^ Yes. More than the technique, it is his drumming philosophy that is quite different from many drummers specially in prog. He does not tend to call attention to himself as he plays to integrate the song and highlight what the other instruments are doing. He usually uses the snare to mark time, while the bass drums do the more complicated patterns.
He loves playing fast rolls. When people say his fills are unmemorable because they are just fast rolls, I think they are missing the melody behind those fills. Like, they are actually air-drummable if you play in quarter-notes instead of sixteenth notes.
He also plays the cymbals differently. He does not use opening and closing of hi-hats frequently in his playing I think he prefers to hit cymbals of different tones as his orchestration technique. Opening and closing hi-hats is used more as a drone. Like what he does here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWhqGPKfqvAGoing up and down the scale with the guitars and keyboards is something he got from Steve Vai. But I think when given a freer hand, he does compose very melodic drum patterns. The drums in the intro of Paralyzed is one such case, and I really suspect that the riff was done around the drum pattern instead of the other way around. Other excellent examples include the drum into to Challenge Accepted in Into The Great Divide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlu0X_sA2ME , and Detonation by Annilator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_V-un4rVc One of his recent posts on Facebook is intriguing:
"We each wrote a similar amount for DOT in different forms, which is why this one is really a first. I made and used music clips containing all instruments to be able to communicate and contribute actual music notes writing, not just sat behind the drums offering beats and gave opinions and "ideas," which I did a bit on some songs on the DT self-titled. Some parts of Pale Blue Dot were written on the drums first. Two songs on DOT were written from drum beats made up in sound-checks. When ideas come from the drums, the others are still the writers of the music notes by default, unless a "boom" is a note : ) "