

Myung uses both tapping and fingerstyle to play the Chapman Stick. The songs "These Walls" and "The Dark Eternal Night" feature Myung using a pick. Myung's use of harmonics is frequently accompanied by a chorus effect, as in the opening of "Lifting Shadows off a Dream". He sometimes uses slapping and popping on some songs, such as "The Dark Eternal Night", and also uses tapping and harmonics in his bass playing. Myung mainly uses a two or three finger picking style in his playing. The trio became the nucleus of Dream Theater, which became Myung's primary professional focus.

After graduating from high school, he and Petrucci enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, where they met Mike Portnoy. After taking violin lessons from the age of five, he started playing bass guitar at fifteen.

ə ŋ/ born January 24, 1967) is an American bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.īorn in Chicago to South Korean parents, Myung grew up with John Petrucci on Long Island.
