As a drumline member I’ve witnessed many comrades go down to the fabled trash cans, drum major ladders, fire hydrants, stairs, ramps, fence, people etc. and every time that’s happened my percussion director always said “is the drum ok”
i play 4th bass at my school this year and the first day of band camp i literally took a gash of drywall out of one of the half walls at the entrance to our theatre because i couldn't see over the drum. drum was fine, wall was (and still is) not
When I was in drumline, we would pretend to throw an imaginary stick around in between reps. Each throw and catch got more exaggerated and intense. I loved it.
We have a running joke where every week one of us gets whacked with an imaginary bass mallet that came from orbit. That person then proceeds to chuck said mallet back into space, where it wreaks havoc on another poor soul the next week.
I’m primarily a trombone/baritone player even though I also play snare - the amount of times the trumpets would complain about keeping their horns up during spring training was infuriating so tenor players, I feel your pain.
"i reset mainstage, i reset the laptop, i reset the power to the entire city, and nothing is working" as my band's synth player 3 years running, i felt this on a spiritual level
oh my god this right here, sometimes mainstage just decides to go on strike and there's nothing you can do while you have the loudest patch known to man blaring on every speaker with no way to turn it off as the midi reset key has joined the union
Not a drum instructor, but as a band director I'd be lying if I said I didn't do a few of these lmao. Particularly at 1:12, I'm bad about "Yeah just do it like this" and flubbing it. In fairness though, it's usually on a secondary instrument lol
Synth gang 💪 that was me when i plugged in the wrong cable to the speaker during last indoor season and the previous synth (who was then on vibes) pointed it out. I felt like a clown lmao
I remember in summer band me playing bass 3 I was hitting the drum a little hard to the point I lost control to my right hand letting go to my stick and hitting a snare player.
The drum tech my freshmen year was having us run a section of the music and the snare kept dropping his stick so the drum tech grabbed it when it fell asked if it was the Snares which of course it was and he threw it as hard as he possibly could and it landed in the woods so the snare had to spend thirty minutes looking for his stick while the rest of us kept running that section
@@aidenheinz4237 in diameter ya but there are different sizes in depth which really doesnt make the pitch lower itself but more depth it is the more able it can support a lower tuning
4:35 I felt this on a spiritual level. I got switched to vibe my last season of indoor at the last minute and didn’t know exactly what I was doing. So when the tech (he was a college freshman music ed student and I was a senior) gave me a comment and after the next rep I would ask if that was better and he would say oh idk I forgot to watch u. Like bruh what.
The kids I teach are terrified of a pair of sticks I carry with me. I have my normal clicking sticks, but I also have my “tick” sticks. Those sticks are an abomination, they are Vic Firth Tom Aungst tenor hybrid sticks with the tips of the sticks sawed off and they are vertically taped(dumb thing I did in high school because I was bored). Any big mistakes they make, I have them use the tick sticks for a rep😂
It fills me with rage to hear literally anyone else complaining about their instrument being heavy... Pearl deep shell quad toms, not fun But i feel particularly bad about the gyy elsewhere who marches Dynasty, those thangs are heavy
Freshman year for me at a comp, I had earplugs in as we walked to the field. Section leader turned and said something, I said "what?" And promptly ran into a pole half my height
My drumline teacher is one of the best so he can always just play somthing even if it’s the hardest piece of music just 5 minutes he’s got, I respect him
8:20 from personal expierence I can tell you: You absolutely can march in those shoes. Traditionally the marching bands wear those whilst paradeing and strolling through the city for 3 consecutive days.
"Is the drum ok?" This line is so real. also, you learn really quick in drumline and marching band to never let anyone else pick up your sticks for you if you drop them lol. 😂
2:02 One day during indoor rehearsal two years ago, we were walking to the gym and the guy on bass 5 had his AirPods in so he couldn’t hear anything when we said watch out. He ended up walking straight into one of the janitors trash cans on wheels. Luckily he didn’t fall down and stayed on his feet.
Oh my god, the number of times the synthesizer has broken before games are insane. I don't know if it was always broken, or if everyone was just an idiot at fixing it. I'm not a drumline/pit btw, I'm just a clarinet so idk how to fix it myself 😅
As a former bass drummer, I have tripped on a sousaphone and done the exact thing shown in the video. This was right before we performed at a football game. The drum was fine.
And that’s why my school, instead of clicking “Save”, we click “Save as new file…” and I just feel bad for just volume adjustments. And I’ve done this before too.
In my drumline when we slow down or speed up when we're not supposed to, it goes something like this: Instructor: "Why are you guys changing the tempo?" Bongo player: "Well, I was just listening to the bass drum." Snare player 1: "Yes, me too. He started to slow down, so I went along. Bass player: I was actually listening to you guys. The other snare players thinking: "We don't know what happened, we're only focused on playing our parts correctly.
I've never met anyone like Steven Sassafras. And yet, I feel like I know him so well. Also it is so true that the people with the lightest drums complain the most.
10:46 our loading dock is basically just an elevated slab on concrete about three feet off the ground and about 200ish square feet. We did not like our band director so at the end of the year with a little help from the football team, we got his little Prius onto the loading dock. Needless to say did not return the following year…
Im not in drumline, but a thing i always hear from our tech is him praising the drumline one rep, and then literally the next rep he goes all “youre the worst players ever oh my god”
Omg the “is the drum ok” thing reminds me of when we were at a football game and someone knocked over a bass drum in the stands, everyone was freaking out and I think half of us were more worried about the drum 💀 The kid was ok btw and we still joke about it
My line seriously quotes part one of this. " can we get a break?? we've been at this for 26 minutes straight! " we're usually joking when we say it, I promise
Saturday I tripped over a little divit in the concrete....I have the biggest bass drum we march.....it thankfully landed on me and not the ground....the people helping out at the competition asked if I needed some water...I took the water....as well as the humor of my friends.....but hey, we got superiors so it was well worth it.
Tech: “who can tell me what happened that rep?” Drumline kids say in a cacophony all at once overlapping each other: “we slowed down” “we sped up” “our stick heights were wack” “Stephen farted”
WHY IS SCOTTY WEARING PANTS?!!! I ran track when I was in elementary school and the teacher yelled at me when I brought soda as my drink. Thanks for bringing back that memory. Also, *drummer’s Oh, and you can say “Coronavirus” again in videos now. That demonetization rule seems to have been dropped months and months ago. Other UA-camrs I watched have said it. Or maybe they just said “covid.”
I remember tripping over a yard marker when I played bass drum back in high school. We also had a student ask the instructor “do we have to wear khakis”, they even had us running up and down hills during rehearsals
Hey Eric your videos are amazing. I just joined marching band my first year in 8th grade and made center snare. I am absolutely loving it and your videos are so addicting.
We actually had a running joke whenever someone said one more time where we would say “one more time” and hold up our hand and constantly change how many fingers we hold up
First spring training day, only water break Instructor:alright guys thats a good time for a quick water break, make sure to bring water from now on Me: does dr pepper count? Instructor(chill guy): WHAT?!?!? NO!!
One of the cymbal players said to me “we’re not a competition band it’s fine if we make a few mistakes” after I got on them for marching 10 extra yards during pregame. This person is also the worst cymbal player.
Yay, the students at Carrmen Heights are back!! Rebecca and Linda lost some height. And happy to see a reprise of Manny's hatred of Steven's complaints:-D
Whenever someone drops a stick or mallet, out techs point at it and say “it’s right there” the same thing happened when I knocked over a music stand with my drums.
In my band if the director says one more time we can yell skittles and if we end up doing another rep the people who yelled it get skittles. If we don't do it again the people who yelled owe her a cookie.
9:07 It became a running joke my junior year that whenever the assistant band director left the podium the speaker would say Bluetooth disconnected and he would always get ticked at it because it took a while for him to get it reconnected (he was only 21)
Bro the bass drum thing with the trashcans is so accurate, I play bass 3 and I'm a generally clumsy person and I've run into/over so much stuff bc I can barely see
As a drumline member I’ve witnessed many comrades go down to the fabled trash cans, drum major ladders, fire hydrants, stairs, ramps, fence, people etc. and every time that’s happened my percussion director always said “is the drum ok”
i play 4th bass at my school this year and the first day of band camp i literally took a gash of drywall out of one of the half walls at the entrance to our theatre because i couldn't see over the drum. drum was fine, wall was (and still is) not
@@ethansucksatcuphead I’m sorry to hear that the drum was fine and that’s all that matters
One of our snares walked into a crotch high bollard that fit just below the snare.
@@MuriKakari I felt that omg
fire hydrants perform more vasectomies than actual doctors.
The extremely long awaited sequel
This is what I remember
He said “one more time”
3 years ago today the first came out
@@CavinLee and?
Now for part 3....
When I was in drumline, we would pretend to throw an imaginary stick around in between reps. Each throw and catch got more exaggerated and intense. I loved it.
We have a running joke where every week one of us gets whacked with an imaginary bass mallet that came from orbit. That person then proceeds to chuck said mallet back into space, where it wreaks havoc on another poor soul the next week.
We so this too lol
I’m primarily a trombone/baritone player even though I also play snare - the amount of times the trumpets would complain about keeping their horns up during spring training was infuriating so tenor players, I feel your pain.
We had a baritone complaining about how heavy it was, when we literally marched 55lb dynasty tenors last year
Thank you
Thank you
@@duohyt as a baritone player and tenor player, both are heavy, I will take tenors over baritone,
bc u know, a 4 lb trumpet is significantly harder to march than bari sax, sousaphone, horizontal tuba, or tenor drums.
so sad.
We really need some more of these characters, because they are awesome
@@JCSmooth bro aint no way u got this mad over a voice effect
@@JCSmooth You don't need to watch! We love his characters!!!
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"i reset mainstage, i reset the laptop, i reset the power to the entire city, and nothing is working"
as my band's synth player 3 years running, i felt this on a spiritual level
As a synth player going into my last year in WGI, can confirm this as well
oh my god this right here, sometimes mainstage just decides to go on strike and there's nothing you can do while you have the loudest patch known to man blaring on every speaker with no way to turn it off as the midi reset key has joined the union
Not a drum instructor, but as a band director I'd be lying if I said I didn't do a few of these lmao. Particularly at 1:12, I'm bad about "Yeah just do it like this" and flubbing it. In fairness though, it's usually on a secondary instrument lol
hi
As a synth player, that is way too accurate. (I've asked without having tried to fix it too) although we don't actually use laptops
Feel ya there, i play synth for a part of pur current show and i just straight up forget to plug in the pedal
Synth gang 💪 that was me when i plugged in the wrong cable to the speaker during last indoor season and the previous synth (who was then on vibes) pointed it out. I felt like a clown lmao
That’s why you get paid the big bucks, coming up with solutions
7:52 - 8:20
Wow, that hit a nostalgia nerve. If it’s not the drum instructor (tech) then it was the upperclassman doing that to the freshmen. 😂
I love the evil smile on Eric's face here!
I remember in summer band me playing bass 3 I was hitting the drum a little hard to the point I lost control to my right hand letting go to my stick and hitting a snare player.
Yesss! I dropped my stick and the section leader threw it across the parking lot!😂
The drum tech my freshmen year was having us run a section of the music and the snare kept dropping his stick so the drum tech grabbed it when it fell asked if it was the Snares which of course it was and he threw it as hard as he possibly could and it landed in the woods so the snare had to spend thirty minutes looking for his stick while the rest of us kept running that section
This is my new favorite EMC video. This better go viral! I can really tell how much effort you put into this one, Eric! Great work!
Good morning! This is video number 14 of me asking Eric to make a set of tenors out of differently sized snare drums.
Aren’t nearly all snares the same size?
@@aidenheinz4237 in diameter ya but there are different sizes in depth which really doesnt make the pitch lower itself but more depth it is the more able it can support a lower tuning
Snenor
4:35 I felt this on a spiritual level. I got switched to vibe my last season of indoor at the last minute and didn’t know exactly what I was doing. So when the tech (he was a college freshman music ed student and I was a senior) gave me a comment and after the next rep I would ask if that was better and he would say oh idk I forgot to watch u. Like bruh what.
The kids I teach are terrified of a pair of sticks I carry with me. I have my normal clicking sticks, but I also have my “tick” sticks. Those sticks are an abomination, they are Vic Firth Tom Aungst tenor hybrid sticks with the tips of the sticks sawed off and they are vertically taped(dumb thing I did in high school because I was bored). Any big mistakes they make, I have them use the tick sticks for a rep😂
The first version of this was the first emc video I watched, still one of my favorites
Steven Sassafras’s schemes and laughter always make my day better 😂
I'm so glad these characters are back Eric is so funny
As a tenor player myself, other people saying their drums are super heavy and about to collapse pisses me off so much 🤣
So relatable
It fills me with rage to hear literally anyone else complaining about their instrument being heavy...
Pearl deep shell quad toms, not fun
But i feel particularly bad about the gyy elsewhere who marches Dynasty, those thangs are heavy
RIGHT
Not only the tenor players but some of the lower bass players got pissed off too (bass 4 and 5)
Yeah and i get especially mad when the flutes say their instrument is heavy
Try carrying bass 6!
The facial hair differences are appreciated. The dedication is admirable.
When everybody yells pole and the bass drummer still runs into the pole
keep making these videos. As a drumline tech this is highly amusing
1:59 at our comp yesterday, I literally fell in a pothole cuz I couldn’t see anything. The pains of bass drum
I was bass 5 last year, and slipped down a hill like a slip n slide. I had my GoPro on too😂
Freshman year for me at a comp, I had earplugs in as we walked to the field. Section leader turned and said something, I said "what?" And promptly ran into a pole half my height
My drumline teacher is one of the best so he can always just play somthing even if it’s the hardest piece of music just 5 minutes he’s got, I respect him
It's great that Eric can shave parts of his beard, record Manny, then record Joe Mama, then record everyone else!!!
8:20 from personal expierence I can tell you: You absolutely can march in those shoes. Traditionally the marching bands wear those whilst paradeing and strolling through the city for 3 consecutive days.
"That run was so good! I just want to see it one more time to make sure it wasn't a fluke" - my director
this is the most anticipated sequel to any video in film history, i have waited so long for this
"Is the drum ok?" This line is so real. also, you learn really quick in drumline and marching band to never let anyone else pick up your sticks for you if you drop them lol. 😂
Extremely happy to see another video of these series, would love to see more of these fantastic videos
This is my first year teaching a 2nd-5th drumline…and this video is 100% accurate
2:02 One day during indoor rehearsal two years ago, we were walking to the gym and the guy on bass 5 had his AirPods in so he couldn’t hear anything when we said watch out. He ended up walking straight into one of the janitors trash cans on wheels. Luckily he didn’t fall down and stayed on his feet.
Oooo I’ve been waiting for this since the last one. I’ve watched the last one almost daily
Oh my god, the number of times the synthesizer has broken before games are insane. I don't know if it was always broken, or if everyone was just an idiot at fixing it.
I'm not a drumline/pit btw, I'm just a clarinet so idk how to fix it myself 😅
As a synth player, I can confirm that the electronics are sentient, and break a majority of the time, right before games or competitions
My conductor actually has a jar called the one more time jar the she has to put a quarter in any time she says one more time more than once
As a former bass drummer, I have tripped on a sousaphone and done the exact thing shown in the video. This was right before we performed at a football game. The drum was fine.
“Didn’t you write these parts” is the most accurate thing in this video
There’s actually a girl in my band that dresses like a business lady every day and actually marches in heels
And that’s why my school, instead of clicking “Save”, we click “Save as new file…” and I just feel bad for just volume adjustments.
And I’ve done this before too.
The one with "is the drum okay?" Actually happen to me yesterday at a competition couldn't see over my bass (bass 5 ) and fell over a curb
The bass drum trash can thing is so true! This is too relatable
Love this type of content! Also appreciate the effort you put in, especially the beard shaved between characters
As a snare player and a Drumline writer I can confirm this 😂😂😂😂😂
I just watched the first version of thus yesterday and I'm so happy there's a new one!
Gotta include my favorite quote of all time, “that was the most insane thing I’ve ever seen” -Caleb Yurasek
Every time, and I mean every time you drop anything, no matter where you are, expect a sarcastic “hey you dropped something”
In my drumline when we slow down or speed up when we're not supposed to, it goes something like this:
Instructor: "Why are you guys changing the tempo?"
Bongo player: "Well, I was just listening to the bass drum."
Snare player 1: "Yes, me too. He started to slow down, so I went along.
Bass player: I was actually listening to you guys.
The other snare players thinking: "We don't know what happened, we're only focused on playing our parts correctly.
I am a freshman in marching band and our drum tech is so nice and patient it’s really odd
I've never met anyone like Steven Sassafras. And yet, I feel like I know him so well.
Also it is so true that the people with the lightest drums complain the most.
10:46 our loading dock is basically just an elevated slab on concrete about three feet off the ground and about 200ish square feet. We did not like our band director so at the end of the year with a little help from the football team, we got his little Prius onto the loading dock. Needless to say did not return the following year…
Im not in drumline, but a thing i always hear from our tech is him praising the drumline one rep, and then literally the next rep he goes all “youre the worst players ever oh my god”
As a synth player, can confirm we tend to be clumsy.
Omg the “is the drum ok” thing reminds me of when we were at a football game and someone knocked over a bass drum in the stands, everyone was freaking out and I think half of us were more worried about the drum 💀
The kid was ok btw and we still joke about it
My line seriously quotes part one of this.
" can we get a break?? we've been at this for 26 minutes straight! " we're usually joking when we say it, I promise
Saturday I tripped over a little divit in the concrete....I have the biggest bass drum we march.....it thankfully landed on me and not the ground....the people helping out at the competition asked if I needed some water...I took the water....as well as the humor of my friends.....but hey, we got superiors so it was well worth it.
Big fan of the channel Emc keep up the good work ❤
Tech: “who can tell me what happened that rep?”
Drumline kids say in a cacophony all at once overlapping each other: “we slowed down” “we sped up” “our stick heights were wack” “Stephen farted”
I can't imagine how much work you put into this video.
9:02 At my first wgi audition the guy right next to me was doing the visual block in freaking crocs
I definitely get it the easiest being synth, our tech yells at everyone but me lmao.
The band director ignores the electronics. And if he acknowledges us, it’s usually just the bass guitarist.
6:00 I’m quivering, sextuplet split👁🫦👁
The perfect mix of plot, unexpectedness, truth, and ofc perfect percussing
WHY IS SCOTTY WEARING PANTS?!!!
I ran track when I was in elementary school and the teacher yelled at me when I brought soda as my drink. Thanks for bringing back that memory.
Also, *drummer’s
Oh, and you can say “Coronavirus” again in videos now. That demonetization rule seems to have been dropped months and months ago. Other UA-camrs I watched have said it. Or maybe they just said “covid.”
As a synth player i can agree i have felt dum when trying to fix the keyboard
7:52 Happens so freaking often except the kids don’t get any punishment
This may be the funniest video I’ve seen on this channel yet! Good work EMC
I remember tripping over a yard marker when I played bass drum back in high school. We also had a student ask the instructor “do we have to wear khakis”, they even had us running up and down hills during rehearsals
4:12 “why didn’t you go on break”
Because it’s a 7 minute walk to the school
The "was that better?"
Director doesn't even look got me.
Hey Eric your videos are amazing. I just joined marching band my first year in 8th grade and made center snare. I am absolutely loving it and your videos are so addicting.
Your middle school does marching in 8th grade?? 1. Congrats on center snare 2. woah our middle school didn't even touch marching
@@lotus4129 yeah so they let in 8th graders that are good enough into the high school marching band. So far I’m really excited
@@bgdstudios121 That's sick! Congrats
LMAOO!!NI love the part where they carry the car to him!
We actually had a running joke whenever someone said one more time where we would say “one more time” and hold up our hand and constantly change how many fingers we hold up
First spring training day, only water break
Instructor:alright guys thats a good time for a quick water break, make sure to bring water from now on
Me: does dr pepper count?
Instructor(chill guy): WHAT?!?!? NO!!
2:52 literally me w my at home sticks
one of our snares last year while we was stretching was like "i hope no one puts it in" i still think about that sometimes
You gotta hate when guard or pit makes fun of the drumline for struggling after like 10 reps on the field.
the different amounts of facial hair on the characters is a neat detail
*drops stick*
our techs-"hey you dropped your stick" *then points at it* "do you see it? Its right there"
One of the cymbal players said to me “we’re not a competition band it’s fine if we make a few mistakes” after I got on them for marching 10 extra yards during pregame. This person is also the worst cymbal player.
pls do more of that funny stuff like this. Really love it!
Yesssssss! the best video ever especially coming from DCI I relate to a lot of these
It’s funny how all these things happen literally in any high school drumline. Sooo accurate
Yay, the students at Carrmen Heights are back!! Rebecca and Linda lost some height. And happy to see a reprise of Manny's hatred of Steven's complaints:-D
6:25 I did this one time and it sucked having to run the half mile back to the band room to go get the speaker then run it back to the gym
Whenever someone drops a stick or mallet, out techs point at it and say “it’s right there” the same thing happened when I knocked over a music stand with my drums.
The bass drum one happed to my friend but with a short sign when we were marching down and playing cadences
2:12, drops mallets. That'll be 40 pushups.
finally some synth acknowledgement :D
10:19 big fan of the floating snare drum
In my band if the director says one more time we can yell skittles and if we end up doing another rep the people who yelled it get skittles. If we don't do it again the people who yelled owe her a cookie.
Some things in the very beginning our drum tech says all the time, and our line makes a lot of Morbius jokes and s3x jokes.
This is so relatable during high school……….I was in the drum line for the most part of high school 😂
"Stop checking the time. Time is a matter of my opinion!" -my director
I haven’t seen the new emc drumline until now and it’s fire so far
the “why do you hate me” sounded so sad.
9:07 It became a running joke my junior year that whenever the assistant band director left the podium the speaker would say Bluetooth disconnected and he would always get ticked at it because it took a while for him to get it reconnected (he was only 21)
The bassdrum/trashcan totally happened to me...except it was a baby in a stroller....and I was carrying a fully stocked knife drawer.
2:14 and I quote from my friends(also play bass) “I would check the drum for damage before I check for a pulse.”
Bro the bass drum thing with the trashcans is so accurate, I play bass 3 and I'm a generally clumsy person and I've run into/over so much stuff bc I can barely see
As a bass drum I find that my mortal enemy is stairs, benches, fellow bass drums, and the occasional car
Tripping over the trash can. Priceless! 🤣
Oh my gooooorsh, the pack of you carrying your car closer. 😂 I can’t…
5:34 One of my biggest pet peeves in any marching setting