Mike has had an extensive, musically diverse, award winning career as a drummer, composer, Grammy winner, author, band member, world speed drumming record holder, educator and documentary film festival winner for “A Drummer’s Dream,” in which he was one of seven drummers featured in the movie.
You can read about his full career on his personal website’s biography tab. The rest of website contains a lot of information about him from gear specs to background stories to his past and present experiences with the sciences and teaching. You can find that information on mikemangini.
The Quick Links provide easy access to all of his products, services and social media outlets. Everything from recordings and touring memorabilia, to books, video rentals, personal messages and updated information is there. Mike Mangini Media LLC, is a growing entity who’s “why” mission is to offer hope to anyone interested in developing various physical skills and learning the ‘truths’ of tanbile and intangible things.
Mike is currently a member of the Progressive Rock-Metal band Dream Theater since he won their drummer audition in the fall of 2010 as one of seven drummers competing for the job. After the release of his first recorded album with Dream Theater, the band got its first Grammy nomination in 25 years, then got two more and won one for the 64th Grammys “Best Metal Performance” for a song that Mike cowrote called “The Alien.” Dream Theater’s website, Facebook Page and YouTube channel are great places to familiarize yourself with them and their brand.
Mike has played in many bands, on a fair amount of albums and performed live since the age of five. It should be known that Mike’s passion for learning and teaching came about becasue he loathed performing to the point of running away from a family even at age seven and had to get pulled out of a tree he climbed to escape being forced on stage to play with the band. Although the story itself is quite humorous, it actually was a major event that led to his deep studying into the field of cognitive science to counter performance panic attacks in his late teens and early twenties. This ultimately allowed him to invent his own behavioral change system under the guise of a book for his drumming students he called Rhythm Knowledge. Another imporant part of the developemet of that system was the mathematics and software engineering he studied at Bentley College in his home town of Waltham, MA.
You can familiarize yourself with Rhythm Knowledge on its website. It contains an overview of the system, as well as a Zoom Class registration page when Mike holds classes.
Mike Mangini ® is a registered trademark and represents a combined heart & brainwave, along with the inference of drumming, targetted focus and time. From the lyrics on “Invisible Signs,” to his Rhythm Knowledge Books and Human made photo Art Collection called “Beyond Planck,” this brand stands for education and hope… and no coincidences.
