“This makes Dream Theater sound like f***ing Weezer!” Watch Mike Portnoy take on Tool’s Pnuema before challenging Danny Carey to learn The Dance of Eternity

Drumeo’s ‘Hearing songs for the first time’ and ‘Learning songs as quickly as possible’ regulars are among some of the online drum lesson platform’s most popular videos, and now, it’s delivered what might be the most challenging so far. Recently, newly-returned Dream Theater drummer, Mike Portnoy took a trip to Drumeo HQ where he attempted Tool’s 12-minute marathon, Pnuema.

Now, it’d be foolish to imagine that Mike Portnoy is unfamiliar with Tool, on the contrary, he selected Tool’s Fear Inoculum as one of his favourite albums of 2019. However, as we all know, listening to a band and digesting every single drum part are two different things, particularly where Tool is concerned.