I played piano Band needs a synth player, friends tell me to join, so I do Synth spot gets filled up, so I play xylo instead (close enough) I end up playing bass for football games, and like it Become center marimba the next year Yeah, beats me dude
Linda: would you do that if it was a live performance? Me: I dunno, would I play all the way through a concert piece that’s supposed to be snare but with a Tom sound instead?
There are always those friends that quit something because they just move on to greener pastures but inspire you to keep doing it because they know you will exceed.
Thanks for sharing man. I really enjoyed this. Btw I had some problems last year with my hands and thought I'd gotten tendonitis. Back then I asked you for advice, and I remember you said something like "don't play as hard maybe?". Turns out I had to learn how to play a freestroke. So that was some good advice you gave me there, thank you!
8:22 in and dude same. I ended up on percussion in middle school because I wasn't paying attention when the teacher explained how mouth pieces worked. On the day of mouthpiece testing I tried blowing through them like a recorder and none of them made any noise of course so he basically said "Yo try tapping your foot on quarter notes and clicking sticks on half notes." Since I wasn't a failure I did that and now I play tenors.
Ok after finishing the video, I definitely didn't have the same path. I had practically no external motivation to be good because nobody made it fun for me, I honestly stopped liking it sophomore year but kept doing it anyway. Bout to start freshman year of college and I did not make the band because I never got that good, but the practice material for college was more fun that anything else I played, so now I like it... maybe next year.
The same happened to me kind of. I wanted to do drums but I was naturally really good at rhythms and I was always first chair except 2 times because I was sick:( I’m now a freshman on snare for marching band and love it a lot but I hope to get tenors next year! Nice story, had a lot of unexpected events lol.
This is literally like my story but with flute my second choice was trumpet and I got to play flute for 5 years and I now switched to trumpet because flute was too easy for me or kind of boring. One reason is because you can’t really hear flutes and i was the only other boy besides 2 other boys. I was named the best flute player in my middle school year. Now im a freshmen and play trumpet which is fun...
My parents said no drums or no band, so i chose alto sax in 4th grade, then moved to bari sax in 6th and played in the marching band till my 10th grade. They had a percussion class i joined and i went above and beyond what the class needed and tried out for the drumline. Ik it was a dumb decision but to be fair i almost got on. So i ended up meeting my current best friend on drumline and he said he’d help me get on the line my senior year. I learned that years marching show for snare and tenors from memory. Now after the entire year of practicing i am now on the line on snare and the bass drum section leader.
I saw you playing snare at Sgt Maj Black’s appointment ceremony today. He was my Bn Sgt Maj in Afghanistan. Tough dude. My question is, do you guys regularly interact with the President’s Own? And do tenor players always play snare for these kinds of ceremony or do you guys get split up into the different field drum sections? Love the vids bro. S/F
If you ever get out of the Corps, you'll make a wonderful music teacher,.....and probably bandmaster. Opp's, my bad!, I just got to the end of your video where you said that Music Education IS NOT your coup of tea. I refer you to Mr. Neil Pert for your next life's percussion adventure.
My very first instrument was originally the Tuba... Only 5th Grader Participant in a 6th grade band. But in 6th grade I officially made the switch to drums/percussion. I was/wasn't the best student because I wasn't paying attention but ended up not quitting. I'm naturally good at it and made Auxiliary Percussion in Marching Band. At the end of everything I am happy that I did drums/percussion and drumline. I already have my rudiments and timing and that's all I need. Lol
I almost decided to play the clarinet, but it was actually the quad players at the high school that inspired 4th/5th grade me. Last minute decision to play drums instead. I would later go on to be 1st chair of the d line on the same quads that inspired me. Years later I am so happy that I chose drums.
that lick at 16:08 cracked me tf up lmaooo it's very cool to know your drumming experiences, I guess I didn't end up doing music because I wasn't in all of the band lol, but marching band still a big part of my high school tho
My seventh grade year there were so many percussionist but the next year there were 3 of us left in 8th and then multiple 7th graders since we combined the bands that year and then my freshman year there’s two freshman in percussion he the other guy was snare I went front ensemble and this year Im the second best mallet player and he’s one of the best snares and this year most of our percussionists are freshman and we’re in the middle of a pandemic next year I’m going for section leader 👍
I started band in 7th grade and I play perc because they wouldn't give me trombone but I loved it. I'm still playing perc and I'm the 9th grade tenor player at my school. I love what I do and I plan to keep playing. And I feel what u said about hating school if it wasn't for band. I still do but not as much.
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 stick tricks are different than stick visuals, I'm talking about things you can be doing during a marching show between phrases or times you stay still or while moving
I sort of had the opposite experience when picking instruments in elementary school. We could start orchestra in 3rd grade (oh my god was 3rd grademe bad, I was literally 4th chair and doubling the 2nd viola part) and band in 4th grade. I really wanted to play the trumpet like …. Really wanted to play the trumpet …. but I have super bad athsma (I was always missing like 15-25 days a year because whenever I got a cold it was a 50/50 on if I’d need a respirator). I had actually been taken to the hospital from school in kindergarten because I had an athsma attack first thing in the morning in home room. I remember being excited about picking my instrument and writing trumpet in all caps and then flute (because it’s pretty) and then finally drums. And I remember being reduced to tears when they told me I couldn’t play trumpet. Basically what had happened was the band teacher called my mom on her cell phone at work to basically explain “your son really likes music but I don’t want him to die because he’s a frail little marshmallow”. And my mom said something asking the lines of “Put him on drums he’s pretty hyper”. TL:DR I was so bad at violin and so sickly that the music teacher and my mom conspired against me to both make me play a non melodic and non wind instrument. I did eventually pick up the trumpet in middle school and was 2nd chair in the jazz band but quickly put it down after I started marching drum line my sophomore year of high school. I ended up marching Ravens band 2013-2016 so we just missed each other by a year or two. Every now and then I wonder how much my life would have been different if I didn’t have Athsma. I know it still would haven been music that drives me but drumming is so much a part of my identity it’s hard to separate the two from each other.
you are my true hero and inspire me so much. I strive everyday to be just like you and join a drumcore someday. i am curently a sixth grade percussionist and am very, VERY into band all because of you, so thank you so much. ur also really funny.
In the 8th grade, my best friend (and my asthma) were my 2 inspirations for being a percussionist. Im only in 9th grade but im already pretty good at drumset, learned a few songs on it too, learned a bunch of stuff on mallet percussion, just learned how to play timpani, did really good on my marching comps (4th in the first out of about 20 bands, 2nd in the 2nd one with 22 bands), and met a girl who shares a lot of stuff in common with me, including an interest in percussion
I’m in 7th grade rn starting drums (well I’m like 2 months into learning), I wish I started earlier but my school is a charter school and it was new so they didn’t have many electives. But I like the drum 🥁I’m also playing mallets
That crap with the sticker race made me sad and angry. You worried about your sound and that manly looking witch punished you. Hope she watches and feels miserable. You rule, tho'
When I was four, I would constantly tap my fingers to the sheet music that you use when you say "Compose a comment down below!". By the way, you're welcome. I did.
I started playing the trumpet because I wanted to play the drums, but my family told me that the drums are just in the background the whole time, so I switched to trumpet because my older cousin played the trumpet. Now I play the piano and the guitar lmao, but yeah, I don't regret my decision to play the trumpet instead. It's a good instrument
I joined percussion because of the movie Hop, the one with the rabbit who plays the drums. If I somehow die in a band-related accident, that damned rabbit gets all the blame.
I started percussion because our school requires one year of music at least, (general music, band, choir, orchestra) and i thought drums sounded cool so i did it. i was for some reason the best one there and it was kind of fun. so i did it for all of middle school and now im here. it brings me down that everyone else hates band or 'band kids', but i love what i do.
in my elementary school, they only let us choose between clarinet, trumpet, flute or beats (and they played with those stupid lil colorful sticks). i of course chose the clarinet, then in middle school they let us choose any instrument and i thankfully stuck with the clarinet every since
for my school 6th grade is when you start band and the only reason i became a percussionist is because my siblings told me it was the easiest and i was just trying to get it over with so i could quit the next year
One day in concert band in 6th grade my concert band teacher called me over and told me i should do marching band, that year i played snare in 7th grade and we won the small school 3 nys state
I dare you to go up to that 4th grade band teacher and say "Do you want a snare drum to sound like a snare or a tom? That's right, a snare, and you can't do that without the snares on."
9:13 at my school we have objectives for pieces in our book and if played it you get a sticker and if you do most or all you moved to the next grade band
