Technique
Myung mainly uses a two or three finger picking style in his playing. He also uses slapping and popping on some songs and also uses Tapping and Harmonics in his bass playing. His tapping technique is demonstrated most prominently in the bass solo in "Metropolis part 1: The Miracle and The Sleeper". He uses his chorus effect to help the harmonics to ring out in his playing and sometimes plays chords consisting mostly of harmonics. This is heard most prominently in the intro riff of "Lifting Shadows off a Dream". He uses tapping and fingerstyle on his Chapman Stick throughout "New Millennium". He occasionally uses a pick as well, namely on "These Walls" and the ending of "The Dark Eternal Night". For the song "These Walls" he played with a pick in the studio but later used fingerstyle when playing live.
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