Favourite Rudess Dream Theater Solo

[Lowdz]

Haven't chosen one yet, will do a bit of research later, but whenever JR fires up the piano it's always awesome.

[BRGM]

I have now chosen...Octavarium intro, it's so...magical!

oh and I got shocked when I saw no one voted for Blind Faith lead!

[Chino]

I know it isn't exactly a solo, but that part on LAB during Only a Matter of Time. The part that used to be funny sounding on WDADU but was made turned loud and powerful epicness.

[vEddY]

For me, that would be Goodnight kiss in terms of piano solos. Also, Solitary shell, absolutely. Amazing :-)

Apart from that, Octavarium intro solo on guitar are perfectly Floydish. And, of course, Overture 1928 :-)

One of the best keyboard arrangements overall for me was - A change of seasons from Scenes from NY. Absolutely unbelieveable.

[ddtonfire]

Solitary Shell, easily. The piano solo and the little square wave soli, but especially the piano solo!

My favorite non-piano Rudess solo is at 5:00 in Beyond tomorrow, but I guess that's not exactly a Dream Theater solo. From Dream Theater, it would be the arps in Octavarium. Such an organic and tasty sound!

[Metro]

I love almost all of his solos, but my favorite is Fatal Tragedy.

[Mladen]

I'm very happy seeing Ragtime solo having so many votes. I've always loved that section, but for some reason I thought it wasn't really liked among Dream Theater fans. To my ears, it's so epic.

[Tunnel Vision]

Not really a JR solo, but the piano during JP's solo on In the Name of God (Budokan) is just awesome.

[pain of occupation]

Honor Thy Father.

Why? I don't know. I just enjoy it the most.

honor thy father is a perfect song...that is until the keyboard solo. though its not jordan's fault: the solo itself might be well executed/awesome, but ive always felt all the momentum and dynamics of the song are killed by this section. perhaps if the riff underneath were changed or they did a stop time bit or something...

[atmyne]

this poll made me realize how amazing Jordan's work on 6 degrees really is. I mean I always thought it was his best work, but damn... all of those solo's are so insanely good. I picked the short square lead one. brilliant.

[gabeh1018]

as far as keyboard solos go it is medicate all the way for me, is it just me or am i the only one that thinks a lot of his keyboard solos don't really fit or compliment the music. on the other hand, the blind faith and solitary shell piano solos are awesome. I personally love all his piano work in dream theater, wish there was more of it.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

Octavarium (Beginning of Full Circle)

[The Presence of Frenemies]

Apparently I'm the first person to go with the continuum solo in ANTR. I just think it works great and dwarfs all the other solos in the tradeoff section there.

Others I considered: Octavarium intro, Dance of Eternity ragtime, and the first part of Beyond This Life (so groovy!).

[Jirpo]

The one that is winning

[Tomislav95]

Voted for OCtavarium.Great solo, especially from Score DVD one 

[reneranucci]

It's unfair that you can pick only one solo. I chose Octavarium, but he has many amazing solos: Fatal Tragedy, Blind Faith, SDOIT, the unison at Never Enough, the unisons at the end of TMOLS instrumental section, Overture 1928, Home, Finally Free, etc.