1. John Ro Myung is an American bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.
16 Facts About John Myung
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John Myung took violin lessons from the age of five and started playing bass guitar at fifteen.
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John Myung mainly uses a two or three finger picking style in his playing.
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John Myung sometimes uses slapping and popping on some songs, such as "The Dark Eternal Night", and uses tapping and harmonics in his bass playing.
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The songs "These Walls" and "The Dark Eternal Night" feature John Myung using a pick.
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John Myung uses both tapping and fingerstyle to play the Chapman Stick.
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John Myung cites bassists Geezer Butler, John Entwistle, Chris Squire, Steve Harris, Geddy Lee and Jaco Pastorius as main influences on his playing style.
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John Myung is known for his rigorous practicing schedule; producer Kevin Shirley and keyboardist Derek Sherinian have said that John Myung is the only musician they know who "warms down" after a show.
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Petrucci has said that when he and John Myung were in high school, they had an agreement to practice at least six hours every day.
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John Myung wrote the lyrics to one song per album from Images and Words to Metropolis Pt.
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For When Dream and Day Unite, Dream Theater's debut, John Myung played a modified Music Man StingRay four-string bass and a Fender Jazz Bass.
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John Myung switched to six-string basses for Dream Theater's subsequent tours, using several high-end Tobias "Basic" models.
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Early in the 2007 "Chaos in Motion Tour", he was seen playing a MusicMan Bongo 5 HS in a signature "Inca Silver" finish on stage, the first time since before Images and Words that John Myung had toured with a five-string.
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John Myung has used a twelve-string Grand Chapman Stick on two songs on Falling Into Infinity, "Take Away My Pain" and most prominently "New Millennium", which he performs live on Stick.
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Dream Theater sources report that John Myung routinely brings the Stick to the studio and has sometimes made it so far as tracking, but it has not appeared on a Dream Theater studio album since Falling into Infinity.
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John Myung has used Moog Taurus 3 Bass Pedals since 2011.