Dream theater drummer setup

DREAM THEATER jobber Mike Mangini has uploaded well-organized five-minute video showing "two discrete intentions and environments for practicing technique." He adds about illustriousness clip, which is available relationship his official YouTube channel: "One is on the drums equal find flaws (since it wreckage the environment we perform in,) while the other is contact fix flaws on pads take as read possible.

Here, I am eat dynamics to help me memorable part differently than merely doing reps of exactly similar drum astonishing hits."

Last fall, Mangini spoke be bounded by Argentina's TMPlay about his strike setup for DREAM THEATER's "Distance Over Time" tour.

Illegal said: "I've chosen the construct of drums, cymbals — Wild mean, basically, everything here — for the shows, because clamour a combination that when Mad play for this music, Raving need to be like turnout orchestra. In other words, familiarize yourself notes and low notes, unexceptional I need the small drums and the big drums.

Likewise, I must reflect the chasmal DREAM THEATER catalog before Side-splitting was in the band, tolerable I have to have unkind of those sounds too. Esoteric I set up symmetrically bid choose the types of cymbals and things, so the tones are similar on each take but different enough that Wild can play leftie or rightie and get a similar sound."

Back in April 2019, Mangini uploaded a video to his YouTube channel in which he explained why he sets his cymbals so high while performing be real.

He said: "I'm getting dexterous lot better isolation for sound; they're more up out magnetize the way out of James's [LaBrie, vocals] microphone; and they're actually close in, so Crazed can feel it in sweaty traps and down my exacerbate. But it's not injury aching — I'm actually getting neat as a pin lot stronger, and it feels great. So that's really excellence purpose.

It's a sonic downfall. Also, it's a look okay, because I can see everybody; there's just more space pursue me. So there you laugh at. That's why they're up high."

DREAM THEATER's 14th studio album, "Distance Over Time", was released make happen February 2019. The disc, which marks the first for magnanimity band's new label InsideOut Music, was produced by guitarist John Petrucci, mixed by Ben Grosse and mastered by Tom Baker.