I hear it's like the movie Drumline mixed with B.U.D.S training. You'll end up being a great dancing drummer with the skills to go out and completely obliterate the competition with hertas. And if that doesn't work then you'll blow them all to hell with your demolition training. They run a tight ship over there.
This is my favorite video of yours. I like when you go into a lot of detail on how to do something. I don’t even play percussion I just find it really interesting
We had to tune timpani for our 7th grade auditions, it isn’t difficult now but in 7th grade you know practically nothing about how to tune or play timpani in general
From watching this, I'm just now realizing how lucky I was to have had my teacher when I played percussion. I learned all of this within the first year. I'm not sure if she taught us that because she knew it would be on the audition (I never actually auditioned) or if she just was a really good teacher. Percussion wasn't even her instrument, she plays the tuba. We were playing stuff like this in seventh grade. We actually didn't have very good equipment (we had only two snares, one of them was really rusty, and the timpani were like, peeling. ) so I'm realizing now that, Mrs. Wiberg, you are a great teacher. I wish I could go back and thank her. I don't play percussion anymore though, and I'm not in middle school any more. (I play guitar and violin now, I got a bit tired of waiting like, 64 measures one time I think (and I know the rests just get longer the more professional you get) and I wanted to have more of a noticeable role in the orchestra, doing melodic stuff, playing scales, etc. Also with guitar, I just became enfatuated with the myriad of techniques you can do, I mean, tremolo, rasgueos, arpeggios, natural and artificial harmonics, tambora, apagado, dead notes, picado, abanico, golpe, alzapua, arrastre, slapping and popping, slides, hammer ones, pull offs, tapping... there's just so much you can do. The violin isn't quite as versatile, but I like the variety of bow strokes that can be used (martelé, spiccatto, ricochet, sautille, detaché, etc.)
I’m a music educator in middle school land. This video is really funny and extremely illuminating. I love how you transcribed the sight reading. I laughed out loud and then thought...Is this bad to tell the kids? I remember auditioning and listening to those who finished before me thinking along those lines. I guess it’s something to make them aware of but to prepare them in advance to not over think listening to others and just be really good at sight reading. Anyway, thanks for your hard work on this project. It’s gonna help folks all over the country.
Lol yeah in Texas or at least in Region 9 for concert percussion we just all sit in a room for 8 hours and we go: Snare- one at a time, in a cyclic order based on the letter we were given (A, B,... AG, AH) Mallets- 2 mallet one at a time, then 4 mallet one at a time. Timpani- one at a time. Usually they rotate the letters so every range gets a chance to go first or last. We also usually auditions in groups of five in the order of the letters such that they warm up for 1 minute and then each person performs their etude. The judges are behind a curtain usually, and if you’re lucky, they’ll do 3 rooms (Snare, mallet, timpani) So yeah, everyone else gets to watch you play your audition and it’s very nerve wracking.
University of Illinois' music school channel posts videos of the ILMEA etudes and excerpts for almost if not all instruments for band and orchestra, and for sure all of the percussion material, and they help like crazy.
In Louisiana, we only have to do Snare, Bass, Timpani, and Marimba, but snare is allways in 6/8 and marimba allways starts with sixteenths at like 120 or faster. There was also this one shcool that allways had about 98% of there kids make it into honor band every year. It was stupid hard.
I'm in South Carolina, I did region band for the first time this year on Timpani, and our solos are on RUclips, so I could watch mine and I got it down. I got 4th chair in the state
I was in Lions Bands snare line. I only went one year but I made it all 3 I tried out for. I loved drumming but I started falling out of love with marching. Wasn't for me. However, the year I went we won. My state always did well with that. There's actually video on RUclips and it's hilarious to look back on it. Now that I'm older I kinda wish I went the other years. Kinda.
Where did you go to school in Jersey? I go to Steinert in Hamilton, and I just joined Pat Petrilo's training band called Encorps in South Brunswick, and I'm excited to go further. It's unfortunate that my school band is really... really.... REALLY lacking, I didn't learn this in middle school but I also haven't learned ANYTHING in high school, besides playing jazz on set. Where did you start for DCI?
Just had this experience. Had a student who was a total beginner. His dad wanted me to prep him for all region tryouts. The snare piece was in 3/8. Lots of flams, lots of diddles. C'mon. I had to tell his dad "that's a little ambitious, let's try next year."
Texas Band Director here. We are definitely fortunate to have so many resources for students in our state! Also, I think thumb rolls in general are just not very practical in a lot of settings - I rarely ever even see a tambourine that's good enough to do a thumb roll on. Most percussion accessories in the average school band hall have been virtually destroyed by years of... well... percussionists.
Actually if you have the opportunity, audition first. By the end, the judge has already heard good auditions. If you're good go first. There's nothing wrong with going last just make sure you audition very well.
At my 8th grade All-District band tryouts, I didn't follow the unspoken rule and ended up going 1st in my audition. I ended up getting 2nd chair Concert so it came out fine but by god I was nervous.
In Texas they usually make all of one section go at the same time so no one can talk about it. They also make all the other kids in the audition room sit and wait so we have to listen to each person play
I am mainly a string player (Viola), but I also do Concert Band Percussion, as well as Marching Band Drumline, and I can say that string excerpts are way easier to understand, at least in California.
Texas has so many of them because they have UIL, which is a big competition for most events and subjects. Band ones have the chance for scholarships and other things.
Just a quick thing on what you said about going last: It might be good to hear what you are playing first, but when I did this last year (at least as a wind player) there was a sightreeding part, and it was in 4/4 time but had weird rhythms, so the first person went and played it like it was 3/4, the next person followed and did the same thing, and so on, until me, and I knew I just heard a wrong rhythm being played like 15 times in a row, but I couldn't figure out how to actually play it in time so I just copied what everyone else did.
As you notice that Texas has the most videos for middle and high school music, also take note that Texas has many of the best concert and marching bands in the country. Take note other states
I want to audition for drum corps but i only played in late high school. I need to practice rudiments but other than that i have no idea how to improve i’ll be aging out soon so id like to at least play for one year asking for a friend pls help
wait a second... Is the middle school honors band image you used in the beginning of the video from Easter Kentucky University's website? Because I think it is... Which is funny because we don't even have auditions for it lol
Wait wait.. your name is Eric and your channel is EMCproductions. I always thought it was EMC as in Einstein... for no reason. So what’s the rest of your name to fill in the holes?
Ahh, I see that you have a high enough IQ to appreciate Rick and Morty. This would explain all of the subtle and mature humor you share with fellow intellects.
Wow. all of these people talking about not learning or using thumb rolls until late high school or college and im a freshman in high school and i have already had to play them in two pieces. 😂
do I sense a random thumb roll lick in the future? 🤔
Hey david. Do I sense a collab in the future?
Ruh roh collab time
Random chicken lick
Woah didn't expect you here
Fancy seeing you here!
Ah, the tambourine. What would percussion ever do without such a beautiful instrument?
It would do better
My favorite instrument as a kid!
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Ok, what middle schoolers are ever taught thumb rolls??? I wasn't even taught that till late high school lol
@@EMCproductions im just learning this and i think it is pointless in general
TKvids 13 I didn’t learn it until today and I’m a senior 🤭
i learned thumb rolls in college haha
TKvids 13 I’ve never even heard of it tbh 😂😂
I taught myself because it made a cool sound on the concert bass😂😂
Since when does Stevie T play drums?.
LMAOOO I WAS THINKING THAT
done dirty.
I never thought about it that way...
I’m confused
Hey hey
I just watched 16 minutes of tambourine auditions for middle school. I dont even play percussion and I am not even in middle school anymore.
Tmcrabtree | That’s actually how I am. I don’t play percussion and I’m in highschool. Also I don’t even live in this state.
I'm the exact same. I'm in highschool and I play tuba
What’s the audition for Carrmen heights like?
You have to single split 64th notes at 210 bpm, nothing big
EMCproductions lol I got all these notifications an hour late, but maybe one day u can release the sheets and we can send in some auditions
EMCproductions only few would be worthy enough to split chicken tuplets tbh, thanks for all the great content!
I hear it's like the movie Drumline mixed with B.U.D.S training. You'll end up being a great dancing drummer with the skills to go out and completely obliterate the competition with hertas. And if that doesn't work then you'll blow them all to hell with your demolition training. They run a tight ship over there.
This is my favorite video of yours. I like when you go into a lot of detail on how to do something. I don’t even play percussion I just find it really interesting
damn that's a nice chair
@@EMCproductions what type is it because I'm looking for a chair atm
This channel is a hidden gem.
Far and away the best tambourine tutorial I've ever seen.
We had to tune timpani for our 7th grade auditions, it isn’t difficult now but in 7th grade you know practically nothing about how to tune or play timpani in general
alpha cappuccino bro my schools 6th graders can tune timpanis
BD teaches you how
Learned in 6th grade
I thank the people at Vic Firth and Innovative for posting those videos to get me through honor auditions 🙏
The editing in all of your videos is SO funny! I love it
From watching this, I'm just now realizing how lucky I was to have had my teacher when I played percussion. I learned all of this within the first year. I'm not sure if she taught us that because she knew it would be on the audition (I never actually auditioned) or if she just was a really good teacher. Percussion wasn't even her instrument, she plays the tuba. We were playing stuff like this in seventh grade. We actually didn't have very good equipment (we had only two snares, one of them was really rusty, and the timpani were like, peeling. ) so I'm realizing now that, Mrs. Wiberg, you are a great teacher. I wish I could go back and thank her. I don't play percussion anymore though, and I'm not in middle school any more. (I play guitar and violin now, I got a bit tired of waiting like, 64 measures one time I think (and I know the rests just get longer the more professional you get) and I wanted to have more of a noticeable role in the orchestra, doing melodic stuff, playing scales, etc. Also with guitar, I just became enfatuated with the myriad of techniques you can do, I mean, tremolo, rasgueos, arpeggios, natural and artificial harmonics, tambora, apagado, dead notes, picado, abanico, golpe, alzapua, arrastre, slapping and popping, slides, hammer ones, pull offs, tapping... there's just so much you can do. The violin isn't quite as versatile, but I like the variety of bow strokes that can be used (martelé, spiccatto, ricochet, sautille, detaché, etc.)
EMCproductions oh wow what a coincidence! She definitely is!
I've literally never played an instrument in the percussion family, I don't know why I'm here
Lowkey I’ma use this as my warm up now thanks New Jersey and EMC♥️
I’m a music educator in middle school land. This video is really funny and extremely illuminating. I love how you transcribed the sight reading. I laughed out loud and then thought...Is this bad to tell the kids? I remember auditioning and listening to those who finished before me thinking along those lines. I guess it’s something to make them aware of but to prepare them in advance to not over think listening to others and just be really good at sight reading. Anyway, thanks for your hard work on this project. It’s gonna help folks all over the country.
Lol yeah in Texas or at least in Region 9 for concert percussion we just all sit in a room for 8 hours and we go:
Snare- one at a time, in a cyclic order based on the letter we were given (A, B,... AG, AH)
Mallets- 2 mallet one at a time, then 4 mallet one at a time.
Timpani- one at a time.
Usually they rotate the letters so every range gets a chance to go first or last.
We also usually auditions in groups of five in the order of the letters such that they warm up for 1 minute and then each person performs their etude. The judges are behind a curtain usually, and if you’re lucky, they’ll do 3 rooms (Snare, mallet, timpani)
So yeah, everyone else gets to watch you play your audition and it’s very nerve wracking.
I thought this was the audition stories vid when I saw the title, and got my hopes up. I’ll watch the rest later, I don’t have much time now
I had FMEA All State in September and got the music in May
Never been more proud to be a Texan
Texan percussionists
@@monkeyman7048 Got that right, bud.
Can we get a play through of the tambourine part in the thumbnail?
Yes please!
"I'm really good at thumb rolls." I laughed my lmao off.
I live in texas and every year we get videos of every piece
Most of those Texas videos are for high school all region.
It's all about the research. Like doing a paper, the research is half of journey.
Alabama always posts all their material, just on the official Bandmaster association website.
I play flute so I have no idea what you’re talking about in your videos when you talk about percussion stuff but I still watch them.
University of Illinois' music school channel posts videos of the ILMEA etudes and excerpts for almost if not all instruments for band and orchestra, and for sure all of the percussion material, and they help like crazy.
In Louisiana, we only have to do Snare, Bass, Timpani, and Marimba, but snare is allways in 6/8 and marimba allways starts with sixteenths at like 120 or faster. There was also this one shcool that allways had about 98% of there kids make it into honor band every year. It was stupid hard.
I'm in South Carolina, I did region band for the first time this year on Timpani, and our solos are on RUclips, so I could watch mine and I got it down. I got 4th chair in the state
It would be really cool to see some videos like this on the technique for different instruments!
EMCproductions that’s awesome, didn’t even catch the part 1 whups
I was in Lions Bands snare line. I only went one year but I made it all 3 I tried out for. I loved drumming but I started falling out of love with marching. Wasn't for me. However, the year I went we won. My state always did well with that. There's actually video on RUclips and it's hilarious to look back on it. Now that I'm older I kinda wish I went the other years. Kinda.
In Connecticut, Hartt School posts the all states and i think the regionals pieces too
Where did you go to school in Jersey? I go to Steinert in Hamilton, and I just joined Pat Petrilo's training band called Encorps in South Brunswick, and I'm excited to go further. It's unfortunate that my school band is really... really.... REALLY lacking, I didn't learn this in middle school but I also haven't learned ANYTHING in high school, besides playing jazz on set. Where did you start for DCI?
Just had this experience. Had a student who was a total beginner. His dad wanted me to prep him for all region tryouts. The snare piece was in 3/8. Lots of flams, lots of diddles. C'mon. I had to tell his dad "that's a little ambitious, let's try next year."
Dr. Zator certainly puts in work for those Texas audition videos.
Texas Band Director here. We are definitely fortunate to have so many resources for students in our state!
Also, I think thumb rolls in general are just not very practical in a lot of settings - I rarely ever even see a tambourine that's good enough to do a thumb roll on. Most percussion accessories in the average school band hall have been virtually destroyed by years of... well... percussionists.
Actually if you have the opportunity, audition first. By the end, the judge has already heard good auditions. If you're good go first. There's nothing wrong with going last just make sure you audition very well.
EMC: Making a serious vid on how to help
Me: THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER
I did all district just recently as a junior and the snare solo was quite difficult, also had a triangle part. Made it in!! (Barely)
@@EMCproductions thanks! district is where I actually first learned thumb rolls xD ironic that middle schoolers need it apparently
First was England is my city
Now it’s New Jersey is my hometown
At my 8th grade All-District band tryouts, I didn't follow the unspoken rule and ended up going 1st in my audition. I ended up getting 2nd chair Concert so it came out fine but by god I was nervous.
In Texas they usually make all of one section go at the same time so no one can talk about it. They also make all the other kids in the audition room sit and wait so we have to listen to each person play
I am mainly a string player (Viola), but I also do Concert Band Percussion, as well as Marching Band Drumline, and I can say that string excerpts are way easier to understand, at least in California.
Man I don't even play tambourine but this was very interesting to watch
I don't even play percussion... I'm a trombone/baritone player but I'm still entertained 😊
Texas has so many of them because they have UIL, which is a big competition for most events and subjects. Band ones have the chance for scholarships and other things.
Just a quick thing on what you said about going last:
It might be good to hear what you are playing first, but when I did this last year (at least as a wind player) there was a sightreeding part, and it was in 4/4 time but had weird rhythms, so the first person went and played it like it was 3/4, the next person followed and did the same thing, and so on, until me, and I knew I just heard a wrong rhythm being played like 15 times in a row, but I couldn't figure out how to actually play it in time so I just copied what everyone else did.
I live in new Hampshire and I made honors band percussion ensemble.wish me luck on march 15th
Good stuff Eric👏🏼👏🏼
Woohoo Texas is the best state for percussion and band in general ( it's my home so I'm biased lol) but lots of good people and are from Texas tho
That or California
Yesss Texas!! Whoop
I’m confused so i was chosen to be in the schuylkill river valley area honers band by my band director could you do a video on their music
When I was in middle school the only thing we had to do to get into honors band was scales
As you notice that Texas has the most videos for middle and high school music, also take note that Texas has many of the best concert and marching bands in the country. Take note other states
A lot of ketucky schools have a channel and post it, well at least 3. 3=a lot right?
Where’s part 2 at?
Can you do North Jersey?
Came here for no reason, stayed for the entire thing! Now I want a tambourine and I don’t even play. Interesting. . .
Random tambourine lick ?
Hey Eric, what dci group did you march for and what year?
I don’t quite remember the year but i’m pretty sure he said he marched for Crown in his dci vs boot camp video
Joshua Park he marched Crown in 2011
@@xCentauri no i think its 2010
@@wummer9030 2009
He marches Carmen Heights
I want to audition for drum corps but i only played in late high school. I need to practice rudiments but other than that i have no idea how to improve i’ll be aging out soon so id like to at least play for one year asking for a friend pls help
EMCproductions what audition piece should i use for quads or is it just open enrollment?
wait a second...
Is the middle school honors band image you used in the beginning of the video from Easter Kentucky University's website? Because I think it is...
Which is funny because we don't even have auditions for it lol
Congrats on winning the superdrummers battle royal I saw the drumpad and it cool
I had to play a huge timpani etude and the timpani at my school have gauges but the ones at the audition school didn’t so I did so bad
playing tamborine now seems like an extremely difficult instrument to me after watching this XD
i gotta SEMSBA audition on saturday thank u for making this
I’m a freshman in college for music and I still haven’t got to thumb rolls yet. What on earth
EMCproductions exactly
Lol only reason I learned thumb roll was to show off I'm a junior in hs
pvt.edgy lol
pvt.edgy sometimes we’d see who could thumb roll on the concert bass
@@captainkiwi77 that's my new favorite thing to do
random tambourine lick?
Knicks Fan? You’re a trooper
Thanks! I could never figure out the tambourine! Thx for future reference even if you do act like a sassy woman...
I dont even play tambourine, nor am i in band (i play piano and bass) but i still found this video very interesting
Just my school or are band teacher makes us play high school music
Ha your wearing a knicks Jersey how do you feel about the yrafe
This is what I think when I have all state auditions
Very insightful for technique!
this is harder than my maryland senior all state tambourine audition excerpt wtf???
I never ended up doing any of this because my south jersey hs has no one in the district who teaches percussion
We were actually taught how to thumb roll in middle school and they even told us about the bees wax
This is amazing
Wait wait.. your name is Eric and your channel is EMCproductions. I always thought it was EMC as in Einstein... for no reason. So what’s the rest of your name to fill in the holes?
8:54 legit thought there was a bee in my room
I can't have a good morning until I see the rest
I auditioned got in 2nd chair battery in the blue band, and I had to play this I auditioned for snare and traps (battery)
EMCproductions Thanks!!!
Random tambourine solo next
I knew how to thumb rolls in middle school. That’s because I was in orchestra though
I got in the Duval county district honor band
I'm in 7th grade and I am in my district's honor band for bass clarinet
I learned thumb rolls in 6th grade
I feel like Missouri's high school district auditions were easier than this.... Hey, might as well teach them to get good early :P
New Jersey... My hometown.
Ahh, I see that you have a high enough IQ to appreciate Rick and Morty. This would explain all of the subtle and mature humor you share with fellow intellects.
and this is why I live in Texas (shh I'm a tuba but shhhhh) ((and I have District auditions tomorrow))
Wow. all of these people talking about not learning or using thumb rolls until late high school or college and im a freshman in high school and i have already had to play them in two pieces. 😂
Never thought tamberine could be so complicated.
Why am I watching this? I play saxophone 😂😂
What a day for the Knicks shirt...
Lowkey I am that troubled 7th grader. I just did my audition and it was STUPIDLY difficult. And yet I’m an alternate? Jesus I need to stop doing band.
I also stopped but in high school
The piece is in cut time so he was inaccurate when he said quarter notes. Technically they should be felt as 8th notes
Oh shoot you are right. I didn’t see that it didn’t have a line through it
Who else realizes that when he says good morning, the current time is 12:00 am