Percussion: a mix of extremely easy and extremely difficult.

while the muller hammer might be mechanically easy, the pressure to get it absolutely perfect timing-wise and the attention that you get from everyone having to do it outshines most instruments entirely. thats literally the entire character of that hammer. to be so absurdly big and ridiculous that its CENTRAL in that one moment. So that alone makes it hard.

Side note for trash/garbage can: The piece 'asphalt cocktail' by John Mackey has a garbage can part to it. Totally recommend listening if you haven't.

Stack 69 FLUB DRUMS! Like so he sees. EHEheheheheheee!!

Please stack 69 drum sets 😂😂 cymbals and all hahaha loved it!

My Band teacher Stopped the ENTIRE CLASS and them told me to come to the front. He then proceeded to play the triangle with the beater and missed, and missed, and everyone laughed. Then he said it hard because the triangle beater is super weird and small, which was the same thing i said :|. i don't like him very much

I think marimba is harder than vibes due to how big your mallet intervals can get, reading in two clefs, playing in the bottom octave and top octave require very refined technique. Top three 1. Drum set 2. Timpani 3. Marimba

Imagine how confusing yet awesome it would be if your band instructor handed out a musical piece and I’m the top left corner it says “cannon.”

Eric, I just wanted to say while I’m having my band class at the moment to have a good morning!

From my Marching band pit percussion, of the extra percussive instruments (nice to actually see a brake drum) we also had Fire bell, Crotales, Laser bells, and Chains. At least this is what i can remember from 20 years ago. I think our performances are on youtube. Let me know if you want a link.

How many slide Whistles can you play at one time

One important factor that was not mentioned on here...... level of exposure of the instrument is makes it harder. For example, the slap stick should be higher than tamtam. Slap stick cuts over the top of EVERYTHING and played even a fraction of a 16th note off, it's really bad. Tamtam has that slow developing sound without a clear attack. If I were assigning parts, I'd give the most experienced percussionist the slap stick.... the total doofus n00b the tam-tam.

One year we had a Latin music Field Show, back then my friend and I were in the pit. There was a cowbell part that was identical to the snare part, but the catch is there was 32nd notes for the part and he had to play it all on one hand because we didn’t have a stand for the cowbell. As a 14 year old percussionist jsut coming into highschool that’s hard to do and be in time.

Is the air guitar a percussion instrument

Remember when Eric stacked a tenor vertically and hit all of the rims before smacking the snare on the drum set? He should stack 69 tenors vertically on a drum set, and rent a crane and someone to operate it so he can smack all of the rims from top to bottom.

I play bari sax and Idk why but I am so fascinated with this channel, I could watch for hours

I thought you were gonna be wholesome and put all the instruments in S tier with the message that all percussion is fun and important no matter which instrument you are playing

The slide whistle is a fipple flute closer related to the tin whistle or recorder. It's not a Percussion instrument, just an instrument that percussionists are sometimes required to play.

LoL, I love that you have cannons! When we did cannons in the Army, we had to use the salute battery, not our percussion section. If you get the likes, I'd love to see a stack of Crotales (my favorite) SINCE YOU DIDN'T HAVE THEM ON THE LIST!

Well, I've played 69 of them - err, 61. I didn't play a cannon, but I simulated it with two muzzle loading rifles packed with 200 grains of pyrodex and blanks. Sounded like a small cannon. I'd put the suspended cymbal just below claves, and bump the mallet stuff above tenors and below timpani. If you don't think suspended cymbal is hard, you haven't been playing the right kinds of music. Wicked has a fantastic suspended cymbal part. Other than that, I'd more or less agree with rankings on everything (plus or minus 0.69 move up/down)

I actually had to make a marching machine for high school band - it still exists (though could get restrung) and my now students (while not a band director) are all so excited to know who helped make it.

I remember playing Aggogo bells for a song called “Swahili Folk Hymn”, it’s a beginner piece but I’ve played xylo, aggogo, and clarinet for that song and they’re all really fun

I'm a drummer (mostly rock) who's still pretty new to aux stuff but I think Congas are the most daunting thing I've come across in terms of technique

Been here since 20k, just want to say keep up the awesome content! Really enjoying it

going off the water gong, for one of our shows we took some of the chimes off and dunked them in 5 gallons buckets of water. our shows theme was Bent, like bent pitches. idk how they got all the water on and off the field each time lol, but it was a cool effect.

Dude you need to discover (and build) yourself the classic Australian instrument known as the Lagerphone. You take a stick, wood pole or mop handle and nail several hundred beer bottle caps to it. Can be all at once shaken, tapped on a wooden floor or box for your beat and at the same time hit with a shorter stick with your other hand for rhythm. I’ve built a few. You get the goodness of firstly drinking the beers and creative freedom of playing many percussion parts at once, all in the convenience of a stick.

Last year my band did an event where we went around to the four elementary schools that eventually feed into my highschool. I play cymbals and we were wearing t shirts and I ended up with a bunch of welts on my arm from being pinched by my cymbals.

Emc: Concert Bass Drum is really easy Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Am I a Joke to you?

I LOVE Angels in the Architecture!! Playing it in high school junior year was amazing.

stack 69 of the blurred out one

Well, I think you should check out the use of zils (finger cymbals) in mideastern music. Also, check out playing the riq--the middle eastern tambourine. There's quite a bit involved with each.

Hey! I’m in highschool band and one of our favorite cadences, False hype, is what you used for the outro. When I herd the count off it surprised me a ton, awesome cadence! (I’m a bass drum)

S tier: The traditional canon of marching and concert percussion, things any experienced percussionist is expected to be highly proficient with A tier: Difficult non-traditional instruments B tier: The easy and slightly less common traditional instruments and the non-traditional instruments that are fairly common and respectable C tier aka WTF tier: I only recognize 3 of these and have only actually seen two of them used in an ensemble D tier: Toy box, the ones that get the maniacal grins going when they show up on the score E tier: Elementary school music class, just needs sandblocks F tier: "Auxiliary Percussion" part that gets handed to the guy in the section who can't keep a beat well enough to play a traditional instrument and always takes 3/4 of the class period to get set up

TIL bar chimes are correctly called a mark tree, and the thing I thought was a mark tree is actually a bell tree. Thanks EMC (and post-video Wikipedia)!

i feel like quads should be above timpani but im probably biased cuz im on tenor. Marimba should be above vibraphone i think, cuz when i was in pit the marimbas had insane runs and we only had kinda insane runs. I feel like the water cups should be higher too, if you ever watch the turkish march video its insane

Hello! I enjoyed this a lot. I am a percussion major and I am in my sophomore year this was fun to watch. I haven’t even played all of these instruments also where are the crotales? They seem like pretty cool instruments even if sometimes they are ear piercing.

I gotta admit, as much of a Twosetter as I am (that's how I found you), I was kind of disappointed in their triangle of triangles. You could definitely do better!

We played angels in the architecture two years ago and it was so cool lol. I didn’t get to play a whirly but I got to sub in for one sometimes

Congrats on 111k subs!

When my band played Angels in the Architecture a couple years ago, one of the whirlies broke right at the end of the piece, so the piece ends with the crash of the whirlie hitting the floor.

Awesome work!

Trash cans are a percussion instrument. When I was in 6th grade, my band director made is percussionist play a piece called Fresh Trash which was played on trash cans.

9:20 AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! YES THE TONGUE DRUM! As much as i have NO IDEA what the notes are i just play for fun and it makes me happy

Taiko Drums need to be Wwaaaaaaay higher. Taiko ensembles are really really legit

I remember one time we didn’t have a front ensemble for our show so the percussion section had some of the aux parts and when we were chilling during our break I hit the other kid with the viber slap over the end and with the funny noise it makes we all were dying.

Conga chops are pretty comparable to tenor as well. I'd say because more injury risk and more techniques it's harder. You still need every rudiment and you need them across all five drums in a solo set up WITH all of the techniques. Doubles and slaps man?? Really the three kinds of different technique slaps the bata, open and closed are distinct beasts.

I wish I could find pictures of it, but my high school's marching band did a weather themed show with 8 ft tall thunder sheets... However they were also field props as well. It was circa fall 2001, so unfortunately I can't find any pictures.

I think both the wind machine and the thunder have to be tiered higher. The wind machine has quite some expression to it and you have to make that work as a percussionist (Don Quichotte R. Strauss or Daphnis et Chloe Ravel for example). You're not there if you just turn the handle. I don't know much about the thunder, but at least both shaking and striking produce sound, so that already makes it harder dan eg the whip. Anyway: stack 69 thunders please.

Hey eric just wanted to say thanks for the upload, i wanted to show my music teacher a new competitor in the music war

I don't think I've ever seen a tier list video where the creator encourages others to make their own order. This tier video is officially S-tier.

"Lion Roar sounds cooler than cuica" Brazilians: TRIGGERED

Just did my first concert. We are a small band (about 15 people) I am percussion and I had to play 4 different instruments in the same song multiple times over with quick switches (within 1.5 measures or less) It was definitely stressful as shit

to be honest the rain stick can be a bit difficult especially if you need to have it be very smooth and consistent for long periods of time, look up Stormbreak and Dance, that beginning part (I’ve played) wasn’t hard but it wasn’t easy either

I'd like to see you rate the Txalaparta. Maybe a reaction video to a concert? That's up to you.

@emcproductions, Do you know what brand of rope tension drums the U.S Old Guard uses? If so, Can I know?

One time at my church the lady who is kinda the director of the choir made us play jingle bells with hand bells. And we were like 8 at the time and we all had a certain note and it was terrible. When we played in front of everyone everybody was forgetting their parts and it was off time and just overall bad. At least it was kinda cool I guess not really.

12:13 I agree. Mark trees should not be called wind chimes or bell trees.

You should listen to Forge of Vulcan by Micheal Sweeney. It has very amazing dynamics and it has trash cans too.

Percussion Instruments Here's the list: 1- Triangle 2- Tambourine 3- Snare Drum 4- Hammer 5- Octa Bonds 6- Agogô Bells 7- Bass Drum/ Kick Drum/ Pedal Drum 8- Belltree 9- Slide Whistle 10- Bongos 11- Congas 12- Tenor drums 13- Glockenspiel 14- Boomwhackers 15- Brake Drums 16- Cabasa 17- Whirly 18- Shaker 19- Marimba 20- Gong 21- Cajon 22- Cowbell 23- Cannon 24- Castanets 25- Timpani/ Kettledrum 26- Rain Stick 27- Ocean Drum 28- Vibraphone 29- Ratchets 30- Claves 31- Cuica 32- Cymbals 33- Djembe 34- Drums/ Drumkit/ Drum set 35- Finger symbols 36- Flexatone 37- Crystal Glasses 38- Gawk block 39- Tongue Drum 40- Guiro 41- Trash Can 42- Suspended Cymbal 43- Hi- Hat 44- Handbell 45- Kalimba ( Mbira) 46- Slapsticks 47- Whip 48- Surdo (Floor Tom) 49- Log Drum 50- Maracas 51- Marching Machine 52- Xylophone 53- Woodblock 54- Taiko Drum 55- Mark Tree 56- Shekere 57- Tom Tom (High Tom/ Low Tom) 58- Sleigh Bells 59- Steel Drum ( Steel Pan) 60- Wind Machine 61- Thunder Sheet 62- Temple Blocks 63- Timbales 64- Waterphone 65- Water Gong 66- Vibra Slap 67- Tubular Bells 68- Peepee

Tenor stack would look pretty dope like a dome of tenors! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

How do you forget the timpani in a list of 69 percussion instruments??? Awesome video, btw!

eric are you a death grips fan? you talked about hacker in the virtual vs. drumline vid & the blurred out picture is the cover for NLDW :O

EMC: Timpani and cymbals are S Tier/very difficult Me: What? This is too easy

Eric you should make a video where you play a piece of music using all of the instruments in this video

If you had to stack any one of these instruments, imma say stack some cymbals. I already love the sound of cymbal stacks (especially the Istanbul Clap Stack), so a 69-strong cymbal stack would be SUPER DRY

You should play some samba to figure out how hard cuicas anda tambourines (pandeiros) really are. And keep up with the good content, I'm not a percussionist but I enjoy your channel.

I should have watched this before buying a drumkit. I could have been rocking out on the big stage with a rainstick instead of still being locked in a basement practising :D

The tambourine is certainly more complicated in the right hands and if it is a Brasilian Pandeiro (tambourine-like instrument) it is infinitely more complex to play. It is literally a drum set in your hands. Samba patterns are incredibly technical and can be fatiguing as hell too. For reference find any classic Airto Moreira recordings that illustrate the instrument in a Mestre's (master's) hands.

MY SHOW THIS YEAR IN MARCHING BAND IS ANGLES IN THE ARCHITECTURE

Bongos and congas need to be higher. I think congas should be around drum set if not higher. Just look up any professional conga player like Giovanni Hidalgo. Thanks for the video! Oh yeah stack 69 marching bass drums

A five octave Marimba. Please and Thank you

I play way to much percussion in my school so i love these videos

Flexatone is literally the only one I can't get a good sound out of

1:31 Concert Bass

Well, The slide whistle is indeed a percussion instrument. Because my band class has the slide whistle in the percussion stock droor.

I really wanna see pearl tenors stacked up, even if it is just the individual drums

I’m happy to see that all the drumline instruments are in the top row

7:24 as a Brazilian cuíca percussionist, i agree

That censored photo is actually the album cover for a death grips album called “no love deep web”

A kid in my school made a 20 ft tall slapstick

Ha! I play mallet percussion, and I’ve had to deal with that for years

9:33 st. Anger noises intensifies

3:21 - Eric, how could you make a common mistake? After watching all those Expert Village videos, you should know that they are called Coongas?!?!! Jk just the first words that popped into my head when you said Congas

As a man who loves and plays the drumset, I thank you for putting that at number one. You got yourself a subscriber.

I'd put the vibes ahead of tenors for 3 reasons. 1. 4 mallet, 2. Sometimes we have to bow them which is weird, 3. Mallet dampening

There is only one 'instrument' on the board that is actually dangerous...The cannon. I recall it was All Saints Day, Nov. 1, 1970, and the Saints were in the middle of losing a game, 30-17, to the Rams. The halftime show at Tulane Stadium featured a reenactment of the Battle of New Orleans. A cannon backfired, blowing three fingers off one of the pseudo-soldiers. Do one thing out of sequence and disaster will strike... That alone should move it way up on the list.

Mark tree? I'm used to calling that bar chimes.

Concert toms HAVE to be further up. Listen to Symphony No. 4 by David Maslanka, Tom parts go crazy!

The slide whistle isn't being hit with anything, and it's not hitting anything either, therefore it is not percussion. The slide whistle falls into the auxillary instruments, so the percussion/pit section would use them because who else would

Hot take: both the agogo and the timbales should be higher. I would put agogo just below triangle because of Latin rhythmic patterns and timbales just below Cajon because while they aren’t as complicated in technicality, they essentially operate as a drumset in Latin styles of music. The timbalero (timbale player) guides the tempo and feel of a Latin tune.

personally i feel like that marimba should be above virbaphone because te size of marimba also requires you to have more reach and i feel like even though since virabphone is used more in jazz with marimba i feel like there is more range with the repertoire which i would say makes some of the music harder

Im in a marching band and i watch the bass drums practice and it looks so easy.

When I’m sad his good morning makes me feel happy👍

Ah yes my favorite percussion instrument. Death grips' no love deep web.

Love this

I don’t know that many instruments I mainly know drumset the best, snare second, multi basses third, mallets, mallet percussion, and hand percussion instruments.

What about the carillon? It looks pretty hard to me, especially since you can't really practice it in private. Also, you should stack 69 timpani because I want to see if you can get them all to balance and also if you can do it without damaging wny of the heads and also also if you can manage to get your hands on that many timpani.

5:13 One of my friends didn't warm up the gong before hitting it... Let's just say we did not have a gong after that

On a real note maracas are actually pretty challenging (atleast just for me) im there switching between xylo and drumset while playing sleigh bells and temple blocks at the drumset and i cant play maracas for the life of me

15:09 Poor Blue Cocky ! 😥 I hope he has recovered from the ordeal! 😉