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 Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:15 pm
excuse me but shut up. thats like me picking up a trumpet and saying "oh that's easy cuz i can make a sound out of the mouth piece". just cuz you can hit the drum with a stick doesn't mean that it's easy. you gotta think about how hard it is to do all the things we do. even if your drums suck in your band its still hard to do the s**t we do. we're so cocky cuz in most bands the drumline is more effective than the actual drum major. we keep the tempo for when the rest of the band loses it like they do. think before the next time you say something stupid
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:19 pm
Our drummers really suck and say they are better than the whole band. I swear, drums are like the easiest to play and ours can't even play them. My brother says that about his band too. I mean, seriously?
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:30 pm
apparently you have the wrong people on the wrong instrument.
Note: our show is no longer Micheal Jackson.
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:34 pm
dont have a hard instument? o_o
compared to other instuments its easy during the starter stages, but as the music advances, drum music becomes very complicated, at least at my school. And drums do way more than keep time. They keep the rhythem(may be spelled wrong) of the song, they create many fills in music, they are the power of the music, they make all other instuments sound better.....maybe thats a bit overboard. BUT the point is playing snare,tenors is very difficult. I'll give u that sax can be hard (if u play college level music correctly) but baritone?.......come on....
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:44 am
blackrider11 drummers cocky... Have you SEEN THE TRUMPETS???!!?!? Cockiness is when you're over-confident... We have to have a little bit of confidence to perform well, otherwise we slack off. If we're over-confident, we end up pressing our luck. Trumpets do have egos, I'll admit that (I know cuz I AM a trumpet player), but it's only certain individuals that end up becoming cocky every once in a while. After we won our first competition this year, people were cocky at the second competition because we mostly have freshman this year, including me. Half the people who were telling people not to be over-confident at our second comp. were trumpets and percussion. Having an ego is nowhere close to being cocky.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:38 pm
ur seriously saying that? rhythm and tempo are two very different things. rhythm changes throughout the song while tempo doesnt. and im pretty sure you kno how long a beat is. now try to play 8 notes in that amount of time. and all the cocky ones are the ones that dont kno how to play. the actually good players prove it with their skills, not their words.
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:11 pm
If you think our part is actually that easy, you should see our percussion sextet ensemble we played for Solo/Ensemble Festival... ._.;
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:57 am
I love how all of the percussionists are saying that percussion is difficult...
Honestly, percussion is one of the most SIMPLE instruments to learn how to play. The only reason I can say it is difficult is because it's just a bit hard to perfect...
I'm the second chair percussionist at my school (out of about 45) and other instruments have it harder off than us. <3
Buuuuut percussion is still the BEST! YEAH!
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:43 pm
I think being cocky just comes with talent. The most cocky people I know all sing or play an instrument. I'm a violinist/percussionist and I'm pretty "self-righteous" according to some people rolleyes
Truthfully I don't think any instrument is harder than another, it just depends on the player. Someone who can play piano blind-folded may not be able to play clarinet while the most bad-a** guitar player might not be able to even hold a drumstick.
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:55 pm
Our drummers aren't bad actually
their good but their humble
our BD is sure of that hahaha
but no they practiced all of summer to get that good, and I mean we have a thing called Spartan Thunder with our band, and it's got well over 60 drums and drummers
pulled all of the flutes, clarinets, ect out to do it and they had to practice it
I've tried it too, it's actually hard, and then drums have to make sure to keep the rythm going all of the show and keep the beat when it changes
it's actually quiet hard
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:55 pm
our percussion has two people that talk a lot and they're all lazy. Especially around concert season because we're inside so they sit down a lot. Marching season was hell for me because I had to teach a bunch of freshmen how to play our show and they were SO lazy! only two people excluding me actually tried. One talked so much no one could get anything done and another didn't want to be there. The line is okay, they just talk a lot.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:56 pm
Oblivion_Xye I love how all of the percussionists are saying that percussion is difficult... Honestly, percussion is one of the most SIMPLE instruments to learn how to play. The only reason I can say it is difficult is because it's just a bit hard to perfect... I'm the second chair percussionist at my school (out of about 45) and other instruments have it harder off than us. <3 Buuuuut percussion is still the BEST! YEAH! 45? Good lord, we have a total of 10 excluding me and two other part-time percussionists
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Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:57 pm
we are cocky because we have to be able to frikken bang the drum hard not like a pansy we are in the back think about we have to be lighter and drum set isnt that hard anyway i picked it up in a like 2 hours
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:42 pm
Weeell, I'd say there are certain things about drumming that make it difficult. Like, you know, flourishes, making it look cool as well as sound cool, adding special things that make it you.
Our drummers were proud- one of them was SUCh a cocky git- but our best drummers, one of which was a 15 year old girl who was-is- GODLY, had a reason to be cocky. Our drumline teacher made us play the hardest he could. I played cymbals and learned how to twirl them around while playing, and I learned how to be loud as FU**. Like, when we went to competition, there would be this huuuuuge battery with like, 6 cymbals, and then we go up, and they're like nearly impossible to hear. Then I play, and you could see them looking at their symbals like "What the hell? Why don't I sound like that?"
Mr. Lane wrote all of our music, and there was some hard stuff in there. Like oh jeeze... what is it called? Shoot, jazz clashes or something. Ugh, but it was hard to learn, and I had sooo many bruises. It got me extra points though. X3
But yeah, things like double stroke rolls and buzz rolls are easy as hell. But when you connect them and start adding crazy rythms, that's when your true talent shows. ^_^
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:22 pm
niiice lol
in my school it goes like this:
Trumpets: cocky
Trombones/baritones: perverted dorks(thats my section xD)
Clarinets: quiet/weird
Flutes: hyper
Sousaphones: laid back
Mellophones: hyper kids on crack(not literally but they act lik it)
Drumline: weird/party people
Saxaphones: EXTREMELY cocky, they think theyre the best and think every section but them sucks -.-
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