How did Dream Theater go about writing the title track to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
MP: We wrote the whole piece as one 40 minute song. We wrote the overture first and from there we took the themes in the overture that we liked and knew we wanted to expand into full sections we would then develop them into full sections and then once we looked at the entire 40 minute thing after it was finished we divided up the sections and John and I split up the sections into six different characters and each of us write about three. Basically I wrote about three and he wrote about three and they’re six different people all from very different backgrounds and walks of life, all dealing with the common thread of trying to cope with mental imbalances and things like that.
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