Luckily everybody with Guitar Pro background has learned to read sheet musics along the tabs. ;) or am I just weird? I also can read drum tabs only by the midi number from guitar pro. Wtf.... inhuman self-taught skills.
More like Self-taught musicians: s u c c Literally I tarted about May or June learning music just from videos and videogames and i already know how to improvise and arrange, but if someone breaks onto my house and set a sheet music in my keyboard, my mind would go full blank.
I had a sight reading exam at university. I cant sight read... I sat outside the room and listened to 4 other students read the piece... Learned it by ear and played it flawlessly in the exam xD
@@jodyguilbeaux8225 fuck no😂 i was in jazz band for 3 years (and one sememster of college before i got tired of school) and didn’t read any of the sheet music they gave me. drums are almost always about feeling, not recitation. In i’d say about 80% of trap set sheet music they tell you the style, time signature, and occasionally mark accents and dynamics. Sometimes they’ll have a particular fill written out but even then i’d usually just play my own take on what was written. It’s like i always told people: I hit things with sticks, why over complicate it.
Yo, Zach! Teach us reading chops!...what we just supposed to read a sheet of music a day?! Lolz in all seriousness, I would like to build my reading ability. I’ve worked hard on what Carter McLean dubs...listening chops (ASD was a solid recommend 👌🏽 on your part) but I want to develop in all areas of musicality. Thanks brah!
I clicked explicitly for the thumbnail and was let down. Like, today’s Christmas. This shouldn’t happen to anybody. I wanted to watch a tiny headed, massive bodied person play drums. This is bullshit.
@@thomas.thomas ,..what is real?...what's the norm?...there is no doubt that legit drum vocabulary and education and degrees are vastly impressive. Yet..getting the gig;..getting the paycheck, is a way of achieving. But just playing for the thrill, the peace of mind, the exercise..the fun chops...is what maybe drives others. To each his own
But you need to know what you are doing. If you can do that and master the essence of finesse and dynamics and where to place which part by all means but just doing it to act as an elitist won’t help much. And 9 times out of 10 mastering finesse and dynamics goes above and beyond just practicing major and minor drum scales. Plus I honestly don’t quite get what that would be useful for. Maybe you can tune your drums to certain notes but most drummers don’t even tune their drums for the next song they tune them before the gig to sound good and then stay with that tone.
I'm surprised a fair bit of people didn't know drummers read sheet music. How else are we supposed to know what's going on when we're seeing something completely new with the jazz band?
This is the difference between real musicians and the rest who are at varying levels of not real musicians.... And if they only knew how much more they would be able to do, if they learned how to read and appreciate all kinds of music - even - classical...
@@frandanco6289 Disagree, reading what someone else has written can be very restrictive especially in drumming and can definitely make you lazy. Being a "real" musician has very little to do with reading it.
I did an audition last night and passed!! They let me jam, and they kept telling me the actual audition was gonna be after Christmas, however they just said “okay time to audition” HAHA! And “all pressure on we’re not even going to watch we’re just going to listen while you play to a click track.” “I’ll call you out, you don’t call me out.” However they were just seeing how I do under pressure and on the spot. But despite being nervous I did it!!!! Once I eased into the groove it was all clockwork haha. Only advice to any drummer ever, use the metronome all day everyday play to click tracks. :P
I'm honestly so glad I learned to read sheet music within the first couple months of starting drums. I definitely learn better by ear but being able to double check a chart has saved me hours of frustration. Ain't gonna talk about no sight-reading though.
I'm a 63 year old drummer that doesn't read music. I play by ear and feel and it's always worked for me, getting me into bands. I've practiced to records, learning the drum parts and people have noted that I have a 'nice feel' when I play. Reading music has it's place but I have watched drummers reading music while playing and they come across as 'mechanical', not natural players. Each to their own.
As someone who is currently learning, yes, I’m more of a sight/hearing person who likes to see stuff performed and copy most techniques. Because reading sheet music has always been a challenge.
Based on the video I'd say the character is auditioning for a jazz ensemble, where it's absolutely required that you are able to sight read drum charts. Jazz drum charts are usually super easy to read, you barely need to know the basics of reading. They just give a count structure and provide a simple base groove for each phrase so you can feel out a piece without having to talk through each phrase individually before hand.
I too am close to 63. Played drums since 16. I learned to play piano only a couple years back and all it did was improved my music credibility and resume. I was tired to the "chord guy/girls" speaking a language that I was a foreign to. Now if I am playing drums or piano in the band, I can articulate notes, bars/measures, and general music theory that I lacked as a mere "nice feel " drummer. This not intended as dig on you, but be open minded. Not all readers are mechanical...ask Steve Gadd.
That's such a typical answer from someone who doesn't read music. I envy those who can play by ear but for me sight reading or reading notes or whatever you want to call it, has always been a useful tool to learn music, whether it be brass, guitar/bass, piano or drums. I feel lucky to have learned that at a young age. But never have I heard that I play music mechanically. To me that sounds just spiteful
😄😄 I gotta show my 11 year old who I got a drum set for last year this clip. He'll die laughing and it's guaranteed to get him playing around again. It's really funny.
I've never been asked to bring cymbals but either the house kit is a total gig pig (not good) or it's actually been halfway decent. On the pigs, my nice cymbals are NOT going to help. At all. Don't even have time to tune them, much less make them a good instrument. L.
I started reading drum books at the age SIX, 1957, ....with Jim Blackley (RIP), in Vancouver. Studied with him till the age 16, when he left Vancouver for Toronto, New York and Juilliard. I still have ALL the books and my Gretsch set. .
The real measure of professionalism in a musician is the ability to play with great feel and time even when sight reading. It doesn't mean the 'feel' player doesn't play beautifully or that playing accurately by ear isn't a desirable skill but at the top level you are expected to read and deliver because there is someone else at the audition who will be able to do that. I don't number myself among those who can perform at that level so my opportunities are limited. I do play professional gigs but my phone isn't always ringing and I don't expect it will.
I'll never forget the time I joined band class in my freshman year of high school. I had taught myself to play drums in middle school, so I thought just playing the snare for the percussions would be a piece of cake. I thought to myself, "If these people who don't actually play drums can do this, then surely an actual drummer like me can!" I then proceeded to get humbled 😂 The very first day, our teacher wanted to check everyone's abilities out, so he asked each individual to play a part from some sheet music. I turned to my friend and said, "Wait what. Sheet music??" I had no idea drummers read sheet music too. My friend tried to teach me in the 2 min I had before I was up, but it was futile. I butchered the part so bad that my friend started laughing his ass off. The teacher and the rest of the class were just staring at me in disappointment. Til this day, my single neuron monke brain still can't read sheet music.
I learned how to read music at the school, but that was a long time ago. I thought that as a church drummer I would'nt need to use these skills on it, but I've realized that it helped me to learn a lot of kind of music rythms. Salsa, Songo, Vosa Nova, rock, gospel, polca, etc. When I don't know how to play any rythm, I write it and I try to practice it slow to fast. Read music can be helpfull for a lot of things even if you are a drummer. Hello from Dominican Republic
I’ve been a musician (trombone) for nearly 60 years and despite hearing all the reasons why someone thinks they don’t need to read charts I have just one word for them: illiterate. I am now the Director of Music for an ensemble and the drummer, who heaps of experience and a wonderful feel for a whole range of music is now learning to read for the first time. I’ve convinced him of the importance of reflecting precisely what the composer or arranger was thinking at the time and showing respect fit that person’s work. As a side note he’s now getting work playing in a house band backing visiting singers which he would not have gotten if he couldn’t read.
This video is almost word for word EXACTLY what happened at my audition for my jazz composition major audition this past saturday. though, i didn’t lie about my sight reading skill.
All good bandleaders know the drummer is also the muscle in the group (singer's the looks, guitarist's the brains, bassist is the wildcard), so someone who can lay down a funky jazz beat and also throw a right hook is crucial to musical success. You would've gotten the job in my band!
“A prima vista” is what they call sight reading in the Netherlands. I once had to do a music exam (to make sure it was still going to be subsidized moving forward) and I passed my exam but they didn’t tell me. Instead they provided me with “The Black Page” (Terry Bozzio) just to see me sweat for a couple of minutes, after which they told me I passed :)
I grew up on a full kit, mostly self taught. In middle school jazz band i played percussion and literally had to decipher the sheet music and memorize the parts because I couldn’t read fast enough. After memorizing, I just ignored the music stands and yoloed it and actually did well. Now it’s been a few years and I forgot everything about music theory and sheet music.
I'm a self taught drummer and I learnt how to read sheet music with no problems at all! Remember that tutorials and TH-cam are very useful I you know how to use them ;) and they exist since quite a few years man
Drummers read sheet music? Ain’t gonna lie, I’ve been playin for a while and I still in the beginning stages of reading sheet music for drums, I literally gotta go back to the basics and start over, And starting over is hard so that’s why I’m still at the beginning lol
Hiya, where in N.C? And so the moral to your comment is,... learn to read your music notes from the get go? 👍😉 Good advice, 'coz I want to learn how to play the drums. You have any other advice ? 🤗 Take care and I hope your dreams come true!
It was entertaining but Can't believe over 1.9 Million viewed this video. And I'm 1 of them? I'm 70 YO, retired, and just returned to "playing" Drums after a 50 Hiatus. I play for enjoyment in retirement , to MY Music : CCR, Petty, Stones, Mellencamp, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, etc... in my basement. When I started to get into it in 1966, took maybe 6-8 lessons, practiced on a pad, and then, Finally got on a Set (in my day it was called a Drum Set) with the Instructor which was at a local Music / Record Store in Flushing Queens NY. Once that occurred .... I was Hooked on the DRUMS. I was given sheet music to read for the drums, used it for practice , but Predominantly played by EAR like many or all of us. I played in a Garage Band with HS buddies who were all learning their instruments as went. Then life took charge, off to College, etc... And I never played again until (I always played Air Drums .... it's in the Blood), my wife of 47 years heard me say That I would like tom go to a local Music Studio just to Beat on the Drums . So she played Santa Clause in 2018 , got me a Cheapo Gammon Kit and I started to play again a few months later. It took me a few months to get going. Now during 2020 -2021 I've upgraded the Kit toa PDP Maple Concept 7 piece kit (Used), new cymbals, purchased 3 new Snares , replaced all the heads, added a cowbell, all for Fun. So Baker, Moon, Bonham, Peartand most recently Watts (may they RIP), are safe !!! Well Who Knows, Maybe someone locally will start a Geriatric Band and have an audition .... I'll bring the Cymbals.
As a visually impaired musician it’s genuinely hard for me to sight read. I have to either learn the piece or just hope I get a drum part. I play mostly percussion, violin and piano. Anything melodic I can’t sight read. But learning is good on me. Sight reading rhythm, depends on the difficulty. If there’s like stupid stickings then I’ll most likely miss it lol
The ability to read sheet music was one of the main reasons I 1st a first wanted to learn to play the piano. To. To be able to hear music for the 1st time for the 1st time by making it yourself was a dream that I was fortunate enough too just enough to make come true... I'm a pretty good site reader. It takes not being upset about your mistakes and just powering through.. If you can learn to cite read piano music you are golden you can read anything after that... Except for those weird cleffs that strings people use....lol
Of course I have to admit that being really good at site reading Organ music makes you even more masterful than probably even the best site reading pianist...
I remember in my high school music class, I had a classmate who was amazing at playing the drums, but he couldn't read music notes. Dude failed theory components so bad, he had to rely on learning by hearing. It's too bad we couldn't exchange some of our skills, because my strength was in theory but I was only a decent guitar player
Such a great video! You always have such great elements of humor, skill, and useful advice, all combined! Some of the coolest brothers I've ever seen! Happy drumming/playing, my friends!
It’s the “drummers actually read sheet music?” that got me
It's so relateble
Every time I show a non-drummer some drum sheet music they freak out lmao
*"Do musician read music sheets?*
-Me, a guitarist
@@avocadocommander I think guitarists read tabs.
Some do
Every self-taught drummer's worst fear :
"I have some charts here"
Oof, I'd have a heart attack.
F
Luckily everybody with Guitar Pro background has learned to read sheet musics along the tabs. ;) or am I just weird? I also can read drum tabs only by the midi number from guitar pro. Wtf.... inhuman self-taught skills.
Haha, on the contrary, I literally taught myself how to play drums with sheet music.
Hahahaha reading charts is easy. Its when the jazz instructor just throws you a saxophone lead sheet that is effed
"How are you at sight-reading?"
Self-taught drummers: y e s
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Self-taught musicians: s u c c
Literally I tarted about May or June learning music just from videos and videogames and i already know how to improvise and arrange, but if someone breaks onto my house and set a sheet music in my keyboard, my mind would go full blank.
@@cactusowo1835 I wasn't sure if I should laugh at this comment or not. 2/10.
@@BurnTheNuance it wasn't meant for you to laugh, instead, it was meant 4 someome who can relate, but at least you tried, here's is a cookie 🍪
@@cactusowo1835 😬😬🤭🤭
@@cactusowo1835 the joke is coming in Uber?
I’m just now looking back at this video and wow this is literally the stupidest thing I have ever created. I love it
It’s actually genius and very relatable lmao
It’s ok I had an old channel where I have made much worse 😂
No joke I’ve watched this at least 7 times
It's the only thing of yours I've seen. It's pretty good.
Glad we can agree on that.
I had a sight reading exam at university.
I cant sight read...
I sat outside the room and listened to 4 other students read the piece...
Learned it by ear and played it flawlessly in the exam xD
what??? dude thats legendary hahaha so awesome
That's awesome that's what i would of done. Did you know that you weren't going first?
That's awesome, you got one hell of an ear my friend!
Death is scared by your power
@Joe Woodhead: legend! Please tell this story to every single sight-reading wastrel you'll meet. Learning by ear is everything!
Holy crap I need acting lessons right now
No it’s ok dad u did great
The not perfect acting makes the video way better
heeloo bro
ur acting is fine fam.
I think you were great
"Drummers actually read music?"
My first exact words after trying out for marching band.
Phil Collins doesn’t read music, hasn’t done bad for himself !
i thought that every good drummer reads notation, that is how you learn. haaaa
@@paulchambers9456, well, he is a genius... So it doesn't count! 🤣
@@jodyguilbeaux8225 fuck no😂 i was in jazz band for 3 years (and one sememster of college before i got tired of school) and didn’t read any of the sheet music they gave me. drums are almost always about feeling, not recitation. In i’d say about 80% of trap set sheet music they tell you the style, time signature, and occasionally mark accents and dynamics. Sometimes they’ll have a particular fill written out but even then i’d usually just play my own take on what was written. It’s like i always told people: I hit things with sticks, why over complicate it.
Sheet Music for drums doesn't fit very well
These guys are gold.
Yo, Zach! Teach us reading chops!...what we just supposed to read a sheet of music a day?! Lolz in all seriousness, I would like to build my reading ability. I’ve worked hard on what Carter McLean dubs...listening chops (ASD was a solid recommend 👌🏽 on your part) but I want to develop in all areas of musicality. Thanks brah!
Hey bro zach
These guys?...they are the same guy
@@Spellcheekswammablamma nope
Slate
I clicked explicitly for the thumbnail and was let down. Like, today’s Christmas. This shouldn’t happen to anybody. I wanted to watch a tiny headed, massive bodied person play drums.
This is bullshit.
“Gotcha bitch”
@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf hahahah
accurate
Read the title rather than look at thumbnail clickbait is everywhere ya cant avoid it
@@02banshee99 today (or rather yesterday now) was my birthday and nothings changed. I’m still fuming over this
The fact that a drummer auditioning actually kept time, should be an impressive feat in itself!
I literally just did a jazz drum audition
How did it go
@@kc.21k good
Did you punch the assessor at the end too?
@@Cuzjudd no
@@ruadhmunro4619 yes
This why I always practice my major and minor drum scales. Being a drummer isnt an excuse to cop out of the real musician repertoire 😠🥴
how about double swing minor drum fills?
"real" musician?
@@thomas.thomas ,..what is real?...what's the norm?...there is no doubt that legit drum vocabulary and education and degrees are vastly impressive. Yet..getting the gig;..getting the paycheck, is a way of achieving. But just playing for the thrill, the peace of mind, the exercise..the fun chops...is what maybe drives others. To each his own
But you need to know what you are doing. If you can do that and master the essence of finesse and dynamics and where to place which part by all means but just doing it to act as an elitist won’t help much. And 9 times out of 10 mastering finesse and dynamics goes above and beyond just practicing major and minor drum scales. Plus I honestly don’t quite get what that would be useful for. Maybe you can tune your drums to certain notes but most drummers don’t even tune their drums for the next song they tune them before the gig to sound good and then stay with that tone.
Bet you’re fun at diner parties
As someone who's gonna go thru the audition process soon this was very informative.
Was it, or did you make this post to brag on the down low? Be honest.
good luck man, ignore this clown above
Yes and remember to not forget your hi-hats when you exit, stage right! 🤣
I'm surprised a fair bit of people didn't know drummers read sheet music. How else are we supposed to know what's going on when we're seeing something completely new with the jazz band?
Symphonic percussionists have to spend hours counting empty measures until their roll on the tympani or whatever. Not easy.
You improvise.
Because most people's experience of drummers aren't in jazz band, they're in rock groups.
This is the difference between real musicians and the rest who are at varying levels of not real musicians.... And if they only knew how much more they would be able to do, if they learned how to read and appreciate all kinds of music - even - classical...
@@frandanco6289 Disagree, reading what someone else has written can be very restrictive especially in drumming and can definitely make you lazy. Being a "real" musician has very little to do with reading it.
2:42 this is inCREDIBLE
- kermit
Sight-reading. The bane of my musical existence.
THE HI HATS!!!! He'll be back. I know he's good at sight seeing... reading..
what are those hats? so big...
I did an audition last night and passed!! They let me jam, and they kept telling me the actual audition was gonna be after Christmas, however they just said “okay time to audition” HAHA! And “all pressure on we’re not even going to watch we’re just going to listen while you play to a click track.”
“I’ll call you out, you don’t call me out.”
However they were just seeing how I do under pressure and on the spot. But despite being nervous I did it!!!! Once I eased into the groove it was all clockwork haha.
Only advice to any drummer ever, use the metronome all day everyday play to click tracks. :P
100. I try to do either music, click track or just play without and look at where I screw up tempo to help. My bpm app is great.
Great advice. Not only for drummers but for musicians in general. An advice I should heed more often myself....
I'm honestly so glad I learned to read sheet music within the first couple months of starting drums. I definitely learn better by ear but being able to double check a chart has saved me hours of frustration.
Ain't gonna talk about no sight-reading though.
I'm a 63 year old drummer that doesn't read music. I play by ear and feel and it's always worked for me, getting me into bands. I've practiced to records, learning the drum parts and people have noted that I have a 'nice feel' when I play. Reading music has it's place but I have watched drummers reading music while playing and they come across as 'mechanical', not natural players. Each to their own.
Agreed
As someone who is currently learning, yes, I’m more of a sight/hearing person who likes to see stuff performed and copy most techniques. Because reading sheet music has always been a challenge.
Based on the video I'd say the character is auditioning for a jazz ensemble, where it's absolutely required that you are able to sight read drum charts. Jazz drum charts are usually super easy to read, you barely need to know the basics of reading. They just give a count structure and provide a simple base groove for each phrase so you can feel out a piece without having to talk through each phrase individually before hand.
I too am close to 63. Played drums since 16. I learned to play piano only a couple years back and all it did was improved my music credibility and resume. I was tired to the "chord guy/girls" speaking a language that I was a foreign to. Now if I am playing drums or piano in the band, I can articulate notes, bars/measures, and general music theory that I lacked as a mere "nice feel " drummer. This not intended as dig on you, but be open minded. Not all readers are mechanical...ask Steve Gadd.
That's such a typical answer from someone who doesn't read music. I envy those who can play by ear but for me sight reading or reading notes or whatever you want to call it, has always been a useful tool to learn music, whether it be brass, guitar/bass, piano or drums. I feel lucky to have learned that at a young age. But never have I heard that I play music mechanically. To me that sounds just spiteful
1 in the morning but I have to watch this
Same here dude haha
1 A.M. 13 mins ago time zone squad RIGHT HERE
7:30 P.M. here
9:30 PM here
HAHA
"i've been around a couple of 7 and 8s, but never a 10!" Nice line guys.
Zack is hilarious but also has genuinely good advice for musicians one of the best new music TH-camrs I've found
"So How did you learn drums?"
"There's this movie...."
1:12 Finally someone who knows how to drum.
Chops. Arent drumming. It's just a trick that drummers do.
@@okalright3941 I was making a joke on how he was playing the high hat
😄😄 I gotta show my 11 year old who I got a drum set for last year this clip. He'll die laughing and it's guaranteed to get him playing around again. It's really funny.
Chops is drumming. Its a drum style that requires a ton of skill
Drummers from new york actually actually take the same amount of time to run home and grab cymbals
if someone talked to me like that, i would just pick my shit up and go home. without saying a word. i would not want to work for these pricks anyway.
It must be hard, living under the auditorium
I've never been asked to bring cymbals but either the house kit is a total gig pig (not good) or it's actually been halfway decent. On the pigs, my nice cymbals are NOT going to help. At all. Don't even have time to tune them, much less make them a good instrument. L.
Absolutely Hilarious
I gave myself a like for that comment
I gave you a like too
LikeWise = wisdom regarding likes 🙏
You make great videos Mitch
Riku Poika Thank you Riku much appreciated!!
Ngl, that sight reading bit hit me in ways I couldn't imagine.
He forgot the hi hats
Nah he came back
Be there-- done that. Try playing a gig with two crashes...and different sizes!!! Not recommended. :-)
Heyyyyy, ocurrenciatv
I started reading drum books at the age SIX, 1957, ....with Jim Blackley (RIP), in Vancouver. Studied with him till the age 16, when he left Vancouver for Toronto, New York and Juilliard. I still have ALL the books and my Gretsch set.
.
and you still can't hold a beat. give us an audio....and i will give one of mine....and we will compare. um bettin you can't play
Just watched a 3 minute video to get absolutely roasted, feeling pretty good
I'm glad to have discovered you and Saxologic recently
When I thought I didn't laugh too hard this time, I then saw 3:04
Exactly 🤣🤣🤣
The real measure of professionalism in a musician is the ability to play with great feel and time even when sight reading. It doesn't mean the 'feel' player doesn't play beautifully or that playing accurately by ear isn't a desirable skill but at the top level you are expected to read and deliver because there is someone else at the audition who will be able to do that. I don't number myself among those who can perform at that level so my opportunities are limited. I do play professional gigs but my phone isn't always ringing and I don't expect it will.
you either can play or you can't....sight read or not
I'll never forget the time I joined band class in my freshman year of high school. I had taught myself to play drums in middle school, so I thought just playing the snare for the percussions would be a piece of cake. I thought to myself, "If these people who don't actually play drums can do this, then surely an actual drummer like me can!"
I then proceeded to get humbled 😂
The very first day, our teacher wanted to check everyone's abilities out, so he asked each individual to play a part from some sheet music. I turned to my friend and said, "Wait what. Sheet music??" I had no idea drummers read sheet music too. My friend tried to teach me in the 2 min I had before I was up, but it was futile.
I butchered the part so bad that my friend started laughing his ass off. The teacher and the rest of the class were just staring at me in disappointment.
Til this day, my single neuron monke brain still can't read sheet music.
You just need a good teacher to teach you how to read music... You can do it !!!!
@@frandanco6289 Honestly, someone could probably learn just by writing their own excersises and practicing those.
When Zach said “drummers need to read music?” I was like SO TRUE😂😂😂😂
Petition for Zack to be on Zildjian Live
Exactly
Honestly man
That punch at the end got me. 🤣
I learned how to read music at the school, but that was a long time ago. I thought that as a church drummer I would'nt need to use these skills on it, but I've realized that it helped me to learn a lot of kind of music rythms. Salsa, Songo, Vosa Nova, rock, gospel, polca, etc. When I don't know how to play any rythm, I write it and I try to practice it slow to fast. Read music can be helpfull for a lot of things even if you are a drummer.
Hello from Dominican Republic
Man good advice presented with humor. Your a cool cat. Thanks 🙏🏾
When you play bossa I think you're gonna explode and play chops anytime.
The punch at the end has me crying
The message at the end is dope. I never wanted to sight read playing music. I’m 28 now it’s improved my piano playing so much !
The punch at the end was savage
Gonna tell my kids that these used to ROCK.
music teacher: *brings up charts*
Satan: *"this man, I like him"*
I have been improving my sight seeing abilities thanks to this video. I have my 1st audition, wish me luck!
Your Bossa Nova was so Simple yet Clean. Beautiful.
This is the best TH-cam channel,
I love you approach and how spontaneous you are
The punch at the end was the best part :)
I’ve been a musician (trombone) for nearly 60 years and despite hearing all the reasons why someone thinks they don’t need to read charts I have just one word for them: illiterate. I am now the Director of Music for an ensemble and the drummer, who heaps of experience and a wonderful feel for a whole range of music is now learning to read for the first time. I’ve convinced him of the importance of reflecting precisely what the composer or arranger was thinking at the time and showing respect fit that person’s work. As a side note he’s now getting work playing in a house band backing visiting singers which he would not have gotten if he couldn’t read.
Its not going to make him a better drummer though and for most musicians that whats important.
and your paying him how much,,and how entertaining is he,,you cant be all of it my friend
“u need to know how to sight read to be a good drummer”
*laughs in self-taught*
This is one of the best videos on this platform, period. 😂 thank you for making! 🤘🏽
This video is almost word for word EXACTLY what happened at my audition for my jazz composition major audition this past saturday. though, i didn’t lie about my sight reading skill.
But you did punch him?
All good bandleaders know the drummer is also the muscle in the group (singer's the looks, guitarist's the brains, bassist is the wildcard), so someone who can lay down a funky jazz beat and also throw a right hook is crucial to musical success. You would've gotten the job in my band!
yea i busted a few heads throwing sticks at assholes that fuck with the band,,bass players are the real muscle
"Yeah he's impressed"
The ending actually made me lol, PR[CH]OPS
This is why you ask your drum teacher to help you with audition prep!😆😆😆🥁🥁
“A prima vista” is what they call sight reading in the Netherlands.
I once had to do a music exam (to make sure it was still going to be subsidized moving forward) and I passed my exam but they didn’t tell me. Instead they provided me with “The Black Page” (Terry Bozzio) just to see me sweat for a couple of minutes, after which they told me I passed :)
I grew up on a full kit, mostly self taught. In middle school jazz band i played percussion and literally had to decipher the sheet music and memorize the parts because I couldn’t read fast enough. After memorizing, I just ignored the music stands and yoloed it and actually did well.
Now it’s been a few years and I forgot everything about music theory and sheet music.
Lol this was great!! Well done! I literally laughed out loud especially when he punched him at the end!
As a former self-taught drummer, I can say I really enjoyed this
Gotta love the running part lul
And the guts to run outside with 3 golden discs in his hands lmfao
Thanks Zack, some great tips there, when I'm in doubt, I too punch my way out of the situation, we are drummers after all.......................
showing up with a tiny head to the gig has gotten me in so much trouble
Lucky my drum teacher taught me charts from day one
The millisecond he taps drums:
Uncomfortable smugface intensifies 1000%
Whenever I go to audition they always just reply
"Sir, this is wendy's. "
As a drummer my professor said it's good to read but also it's good to be able to be creative when playing.
“Did you bring your own cymbals?”
“You said in the email that you were providing drums!”
“Yes. Only drums.”
I pride myself on actually being a good sight reader
Drummer: Waet, I’m supposed to sightread??
Orchestra players: First time, huh?
The warming-up / chops part was friggin hysterical. Especially the floor tom, high-hat triplets. I was dyin'.
The punch at the end made this lecture a pleasure to watch.
I'm a self taught drummer and I learnt how to read sheet music with no problems at all! Remember that tutorials and TH-cam are very useful I you know how to use them ;) and they exist since quite a few years man
Drummers read sheet music?
Ain’t gonna lie, I’ve been playin for a while and I still in the beginning stages of reading sheet music for drums, I literally gotta go back to the basics and start over,
And starting over is hard so that’s why I’m still at the beginning lol
Hiya, where in N.C? And so the moral to your comment is,... learn to read your music notes from the get go? 👍😉 Good advice, 'coz I want to learn how to play the drums. You have any other advice ? 🤗 Take care and I hope your dreams come true!
@@acetrace4173 I’m in Cumberland County
@@acetrace4173 or Hoke County really
I live right in the line
Ok, I used to live in Wayne county. Not sure where your county is tbh 🥴😄 I was in Goldsboro...
@@acetrace4173 I was in Goldsboro a week ago, they got a lot of fighter planes all over the place over there
Key lesson here: if you get caught in a lie and have to bolt, don't forget the hi hats!
It was entertaining but Can't believe over 1.9 Million viewed this video. And I'm 1 of them? I'm 70 YO, retired, and just returned to "playing" Drums after a 50 Hiatus. I play for enjoyment in retirement , to MY Music : CCR, Petty, Stones, Mellencamp, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, etc... in my basement. When I started to get into it in 1966, took maybe 6-8 lessons, practiced on a pad, and then, Finally got on a Set (in my day it was called a Drum Set) with the Instructor which was at a local Music / Record Store in Flushing Queens NY. Once that occurred .... I was Hooked on the DRUMS. I was given sheet music to read for the drums, used it for practice , but Predominantly played by EAR like many or all of us. I played in a Garage Band with HS buddies who were all learning their instruments as went. Then life took charge, off to College, etc... And I never played again until (I always played Air Drums .... it's in the Blood), my wife of 47 years heard me say That I would like tom go to a local Music Studio just to Beat on the Drums . So she played Santa Clause in 2018 , got me a Cheapo Gammon Kit and I started to play again a few months later. It took me a few months to get going. Now during 2020 -2021 I've upgraded the Kit toa PDP Maple Concept 7 piece kit (Used), new cymbals, purchased 3 new Snares , replaced all the heads, added a cowbell, all for Fun. So Baker, Moon, Bonham, Peartand most recently Watts (may they RIP), are safe !!! Well Who Knows, Maybe someone locally will start a Geriatric Band and have an audition .... I'll bring the Cymbals.
that's a 50 YEAR Hiatus !!
good for you
The "I forgot my hi hats" got me xD
THE THUMBNAIL😭😂😂
If you're a drummer you understand the *drummers actually read music* 🤣
1:11 drummers when guitarists are tuning
2:47 i appreciate the efforts zack made to find the spongebob "gulp" SFX
Everytime nathan Goes out, His iphone Upgrades.
As a self-taught drummer I have nightmares of sight-reading
Am I going to be auditioning soon? No, I play sax. Am I going to watch? Yeah duh
I'm weirdly distracted by their haircuts
Having a very crappy pre-birthday. Randomly clicked on this video. Your smile made me smile. THANK YOU!
The end was like the drummer of my dreams 👊✊💥💥💥♦️♦️🎯
As a visually impaired musician it’s genuinely hard for me to sight read. I have to either learn the piece or just hope I get a drum part. I play mostly percussion, violin and piano. Anything melodic I can’t sight read. But learning is good on me. Sight reading rhythm, depends on the difficulty. If there’s like stupid stickings then I’ll most likely miss it lol
Yo it’s midnight wtf. Nice drumming tho g
Well actually its 1 am what r u a baby
@@milangay725 yes I am 3 months old
@@rufushayday6990 oh ok ur fine then good night
Only 7:30 for me lol
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When the drummer forgets his drum lines
The ability to read sheet music was one of the main reasons I 1st a first wanted to learn to play the piano. To. To be able to hear music for the 1st time for the 1st time by making it yourself was a dream that I was fortunate enough too just enough to make come true... I'm a pretty good site reader. It takes not being upset about your mistakes and just powering through.. If you can learn to cite read piano music you are golden you can read anything after that... Except for those weird cleffs that strings people use....lol
Of course I have to admit that being really good at site reading Organ music makes you even more masterful than probably even the best site reading pianist...
sight reader...
"Hey where'd ya go?" Right cross ... Made me LOL
I remember in my high school music class, I had a classmate who was amazing at playing the drums, but he couldn't read music notes. Dude failed theory components so bad, he had to rely on learning by hearing. It's too bad we couldn't exchange some of our skills, because my strength was in theory but I was only a decent guitar player
Such a great video! You always have such great elements of humor, skill, and useful advice, all combined! Some of the coolest brothers I've ever seen! Happy drumming/playing, my friends!
My guitar teacher told me a joke once:
"What do you call a guy who hangs out with a bunch of musicians?"
"A Drummer"
That joke is older than me and I'm close to 70!
The end was a surprise...loved it!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The last 2 seconds are SUCH GOLD
Anybody else clicked on this to see why his head was so small?