Thomas Lang

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Thomas Lang (born August 5, 1967 in Vienna, Austria) is a professional drummer, frequent drum clinician and a producer.

Lang grew up in Austria, lived in London for ten years and moved to Los Angeles in 2006. He started playing the drums at the age of five, and after years of private lessons, he attended the Vienna Conservatory of Music. Since then he has worked as an independent drummer, playing on over 250 albums and touring with artists such as Robbie Williams and B*Witched. His work can also be heard on the solo album Mediator (1995).

In 2002, Meinl approached Remo to produce the “Thomas Lang Practice Kit”. Lang stated: "When I travel it's hard for me to keep up with my practice because I worry about disturbing people in hotel rooms, or backstage". The Remo Thomas Lang Practice Kit was the solution - an almost-silent, portable practice kit (it can be folded down and put in a small case).

1 Instructional Material
2 Drum and cymbal setup
- 2.1 2005 - 2006 tour kit
3 External links

[edit] Instructional Material

Lang's DVD Creative Control teaches advanced drumming technique and is the biggest-selling instrument instructional video to date. In Modern Drummer magazine, he has been voted by many drummers to be one of the fastest, most technical drummers in the world and can do many different drum tricks and stick tricks utilising his entire kit. In 2005 he headlined the UK Drumfest held in Birmingham alongside Kenny Aronoff and Jimmy Chamberlin.

Lang also has a new DVD titled Creative Coordination & Advanced Foot Technique (Hudson Music) which was released in November 2006. The 3-disc set features over 7 hours of material and presents Lang's cutting-edge approach to 21st century drumming.

Thomas Lang was voted "2006 Drummer of the Year" in Rythm Magazine's Reader's Poll.

In March of 2007, Thomas Lang is scheduled to release a solo album titled, "Something Along Those Lines."

A video from Creative Coordination (courtesy of Drummerworld.com)

[edit] Drum and cymbal setup

The kit presently used by Lang is a typical example of a progressive metal drum setup. He currently endorses Sonor drums and Meinl cymbals, and uses a Sonor Designer X-Ray kit (designed by himself)and sonor Delite kits when performing live. He has also designed a number of signature cymbals with Meinl - the 16" "Synthetik Crash", 17" "Kompressor Crash", 18" "Kinetik Crash", 18" "Signal Crash/Klub Ride", and "Filter Chinas" which come in even sizes between 8" and 16". Lang states on Creative Control that when he designed his signature cymbals, he wanted to recreate electronic cymbal sounds in acoustic cymbals. This unusual and somewhat "reversed" approach adds to his unique live sound.

Lang also uses Sonor and Gibraltar Hardware, Roland Electronics, Hardcase Road Cases, AKG Microphones, Remo drum heads and Vic Firth Thomas Lang Signature Sticks.

[edit] 2005 - 2006 tour kit

Sonor X-Ray Drums and Meinl Cymbals

- 14x6" Snare
- 12x5" Snare
- 10"x5" Snare (played with foot)
- 6" Octoban (played with foot)
- 10x8" Tom
- 12x10" Tom
- 16x16" Floor Tom
- 18x16" Floor Tom
- 22x20" Bass Drum
- 20x16" Gong bass drum
- 13" Byzance Fast Hihat
- 12" Generation X Safari Hihat
- 16" Generation X Synthetik Crash
- 8" Amun Splash x2
- 8" Classics Medium Bell
- 8" Classics Powerful Bell
- 17" Generation X Kompressor Crash
- 18" Generation X Kinetik Crash
- 18" Generation X Signal Crash/Klub Ride
- 20" Byzance Ping Ride
- 14" Byzance Fast Hihat
- 8" Generation X Filter China
- 10" Generation X Filter China
- 12" Generation X Filter China
- 14" Generation X Filter China
- 16" Generation X Filter China