whats your alltime favorite MP beat in DT?

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

I always liked the fills right before the band enters in The Spirit Carries On. Those are just amazing. And the entire song actually has great drumming.

That's my favorite probably, but there are others I like a lot too:

Octavarium - Medicate section @ 8.43. Amazing groove laid down by JMX and MP. One of DTs finest moments.

UAGM Instrumental section - the part @ 4:09    

I always thought LTL had some awesome stuff. Like @ 2:20

The entire Take the Time too.

Also, a lot of what has already been mentioned.

Their are too many great MP beats to mention his creatvity and spontaneity are unmatched.

lol

[Metropolis pt.-1]

On Stream of Consciousness where he keeps playing the crash on the beat from 2:18. I love how that sounds with the riff that JP is playing.

[MetropolisxPt1]

I always liked the fills right before the band enters in The Spirit Carries On. Those are just amazing. And the entire song actually has great drumming.

That's my favorite probably, but there are others I like a lot too:

Octavarium - Medicate section @ 8.43. Amazing groove laid down by JMX and MP. One of DTs finest moments.

UAGM Instrumental section - the part @ 4:09    

I always thought LTL had some awesome stuff. Like @ 2:20

The entire Take the Time too.

Also, a lot of what has already been mentioned.

Their are too many great MP beats to mention his creatvity and spontaneity are unmatched.

Dude, we know you "like" MP, but seriously, I mean come on. The guy has also drummed a good amount of uninspired stuff.

rumborak

youbetrollin,  I am inspired to play at a high level by Portnoy and many other drummers if MP hasnt been inspired on DT albums then idk what Ive been listening to.

[TJPNET]

A lot of good ones have been mentioned, but two I've been liking a lot recently are from FII. First one being in Trial of Tears, where the drumming picks up during the second half of Derek's solo. The second is pretty much all of New Millennium. A lot of great grooves there.

[Infinite Cactus]

Trial of Tears chorus. Its just so groovin. I also like that considering the song is kind of mellow, when the bass and drums come into the chorus its like a different feel all together, yet somehow perfect.

[DarkEternalNight]

A Nightmare To Remember. Those beautiful blast beats.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

I always liked the fills right before the band enters in The Spirit Carries On. Those are just amazing. And the entire song actually has great drumming.

That's my favorite probably, but there are others I like a lot too:

Octavarium - Medicate section @ 8.43. Amazing groove laid down by JMX and MP. One of DTs finest moments.

UAGM Instrumental section - the part @ 4:09    

I always thought LTL had some awesome stuff. Like @ 2:20

The entire Take the Time too.

Also, a lot of what has already been mentioned.

Their are too many great MP beats to mention his creatvity and spontaneity are unmatched.

Dude, we know you "like" MP, but seriously, I mean come on. The guy has also drummed a good amount of uninspired stuff.

rumborak

youbetrollin,  I am inspired to play at a high level by Portnoy and many other drummers if MP hasnt been inspired on DT albums then idk what Ive been listening to.

I heard drumming and grammar are somewhat connected.



Mind saying that again? 

[Bertielee]

I always liked the fills right before the band enters in The Spirit Carries On. Those are just amazing. And the entire song actually has great drumming.

That's my favorite probably, but there are others I like a lot too:

Octavarium - Medicate section @ 8.43. Amazing groove laid down by JMX and MP. One of DTs finest moments.

UAGM Instrumental section - the part @ 4:09    

I always thought LTL had some awesome stuff. Like @ 2:20

The entire Take the Time too.

Also, a lot of what has already been mentioned.

Their are too many great MP beats to mention his creatvity and spontaneity are unmatched.

Dude, we know you "like" MP, but seriously, I mean come on. The guy has also drummed a good amount of uninspired stuff.

rumborak

youbetrollin,  I am inspired to play at a high level by Portnoy and many other drummers if MP hasnt been inspired on DT albums then idk what Ive been listening to.

Once again, you take what you want from someone's words just to enforce your argument : Rumby didn't say MP wasn't inspired on all the Dt albums, he said he's played some uninspired stuff at times. Listen to the last 3 albums again and you'll hear what he means. Unless you find MP inspired all the time on these ones too..

B.Lee

[FretMuppet]

The drumming during the Blind Faith unison

The way it builds up and breaks down 

[RaiseTheKnife]

Caught in a web mid-section 4/4 over 3/4 - still can't figure out how he hits the tamborine on the upbeat.

[hefdaddy42]

Lines in the Sand, 4:13-4:30. IMHO one of MP's best drumming.

rumborak

MP's drumming on FII is underrated.

These.  I think that album has his best, most interesting drumming of any of the DT albums.

[MetropolisxPt1]

I always liked the fills right before the band enters in The Spirit Carries On. Those are just amazing. And the entire song actually has great drumming.

That's my favorite probably, but there are others I like a lot too:

Octavarium - Medicate section @ 8.43. Amazing groove laid down by JMX and MP. One of DTs finest moments.

UAGM Instrumental section - the part @ 4:09    

I always thought LTL had some awesome stuff. Like @ 2:20

The entire Take the Time too.

Also, a lot of what has already been mentioned.

Their are too many great MP beats to mention his creatvity and spontaneity are unmatched.

Dude, we know you "like" MP, but seriously, I mean come on. The guy has also drummed a good amount of uninspired stuff.

rumborak

youbetrollin,  I am inspired to play at a high level by Portnoy and many other drummers if MP hasnt been inspired on DT albums then idk what Ive been listening to.

Once again, you take what you want from someone's words just to enforce your argument : Rumby didn't say MP wasn't inspired on all the Dt albums, he said he's played some uninspired stuff at times. Listen to the last 3 albums again and you'll hear what he means. Unless you find MP inspired all the time on these ones too..

B.Lee

Well i would say the  SC and BC have some of MP's best drumming since Six degrees. Out of the 3 Octavarium has the most pulled back drumming MP has done in recent history.

IIRC MP was a major part of writing both those albums, I find it hard to believe that he wasn't inspired while writing.

Besides when did this thread become about how inspired MP is and trolling?

[Storm Rider]

Pretty much the entire DT catalog.

[jsem]

Trial of Tears chorus. Its just so groovin. I also like that considering the song is kind of mellow, when the bass and drums come into the chorus its like a different feel all together, yet somehow perfect.

I forgot about this!! That part is amazing

[ZBomber]

My favorite drumming from MP would probably be on SFAM. I especially love the ending of Finally Free, one of his finer moments imo.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

Finally Free, as a whole, is a 10/10 song for me. What a way to end an album.

[SeventhSon]

Sort of a weird one, but toward the beginning of In the Name of God (1:40 or so until 1:55), Mike's playing a pretty straight 4/4 beat under the main riff. Then for one repeat of the riff he switches his timing around. It is a fairly small difference and not a technically difficult or precise section, but it's just a really neat little trick.

[ddtonfire]

The intro to Honor Thy Father!

[axeman90210]

the part towards the end in Metropolis on Score right after where the band stops playing for a few seconds only to come back in.

[SystematicThought]

Caught in a web mid-section 4/4 over 3/4 - still can't figure out how he hits the tamborine on the upbeat.

I totally agree. I love that part. It's simply awesome. And he's probably doing another take with the tambourine

[Bertielee]

I would say instrumental section before solo in CM, New Millenium, endin of Finally Free...a lot in fact.

B.Lee

[RaiseTheKnife]

[/quote]
I totally agree. I love that part. It's simply awesome. And he's probably doing another take with the tambourine
[/quote]
No, it's all the same take, as I've seen him play the tambourine riff live-- just blows my mind trying to figure out how he can do it (as a non-drummer, anyway)

[SDFprowler]

The Finally Free outro :)

[FretMuppet]

Sort of a weird one, but toward the beginning of In the Name of God (1:40 or so until 1:55), Mike's playing a pretty straight 4/4 beat under the main riff. Then for one repeat of the riff he switches his timing around. It is a farily small difference and not a technically difficult or precise section, but it's just a really neat little trick.

Love it when he does that. He does it in A7X's Lost it All intro too

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Caught in a web mid-section 4/4 over 3/4 - still can't figure out how he hits the tamborine on the upbeat.

I totally agree. I love that part. It's simply awesome. And he's probably doing another take with the tambourine

It's tambourine? I always thought that was a cowbell.

[MetropolisxPt1]

Caught in a web mid-section 4/4 over 3/4 - still can't figure out how he hits the tamborine on the upbeat.

I totally agree. I love that part. It's simply awesome. And he's probably doing another take with the tambourine

It's tambourine? I always thought that was a cowbell.

your thinking of the section right before that the next part right before JLB comes in is the tambourine part,

however he doesn't preform the cowbell part live.

[Martinman300]

The ending of the keyboard solo in TDS is very clever.

[metropofreak]

The beat at the end of the solo section to Caught in a Web between the toms and tambourine. If you watch the end of Portnoy's solo on the bonus disk to Live at Budokan, he plays this beat, and I think it sounds even better then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqfgv-pnuEU

Its at 9.45   

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Caught in a web mid-section 4/4 over 3/4 - still can't figure out how he hits the tamborine on the upbeat.

I totally agree. I love that part. It's simply awesome. And he's probably doing another take with the tambourine

It's tambourine? I always thought that was a cowbell.

your thinking of the section right before that the next part right before JLB comes in is the tambourine part,

however he doesn't preform the cowbell part live.

Ohh that.

[tgstk2]

just listen to this SOC: starting at 0:39...it's not the most difficult thing he as ever done, but with this beat the whole part just well went sky high in terms of awesomeness
https://youtu.be/rG1vktNwsJw

[Dublagent66]

Too many to mention...

[snapple]

Wouldn't say this one is my favorite, but the ragtime section of TDOE he plays pretty mint.

[bss4life15]

That first part on the hi-hat in The Count of Tuscany

[olliemedsy]

theres a syncopated beat in TMOLS during the instrumental section which i cant get my head round

[El Barto]

End section of Glass Prison.