Good news! Grandma Peanut made a full recovery and is out of the hospital. Turns out she just had to pass some MASSIVE gas.

“Drumline you’re holding us back” *gets best drumline award at a contest with 30 other bands*

Kid: 'Falls with drum on' Drum Tech: *"ARE THE DRUMS OKAY?!"*

As a bass drum I can confirm that the baseline communicates with “alroououooououo bum jig a jig bum bum arooououo” noises

Conversations my drumline had: “the cymbal player is either dead or moved to Canada, and we only had one, so now one of the three snares has to move over to cymbal.” Oh and “if one of the quad heads is broken, just play around it, we have no spare.” And also “the truck left without letting us load up, so all are instruments are going for a bus ride.” And “who’s going to State? No one? Well then we won’t move practice.” And my personal favorite “Oh, that clearly dangerous man was awoken by our early morning playing, and is now ranting at the Band Teacher, better get this on camera before he beats her to death!”

Don’t forget the freshman that quits before the season even starts because they’re "on the soccer team"

Director- "1 more rep then water" 15 reps later Director-"All right great rehearsal everyone. Go home"

"Can we put our drums down?" "If I run to my dot I'm going to do a drum roll." "Can we get a gush and go?" "When is rehearsal over?" "We are apart of the band too."

"Duck Duck Duck Duck" "Are you saying 'Duck'?" "y e s" "No it's 'DUT' with a 'T'" "I know, I want to be different" Honestly relatable

"Where is Steven" "Oh, he had to take a massive crap" relatable ngl

"One more time..." "alright, one more time" "alright, last time."

I dont know what it is about it but I think the bursts of focus followed by jokes and relaxation actually help my lines learning process. Like we'll get stuff done for 45 minutes to an hour and get a section really good, and then joke around for 10-15 minutes. Something about realizing that your just in a high school band and it's meant to be fun gives us more drive

When I was in high school the drum major told one of the quads "A trained monkey could play quads and march better than you" during practice. Worth the pushups when I laughed.

Lmao “can we just freestyle the whole show”

Band Director: drumline play the written dynamics Drumline: ok *plays the written dynamic* Band Director: Drumline its too loud take it from a fff to a mf Drumline: 🙃

one time my band director told the bass drums, "You're the heartbeat of the band and right now we're on cardiac arrest!" i think about that a lot.

The thing with linda's harness reminds me when john davis was yelling at a girl in our band to hurry on to the parking lot so we could start the next set after our break and she replied with "I had to put in a new tampon" and through the mic john just said in his beautiful accent "oh... uhhh... I- uhhh.... just hurry up"

So during marching, the drumline came up with a new audible "Blake is racist" Blake is our center snare and the leader of the percussion

“Hey When do I get a solo?” “You’re not getting a solo!” “Why not?” “Because you’re not good.” “Oh.” If that isn’t me 😂😂😂

Steven: If we are consistenstly inconsistently, that means were consistent. Drum Tech: (It was at this moment Steven knew he f'ed up)

The biggest weakness of my high school's drumline is the fact that we don't all share a band class during school. Half of our line could only be with us after school, causing a disconnect

"the thing you have to know about bass 4 is its the WORST." damn... hit me right in my bass 4 heart. bass 4 rise up

“Let’s all make up excuses to miss the sectional.”

Snare player: *Drops stick* Band Director: *Stops band* Band director: “You’re probably gonna need that!”

I'm a synth player for our marching band (And I know Eric WAS also the Synth Player during the Marine Drum and Bugle) and this is relatable. "Is this a good sounding patch?" "What Patch do you want here?" "Which patch, String Ensemble, or Cinema Strings?" "I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO PUT AUDIO FILES INTO MAINSTAGE!!!! Meaning, we can Rickroll the audience." "Turn me up louder, i can't hear myself!" "Mute me, I have to organize cables!" "That patch sounds horrible." "They replaced the synth solo with... TRUMPETS???." and finally... "Laptop's dead, does anyone have a spare charger?" (And yes, we did get 2 refurbished MacBook Pros this year, and already lost all 2 of them, plus the charger from last year.)

good morning, im sure eventually you'll have enough characters to field a non repeating drumline

One of my favorites from band camp; "Hey man, are you at the point yet where like, everything hurts so much it just, like stops hurting?" "Uh, no?" "Yeah, me neither"

Back in 1994 while teaching at a mobile Percussion Seminar, I ACTUALLY had the real life version of Steven Sassafras!!!! Lol. All of us instructors were either marching at UMASS Amherst or/and had marched Cadets or for Star of Indianas final season. Our students were for the most part high school students. This one student constantly was asking for breaks and couldnt seem to stand straight while playing. The most rewarding thing of that week was seeing how excited he was at the end of the week when he was able to stand straight while performing for the parents. Always a good thing to see someone get a positive experience after all the hard work.

I teched drumlines and pits for 8 years, and I have never seen a more accurate description of my life during that time. Seriously still have nightmares about not being able to calm my drumline down.

I'm a quad player and I can confirm the whole part for quads is true

Director: Go back to set fi- Section Leader: HUSTLE!!!

Person not fitting the form: “BUT IM ON MY DOT”

You forgot the tech threatening to throw a drumstick at a kid. My favorite part :)

“Can we just march without our drums the whole show” *gets new quad heads* Everyone: “OMG SO PRETTY LEMME TOUCH”

No one: Drumline marching: *grass sound* Literally no one: The drum tech: “softer”

As a snare a quads (we called them quints) player this was so freaking accurate! You forgot to mention how hot the uniforms are while carrying heavy drums, passing out from the heat and nobody listening to the section captain.

the cymbal injuries part is so accurate it hurts

"we all forgot pencils, we all forgot dot books, we all forgot music" and the Metronome problems section had me dying!! lololollolololol

Snare Player: My back hurts!😭 Tenor Player: Am I a joke to you?

“1 2 3 4” If that doesn’t happen every time in band

3:30 funny part is there is a band in our region that actually where’s kilts

Section Leader Walks In: "I wanna go home so we won't have a sectional today,. Just practice so you won't get called out tomorrow and make us look bad. Okay, that will wrap up today's sectional!"

I think it's even funnier that these characters you created actually drum together pretty well. I know it's all one person, but still.

I retired the first of April after 35 years as a pilot. With the extra idle time, I dived into KZfaq and came up with a couple of gems. One was The Top Secret Drum Corps. The other was this video. My mom and I watched this and thought it was funny, even though we know nothing about drumming. I’ve watched a lot more of EMC videos and I’ve decided I want to play tenor. Thanks for opening my mind.

the snare drummer complaining about his back and the quad player just looking over in disgust had me laughing so hard. Preach brother!

Our bass 3 asks “what?” Immediately after anyone says anything

"Stop throwing sticks in the ceiling"

"And... SNARES (again)" As a tenor player, I can confirm this is how every rehearsal goes.

The bass 5 "where's the downbeat" thing made me LOL. So true. As 14 year high school instructor, I can tell you everything in this video is so true.

2:29 Omg I'm a quad and I see the snares on the field do this every time I feel like impaling them with a stick every time I swear 😂

DIRECTOR: "One last time" 10 runs though the chunk later "This is the last run and then we move one."

As a tenor player, yeah, there were a few rehearsals that became snare sectionals. Or the cymbals would go have a sectional, the basses would have one, and tenors would just get put with snares, and then kind of ignored.

I LOVE that you use your PT belt for the nerdy kid. That’s a future blue falcon in the making

“Yea those hertas at measure 28, we are checking it” “LEFT” “Still too high!” “Keep it at “X” height” “Your feet are slow” “Push 41” “We are rushing the crap out that eight note space at bar 11” “Late attack”

FLUBS: Can we tune our drum higher?! DIRECTOR: Tune to the highest drum. FLUBS: We’re marching practice pads.

*Legs are physically shaking from carrying Quads on the field for too long* Me: Can I have a water break? Tech: Can you make it through a full run-through? 🙄 Me: *knowing he'll be disappointed if I can't* Yes.

"Alright, now it *HAS* to be in the show. I got it ONCE" THE most accurate bit of this entire video.

When the bass splits are so clean bass 5 literally warps space and time around him and just him

"One more time" then keeps going on, that's what my director does

I'm the section leader and repairman for my high school drum line, and once I had to fix a carrier with my belt, two bass drum heads, replace four broken cymbal straps, and three snare heads in one week of band camp. Also at a comp. I had my drum upside down the whole time.

10:15 “Is he gonna turn on Josie?” *Met starts counting* “Haha there she is”

Best thing one of the quads I used to play with said to me right before competition "I just took about the muscle relaxants we're going to have a great show" I agree with her and I asked her for some we didn't have a great show but it was fun

9:40 you gotta respect someone who can accept "Because you're not good" as an answer

“Our director can’t do anything if all 17 of us are an hour late”

one thing that my drum line says to the quads is "dO yOu KnOw JiG 2"

For us, the tech always tells the rest of the band that "if they touch the drums, they will get a referral."

So much of this is accurate, even when I marched 10+ years ago! I was bass captain and we messed around so much lols. Our favorite sayings were "water we doing?" and yelling "Dr. Scholl's!" Tenor/quad players definitely had the most messed up backs!

Me: "Alright, everyone got that? Basses?" My top bass: "...My bones itch..." Me: "...."

"Everyone pull out your music, we are doing note checks" "Uh I don't have mine" "Okay, where is it?" "Idk i haven't seen it in a month" "...." Actual conversation

13:12 OH MY GOD, THE GIRL'S DUTS SOUND MORE LIKE A METRONOME😂

I remember one time in a band rehearsal I was in the back focusing on my drum like a good boy and then I hear a HUGE trumpet squeak then the kid stood up and yelled THIS IS WHY I WANTED TO PLAY PERCUSSION 😂😂

The most popular drumline sentence: Them: Joe Me: who's Joe? Them: Joe Mama Me: Who's Joe Mama?

We went to section breakfast and someone asked for “sweet coffee”

7:06 hahahah I literally got cut by the cymbals too and I was like guys check this out and it was under my ribcage lol

2:29 as a tenor drum player this made my day

The characters had me dead💀

Bd: “one more time” DL: yells “ I LOVE RESETING!!”

Oh. My. God. You included cymbals? This makes me beyond happy.

i need a "Things that pit kids (And techs) say" immediately

"Tenors aren't bad, try marching bass 1"

when someone is not at rehearsal and ur in their dot and u say “i’m inside this person”

The title almost got me, I remember I had a friend who used to complain about his back all the time and I kept my mouth shut while marching full sized tenors. Man the things that kid would say

I'm gonna start showing this at the beginning of every band camp 😂

“Four door minivan”

Good morning! Finally another snare lick for me: the friendly neighborhood snare player. Also I was definitely Steven in high school but wanted to be Lil Peanut. Trouble is i didn’t have the Grammy nominations.

That whole part about the Basses is so legit! It was even like that back when I marched 25 years ago. 😂

I know I'm over a year late, but I have a vivid memory of our tech in high school walking off in the middle of a rehearsal. Then after about 5 min walked back over to us and stopping our rep to yell out "No one put a gun to your head and said be in band!" Then he walked away and went home for the day. Classic Alan Miller and I right?

4:18 bass 5 was drumming so hard he shook the camera 🤣

"But it sounds WAYYY better this way though!" "Nathan, the way we play a song is not a vote."

As a tenor (quads) kid I can relate we marched at a parade and my back went out right afterwards.

This is basically my schools drumline. I am so proud that someone has posted something similar so that it makes me feel good. Keep up the good work.

This is a brief version of everything that happens in a drumline rehearsal...

Why can I absolutely relate to the thumb nail? Edit: Never mind, I can relate to the whole thing. Edit: Edit: This is my whole drumline

The clips of Steven complaining about snare and Manny having a look of disgust on his face is how I look back on my 8th grade year of marching band(my school used to have marching band open for grades 8-12 now it's just 9-12).

I've definitely had EVERY SINGLE ONE of these students. They haven't been all at the same school, or at the same time, but they all exist.

I wasn’t on drum line for long, but when I was on it, one of the most frequently said things were “Nathan, stretch!”, “No, stretching is stupid!”, and “You know what else is gonna be stupid? Tearing a muscle in the middle of a show!” In that order

My drumline always blames everything on the bass line

as a quad player, i felt when Steven was complaining about his snare being heavy and Manny was just staring😂

The major thing in my drumline is my tech continuously saying, shut up and start from the top

Played bass 4 for my first year and can confirm it is definitely the worst. I play quads now and every time I hear the new snare players complain I cringe