I would like to share with you a phrasing concept. I was listening to some stuff that Vinnie Colaiuta did with Frank Zappa and there I was again - shaking my head and rolling my eyes. Well one day I became courageous and asked myself how he does it.
Mike Portnoy was born on April 20, 1967 and raised in Long Beach, New York, where his interest in music started at an early age. "My father was a rock n' roll disc jockey, so I was always surrounded by music constantly. I had this huge record collection when I was real young and loved the Beatles and then later on Kiss. It was inevitable that I'd become a musician."
We recently sat down with Mike for a few minutes to get his thoughts on music, inspiration, performance, and more - check it out! Mike Portnoy is the acclaimed drummer of Dream Theater as well as various side-projects such as Liquid Tension Experiment, TransAtlantic and O.S.I.
Hudson was recently featured in Drum Business Magazine - "When Drummers Collective proprietors Paul Siegel and Rob Wallis began videotaping master classes with high profile drummers at their New York City music school in 1982, they had no idea that this would establish them as the preeminent drum-video gurus of the industry."
I spend a lot of time touting the benefits of using DVDs to enhance one’s teaching style. (it’s kind of my job here!) But there is one aspect of DVDs that can’t be argued – and that is that they take up space. I mean real, physical space...
