John Petrucci Guita Solo Riff Origins?

May 16, 2007 12:20 PM

What song is this riff by John Petrucci from?

I have a live recording of an (awesome) guitar solo by John Petrucci of Dream Theater, and about half-way through he plays this very cool-sounding riff that sounds like it's the intro to a song. I'd like to know what that song is.

I've isolated the section and posted this mp3 file (800 kB).

I suspect it is a song because the audience cheers and starts clapping along as soon as they recognize the tune.

It's Track 7 on Disc 2 of the Once in a LIVEtime recording. The previous link says the track is composed mostly of Paradigm Shift and Acid Rain by Liquid Tension Experiment, a Dream Theater spinoff band. However, I heard nothing like it on either of those two songs. Where is the tune from?

Thanks!

posted by bkudria to media & arts (5 comments total)

The 'this mp3 file' link is borked.
posted by goo at 12:33 PM on May 16, 2007

Better link. It's from classical music, and I'll guess opera, maybe even from Bizet's Carmen.
posted by dr. fresh at 12:36 PM on May 16, 2007

It's an italian folk song/dance: the tarantella
posted by jouke at 12:40 PM on May 16, 2007

description of the tarantella
posted by jouke at 12:42 PM on May 16, 2007

Yep, that's it. My links worked fine in preview, there was supposed to be a second link to Wikipedia's page on the recording. Thanks, dr. fresh.
posted by bkudria at 1:16 PM on May 16, 2007