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Like Yesterday...

itzmedave

Like yesterday I remember the first time I heard Dream Theater...

I was riding home from work with a friend I car-pooled with. We were partaking in our usual ritual along the way, listening to the same old crappy radio station... a typical end to another typical day.

Then, the DJ says "Next, a brand new songfrom a new band. Pull Me Under from Dream Theater, check it out." I had no idea that what I w [...]

Possible Epic on Black Clouds and Silver Linings?

Spirit of Theater 219

So I was youtubing a few days ago and herd talk of possibly there most epic song since [in my mind] Octavarium. Then I quickly realized I was on youtube and half of what is stated there is B.S. It said That it ran over 25 minutes. Being Addicted to Dream Theater at an Unhealthy leval I couldn't stop thiking about it and thought I'd throw out the ideah of another Epic?

And there they had been the whole time...

vivolash

"Scenes from a Memory" was the first album of DT I heard in my life in a media store in Italy. It was one of the sample albums you can listen to in the store. It was love at first note (after the clock tick). Not aware of all the previous works of this band I was quite satisfied I had spotted a very talented new band till I came across a DT, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden maniac who quite laugh at me when I mentionedhe should listen to this "new band". After that I followed a ba [...]

Spirit of Drea^Ther

drea^ther

I love dream Theater.........

There's no place like a dream

There's no great than Dream Theater...

Spirit of Drea^Ther

drea^ther

I love dream Theater.........

There's no place like a dream

There's no great than Dream Theater...

Spirit of Drea^Ther

drea^ther

I love dream Theater.........

There's no place like a dream

There's no great than Dream Theater...

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yatsa

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Octavarium Tour 2005/2006 T-shirt

yatsa

Hello, Im looking for the portraits t-shirt from this tour. Its black and has all the band members pictures across it. The official website merchandise only has the babydoll one. Can anyone help me?

Shadow Circus Seeks Keyboard Player

jplanet

Shadow Circus is currently auditioning progressive rock keyboard players in the NYC/NJ area. Any interested players may contact the band directly through their website at http://www.shadowcircusmusic.com .

Dobo and Eki

reditus

Your are gods of progressive metal. All the best from Dobo and Eki !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ytse Jam MP3 performed by a Brazilian Band

buzz

Hi, Folks!

Here it is another cover song my brazilian band (BR Dreams) and I recorded last week. It´s a cover version of Ytse Jam.

Feel free to post your comments!

Here is the MP3 link:

http://www.box.net/shared/ken290k6kx

Regards,

Buzz

Day 7-Wild Stringdom Quest

JStephens

Day 7, June 29, 2007

Well, I made it! What an amazing week. The 8th and final chapter in Wild Stringdom introduces the learner to the concept of playing non-guitar music. In other words, playing music originally written for other instruments. John transcribes music such as Chopin's Etude No. 2, violin warm-up exercises he learned from a violinist while he was touring in Europe, and lots of other great exercises for improving your lead guitar playing.

This experi [...]

BR Dreams - Brazilian DT Tribute Band - MP3 (updated)

buzz

BR Dreams - Brazilian Dream Theater Tribute Band

Here are some songs from our tribute to DT:

Take The Time (Cover) - http://www.box.net/shared/ps3tjvtl95
Erotomania (Cover) - http://www.box.net/shared/p19yq8bhhp
YYZ (Rush Cover) - http://www.box.net/shared/j54ai9tn1s

We´ll be posting Ytse Jam in the next days.
Feel free to post your comments!

Regards,
Buzz

Wild Stringdom Quest-Day 6

JStephens

I'm rapidly coming to and end of my week-long quest. I've feel as though I have learned more over this past week than I had over the past year! Setting goals is so important for anything we wish to accomplish in life. Some times one really needs a great teacher to inspire them, and that's what I found in John Pettruci through his Wild Stringdom book. I think the next blog I'll startup will be a walk through his DVD, Rock Discipline. It's on order, so I'll start up that [...]

Day 5-Wild Stringdom Quest

JStephens

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - Day 5 - Day 6 - Day 7

June 27, 2007 Chapter 6 - The big payoff!

OK, so I've gone through all kinds of exercises. Slides. String skipping, chromatic scales, various other scales and permutations thereof. And now...the payoff! Chapter Six puts all the skills that have been covered so far to the test with a large exeprt from the solo in "The Mirror" and culminates with a complete transcription to the solo from "Lie"!

After [...]

Day 4-WildStringdom Quest

JStephens

Read here about this quest...

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 -

Day 4 - Chapter 5 (June 26, 2007)

It's day 4 of my week-long quest to go through every exercise in John Petrruci's Wild Stringdom. As you may know, I have given myself 7 days to go through all eight chapters of this great book. I also have been listening to the live version of "When Dream and Day Unite" most of the day while working. I only recently discovered this album and am so glad I [...]

About the Webmaster

webmaster

Welcome to DreamTheater.com! Here I am sitting at my "command console" managing my various Internet projects. One of the great things about working in technology is that one can wear comfortable cloths! My guitar, effects boars, and PA system are just to my right and give me a great break from a very busy schedule. I am a multimedia developer, Internet strat [...]

Day3-WildStringdom Quest

JStephens

Read here about this quest...

Day 1 - Day 2 -

Day 3 - Chapter 4 (June 25, 2007)

It's day 4 of my week-long quest to go through every exercise in John Petrruci's Wild Stringdom. I have given myself 7 days to go through all eight chapters. This chapter is all about stepping out of the box - meaning, playing the same old jam riffs in a plain old pentatonic scale. John encourages and shows the learner how to expand the "vocabulary" and come up w [...]

Drummer NEEDED!

speedgtr5

Hi all thanks for checking this out! Lets get right down to it, im the lead guitarist of a band named Stone Road. We are melodic metal but most the band is heavily influenced by dream theater. So there may be some progressive elements present from time to time. As is we have a great drummer who unfortunatley has to leave in august for an unspecified amount of time. In the meanwhile we will be hosting auditions in cooper city florida.

for a tas [...]

Day 2-Wild Stringdom Quest

JStephens

Already I'm a better player. Yesterday was amazing. I have renewed enthusiasm for practicing and playing. What I really like about this chatper is that John points out several instances where one shoudl take care not to injure him/herself while practicing and he suggests stretching exercises, etc. That is critically important and shows he really cares about his students. This book is exactly what the doctor ordered. Following is a quick summary of my observations.

Chapter 3 - Expan [...]