I watched this video for the first time a few years ago and I keep coming back to it every now and then. I'm so glad I stopped by the comments section this time and read your comment 😂
my bassist accidentally wrote a riff in 9/8. i had him repeat it a dozen times to make sure it wasn’t a fluke. that he could get it right every time. then i explained to him and the guitarist that they have to count to 9 to get the tonight right. i was so scared that they wouldn’t be able to play the song anymore after they understood it. but they managed. i tried to have them play something in 6/8, but they couldn’t hang. it has to be 4/4, unless they write it.
You know you have that "home" or "tonic" note in a scale that you always comeback - or in other words - resolve to? That's exactly what they doing with time signatures. They take you to odd, dissonant places and then take you back home to those 4/4, 6/8 measures. It's genius.
It really says a lot about the quality of their compositions, that you don't notice the weirdness of the counts when you just listen. There's very literal jarring or weird. It all flows well, but then you try to count and you're surprised at your confusion.
Man, this video was posted 2 days after the day I was born, and today I'm here. I really admire dream theater, and without a doubt they are one of my favorite bands, I really like the complexity of their music.
Portnoy himself wrote that with the band. He himself says it wasn't easy to record that. He himself needed a special chart only for the time signature changes to memorize everything. Who are other normal human beings to say this is an easy song :D ?
this along with the clip of Herman Lee demonstrating his crazy videogame sound effects have a touch of the Spinal Tap about them but i love both clips so much
Whats up with the beef between Tool and DT fans? I just watched a drumeo vid where Portnoy learns Pneuma by Tool and there in the comments there are also some dipshits going A >B, B>A. I personally don't like DT and love older Tool, why bitch about it?
I find it much easier to divide the song into parts that have a challenging transition, practice and memorize them and then the whole together. This one is way to distracting to me, if you have to count every measure. Just my opinion.
Same. Listening to the music and accessing the measures from there is much more organic. While there clearly is a mathematical structure to music, the essential side is on the proper feeling.
I've been playing DoE on guitar now for a couple of years, I have no idea what the time signatures are. I practiced in parts as you said and just pieces them all together Idk how it would work with drumming
his name is mike portnoy. he's one of the founding members of dream theater. some time ago(like 10 years i think) they had some sort of disagreement(i try not to pry into the private affairs of people), and he left the band. he has an awesome band called sons of apollo. with billy sheehan, soto, the gnr guitarrist that isnt slash, and derek sherinian. i love their song "coming home". dream theater continued to make amazing music after him as well. i love the skills of them all.
Finally! Lyrics to Dance of Eternity
my man! love this comment :D
I watched this video for the first time a few years ago and I keep coming back to it every now and then.
I'm so glad I stopped by the comments section this time and read your comment 😂
It's love song without words - the only in the world. "love is the dance of eternity"©Metropolis pt.1
Mike Portnoy - we are counting on you, but you are counting on your own! I've bought chineese York™ garden lever drumstick and lazy wait while no sleeping ends when it becomes old York™, Robert Plant approve this decision. I also watched for new amsterdam cheese drum session of Kit Diptych of jazz. Old name of New York. First time i listened to dance of eternity i thought it is jazz-rock of some kind, but it's "regressive progressive". Thanks for videos. "Easy does it!", not Rage - says other Mike!
James should do this on stage😂
I realized that is really song about love.
Mad respect to the guy who programmed the metronome
thanks
@@cosmicparsec9463 you didn't do shit
@@cosmicparsec9463friend you are not the one who programmed this 😐
It’s not hard lol
@@OfficialJulioPortillo It was little different back in the 20th century you arrogant moron
-How many time signatures do you want?
-DT: yes
😂😂
🤣👌
If Mike portnoy is saying that 'it was not easy' than it means for me this song is the final boss of a game.
i can beat the final boss of a game......i cannot play this song. have you seen(not even heard, just seen) myung's solo.....
if i had eternity i could not learn this dance
He even got lost for a moment: 1:55
@@sabin97 You're right. Guitar Hero World Tour chose Pull Me Under for a reason, not Dance of Eternity
@@SterkeYerke5555
is it available for frets on fire?
it's the far superior game
this sure is a nightmare to remember
Underrated comment
you beat me to it by a year. I guess that was distance over time
I get it
Amazing pun! xD
If i tried to count the time signature, I would have panic attack
panick
Well then youre covered because they have a song called panic attack and its madness too lol
@@matthewgarcia3032 pretty sure that's what they're referencing.
@@matthewgarcia3032 Damn. He should have made a joke about that
I think I need more of time signature, it just never enough.
That's how the musicians hide their phone numbers in their pieces
Nice joke 😂
I love that they unabashedly called the last section "Rush Cadence"
When the song is so complex that Mike Portnoy has difficulty counting to 6, you know you’re witnessing ceiling-shattering difficulty!
I feel sorry for the guy who programmed that click track
They did it themselves...
Meanwhile, my bassist stares at me when the bridge I composed contains a single 2/4
my bassist accidentally wrote a riff in 9/8. i had him repeat it a dozen times to make sure it wasn’t a fluke. that he could get it right every time.
then i explained to him and the guitarist that they have to count to 9 to get the tonight right. i was so scared that they wouldn’t be able to play the song anymore after they understood it. but they managed.
i tried to have them play something in 6/8, but they couldn’t hang. it has to be 4/4, unless they write it.
You know you have that "home" or "tonic" note in a scale that you always comeback - or in other words - resolve to? That's exactly what they doing with time signatures. They take you to odd, dissonant places and then take you back home to those 4/4, 6/8 measures. It's genius.
…holy shit!
Literally leaving Home, cause thats the track before Dance of Eternity
Great comment ! Nice analysis
I come back to this once in a while just to hear Portnoy give up counting and go to "dududu" 😂
His brain must have locked up and reverted to “Baby Shark” lyrics.😂
It really says a lot about the quality of their compositions, that you don't notice the weirdness of the counts when you just listen. There's very literal jarring or weird. It all flows well, but then you try to count and you're surprised at your confusion.
Marillion do that as well now and then. Easter is a lovely ballad and... did you notice the outro section is in 5/4?
@@TobiaTesanman i love the whole Season’s End album
Man, this video was posted 2 days after the day I was born, and today I'm here. I really admire dream theater, and without a doubt they are one of my favorite bands, I really like the complexity of their music.
I let my todler played the kit randomly then write down the time signitures and got chills later.
I think after a while he even had a nightmare!
A nightmare TO REMEMBER
I like how the last part is labeled "Rush Cadence" and i always got that vibe from that part
Portnoy himself wrote that with the band. He himself says it wasn't easy to record that. He himself needed a special chart only for the time signature changes to memorize everything.
Who are other normal human beings to say this is an easy song :D ?
The ones who didn't have to write it and just play along the song with the audio behind already done :D
- Which time signature will we gonna use for this one?
- All of them
Actually all of them squared. 😁
I love the moments where he laughs, as if he's acknowledging how bonkers this all is.
MY BRAIN!!!!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
this along with the clip of Herman Lee demonstrating his crazy videogame sound effects have a touch of the Spinal Tap about them but i love both clips so much
I love when he gives up count and just "tatatata tatata tata"
It's Amazing!!!!!!!! Genial demais e máximo respeito ao Rudess que criou essa maravilha!!!!!
76 time signature changes just in this whole chart section
The king of drums!! 😎🥁
This is what I imagine entering hell sounds like.
When a few music teachers start a metal band
More like when Pythagoras got booted out of band camp.😂
hope labrie can sing this one
god damn i miss this man...
Ageeed.
He is back !!!!
He is fucking home now, FUCK YEEEEAHHH, we'll listen things like this again... ImI
Que maestro Mike Portnoy y por supuesto todo Dream Theater
Teacher: Guys the test won t be difficult.
The Test:
I have a headache just by clicking "play".
This my fav counting exercise bc u really cant get too stuck in a groove otherwise the next time sig will sneak up on u lmao
Amazing!
I finally got the bass line for Dance of Eternity!
A-A-E-E-A-A-E-E-E-A-A-E-E-E-A-E-A-E repeat
Sei sempre il numero uno. Con o senza DT
eso es italiano, verdad?
lo entendi a nivel nativo :D
por fin duolingo esta funcionando
God this is so satisfying ahshsbabshhsh
this must've been a nightmare to remember
i see what you did there, through my eyes.....
As if anyone watching this is going like: “ahhhhhh check! Now I get it!” lol
Exactly. It’s like learning the cheat code to contra. ⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️ 🅰️🅱️🅰️🅱️ start-select-start-select
Time signatures the song
INSANEEEEE
Doing a Tango of the Eternity has to be Erotomaniac. If not the greatest, one of the best songs ever written.
I would love to own that piece of paper
Everything is 4/4 if you are stubborn enough
It'll sync at one point. Maybe.....
That's amazing
The Eternity of Counting
Ah bela m like kuest song tip km Venoooooooooom
Is this video a part of some DVD? Would like to watch the complete version of it.
Giorgios Tsoukalos: Dream Theater!
jesus
Untankable
he made his own nightmare lol
What happened in the composer's brain?
For sure...
fucking hell that was pain lol
How did he even thought about that?😂😂😂
Surely A Nightmare to Remember!
2:25 add a 7 in there for taste
just wHY??? XD
cause it sounds awesome
cause it fucking Dream Theater that's why.
Why not? 😄
Lpm intocable jajaja
The Counting to Eternity
I selected 'Funny' as one of the options in the video feedback form. 😄
The Dance of Insanity.
Dream Theater- Time Signature
Thx 4 reupload
This was posted 11 years ago its probably older than that one
Now count Of Tuscany.
Whenever a Tool fan is talking about how complex their songs are, I show them this video.
Whats up with the beef between Tool and DT fans? I just watched a drumeo vid where Portnoy learns Pneuma by Tool and there in the comments there are also some dipshits going A >B, B>A.
I personally don't like DT and love older Tool, why bitch about it?
Got it
Is there more footage?
Holy shit
2:20
I always knew this section was borrowed from Freewill by Rush. And now I have proof
I have one question…
WHY?
This is insane..
Oh makes sense now 🧐
I find it much easier to divide the song into parts that have a challenging transition, practice and memorize them and then the whole together. This one is way to distracting to me, if you have to count every measure. Just my opinion.
Same. Listening to the music and accessing the measures from there is much more organic.
While there clearly is a mathematical structure to music, the essential side is on the proper feeling.
I prefer to memorize all I can, then learn to count what I can't
I've been playing DoE on guitar now for a couple of years, I have no idea what the time signatures are.
I practiced in parts as you said and just pieces them all together
Idk how it would work with drumming
Why he didn't 6/3 instead of 6363/33? 🤔
Trump : STOP THE COUNT !
What is this clip from?
omg
Dani Carey watching this vídeo.. challenge dromeo
😵😵😵
Please someone make a song using this video. But use the number for the note, not for time signature. 5 -> sol
3..3..Y...3...Y
😭😭😭😭😭😭⚠️⚠️⚠️
😂😂😂😂
💀💀اسدياص
ping
in first place, why in he fuck
Im sorry im not so familiar with the band... But who is this guy counting? Is he part of Dream Theater
Yes he was at the time! Great drummer and super cool dude. This is a track called Dance Of Eternity off their Scenes From A Memory record 😃
his name is mike portnoy.
he's one of the founding members of dream theater.
some time ago(like 10 years i think) they had some sort of disagreement(i try not to pry into the private affairs of people), and he left the band.
he has an awesome band called sons of apollo. with billy sheehan, soto, the gnr guitarrist that isnt slash, and derek sherinian.
i love their song "coming home".
dream theater continued to make amazing music after him as well.
i love the skills of them all.
You can do the same by using =rand()
I always misread his name as Porntoy …can’t help it
aOUIHAuoaI
Why ?
Why would you do this to yourself?!! lol
W.H.Y.?
Nerddddddd
How can we memorize it?
Just play it live hundreds of times 🙃
it's a nightmare to remember
You know it's metal, when the time signatures read 666