The sheet music for all of these can be downloaded here - drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t_TE2a8U_Qo_efG6zYvLbDIdOUwA9li0?usp=sharing Who's gonna learn the 'Dirty Mess' ensemble feature???
Good Morning, I have been working getting cymbals ready for my high school cymbal line. One our cymbals does not have a strap on it, and we only have the sabian EZ cymbal straps, and can’t figure out how to install it. Im wondering if you have had experience with these straps before, and talk me through how to install, if possible. Btw, love the channel. Best, Aric
Ran into a “what are they feeding those kids” my freshman year at a competition and we had to perform after them... I didn’t even want to perform😂but we ended up getting 2nd overall and 1st place percussion
@@EMCproductions It's hard to poorly design something when you're a good designer. That said it's also hard to design something good when you're not, which is why so much drumline music is not compatible with the players' strengths and weaknesses.
Not even gonna lie, sometimes the all newbies feature is the move! Simple and clean is always better than fast and dirty. Seriously though this is probably one of the funniest vids on the channel
@@somerandomgoblin2583 I went to a TX 5A (at the time, I think the start of 6A in Texas was two years after I graduated) highschool that wasn't even an area finals qualifier, and then I went to a college elsewhere in the country with a Sudler laureate marching band. Everything about the highschool show was much more difficult, to the point that I quit college marching band after junior year because I wasn't getting out of it nearly what I put in
yeah and it may be simple and not complex and fast but it's at their skill level and it still sounds good and they can play it clean yes I know it's all one guy, I mean hypothetically
@@325bpm6 same. Then is also complacent (even tho he’s a percussionist himself) and makes it so I (the tech) have to get the group to that level in 4 months🙂🙃 which doesn’t work, but it happens
I know the “newbies” one is supposed to be funny but truthfully, it just shows that even a squad full of average players can impress if their play is clean and together.
@@firebread72 yeah I got you, just super frustrating. I’m a senior and we went from having a great line my freshman year to shit one. My sophomore year staff put 3 newbies on a 3 man snare line and it was awful. We had other options too that would’ve been much better but🤷♂️. The line’s never been the same since. My band is just not run well
Speaking from experience, I was apart of 2 lines (sophomore and junior year) that were competitive and then my senior year got all nubies that basically didn't care about the culture. It honestly gets frustrating when you've been use to so much winning. We were no where near that clean my senior year and i was drum captain my junior and senior year, so it was an experience for me.
"Missing a bunch of people." Hit me right in the feels. That's way my high school drum line. Luckily I marched Drum Corps in the summer, so I wasn't always forced to live with that.
Man drumset music just doesn't work very well on a drumline. For instance. My band is playing a super easy show this year (for obvious reasons). It's premade green day music essentially. I'm theoretically playing a snare part but I'm just playing a ride pattern on the rim for 90% of the show. not a fun last show.
I really appreciate the newbie one. Some high school lines I was hired to come help with (when I was a college student) would’ve really benefited from a simple but tasty arrangement like that
That's the thing, the smaller schools with less resources could sound so good if they just had simple but tasty arrangements . Its usually a stock 80s parts.
Number 6 reminds me of the Recruit drumline at Navy boot camp. They pulled those of us that had drumline experience and put us into a special division in boot camp that performed on Saturdays for graduation during our last 3 weeks. We were left alone by the instructors on Saturdays for a few hours of rehearsal and told to just kind of figure out a cadence with the provided gear. I remember the tenors were totally messed up with drum 1 and 2 backwards and all tuned horribly. I asked the Chief in charge of the bands for a drum key and basic tools to fix them, worried I would get yelled at and told to figure it out, but surprisingly she came through and even got us new sticks and mallets for our performances.
that’s what half of our baseline does I swear the majority of us forget our part so we end up accidentally playing something in unison or playing another persons part
It's been like 10+ years since I was in this world, but this brings me right back. I put so many hours/days into getting good that it's a little sad I just dropped it all. Unfortunate that if you don't end up as an instructor there's really no outlet to keep this up as a hobby. Love the vids.
As a band director, No. 3 is so relatable. We had 3 straight weeks where we didn’t have the entire bass line. COVID quarantines, vacations, sick, other stuff, just mia. Was someone different every day So upsetting.
That “kicked off for fighting” hits home…Nicely done Devil Dog…as far as my High school Drumline went, we were…WANTED percussionists…seriously, the county sheriff’s daughter was on the flag corp and our lead snare was…good with the ladies shall we say…too good 😩
I like all the rack stuff in the background, great to know we racks arent forgotten. I had a sick tambourine solo during a feature and they had to cut part of because “it distracted from the snareline” :( (our drumline is a “what do they feed those kids” line)
@@Jacob24668i was a cymbal my junior year (did workshops and the like) senior year I legit got drafted in to fill in for 2 rack players who quit since I wasn't planning on joining that year and it was just me and another guy which resulted in the rack going from irrelevant to super relevant (completely bossed it) Tldr: went from battery to pit
This was funny. Freshman was best players on snare, sophomore was tiny line like one of everything g except cymbals, junior was mostly newbie and the more experienced on snare, senior year was mostly tasty.
OK THE TENOR WRITING IN THE STOCK SHOWS YES JUST YES rolls into flams and random stuff into double stocks and weird pushed and just YES nailed and poor bass 1 too oof
Your front ensemble was so big and I'm super jealous 😭 we only have like 6 or 7 people, and only 2 (including me) can definitely play mallets and we're doing a show with a ton of percussion breaks
YES! Clean and tasty! I was in a fairly small marching band in high school. One of the funniest memories I have is when I ran over the other schools helper when I was marching with the bass drum. I didn't fall and still kept time some how.
My freshman year we had no feature for our normal show, but we added some section features into our drumline only show. Sophomore year had a snare solo that our center played that was put over a woodwind feature so he had to play it as quiet as possible, and then all the features we had in our show this past year were cut almost immediately. This upcoming year our percussion director is writing all the parts so we might actually get something
My high school mostly did street shows. We only did field when we were required to, like at the football homecoming each year. Because of how a lot of competitions were set up, bands were placed into categories based on school size, not band size. One year, our entire ensemble/guard was about 30 people, the drumline was 5. Our "features" were a little different - can't really do bass runs with 3 basses. So there we were, up against some drumlines with 20+ It's a good thing we had fun that summer!
You’re great my friend. Awesome video! I was in Cadets 93 & 94 - mellophone, but sat on the drum bus lol I noticed @ 2:10 Tom solo was like our quad feature in 93. 🙌🏼 & after watching the very end, I certainly appreciate your creativity of this!
This is fantastic, and I just love the behind the scenes scene at the very end. As lead snare at my high school (sans 1982 as a senior), you MASTERED what we played, and of COURSE we had a drum feature --> Every year ==> And because of those horrific scars, I transitioned immediately to the drumset upon graduation and have played in terribly cover bands playing in a ton of smoky bars all over Florida for more than 40 years. Thank you...and Good Night!
That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time! I particularly enjoyed the gong and triangle stingers at the end of several arrangements. Well done and THANK YOU!
I wish my drum line features had been as challenging as the “Newbie” feature.... (back in the day: 2003-2006). Guess that’s just how it be when you only have a pool of about 400 students to compose an entire band, and most people were more interested in sports over being a bandie kid.... :(((
You forgot where the teacher just yells at the drum line when they do random stuff in the back of the class. As well as just playing memes on the bells/xylophone.
Haha, this is great! When I was in marching band, we had new techs every year and three band directors in 6 years, so my years went like this: 2011: HOLY CRAP WHAT DO THEY FEED THOSE KIDS (3 snares, 5 basses, 2 tenors) 2012: stock feature from the 80's (2 snares, 4 basses, 2 tenors) 2013: when everyone is noobs (2 snares, 3 basses) 2014: when your best players are on snare (2 snares, 1 tenor, 4 basses) 2015: HOLY CRAP WHAT DO THEY FEED THOSE KIDS (2 snares, 4 basses, 1 tenor) 2016: when random people are missing (started the season with 2 snares, 1 tenor, 5 basses... ended the season with 1 snare, 3 basses)
I'm going to be a junior this year (clarinet) and we're 2 days into practicing for a parade before band camp and I've already adopted 3 out of the clarinets 5 New freshman.
We had a small band and despite that our drum line was decent. One year for half of the competition season we had two bass drummers kicked out, another broke her arm. We had a 4 piece bass drum line with one person remaining. Ultimately he took all 4 drums, built a stack in a tight circle by the front ensemble and played all 4 parts lol.
They don’t care as long as he still does his main job efficiently. They will only care if it brings discredit to the Marine Corps or if it starts interfering with his responsibilities.
My high school drum Corps instructors all were former DCI graduates and music teachers. 2 from Garfield cadets, drum instructor Blue Devils, color guard had 2 one from Carolina Crown and Madison Scouts. We (the drumline were #4 and #7 on your list). We were division 1 but our instructors made us perform at DCI level and went after the division 4s score wise. It was the hardest thing but the most rewarding and fun times of my life I miss it.
ERIC!! i didnt know you made a youtube channel!! so glad to see it man and subbed and all now. UD was a mix of wtf you feed these kids and clean and tasty when our tenors would decide i smoke too much so idc
In my day, I was in the “dirty mess” drum line. 😊 I wish everyone could get to experience and the feeling of being in a drum line. You can’t really explain it, but it is a great feeling. I watch your videos and I feel really nostalgic for it. Great playing!
So funny and so accurate on many different levels. 😆👍🔥 Other features: gimmick feature (e.g., jingle sticks, fire drum heads, upside down tenors) and Tom Float era backsticking. 🤣
Dude I’m rollin😂😂. I have been in all these stages and seen it from all those who came after me and those who came before me. Lol you covered almost all the basis😂. I love the video.
this is hilarious. reminded me of some of our HS foot ball games , times were some members missing for multiple reasons, reasons why they played ez songs, when they got lost, out of tune. etc. super funny stuff
Honestly my school's drumline was so inconsistent last year that there was a point in which we had every instance mentioned in this video somewhere in our season: 1. Semis- we were pretty clean, idk how else to describe it 2. the snares had mild stick tricks in movement 3, while the basses weren't even given any individual visual and the part just kept getting oversimplified cuz we couldn't play quarter notes 3. For the majority of band camp, our reliable quad player was on a canoe trip and we literally had to replace bass 3 TWICE 4. when we found out we were making it to finals, we were super stoked and had our best rehersal ever 5. None of the basses (except maybe one) knew more than the first and last four bars of the closer, so for the fall schoolwide music assembly, we all just played random stuff except 6. when my eyehook was loose, the center snare took off my head and fixed it well... except that the head was upside down for two weeks, including a show 7. parts of movement 5 and some parts of 3 8. only 2 snares had been on the drumline before- our center snare was from pit and everyone else was a newbie. Speaking of which, everyone except for me and a quad is leaving our drumline next year so yayyyy 9. not so much our show as it is that our pep band songs are soooo stocky 10. our drum features were never more than 4 bars
I was a drum kit in the middle of the field in 99. Nobody showed up at band camp. Somehow we won best in show drumline. Really sad but we were glad we got something for a change. You could hear laughing from other bands.
This was my first year doing indoor drum line on quads. I’ve never played them and no experience with them. 3 of our 4 bass drums were beginners. 1 of our 2 snare players were new and I was the only quad player. We did fairly good this year and we were all in middle school besides 2 of us.
The sheet music for all of these can be downloaded here - drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t_TE2a8U_Qo_efG6zYvLbDIdOUwA9li0?usp=sharing
Who's gonna learn the 'Dirty Mess' ensemble feature???
Lol I already know Dirty Mess I play it everyday
So if I wanted to use a form of these for my line this year ....
Can u plz do d and k cadence plz ive been asking for so long
Good Morning, I have been working getting cymbals ready for my high school cymbal line. One our cymbals does not have a strap on it, and we only have the sabian EZ cymbal straps, and can’t figure out how to install it. Im wondering if you have had experience with these straps before, and talk me through how to install, if possible. Btw, love the channel.
Best,
Aric
GO TOWNSHIP!!!!!
can we just appreciate the effort this man puts in his videos despite having his own life AND being in the marines.
I don't think he has a life.
This IS his life lol
@@kivintorres5626 Definitely lol
@@chrisburge5150 let's see you do the same and be in one of the hardest drum corps to get in ever... not to mention being a United States Marine.
I saw a simply guitar ad when I looked at this comment
Ran into a “what are they feeding those kids” my freshman year at a competition and we had to perform after them... I didn’t even want to perform😂but we ended up getting 2nd overall and 1st place percussion
Everybody sounds good behind the curtain.
we were the “all newbies” last year and now we are “holy crap whats in that water”
i love my staff 😊
You forgot the drum feature that most high schools have: poorly designed, too hard for them, not terribly dirty but definitely not clean.
so basically our school!
I was gonna include that. But I had trouble designing a poorly designed drum feature
@@EMCproductions I guess with your expertise, you are unable to poorly design anything.
@@EMCproductions It's hard to poorly design something when you're a good designer. That said it's also hard to design something good when you're not, which is why so much drumline music is not compatible with the players' strengths and weaknesses.
@@EMCproductions Y'coulda just asked me to write it, I'm Very Good™ at designing poorly designed drum features!
Not even gonna lie, sometimes the all newbies feature is the move! Simple and clean is always better than fast and dirty. Seriously though this is probably one of the funniest vids on the channel
is that the real zack langer? huge fan bro
the “no idea where he is” on bass 5 is painfully accurate
So we all had a bottom bass that we just didn't know where he was?🤣
@@justingarrett2239 apparently
this is so relatable
SWEARRRRR
Gave me flashbacks...
My high school was: "Missing a Bunch of People" "Dirty Mess" "Never Tunes or Maintains Their Drums" "Plays Stock Arrangement from the 1980's".
I think this is probably a LOT of people’s high schools
Same
Yup here too. Always dreamed of moving up to a more quality band someday.
Never happened
When the arranger forgets they’re writing for a high school and writes a drum corps feature
instructions unclear joined band at a texas 6A school
@@Altoclarinets honestly tho those guys probably practice double stroke open rolls every day since they were in 4th grade
My freshman year lol. Apparently Tyler Dempsey thought he was writing for DCI.
@@Altoclarinets Are our drum features really that notorious? Lol
@@somerandomgoblin2583 I went to a TX 5A (at the time, I think the start of 6A in Texas was two years after I graduated) highschool that wasn't even an area finals qualifier, and then I went to a college elsewhere in the country with a Sudler laureate marching band.
Everything about the highschool show was much more difficult, to the point that I quit college marching band after junior year because I wasn't getting out of it nearly what I put in
Props to #8’s director for realizing what the group needs to be successful!
yeah and it may be simple and not complex and fast but it's at their skill level and it still sounds good and they can play it clean
yes I know it's all one guy, I mean hypothetically
our director doesn't do that lol
@@325bpm6 same. Then is also complacent (even tho he’s a percussionist himself) and makes it so I (the tech) have to get the group to that level in 4 months🙂🙃 which doesn’t work, but it happens
So trueee
I know the “newbies” one is supposed to be funny but truthfully, it just shows that even a squad full of average players can impress if their play is clean and together.
Fr. This is the comment.
Yeah but when it’s three years in a row then it’s just sad because staff doesn’t know how to improve their players
@@benfields1713 nah frr, it’s honestly more like the veterans on the line improving players than the stuff, speaking from experience
@@firebread72 yeah I got you, just super frustrating. I’m a senior and we went from having a great line my freshman year to shit one. My sophomore year staff put 3 newbies on a 3 man snare line and it was awful. We had other options too that would’ve been much better but🤷♂️. The line’s never been the same since. My band is just not run well
Speaking from experience, I was apart of 2 lines (sophomore and junior year) that were competitive and then my senior year got all nubies that basically didn't care about the culture. It honestly gets frustrating when you've been use to so much winning. We were no where near that clean my senior year and i was drum captain my junior and senior year, so it was an experience for me.
"Missing a bunch of people." Hit me right in the feels. That's way my high school drum line. Luckily I marched Drum Corps in the summer, so I wasn't always forced to live with that.
Which corp?
Is it just me or does the newbie one actually sound pretty good all together?
Yea those are some really good newbies
Sometimes it’s better to play some simple really cleanly than to try something harder and have it be sloppy.
@@damienm.9677 Oh yeah no question
I almost liked this comment but then it would be ruined. Here’s a written “like”
@@tylera86 it's 77 likes now, you're freed from this curse, but at what cost?
“Missing a bunch of kids” was awesome. Brings back so many memories of choppy duts and awkward silence.
You forgot the one where the director just gave them the drumset music 😂
I feel like that would translate into another Dirty Mess feature lol
Man drumset music just doesn't work very well on a drumline. For instance. My band is playing a super easy show this year (for obvious reasons). It's premade green day music essentially. I'm theoretically playing a snare part but I'm just playing a ride pattern on the rim for 90% of the show. not a fun last show.
@@cyborglion4179 hey thats basically my what my bands doing same thing happened to my snare drummer our show writer was a car salesman
Your drumlines get music???
My band director did this. It was awesome LOL
goddamn that director was such a fucking lazy bum
Top bass not playing on the stock feature from the 80s is soooo accurate. Beautiful work
Can we appreciate the fact that he also recorded the non-existent bass one part, with click?
I really appreciate the newbie one. Some high school lines I was hired to come help with (when I was a college student) would’ve really benefited from a simple but tasty arrangement like that
That's the thing, the smaller schools with less resources could sound so good if they just had simple but tasty arrangements .
Its usually a stock 80s parts.
Love that in the stock arrangement, for the sheet music you made sure to write the unisons separate. The attention to detail is amazing.
Number 6 reminds me of the Recruit drumline at Navy boot camp. They pulled those of us that had drumline experience and put us into a special division in boot camp that performed on Saturdays for graduation during our last 3 weeks. We were left alone by the instructors on Saturdays for a few hours of rehearsal and told to just kind of figure out a cadence with the provided gear.
I remember the tenors were totally messed up with drum 1 and 2 backwards and all tuned horribly. I asked the Chief in charge of the bands for a drum key and basic tools to fix them, worried I would get yelled at and told to figure it out, but surprisingly she came through and even got us new sticks and mallets for our performances.
Air Force has this at tech school, after basic.
I was on the tenor line during my bootcamp in San Diego....ya it's been that long
Everyone's lost.
Just freestyle it.
Basically how I live day to day life.
that’s what half of our baseline does I swear the majority of us forget our part so we end up accidentally playing something in unison or playing another persons part
**me watching this**
"we've never done any of this!"
also me: **literally the only percussionist in my school**
0:12 that brake drum with the 16th note shots is the most high school drum break thing ever
That's what I call a clean and tasty "break" drum
ikr
#3 - The bane of all high school instructors everywhere.
I do feel this. Deeply.
I laughed at #7 until I remembered that it was basically every DCI feature over the last 15+ years. Oh, well...
how is that a bad thing?
Drum feature #6 is accurate
3:17 sounds like something with orchestra drums that play a marching band beat
OMG IT'S SDJMALIK from 2 years ago -_-
It's been like 10+ years since I was in this world, but this brings me right back. I put so many hours/days into getting good that it's a little sad I just dropped it all. Unfortunate that if you don't end up as an instructor there's really no outlet to keep this up as a hobby. Love the vids.
If two of our split bass players were gone I can assure you the others would not be that on point
As a band director, No. 3 is so relatable. We had 3 straight weeks where we didn’t have the entire bass line. COVID quarantines, vacations, sick, other stuff, just mia. Was someone different every day
So upsetting.
gotta love parents that force their kid to go on vacation after letting them sign up for a summer commitment
Yo wait I just realized the Tenor Feature at 1:29 is actually “Marry had a Little Lamb” XD
That’s a cool secret
I learned that whilst stupidly trying to play along lol
That “kicked off for fighting” hits home…Nicely done Devil Dog…as far as my High school Drumline went, we were…WANTED percussionists…seriously, the county sheriff’s daughter was on the flag corp and our lead snare was…good with the ladies shall we say…too good 😩
We need details
@@leoarevalo6786 yes
"Everyone's lost, just freestyle it" was pretty much the motto of our marching band in high school. Across all sections. Including formations. Oy.
This is my first time watching this guys content, I’m blown away by the editing and more so the amazing drumming skills
#2'S INTRODUCTION WAS PART OF OUR SHOW MUSIC! QUEEN OPENER!
Yeah im doing it this season
Same! Here’s the one I did if you wanna watch! I played drumset in the pit!
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played that at a summer camp too lol. Pretty Bulletproof and always gets a good reaction from the crowd
@@noahwilliams9747 Ours was Queen Opener (Beginning to the end of We Will Rock You) then Don't Stop Me Now And then Bohemian Rhapsody
@@wj2music Sick!
I like all the rack stuff in the background, great to know we racks arent forgotten. I had a sick tambourine solo during a feature and they had to cut part of because “it distracted from the snareline” :( (our drumline is a “what do they feed those kids” line)
rack (at our school) is meant to be forgotten
@@Jacob24668i was a cymbal my junior year (did workshops and the like) senior year I legit got drafted in to fill in for 2 rack players who quit since I wasn't planning on joining that year and it was just me and another guy which resulted in the rack going from irrelevant to super relevant (completely bossed it)
Tldr: went from battery to pit
@@leoarevalo6786 danngg
We played a stock arrangement from the 80s... but it was the 80s.
This was funny. Freshman was best players on snare, sophomore was tiny line like one of everything g except cymbals, junior was mostly newbie and the more experienced on snare, senior year was mostly tasty.
0:45 Reminds me of chino hills’ 2010 indoor 😅 whole line was obviously good, but the snares that year were just ripping it compared to everyone else.
ua-cam.com/video/bIwRvPeqMU4/v-deo.html Clip for reference
3:30 those are such *high quality drum heads*
but there only for the drumset
OK THE TENOR WRITING IN THE STOCK SHOWS YES JUST YES rolls into flams and random stuff into double stocks and weird pushed and just YES nailed and poor bass 1 too oof
Your front ensemble was so big and I'm super jealous 😭 we only have like 6 or 7 people, and only 2 (including me) can definitely play mallets and we're doing a show with a ton of percussion breaks
The essence of stock 80's quad parts is perfectly captured here! Great video.
I find it absolutely crazy how you edit bass splits like wtf how😂
YES! Clean and tasty! I was in a fairly small marching band in high school. One of the funniest memories I have is when I ran over the other schools helper when I was marching with the bass drum. I didn't fall and still kept time some how.
My freshman year we had no feature for our normal show, but we added some section features into our drumline only show. Sophomore year had a snare solo that our center played that was put over a woodwind feature so he had to play it as quiet as possible, and then all the features we had in our show this past year were cut almost immediately. This upcoming year our percussion director is writing all the parts so we might actually get something
My high school mostly did street shows. We only did field when we were required to, like at the football homecoming each year. Because of how a lot of competitions were set up, bands were placed into categories based on school size, not band size. One year, our entire ensemble/guard was about 30 people, the drumline was 5. Our "features" were a little different - can't really do bass runs with 3 basses. So there we were, up against some drumlines with 20+ It's a good thing we had fun that summer!
Loved how #9 just didn’t have a bass 1 part and he stood there the whole time
You’re great my friend. Awesome video!
I was in Cadets 93 & 94 - mellophone, but sat on the drum bus lol
I noticed @ 2:10 Tom solo was like our quad feature in 93. 🙌🏼 & after watching the very end, I certainly appreciate your creativity of this!
This is fantastic, and I just love the behind the scenes scene at the very end. As lead snare at my high school (sans 1982 as a senior), you MASTERED what we played, and of COURSE we had a drum feature --> Every year ==> And because of those horrific scars, I transitioned immediately to the drumset upon graduation and have played in terribly cover bands playing in a ton of smoky bars all over Florida for more than 40 years. Thank you...and Good Night!
5:04 dang great job bass 1, he did it perfectly!
DUT
oh hey jer
That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time! I particularly enjoyed the gong and triangle stingers at the end of several arrangements. Well done and THANK YOU!
By far my favorite in "dirty mess" was the players looking at each other xD
2:34 Is so accurate by what I call a "dirty mess"
Nice! My high school director put this on the band Facebook page to try to recruit more members for drumline.
I wish my drum line features had been as challenging as the “Newbie” feature.... (back in the day: 2003-2006). Guess that’s just how it be when you only have a pool of about 400 students to compose an entire band, and most people were more interested in sports over being a bandie kid.... :(((
My favorite would def be a combo of the first one and the "so much body" solo. Excellent work!
#8 - Gotta start somewhere. And ya' gotta love some slow-jam paradiddles (4:50).
We need a version of “Missing a bunch of people” but it has everyone. It has so much potential😭😭😭
You forgot where the teacher just yells at the drum line when they do random stuff in the back of the class. As well as just playing memes on the bells/xylophone.
Idk why it was so funny seeing you play every part super fast then putting the bass drums away as you go I was dying of laughter
does everybody love the not tuned one cause I absolutely love it 😍
yes dude give me more of that snare tone
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Haha, this is great! When I was in marching band, we had new techs every year and three band directors in 6 years, so my years went like this:
2011: HOLY CRAP WHAT DO THEY FEED THOSE KIDS (3 snares, 5 basses, 2 tenors)
2012: stock feature from the 80's (2 snares, 4 basses, 2 tenors)
2013: when everyone is noobs (2 snares, 3 basses)
2014: when your best players are on snare (2 snares, 1 tenor, 4 basses)
2015: HOLY CRAP WHAT DO THEY FEED THOSE KIDS (2 snares, 4 basses, 1 tenor)
2016: when random people are missing (started the season with 2 snares, 1 tenor, 5 basses... ended the season with 1 snare, 3 basses)
When all of them played better than your hometown band 😭
I'm going to be a junior this year (clarinet) and we're 2 days into practicing for a parade before band camp and I've already adopted 3 out of the clarinets 5 New freshman.
Yeah... The stock 80s thing hurts just a little... Come on man, some of us are old 😂
The noobie feature makes me say that I would much rather have a nice clean noobie section then a dirty advanced section
I was glad to say we were the “what the hell did they feed those kids”
The third one was my winter drumline season in a nutshell
Video 10 of asking EMC to see who plays the Beast and the Harlot drum solo
The snares being the best in the line is funny. But glad it wasn’t like that in my high school. Great video funny and dope as hell.
Sure it has a joke about stock arrangements but there should also be one exclusively dedicated to every high school's crappy Double Beat remix.
Band camp started yesterday and, for the first time, I’m playing tenor drum and I’m gonna work my way up to quads!
Eric, what was your first motivation to jump into marching drumming?
We had a small band and despite that our drum line was decent. One year for half of the competition season we had two bass drummers kicked out, another broke her arm. We had a 4 piece bass drum line with one person remaining. Ultimately he took all 4 drums, built a stack in a tight circle by the front ensemble and played all 4 parts lol.
“clean” and tasty, not my school
5:29 I lick how the bass number one is just there lmao
I cant imagine how long it must take to record and edit a video like this. Does the Marine Corp realize you’re really not doing marine stuff? 😂😂😂
They don’t care as long as he still does his main job efficiently. They will only care if it brings discredit to the Marine Corps or if it starts interfering with his responsibilities.
My high school drum Corps instructors all were former DCI graduates and music teachers. 2 from Garfield cadets, drum instructor Blue Devils, color guard had 2 one from Carolina Crown and Madison Scouts. We (the drumline were #4 and #7 on your list). We were division 1 but our instructors made us perform at DCI level and went after the division 4s score wise. It was the hardest thing but the most rewarding and fun times of my life I miss it.
WHY IS THIS UNLISTED??
DO YOU EVER SLEEP?!? This is awesome man, thank you for making these!
IM ACTUALLY SCREAMING THE TITLES FOR 7, 5, 6 WAS MY QUARANTINE SHOW (in that order)
I have seen all of those when I was in marching band, some years we had the clean and classy and newbies, with a splash of freestyle in the show
Lmao I love how for drum feature five you made sure that bass 5 was throwing haymakers at the drum, so true
This is so true oml, except we only have 4 people in drumline lol. 1 snare, 2 bass, and 1 tenor
The behind the scenes footage of time-lapsed bass drums is much funnier than it should be
So true my line had a tenor player from Freelancers, you never new what funky ditty he was going to throw down at any moment.
All of these are very accurate in my years of playing 😂 thanks for the laughs
ERIC!! i didnt know you made a youtube channel!! so glad to see it man and subbed and all now. UD was a mix of wtf you feed these kids and clean and tasty when our tenors would decide i smoke too much so idc
In my day, I was in the “dirty mess” drum line. 😊 I wish everyone could get to experience and the feeling of being in a drum line. You can’t really explain it, but it is a great feeling. I watch your videos and I feel really nostalgic for it. Great playing!
So funny and so accurate on many different levels. 😆👍🔥 Other features: gimmick feature (e.g., jingle sticks, fire drum heads, upside down tenors) and Tom Float era backsticking. 🤣
At drum feature #6, those snares are what my schools marching snares sound like
Dude I’m rollin😂😂. I have been in all these stages and seen it from all those who came after me and those who came before me. Lol you covered almost all the basis😂. I love the video.
This was one of the best videos I've seen on UA-cam.
So cool to see SHI Stadium back in 2005 compared to 2022 when I was at the BOA regional there! Also awesome video it was awesome.
All of these were incredible, but my favorite was Drum Feature #3 😂 Hilarious.
this is hilarious. reminded me of some of our HS foot ball games , times were some members missing for multiple reasons, reasons why they played ez songs, when they got lost, out of tune. etc. super funny stuff
The stock part. Been there before on those “push” quad arounds.
Honestly my school's drumline was so inconsistent last year that there was a point in which we had every instance mentioned in this video somewhere in our season:
1. Semis- we were pretty clean, idk how else to describe it
2. the snares had mild stick tricks in movement 3, while the basses weren't even given any individual visual and the part just kept getting oversimplified cuz we couldn't play quarter notes
3. For the majority of band camp, our reliable quad player was on a canoe trip and we literally had to replace bass 3 TWICE
4. when we found out we were making it to finals, we were super stoked and had our best rehersal ever
5. None of the basses (except maybe one) knew more than the first and last four bars of the closer, so for the fall schoolwide music assembly, we all just played random stuff except
6. when my eyehook was loose, the center snare took off my head and fixed it well... except that the head was upside down for two weeks, including a show
7. parts of movement 5 and some parts of 3
8. only 2 snares had been on the drumline before- our center snare was from pit and everyone else was a newbie. Speaking of which, everyone except for me and a quad is leaving our drumline next year so yayyyy
9. not so much our show as it is that our pep band songs are soooo stocky
10. our drum features were never more than 4 bars
I was a drum kit in the middle of the field in 99. Nobody showed up at band camp. Somehow we won best in show drumline. Really sad but we were glad we got something for a change. You could hear laughing from other bands.
3:18 I kinda like the sound of snare
This was my first year doing indoor drum line on quads. I’ve never played them and no experience with them. 3 of our 4 bass drums were beginners. 1 of our 2 snare players were new and I was the only quad player. We did fairly good this year and we were all in middle school besides 2 of us.
You have some of the most skilled twins I've ever seen.