I dont know what it is about it but I think the bursts of focus followed by jokes and relaxation actually help my lines learning process. Like we'll get stuff done for 45 minutes to an hour and get a section really good, and then joke around for 10-15 minutes. Something about realizing that your just in a high school band and it's meant to be fun gives us more drive
The thing with linda's harness reminds me when john davis was yelling at a girl in our band to hurry on to the parking lot so we could start the next set after our break and she replied with "I had to put in a new tampon" and through the mic john just said in his beautiful accent "oh... uhhh... I- uhhh.... just hurry up"
I'm Steven cause I'm obsessed with high moms our caption had to tell me so many times to stop doing them I can't help it's so cool to me when I'm playing something and I throw a high mom in there and it is a little late so it makes a sound that's like a flam where the accented note that is after tha grace note is superate but it sounds so cool idk why guess in weird
Back in 1994 while teaching at a mobile Percussion Seminar, I ACTUALLY had the real life version of Steven Sassafras!!!! Lol. All of us instructors were either marching at UMASS Amherst or/and had marched Cadets or for Star of Indianas final season. Our students were for the most part high school students. This one student constantly was asking for breaks and couldnt seem to stand straight while playing. The most rewarding thing of that week was seeing how excited he was at the end of the week when he was able to stand straight while performing for the parents. Always a good thing to see someone get a positive experience after all the hard work.
I was bass 4 two years in highschool and one year in corps. The rest of my time i was on tenors. If memory serves me correctly bass 4 pretty much played odd things at odd times.
When I was in high school the drum major told one of the quads "A trained monkey could play quads and march better than you" during practice. Worth the pushups when I laughed.
same my band director always says right be for the end do it again the at least 10 times then says march back to the band room in block band formation then go home and when he says take to take a five minute break it feel like five seconds
As a snare a quads (we called them quints) player this was so freaking accurate! You forgot to mention how hot the uniforms are while carrying heavy drums, passing out from the heat and nobody listening to the section captain.
Band Director: drumline play the written dynamics Drumline: ok *plays the written dynamic* Band Director: Drumline its too loud take it from a fff to a mf Drumline: 🙃
I retired the first of April after 35 years as a pilot. With the extra idle time, I dived into UA-cam and came up with a couple of gems. One was The Top Secret Drum Corps. The other was this video. My mom and I watched this and thought it was funny, even though we know nothing about drumming. I’ve watched a lot more of EMC videos and I’ve decided I want to play tenor. Thanks for opening my mind.
No joke, one year the drum line music was very late. We were behind because of it. The first 2 competitions we didn't have the drill for the 2nd half of the show. We just stayed behind the band, changing sides of the field and connecting to whatever lines were being made by the rest of the band. The director was so busy with other problems, he didn't even notice until the 3rd competition.
I teched drumlines and pits for 8 years, and I have never seen a more accurate description of my life during that time. Seriously still have nightmares about not being able to calm my drumline down.
The biggest weakness of my high school's drumline is the fact that we don't all share a band class during school. Half of our line could only be with us after school, causing a disconnect
One of my favorites from band camp; "Hey man, are you at the point yet where like, everything hurts so much it just, like stops hurting?" "Uh, no?" "Yeah, me neither"
Conversations my drumline had: “the cymbal player is either dead or moved to Canada, and we only had one, so now one of the three snares has to move over to cymbal.” Oh and “if one of the quad heads is broken, just play around it, we have no spare.” And also “the truck left without letting us load up, so all are instruments are going for a bus ride.” And “who’s going to State? No one? Well then we won’t move practice.” And my personal favorite “Oh, that clearly dangerous man was awoken by our early morning playing, and is now ranting at the Band Teacher, better get this on camera before he beats her to death!”
As a tenor player, yeah, there were a few rehearsals that became snare sectionals. Or the cymbals would go have a sectional, the basses would have one, and tenors would just get put with snares, and then kind of ignored.
Also when the directors always say that color guard does a lot of hard work and recognizea them for it and the band claps for them but Drumline never gets any love :')
I'm a synth player for our marching band (And I know Eric WAS also the Synth Player during the Marine Drum and Bugle) and this is relatable. "Is this a good sounding patch?" "What Patch do you want here?" "Which patch, String Ensemble, or Cinema Strings?" "I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO PUT AUDIO FILES INTO MAINSTAGE!!!! Meaning, we can Rickroll the audience." "Turn me up louder, i can't hear myself!" "Mute me, I have to organize cables!" "That patch sounds horrible." "They replaced the synth solo with... TRUMPETS???." and finally... "Laptop's dead, does anyone have a spare charger?" (And yes, we did get 2 refurbished MacBook Pros this year, and already lost all 2 of them, plus the charger from last year.)
“Yea those hertas at measure 28, we are checking it” “LEFT” “Still too high!” “Keep it at “X” height” “Your feet are slow” “Push 41” “We are rushing the crap out that eight note space at bar 11” “Late attack”
The clips of Steven complaining about snare and Manny having a look of disgust on his face is how I look back on my 8th grade year of marching band(my school used to have marching band open for grades 8-12 now it's just 9-12).
When I was in marching band, our head director would get some other techs out to listen to our band and help out. He brought a middle school band director who would always tell the drums to play softer, and there was one point where he told the drums to play softer in a spot where we didnt play. Out actual drum tech said change it for the day and then go back to what we did before. Good times.
So much of this is accurate, even when I marched 10+ years ago! I was bass captain and we messed around so much lols. Our favorite sayings were "water we doing?" and yelling "Dr. Scholl's!" Tenor/quad players definitely had the most messed up backs!
"Can we put our drums down?" "If I run to my dot I'm going to do a drum roll." "Can we get a gush and go?" "When is rehearsal over?" "We are apart of the band too."
Section Leader Walks In: "I wanna go home so we won't have a sectional today,. Just practice so you won't get called out tomorrow and make us look bad. Okay, that will wrap up today's sectional!"
Our quad player pinched a nerve in his back as we were marching onto the field for our last contest senior year. One of the judges was late, so we stood for five minutes, then they let us rest. Top bass and me (center snare) ran up and grabbed the quad players drums to relieve the pressure. Dude marched the entire show after that literally crying in pain without missing a note. He went into the Marines after that...love that guy!
Best thing one of the quads I used to play with said to me right before competition "I just took about the muscle relaxants we're going to have a great show" I agree with her and I asked her for some we didn't have a great show but it was fun
@@system_shift4707 I'm bass 4 and I was the only one having to ask again sometimes... but usually I'm just super exhausted from doing soccer and drumline at the same time. But only sometimes!
I'm the section leader and repairman for my high school drum line, and once I had to fix a carrier with my belt, two bass drum heads, replace four broken cymbal straps, and three snare heads in one week of band camp. Also at a comp. I had my drum upside down the whole time.
I know I'm over a year late, but I have a vivid memory of our tech in high school walking off in the middle of a rehearsal. Then after about 5 min walked back over to us and stopping our rep to yell out "No one put a gun to your head and said be in band!" Then he walked away and went home for the day. Classic Alan Miller and I right?
Good morning! Finally another snare lick for me: the friendly neighborhood snare player. Also I was definitely Steven in high school but wanted to be Lil Peanut. Trouble is i didn’t have the Grammy nominations.
The boots thing hits way too close to home with me lol. During band camp, I only had steel toe construction boots, I had no sneakers so for two weeks, I had to march in steel toe boots.
"Everyone pull out your music, we are doing note checks" "Uh I don't have mine" "Okay, where is it?" "Idk i haven't seen it in a month" "...." Actual conversation
3:00 The quad's angry mustache blow while the snares complain of pain, gets me every time. [Guess what I played in high school marching along 10+ mile Mardi Gras parade routes.]
Played bass 4 for my first year and can confirm it is definitely the worst. I play quads now and every time I hear the new snare players complain I cringe
We didn't have a drumline (we marched military style), but I can answer how you break a bass head: The Hey Song. Let's just say there's a reason we saved that one for in the stands after the halftime show. It was usually a case of 2 percussionist, one bass drum.
I had that marching band thing where the snare is complaining, but for me it’s that trumpets complain of a heavy instrument, but I carry a marching baritone and I think that while it’s heavy it is still alright.
I remember one time in a band rehearsal I was in the back focusing on my drum like a good boy and then I hear a HUGE trumpet squeak then the kid stood up and yelled THIS IS WHY I WANTED TO PLAY PERCUSSION 😂😂
We have dunduns in my percussion ensemble, and depending on where in the room you stand, you hear what side is deeper totally differently, i think because of the overtones or something. It seems very obvious as well, so everyone got confused about it for months. We have now figured out what side it is, from where the audience would be. But if you play it, it still sounds the opposite so it's weird to play
The title almost got me, I remember I had a friend who used to complain about his back all the time and I kept my mouth shut while marching full sized tenors. Man the things that kid would say
I wasn’t on drum line for long, but when I was on it, one of the most frequently said things were “Nathan, stretch!”, “No, stretching is stupid!”, and “You know what else is gonna be stupid? Tearing a muscle in the middle of a show!” In that order
Good news! Grandma Peanut made a full recovery and is out of the hospital. Turns out she just had to pass some MASSIVE gas.
EMCproductions oh. Nice
EMCproductions this is actually hilarious, 😂😂😂😂 quad life
EMCproductions and that damn snare thing about their back is so true
@@jofilmz693 bass 5 life though
hi EMC I would appreciate it if u could give me a shoutout. I am also a drumming channel. And any help would be INSANE. THX love ur vids
“Drumline you’re holding us back”
*gets best drumline award at a contest with 30 other bands*
Literally what happened last weekend 😂
YES. I CAN RELATE TO THIS SO MUCH
You stupid you not up against all 30 bands
Facs
Sameee
As a bass drum I can confirm that the baseline communicates with “alroououooououo bum jig a jig bum bum arooououo” noises
Yes. Someone finally understands the life of a base drummer
Of course.
Is it bass or base
Hello fellow bass drummer from 2 years ago
Straight fax
Kid: 'Falls with drum on'
Drum Tech: *"ARE THE DRUMS OKAY?!"*
Yah bout right
Gabe lol that’s what I say to anyone that falls with them because I fix them anyways
Gabe you right
As a drum tech I can 100% confirm we say this every time.
my drum tech: "you might break a few bones or die but if you fall make sure the drum is ok"
I dont know what it is about it but I think the bursts of focus followed by jokes and relaxation actually help my lines learning process. Like we'll get stuff done for 45 minutes to an hour and get a section really good, and then joke around for 10-15 minutes. Something about realizing that your just in a high school band and it's meant to be fun gives us more drive
Don’t forget the freshman that quits before the season even starts because they’re "on the soccer team"
We had a kid in water polo. He was the worst!
we had a freshman quit over the summer cause he didn’t have enough time to hang out with his friends
I’m a freshmen on snare line and I stayed the whole season
dan ok but I’m on the soccer team and I managed to stay on both, it just caused a lot of mental breakdowns
@@Aria-ns1lx Same Aria, same.
"Duck Duck Duck Duck"
"Are you saying 'Duck'?"
"y e s"
"No it's 'DUT' with a 'T'"
"I know, I want to be different"
Honestly relatable
I seen you watch history secrets are you a ww2 fan too
We have some people doing nut
good morning, im sure eventually you'll have enough characters to field a non repeating drumline
No that's what makes it funny
The thing with linda's harness reminds me when john davis was yelling at a girl in our band to hurry on to the parking lot so we could start the next set after our break and she replied with "I had to put in a new tampon" and through the mic john just said in his beautiful accent "oh... uhhh... I- uhhh.... just hurry up"
"Where is Steven"
"Oh, he had to take a massive crap"
relatable ngl
zuiabear same
That's one of my band's trumpets
I started laughing a lot
It was like the middle of practice and i got yelled at for taking a shit like no way that wouldve have been ready to come out before practice smh
I'm Steven cause I'm obsessed with high moms our caption had to tell me so many times to stop doing them I can't help it's so cool to me when I'm playing something and I throw a high mom in there and it is a little late so it makes a sound that's like a flam where the accented note that is after tha grace note is superate but it sounds so cool idk why guess in weird
one time my band director told the bass drums, "You're the heartbeat of the band and right now we're on cardiac arrest!"
i think about that a lot.
So during marching, the drumline came up with a new audible
"Blake is racist"
Blake is our center snare and the leader of the percussion
We say our center snare hates minorities
We call our drum captain, Nate, a nazi.
I’m a center snare and I’m really happy they don’t do that to me😂 I’m one of the lightest skinned person on the line
We say "Sanjay Gay"
@@choleloose641 Natezi
Back in 1994 while teaching at a mobile Percussion Seminar, I ACTUALLY had the real life version of Steven Sassafras!!!! Lol. All of us instructors were either marching at UMASS Amherst or/and had marched Cadets or for Star of Indianas final season. Our students were for the most part high school students. This one student constantly was asking for breaks and couldnt seem to stand straight while playing. The most rewarding thing of that week was seeing how excited he was at the end of the week when he was able to stand straight while performing for the parents. Always a good thing to see someone get a positive experience after all the hard work.
"the thing you have to know about bass 4 is its the WORST." damn... hit me right in my bass 4 heart. bass 4 rise up
Bass 4 gang
I was bass 4 two years in highschool and one year in corps. The rest of my time i was on tenors. If memory serves me correctly bass 4 pretty much played odd things at odd times.
Me and my drum feel personally attacked. 😔 Bass 4 gang lamo
Bass 4 can be a bitch but I love that drum. Bass 4 all day baby
I played bass 4, 2, and 1. My favorite was 4. ☺ I liked playing loud.
When I was in high school the drum major told one of the quads "A trained monkey could play quads and march better than you" during practice. Worth the pushups when I laughed.
Director- "1 more rep then water"
15 reps later
Director-"All right great rehearsal everyone. Go home"
Rule 1- We band directors lie. ;)
@@BillMillerMusicComposer At least you're hones-
Wait a second...
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Right?! ;P
We're just one big walking, talking contradiction.
"One more time!!!!"
same my band director always says right be for the end do it again the at least 10 times then says march back to the band room in block band formation then go home and when he says take to take a five minute break it feel like five seconds
Snare player: *Drops stick*
Band Director: *Stops band*
Band director: “You’re probably gonna need that!”
"One more time..."
"alright, one more time"
"alright, last time."
Josh Dilly all the time
BEST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My drum tech always hits us with the “if this rep is good, it’ll be our last” and then with “it was good, but we can make it better”
One more time...
Hey dad
As a snare a quads (we called them quints) player this was so freaking accurate! You forgot to mention how hot the uniforms are while carrying heavy drums, passing out from the heat and nobody listening to the section captain.
Band Director: drumline play the written dynamics
Drumline: ok *plays the written dynamic*
Band Director: Drumline its too loud take it from a fff to a mf
Drumline: 🙃
TENORS, YOU'RE TOO LOUD... Play the decrescendo.
Turns page to director: fff
I retired the first of April after 35 years as a pilot. With the extra idle time, I dived into UA-cam and came up with a couple of gems. One was The Top Secret Drum Corps. The other was this video. My mom and I watched this and thought it was funny, even though we know nothing about drumming. I’ve watched a lot more of EMC videos and I’ve decided I want to play tenor. Thanks for opening my mind.
that's awesome man good luck!
Lmao “can we just freestyle the whole show”
No joke, one year the drum line music was very late. We were behind because of it. The first 2 competitions we didn't have the drill for the 2nd half of the show. We just stayed behind the band, changing sides of the field and connecting to whatever lines were being made by the rest of the band. The director was so busy with other problems, he didn't even notice until the 3rd competition.
I'm curious what would happen actually
YES
@@saber-jocky3436 Percussionist are very good at making stuff up so I believe you
I teched drumlines and pits for 8 years, and I have never seen a more accurate description of my life during that time. Seriously still have nightmares about not being able to calm my drumline down.
“Let’s all make up excuses to miss the sectional.”
Big Cat Morgan is the best section leader😂😂
Every day of the week 😂
@@bigcat2518 I'll be honest, I know the music pretty well, so if there's a sectional at my school, I don't attend.
Ngl we sorta abandoned our drum tech for an hour
Lol yup. Especially my senior year
The biggest weakness of my high school's drumline is the fact that we don't all share a band class during school. Half of our line could only be with us after school, causing a disconnect
One of my favorites from band camp;
"Hey man, are you at the point yet where like, everything hurts so much it just, like stops hurting?"
"Uh, no?"
"Yeah, me neither"
I'm in band camp and I feel this
I know what you mean, it gets itchy instead of sore
The bass 5 "where's the downbeat" thing made me LOL. So true. As 14 year high school instructor, I can tell you everything in this video is so true.
Conversations my drumline had: “the cymbal player is either dead or moved to Canada, and we only had one, so now one of the three snares has to move over to cymbal.” Oh and “if one of the quad heads is broken, just play around it, we have no spare.” And also “the truck left without letting us load up, so all are instruments are going for a bus ride.” And “who’s going to State? No one? Well then we won’t move practice.” And my personal favorite “Oh, that clearly dangerous man was awoken by our early morning playing, and is now ranting at the Band Teacher, better get this on camera before he beats her to death!”
3:30 funny part is there is a band in our region that actually where’s kilts
I'm a quad player and I can confirm the whole part for quads is true
Same it really sucks lmao
Quad lives matter
Quads have their music down like they got their lives together. But really we're just crumbling on the inside. #Quadlives matter.
@@josejurado3911 well spoken
topland it’s so accurate man. #quadlivesmatter
Steven: If we are consistenstly inconsistently, that means were consistent.
Drum Tech: (It was at this moment Steven knew he f'ed up)
“Hey When do I get a solo?”
“You’re not getting a solo!”
“Why not?”
“Because you’re not good.”
“Oh.”
If that isn’t me 😂😂😂
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Damn lol feels
I've teched before, and I laughed *way* too hard at this! It's the honest thing to say that you shouldn't say 😁
Trumpet here! Relatable
As a tenor player, yeah, there were a few rehearsals that became snare sectionals.
Or the cymbals would go have a sectional, the basses would have one, and tenors would just get put with snares, and then kind of ignored.
Director: Go back to set fi-
Section Leader: HUSTLE!!!
As the section leader/center snare, i relate so hard to this...
“Drumline! Run it back!”
Also when the directors always say that color guard does a lot of hard work and recognizea them for it and the band claps for them but Drumline never gets any love :')
dog drum techs on comp days
FACCS
I'm a synth player for our marching band (And I know Eric WAS also the Synth Player during the Marine Drum and Bugle) and this is relatable.
"Is this a good sounding patch?"
"What Patch do you want here?"
"Which patch, String Ensemble, or Cinema Strings?"
"I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO PUT AUDIO FILES INTO MAINSTAGE!!!! Meaning, we can Rickroll the audience."
"Turn me up louder, i can't hear myself!"
"Mute me, I have to organize cables!"
"That patch sounds horrible."
"They replaced the synth solo with... TRUMPETS???."
and finally...
"Laptop's dead, does anyone have a spare charger?" (And yes, we did get 2 refurbished MacBook Pros this year, and already lost all 2 of them, plus the charger from last year.)
“Yea those hertas at measure 28, we are checking it”
“LEFT”
“Still too high!”
“Keep it at “X” height”
“Your feet are slow”
“Push 41”
“We are rushing the crap out that eight note space at bar 11”
“Late attack”
"diddles are too tight"
“SOFTER!!!”
*too
“If you can hear yourself, you’re out.”
“LISTEN IN!!!!”
"fuck the ballad" commonly said in my drumline
Person not fitting the form: “BUT IM ON MY DOT”
I think it's even funnier that these characters you created actually drum together pretty well. I know it's all one person, but still.
9:40 you gotta respect someone who can accept "Because you're not good" as an answer
“Can we just march without our drums the whole show”
*gets new quad heads*
Everyone: “OMG SO PRETTY LEMME TOUCH”
Dylan Scott we got new heads today and they sound like ass, I can’t wait until we can crank them.
Speed Cuber mine do too I got them today as well just gotta crank up to perfection lol
Ikr
Relatable, being a Bass Drummer though
Lol, imagine having a band director that buys new heads when we desperately need them
The clips of Steven complaining about snare and Manny having a look of disgust on his face is how I look back on my 8th grade year of marching band(my school used to have marching band open for grades 8-12 now it's just 9-12).
No one:
Drumline marching: *grass sound*
Literally no one:
The drum tech: “softer”
*the sound of a music binder falling reverbs softly in the distance*
Softer
When I was in marching band, our head director would get some other techs out to listen to our band and help out. He brought a middle school band director who would always tell the drums to play softer, and there was one point where he told the drums to play softer in a spot where we didnt play. Out actual drum tech said change it for the day and then go back to what we did before. Good times.
That’s what happened in my our band
A judge we were too loud in one part of the show, she made the entire show pianissimoissmoissmo
Michael Parker exactly
So much of this is accurate, even when I marched 10+ years ago! I was bass captain and we messed around so much lols. Our favorite sayings were "water we doing?" and yelling "Dr. Scholl's!" Tenor/quad players definitely had the most messed up backs!
"Can we put our drums down?"
"If I run to my dot I'm going to do a drum roll."
"Can we get a gush and go?"
"When is rehearsal over?"
"We are apart of the band too."
“ we are apart of the band too”- all of front ensemble
"And... SNARES (again)"
As a tenor player, I can confirm this is how every rehearsal goes.
"One more time"
then keeps going on, that's what my director does
Section Leader Walks In:
"I wanna go home so we won't have a sectional today,. Just practice so you won't get called out tomorrow and make us look bad. Okay, that will wrap up today's sectional!"
I'm a section leader and would only do that if our line was super clean. Then again, if no one was checking to be sure we had the sectional🤔
My drumline starts shouting obsenities if anyone says Dut who isnt in drumline, especially if they say the T
2:29
Omg I'm a quad and I see the snares on the field do this every time
I feel like impaling them with a stick every time I swear 😂
Our quad player pinched a nerve in his back as we were marching onto the field for our last contest senior year. One of the judges was late, so we stood for five minutes, then they let us rest. Top bass and me (center snare) ran up and grabbed the quad players drums to relieve the pressure. Dude marched the entire show after that literally crying in pain without missing a note. He went into the Marines after that...love that guy!
Also a quad, this is 100% accurate lol
Best thing one of the quads I used to play with said to me right before competition "I just took about the muscle relaxants we're going to have a great show" I agree with her and I asked her for some we didn't have a great show but it was fun
When the bass splits are so clean bass 5 literally warps space and time around him and just him
I kinda did that on one of my shows last year
I LOVE that you use your PT belt for the nerdy kid. That’s a future blue falcon in the making
"we all forgot pencils, we all forgot dot books, we all forgot music" and the Metronome problems section had me dying!! lololollolololol
13:12
OH MY GOD, THE GIRL'S DUTS SOUND MORE LIKE A METRONOME😂
DIRECTOR: "One last time"
10 runs though the chunk later
"This is the last run and then we move one."
"Hey can have a drink with you. Wait you're not coming back next year?"
the snare drummer complaining about his back and the quad player just looking over in disgust had me laughing so hard. Preach brother!
Our bass 3 asks “what?” Immediately after anyone says anything
Lol
Sounded like mine this year. We just finished. He's kind of the laziest of us all. Considering I'm there with them, that's an accomplishment.
Our bass 4 cant even play quarter notes right. He also ruins every visual drumline has
@@system_shift4707 I'm bass 4 and I was the only one having to ask again sometimes... but usually I'm just super exhausted from doing soccer and drumline at the same time. But only sometimes!
@@priusqueef2505 then offer to practice with him and encourage him. A bassline without every bass is just hopeless
I'm the section leader and repairman for my high school drum line, and once I had to fix a carrier with my belt, two bass drum heads, replace four broken cymbal straps, and three snare heads in one week of band camp. Also at a comp. I had my drum upside down the whole time.
Snare Player: My back hurts!😭
Tenor Player: Am I a joke to you?
Bass players: quietly in corner judging both
@@o-mangaming3830 unless if you are bass 1 or 2. They have no excuse for back pain.
@@Theboss24611 we talking from biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest. Cause biggest to smallest, 2. Smallest to biggest 3
@@o-mangaming3830 1 is smallest
@@Theboss24611 so im bass 3
i need a "Things that pit kids (And techs) say" immediately
"Stop throwing sticks in the ceiling"
@Coreena Albaugh how
I know I'm over a year late, but I have a vivid memory of our tech in high school walking off in the middle of a rehearsal. Then after about 5 min walked back over to us and stopping our rep to yell out "No one put a gun to your head and said be in band!" Then he walked away and went home for the day. Classic Alan Miller and I right?
FLUBS: Can we tune our drum higher?!
DIRECTOR: Tune to the highest drum.
FLUBS: We’re marching practice pads.
"Alright, now it *HAS* to be in the show. I got it ONCE" THE most accurate bit of this entire video.
10:15
“Is he gonna turn on Josie?”
*Met starts counting*
“Haha there she is”
2:29 as a tenor drum player this made my day
I weighed 140 lbs when I marched tenors and never complained but when the 200 lb snares started whining I was like mfer put my drums on for a while
I play tenors, but occasionally I put snare on and everytime I do I realize that snares are practically weightless
We went to section breakfast and someone asked for “sweet coffee”
This is basically my schools drumline. I am so proud that someone has posted something similar so that it makes me feel good. Keep up the good work.
"How do you still drop your sticks five times a day."
*Someone else drops a stick while hes talking*
Our personal best was 80 in one practice
In a single 1.5 hour practice we dropped 80 sticks. I wasn't even mad anymore.
You forgot the tech threatening to throw a drumstick at a kid. My favorite part :)
Me: "Alright, everyone got that? Basses?"
My top bass:
"...My bones itch..."
Me:
"...."
😂
no the part hat goes rururururururuuuuuuuuurururururuuuuuuuuuuuu. boom! I miss bass sectionals.
Me (a bass 5):
That whole part about the Basses is so legit! It was even like that back when I marched 25 years ago. 😂
Good morning! Finally another snare lick for me: the friendly neighborhood snare player.
Also I was definitely Steven in high school but wanted to be Lil Peanut. Trouble is i didn’t have the Grammy nominations.
The boots thing hits way too close to home with me lol. During band camp, I only had steel toe construction boots, I had no sneakers so for two weeks, I had to march in steel toe boots.
one thing that my drum line says to the quads is "dO yOu KnOw JiG 2"
The quad player in my drum line knows jig 2.
Next time I hear some shit about jig 2 I’m killing myself
Ah yes, the "drum line solo that literally every school does or dies trying"
Our middle schoolers ask me this every time but I don’t have the heart to tell them it’s cringe so I just do it for them
This video was made 4 years ago today. Happy birthday
"Everyone pull out your music, we are doing note checks"
"Uh I don't have mine"
"Okay, where is it?"
"Idk i haven't seen it in a month"
"...."
Actual conversation
3:00 The quad's angry mustache blow while the snares complain of pain, gets me every time. [Guess what I played in high school marching along 10+ mile Mardi Gras parade routes.]
4:18 bass 5 was drumming so hard he shook the camera 🤣
Oh. My. God. You included cymbals?
This makes me beyond happy.
Played bass 4 for my first year and can confirm it is definitely the worst.
I play quads now and every time I hear the new snare players complain I cringe
We didn't have a drumline (we marched military style), but I can answer how you break a bass head: The Hey Song. Let's just say there's a reason we saved that one for in the stands after the halftime show. It was usually a case of 2 percussionist, one bass drum.
Why can I absolutely relate to the thumb nail?
Edit: Never mind, I can relate to the whole thing.
Edit: Edit: This is my whole drumline
“1 2 3 4”
If that doesn’t happen every time in band
This is a brief version of everything that happens in a drumline rehearsal...
The cymbals are very true
I can confirm, every year, someone requests to wear kilts! (It may or may not be me)
“Our director can’t do anything if all 17 of us are an hour late”
We had breakfast at a Denny's and our whole line was late. Our bd was pissed and we ran for like 30 minutes
7:06 hahahah I literally got cut by the cymbals too and I was like guys check this out and it was under my ribcage lol
"Tenors aren't bad, try marching bass 1"
Lol you crazy the tenors are heavy as hell
@@rallotubbs2423 r/wooosh
When the snares would complain about their arms hurting after standing at attention.
Me cymbal player. -.-
@@nes999 💀💀 our bass 4 player is always complaining to us about her back hurting but she literally stands like she’s tryin to do a back flip
I had that marching band thing where the snare is complaining, but for me it’s that trumpets complain of a heavy instrument, but I carry a marching baritone and I think that while it’s heavy it is still alright.
The most popular drumline sentence:
Them: Joe
Me: who's Joe?
Them: Joe Mama
Me: Who's Joe Mama?
As a tenor (quads) kid
I can relate we marched at a parade and my back went out right afterwards.
Bd: “one more time”
DL: yells “ I LOVE RESETING!!”
I remember one time in a band rehearsal I was in the back focusing on my drum like a good boy and then I hear a HUGE trumpet squeak then the kid stood up and yelled THIS IS WHY I WANTED TO PLAY PERCUSSION 😂😂
Super relatable and entertaining, absolutely outstanding content.
This should be a full on tv production, quality stuff 👌
Eric never disappoints
We have dunduns in my percussion ensemble, and depending on where in the room you stand, you hear what side is deeper totally differently, i think because of the overtones or something. It seems very obvious as well, so everyone got confused about it for months.
We have now figured out what side it is, from where the audience would be.
But if you play it, it still sounds the opposite so it's weird to play
We have a freshman who everyone hates even the track hates him...
Me to brother
Same, our freshman is hated not only by Drumline, but also band, football, basketball, track.. well basically everyone 😂
I’m that freshman
Aaron Horton I bet that’s also you
The title almost got me, I remember I had a friend who used to complain about his back all the time and I kept my mouth shut while marching full sized tenors. Man the things that kid would say
I wasn’t on drum line for long, but when I was on it, one of the most frequently said things were “Nathan, stretch!”, “No, stretching is stupid!”, and “You know what else is gonna be stupid? Tearing a muscle in the middle of a show!” In that order
I've definitely had EVERY SINGLE ONE of these students. They haven't been all at the same school, or at the same time, but they all exist.