Youssef Ziady's Blog

Greetings again, friends!

Here’s a video of myself playing the solo from The Best of Times by Dream Theater, from their latest album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings. This video is quite old as I recorded it a couple weeks after the album came out, and goes back to last July. The minute I heard the solo on the song, I fell in love with it, this is hands-down one of Petrucci’s greatest guitar solos of all-time, and being on the progressive metal band’s 10th studio record, that’s saying a lot: The solo combines not-so-easy guitar techniques and simultaneously, a heavenly melody that perfectly suits the song’s mood (go here for more info about the song). Anyhoo, this cover as I said goes back to summer of 2009, and I had then the intention of posting it but apparently forgot to and got caught up with other stuff. Note that this is recorded by a phone camera with a basic distortion of a small Marshall amp. Enjoy!

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