"Pull Me Under" .. Why?

**BooMan555** · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:39 am Post subject:

I love this song. I listen to it all the time and played the custom. Just because it isn't the hardest song, does not mean it's not great.
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**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

I think it's because they wanted the most epic thing possible, which Pull Me Under fits the bill.

But at the sametime, why not put in a song from DT that is extremely epic and leaves you in the fetal position after seeing the chart (AKA. half of the DT songs out there).

For Example: The Glass Prison (breakdown and examples included as to why it would be great)

Guitar: The first 2 minutes are extremely easy and would hardly be a challenge to anybody, but then the tempo changes and the arpeggios start in, they're basically Constant Motion Solo D extended from 5 seconds to 55 seconds, in otherwords holy **** you're screwed. Follow this by about 5 minutes of a Blackened like riff, then we go to basically 7 minutes of non-stop HoPo solo like riff that's just so fast it makes you want to cut off your hands.

Drums: In short, you're screwed. In longer form, 14 minutes of Mike Portnoy means you're going to die.

Bass: What happens when you mix Thrasher, Panic Attack, and Visions bass lines together and extend em to 14 minutes? You get this.

Vocals: Actually wouldn't be too bad up until the part where it jumps between Petrucci, Portnoy and Labrie singing (which would be evil hard due to the fast changes), aside from that it would actually be kinda easy.

Now THAT would be an epic outro song.
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**Geeoff** · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 1368

I doubt it's because it was their most popular song...since in terms of "popular songs" Pull Me Under is barely a blip on the radar. They could've put pretty much any Dream Theater song in the game to the same effect on sales.

I suspect they put Pull Me Under in the game because multiple people in charge of creating the game's setlist just really liked the song.

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**Daputti** · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 292

I want a song that I can actually fail.

I still remember when I went to my friends house with a couple of my friends and they were all like "show us how you tap TTFAF" so I did, and played the rest of the song, five starred it.

Then...

I start playing the Dragonforce pack.
Operation Ground and Pound - pass. Four stars. Happy.
Revolution Deathsquad - pass. Three stars. Ehheh.
Heroes Of Our Time - Fail. We laughed so fucking hard.

Four-starred both of them later.
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**hydrapower** · Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 1708 Location: Rochester, MN

Pull Me Under is suitably epic on drums. It may not sound as hard as ( insert DT wankfest here), but it's still hard with many fun parts. If you somehow don't have enough challenge on guitar, play drums, they shall humble you very much.

I still go with the theory that they just needed a long enough song to roll over the credits.

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**deadhead15** · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 675 Location: manteno, illinois

i think they should have put in the dark eternal night, i would have been much more happy and ghwt would take much longer to fc then.
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**PearlJam2293** · Joined: 15 Dec 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Commack, NY

I really think that they picked Pull Me Under because Satch Boogie is the hardest song in the game and Pull Me Under is just the most epic in the game. They need to fit a role. Also, if they were to do almost any other Dream Theater song, it wouldve been really hard since almost every song has massive double bass. On the other hand, Pull Me Under really doesnt have much of a major drum part.
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**LeCoy** · Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 373 Location: Long Island

I've been to two DT concerts (friends made me go), but I have to say that they are overrated. Some of their songs are cool (As I Am, Glass Prison, About To Crash, Forsaken), but the only reason people like them is that they play crazy guitar parts and have super shred duels between Petrucci and Ruddess for about 10 minutes. Cuz we all know more notes = better musicians and better music right?

I think Pull Me Under was a good choice.
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