Mike Portnoy - The Glass Prison (Lesson)

Drum lesson of "The Glass Prison" (Dream Theater) by Mike Portnoy, taken from the first DVD of "In Constant Motion". All rights go to Dream Theater, Mike Portnoy and Hudson Music.
Live performance: • Mike Portnoy - The Gla...

[@SassierNewt]

2:35 That part is on A nightmare to remember too

[@vitorpaiva7235]

I like how all rock/metal bands are connected somehow and one support each other. Pantera is one of my favorites of all time and seeing Portnoy using Vinnie (RIP) as an inspiration is super cool.

[@EixtremeDrummer]

6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence is one of the best DT albums IMHO. I love specially The Test That Stumped Them All... which I learnt to play on drums (more or less) after lots of listenings. It's Really fun due to constant changes signature.

[@Mysticbean54]

extremadrummer i can listen to the title song for hours. still not that many times but hours all the same

[@julioluiz]

I guess you meant "best albums ever"

[@davidepannone6021]

imo their best post labrie is fucked (lmao) era. Awake still remains untopped imo... if you think that album came out in 94 is just unbelievable. It's a pioneering album... those once in a lifetime thing you could never recreate no matter how hard you try.

[@tromboneman4517]

extremadrummer, one of the best albums of all time even.

[@Eugene_M]

As for me, considering, that I listened to only this album and Metropolis pt.2, - YES, it is the best DT album! :D

[@sourceeee]

2:35 he also used this exact kick pattern in a nightmare to remember too

[@haroldgonzalez-pm9hg]

He did

[@ovi1990]

His creativity in writing music is still unmatched in DT.

[@thebassmath]

Wow. I hadn't know about his Alcoholism, much less his sobriety. So cool to hear that he's in recovery. I'm newish to DT. So cool.

[@DOTACeej]

Mike Portnoy should technically be dead, During the "Awake" tour he was doing lines of Coke before every show and just getting drunk beyond belief.

[@genaschtes]

after the last step was recorded he said "we should celebrate with a bottle of champaign. kinda funny :D

[@MS-qm3ml]

HAHAHAHA awesome

[@Mari000]

I’m a heavy metal drummer but I’m always trying to incorporate Portnoy fills into my playing. Truly amazing drummer!

[@brucel.6078]

MP can make a 5 second clip sound like a freakin masterpiece. Amazing talent.

[@gignaposixsix9821]

Lots of respect for this guy, a real artist.

[@Lycam]

Thank you cyborg Mike.

[@rafaelalmeida450]

Ele é FERA!!!

[@gareginasatryan6761]

He always says that the song is brutal, but the intro is not that relentless. Still one of their best tunes, for sure.

[@michaeldutko2383]

Garegin Asatryan bruh ths song is fucked

[@TheRollingBacon]

I think what he meant was brutal sounding

[@marcusviniof]

This song is badass! Mike is the better of the world! 🤘🏻😎🇧🇷

[@dbanzdbanz]

Yngwie: heavy e Phrygian DT: heavy brutal brutal song

[@ogiebaylan9292]

I heard similar pattern in nightmare to remember

[@revolutionairerebel9511]

Great Mickey

[@Cestariarts]

2:34 A Nightmare to Remember

[@CREEPTEX]

it still is your heaviest song!!!!

[@anishsrivastava7904]

The Dark Eternal Night

[@baconair]

Hernan1 5ilva Honor Thy Father, imo

[@tobinwasabi]

A nightmare to remember

[@marcoparodi7815]

I think .... 1- glass 2- nightmare 3- dark eternal But sure .... this 3 songs are the most heavys of the bands

[@rahgirferdous]

Wondering if he actually got to acconlmplish all the 12 parts of the saga with Dream Theater. I still miss him in DT...

[@RyanxDunn]

Yeah it ends with The Shattered Fortress on black clouds and silver linings

[@synthchick12]

The part at 4:34 sounds a lot like the opening to This Dying Soul. :D

[@synthchick12]

+Rebecca Ashley Peiffer Whoops not This Dying Soul. Honor Thy Father! Yes! I swear I know what I'm talking about....XD

[@CodificArt]

this dying soul is a sequence of this song

[@synthchick12]

+Bruno Wilson yeah, I know they're both part of the 12 step suite. But I realized I actually meant Honor Thy Father. The drums are sick in all three songs though :D

[@CodificArt]

+Rebecca Ashley Peiffer yeeah :)

[@MakoNext]

That's why I love Dream Theater

[@SZPWS1777]

Is that "crazy Phil' from Pantera too??? :P

[@user-fl8ro9zh4u]

사랑해

[@sickofyou4408]

He knows its called a portnoy fill now

[@Alexj-kv3he]

too bad he'll never be able to play the whole "12 step peice"

[@HeatFan1518]

Alexj8912 now he is!!!

[@Alexj-kv3he]

+HeatFan1518 how do u know

[@DannyMiami09]

Alexj8912 he's done it now 😂

[@Naar0x]

One year later.. Shattered Fortress

[@musicmanpiezo]

I saw them live. It was awesome. Haken really did it justice.

[@chaneppchannel_365]

double on one kick ?

[@paolo-e-basta]

7:00 :'°(

[@ek3451]

Not sure if I am counting the notes right, but is that first pattern the same as that double bass part in a Nightmare to Remember?

[@matthijs2024]

Yes it is exactly the same

[@revolutionairerebel9511]

Great "camel"

[@Hasil_Kureshi]

Whats the name of actual / full thing that this is an excerpt belongs to ?

[@tobinwasabi]

Hes holding his stick upsidedown

[@RyanxDunn]

Yes he's been doing that for a really long time, since Six Degrees if not before.

[@angelosarmiento9511]

What’s the time signature throughout this song? I’m pretty sure it changes but it’s been bugging me.

[@manduc4Radicaal]

it definitely changes few times mate

[@chaneppchannel_365]

This song has long part ot two pedals and very turbulance 🤣🤣

[@thehighhopes5336]

Brutal? I don't think so. Mike is great drummer, but nothing about dream theatre is "brutal"

[@tromboneman4517]

Patrick Wagener, this song is pretty brutal instrumentally for Dream Theater. Vocally... perhaps not so much.

[@Thiago_Alves_Souza]

Get this clown out of here!

[@Richey24]

Instead of attacking, I'll just ask you to listen to "as I am" , it's pretty heavy!