Dream Theater · 1992 · drums by Mike Portnoy
Pull Me Under
From Images and Words. Advanced · Odd meters · prog
Tempo
102BPM
- Time signature
- 4/4, shifting
- Feel
- Odd meters
- Tempo band
- 90–120
- Difficulty
- Advanced
"Work up to it" opens the tempo trainer at 72 and climbs to 102 in steps of four every eight bars. Members get the climb; everyone gets the click.
What the drums do
Dream Theater's only hit, and the drum part is an introduction to Portnoy: a clean intro, a double-kick verse groove, odd bars dropped into the instrumental section, and the famous hard stop at the end. Learn the unison figures with the bass first.
Advanced: Fast, odd, or both; the part is the reason the song is famous.
Mike Portnoy
- Read the Mike Portnoy feature →Who they are, how they play, and what to listen to next.
- Mike Portnoy's drum rig in the Rig Vault →The kit, snare, cymbals and hardware, era by era — look for the 1992 setup.
- Log the sessionNote the BPM you got it clean at, and next time starts from there.
Songs at about 102 BPM
Practise these together: one click, several songs.