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, the legendary prog-metal drummer approached Swift’s infectiously upbeat track with his technical brilliance, creating a fascinating hybrid of pop and prog. 
	After hearing a snippet of the song—stripped of its original drum tracks—Portnoy i…

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Mike Portnoy Drums His Way Through Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’

Mike Portnoy, one of the most virtuoso drummers in rock and metal, was urged to play one of Taylor Swift's greatest hits on his drums: the result is in sight

Mike Portnoy, um dos mais virtuosos bateristas do rock e do metal, foi instado a tocar um dos maiores êxitos de Taylor Swift na sua bateria: o resultado está à vista

O que acontece quando o baterista de Dream Theater ouve ‘Shake It Off’, de Taylor Swift, pela primeira vez

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What happens when the Dream Theater drummer hears Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' for the first time

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One of my biggest bad habits — aside from being too nice and distractingly handsome — is that when I go to bed every night, I lay there for at least an hour watching stuff on my phone.Ask any doctor, and they'll tell you that the best thing to do before drifting off to dreamland is to blast blue light from a screen six inches in front of your face straight into the back of your retinas.Last night, I stumbled across an absolute gem of a video: le…

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Legendary Prog Metal Drummer Mike Portnoy Plays Taylor Swift Song Without Having Ever Heard It

Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy has created his own drum parts for Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' after listening to it for the first time.

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Watch Mike Portnoy rip through Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' after hearing it for the first time

Miikka Skaffari/FilmMagic 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 YouTube channel Drumeo‘s ongoing series, which challenges drummers to play alongside a song they’d never heard before. Upon being played “Shake It Off,” one of Swift’s many #1 hits, Portnoy sincerely asked, “Is that something that’s popular?” Once he convinced the …

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Presenting Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off (Mike Portnoy's Version)'

Taylor Swift flipping her hair at the Eras Tour I would just like to take a moment that in the year of our lord, 2025, there is still a living and breathing human being on planet earth who had not heard Taylor Swift‘s ‘Shake It Off’ prior to this video. That alone has to be a statistical anomaly but factor in that Mike Portnoy is also a professional drummer the fact that he hasn’t somehow come across this song at some point in his life is insane…

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Watch MIKE PORTNOY Learn To Play TAYLOR SWIFT's "Shake It Off," Hearing It For The First Time

Drumeo has shared another For The First Time challenge, once again featuring DRean Theater drummer Mike Portnoy.  Check it out below.
"Take a sneak peek into the mind of Mike Portnoy – drummer for Dream Theater! Watch as he listens to 'Shake It Off' by Taylor Swift for the very first...

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DREAM THEATER Drummer MIKE PORTNOY Hears TAYLOR SWIFT For The First Time Without Drum Tracks; Teaches Himself To Play "Shake It Off"

He swore he'd never heard it before! Mike Portnoy may be the only person on the planet who hasn't heard Taylor Swift's 2014 hit "Shake It Off." But that's part of the fun of taking part in Drumeo's online video series, in which the drums try to guess and create parts of songs they don't know. After learning from Jose, Portnoy's drummer, that Dream Theater's drummer has a blind spot for pop music, Drumeo's presenter put in a version of Swift's po…

¡Juró que nunca la había oído antes! Puede que Mike Portnoy sea la única persona del planeta que no ha escuchado el éxito de Taylor Swift de 2014 «Shake It Off». Pero eso forma parte de la diversión de participar en la serie de vídeos online de Drumeo, en la que los baterías intentan adivinar y crear partes de canciones que no conocen. Después de enterarse por Jose, el técnico de batería de Portnoy, de que el baterista de Dream Theater tiene un …

Mike Portnoy Drums His Way Through Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’

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