@@masonargila3489 Ye he used to play for the marines but he was discharged for filming videos on base which is pretty stupid especially since he got permission from people to film there and only brought good press to them
You sure it wasn't actually all the Marines stuff in the background that made him get cut? Lol. Also--absolutely tickled to hear you play White Knuckle Stroll in its entirety. Awesome piece.
As a musician in the Army, I was ready to be super offended by you taking the piss out of my job. Instead you have actually captured the challenges involved in this job, and also the skill required in actually getting the job. Nice one.
What I REALLY appreciate is the CLEANLINESS of Conner Ferguson. Not ONCE does he EVER wear shoes in his house!! Super clean floors--->Just like his chops! 👌
Just casually auditioning for the army with a usmc poster in the background. My guess is you got rejected on the basis of the goofiness, and perhaps on suspicion of trolling them. I bet You would have gotten a second audition if the videos were serious.
I am sure Jeff Prosperie would have recognized you if he saw the audition submission. Especially after reviewing your WGI I&E solo (video June 30, 2021 Extreme Tenors). Do you have a way to DM him?
See... the other problem is you just referred to him as Connor Ferguson... it should be Dr. Conner Ferguson, he didn't go to CHOPS school all those years to be called Mister...
@@jimfarey He doesn't play mallets very often, but check out his fake audition for one of the Air Force bands, he plays Yellow After The Rain with four mallets
I'm a long subscriber, first time commenter...I 🤔. Anyways, if your picture was in the audition video, that's likely your give away! Lol over your right shoulder! 😆 🤣 Maybe!?!?!
I apply for westpoint lacrosse as l/ssdm and the tenors in marching band as well as the rifle team but I made everything but tenors and got put on bass drum but I still got on the rifle and lacrosse team.
I’m gonna say the one snare piece you asked if we knew is either “swinging the Swiss pataflafla” by I forgor I think it was Pratt or “legend of a two eyed soldier” by freitag, and the only reason I know those two pieces ironically is because I’m playing both for a preliminary audition for the marines lol
I went to U of Iowa and was on the snare line the years that John Wooton from Phantom Regiment was running the drumline. We played the cadence that the Prosperie piece was based on. That was maybe 1989 ish?
Who should Connor Ferguson audition for next?
Everything ever.
AGT
The commadants own
@@tyronium2 YES
savage garden lol
This just in, eric carr gets arrested for fraud for trying to join the US army band under an alias.
Doesnt work like that, but ok.
@@CGJ7755 joke
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@@CGJ7755 I mean........ technically it does
THe fact that an ex-Marine is trolling the U.S. Army is a whole level of BOSS that I could only dream of achieving.
ex marine?
@@masonargila3489 Ye he used to play for the marines but he was discharged for filming videos on base which is pretty stupid especially since he got permission from people to film there and only brought good press to them
Dude, the second they saw the USMC Commandant's Own poster of you in the background they were like "Marine Corps? WTF? Cut...."
The snare drumming was epic, yet somehow I'm more impressed by his marimba chops.
9:32
"I paid for the marimba, I'ma use the whole marimba!"
The most impressive part of the Marimba solo is that you turned the pages without us ever being able to see you do it LOL
Huge missed opportunity to say how good Connor Ferguson is at catching/blocking thrown axes!
True. Maybe next year.
Too soon!!
You sure it wasn't actually all the Marines stuff in the background that made him get cut? Lol. Also--absolutely tickled to hear you play White Knuckle Stroll in its entirety. Awesome piece.
Idk I feel like the Army is like a solid 10% prior marines lol
As a musician in the Army, I was ready to be super offended by you taking the piss out of my job. Instead you have actually captured the challenges involved in this job, and also the skill required in actually getting the job. Nice one.
What I REALLY appreciate is the CLEANLINESS of Conner Ferguson. Not ONCE does he EVER wear shoes in his house!! Super clean floors--->Just like his chops! 👌
Connor Ferguson should be a new character in the EMC universe. I would love to see a drum fight between him and masked man
He already is! He's bass 3 in the Carrmen Heights Drum and Bugle Corps!
@@Chaosdude7111 True but he has not interacted with the characters yet
“Minimum effort, maximum execution”
Words to live by
I think EMC's superpower is being able to watch himself play music and ENJOY what he sees. Something that I've never been able to do.
I appreciate the wacky time signatures in the first solo, but I couldn't really feel the 11/8 pulse. Smh Connor
Also the Davie504 cameo was EPIC
That marimba piece was pretty epic though.
Just casually auditioning for the army with a usmc poster in the background. My guess is you got rejected on the basis of the goofiness, and perhaps on suspicion of trolling them. I bet You would have gotten a second audition if the videos were serious.
More marimba please! And Connor Ferguson should make an appearance with Steven, Linda, and the rest of the gang!
The sticks-in sticks-out part at 2:53 made me laugh so hard
I am sure Jeff Prosperie would have recognized you if he saw the audition submission. Especially after reviewing your WGI I&E solo (video June 30, 2021 Extreme Tenors). Do you have a way to DM him?
So much talent, really happy for you that you’re able to do UA-cam full time now. Keep up the good work
I’ve been subscribed since it was like 50k dude and I’m so happy that UA-cam is working out for you man. Keep it up man 👍🏽
That was pretty decent abstinence ad in the middle there 😂
Loving the double sticks-in! This needs to be a thing in the 2023 lot. Watch for it. It’s going to happen.
as a competitor of dartmouth, it’s absolutely hilarious but also fitting that there was stuff from their packet in this solo
Connor Ferguson with the sick chops‼️
Very clean chops and just a blast to watch ! 👍 🥁
The bedroom marimba is truly an underappreciated insturment.
Did anyone else notice the picture of him in the Marine DBC in the back and other Marine memorabilia?
It’d be awesome if you could join the Hellcats or Old Guard. It’d make the Marines super pissed they ever let you go.
you should audition for a band but it start with an extremely easy piece and progressively get harder until it’s basically impossible
If only EMC and the Prosperies do a drum collab
Also the name for 10:02 : Crazy Army / 'Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor' drumset intro
Gotta love that you have a pic of your self on the door, face clear as day, wearing your old US military band uniform.
4:24 Ah, yes, The Rudimental Cookbook, one of the religious text ever
Even if they didn't watch your channel, the BCGs are hard to miss.
YOU ARE SO TALENTED OMG!
5:38 added an extra beat
See... the other problem is you just referred to him as Connor Ferguson... it should be Dr. Conner Ferguson, he didn't go to CHOPS school all those years to be called Mister...
That was so ridiculous. Haven't seen any marimba in your vids before. Super impressed you funny man :)
Guess you need to watch more of Eric's videos!
@@williampletcher8091 I've watched loads, but they're all him doing drum corps stuff on his own. Or chickens...
@@jimfarey He doesn't play mallets very often, but check out his fake audition for one of the Air Force bands, he plays Yellow After The Rain with four mallets
i wanna see Connor Ferguson as the next Smash Bros character
10:08 Sounds like electric wheelchair, but I could be wrong
Name of the piece that Bridging the Gap starts off with is in the sheet music. 🤣 Though for the fun of it Electric Wheelchair.
The abstinence line was the most believable part of the video lol
Awe man, I really thought Connor was going to make it!!
Well I just learned my solo for solo ensamble this year is called “drum corps on parade”. Thanks for telling me name of my solo.😊
I like how you can see is Marine Corps Drum and Bugle corps picture in the background of his snare parts and his USMC banner in his marimba part
We used to use Crazy Army 2/4 for a few different songs back in my fife and drum corps days!
I'm a long subscriber, first time commenter...I 🤔.
Anyways, if your picture was in the audition video, that's likely your give away! Lol over your right shoulder! 😆 🤣 Maybe!?!?!
Good morning! This is video number 21 of me asking Eric to make a set of tenors out of differently sized snare drums.
Yes
Dude! This is impressive!
I feel like the plethora of USMC memorabilia all over your room(s) is a dead giveaway.
Damn. Connor Ferguson has some chops. Only teenager I’ve ever seen playing 64th note singles in an audition
We here in the Hudson Valley would like to have you here. Much like NJ but more trees. Semper Fi
Fairly certain the picture of you in the BG in the reds gave it away man. LoL
@10:09 Electric Wheelchair?
omg. that mariba piece. I hadnto watch it thrice it is soooooo good.
Yo unironically that marimba piece is a total banger.
5:07 I played drum corps on parade in high school! Not that well though…
I remember drum corps on parade. Played that for competition in middle school. Way way way way back when.
4:39 LOL
A little Electric Wheelchair in there. Very nice.
I apply for westpoint lacrosse as l/ssdm and the tenors in marching band as well as the rifle team but I made everything but tenors and got put on bass drum but I still got on the rifle and lacrosse team.
I repeat, more mallet percussion please!! You're so good!!!!
Video 6 of asking EMC to make a video of him playing the Rock Band game series
sobbing at 4:29
I’m gonna say the one snare piece you asked if we knew is either “swinging the Swiss pataflafla” by I forgor I think it was Pratt or “legend of a two eyed soldier” by freitag, and the only reason I know those two pieces ironically is because I’m playing both for a preliminary audition for the marines lol
This is epic!! 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉
3:11 literally sounds like a huge Chuck Norris joke
I went to U of Iowa and was on the snare line the years that John Wooton from Phantom Regiment was running the drumline. We played the cadence that the Prosperie piece was based on. That was maybe 1989 ish?
Scooter makes the comments again!
Love it!
...I think there was a missed opportunity to put a simple in edit: "DEFINITELY NOT A USMC FAN," but have the poster massive in the background... xD
Connor ❤️ Linda - Match made in Chicken and Demons hell!
That's actually pretty interesting shipping!
4:39 what 😂
The bridging the gap solo at the beginning is called Crazy Army
LEGEND IF THE TWO EYED SOLDIER
YES!
Crazy army !
Eric’s outro game is absolutely on point
I would’ve thought this was illegal
...and casually showing off some "USMC fan merch" 🤣 The hell cats will like it!
13:44 you know who ELSE knows "Rudiments" by the percussion art society?
MY MOM! (Alright, I'll let myself out)
Connor and I need to have a talk about that left hand. 😂
I see that bar from "Suzie" 2:16
Did Connor really start with the Mr Krabs walk? I'm dead
10:07 isn't it legend of a one eyed sailor by Chuck Mangione
Steve Gadd uses that lick on a lot of stuff. He has a name for it but I can't remember what it is.
Very epic
Maybe you've heard this already; Where do Marines go to retire? They join the Army... or Navy.
Connor Ferguson doesn’t need shoes when he’s playing the marimba 😅
the jersey is fresh
YES
Bro is literally doing side quests now
You should watch Huntley highschool marching band at St.louis boa it is a small band but a mighty one.
I only run 6 minute miles if you let me kip
I played drum corps on parade for a snare competition in 8th grade
Electric wheelchair/legend of the one eye sailor
Wow this Connor Ferguson guy might even rival your talent.
Electric Wheelchair
I was in the US Army Band and Chorus in Germany. Fun times.
mr krabs walking at 8:59
god that snare tuning
😲
@@kyrondewey7955 HEY IO KNWO YOU
They really missed out on not getting *the* real person who made "Snare Solo for Connor Ferguson".