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Every musical note has a character all its own and so every musical key has a character all its own and not everyone is going to like all of those sounds. For example an F# note is often thought to be a bit nasty sounding and piano tuners supposedly have trouble getting it right because they don't t...

Matias rules more than petrucci actually IMO!!!! I agree there's just something ... mechanical about Petrucci's playing for me. He has great technique and all but so do a lot of guys and it then becomes a question of feel which Matias has big time for me. Still I've always preferred Scandinavian gu...

I have all the albums except the self-titled one as that first single made me doubt whether I'd enjoy it... More interestingly, I have a live bootleg CD named "Episode in the East" which has a very nice version of "Hands of Time" where Kotipelto makes the Japanese crowd sing the words "Sakkijarven P...

The reason why CDs doesn't sell like before is it, that the music industry invested to digital music far too late. If they would have invested to digital music immediately after the mp3 piracy did grow, there wouldn't be that much of piratism. And when they launched their legal digital music shops,...

Best wishes to Jorg who is easily one of the best drummers I've ever heard and who truly understands that drums can add so much more to a song than just being a fancy metronome. The thing to take away from stories like this is that although it's not nice to think about it, one day something like thi...