a bit of it we have heard just about everything ever recorded. No No god no please save me he cried. as he promptly called my Dad as my grampa spoke Italisllish you know one word of each. My Dad went nuts in fact our entire family went crazy hearing this unwanted news. By now we were playing actual jobs with Theresa & getting paid quite well. I now owned a Farfisa Combo Deluxe & a Wurlitzer Electric Silvertone amps Johnny's drum kit grew we also had new expensive Horns & Saxes of all sizes a Shure PA system. a Baldwin Grand, plus a small M100 Hammond & Two Lesiles I won on Amatuer Hour, Chicagoland. The prize was a Lyon & Healy spinet but I cried we have a real Piano a Baldwin Grand at home so they offered me the Hammond. The Jr high Music director now went into a PANIC mode and told my Dad take their instruments away lock the lids on the keyboards if they have em and tell them they'll get them back once they learn to read the sheet Music ? We laughed ah what Song do they want to hear & in what key. Somehow we got the theory but not the notes. I knew every Chord & Inversion. They tried to teach us like they taught all the other kids. when we were obviously not the other kids. Un willing to play Mary had a little Lamb or twinkle twinkle little Star. So they would put piece of Music before us and we'd play it our way within a few seconds to appease them. Usually in different keys than the sheet but they thought we were coming around to their game. when we didn't know a Song we would every good boy does, shit I hate this me too. write the notes in above the lines and erase them a few minutes later. My father figured us out and beat my ass bloody an ex Navy & Army vet Joined got out received a draft notice ignored it until they came & took him but to the Army where he was a Boot Camp Sgt. company commander. So he was a regular home dictator, and was going to win this battle of wits. I played for 40 yrs & never learned to read well enough to be fluid. And I avoided the many recording sessions I was asked to play on. Other than Pop & Rock radio spots I was afraid to be found out by my peers despite my many years of doing product demo's at NAMM for Oberheim, Korg, Moog, 360 systems, Sequential circuits, and many others. I was very embarrassed to let others know When Jordan said I feel sorry for those who don't read. I resemble that remark and I agree, after the many years and all my great times playing with others all over the USA I wish it hadn't been that battle of wits between me & my Dad who warned me as he finally gave in and gave us access to our gear. Someday you guys will be sorry you didn't learn to read. I even was lucky enough to play in the high school stage band which was all Big Band era Swing Music which I loved even soloed on the Sax & Clarinet our teacher knew he caught me using the Sheet Music for the Guitarist several times took me aside and said what a shame what a waste you could have been a God a Liberace ? a Liberace that made me puke & I then learned just how many Hugely famous players also didn't read. which made me feel better about myself for a while. I loved the Progressive Jazz Fusion stuff by Chick baby, Don & Dave Grusin, Spyra Gyra, & Gino Vanelli my favorite at the time, this was the first time I was unable to figure it out by ear. And I too am now sorry & have been slightly sorry before. But getting beat into shape doesn't work then in the 60's and I know it won't work today. My Dad would have been arrested in today's world I was well known at the E.R. getting my mouth head or other parts stitched back together as my teeth came through my lips, with a single slap from Gino the Jr. Jerkules. he didn't know his own strength. Dad I hope you can hear me up there I can still feel that belt and those fists of yours. wish i could have found a way to please you. even when we opened for major acts at Arie Crown / or the Black Stone he'd always say see you could be at Carnegie Hall Like, a Liberace. Didn't they know ? He was the only one they had to compare me with, what the hell. Hey what are going do. Damn old dagoes !
Love ya Rick From ;Rick Caruso
Every time Jordan speaks he's giving a mini master class of valuable information!
Best UA-cam Channel ever!!! I can't thank you enough Rick!!
Rick, This is the BEST interview I have seen of Jordan. Thank you so much for this. Very excellent.👍
Probably one of the best interviews with Jordan Rudess. Great questions on patches and his in ear mix. Very very cool. I had the pleasure of meeting him In Wolverhampton and he signed some dreamt theater keyboard notatation.
Just now watching this....awesome interview, Rick! You conduct the best interviews.... 🙂
Jordan Rudess, the true musical master.
Great to have two great teacher musicians together.
Wonderful to watch two senior stars of musical skill & knowledge side by side.
The enjoyment on your face from talking to these artists is so wonderful. You’re a fan above all and that is great.
Awesome interview. I loved every bit, but the conversation near the end about perfect pitch and Dylan was really eye opening... Listening to how a super virtuoso musician with perfect pitch, whom I've admired for my whole life, talks about your son, makes me realize how truly special Dylan is and how unique is every video I'm watching about him.
That was so fun! Loved it! Very informative.
A great interview. I like the choice of questions and, of course, The Wizards answers.
I only recently discovered Jordan Rudess and find him to be an engaging and an incredible musician so to see that you interviewed him six years ago was WOW!!!
2017 interview and how rooted, grounded and genuine it is. Rudess describes his _snarling pig_ keyboard sound, not by bringing up the sound and playing it right there and then, but instead using words to describe it and then even trying to sing it. Old school.
Great Sounding Off interview! I loved how the conversation explored the world of synths, technology and psychology of the keyboardist of a great band! I dig how you ask about an embarrassing story. It's good to know their human lol ;) And how they act in real time during a performance when their gear malfunctions. Excellent job, Rick.
Great interview with Mr. Jordan Rudess. He one of my inspiration on the prog/ prog metal world
bring jordan around more. what a great interview and he has plenty more in his head to share with us.
The only reason u get so much from Jordan is his respect for your knowledge and questions. Great job!
Jordan speaks the way he plays music.Accurate and FAST
Great interview with a huge artist like Jordan. Rick is , as usual a perfect host, keep doing this please.
Happy to see Legends together... Both are my idol
Wonderful interview Rick. As a guitarist that works with keyboardists, DT is huge for me. I've always loved Jordan and his work with John Petrucci and DT. Great insights here, great learning opportunity. Thanks so much!
This is great. I am lucky to have seen Jordan in so many settings: Dregs, Rudess Morgenstein Project (one of those R-M performances was when they opened for another favorite, Porcupine Tree, at Irving Plaza), duo with Steven Wilson at Grape Street Pub in Manayunk, Liquid Tension Experiment, Dream Theater, solo at World Cafe Live and I’m sure I am missing a bunch. In addition to being a technical wizard, he is unbelievably creative and always finds the right sonic space appropriate to the setting in which he’s playing. The world is so lucky that Jordan had the vision to embrace electronics and the dedication to advance modern keyboard technology. I made a nice donation to his funding drive for the Explorations for Keyboard and Orchestra album and he acknowledged that with a beautiful excerpt from the score, personalized to my wife and me. Although I didn’t get a chance to see him after the Rudess-Morgenstein gig at WCL a few years ago, I got an opportunity to chat with him after his more recent solo gig there and he was most gracious. I can’t thank you enough for interviewing this icon who is fluent in so many genres.
Rick looks so ravenously happy in these interviews, He's actually really good at this.. Making the subject feel everything he is saying is of interest.. And it is, partially because looks so interested. That's pro.
Discovered Jordan fairly recently and he is a constant source of inspiration. (I studied piano and am self-taught on guitar. I prefer playing guitar, but the keyboard gigs are easier to get.) Went to see him at the Ardmore Music Hall - fantastic! Great interview, Rick.
Great interview Rick. Jordan Rudess is such a kind and extremely gifted musician. A very cool dude!
Rick, this is an excellent interview. Jordan Rudess is like an open book with such interesting insights about any topic you ask him. What a genius!. If Jordan writes a book, I'd buy it.
This is simply amazing prof. Beato. Jordan is one of my favorites and I'm always intrigued listening to his thinking. You are pretty amazing as well.
The best interview that I've seen on UA-cam. Amazing job as always Rick. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Jordan is the kind of guy to write his shopping list in notation.
That dirty organ sound from the Dark Eternal Night is amazing, maybe my favourite synth/keyboard sound ever.
Which part of the song does it play that
@@wiggy009throughout, I think, but I find it pretty difficult to distinguish it from JP's guitar on that song. If you watch the 'Chaos in Progress' doco, it comes up at around 35:00 and you can hear JR playing part of the chorus with it.
Don't you mean his "Chopin Liszt"?
@@Patrick-do9vw 😂😂😂😂
The reason this interview is so good for me because Rick actually on par with John in terms of knowledge and the experience. In other video Rick dissect blink 182. Awesome
wow, another great opportunity to learn and get new ideas :)
I know I'm a bit late but this is one of the best interviews I've seen with Jordan. Thanks Rick!
what a wonderful interview with two really great people
Great discussion. Huge ELP, Yes and Genesis fan as well since I was 16. DT is as incredible as the best rock I know!
It's surprising to me that (AFAIK) Rick has not dissected an ELP number. on his channel.
I thought at first prog rock was not on his radar.
Then I discovered he has done items by Pink Floyd and Yes.
I'm hoping against hope that John Myung will leave the mysterious dimension he wanders to do one of these.
There ya go! He's one of the most underrated musicians working today. Or so it seems to me. His right hand technique is pretty amazing.
I discovered Dream Theatre through my cousin Ryan, of Progressive Transcriptions, who, with his business partner, had supposedly approached the musicians of Dream Theatre back stage and did an elevator pitch of their music notation skills and showed the band copies of the band's extremely complex music that they had transcribed on their own. The scuttlebut was that they landed a contract on the spot... and have been transcribing Dream Theatre's music to this day.
Thank you Rick for this fascinating interview.
That was a great interview. Watching stuff like this reminds me about the hard work that these musicians need to do to reach their level.
One of the best musicians I ever seen live !
Best interview I’ve seen of Jordan...very interesting about how you were subjecting Dylan to music before he was born..I did see the video of seeing your son being able to decipher those big suspensions..at 59 playing the piano for over 50 years I’ve developed my ear in the last 10 years writing out instrumental music...wish I had perfect pitch but I’m just happy to be still learning every year....love your videos Rick 👏👏🎹
Not only is Mr. Rudess an interesting interview but he has a killer speaking voice!
Hey Rick! I would suggest a Sounding off with Tosin Abasi, Plini or Mike Stern!! :)
Oh yes! Up!
Tosin would probably be most appropriate for this channel.
You should definitely do a sounding off with Jens Johansson, a lot of us out there would love it
This guy single handedly made me love piano. Jordan is utterly brilliant.
Fantastic jordan is such s great musician!
Nice interview. I really enjoyed it.
Rick, you are doing great job. Thank you.
Awes job Rick I love Dream Theater and Steve Vai. Amazing interviews keep up the amazing work 🔥
Jordan really is a master of any keyboard. I became an instant fan the first time I saw dream theatre's concerts in films.
I'd say Portnoy is a lover of classical prog., his work w Transatlantic is the ultimate Prog tribute Supergroup , while blazing thier own trail...but they wear thier Gentle Giant, Genesis, Procol Harem, Yes, et al influences on thier sleeves. One of my fave albums is that John Petrucci Jordan Rudess album. Stellar
Such a great interview!
Loving the interviews. Two more people it would be interesting to see on the show: Viljay Iyer and Pasquale Grasso.
Thanks for the videos, Rick.
never been a DT fan but I think this guy is just incredible.
We need a sounding off with Neal Morse!!! great job!!! I have learned and grow a lot as a musician since I found this channel!! Thanks a lot to your love for music and keep rockin'!!!!
Love Neal! People thought he was going to abandon prog once he became a Christian but he's there strong with Paul Gilbert, Portnoy and LaRue doing Beatles and Zeppelin covers.
I'm a Christian and I'm a huge prog head.
Can I like 45 times? The dream interviews!
Jordan Rudess, in my opinion, is the greatest keyboardist in the modern era because of all he can do. He also seems like a down-to-earth kind of guy that you kind just hang out with.
You made at least 3 questions I always wanted to ask him. Enjoyed the interview.
Sounding off with Steven Wilson or Mikel Akerfeldt or Adam Jones, please?!!!
Sounds good to me!
3 of my top 10 most influential musicians
those are are good names lets also add Vito Bratta to that list
Sounding off with Jacob Collier!!
Wonderful. Thanks!
Loved the whole interview but those last 3 minutes were gold. Thanks, Rick.
Looking forward to the interviews with Mike Mangini and John Myung ;-)
And Mike Portnoy with Mike Mangini.
Lovely interview!
Rick Beato: How do you do it? Wow, getting Jordan Rudess to interview with you (while on tour)?! Awesome!
You go Jordan with the in-ear mix! I know exactly what you mean!
Jordan is the greatest keyboardist ever
Loved the Listen 1993 album from Rudess is amazing
Also: bring on the Satchman
I believe he's the wisest musician on Dream Theater.
That was awesome! Thanks so much Rick! Keep up the great interviews.
Rick produce a TV Pilot. You could be to music what Anthony Bourdain is to food. Travel and interviews.
+phil lachaga I like that idea. especially if it involves good eating :) maybe I could go out to dinner with the artists when I interview them?
Ha! I know you're being glib but I'll challenge you because we do not need another food show. Hell we have Food Channels. Hey I'm Italian too. We all love food but we REALLY need a good music show leading to an intelligent music channel. I think you have all the food groups to make it work. 😀My .02. Best Phil
The idea is to actually have in person interviews with playing. One step at a time. I need to get to 100k subs next. Tell your friends :)
He already is. And much better than Bourdain.
That is the most amazing interview i have ever seen
Excellent interview
guthrie govan... make it happen!
I already spoke to Guthrie and he is going to be on. Just need to figure out scheduling.
Hey Rick, any updates regarding this? I can't even begin to imagine how awesome that interview is gonna be! Thanks for giving us such killer content!
I need this in my life
Maybe This Month Rick...?
It Would Be A FANTASTIC Birthday Present From Two Of My All Time Heroes!
@@RickBeato guthrie would be awesome; but Rick what about Vito Bratta?
Also: check out "Musicians Having Coffee and Talking About Stuff - Episode 9" where Neal Morse and Jordan Ruddess talk about, well, stuff. Jordan goes a little deeper into this childhood and Julliard experiences plus a really fantastic piano piece that Neal included in the video.
I sooo wish we could have Trent Reznor on here.
Rick, you are absolutely incredible thanks for all you do
That was an amazing interview. It felt so short but, it was nearly an hour long? When will you bring Jordan back for another little chat?
I'd love to see an interview with Tim Miller or Mick Goodrick, both incredible guitar players with a very piano-like approach to scales and arpeggios.
I would have asked him if he would just want to use presets at times -- they are good sounds. I don't know what the world of keyboard is offering. In the 1980s keyboards gave rise to whole new musical movements with it's different sounds. It was an innovation like electric guitar was in the 1950s that gave rise to rock music. The last thing I heard was that the retro sounds of the 1980s is back, in particular the Juno 106. To know about ELP, Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Gentle Giant, etc., certainly dates the guy... but in a good way. Hawkins of the Strawbs was also a very good keyboard player at that time.
What a fantastic interview!
Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Adrian Belew or Bill Bruford
Having an interview with any of those would be godly!
The chance of Fripp and Bruford accepting is pretty much nil.
Bruford i see it, but i think Fripp has changed a lot with age and you can see a lot of him in the DGM channel.
Jordan's UA-cam channel dates back around 10 yrs, maybe. Not a keyboardist, but used to watch it 6, 7 years back.
Wish Jordan could put more of his favourite music or music that influenced him (yeah, I'm a big 70s prog fan myself) into the next Dream Theater record.
Why not jazz a little more? Bring back some LTE style or maybe go even a little bit more minimal. It would be great to see them break out a bit of their old formulas and risk some really proggy moments. As I already said: Integrating some of Jordans favourite music would really fresh up their sound.
Because all the post Portnoy albums are produced by Petrucci and musicians of that kind of genre will often choose to play safe instead.
100 % agreed. I am th biggest Petrucci fan, but it's too much Petrucci nowadays. Also, what he says near the end regarding how keyboardists aren't as appreciated in rock and metal, I think he'd bring so many exciting and "new" things to DT and to music in general.
Hey Rick . . .
Catching up on many vids on your channel. As a Dream Theater fan from their "actual" 1st album "When Dream and Day Unite"; Kansas started me on my Progressive Rock journey in 1977 at 14, chipping away at all the classic Prog Rock bands. Then 79-81 I became a Metalhead (especially the obscure/underground bands), keeping both close to my heart. And followed both to this day. But when the 2 joined because of Queensryche and Fates Warning, I became a die-hard "Prog Metal" fan as well.
With all the extreme, experimental and complex Metal (and of course, certain bands, and subgenres that I didn't care for), I still listened to those bands like Gentle Giant, UK, Yes, Genesis, Crimson, Floyd, Tull, ELP (and "Powell"), including Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Rush etc., and bands that came later to restart the resurgence with Saga, Marillion, IQ, Pallas, and those "Neo-Progressive Rock" bands to come. I grew up in that interesting "Middle" time of Metal progressing and inventing NEW subgenres, and Progressive Rock getting a re-birth, and all the bands that would also become classics on AOR Radio (till Radio died for me in 1997). It's been an interesting journey through all this music.
Thanks again Rick for the great insights of whose who, the music, and to Jordan for his time (and Derek and Moore) in Dream Theater, still one of many of my faves in the Prog Rock/Metal world :).
Great interview!
Crazy that Jordan is 64 years old - guy is super youthful.
Please do one of these with jacob collier 👍🏻
This is EPIC, please buy Rick’s book, it’s awesome!! So worth the $$
Great content as always!!
Please tell me that he gave you the phone of tony levin ir something please!!!!!
Great pioneer of all things awesome
Would you consider interviewing Jens Johansson? 🙏🏽
he got rudess!!?? who's next???
Lars Ulrich...
Lil wayne lol
@@realraven2000 yes Steve is the best
Bobby Schmurda
I'm a fairly recent subscriber to your channel and although i find your music theory lesson videos really hard to follow (more so that your on such a high level when it comes to that and i'm not to put it lightly) I find these interviews by far the best period, i can't think of anyone else that has the same caliber of videos like the SOUNDING OFF series.
So much knowledge in that head