Mike Portnoy, Taylor Swift and Shake It Off

Mike Portnoy Drums His Way Through Taylor Swift's ‘Shake It Off'
Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy recently ventured into unexpected territory by reimagining the drumming on Taylor Swift's chart-topping pop anthem "Shake It Off." As part of Drumeo's popular First Time series,
Mike Portnoy Covers Taylor Swift on Drums, Swears He’s Never Heard It Before
How would Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy have approached one of Taylor Swift's biggest songs? Swearing he's never heard it, the drummer takes a crack at the song.
“I’m sorry I ruined your song!”: Mike Portnoy hears Taylor Swift's Shake It Off for the first time and plays along... with surprising results
After analysing the track for mere moments Portnoy’s keen ear and mind pick out its rhythm and he begins enthusiastically jamming along with a breakneck calypso shuffle beat that, while the perfect accompaniment to the song, is pretty much as far from what anyone familiar with Swift’s track could possibly have ever imagined.
See MIKE PORTNOY cover TAYLOR SWIFT's "Shake It Off" for Drumeo
Though Mike Portnoy is all primed to promote Parasomnia – his first album with Dream Theater since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings – the progressive drum great recently side-stepped his usual duties to deliver a Taylor Swift cover. Specifically, he hit the pop star’s 2014 hit single “Shake it Off” for the good folks at Drumeo.
Drummer Mike Portnoy Performs Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” as He Hears It for First Time: Watch
Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was tasked with playing along to Taylor Swift's hit "Shake It Off" as he heard it for the first time. Watch.
Watch prog metal legend Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to
"It sounds like something out of Disneyland in Japan," he muses, after recording a first take drum part which he admits "is like completely pissing all over someone else's art." "In my world you have a guitar solo,
Watch MIKE PORTNOY Learn To Play TAYLOR SWIFT's "Shake It Off," Hearing It For The First Time
The first thing that happens when Portnoy is listening to a drumless version of the song, is the prog-metal version of Taylor Swift you never knew you'd get: he turns the pop-infused simplicity of the song into an odd-time signatures drumming fest.
Presenting Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off (Mike Portnoy’s Version)’
Mike Portnoy gets down to this sick beat on a drum cover of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."The Dream Theater drummer is featured in the latest edition of the You
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Watch Mike Portnoy rip through Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ after hearing it for the first time
Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy has created his own drum parts ... As part of drumming platform Drumeo’s popular First Time series, the channel challenged the veteran prog metal drummer to ...