Mike Mangini
DRums
Mike grew up in Waltham, MA, USA. He 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. Read his biography.
Mike has played in many bands, on a fair amount of albums and performed live since the age of five. After he composed the music and lryics for "Insivisible Signs,” he cowrote and played drums for the 64th Grammys “Best Metal Performance” song called, “The Alien.”
Mike’s mission is to offer hope to anyone interested in developing various physical skills and learning the ‘truths’ of tangible and intangible things.
Mike has played in many bands, on a fair amount of albums and performed live since the age of five. After he composed the music and lryics for "Insivisible Signs,” he cowrote and played drums for the 64th Grammys “Best Metal Performance” song called, “The Alien.”
As an educator, his passion for learning and teaching came about becasue he loathed performing. His disdain for it got 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. This led to his basing his behavioral change system on software engineering techniques. That approach became Rhythm Knowledge.