Your favorite MP drum beats/moments/rhythms in the DT catalogue

[predator13]

When I listen to bands like Dream Theater and Rush (bands that among many other things, have amazing drummers), I find I really listen to the drums and try to appreciate the technical and musical intensity that some of these beats/rhythms have.  For example, with Rush, one of my favorite Peart drum beats is in "The Trees" starting at 2:54...I just love that bass groove and I really love the drum beat in that part.

So with MP leaving the band, I thought it would be a good time to share your favorite MP drum beats/moments/rhythms and why they always catch your ear.

Personally, off the top of my head, my favorites have to be the breakdown in "The Glass Prison", starting at 5:53 until 6:15...such an awesome headbanging moment when the drums kick in, and "The Ytse Jam" on the main riff from 0:27 to 0:51...I just love when a simple sounding drum beat fits so well with a complex sounding guitar/keyboard piece.  And my recent favorite, the end of "The Count of Tuscany"...the whole buildup and then the drums kicking in at 15:28....and when it all comes together again at 17:55, it is just amazing drumming and amazing music.   If that is truly the last song MP plays with DT, he ended it in classic fashion.

So what are your favorite MP drum moments?

[RoeDent]

Fatal Tragedy from 6:00 to the end.

The Metropolis instrumental break

The Dance of Eternity

[John94]

The Best of Times from the end of the intro guitar solo.

[ZKX-2099]

Sacrificed Sons at the end. And the build to the first guitar solo in Stream Of Consciousness.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

The Great Debate. That song is amazing drumming-wise, IMO.

[glaurung]

The buildup to the bass solo in Metropolis.

[ScioPath]

Fatal Tragedy from 6:00 to the end.

The Metropolis instrumental break

The Dance of Eternity

Yes.



Also most of ACOS, all of TGP, Voices, Overture 1928 - Strange Deja Vu, 6:00, Stream of Consciousness, & Honor Thy Father.

Mike does not disappoint.

[ZKX-2099]

Mike does not disappoint.

One exception there... 

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

I loved the Tuscany drums as well.  

[?]

Out of the ones that haven't been mentioned and came to my mind:

The outro to Panic Attack, 6.08-6.21 in As I Am, the part before the guitar solo in A Fortune in Lies, the verses in Afterlife, and parts before the first verse of Lines in the Sand.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

2:17-3:03 of Stream of Conciousness
Blind Faith pre-chorus. The first ones for the great cymbal work, and the final one with great fills!
The drumming while JLB is singing "MISUNDERSTOOOOOOOOOOD" in Misunderstood
All of TGP
The Dance Of Eternity
All of 6:00

[tri.ad]

6:00
LITS
Trial Of Tears
The Glass Prison

[BRGM]

The Great Debate Intro and Outro!!!

[Marvellous G]

How the HELL has Finally Free not been mentioned yet?!

Also, the chorus of The Glass Prison, the polyrhythmic thing he does still blows my mind. AND, a weird pick, the way the drums come in in TSCO is always nice, with the triplets on the double bass.

[zxlkho]

How the HELL has Finally Free not been mentioned yet?!

Thisthisthisthisthis

The outro drums are amazing, especially on LSFNY.

[BRGM]

Yes! FInally free! :O


oh, and I've allways lived his intro/outro to Blind Faith

[The Letter M]

"Hell's Kitchen"... all of it. Also, the break in the middle of "New Millennium".

-Marc.

[Martinman300]

End of the keys solo in TDS, the great debate, 6:00 CIAW and loads more....

[chrisbDTM]

blind faith. 8:34. that fill

[skydivingninja]

When I was getting into the band, I listened to Home once after buying Images, and noticed MP plays the fast Metropolis rhythm on the hi hat before the first verse of Home.  NUGGETZ

[ScioPath]

When I was getting into the band, I listened to Home once after buying Images, and noticed MP plays the fast Metropolis rhythm on the hi hat before the first verse of Home.  NUGGETZ

holy shit

[The Letter M]

When I was getting into the band, I listened to Home once after buying Images, and noticed MP plays the fast Metropolis rhythm on the hi hat before the first verse of Home.  NUGGETZ

I like that one. Also the whole Metropolis drum groove that's done in "Home" as well. And the fills too.

-Marc.

[PixelDream]

There are countless amazing things he's done with DT, but the first thing that came to mind was 'The Great Debate'. Not exactly one of my favorite DT songs, but the drumming is so intense, I love it.

[Birch Boy]

"6:00" intro.

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[ScioPath]

"6:00" intro.

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All of 6:00

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[The Letter M]

"6:00" intro.

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All of 6:00

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"6:00" through "Space-Dye Vest"

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-Marc.

[guysullavin]

Honor thy Father intro

[Sigz]

Everything in SFAM. Amongst the best drum work ever.

[ElusivePhantom]

In terms of me just loving what I hear, the intro to Innocence Faded For everything else there's Finally Free

[sneakyblueberry]

The beginning of The Mirror where he moves the beat around JP's ostinato chug is pretty much genius.  The end of Hells Kitchen gets me every time too.  Thats mainly just the whole band though, not just MP.

[Laddenvore]

I've always loved the way the drums kick back in on The Best of Times at 7:41 and 8:47.
Somehow really emotional drumming.

Also,
6:00 intro
Honor Thy Father intro
Overture 1928

So much more, but those are off the top of my head

[fsh3702]

it's hard to answer, the count of tuscany is good. the intrumental songs of DT are especially excellent in drum section.

[cookienut]

This thread has made me realize that while people always went on about how MP never had the skills of other drummers, his works were created with the greatest mixture of skill, creativity and originality that no other drummer could ever dream up. He will be remembered for creating some of the most amazing beats ever devised.

My note-worthy performances (being a drummer myself lol):

Octavarium - Need I say how great the drum work here is?
Home - Metropolis grooves. It's a pity I never got to see it live with MP.
The Great Debate (has to be the most original 7/4 composition I have heard in a long time)
Sacrificed Sons (Score performance - he nails the improvised ending fill with ear bleeding awesome)
Erotomania (calm, groove and life - the drums here have it all)
Dance of Eternity - first time I heard the crazy 'hi-hat/snare' break down...I thought it couldn't be done. The I realized it's mainly syncopated single strokes (almost). the beauty of that fill is how a simple fill sped up can fit the music like nothing else can.

[Marvellous G]

The Great Debate (has to be the most original 7/4 composition I have heard in a long time)

*cough* Forty Six & 2 *cough*

[cookienut]

The Great Debate (has to be the most original 7/4 composition I have heard in a long time)

*cough* Forty Six & 2 *cough*

Ha ha!

The actual composition sounds like nothing else regardless of the obvious tool influence