I used to SUCK AT DRUMS.
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What things did you suck at? ...or still suck at?
I suck at hertas
Everything.
I couldn't double tongue my euphonium part on Gavorkna Fanfare in 11th grade, I faked my way through it with fast single tonguing.
i suck at jelly rolls
@Pokemonweeaboopikachuninja boi bruh we start seventh grade with a half decent program so chill
I still do ;)
No u don’t
Same bro
@Nate Cottrell wth
@Nate Cottrell Ik
Put a lotta time into it I was literally the worst and now I’m one of the best like just put a lot of time and dedication and you’ll make it
Imagine having a band teacher in High School that actually teaches your percussion and doesn't just make them go through the motions.
Ya'll are fortunate.
My bd was a percussionist so they always got special treatment/asses reamed, lol
My high school has a separate class for percussion for both drumline and front ensemble taught by a trained percussionist
My band is gifted enough to have a percussion director who marched dci🙂
In all my 3 years of middle school band, there wasn't very much percussion in the class (2 or 3 including me) so my teacher just gave us packets aaaaaaand that's it
That sounds like my band teacher
Band directors: I found this really engaging and fun piece for the band!
Percussion parts: one measure of music, 200 repeats
Lol or 40 measures of rests
@@creepysplatter9260 that reminds me of in 6th grade where the glockenspiel part didnt play until measure 37
@@frogfrog2151 I was on bell's for a piece and didn't get to play till measure 47, of like a 90 measure song
Literally, my band director doesn’t care about the percussion section💀
sometimes this happened for me in middle school but that’s not happening anymore cuz my band has only two percussionist: me and my friend so I gonna tackle 3 roles at once with a drum set lmao
One time I couldn’t find a triangle beater so my solution was to hit the triangle with another triangle. Idk what was wrong with me.
One time I had this mallet solo test and I had only practiced the first four measures so I just played the rhythms and not the notes. And that was the only assignment in band class that I got and F on.
I also have a reputation of playing way above fortissimo.
Hey playing fortissimo is WAY better than playing quietly. More percussionists tend to play very quiet at first instead of loud
FORCE-TISSIMO
Fortissimissimo
in my pit we had about 5 different siize triangles and would just use any piece of chrome we found as a beater
I couldn't find a triangle beater, and my solution was to just beat the shit out of it with the butt of a drumstick
EMC, you can’t suck at anything, we all know you’re a perfect rubber-chicken-squeezing deity :)
Yes it is clearly fake
Kylian als gamer bet
that’s hot
Odd way to say it but pk
what?
Mallet percussion is underrated it's honestly my favorite part of percussion.
It is pretty based
the pit is where it’s at
It’s better then stuff like crash or triangle but every single drum is more fun to play
I used to hate getting stuck with all the mallet parts cuz I also played piano and no one else in the percussion section could read music. But I honestly love the instruments and respect the hell out of people who get really good with them. I mostly did the bare minimum in school but these days I sure wish I could shred with 4 mallets on a marimba.
ME TOO except for the glockenspiel
I remember in elementary school and part of middle school no one could do a buzz roll. I caught on eventually but I remember everyone used to just do single stroke rolls as fast as they could
god and i thought i was bad in middle school
Same we kind of just guessed the buzz roll and pressed into the drum
As a trumpet player the buzz roll is literally the only thing I can do
There's 2 snares in my drumline who have zero idea what a roll skeleton is and don't seem to understand why it's important and I'm frustrated lmao
I never had a drum teacher or instructor so the only way i knew how to do rolls was buzz rolls, had no idea that there was a difference between the notation and i just did whatever sticking felt worked well for how long it was lol apparently my band teacher either didn't care enough to correct me or I was faking it good enough
still can’t understand nor get the hang of traditional grip, since we always played with matched before.
Definitely takes perseverance. I prefer trad over matched any day of week but limited application of snare/set/marching had my professors on edge when it came to rest of perc family lol
Played matched all in middle school. I was told in high school we’d have to play traditional so for my entire 8th grade year I played only traditional. And then we all got to high school and realized no one could play traditional so we switched
After not practicing the whole summer, I got put on snare for my hs drumline and have been playing so much trad I think I'm a little better at it than matched lol. Not quite as fast but more control
I played a match grip for almost 8 years and recently learned traditional grip, and I am already better with it at some fast patterns with weird stickings. Still working up my single stroke speed though
No one:
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Yea I got the same ad 3 times in a row
I hate those ads SO MUCH!!!!!! They have different people reading the same script for each ad. And there is so many!
Did anyone else first see hertas and think of them as "that rhythm from Bleed by Meshuggah" before they knew the word herta?
Bruh what the fuck lol
Yessir
I was the bass 5 player in my school this last season and in our third movement, we had this impact thing where I was playing this triplet, kinda Mars sounding drum thing with the flats. I was the only bass playing it. The drill had us moving forward like quite a bit so I was crabbing. The snares and the tenors were almost 20 yards away from me because we were in this massive arc set. It was absolute hell to line up. And I couldn't really see them either because it's bass 5. And keep in mind, this was my first year on battery in highschool.
@@braedenkersey3570 jeez
Got stuck with bass 4 with no prior percussion experience my sophomore year… totally loved it though, great stuff!
Come on Eric, you know I can’t tell the difference if it was recorded on a literal potato.
all you gotta do is pull a CSI and enhance
"I was kinda leaving things out without realizing I was...i hope that makes sense"....it makes total sense
I started learning euphonium (my first instrument) about two years ago. I still suck at a lot of things, but listening back to old recordings I am proud of my progress. It’s all about striving for improvement, not for perfection. 🎶🎺🎷🥁🎹🎶
Same
Euphonium/baritone on top
I played the African bell carol on the congas, pretty hard.. I was grade 8, and I still am.
EMC: Herta bae
Me in marching band not knowing what they are:
🙂 *yep*
Man this is the most high quality vid you"ve ever made in my opinion
i totally agree
OMG I remember playing the African Bell Carol solo. I freaking loved it. That brought so many memories hearing on this video thanks for that.
4:58 every 2019 Cadet just got super triggered
That's where we had the first half of spring training and that place was HORRENDOUS
Bro that was my high school band camp spot all 4 years, it was buns
My HIGH SCHOOL drumline only knew how to buzz roll, and I had to teach them how to actually double stroke roll (they never caught on). No one practiced rudiments, so drumline was constantly dumbing down their rhythms. It was really frustrating.
Bro, I had to play armenian dances my freshman year (saxophone). We spent an entire day just figuring out the alternating 5/8 feel. Ah those were the days.
I'm bad at mostly all drumline instruments(can do great on cymbals though). My passion has always been mallet percussion so I focus more on that. Though learning snare would be useful, I don't have the motivation...
From people who hated mallets and just wanted the snare and bass parts, thank you so much.
It boosts my confidence to know you struggle with mallet instruments, when those are my strong intsurments.
Ah yes, the good old trusted "just look at the conductor, bob your head and count bars" method. :D
BRO I PLAYED THE BONGO SOLO FOR AFRICAN BELL CAROL IN MY SEVENTH GRADE CONCERT
Yo i did too, thats a classic right there
Same here haha
I played the big shaker thing 💀
Ayy, it’s EMC.
I used to suck at paradiddles
Same
Me too. I still kinda do. I'm embarrassingly bad at flam rudiments
Avery Bondeson the key is to start slow, than build the speed
same
@@averybondeson3322 im super bad at flams like I can sorta play flam taps
The one in the thumbnail I used to absolutely suck at. I also sometimes struggle with paradiddles and paradiddle diddles.
I just discovered this channel and my God, those costumes and humor is 10/10. Pls keep making content
Sameee!!! But its all practice man! And pretty much passion... if you have a passion for a goal.. you’ll learn whataver is in the middle to get to the goal! :,)
As a trombonist, I sucked mainly at flats and naturals. I used to always play Ab's instead of normal A's. After a couple years of being constantly told not to play Ab's. I finally was able to play pieces correctly until this year when I had a part of a piece in Ab, so I started getting constantly told to play the note right again. Long story short, read key signatures correctly.
In middle school i typically played the marimba parts but for my 8th grade percussion ensemble we played a song called gypsy dance. I had a snare a bongo part i wasn't able to play at all. When it got to the performance i messed up the entire time and even dropped my sticks.
There was also another piece i had trouble with in 9th grade called midnight sleigh ride. I had trouble cause it's just a constant 16 note pattern. I had to do it with a right hand lead but im left handed. Then from measure 61 to 70 the part changes and im not very good at rimshots.
No way I played the same thing that year. That’s funny. I think I was auxiliary. I still have my music somewhere
This would be a good video to show beginning band students, in addition to some of your other content where you absolutely shred on a drum part.
I love these story videos! The way you present them are hilarious, and those chickens are looking amazing!
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Omg why are you here
Oh my gosh I sucked at mallet percussion too. That was so relatable. (I'm still not that great, but I'm trying to get better :))
I really suck at mallets but I really decent at timpani so I guess I just always play timpani lmao
Lmao we’re playing Armenian Dances in my college wind ensemble this concert cycle, the 5/8 part takes so much effort to keep on track when you have a million rests because of it switching from 3-2 to 2-3 over and over
I love how everyone hates mallets. They are my main game. Always were, always will be.
I suck at quick snare everything tho. And jazz drumming.
Oh and that one time we had only 3 drummers for 5 drumparts and the timpanist had to play through the whole thing. So I had to constantly change between bells and marimba, and because marimba needed 4 mallets this was really had for me.
I would love that challenge
Same
I didn't know why the staging stuff was difficult. Now I'm in winter percussion, so I do
You in middle school with the keyboards was what my first year of college was like. Now I'm working towards compositional grad school.
I still suck at drums.
Huh? But but... you’re the smart one 1 :(
Anthony S Hey I am smart that’s why I am good at piano and music theory. I just can’t play that cleanly on snare.
6:13 same. I couldn't figure out mallet percussion or the piano. My brother was insanely good at piano and mallet percussion. My percussion director made us learn everything. For some reason, I could not play multiple notes on time... I play tenors fine and am the section leader. I don't know why this happens.
That 5/8 section lol... I played euphonium but I remember it took a while to learn that.
Thank you for uploading, it reminded me that I need to work on my audition pieces for my high school drum line
11:40 the opposite happened for me. I played front line mallet percussion in my high school’s marching band. Senior year, I play xylophone just as the drumline comes in from way back in the backfield. Trying to listen to the one snare playing, and come in on time with them, and seeing the drum majors being on time but a little ahead f the sound getting to me made sure I always sucked at my entrance, coming in too fast and too early. Very beginning of the show, and it’s a very noticeable mess up since it’s xylophones, they cut through anything! I slow down with the measure but it sounds *awful*
Here’s the show, I’m on the far left. Always struggled with that entrance. th-cam.com/video/kvmtwmyXTvI/w-d-xo.html show starts around 3:30
Can you make a video explaining why Carolina crown show had to get rewritten because of copyright?
which show?
I remember at a concert I had i forgot the 2nd half of the snare part and just made it up. Easily the scariest moment of my life.
First episode for me and dude.... new subscriber.. seriously entertained! Well done
You know, I haven't been in marching band for years, and I never marched in corps, but every time I watch your videos I miss marching :/ drum set is fun but I liked the amount of variety in ensembles I had in school
6:13 We always said "The 'D' is between the buns"
You mentioned about the distance and timing issue. I just realised my first ever (and so far only) show that I marched in (we never finished it because of people quiting) had a part that actually was even harder than having a tenor solo coming in right after a turn to the front.
In one of the sets the percussion section actually had to split up to both sides of the field facing eachothers backs for a good 24 beats until turning 180 degrees to march back to the center. So besides the distance and therefore sound delay getting bigger and bigger with each step we not only had no sound reference, we also had no visual for those 24 beats on either the drum major or eachother to keep it together.
That's craaazy that you were in Crown 2010! My brother was in high school marching band, and Crown was rehearsing at out school, and that's where I fell in love with band!!!
I'm an adult learner and am very jealous of the music programming you had access to!
i have recently made a new friend really quickly deeply - i.e. she is a recent really close friend. We share a lot together and spend a lot of time together and I have been sharing things (like art projects and other creative things) that I am really proud of. It was only after a while when I expressed surprise at picking up something quite easily where she made an "of course you did" kinda comment, that I realised she didn't pick up on the fact I ONLY share things that I am confident in, and ONLY start new things that I can see have a low barrier to entry. I was flattered that she thinks I am very able (or smart or skilled or whatever) but a really embarrassed that she doesn't realise how much of a fraud I am. I just never try at anything I might not take to easily.
Ive been playing rock and heavy metal drums for 33 years. I learned the double stroke roll early on but always had trouble with singles. Till this day I suck at them. ty
Thanks for getting me through quarantine love you Eric
I couldn’t read music till my junior year, so basically two years of marching band and indoor learning music by ear and only using the sheets for the sticking lol.
Another one is I’m naturally left handed but I forced myself to learn how to play righty when I started learning drum set. I really only played rock and metal till high school so when I did flams I did them however it was comfortable for me (all left handed with the grace note essentially at the same height at the accent). Flash forward to high school I made the snare line and I went a whole year without ever realizing there was a difference between left handed and right handed flams. They fixed the grace note height issue but somehow never noticed my flams were lefty. Enter sophomore year and we got some new staff who marched and taught the Cadets and one of them noticed I played all my flams lefty. He was like bro right handed flams have the right hand higher. But again I didn’t realize righty flams have the left hand as the grace note so basically my left handed flams were correct but right handed flams ended up being malfs. Needless to say the entire drum staff was dumbfounded 😂
Brhh
i can’t believe you went that long without knowing how to read music.
@@lasagnajames Ive played in bands since 6th grade so I’m pretty good at learning stuff by ear. My first few seasons marching I would use the mp3s our arranger sent out and then just watch the drummer next to me and referencing the sheets only for sticking. Worked alright for a while lol
@@MikeAvinMusic did you learn mallet percussion parts by ear too? if so that is impressive
@@lasagnajames I usually tried to avoid the mallet parts in concert band like the plague if I could lol but when I had to play mallets I listened to as many recordings as I could and then would figure it out note by note matching pitches as I heard them!
Eric: Used to suck at drums
Me: Currently sucks at drums
BTW If Eric hearts this I will get better
You shouldn’t base your practice on whether or not he hearts your comment
This video is incredibly inspiring, makes me feel like I can improve
I played African bell carol in 7th grade and I was put on vibes, I didn’t know the part until the day before the concert when I asked my friend how to play it and I memorized it.
Long list I suck at:
Tenors
Long list I used to suck at:
Snare
Eric:"I fortunately had a band director who actually cared about all the percussionists.
Me:"You fortunately had a band director who actually cared about the percussionists.😂😂
As an 11th grader who was put into concert band because the band director found out I was a musician and was forced to learn marimba and mallet persuasion, I second how frustrating it is, my problem was just learning how to read sheet music because I know where all the notes on mallet percussion instruments are but I couldn’t read sheet music till like 6 weeks ago
This year I played congas in African Bell Carol and I got the solo! It was so much fun to ad lib the solo.
1:51 don’t you mean “Coongas”
Nah. He means daddy bongos
one guitar, i mean one conga
When your first instrument is the dreaded mallet percussion.
I didn't know how to really count correctly until like my late junior year of High School. And I started playing drums in school in 6th grade. And I never stopped until I graduated high school.
dude you're giving me flashbacks to the mid 90s.. killin me
When I started percussion I SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED at timpani
Same could never play loud enough in relation to the orchestra x
Sometimes I overestimate how good I am, and sometimes I underestimate how good I am.
Hm good mindset
Ditto, it’s a super fun endless cycle of trying to balance my confidence ahah
My highschool band director was a percussionist herself growing up so percussion at my school was no joke. I miss marching now tbh. I played bass drum at first then tenors the rest of highschool
That damn African Bell Carol solo got me for like a month in 7th grade
*I still suck at drums...*
Hit "C" for cymbal in the chat 😪
This quarantine has been giving me a lot of time to practice 😤 [This comment has 69 likes, so don’t like it anymore]
Same
True
Luke Cullen I haven’t touched my drums once 😭
@@antihypocrite510 same lol I just don't know what to practice
Same
Just found your channel yesterday. Loved the few vids that I saw. Today comes and I continue checking out the channel. I was thinking that much of this seems to be like an east coast if not an NJ vibe of what band kids go thru. Then I saw your NJMEA logo! I was like, "was that the NJMEA logo?!?" Product of Parsippany Hills, and current teacher in Belleville, NJ! Good stuff, man!
Oh man, the US always amazes me; you guys, kids at that time, played in huge stadiums for a massive audience, that's freaking cool!!
2:14 OMG! The Blue Knights DOT UNIFORM!! I marched BK in 1991 (Baritone) which was the first year they rolled out these awesome unis. I aged out in 1993. Best 3 years of my life 🎼🎺🥁👨🎤
This video was made 3 years ago today. Happy birthday
Yeesss I love Armenian Dances, I’ve played it in wind ensemble last year as part of our spring concert or SMPA “concert”, it is a really fun song to play. Cool to hear you’ve played it before too.
i remember doing the african bell carol between me (congas) and another percussionist (bongos) also had a choir concert that same night and I was sick (strep) and it hurt to talk for like 2 weeks let alone sing, it was a rough concert
thank you Mr. Eric
I had the same African carol bongo solo and I was so scared on our concert day! My face was red the entire time!
I remember that Crown finals, man, that was a good show.
I played african bell carol this year for the christmas concert and i had the bongo solo and everyone looked at me during it
I just started high school and got snare. It’s awesome but I know that Some things we play I’m not very good at some parts. Mostly flams and paradiddles. But I’m gonna keep working on being better and practicing every day.
My most vivid memory at sucking at a drumming thing was the first time I tried to play quarter notes on the hi hat while playing the bass drum on the & of 2. The idea that my foot could do something in between notes my right hand was playing was something my brain was not ready to process.
Also, it took me until my sophomore year of college to get my left hand to do and look like my right hand when I played.
hey we're playing African Bell Carol for our school, it was cool to see it here!
It took like what seemed forever for me to get a 5-stroke roll. Started in 4th grade and couldn't get it until 7th grade. Then it just clicked.
I can understand you on the flams. They’re the bane of my existence.
Been a while since I’ve been in band(started college the fall after Covid hit) but I am pleased to say I will be returning to it this spring. Back when I was in band playing tbn I remember distinctly struggling with up beats for some odd reason. The other thing was not really my fault but junior year due to a miscommunication between our drill writer and director props moved without anyone stationed to move them so we had to find people to move them but I’ll let you guys guess what happened the first rehearsal with props.
My band director helps the percussion section by using food words like at 0:54
She would say
"Straw-ber-ry, chili-dog, straw-ber-ry, chili-dog"
It just makes the percussion section hungry 😭😭 but it really does help because some percussionist like to say what they're playing but its harder to do that the faster you're going and the more complicated the rythms are so saying food just makes it a little easier in general
Omg I had the exact same thing when 7th and 8th were combined too when I was playing the congas and struggled in the solo
OMG! Playing Armed Forces on Parade in band rn!! Following in your steps to greatness!!
I played congas on African bell carol! Loved the part
Seeing African bell carol being mentioned brought back my 8th grade concert band years when I sucked at the timpani part on this song lol
Yesterday before we went on for our second marching band show ( we won ) I learned that for the 2010 United you actually marched with my one of my drum techs “Bradley wert”
Good Morning, (among other things i've sucked at) - a few years ago our band was playing Shostakovich's 5th symphony for our annual concert. I was playing cymbals and had 128 bars rest from the start till I had my first note. I came in 1 bar early. I earned the nickname Tim-Cym from our director
African Bell Carol got me too with the bongo solo
This video actually helped me figure out that triplet roll exercise XD
I used to suck at mallet percussion and I had to play bells for MARCHING BAND so I remembered where middle B was and taught myself from there so now I am pretty good at bells
15 minutres in they are playing danzon and that is the piece I am playing in my band! So cool!