Good morning! This is video 121 of me asking for a drumline gym made out of various marching percussion instruments, such as the tenor barbell, and bass drumbbells.
The first day of band I was told that as a girl I was not allowed to the play the drums. I was heartbroken as I “drummed” on every surface I touched. I went on to play the trumpet, French Horn and Mellophone. I am 61 years old and just bought my first drum set. I’ve watched a lot of drumming TH-cam videos and bought the rudiment bible. I plan on taking lessons. I maybe terrible but I finally did it.
This is the saddest TH-cam comment i have ever read…… I am so sorry that you could not get the experience of being in a drumline 🙁 But I’m happy that you are soon going to have fun playing the drums in the future!!
I’d like to let you know that I’ve found the first metal band I’ve ever seen with a flub drum. The singer played the flub drum and timbalitos. They’re called Trollfest.
My first day of marching band. Well, I joined my high schools marching band the summer between 7th and 8th grade. My middle school didn't have one. I wasn't eligible to be in the drumline, but I was able to be in the honor guard. So my first day consisted of learning how to march, how to hold 1/2 of the school's banner, and how to hold a state/national flag. Then the summer between 8th and 9th grade I was in the drumline, on bass. I ended my tenure with the marching band the summer after graduation for a total of 6 years marching, with 5 in drumline. Ended as drumline captain, playing tenors.
6:50 I feel called out by this. We have this thing for one football game every year where the eighth graders get to play the pregame and we just had ours a couple weeks ago. I ended up getting dehydrated and throwing up. I left right before the halftime show which was really sad because I wanted to see it. But the week after that was homecoming week and they said the eighth graders could join the band again and it went smoothly. Also earlier that day we had the homecoming parade and I marched in that too. My goal for next year is to make marimba though because I do not want to do batterie.
My first day of marching band practice, I walked in to rehearsal and the band was playing “Hey Ya” by OutKast. I thought it was the coolest and loudest thing ever.
Story time! I’m in 8th grade this year, and I had the opportunity to join my schools marching band for percussion. I decided not to, since I wasn’t interested in marching back then, but I got really interested in it around october. So, I begged the director to let me join my schools WGI Winds group in percussion. Since I was one of the only ones there who didn’t do fall marching band, I had no idea what warmups were, so I had to figure out the warmup routine, across the floors, and sectionals. We didn’t have a “what the heck is happening class” because everyone there knew what the heck was happening! It is now 3 weeks from championships, and I’m happy to report that they gave me Vibes 1 (no marimba’s in the show). I’m just happy that i figured it all out… To clarify: my school has no indoor percussion since all of our eggs are going into Winter Wind’s basket.
I recently just finished my first week of band camp and boy was it a rollercoaster of emotions. I was exhausted, I was in pain, and I had a lot of anxiety but I made it through and despite all the things I just wrote. I had a lot of fun, and I was very proud of myself for making it through.
I am so old I don't remember all the specifics of my first day of marching band. I do remember that we had two days of freshman band camp before the rest of the group came in. The idea was to catch us up to speed with the returning kids so we (ideally) wouldn't hold the group back as we got into marching shape. These days were all marching basics, no instruments, so it was a surprise to get into full-band rehearsals and learn I was the only freshman saxophone. The downside was I had no one to commiserate with during sectionals about having to learn so much new stuff. The upside was that my section had a junior drum major and two section leaders plus the bulk of the band officers, so all the new stuff I was learning was way more than any other freshman did. Like, to the point that I won a band-wide drill-down during that first week. I think it's the earliest a freshman had ever done it. Pretty sure the drum major was trying to get me out with a command I had no business knowing yet, one my section leaders said we probably wouldn't do. But it only confused the upperclassmen still in, and they had to chase after me to tell me I'd won after they all realized, "oh dip, mo did the thing and none of us did."
I had no idea that marching band was competitive on my first day. I thought it was just some parades or something. It was a pleasant surprise i guess, but I wasn't ready lol
I marched at brick memorial 2001-2005, Been to your school a few times, crazy we may have crossed paths lol im 37, awesome content, keep up the great work.
Hey! Im am a tenor sax freshman this year, and I was given the incredible opportunity to join my schools marching band this year. My first "camp" happened during my 8th grade year. After school we had a "Marching Band 101" type thing being done in the Middle School's gym. There we went over very basic marching technique, and it acted more of an introduction to marching band. Later on, we had Spring Camp, this too was conducted after school, but at the High School instead. Spring Camp taught us how to do proper marching technique, the dos and donts. We didnt learn any drill, nor did we learn any of the movements, but we learned what matter, how to march 8 to 5. During summer, if you couldnt guess, we had Summer Camp. It started off with short 9 to 4 rehearsals the 3 days the week before. But immediately changed to 12 hour days for a week straight. First thing you notice when you join Marching Band is that Marching Band is how similar everyone is. When I say this I mean everyone loves music, music is their life, everyone is incredibly passionate about their instrument. The nearly 90 hours of summer camp we had across 3 weeks really showed me something. Everyone in Marching Band was supportive, everyone I talked too was great, everyone wants to help. This is true even if your going through eternal punishment with 100 degree weather. Besides the pain and suffering Marching Band has caused me, I think it has been one of the greatest experiences I have ever done. And my freshman year just started.
Same! i also am a tenor sax playing freshman, but I just don't march it. I've been on synth the past 2 seasons (I joined in middle school) and am auditioning for snare this year hopefully I play tenor in concert/jazz band good luck
I was in Twp marching band from 1998-2002. I vividly remember the first practice with the entire band, we did a drill in which the entire ensemble was marching in a circle and would change direction by doing touch and goes. I had no idea what I was doing and had a tech following me around trying to keep me from wrecking the whole circle.
i remember my first day of practice, we didn't even have drums on just marching and my back hurt. but i stuck with it and ended up playing tenors for many years. the shot of the the snare complaing about back pain next to a tenor player is all too real
I am actually the first class at my high school! (I'm a junior rn) But my first season we didn't even march. The drumline just stood there the whole show. It sucked because my back also killed me (I was on snare) but I think it was good we didn't march because we could focus on technique, and so by my sophomore year I had taught myself quads, and that is what I march now 💪
I remember my school marched in a Christmas parade. They had grades 7-high school march and it was bad my first year. I am short so the Snare barely fit me and my back was also destroyed. By the time of the parade, I was still very bad at marching and we only played one cadence. One of the bass drummers was worried about hitting my head since he couldn't see me and now he is on the snare line. I remember he taught me trad grip and next year I actually knew another one of the cadences that was played last year. My marching was still bad
I played tuba all through high school. I was lucky enough that both of my siblings went to the same school before me, and were also in band, so I had contacts, and the tuba player that was already there kind of showed me the ropes before I started freshman year. It was a good time, but we did have a set we simply referred to as "The Death Set". It was 4 8-to-5 steps back, with a hip-switch towards left field around the quads. It was a trial by fire for me, and I definitely had to apologize to the quad player more than once. Turns out, they don't appreciate a sousaphone bell to the head.
This is what happened with me, (obviously up in 7:20) I went in because of friends, sorta good at snare drum, liked snare drum, felt my back being broken, getting bruises on my legs, marching sticks felt like big tree trunks, and I thought diddles were buzzes. I feel lucky I don't need to do the traditional grip tho.
I had dreams of being in a marching band in high school but my school didn't have one so i never did it. Now I enjoy living these dreams vicariously through your youtube channel, which is all of the fun but with none of the effort or back pain!
My band has a summer camp that showed us how to march and stuf but that was half of the camp the other half was to teach the newbies music but we didn't chose the drum it was bass freshmen, snare sophmore, then quads you're junior year
Oh storytime! I love storytime!!! I'm going into my freshman year this fall and going to do drumline too. Very good video to prepare me for the physical challenge. But god damn those marching snare drums do sure look heavy. (oh and btw, what are tenor drums and marching bass drums?)
Ooh, I do like a good storytime. Manny's expression towards the wimps around him will never get old, lol. He does not suffer fools gladly! I never did marching band myself, because in 8th grade, the two junior highs in my city got together to play Mission: Impossible and YMCA at the high school's football halftime one Friday night, and we marched onto the field, stood there and played (I was on trumpet), then marched off. I hated it. I hated it so, so much that I swore I'd never do it again. I loved concert band, though.
My first day of marching band was like 8 months ago lol I dont march drumline (or even touch percussion instruments) so this story is interesting to listen to
My first day was just learning how to march WITHOUT drums. But with summer band I got to choose which instrument to choose. I really didn’t know which drum to play but since the second tenor player graduated I was forcefully put in tenors. It was fun but we had to march to the schools cafeteria to play songs for the teachers but half way throught my back gave out.
I still don’t know how but I was picked to play snare my freshman year then moved onto a quad my sophomore year and finally the trio my junior/senior years. The worst part of playing snare was we used slings not harnesses to carry them and you always ended up getting a huge bruise on your leg where the drum kept smacking you. One pair of trios I had were rototoms and the frickin’ frame was so heavy I thought my back was going to break.
So my first marching band practice was during the second week of band camp. I wasn't able to get my physical signed by the doctor because they were worried about putting me in 90 F weather when my resting heart rate was about 100 bpm. I started the second week because the band directors were like "ay, we need you" so I said "aight bet." Keep in mind, our band camp days were about 12 hours long (8:00--20:00). I started on cymbals, since every other instrument was filled out. Before we got actually cymbal straps, we used the sleeves of last year's uniform (they were spandex-like shirts) and they were near impossible to hold. As soon as we moved to actual cymbal straps, I got moved to snare. The old snare player quit cause it was apparently a lot on her schedule (I get it completely, some days I just slog through Indoor Drumline practice), which was fortunate for me because I hated cymbals. Everyone who played snare for like the past 3 years was afraid to use traditional grip, because they don't really teach it in my band. I just learned it myself, and I'm still not great at it. Tricks are still kinda hard to pull off, and I can barely hit left handed rim shots. Now I gotta be captain because I'm the only one capable of playing all the instruments we have (even though I've only been doing band since Sophomore year, now a Junior). I think they're giving the option to choose whether or not to do competition band stuff and football game stuff, rather than having to do both. If that is the case, I'll probably just to football games.
I started out on bass. The worst part is that I couldn’t hold my bass drum after our lunch break. So, there I was with my drum on a stand while everyone else was doing just fine. I ended my senior year on the tenors and the squad leader for the drum section at Springfield North High School in Ohio. I miss those times.
the snare complaining about back pain while the tenor is just like really bruh reminds me of in normal band the trumpets couldn't stay up after the song ended and all of us trombones were like really im in 10 times as much pain as you and im fine
this past year was my first time marching for the marching band. i got cut for playing the snare and tenors, but no worries cuz i got to play the bass drum, bass 2 percisely. but it wasnt all bad, my first rehearsel was horrible because of my back. but our drum tech and our section leader said that i have a very high chance on marching the tenors next season. all of us have really good chops, including the pit, but yeah it was really fun. #lovepercussion
I joined a high school Marching band as an eighth grader, and my first ever day was the last day of band camp. I was used to having hour and 30 minute rehearsals on Wednesdays, and it had me so tired that it made me question whether I should do Drumline or not because they put me in pit to prepare for Drumline.
Thanks for the remainder that playing in the school band is not all that bad if you have a great music teacher and not one that thinks you're no good. Which I did when I started out, the first music teacher I had told me you have no musical coordination and move on! But I never gave up stuck with playing percussion until I decided to move on myself because of work and money!! But I wish I could go back and play in a band!!
My 1st day of marching band, I was unsure about marching band so I came in 4 days late to clinics they gave me the pit or drumline question which I had no clue what either of them where. I ended up getting thrown on Bass Drum and It was fun. Its now my sophomore year and I now play Timpani in front ensemble.
Oh man my first day of marching band, I play the tenor drums and we were inside for the first 3 hours but we spent the remaining three hours practicing marching outside. I must’ve put those quad toms down about 5 times and even told my band teacher that I was not doing it until he gave me lighter drums. I stuck with the quads (cause I was really good at them and he made me) and now I can go hours with them on barely feeling any pain
I had to learn how to read basic music, because it had been 2 years since I had done anything school wise, because I went homeschooled, then came back, so there I was, put on bass drum, and it was pretty cool. I was eager to learn and I did really well, especially compared to the other bass drums, who wanted to be on something else and didn't really care. I wanted to be on something else, too, but I understood how it was, because I was gone for so long, and I had to get used to it. Now the year has ended, and I, as well, am moving to quads, because I love it, my brother played them, and my best friend plays them, and I'm learning really well. Cya!
Similar story here.. we walked over from my junior high to percussion camp where we met the hs drumline for the first time and got to try the instruments out. I showed up with SD1 concert sticks and we played 8’s, where I proceeded to whack the absolute crap out of the drum because I was nervous. Main difference is I got cut and played cymbals my freshman year
We don't have legatos or 8 on a hand, but we do have 6 8 7, which I think is the equivalent. Starts with 4 bars of 4/4, 4 bars of 3/4, then 2 bars if 7/4. 8th notes
I honestly don't remember much about my first day of marching band. Leading up to it though, I had been playing the alto sax for a little under two years. In my district, you can start doing elementary school band in 3rd grade, but I wasn't in the district until 5th grade, so that's when I started playing the alto. My marching band is grades 7-12. About a week or two before the first rehearsal of the year, I remember being told that I should join marching band. I don't think I told my parents I'd join marching band until like an hour and a half before the first rehearsal. In the first rehearsal, we just went over basic marching technique and played some exercises and a little bit of the show music. I did my high school's marching band all six years and I've done two years in college and planning on doing it again next year! I was also in my high school's winter percussion ensemble for four years, doing pit. Making the decision to join marching band in 7th grade was the best decision I have ever made in my life!
I'm in a marching band in the Netherlands. More like a brass band actually. What a shock it was at the first reheasal with everyone haha! I learned the traditional grip at the beginning so I became very good at it, bit I still can't do the fast thumb thing with my left hand😂 Also love the way how snare drummers need to march sideways with the crossing legs.
As a trumpet player, my first day of marching band was just awkward cus at the time, I was the only freshmen trumpet. others came around tho, and my first season actually ended a few weeks ago! (i secretly wanna try drumline too but idk if i can lol)
My first day of band was learning warmups our football music and marching basics my first band camp day was learning show music in sectionals and playing as an ansamble and learning our first few charts
My first band day i didnt play anything and was marching terribly, it looked like i was dancing rather than marching, i went on to play the surdo, where i was beating it so hard the leather ripped open, then i started to play the trumpet, where it sounded like it was farting initially, but then i got the hang of it and im still playing it to this day.
my first day of hs band i was on the marimba and oh did my hands hurt we were doing non stop 4 mallet warm ups and bumping up the tempo every time. now its my last year in highschool and im deciding to do dci but i don't know which group
My first season of marching band went something like this: get put on bass 2 of 3, do really well somehow, not be able to march as my carrier didn't fit and our drum key was stripped, finally march with it, suck at crabstepping, get good at crabstepping, do my first show, march cadence next show and sprain my ankle, sunshine and rainbows after that.
I found this pretty interesting to say the least. My first day in marching band started with seeing the tenors. All I knew was they were 6 drums stuck together and looked like fun. I thoroughly regretted that however once I put them on and had to start marching with them. Eventually they put me on Bass 5 instead and I enjoyed that. Unfortunately, for the winter season I was cut from bass line 😢 and moved to pit. (This is my first year and we’re going for open class champions for a 2nd year)
My son just had tryouts for middle school concert band. I’m a drummer obviously I’m here, and my wife is a pianist and played clarinet in concert. My son’s best instrument was percussion, he knows how to hold the sticks and he knows basic rudiments. He wants to play trumpet…😢 and yeah, going from my 5a/747 sticks to the hardimons was tough at first.
My first day of band camp was odd, not to mention I was actually a few days late for band camp😅 but when I got there, they had already mostly assigned instruments so I was just stuck in pit and was put on vibe. I hated it with a passion because I wanted snare but I kind of grew the hang of it and got better. But right before we went into full band camp(we also had sectional band camp days) I was pulled out due to certain reasons🥲 so I wasn’t in marching band this year(freshman year) I was sad but in the middle of the year there was indoor season, I wanted to try out for tenor(even tho I had absolutely no experience💀) but no shocker I didn’t make tenor, but guess what I was put on…vibe. Ofc I was, I was pissed but what made it worse was I had to start off our show. But I also got used to that and thought it was cool. Now that season is over and it’s almost the end of the school year I need to decide what I want to do for marching next year. I cannot figure it out cuz I really like battery but for my grade I’m really good on marimba. So I don’t know which to choose😭 Also sorry for such a long story😅
Your high school drumline wouldn't happen to have been taught by a dude named Scott Daley, would it? My high school drumline used the same legatos exercise when it was still being taught by him.
That exercise was more about keeping everyone mentally engaged than it was about liking mixed meter😊 I don’t remember as strongly as Eric does, but we were probably treating that first rehearsal as an unofficial audition. If you could hang through the odd hand changes and show some potential with triplet rolls, you were in. I know for sure that we went back and broke down the basics more during the following rehearsals. 21 years is a long time😂
I literally did one day of band camp and quit. I don’t really regret it lol but maybe I should’ve done it? I did cross country instead and that was still lots of fun.
4 days ago, was my first day of band camp I got a rude awaking sense I played euphonium I did marching euphonium that weighed 30 pounds and we marched for a good 3 or 4 hours and they would not let us put it down so my arms hurt
As an instructor from the Netherlands, I'm really curious about how the learn the first marching basics, does anyone mind to share their ideas? Are there any theory books about this?
I play trumpet. My first day of band was about.💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨 you have to buzz at that point I had a trumpet for two days and I could barely buzz, but I switched to tuba and love it
I can only imagine how hard traditional grip must’ve been at first. My band played matched but as a right handed person my left hand is already a bit stupid, so throwing a new grip on top of that? Oof.
So I didnt start band until last year in 9th grade and i was put on marimba in like a beginner percussion type thing so i didnt start marching band until this year, and I was honestly kinda trash But our teachers explained things that I needed to know and taught me 4 mallet technique for the first time and during indoor season Ive gotten really good. More detail on the actual first day: I was given music for vibes and theres was a 6th note run at like 100 bpm and o struggled to figure out the notes hard It took me for ever to get caught up too cause I didnt join until the last day of band camp, so I hadnt learned any of the music But I eventually got it.
Hey i need some trad grip help. so when i naturally go to it my palm faces at like a 110 degree angle, and someone told me it has to be a 90 degree angle. is that true?
I didnt do band in middle school so I was starting from nothing. They were going to have me do rack in the pit, but appearantly we lost a 5th bass drum player (line of 6) so they took me and one one other kid on rack and decided to face us off against each other. He was a decent bit better at playing than me, but he couldnt hold the drum 😅 so I got the spot
I have a story when it's my first time in a band I was 9 in elemtary school I was grade 4 there was no snare so I used the tenor my back is dying and after 21 days we had snare I was not chosen to be a snare they chose to use tenor tenor was heavy ngl I keep missing the notes so I was kinda dumb after 1 year I turned good in tenor but sometimes I mess up when the walking part wasn't that bad my back is dying because we had a parade we started at 9:00AM into 7:25PM I was dying my tenor was heavy and now I get used to it
would you like to make a drumline with me you can m=be the snare line tuning and teaching july 16 to 17 it will start at 8:00 am ends at 12 :00 pm every week
As somehow who hasn’t watched your content since like 2019 (man I’m old), it’s nice to see these storytime stories again
Good morning! This is video 121 of me asking for a drumline gym made out of various marching percussion instruments, such as the tenor barbell, and bass drumbbells.
And wood blocks. Don’t forget wood blocks.
@@MichaelEdelman1954indeed
Personally, I would have barbell bass drums
@@HotspurChancehe's done tenor barbells before in my Hertas 3 that's why I said it. And tenors are heavier
@@littlepirate411, fair. I forgot about that.
The first day of band I was told that as a girl I was not allowed to the play the drums. I was heartbroken as I “drummed” on every surface I touched. I went on to play the trumpet, French Horn and Mellophone. I am 61 years old and just bought my first drum set. I’ve watched a lot of drumming TH-cam videos and bought the rudiment bible. I plan on taking lessons. I maybe terrible but I finally did it.
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉🎉🎉 that’s so messed up, I hope you have fun and hope to see you play somewhere in the future
They made the biggest mistake not letting you in drumline.
This is the saddest TH-cam comment i have ever read…… I am so sorry that you could not get the experience of being in a drumline 🙁 But I’m happy that you are soon going to have fun playing the drums in the future!!
Congrats, happy you’re finally able to do something you loved
Dang that must’ve been terrible there’s 3 girls in my band class and they said nothing though?
We should all know by now EMC was an unstoppable supernatural paragon of drumming ability from the day he was born
He's hiding his power
I’d like to let you know that I’ve found the first metal band I’ve ever seen with a flub drum. The singer played the flub drum and timbalitos. They’re called Trollfest.
My first day of marching band.
Well, I joined my high schools marching band the summer between 7th and 8th grade. My middle school didn't have one. I wasn't eligible to be in the drumline, but I was able to be in the honor guard. So my first day consisted of learning how to march, how to hold 1/2 of the school's banner, and how to hold a state/national flag.
Then the summer between 8th and 9th grade I was in the drumline, on bass. I ended my tenure with the marching band the summer after graduation for a total of 6 years marching, with 5 in drumline. Ended as drumline captain, playing tenors.
YOOO same!!
i also joined the summer before 8th grade, played synthesizer for 2 years. still in marching band, going to audition for snare this year
Strong quad player look vs weak snare drummer is so funny LOL. Like the 2 Cool Percussion drum set rack on wheels in the background.
6:50 I feel called out by this.
We have this thing for one football game every year where the eighth graders get to play the pregame and we just had ours a couple weeks ago. I ended up getting dehydrated and throwing up. I left right before the halftime show which was really sad because I wanted to see it. But the week after that was homecoming week and they said the eighth graders could join the band again and it went smoothly. Also earlier that day we had the homecoming parade and I marched in that too. My goal for next year is to make marimba though because I do not want to do batterie.
My first day of marching band practice, I walked in to rehearsal and the band was playing “Hey Ya” by OutKast. I thought it was the coolest and loudest thing ever.
Story time!
I’m in 8th grade this year, and I had the opportunity to join my schools marching band for percussion. I decided not to, since I wasn’t interested in marching back then, but I got really interested in it around october. So, I begged the director to let me join my schools WGI Winds group in percussion. Since I was one of the only ones there who didn’t do fall marching band, I had no idea what warmups were, so I had to figure out the warmup routine, across the floors, and sectionals. We didn’t have a “what the heck is happening class” because everyone there knew what the heck was happening! It is now 3 weeks from championships, and I’m happy to report that they gave me Vibes 1 (no marimba’s in the show). I’m just happy that i figured it all out…
To clarify: my school has no indoor percussion since all of our eggs are going into Winter Wind’s basket.
*school’s
*marimbas
You’re in 8th grade. You should know this by now.
@@ferretyluv *school’s
@@tommylikeschicken Defeated by autocorrect. I concede
I recently just finished my first week of band camp and boy was it a rollercoaster of emotions. I was exhausted, I was in pain, and I had a lot of anxiety but I made it through and despite all the things I just wrote. I had a lot of fun, and I was very proud of myself for making it through.
I am so old I don't remember all the specifics of my first day of marching band.
I do remember that we had two days of freshman band camp before the rest of the group came in. The idea was to catch us up to speed with the returning kids so we (ideally) wouldn't hold the group back as we got into marching shape. These days were all marching basics, no instruments, so it was a surprise to get into full-band rehearsals and learn I was the only freshman saxophone.
The downside was I had no one to commiserate with during sectionals about having to learn so much new stuff.
The upside was that my section had a junior drum major and two section leaders plus the bulk of the band officers, so all the new stuff I was learning was way more than any other freshman did. Like, to the point that I won a band-wide drill-down during that first week. I think it's the earliest a freshman had ever done it. Pretty sure the drum major was trying to get me out with a command I had no business knowing yet, one my section leaders said we probably wouldn't do. But it only confused the upperclassmen still in, and they had to chase after me to tell me I'd won after they all realized, "oh dip, mo did the thing and none of us did."
Man, it’s great to hear someone who experienced what I did. I’m a bass drummer (for now) and I gotta say this was exactly how I experienced things.
I had no idea that marching band was competitive on my first day. I thought it was just some parades or something. It was a pleasant surprise i guess, but I wasn't ready lol
I marched at brick memorial 2001-2005, Been to your school a few times, crazy we may have crossed paths lol im 37, awesome content, keep up the great work.
Hey! Im am a tenor sax freshman this year, and I was given the incredible opportunity to join my schools marching band this year. My first "camp" happened during my 8th grade year. After school we had a "Marching Band 101" type thing being done in the Middle School's gym. There we went over very basic marching technique, and it acted more of an introduction to marching band.
Later on, we had Spring Camp, this too was conducted after school, but at the High School instead. Spring Camp taught us how to do proper marching technique, the dos and donts. We didnt learn any drill, nor did we learn any of the movements, but we learned what matter, how to march 8 to 5.
During summer, if you couldnt guess, we had Summer Camp. It started off with short 9 to 4 rehearsals the 3 days the week before. But immediately changed to 12 hour days for a week straight.
First thing you notice when you join Marching Band is that Marching Band is how similar everyone is. When I say this I mean everyone loves music, music is their life, everyone is incredibly passionate about their instrument. The nearly 90 hours of summer camp we had across 3 weeks really showed me something. Everyone in Marching Band was supportive, everyone I talked too was great, everyone wants to help. This is true even if your going through eternal punishment with 100 degree weather.
Besides the pain and suffering Marching Band has caused me, I think it has been one of the greatest experiences I have ever done. And my freshman year just started.
Same! i also am a tenor sax playing freshman, but I just don't march it. I've been on synth the past 2 seasons (I joined in middle school) and am auditioning for snare this year hopefully
I play tenor in concert/jazz band
good luck
This is my first year on drumline (I was trombone before). It's the last day of camp (today), and I threw up on the field and had to leave 😞
I was in Twp marching band from 1998-2002. I vividly remember the first practice with the entire band, we did a drill in which the entire ensemble was marching in a circle and would change direction by doing touch and goes. I had no idea what I was doing and had a tech following me around trying to keep me from wrecking the whole circle.
i remember my first day of practice, we didn't even have drums on just marching and my back hurt. but i stuck with it and ended up playing tenors for many years. the shot of the the snare complaing about back pain next to a tenor player is all too real
I am actually the first class at my high school! (I'm a junior rn) But my first season we didn't even march. The drumline just stood there the whole show. It sucked because my back also killed me (I was on snare) but I think it was good we didn't march because we could focus on technique, and so by my sophomore year I had taught myself quads, and that is what I march now 💪
“oh this [snare drum] is so heavy, why did nobody tell me this would be the heaviest thing ever”
As a freshman tenor drummer this got me rolling 💀
I remember my school marched in a Christmas parade. They had grades 7-high school march and it was bad my first year. I am short so the Snare barely fit me and my back was also destroyed. By the time of the parade, I was still very bad at marching and we only played one cadence. One of the bass drummers was worried about hitting my head since he couldn't see me and now he is on the snare line. I remember he taught me trad grip and next year I actually knew another one of the cadences that was played last year. My marching was still bad
I played tuba all through high school. I was lucky enough that both of my siblings went to the same school before me, and were also in band, so I had contacts, and the tuba player that was already there kind of showed me the ropes before I started freshman year. It was a good time, but we did have a set we simply referred to as "The Death Set". It was 4 8-to-5 steps back, with a hip-switch towards left field around the quads. It was a trial by fire for me, and I definitely had to apologize to the quad player more than once. Turns out, they don't appreciate a sousaphone bell to the head.
Guys gather around the campfire, Eric uploaded a new storytime!
Love your story telling. Go Navy!
I love EMC storytime
This is what happened with me, (obviously up in 7:20) I went in because of friends, sorta good at snare drum, liked snare drum, felt my back being broken, getting bruises on my legs, marching sticks felt like big tree trunks, and I thought diddles were buzzes. I feel lucky I don't need to do the traditional grip tho.
I had dreams of being in a marching band in high school but my school didn't have one so i never did it. Now I enjoy living these dreams vicariously through your youtube channel, which is all of the fun but with none of the effort or back pain!
I’m marching bass 1 in 5 days and I can’t wait
My band has a summer camp that showed us how to march and stuf but that was half of the camp the other half was to teach the newbies music but we didn't chose the drum it was bass freshmen, snare sophmore, then quads you're junior year
Oh storytime! I love storytime!!!
I'm going into my freshman year this fall and going to do drumline too. Very good video to prepare me for the physical challenge.
But god damn those marching snare drums do sure look heavy. (oh and btw, what are tenor drums and marching bass drums?)
Ooh, I do like a good storytime. Manny's expression towards the wimps around him will never get old, lol. He does not suffer fools gladly!
I never did marching band myself, because in 8th grade, the two junior highs in my city got together to play Mission: Impossible and YMCA at the high school's football halftime one Friday night, and we marched onto the field, stood there and played (I was on trumpet), then marched off. I hated it. I hated it so, so much that I swore I'd never do it again. I loved concert band, though.
My first day of marching band was like 8 months ago lol
I dont march drumline (or even touch percussion instruments) so this story is interesting to listen to
My first day was just learning how to march WITHOUT drums. But with summer band I got to choose which instrument to choose. I really didn’t know which drum to play but since the second tenor player graduated I was forcefully put in tenors. It was fun but we had to march to the schools cafeteria to play songs for the teachers but half way throught my back gave out.
I still don’t know how but I was picked to play snare my freshman year then moved onto a quad my sophomore year and finally the trio my junior/senior years. The worst part of playing snare was we used slings not harnesses to carry them and you always ended up getting a huge bruise on your leg where the drum kept smacking you. One pair of trios I had were rototoms and the frickin’ frame was so heavy I thought my back was going to break.
Washington Township represent 🔥
So my first marching band practice was during the second week of band camp. I wasn't able to get my physical signed by the doctor because they were worried about putting me in 90 F weather when my resting heart rate was about 100 bpm. I started the second week because the band directors were like "ay, we need you" so I said "aight bet." Keep in mind, our band camp days were about 12 hours long (8:00--20:00). I started on cymbals, since every other instrument was filled out. Before we got actually cymbal straps, we used the sleeves of last year's uniform (they were spandex-like shirts) and they were near impossible to hold. As soon as we moved to actual cymbal straps, I got moved to snare. The old snare player quit cause it was apparently a lot on her schedule (I get it completely, some days I just slog through Indoor Drumline practice), which was fortunate for me because I hated cymbals. Everyone who played snare for like the past 3 years was afraid to use traditional grip, because they don't really teach it in my band. I just learned it myself, and I'm still not great at it. Tricks are still kinda hard to pull off, and I can barely hit left handed rim shots. Now I gotta be captain because I'm the only one capable of playing all the instruments we have (even though I've only been doing band since Sophomore year, now a Junior). I think they're giving the option to choose whether or not to do competition band stuff and football game stuff, rather than having to do both. If that is the case, I'll probably just to football games.
Good morning!!! I approve this
This guy is the one who motivates me to get up in the morning
THE QUADS GUY IS SO REAL LMAOOO
I started out on bass. The worst part is that I couldn’t hold my bass drum after our lunch break. So, there I was with my drum on a stand while everyone else was doing just fine. I ended my senior year on the tenors and the squad leader for the drum section at Springfield North High School in Ohio. I miss those times.
the snare complaining about back pain while the tenor is just like really bruh reminds me of in normal band the trumpets couldn't stay up after the song ended and all of us trombones were like really im in 10 times as much pain as you and im fine
this past year was my first time marching for the marching band. i got cut for playing the snare and tenors, but no worries cuz i got to play the bass drum, bass 2 percisely. but it wasnt all bad, my first rehearsel was horrible because of my back. but our drum tech and our section leader said that i have a very high chance on marching the tenors next season. all of us have really good chops, including the pit, but yeah it was really fun. #lovepercussion
I joined a high school Marching band as an eighth grader, and my first ever day was the last day of band camp. I was used to having hour and 30 minute rehearsals on Wednesdays, and it had me so tired that it made me question whether I should do Drumline or not because they put me in pit to prepare for Drumline.
Thanks for the remainder that playing in the school band is not all that bad if you have a great music teacher and not one that thinks you're no good. Which I did when I started out, the first music teacher I had told me you have no musical coordination and move on! But I never gave up stuck with playing percussion until I decided to move on myself because of work and money!! But I wish I could go back and play in a band!!
I’m on alto sax and actually my rookie season was my seventh grade year and I caught on pretty quickly and I didn’t do too bad
My 1st day of marching band, I was unsure about marching band so I came in 4 days late to clinics they gave me the pit or drumline question which I had no clue what either of them where. I ended up getting thrown on Bass Drum and It was fun. Its now my sophomore year and I now play Timpani in front ensemble.
Oh man my first day of marching band, I play the tenor drums and we were inside for the first 3 hours but we spent the remaining three hours practicing marching outside. I must’ve put those quad toms down about 5 times and even told my band teacher that I was not doing it until he gave me lighter drums. I stuck with the quads (cause I was really good at them and he made me) and now I can go hours with them on barely feeling any pain
I had to learn how to read basic music, because it had been 2 years since I had done anything school wise, because I went homeschooled, then came back, so there I was, put on bass drum, and it was pretty cool. I was eager to learn and I did really well, especially compared to the other bass drums, who wanted to be on something else and didn't really care. I wanted to be on something else, too, but I understood how it was, because I was gone for so long, and I had to get used to it. Now the year has ended, and I, as well, am moving to quads, because I love it, my brother played them, and my best friend plays them, and I'm learning really well. Cya!
1:46 The first high school on the second list is my high schools rival
Similar story here.. we walked over from my junior high to percussion camp where we met the hs drumline for the first time and got to try the instruments out. I showed up with SD1 concert sticks and we played 8’s, where I proceeded to whack the absolute crap out of the drum because I was nervous. Main difference is I got cut and played cymbals my freshman year
Drum line of only different pitches cowbells
We don't have legatos or 8 on a hand, but we do have 6 8 7, which I think is the equivalent. Starts with 4 bars of 4/4, 4 bars of 3/4, then 2 bars if 7/4. 8th notes
I honestly don't remember much about my first day of marching band. Leading up to it though, I had been playing the alto sax for a little under two years. In my district, you can start doing elementary school band in 3rd grade, but I wasn't in the district until 5th grade, so that's when I started playing the alto. My marching band is grades 7-12. About a week or two before the first rehearsal of the year, I remember being told that I should join marching band. I don't think I told my parents I'd join marching band until like an hour and a half before the first rehearsal. In the first rehearsal, we just went over basic marching technique and played some exercises and a little bit of the show music. I did my high school's marching band all six years and I've done two years in college and planning on doing it again next year! I was also in my high school's winter percussion ensemble for four years, doing pit. Making the decision to join marching band in 7th grade was the best decision I have ever made in my life!
I'm in a marching band in the Netherlands. More like a brass band actually. What a shock it was at the first reheasal with everyone haha! I learned the traditional grip at the beginning so I became very good at it, bit I still can't do the fast thumb thing with my left hand😂 Also love the way how snare drummers need to march sideways with the crossing legs.
As a trumpet player, my first day of marching band was just awkward cus at the time, I was the only freshmen trumpet. others came around tho, and my first season actually ended a few weeks ago!
(i secretly wanna try drumline too but idk if i can lol)
My first day of band was learning warmups our football music and marching basics my first band camp day was learning show music in sectionals and playing as an ansamble and learning our first few charts
My first band day i didnt play anything and was marching terribly, it looked like i was dancing rather than marching, i went on to play the surdo, where i was beating it so hard the leather ripped open, then i started to play the trumpet, where it sounded like it was farting initially, but then i got the hang of it and im still playing it to this day.
my first day of hs band i was on the marimba and oh did my hands hurt we were doing non stop 4 mallet warm ups and bumping up the tempo every time. now its my last year in highschool and im deciding to do dci but i don't know which group
You are the MJ of marching band!!!!
My first season of marching band went something like this: get put on bass 2 of 3, do really well somehow, not be able to march as my carrier didn't fit and our drum key was stripped, finally march with it, suck at crabstepping, get good at crabstepping, do my first show, march cadence next show and sprain my ankle, sunshine and rainbows after that.
I found this pretty interesting to say the least. My first day in marching band started with seeing the tenors. All I knew was they were 6 drums stuck together and looked like fun. I thoroughly regretted that however once I put them on and had to start marching with them. Eventually they put me on Bass 5 instead and I enjoyed that. Unfortunately, for the winter season I was cut from bass line 😢 and moved to pit. (This is my first year and we’re going for open class champions for a 2nd year)
I'm from Washington township too. I never really noticed you.
I was lucky enough to start marching this year and I’m in 8th grade so when I get to high school it won’t be as hard to learn how to march
My son just had tryouts for middle school concert band. I’m a drummer obviously I’m here, and my wife is a pianist and played clarinet in concert. My son’s best instrument was percussion, he knows how to hold the sticks and he knows basic rudiments. He wants to play trumpet…😢 and yeah, going from my 5a/747 sticks to the hardimons was tough at first.
On my first day of band we patted our legs because our sticks hadnt arrived in the mail yet but now i play the tenor drums and i am glad i stayed in.
I remember my first day I couldn't talk when I was wearing the quads because it was so heavy lol
My first day of band camp was odd, not to mention I was actually a few days late for band camp😅 but when I got there, they had already mostly assigned instruments so I was just stuck in pit and was put on vibe. I hated it with a passion because I wanted snare but I kind of grew the hang of it and got better. But right before we went into full band camp(we also had sectional band camp days) I was pulled out due to certain reasons🥲 so I wasn’t in marching band this year(freshman year) I was sad but in the middle of the year there was indoor season, I wanted to try out for tenor(even tho I had absolutely no experience💀) but no shocker I didn’t make tenor, but guess what I was put on…vibe. Ofc I was, I was pissed but what made it worse was I had to start off our show. But I also got used to that and thought it was cool. Now that season is over and it’s almost the end of the school year I need to decide what I want to do for marching next year. I cannot figure it out cuz I really like battery but for my grade I’m really good on marimba. So I don’t know which to choose😭
Also sorry for such a long story😅
Your high school drumline wouldn't happen to have been taught by a dude named Scott Daley, would it? My high school drumline used the same legatos exercise when it was still being taught by him.
Yup! Scott likes odd meter I guess haha
That exercise was more about keeping everyone mentally engaged than it was about liking mixed meter😊
I don’t remember as strongly as Eric does, but we were probably treating that first rehearsal as an unofficial audition. If you could hang through the odd hand changes and show some potential with triplet rolls, you were in. I know for sure that we went back and broke down the basics more during the following rehearsals.
21 years is a long time😂
@@qsurf99 I still use Legatos and a bunch of those old warmups we used to do (Thirteen, DDL, etc.) when I practice now
Please play trash the halls, it’s the best part of my winter concerts
I literally did one day of band camp and quit. I don’t really regret it lol but maybe I should’ve done it? I did cross country instead and that was still lots of fun.
4 days ago, was my first day of band camp I got a rude awaking sense I played euphonium I did marching euphonium that weighed 30 pounds and we marched for a good 3 or 4 hours and they would not let us put it down so my arms hurt
Do you have any good marching band tips to help me achieve snare drum?
I had no idea my middle school was top division(Winston Churchill) Go Bulldogs. Also this might be a while back but they don't have a marching band.
As an instructor from the Netherlands, I'm really curious about how the learn the first marching basics, does anyone mind to share their ideas? Are there any theory books about this?
I play trumpet. My first day of band was about.💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨 you have to buzz at that point I had a trumpet for two days and I could barely buzz, but I switched to tuba and love it
wait u were in washington township too???
Well, we almost had a fight with Washington Township locals in 90. Does that count?
I can only imagine how hard traditional grip must’ve been at first. My band played matched but as a right handed person my left hand is already a bit stupid, so throwing a new grip on top of that? Oof.
Had my first season this year and they put me on bass 1. It hurt but not terribly
I remember the first time I put on my bass drum, I thought I was gonna die😂
I didn’t march Township but I taught there in the summer/fall of 2001 😊
First of all since where did he get drumsticks that big
my first day of marching band was pretty similar to your marching band first day
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I didnt start band until last year in 9th grade and i was put on marimba in like a beginner percussion type thing so i didnt start marching band until this year, and I was honestly kinda trash
But our teachers explained things that I needed to know and taught me 4 mallet technique for the first time and during indoor season Ive gotten really good.
More detail on the actual first day: I was given music for vibes and theres was a 6th note run at like 100 bpm and o struggled to figure out the notes hard
It took me for ever to get caught up too cause I didnt join until the last day of band camp, so I hadnt learned any of the music
But I eventually got it.
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I wish i have that snare drum
emc im am in seventh grade and i made the marching band and indoor drumline as a bass drum
Matter fact, my teacher is me. Your teacher is nice cause mine ain’t.
Drum go boom!
I just met EMC at Springford High school!!
Beast mode
Hey i need some trad grip help. so when i naturally go to it my palm faces at like a 110 degree angle, and someone told me it has to be a 90 degree angle. is that true?
My first band is actually a i don't know what's the move in the drum major move it's so hard
I didnt do band in middle school so I was starting from nothing. They were going to have me do rack in the pit, but appearantly we lost a 5th bass drum player (line of 6) so they took me and one one other kid on rack and decided to face us off against each other. He was a decent bit better at playing than me, but he couldnt hold the drum 😅 so I got the spot
Have you ever marched cymbal each hand is so heavy
try marching tenors then 💀💀
I have a story when it's my first time in a band I was 9 in elemtary school I was grade 4 there was no snare so I used the tenor my back is dying and after 21 days we had snare I was not chosen to be a snare they chose to use tenor tenor was heavy ngl I keep missing the notes so I was kinda dumb after 1 year I turned good in tenor but sometimes I mess up when the walking part wasn't that bad my back is dying because we had a parade we started at 9:00AM into 7:25PM I was dying my tenor was heavy and now I get used to it
donu ahve snare classes?
would you like to make a drumline with me you can m=be the snare line tuning and teaching july
16 to 17 it will start at 8:00 am ends at 12 :00 pm every week