Line #33 DrinkingGame/DreamTheater


1	* Take a drink when a song passes the 10-minute mark.
2	** Take two drinks if a song passes the 20-minute mark.
3	** Take three if it ends before the five-minute mark. This rule is optional if you're listening to Music/TheAstonishing
4	* Take a drink if Mike Portnoy does spoken backing vocals.
5	* Take a drink when SpokenWordInMusic appears.
6	** Take two drinks if it's during a Kevin Moore song.
7	* Take a drink when a time signature is over 16 (e.g. 11/16, 15/16, etc).
8	** Make that a sip for each time signature over 16 during "The Dance of Eternity".
9	* Take a drink if an instrumental passage exceeds a minute.
10	** If [[EpicInstrumentalOpener the intro of a song is longer than a minute]], don't count it unless you're prepared for a massive hangover the next day.
11	* Take a drink when Jordan uses the Snarling Pig.
12	* Take a drink when a non-musical sound effect plays.
13	* Take a drink when a song has no guitar in it.
14	* Take a drink when a clean electric guitar is doubled with an acoustic guitar.
15	* Take a drink when the rhythm guitars harmonize.
16	* Take a drink when there is a guitar/keyboard unison solo.
17	* Take a drink when John Myung plays bass harmonics.
18	* Take a drink when John Myung plays a line in the third octave or above.
19	* Take a drink if the guitar is down-tuned below B.
20	* Take a drink if a song mourns a lost relative.
21	* Take a drink when there is an AlbumTitleDrop.
22	* Take a drink when there is a Continuum solo.
23	* Take a drink if Jordan plays a something on an iOS device.
24	* Take a drink when there is an electronic drum part.
25	* Take a drink when John Petrucci flutters the Whammy bar.
26	* Take a drink when John Petrucci plays several harmonics in a row during a transition.
27	* Take a drink when John Petrucci uses a volume pedal or e-bow to create a string-like sound.
28	* Take a drink if a song gets to a point where it could reasonably end, but instead launches into an instrumental section.
29	** Take two drinks if the song actually ''does'' end on a reprise of that part ("Beyond This Life", "A Rite of Passage", etc.)
30	* Take a drink whenever a repeating group of four measures consists of three measures of one time signature and one measure of another (for example, three measures of 6/8 and one of 5/8).
31	** Take another drink if the pattern changes in any way.
32	** Don't take a drink each time the pattern repeats itself. You only need to take a drink for the pattern itself.
33	* If you are listening to a song from the ''Twelve Step Suite'' that isn't "The Glass Prison ", take a drink whenever there is a [[ContinuityNod reference to previous song in the suite]]. [[note]]"The Shattered Fortress" doesn't count unless you have an ambulance on standby. Alternatively on this song, take a drink whenever there is a section that ''isn't'' a reference to a previous song in the suite. [[/note]]
34	** Take two drinks whenever there is a reference to "The Mirror".
35	* If you are listening to ''Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory'', take a sip whenever there is a musical or lyrical CallBack to "Metropolis Part 1".
36	* Take a drink if a verse or a chorus is suddenly interrupted by an interlude which has nothing to do with the structure of the verse or chorus itself (such as in "Lost Not Forgotten").
37	* Take a drink if you listen to "The Glass Prison" immediately after "Finally Free", or "As I Am" after "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence", or "The Root of All Evil" after "In the Name of God", or "On the Backs of Angels" after "The Count of Tuscany".
38	* Take a drink when a song has an OutOfGenreExperience for no apparent reason (such as the honky tonk piano solo in "The Dark Eternal Night."
39	* A live example for the Images & Words: Live in Tokyo DVD:
40	** Take a drink every time someone flips their hair
41	** Finish your drink if it's John Myung

Context DrinkingGame / DreamTheater