Bass Week: Critics are often quick to point out the note-heavy, often self-indulgent nature of Dream Theater's music. Those 13-minute, three-part songs just aren't cool to some people, you know? Yet if there's one grounded element to the group’s sound, it's the bass playing of John Myung.
Amid blazing guitar solos and drum pyrotechnics, Myung rarely flashes his Berklee-honed shops. Instead, he's usually holding things together with rock-solid, sequencer-like ostinatos, or huge B-string pedal tones.
