Dream Theater Tribute
Split Screen Covers / VRA!
Metropolis – Part 1
“The Miracle and the Sleeper”
Album: Images and Words
Our 2nd song for the Split-Screen Covers / Dream Theater Tribute project. This time our guest vocalist was Will Shaw, the “guy who sings DT and Symphony-X in his car”, a.k.a. Unflexablegrace. Thank you for the great performance Will!
For suggestions, comments or whatever, feel free to email us.
splitscreencovers@gmail.com
╟►SPLIT-SCREEN COVERS
Song #1 – “Lifting Shadows Off a Dream”
Song #2 – “Metropolis – Part 1″
The ideia behind the project is to collaborate online to record these covers.
Although some good friends of mine form the core of the project, the band won’t necessarily be the same for every song. We will have guests from around the world participating, mostly (if nor all) on vocals though, at our discretion.
How those it work?
Each guy in the band records their parts (audio tracks and video) at home or at a local studio and sends them to me.
I then put the audio together and mix it.
Since I’m fairly new to mixing, this has been a great exercise for me. I learn the concept behind the sound of my favorite albums and try a whole bunch of cool techniques trying to replicate it closely.
I AB my mix with the original song but I don’t get too crazy about it. It’s difficult to get the sound exactly right due to a number of variables. When I get it close enough I stop comparing the two and just get it to sound good (hopefully) from there.
When the final stereo audio track is done I take it to a video editing software and sync everyones videos to it. After a bit of editing and level/color correction it’s ready for YouTube. 
╟► How to guest on a future SSC video?SplitScreenCovers@gmail.com
We’re lucky enough to say we’ve been getting many requests from great singers from around the world interested in participating on this project.
Unfortunately we can’t keep up with recording at the same rate people are showing up. A few singers are already chosen for specific songs and are just patiently waiting until we manage to get to them. Slowly but surely, we will do each one.
This unsynced relation of available singers to songs being put out has however put us in a difficult position of having to be more selective of our guests. We haven’t written out an official criteria list to follow while evaluating candidates, as we thought it wouldn’t come to this.
We’ll listen to the supplied material (video on youtube, myspace, or whatever) and either feel it fits our project or not. That simple! We’ll mostly be paying attention to intonation, performance, ability to deliver lyrics in English convincinly, tone, the usual (including our personal preferences).
We’ll check our list of available next few songs and suggest one or two we feel might fit nicely for the specific voice, and then talk it out from there.
I’d like to concentrate contact through email if at all possible. It makes keeping track of everyone much easier. If you prefer, contact through PM is fine also.
SplitScreenCovers@gmail.com
For anyone interested, please send us an email with your info. Tell us a bit about yourself. A good starting point would be your name, city/country, bands/projects, forum alias, youtube channel, myspace, recording setup. Please also include a list of your favourite DT albums and songs you’d wish to cover and any other info you feel we should know.
We won’t be accepting guests with no recorded audio for us to listen to. This is the least we could ask. So don’t send us emails with “DT rulz, i sing nicely, I swear!!!!1″ (we do get this)… I’m sure you do, but please show us.
╟►Metropolis Pt.1 – Credits
Original music: Dream Theater
Lyrics: John Petrucci
Album: Images and Words
The band:
César Zolhof – Keyboard
http://www.youtube.com/zolhof
Felipe Campos – Bass
http://www.youtube.com/FelipeCamposBass
Will Shaw – Vocals
http://www.youtube.com/Unflexablegrace
Paulinho – Drums
http://www.youtube.com/paulohjs
Thiago Campos – Guitars & Mixing
http://www.youtube.com/ThiagoCamposOfficial
High quality MP3:
http://www.4shared.com/file/137065525/74bfdc4a/SSC-VRA-Metropolis-Part1-192k.html
Hope you all enjoy it! Don´t forget to rate and subscribe! More split-screen covers to come…
╟►Gear used:
Korg Oasys 88
Kurzweil PC3x
Ernie Ball Music Man JP6
Ernie Ball Music Man Bongo 6
Mesa Boogie Mark IV
Mesa Boogie 4×12 Stiletto
╟►Video responses:
I’ll gladly accept video replies as long as it relates to this one in one of two ways:
1) [Format] It is a Split-Screen, full band type cover of any DT/LTE song.
2) [Song] It is related to “Metropolis Part 1″ in any type format (split-screen, single person, or whatever).
I won’t accept any other videos unless I’m convinced it’s an exceptional case, which I reserve the right to be the judge of. Thanks.
Duration : 0:10:3
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November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Do you guys have …
Do you guys have your own band?
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Fabulous.
Fabulous.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
The singer sounds …
The singer sounds exactly like James LaBrie
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Simplesmente animal …
Simplesmente animal…….
Caras voces são bons mesmo, porque tocar Dream Theater não é pra qualquer um não, principalmente o batera manda muito bem.
Parabéns, excelente trabalho.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Surgical …
Surgical Accuracy.One of my favorite songs of all times…
Singer Sounds Way Much Better Than LaBrie…Bassist,even that he sits,is more versatile in his movement than Myung(lol)…The Others,Well…Performers…
But Guys…Isn’t A Pitty Wasting All This Talent Just To Be DT Clones?(Don’t Mistake Me-I Was Chief Of Correspondence Of The Greek Official F.C.)
I Believe That You 5 Could Be A Way More Original Band,Equal In Artistic Stage To D.T.
I Would Die To Listen To Something Of Your Own.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
nice job!
nice job!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
the bassist has …
the bassist has charisma and talent in bucketloads!
kudos to you all
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
let me surprise!!
let me surprise!!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
impressive oO
impressive oO
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
wow.. nice nice.. …
wow.. nice nice.. hope can c other video from u guys..
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
boa cara!
A mesma …
boa cara!
A mesma atenção que vcs tiveram pra tirar a música, vcs tiveram com a produção e para confeccionar os timbres, tornando esse um distinto cover de metropolis. Cheers!!!!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
animal muito bom …
animal muito bom mesmo…
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Wow guys, just …
Wow guys, just incredible, more please
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Bullshit, i …
Bullshit, i searched Dream Theater. I didn’t realize it wasn’t them for a while though so… nice job.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
WHAT THE HEEEELLL!! …
WHAT THE HEEEELLL!!!
freakin’ AWESOME
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
awesome, nice job ! …
awesome, nice job !!!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
never noticed that …
never noticed that vocals note at 3:35 …. holy FUCK
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
It’s unbelievable!! …
It’s unbelievable!!! you are GREAT!!!!!!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
this is sex in …
this is sex in music-form
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Best 10min i’ve …
Best 10min i’ve spebnt on the tube for a while
Def 5 stars…
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
milimetre perfect!
milimetre perfect!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
AMAZING!!!!
I think …
AMAZING!!!!
I think this is better than the original
Keep Rockin Guys!
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
wills sounds like …
wills sounds like dominici doesnt he
November 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Will sings better …
Will sings better than LaBrie, hands down. Awesome job, guys.