Watch Mike Portnoy rip by means of Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ after listening to it for the primary time
Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy has created his personal drum components for Taylor Swift‘s ‘Shake It Off’ after listening to it for the primary time – test it out beneath.
As a part of drumming platform Drumeo’s widespread First Time sequence, the channel challenged the veteran prog metallic drummer to create his personal components for a music he had by no means heard earlier than – which turned out to be Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’.
After listening to a snippet of the observe – which was performed to him with out drum tracks – Portnoy dove proper into jamming alongside to the music throughout his first hear. After his first hear, Portnoy joked that it “appeared like one thing out of Disneyland in Japan or one thing” earlier than confirming that he didn’t know the music, or that it was from Taylor Swift.
Whereas listening to the music yet another time, Portnoy stated he didn’t know the best way to write a chart for the music as a result of “it’s like Bob Dylan. It’s all verses, it doesn’t change keys. I don’t even know what to write down. I’m simply going to jam to it, I assume.”
After ripping by means of his second take – full with blistering fills and double-bass, Portnoy was then informed what music it was and who had carried out it. He replied: “Oh my god! That’s Taylor Swift? Solely the most important artist on Earth. I had no thought.”
He continued: “Taylor, I’m actually sorry. I nonetheless would play with you in a heartbeat, however I wouldn’t do this [drum pattern].” Later, he joked with the Drumeo staff: “See, now I can’t say I’ve by no means heard a Taylor Swift music. You’ve simply fucking ruined that for me.”
Taylor Swift just lately wrapped her all-conquering ‘Eras’ World Tour with the ultimate present in Vancouver on December 8, the highest-grossing tour of 2024 – beating off competitors from Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Madonna and extra.
The tour ran for a mixed complete of 21 months throughout 149 exhibits, and broke the document for the highest-grossing tour of all time, bringing in a reported $2.2billion (£1.73b) in complete. She then attended an ‘Eras’ tour-themed social gathering thrown for her by her boyfriend and NFL star Travis Kelce, during which visitors dressed because the totally different ‘Eras’ of her profession.
In different information, it has been revealed that Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ was the biggest-selling vinyl album within the UK in 2024. It marked the third consecutive 12 months the singer topped the checklist, having executed so with ‘1989 (Taylor’s Model)’ in 2023 and ‘Midnights’ in 2022.
As for Mike Portnoy, he and Dream Theater will launch the anticipated album ‘Parasomnia’, which is due for launch on February 7. It’ll mark their first document with founding member Portnoy since 2009’s ‘Darkish Clouds & Silver Linings’ after he rejoined the band in late 2023.