Mike Mangini: The Grid

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aRGY8Xy24z0#t=101

Listen around 1:31. The snare isn't triggered in DT12, that's how it actually sounds.

Also, this sounds as a great release. He seems to go in deep in lots of technical aspects that drummer instructional videos usually lack (consisting most of them of drum solos, complex drum parts and the drummers breaking down those hard parts).

[rumborak]

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Regarding the video, I dunno. If I had to make one negative comment about the drumming on DT12, it's that it's somewhat mechanic. MM explaining improvisation through a grid approach on a whiteboard kinda drives that point home a bit.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

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Regarding the video, I dunno. If I had to make one negative comment about the drumming on DT12, it's that it's somewhat mechanic. MM explaining improvisation through a grid approach on a whiteboard kinda drives that point home a bit.

To have an approach and understanding on how you practice improvisation is a very important factor. Your improv always comes from a library of ideas. So to have a system on how you pick those ideas smoothly dosen't make it mechanical in any way. How good you play those ideas is another thing though.

[Rodni Demental]

Yeah, I can speak from a keyboardist point of view, but moreso about chord progressions rather than rhythm patterns, I can testify that improvising is totally based off of ideas and patterns that you're familiar with, things start getting confusing when you break off too far from what's familiar and even though you can get some interesting results by sporadically improvising, if you're intending to connect it to what you started out with, you're gonna get lost and forget what key you're in or something.  At least in my experience. That's why it's great to learn new progressions or scales because you unconsciously start integrating it into your improvising.

There's no rules to something like this though.

[JiM-Xtreme]

I'm a bass player, but still considering getting this. I'd love to get inside that man's head.

[ZKX-2099]

His hair is glorious.

[Kotowboy]

The best thing about Mangini's playing on the last two albums is - it stands out when it needs to and supports the song at all other times.

Playing lead drums got a bit annoying at times.

[sylvinception]

His hair is glorious.

Are you serious ??

He looks ridiculous with this new haircut.
Maybe he would like to play in the next "Twilight" movie ??