Posts tagged with "A Dramatic Turn of Events"
SYNTH SENSE
SYNTH SENSE
Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess lets you in on the secrets to making your synthesizer sounds soar
If you’ve listened to pop music created since the 1960s, there’s little doubt you’ve heard synthesizers at work. Innovators have been trying since the 1800s to create devices to replicate sounds otherwise unavailable to the layman, but it was only in the last four decades that the synthesizer became thought of as an instrument in...
DREAM THEATER
DREAM THEATER
A Dramatic Turn of Events
[Roadrunner]
Legions of Dream Theater fans were dismayed when drummer (and founding member) Mike Portnoy and the band parted ways last year. Never fear—with new drummer Mike Mangini behind the kit, the veteran prog-metal ensemble sounds re-energized, engaged and focused on songwriting in ways not heard since 2002’s Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. On the harder side of the ledger, songs such as “On the...