EMC's Essential Tenor Drum Rudiment Tier List

[@EMCproductions]

You can download the sheet music for these rudiments here: drive.google.com/file/d/1sJojz6TC-ZQlL2KEdwbEwzQIHxXXfXpT/view?usp=sharing You can get Rick Rolled here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmW4nItum9Nop7s

[@CarlosAugustoScalassaraPrando]

Thanks for this list, all always wanna something like to practice in the drumset.

[@powergoose6188]

I could actually practice rudiments now.

[@EricWoods21701]

This is helping me so much with my auditions for K-States drumline! Thank you!!

[@WreckerRC]

Bass line rudiments?

[@tylerdecker5099]

Well, now that we've got official rudiment lists for snare and tenors... can you show the basses some love?

[@mattmcneal7945]

It’s always a good sign when he hearts the post , here’s to hoping my bass brother

[@hunteralexander9791]

Cymbals too but he might need a bit of help with that one. Mans can play some cymbals but doesn’t have the wealth of knowledge on visuals that other people may have (and this is perfectly okay, not hating on anyone)

[@ChrisKeeper29]

@@hunteralexander9791 agreed, as a former cymbal player i would love to see some of those

[@BigBuster47]

Can we get triangle rudiments

[@Jmilillo]

Triplets, 3s, 4s, 5s

[@uferaby_7587]

I think the term used in 1991, was "dampen." "Skank", was not to be used in polite company. But we ladies in the battery would have probably laughed louder than the guys. "Helicopter"...yeah, those are a workout. Love the channel!

[@coiLz0r911]

As a drumset player, this was a very interesting insight into tenor vocabulary and sweeping.

[@RedDogMamaHD]

Loopy Grandma here ... so glad to be featured in your Essential Tenor Drum Rudiment Tier List. 😘🥰 I think it’s awesome to be Loopy. 😜 Hopefully many of your morning people have a Loopy Grandma! (Only a true Loopy Grandma would appreciate the Siamese Casey-Claw) 😂😂🤣🤣

[@theTenorDrummer]

Excellent rudiment breakdown, those Pudita Sweeps always get me!

[@tommyk0101]

I read this title as "EMC's Existential Terror Drum Rudiment Tier List", which is totally a video you should make.

[@acousticfoam4184]

14:18 RCC also has it as a part of their “medley” warmup.

[@powergoose6188]

I need this

[@EMCproductions]

FIRST COMMENT. Good job.

[@thepieguy6352]

Me as well

[@Iplayquad]

Yo its Ytka

[@nogetb-1272]

check descriptions. there is a link to a drive folder which has these rudiments, under the name "tenor rudiments"

[@nogetb-1272]

or just see the pin comment

[@Allison_Chaynes]

Coolest triple cross is 1990 Phantom. They were the first I saw really do it. They did it with power too.

[@CoolKoKillzzz]

Video 2 of commenting till emc makes a cowbell vibraslap

[@skeletizer]

Yes

[@wyattmelton4312]

Let’s gooo round two. ❤️

[@RedDogMamaHD]

Shouldn’t be too difficult. Eric and TonyG already showed their technique creating triangles out of miscellaneous steel rods from Lowe’s. But they will have to purchase a new cowbell, since Eric’s Cowbell still is maintaining her vow of silence.

[@pitcrew1392]

Man you got all of the good ideas But you also have all of the ideas 😂

[@kmforst]

Been done, kinda. There used to be an LP vibraslap model that had a metal body, were hella loud, and would ring FOR.E.VER.

[@aviatr9542]

I've played so many of these patterns as a fellow tenor drummer... but never put names to a lot of them, these are pretty great. "Phantom Grandmas" are so much fun, and so is the rest of that '07 feature, haha.

[@mikeangel1758]

I have yet to see anyone as talented as EMC on the tube. AWESOME!

[@loganscott2528]

You should rank college lines like you did NFL lines.

[@twistedwildfire1770]

If we get amazingdrummer27's channel to 100k subs, Eric has to play Beast And The Harlot by Avenged Sevenfold flawlessly.

[@mrnicknick02]

When did he say that?

[@twistedwildfire1770]

@@mrnicknick02 he didn't. I'm trying to get him to. 🤣🤫

[@EMCproductions]

...Idk if the world can handle Steven Sassafrass's cover of that song

[@twistedwildfire1770]

@@EMCproductions I meant you cover it, but omfg that would the funniest thing ever🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rj69420]

Can you play Chopstakovich by Jesse Sieff or add your own tenor spin on it?

[@acousticfoam4184]

This

[@drummerboy0620]

That sounds like hell lol

[@kisterdrums]

1:33 ubiquitous illiness flashbacks

[@grt002]

Man, Eric, you have some really damn good chops. Way to go, dude!

[@sofiahamby9453]

i just got placed on the one tenor spot on my high school drum line thank you so much for this it will help a lot

[@safersephiroth943]

I'mma need to come back to this in the spring when I get ready to write the stuff for my kids show next season. Some good tenor patterns here I could utilize to help them get better and pump those competition scores.

[@TheStickCollector]

Time to add this to my repertoire

[@williampletcher8091]

Catching up on unwatched EMCproductions videos ... under THIS account! With Ads!!! Earning Eric the big bucks!!!

[@TylerDunphy]

I’m actually going to be using this! I tend to fall into a habit of writing the same things on tenors and I would like to break that.

[@DaPvZBro]

Just as a random throw out, the RCC tenor line had the Polynesian Nightmares as part of one of their warmups. I know this because I learned that damn thing and got stuck trying to get it right for a while lol

[@gratefuldude5676]

Both of my grandmas are phantoms, and neither were loopy, though I didn’t really know my one since she died when I was two, but the other did have a lot of doilies … thanks for bringing up painful memories. Good Morning

[@MaskTheTruth1111]

So happy to catch one this early! Good Morning!

[@Riley88990]

That stare at 13:10 made me spit out my water lol also, I’m glad that I know what a Polynesian Nightmare is now lol

[@BEElaine1008]

The Polynesian Nightmare sounded really cool..... I felt like I was at a Tiki Bar

[@joecarlson3003]

14:18 rcc 2018/2019 lot exercise “the medley”

[@joshpeppers5061]

RCC did the polynesian nightmare in 2018 i believe!! i think it was a replica of the scv solo but still very cool

[@joshpeppers5061]

also i tried them for like three hours and i still cant get them theyre very hard

[@tjmillerpercussion]

We call the "helicopter" a "butterfly" around here.

[@subbot8077]

Yo, I don't know if you've done any Break It Down-style videos before, but if you get bored I'd love to see you transcribe and learn the SCV 2017 quad breaks! Thanks for the content And sound quality 🔥

[@kaydenkaboobi]

using this to better my tenor writing, thank you eric

[@bobbarksofficial4335]

5:04 Stroking The Head Flashbacks!

[@Scooped_Orange]

boston crusaders snares 2024 "glitch" is playing the polynesian nightmare!

[@brookstarkington]

This is actually really helpful for me for writing for my lines. Thank.

[@WreckerRC]

Thank you for this vid/ list. I bought a set of tenors just to suck a little less at drums/ write for my line.

[@lightningdragon7361]

honestly youve taught me a lot more than my band teacher has

[@FriggnH8ters]

But have you retained it?

[@lightningdragon7361]

@@FriggnH8ters yessir play every day gotta keep the skills somehow

[@thezencaliff8891]

Im a simple man, i see a notification from EMCproductions and i click like and watch the video!

[@24smile123]

Bass Rudiments would be lit!!!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@jangles1839]

Doylees and Helicopters...... definitely many rim tics back in my day! But, once you nail em...... you're the coolest kid in band! 😉

[@yoshipuff]

The Jared Andrews double stops!! Blue devils 05 quad line

[@relevantinformation6655]

Great stuff - as always 🥁 👍

[@bd2ce]

Dude you should check out Sean Vega's Tenor Solo from I&E back in '95' At the end is a variation of your South Jersey Casey-Claw. It's pretty sweet. I use to love seeing the look on some of my fellow drummers when I would mess around and do that rudiment myself on my "Bass Drum". (Post '95') "Goodtimezz, now that's great stuff"😅 I'm pretty sure you can find Vega's Solo here on KZbin. BTW, Nice Chops Bro!! Rob "Bass" Sanchez

[@seanmorrison8483]

We sometimes change the sticking into candy apples for our cadences if our hands are feeling good lol

[@ItsPandaaa]

i somehow self taught myself #4 without even knowing of its existence, fun stuff

[@thunderwarp13842]

In 2018 we played the phantom grandmas in the closer

[@leandrobonfim2921]

Top dms , ensina super bem 👏🏻🥁

[@phyneas2082]

5:10 sounds like something from “stroking the head”

[@broletariat]

Man, if this was around when I was in HS I'd have watched it 10000000000x by now.

[@zanderhargrave4522]

Have a good morning!!

[@503music6]

No one: Me and my friends when we used to stack hands: 2:55

[@nono2337]

I wanted to learn french sweep but it was on a strike

[@simonking5381]

5:10 i smell stroking the head

[@captainkiwi77]

I’d argue ultimate double stops, and the other ones that are building block techniques actually kinda fit the bill for what a rudiment is supposed to be best. So most of the things in F tier are really more S tier than the real one. Because yes they are random techniques but it’s those simple ones that when practiced effectively will give you the muscle and movement to start hitting the others significantly better. Kinda the same way the single stroke four is very useful despite it just being 4 notes, all the single strokes are good at building a stronger pulse. And Flams are just part of other rudiments but I’d your regular foams aren’t good then that will transfer to mills flam taps Swiss armies etc... so yeah your F tiers are really just the best most basic things to practice

[@allanedwards9724]

RCC quads do the Polynesian nightmare in one of their solo pieces (2018-present)

[@choney1168]

Can you make videos of you tryin to recreate the drumline movie routines! I would like to see that!

[@noahgormanmusic1843]

Anyone else learn helicopters as a "Butterfly Sweep"?

[@G-Wizzly]

Do a tier list for bass splits

[@bhutang]

We need the Parker Meek covers

[@blastbeatthefolf1052]

2- 4 is mike manginis iconic cross drum solos

[@pie4breakfast_drums]

Have I been getting helicopters and figure 8s backwards this whole time? Could have sworn it's the other way around from this video

[@frankmusic6741]

Would you recommend ts7 twnor sticks for parades ? Or which would be your choice

[@ronaldgabrieljuan8624]

Next Vid Pls... Most Essential Drum Pattern(Drumset)

[@williamegger4962]

I’m looking to get a tenor pad what should I get. I’m looking at either Ahead or Prologix

[@RVVDont]

0:48 gusseck

[@YouCrossedMyPath]

Now do splits 2s 3s 4s, singles, hand to hands, one hand split hertas, etc

[@aylexmusic]

Is it just me or is 13:59 played incorrectly?

[@c猫t]

We got Skanks... Do we have Hi-moms?

[@adammasonic]

ok but what are the last rudiments

[@hyrumaballay1713]

Something in my music says “dreads” what is that?

[@alexthegamer1810]

Do d and k cadence plz

[@adamwojtasiak6204]

So I play tenors in marching band. Nothing too difficult at all. This coming school year, I’m gonna be a senior and I wanna pull out all the stops and get serious about tenor playing. Where should I start?

[@jacquelinemalcolmgeorge6107]

Me too

[@stephenbyrnes7205]

Video 5 of commenting until EMC makes an entire battery percussion section out of spocks and 8 inch splash cymbals

[@jacquelinemalcolmgeorge6107]

W

[@Jimmy2e_]

Shoutout to Bird for the pdd scrape. No 3 drum gocks tho, smh

[@warrenbraswell9785]

So where to find this list?

[@lewy_g_official]

13:13 should have been called The General Grevious.

[@Eddie_da_head_]

Hello there

[@kchididdy]

Can you do Omegle reaction videos like the other musicians on YT?

[@thatguydan4256]

Hey EMC, what are your thoughts on the Ohio State University Marching Band?

[@matthewprieto884]

I bet you cant transcribe and perform Santana soul sacrifice 1969 Woodstock!!!!!!🤝🏼

[@bobbarksofficial4335]

Ooh

[@reflexserenity5752]

Why tf did I get an energizer AD I'm scared

[@morganstvchannel8347]

Hello

[@ozielguzman3529]

Um dumb question but what do the non shaded notes mean

[@461weavile]

One of the two popular notations for crossing one hand over the other

[@stevensperber8629]

RCC's fall 2003 tenor line had the Polynesian Nightmare in a solo. Wouldn't be surprised if Vega wrote it for a line before that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6uwoWiwjJWeiLM (Solo at the 2 minute 14 second mark.)

[@vb6427]

12:15 hahaha XD

[@martica007]

Number 3 sounds like a train.

[@DanThibodeau1]

13:08

[@bsb1975]

Are all of the crossovers necessary, or are they mostly just for show? It looks cool, but can't some of these rudiments be played without all of the fanfare? Please bear in mind I am not a percussionist.

[@aviatr9542]

A little of both, and really it just depends. For example, if you wanted to play a bunch of his early crossover patterns in the video "un-crossed," you could - however it would mean you would have to hit all of those same drums using left-hand lead (LRLR) instead of right-hand lead (RLRL), and most marching percussion parts are intentionally written right-hand lead. You could, of course, do it the other way and keep the right-hand lead playing (RLRL), but change the notes (pattern of drums you hit) if you wanted to remove the crossovers. But that might not be what they're going for musically (and/or visually... let's be honest, haha).

[@aviatr9542]

Keep in mind a lot of these "rudiments" he's showing in the video are mainly just tenor-drum-specific skillsets to build muscle memory for to be able to do in certain situations where it's actually necessary as a tenor drummer. The majority of the music you actually play on tenors does not look like this, but these types of patterns (especially the "high-tier" patterns on his list) do come up sometimes which are unique to tenors (don't count the absurd ones near the end... haha those are just him having fun).

[@jjynja6084]

For sweeps and crossovers, its less about playing any specific drum and its more about difficulty and showing virtuosity.

[@jordanmarin9117]

My grandma is a phantom

[@subbot8077]

Me after practicing 1000 hours of skanking and the audition piece doesn't feature them: *Reality is often disappointng*

[@Spaml6]

Am I the only one who is disappointed he didn't make 69 of them...

[@Jekkin]

14:02 your triplets startin to sound like dotted sixteenth-eighths there bud :^) (this is a joke please don't hurt me)

[@cretaceous-squid9328]

SIAMESE CASEY-CLAW IS A TOTAL S-TIER, BECUASE ITS FUNNY.

[@spskrimpy5179]

Poggers

[@luisn642]

Oh no, now we’re going to get 40 more silly dump videos

[@dededeeznuts5986]

Why am I watching this I’m a guitarist

[@Ikeman922]

I suck at tenor drums 👍