Watch Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess play their favourite drum components, guitar riffs and keyboard components in Loudwire’s newest Gear Issue video compilation.
Gear Issue is the story of every musician as they take us by means of the music that impressed them to play an instrument, the primary bits they realized, a few of their favorites from their childhood heroes and choose ones from the Dream Theater catalog as effectively.
Under, you may see Portnoy tear by means of iconic Led Zeppelin drum components, Petrucci performs some Iron Maiden and Jordan Rudess completely shreds “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”
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Rudess even jokes that he hasn’t performed “Mild My Fireplace” by The Doorways in about 50 years after which proceeds to play it flawlessly.
The true mastery of every instrument that is on show right here is fairly mindblowing, even when it is precisely what we anticipate from these schooled prog steel technicians. Their ardour for taking part in and the reverence for his or her influences are unwavering, every expressing pure pleasure as they recollect their historical past as musicians.
Watch the Gear Issue compilation with Dream Theater instantly under.
Gear Issue: Dream Theater’s John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy + Jordan Rudess
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