Drummer J-Rod Sullivan (Janet Jackson, Jeffrey Osborne, etc.) received a doozy of a challenge during a visit to Drumeo. Sullivan found himself pitted against “Night Terror“, a 2024 track from GRAMMY Award-winning progressive metal faction Dream Theater. Keeping in tradition with Drumeo‘s ‘For The First Time’ series, the version of the song Sullivan was introduced to featured the percussion removed, allowing him to come up with his own parts for the track without any direct influence.
Dream Theater‘s acclaimed drummer Mike Portnoy has also been in Sullivan‘s position before, though he was most infamously challenged with covering Tool‘s “Pneuma“.
