Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy has created his personal drum elements for Taylor Swift‘s ‘Shake It Off’ after listening to it for the primary time – test it out under.
As a part of drumming platform Drumeo’s common First Time collection, the channel challenged the veteran prog metallic drummer to create his personal elements for a track 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 monitor – which was performed to him with out drum tracks – Portnoy dove proper into jamming alongside to the track throughout his first pay attention. After his first pay attention, 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 track, or that it was from Taylor Swift.
Whereas listening to the track yet one more time, Portnoy stated he didn’t know methods to write a chart for the track 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 jot down. I’m simply going to jam to it, I assume.”
After ripping by his second take – full with blistering fills and double-bass, Portnoy was then instructed what track it was and who had carried out it. He replied: “Oh my god! That’s Taylor Swift? Solely the largest 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 track. You’ve simply fucking ruined that for me.”
Taylor Swift not too long ago 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 reveals, 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 occasion thrown for her by her boyfriend and NFL star Travis Kelce, during which company dressed because the completely 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 listing, having performed 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.