Hey Eric, My percussion instructor put me on tenors and I'm alright at it but I have trouble doing sweeps and I think a good video idea would be like tutorials on doing stuff like that.
Just sharing: I was first grade in high school, joined concert band as a freshman. I belonged to percussion section, and trusted to played accessories. After a month, we have our first concert at city station. As long as I practiced, I was told to use a soft bass drum mallet to hit the gong, and told to hit it really hard. I have a gong hit (about mf) on 3rd bar of our first song. At the show, I was told to use real (hard) gong mallet. And as a good freshman, I did what I should. Next what I heard was the loudest gong sound I ever heard. I panicly muted the gong. At home, I listened to the recording and heard that my gong sounded so loud that the rest of the band can't be heard. What an embarrassing and unforgettable first experience.
Same exact thing happened to me except I had 2 wood bass drum mallets and it was at festival. That was 4 years ago and the legend of the Great Gong Incident still lives on, inscribed on the dust on the base of the timpani. Long live the GGI!
@@Deus_Vult7 right! Last yeae we had a confusion with this one section in movement 3 and 4. Movement 3 there was a part where battery a drum break. Basses and i had a problem with who's playin' what because we a had a 6/8 and a 7/8 thing and this 6/4 thing goin' on in like 6 maybe 8 measures of those. Basically we were playin' over each others splits or not playin' our splits and then 4th movement we had a weird thing where they replaced this one very SMALLLL part where its like a unison but only me(bass 3),bass 4 and 5 are playin' a triplet but the problem is, me or one of the other basses are only playin' that and tye other 2 arent because we kept forgettin' they CHANGED that. Even durin' the SHOW we STILL didn't play it and yet it was fine apparently. So yeah we had a lot of problems last year especially basses(tenors had choreography problems and snares would be rushing 16th notes, the usual)
I was cut from a DCA Corps a couple years ago but learned from the mistakes and mishaps. It made me a better player and performer especially when learning music. Now I’m center snare for another corps so you always have time to improve and better yourself !!! :)
dude that "cut" on the downbeat at 5:29 made me laugh WAY more than it should Lol! this was hilarious and brings back alot of memories of my high school drumline. People got cut for these reasons forreal lol
Dude I laughed so hard here 2:20 Something about a high schooler just being god tier at playing and not even getting to play the drum he audition for had me dead💀
Yea I know that feeling. Went for snare played everything flawlessly and they threw me on tenors. Looking back I'm glad it happened because tenors were definitely better than I thought
I got drummers hand tendinitis, thank you for being here. When I can’t play drums, I like watching you play the drums; there’s something therapeutic about the sound.
Years ago I was thrown out of my high school marching band for "thinking I was better than everyone else." The whole drumline was not playing the written music,but, instead everyone was making up their own part, and going into competition like that. When I spoke up the whole band put on a little trial complete with witnesses testifying that I was the problem. Fun times.
I got cut from a group one time before I even knew I was in it. Professor sent out an email that I was needed to play in it, but the email got caught in my spam filter, so I didn't know about it until he came to me in person and told me that it wasn't acceptable to skip out on rehearsals... I got replaced with our second chair before I even knew about the ensemble. Good Times.
While I didn't March anything past college, I haven't ever gotten cut, but one time in highschool at a sight reading competition, I was playing concert snare and got penalized for playing a 3 grace noted note "too cleanly"
...too cleanly? What they want u playin' those sincipated? Accents? Space out the notes? Like I dont care if its "too clean". The only time ive heard of someone playin' "clean" notes is when this drumline i watched with my drumline group do this snare feature and a huge bass feature of who knows how many measures of bass splits they had. Other then that i dont think playin' grace notes "too clean" is nor should be a thing
@@lonely_ghost9857 they said that they wanted the grace notes to be more of a buzz, but I played it so you could hear the three notes clearly. It's wasn't written as a buzz though. It was written as 3 grace notes.
@@LegendForsaken they should have said that it was too crisp and articulate then. Playing ‘clean’ is usually seen as a good thing. Telling your (3) grace note to be more like a buzz and softer and less articulate is a more acceptable thing than ‘to clean’
@@zackwoods5077 Snares probably stay on snares cause they specialize in that instrument, and depending on the school's ability of the population switching instruments might make it worse. Depends on the school.
@@quilfrey1139 It's not ideal but if the only tenors player doesn't even know his part and the snare player would be able to play it, then I'd say it's a good idea. By not knowing the part I don't mean a few mistakes but not having a clue what to do for certain parts of the show. Obviously ensure that player learns the part before the swap.
I’ve never been cut but one dude in my high school line from like 2014 got cut because he got caught on a professional video recording deep throating a banana during a run through 😂 but my line has a joke that the director will never cut any of us because we’re all pretty good and all in the same grade pretty much so we all say “What are they gonna do? Kick me out?
@@503music6 I totally would but sadly the footage was never found. I only know about it bc it was a story passed down from line to line after that lol.
It’s funny how in some of the clips you can see the props for the other characters! Not criticizing it’s really funny and adds to the principle that he plays all the characters🤣
in my band middle school i was the best trumpet player and i was doing a trumpet solo, (keep in mind im skinny and at that time i was about 5'5 and 95 pounds, i was short and skinny so it had nothing to do with my weight) and my chair gave out, just randomly and i fell back and cracked the back of my head open on the baritones bell that was behind me mid solo. i have never been more embarrassed in my life lmfaoo
Dude, your so whacked .... i love it!!! Seriously though, your passion, your love to help others getter better, and your ability to just be fun, is outstanding!!! Keep up the great job!!!
CRAZY DRUMLINE STORY!! So basically my sophomore year going into band camp, none of the drumline learned the show music. I was the only person who learned drumline music and I wasn’t even on drumline (I learned all of the snare music). Long story short, we re-auditioned, no one was cut or removed, and I still wasn’t put on drumline🤷🏽♂️
I was originally put on bass freshman year of high school but I was demoted to cymbals because I didn't show up to the first rehearsal. They never contacted me about when first rehearsal was and I had no other way of knowing when rehearsal was. So because I missed first rehearsal, they gave my spot on bass to another freshman who didn't show up to auditions but showed up to first rehearsal. But it's okay because we ended up becoming best friends and I learned a lot from being cymbals :)
Seriously, what are people doing with their lives?? If you aren't subbed, do it now. Eric deserves so much more than just 115K. He puts so much time and thought into his channel and videos. You need more like 115M subs my guy. I love your vids man!
I love this. Being offended is prob a problem for some because some instructors can be pretty harsh about it that discourages students. Great video man!
The second act was actually pretty good on tenors if that was a real audition he would be able to make it because of how he can play would just need to practice but that’s it, p.s I play alto for my high school band not percussion but hey I know somewhat
Funny enough my high school made some people in the drumline STAY when we were allowed to begin marching again after covid this also coincidentally got me into drumline which wasn't something I planned on doing but now I love it
I am in 8th grade and I play alto saxophone. I recently auditioned for all sate and district band. I passed to the second audition with like a 91.5/100 (that's a pretty good score in my opinion) I did not make it passed the second round, however I did make district. Got cut from all state but I think for my first audition experience it went pretty well.
I was cut from the Bluecoats in 2018 because the spot for tenor had one more opening and it came down between me and someone else (who was older by about 4 Years) and it was my first time marching DCI but they said we were both equally skilled and I just got cut since he was a veteran. It all worked out though, as I ended up marching snare!
@@flarfatron2190 Well some advice that I can give is to keep at it. I was completely self taught and I got to where I am now. Keep it up man. What instrument do you play?
It wasn't for drumline, but I remember for an honor band in middle school and there was auditions for a chance to play for a composer. I was cut because my instrument had a screw missing
someone in percussion once put a kid in the synth cart and our band director uses that as an example every year when talking about fixing behavior issues
I love seeing people who are experts in their field trying to look like they're a beginner and completely failing at looking incompetent because they're way too competent
I fully realized the night before an audition it was going to be hard to just get through the music badly and it was even worse than I imagined. I can still see the disappointment in Mr. Lowe's eyes. Have a bad dream about it now and again. Probably will tonight so thank you so much.
I remember during marching season, I was scared about getting cut. I was one of the few eighth graders playing in the high school marching band and I was on drumset. Two people on the drumline always talked about how I couldn't keep time very well on it. I was scared that I was going to get cut because one of those 2 was a tenor player who wanted to play drumset that year until I took his spot. Later in the season, they were a lot nicer to me and I had good runs. I just struggled at the beginning.
I got cut from snare in a college band just cause of skill, so I got moved to bass drum. We did a marching block, where I was standing in the wind. So i’m pretty much holding a parachute, and got cut cause I was swaying, and moved to cymbals. Then I got cut again for no apparent reason. I asked to try out for the pit as it was the last day of drum camp, and they said no. Three cuts in three days, that was fun…
Have you ever been [cut]?
Nope, I play bari saxophone. Just like your sense of humor!
I shit my pants
No cause I’m 11 lol
Nope, and I’m trying out for snare in our winter drumline, so hopefully I get it!
Hey Eric, My percussion instructor put me on tenors and I'm alright at it but I have trouble doing sweeps and I think a good video idea would be like tutorials on doing stuff like that.
I still can't believe they don't have a Flub Drum Section! OH MY GOODNESS
Absolutely unacceptable.
Come back when they are ready for you and got their crap together...
@Matthew Smith no steven, mayonnaise is not an instrument
@@marcelszekowski315 yes marcel, mayonnaise is OBVIOUSLY an instrument. ugh 🙄
I'd rather do tenors.
Just sharing:
I was first grade in high school, joined concert band as a freshman. I belonged to percussion section, and trusted to played accessories. After a month, we have our first concert at city station. As long as I practiced, I was told to use a soft bass drum mallet to hit the gong, and told to hit it really hard. I have a gong hit (about mf) on 3rd bar of our first song. At the show, I was told to use real (hard) gong mallet. And as a good freshman, I did what I should. Next what I heard was the loudest gong sound I ever heard. I panicly muted the gong. At home, I listened to the recording and heard that my gong sounded so loud that the rest of the band can't be heard. What an embarrassing and unforgettable first experience.
Wut
@@andrewbrown1936 my sheet music flew off my stand while playing timpani in front of judges
Its stuff like that, that ALWAYS happens to me. Its poor communication. Band directors for some reason are notorious for poor communication
Same exact thing happened to me except I had 2 wood bass drum mallets and it was at festival. That was 4 years ago and the legend of the Great Gong Incident still lives on, inscribed on the dust on the base of the timpani. Long live the GGI!
@@Deus_Vult7 right! Last yeae we had a confusion with this one section in movement 3 and 4. Movement 3 there was a part where battery a drum break. Basses and i had a problem with who's playin' what because we a had a 6/8 and a 7/8 thing and this 6/4 thing goin' on in like 6 maybe 8 measures of those. Basically we were playin' over each others splits or not playin' our splits and then 4th movement we had a weird thing where they replaced this one very SMALLLL part where its like a unison but only me(bass 3),bass 4 and 5 are playin' a triplet but the problem is, me or one of the other basses are only playin' that and tye other 2 arent because we kept forgettin' they CHANGED that. Even durin' the SHOW we STILL didn't play it and yet it was fine apparently. So yeah we had a lot of problems last year especially basses(tenors had choreography problems and snares would be rushing 16th notes, the usual)
"DEVIL WAMAN, YOU WILL NOT SEDUCE ME"😂😂😂
Lol
I was cut from a DCA Corps a couple years ago but learned from the mistakes and mishaps. It made me a better player and performer especially when learning music. Now I’m center snare for another corps so you always have time to improve and better yourself !!! :)
What you do
The kid who "couldn't play" is better than 95% of the new kids in my high school band...
Same
I’m the new kid
I can feel you on why you said that.
dude that "cut" on the downbeat at 5:29 made me laugh WAY more than it should Lol! this was hilarious and brings back alot of memories of my high school drumline. People got cut for these reasons forreal lol
Dude I laughed so hard here 2:20
Something about a high schooler just being god tier at playing and not even getting to play the drum he audition for had me dead💀
Yea I know that feeling. Went for snare played everything flawlessly and they threw me on tenors. Looking back I'm glad it happened because tenors were definitely better than I thought
Bro same thing happened to me in the fall, but now im on snare for winter, bro the tech was trolling fosho cuz he knew i was better than everyone else
@@bencunningham6298 i auditioned for tenors and did really well and got snare :/
Lmao that litterally happened last year i remember that
At my HS, we have a Tenor who can do this.
He can do the SSL with singles. He’s that metal type drummer which makes sense too.
This is what I needed today
i hate that doppio picture 😭
All of these are literally every drumline ever in hight school lmao
Some of them i can kinda relate to because...well ...me and the basses uhh...lets say we had our moments last year
Our snare feature is so cleannnnnnn 💛
Too bad Lil' Peanut doesn't even know it >:(
I love your new name: 😈 devil woman! 💕😘
Simps
man! Linda has an awesome beard coming
You are my best friend! But I play the FLUBS!
@@flubdrummergirl8262 friendship broken
I got drummers hand tendinitis, thank you for being here. When I can’t play drums, I like watching you play the drums; there’s something therapeutic about the sound.
Years ago I was thrown out of my high school marching band for "thinking I was better than everyone else." The whole drumline was not playing the written music,but, instead everyone was making up their own part, and going into competition like that. When I spoke up the whole band put on a little trial complete with witnesses testifying that I was the problem. Fun times.
I got cut from a group one time before I even knew I was in it.
Professor sent out an email that I was needed to play in it, but the email got caught in my spam filter, so I didn't know about it until he came to me in person and told me that it wasn't acceptable to skip out on rehearsals...
I got replaced with our second chair before I even knew about the ensemble. Good Times.
They test me for it every year and I pass it with flying colors! Lmao
While I didn't March anything past college, I haven't ever gotten cut, but one time in highschool at a sight reading competition, I was playing concert snare and got penalized for playing a 3 grace noted note "too cleanly"
...too cleanly? What they want u playin' those sincipated? Accents? Space out the notes? Like I dont care if its "too clean". The only time ive heard of someone playin' "clean" notes is when this drumline i watched with my drumline group do this snare feature and a huge bass feature of who knows how many measures of bass splits they had. Other then that i dont think playin' grace notes "too clean" is nor should be a thing
@@lonely_ghost9857 they said that they wanted the grace notes to be more of a buzz, but I played it so you could hear the three notes clearly. It's wasn't written as a buzz though. It was written as 3 grace notes.
@@LegendForsaken they should have said that it was too crisp and articulate then. Playing ‘clean’ is usually seen as a good thing. Telling your (3) grace note to be more like a buzz and softer and less articulate is a more acceptable thing than ‘to clean’
our tenor player didn’t learn his part until the last competition and he couldn’t be cut cause he’s the only person on tenor lmao
So you couldn't have cut him and moved someone from snare to replace him? Or did you also only have one snare drummer?
@@zackwoods5077 Snares probably stay on snares cause they specialize in that instrument, and depending on the school's ability of the population switching instruments might make it worse. Depends on the school.
@@quilfrey1139 It's not ideal but if the only tenors player doesn't even know his part and the snare player would be able to play it, then I'd say it's a good idea. By not knowing the part I don't mean a few mistakes but not having a clue what to do for certain parts of the show. Obviously ensure that player learns the part before the swap.
@@zackwoods5077 I see. Like I said, depends on the situation.
@@zackwoods5077 tiny band hehe
1:09 im so so glad and grateful, my flub section and I dont drum like this. in Cornerstone Percussion, we just drum normally like the snares
I can’t believe Steven got into the tenor line lol. Poor masked guy!
The mayonnaise quote had me laughing so hard 😂
Boomer
ways to get cut: be steven
Shit...
Uh oh
Duck...
Update: not cut, actually. Center quad and section leader
@@stevenhatcher9133 Great job Steven!
I’ve never been cut but one dude in my high school line from like 2014 got cut because he got caught on a professional video recording deep throating a banana during a run through 😂 but my line has a joke that the director will never cut any of us because we’re all pretty good and all in the same grade pretty much so we all say “What are they gonna do? Kick me out?
Show us the video 🤣🤣
@@503music6 I totally would but sadly the footage was never found. I only know about it bc it was a story passed down from line to line after that lol.
Imagine having a drum line big enough to be cut, we only have 1 tenor, 1 snare, and one bass 1,2,3 and 4.
And I’m not in it, tenor saxophonist
now we only have a tenor and a bass :(
@@holdeenyo8914 what happened we need details
You guys dont have a cymbal either? Dang
[Cuts]
1:04 2:11 2:49 4:07 4:37 5:16 5:26 5:59 6:12 6:32 7:24 7:32 8:01 8:21
It’s funny how in some of the clips you can see the props for the other characters! Not criticizing it’s really funny and adds to the principle that he plays all the characters🤣
There is an alto sax player in my highschool's band that sounds exactly like lil' peanut
I feel attacked with the chess club part.
in my band middle school i was the best trumpet player and i was doing a trumpet solo, (keep in mind im skinny and at that time i was about 5'5 and 95 pounds, i was short and skinny so it had nothing to do with my weight) and my chair gave out, just randomly and i fell back and cracked the back of my head open on the baritones bell that was behind me mid solo. i have never been more embarrassed in my life lmfaoo
“Weirdness is tolerated” XD my drum line be like
Number 8 happened to the bassline in our marching band the other day only bass 1 showed up
You should do a video on section leaders for all instruments of the drum line. Plz like so he can see cause I want him to see this!
Plz like so he can see!!!
Plz like this so he can see my comment!!!! Plz. Thx!
No
I like how everyone in this school had a scream costume
Dude, your so whacked .... i love it!!! Seriously though, your passion, your love to help others getter better, and your ability to just be fun, is outstanding!!! Keep up the great job!!!
I kid you not, I made my high school drumline this year. This video in a way helped me. Idk how but this video did.
I love how you fully commit to every one of your characters haha!
EMC is so good that he can not pretend to be bad
The syncopation of these drummers is amazing.
CRAZY DRUMLINE STORY!! So basically my sophomore year going into band camp, none of the drumline learned the show music. I was the only person who learned drumline music and I wasn’t even on drumline (I learned all of the snare music). Long story short, we re-auditioned, no one was cut or removed, and I still wasn’t put on drumline🤷🏽♂️
Were you on pit
6:45 got me dead laughing on the floor lol
I was originally put on bass freshman year of high school but I was demoted to cymbals because I didn't show up to the first rehearsal. They never contacted me about when first rehearsal was and I had no other way of knowing when rehearsal was. So because I missed first rehearsal, they gave my spot on bass to another freshman who didn't show up to auditions but showed up to first rehearsal. But it's okay because we ended up becoming best friends and I learned a lot from being cymbals :)
Seriously, what are people doing with their lives?? If you aren't subbed, do it now. Eric deserves so much more than just 115K. He puts so much time and thought into his channel and videos. You need more like 115M subs my guy. I love your vids man!
Band kids bruh what da hell is this
Loving the new style of videos!
2:03 that is exactly what I was thinking
I can tell you put a ton of work into your videos your really dedicated man good job 👏
I love this. Being offended is prob a problem for some because some instructors can be pretty harsh about it that discourages students. Great video man!
I’ve never been cut but they day is bound to come eventually and when it does imma cry
Number one should be called "Metal drummers be like", as a 15 year old metal drummer myself, I find this hillarious
Building a new program, so I can't apply these, as much as I'd like to. Always good stuff!
Don't tell me that Scott is leaving nexted month
I can finally watch this unironically now that my drumline tryouts are tommorow
I honestly love it when he does the licks in between skits
4:54 had me dying 🤣
I got you bro, just give me the tenor mallets and ill get on snare
Production quality of these videos are always on point 🖤
I taught h s band/indoor percussion and every one of these scenarios are spot on! Great job! Tnx.
The second act was actually pretty good on tenors if that was a real audition he would be able to make it because of how he can play would just need to practice but that’s it, p.s I play alto for my high school band not percussion but hey I know somewhat
i love these vids with the multible people style.
My high school was so small that we couldn’t afford to cut anyone even if they sucked
My new favorite meme... DeViL WoMaN 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
4:53 i was hoping to EVERYTHING the question was gonna be "are we gonna play jig 2" 😭
“cant play an instrument” immediately plays better than me
Rule 1 the no touch zone, you just avoided legal trouble
Funny enough my high school made some people in the drumline STAY when we were allowed to begin marching again after covid this also coincidentally got me into drumline which wasn't something I planned on doing but now I love it
"AHHH! DEVIL WOMAN! YOU WILL NOT SEDUCE ME!" 8:43
8:16 I actually felt really bad for Steven
I needed this- since I’m trying out this weekend for tenors damn never even thought of these.😅
Nothing is funnier than watching someone who knows what they're doing trying to act like they don't.
#12 is actually valid if the instructor is biased against a student, like my freshman year percussion instructor
5:20 nah that’s me on tenors (I’m the only tenor player in my marching band)
Fr
I like how at the end you did that spider cadence for the bass part one of my favorite ones
Banished was actually my percussion tech in college. 😎
“NO FLUB DRUMS?!” Love it also his laugh
I am in 8th grade and I play alto saxophone. I recently auditioned for all sate and district band. I passed to the second audition with like a 91.5/100 (that's a pretty good score in my opinion) I did not make it passed the second round, however I did make district. Got cut from all state but I think for my first audition experience it went pretty well.
8:49 mans aint no simp
The quality of this video is amazing
i forgot how much i love this channel
2:29 dem chefs at toes Chinese restaurants be like
I was cut from the Bluecoats in 2018 because the spot for tenor had one more opening and it came down between me and someone else (who was older by about 4 Years) and it was my first time marching DCI but they said we were both equally skilled and I just got cut since he was a veteran. It all worked out though, as I ended up marching snare!
So you marched bloo?!?
@@flarfatron2190 Yep, I have marched with the Bluecoats, and the Columbus Saints (DCA)
@@codagahris1009 that’s sick dude, anyone who was able to march at that level is just insane. I’m only 14 and I hope to march bloo one day.
@@flarfatron2190 Well some advice that I can give is to keep at it. I was completely self taught and I got to where I am now. Keep it up man. What instrument do you play?
@@codagahris1009 I’m on snare, going to high school next year. I have a UA-cam channel where I post my progress if you wanna check it out.
I made the wind ensemble at my high school as the only tenor saxophone and I am now moving out of state a week before festival starts.
It wasn't for drumline, but I remember for an honor band in middle school and there was auditions for a chance to play for a composer. I was cut because my instrument had a screw missing
Love your "banishing" technique my man!
Every drumline has at least one Steven
I don't play drum, I'm just bored and have no clue how I got here. Thank you for entertaining me!
someone in percussion once put a kid in the synth cart and our band director uses that as an example every year when talking about fixing behavior issues
The fact that I hate the helmet kid shows how good his acting is
watched a ton of your vids, this video is the one that earned my sub. please more of this
I love seeing people who are experts in their field trying to look like they're a beginner and completely failing at looking incompetent because they're way too competent
Wow. Every kid at that school has the same shirt.
Lol the allusion to the ghost face from banished beyond. Semper kill brother
I fully realized the night before an audition it was going to be hard to just get through the music badly and it was even worse than I imagined. I can still see the disappointment in Mr. Lowe's eyes. Have a bad dream about it now and again. Probably will tonight so thank you so much.
Love the Steven guy
"just fix it!" I'm deddd 🤣🤣🤣
Such excitement!
Woah, that was kinda cool!
“Well that first audition sucked”
Oh.
i should have gotten cut YEARS ago😭😭😭
This is the funniest video I think you’ve made so far 😂😂
I remember during marching season, I was scared about getting cut. I was one of the few eighth graders playing in the high school marching band and I was on drumset. Two people on the drumline always talked about how I couldn't keep time very well on it. I was scared that I was going to get cut because one of those 2 was a tenor player who wanted to play drumset that year until I took his spot. Later in the season, they were a lot nicer to me and I had good runs. I just struggled at the beginning.
#EMC300K
is coming
I got cut from snare in a college band just cause of skill, so I got moved to bass drum. We did a marching block, where I was standing in the wind. So i’m pretty much holding a parachute, and got cut cause I was swaying, and moved to cymbals. Then I got cut again for no apparent reason. I asked to try out for the pit as it was the last day of drum camp, and they said no. Three cuts in three days, that was fun…
Long hair drummer bro is my favorite character you have.