DREAM THEATER

Dream Theater is one of the most prominent progressive metal group in the world today. Founded by Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and John Myung, they have released eight studio albums, four live recordings and one short album (EP). Their first album, When Dream And Day Unite recorded with Charlie Dominici as Kevin Moore as vocalist and keyboards player.Dominici was much older than the other members and others want to play music, so he then came out of the group. They then search for the ideal replacement for 2 years until finally met with James LaBrie, the vocalist of Canada through the auditions.
 Together they recorded LaBrie Images And Words that catapulted their name into the international ranks with the hit "Pull Me Under" and "Another Day". Awake is their last album with Moore who was later replaced by Derek Sherinian for the album Falling Into Infinity. Sherinian also eventually be replaced by Jordan Rudess and the formation of these still survive to this day.They have launched a concept album Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory and a double album Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence.In 2003 they decided to record a non-concept album Train Of Thought is heavily influenced by thrash metal groups like Metallica.
 Their latest album titled Octavarium issued on June 7, 2005, and in addition is the eighth studio album also contains eight tracks.
 Dream Theater after launching their Live album to commemorate 20 years to form, titled Dream Theater Score was recorded on April 1, 2006 at Radio City Music Hall, U.S.. They re ready to launch their ninth album with a new record label flag is RoadRunner Records, they have completed the album Systematic Chaos contains eight tracks and will be launched on June 5, 2007 in the U.S..
 History
 Dream Theater was formed in September 1985, when guitarist John Petrucci and bassist John Myung decided to form a band to fill their spare time while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston. They then met a drummer, Mike Portnoy, in one of the rehearsal rooms at Berklee, and after two days of negotiations, they had invited to join Mike Portnoy. After that, they all want to fill the two vacant places in the band, and Petrucci asked his band mates, Kevin Moore, to be a keyboard player. He agreed, and when Chris Collins asked to be the vocalist, the band was complete.
 With five members, they decided to name the band by the name of Majesty. According to the documentation DVD Score, five of them were lined up tickets for the Rush concert at the Berklee Performance Center while listening to Rush with a boom box.Portnoy then said that the ending of the song (Bastille Day) sounds very "majestic". That's when they decided Majesty is a good name for a band, and remained good until now.
 At the moment - the moment, Portnoy, Petrucci and Myung still struggling with their course, also a part-time work and teaching.They become a tight schedule so that their tips have to decide between pursuing a career in music or terminate the band Majesty. But eventually wins Majesty and all three came out of Berklee to concentrate on the music career. Petrucci commented about this in the documentation DVD Score, said that while it is very difficult to ask the parents to go to music school. Longer and more difficult to convince her parents that she should get out of school.
 Moore is also finally out of school, SUNY Fredonia, to concentrate with the band.
 Characteristics of songwriting
 Some of the unique songwriting technique has been performed by Dream Theater, which mostly occurred in the - the present, when they can experiment with their own record label.
 Starting with the Train of Thought, Dream Theater has begun inserting elements - small and hidden elements in their music, and includes such elements to the more fanatical enthusiasts.The most well-known characteristics (the so-called "nugget") hidden in the "In the Name of God", which is the Morse code of "eat my ass and balls" (eat my ass and my cock), which is the word - the famous words of Mike Portnoy . Since then, many enthusiasts - Dream Theater enthusiasts began trying to find things - little things that usually do not appeal to ordinary enthusiasts.
 Some of them are well-known techniques including:
 > The sound of the phonograph in the suffix of "Finally Free" on the album Scenes from a Memory is the same sound at the beginning of "The Glass Prison" on the next album, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. And ending the last key in "As I Am" with a key that is used on the next album, Train of Thought. Also, not a piano being played in the suffix "In the Name of God" in the 'Train of Thought is not the same as the opening of "The Root of All Evil" on the next album, Octavarium.
> The three parts of "The Glass Prison" on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, two sections of "This Dying Soul" on Train of Thought and the two parts of "The Root of All Evil" on Octavarium shows the first seven points of the twelve points - points in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill Wilson, whose program was followed by Mike Portnoy. He also said that he would make a song - another song that includes five other programs, which will be devoted to Wilson
 > Dream Theater songwriting sometimes use a technique in which a part - the part of developed each time a song they played. For example, the song "6:00" from Awake. After leading the song, they almost play the chorus, but repeat again the song of the prefix (at minute 1:33). And when the chorus was supposed to be played at the next moment, they repeat again from the prefix, in the minute 2:11. This technique can also be found in the "Peruvian Skies", "Blind Faith" and "Endless Sacrifice"
 > The use of repetitive notation - also re-used, which are well known from the songs - songs of Charles Ives, for example: o The theme song "Wait for Sleep" appears in the "Learning to Live" (minute 8:11) and also appeared twice on " Just Let Me Breath "(minute 3:39 and 5:21) o The theme song" Learning to Live "appear on" Another Day "(minute 2:53) o The theme song" Space-Dye Vest "is used several times in the album Awake . o The theme of the opening of "Erotomania" is used in "Voices" on Awake (4:51 minutes). o One of the melody - a melody in "Metropolis Pt 1 (The Miracle and the Sleeper)" is repeated in the second chorus on "Home" from Metropolis Pt 2 (Scenes From A Memory), by just changing one word. Some of the lyrics of "Metropolis Pt 1" just use the "Home". Basically, the whole album "Scenes From A Memory" is full of musical / lyrical / conceptual variations of elements - the musical elements of "Metropolis Pt 1" and "The Dance of Eternity" is actually constructed of variation - variation of the elements of music in the song - the songs in album. o Part - baguan of each song on the album "Octavarium" has been used in the fifth part of the same titled song, "Octavarium".
 > Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, their sixth studio album, contains six songs and has character - character number six in the title - the title song. Train of Thought, their seventh studio album, includes seven songs. Octavarium, their eighth studio album contains eight songs and album title is derived from octo, which is a Latin word which means eight, meaning an octave of a musical term, which is the distance from one note to another note are eight notes in the diatonic scales . Again the title of this CD is 24 minutes, a multiple of 8. The front page of the album also contains a character - a character associated with 5 and 8. For example, a set of boxes - white boxes and boxes - black boxes has meant an octave of the piano.
 > The song "Octavarium" used to want to end with a flute that resonates with a prefix like the song. But not replaced with the same prefix piano album Octavarium. Mike Portnoy has said that the series prefix - suffix album will stop here, for the upcoming ninth album will not be preceded by the suffix "Octavarium"
 > Analysis of the details about the "nugget" on the "Octavarium" (called by Mike Portnoy as "a giant nugget") have been published in an independent site.

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