I rewrote my 2007 I&E solo. Now it's EVEN MORE EPIC.

[@EvXtheGamer]

The theme sounds like the invincibility star from Mario Kart

[@dantehernandez5818]

Evan Puterbaugh i think u might have it, i totally hear that

[@dantehernandez5818]

Evan Puterbaugh i think u might have it, i totally hear that

[@EMCproductions]

You are correct, sir.

[@saltydalty7665]

Omg i thought it sounded like D&K the Senate from the drumline movie

[@iDkDrUmS.]

Super Mario’s Yoshis land sounds more like it

[@gentrywalker]

humanity doesn't deserve content of this level of quality.

[@chrissalazar7650]

Gentry Walker and amount

[@josephrobertson7476]

Thanks tom

[@usedtissue1073]

I wish I could have commented it first, yes you are completely right

[@costacorous8106]

Facts EMC’s channel is soooo underrated

[@B1gCs0ngusz]

I am a Hungarian guitar player, so I never even seen a marching band live. I have no idea what he's doing this whole time, but I watched the whole thing and it was fascinating.

[@getalife2842]

For the sticking issue, instead of using the sticking feature (which they just added practically and is still janky), use Ctrl + L to input the sticking as lyrics. It does the same thing as sticking practically but doesn't have nearly the amount of issues that sticking has.

[@BigJoee]

This is how I do it and it works perfectly!

[@MichaelWidjaja]

I do that as well. The sticking feature is.... well MuseScore is free, so at least it's there to use 😬👍🏼

[@mightynel]

@@MichaelWidjajamusescore is awesome though other than that

[@xGoldriever]

like if youre here for the musescore 4 w no MDL compatibility era 🥲

[@KAYDdubz]

17 year old Eric has ridiculous chops 😂

[@prof_hedgehog7456]

WardogeFN his age kept changing 🤣

[@perwestermark8920]

@@prof_hedgehog7456 Yes, his 18th birthday happened in the middle of the play.

[@Iplayquad]

I mean.. yk all drum corp kids are in their teens right? Drum corp is age 16-22 so

[@KAYDdubz]

@@Iplayquad yeah I know but I was referring to the fact that he was still goated back then

[@Iplayquad]

@@KAYDdubz well ya ofc 😂 he is our lord and savior

[@Seab3551]

21:35 he broke the spock rim

[@TJ-ir6xt]

I was lookin for this comment

[@joeg4707]

RIP

[@503music6]

oh god! NOOOOO! (every quad drummer's nightmare)

[@TDDrummer2]

*E P I C*

[@Generl1107]

Still hasn't gotten his replacement rims from Xymox 😔

[@snareline]

4:23 Two right hand doubles in a row, huh

[@TylerDunphy]

let's hope people learning this realize it's a typo haha

[@JRBanitt]

Lol

[@oscargill423]

I love how he constantly switches between "good job, me" to "what the heck, me?" and back. I can definitely relate to that.

[@LuckyHamburger]

I haven't touched a set of tenors in my life, but I really enjoyed this video either way. I just never knew that there was a pattern called "Book reports"

[@rogerjones6033]

@Pizza Taco Yeah, been drumming since 1974 and only strapped up to a "timp-tom trio" once (we didn't even have "quads") and immediately went back to snare...too heavy!!! Yes "rudiment" but when I graduated HS in 1977 we still had the standard 26 NARD ...unfortunately they went full corp style in 1978! I've been a rockin' praise drummer at my church since 1987, (worship leader w/my wife since 2007) on my Roland TD-6 double pedal kit w/vintage PD-21 pads for my 4 toms and a PD-11 kick w/PD-10 guts. Had 7 Zildjian cymbals until switching to CY-16's. EXCELLENT job Eric! As usual your chops are stellar!

[@rogerjones6033]

@Pizza Taco Nah, you're fine! What's the sticking for a "book report" for those of us who don't know?

[@TylerDunphy]

@@rogerjones6033 It's paradiddle sticking (RlrrLrll) with a diddle on the accent, a flam on the "and" count, and a diddle on the "a" count. It sounds like Dig-a-duh gda dig-a

[@TylerDunphy]

@@rogerjones6033 they're super fun to play once you kinda figure them out in your muscle memory. took me a while haha

[@salem7276]

As an alto sax, my bones hurt looking at this sheet music

[@zanybandyt7774]

as an alto player, i have the sudden urge to try and play this as if it was alto music

[@gothard5]

as a tenor sax guy, I feel the same way

[@liammcelroy2265]

I don't know what it's called but it's the theme for when you have the star in mario I just finished replaying super Mario 3D land after a few years so it's fresh on my mine

[@tonyaboyd2630]

Let’s get a 👏🏼 for 18 year old Eric.

[@drummerboy0620]

👏

[@jay-el9pg]

Tonya Boyd 👏

[@billybob7930]

👏

[@timmyc9915]

👏🏽👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@timmyc9915]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@relser187]

22:54 is easily my favorite section, it’s got lots of groove! I know this comment is several months late and you’ll probably never see this comment but I think it’d be really cool if you arranged some snare and bass parts to that and made it a full cadence!

[@zapario4460]

Me too

[@samfielder8789]

This is one of my favorite videos of yours. I really expected you to do an over the top of the weird visuals at the end but you didn’t. You made it about the music and I think that’s really really cool

[@BobFJr]

18:02 Everyone deserves a quality diddle....

[@McThiccvms]

Nice beats my man I am both talking about the rhythms and the headphones

[@briandahl1659]

I totally think you can make the high school band with this solo! Good luck man!

[@kierangresko7789]

I love the quality of your videos Eric!! Keep it coming!👏

[@apebeats6631]

You're super talented bro. I love your energetic, positive attitude towards everything, and your dedication to music. Thanks for the great videos. 👍👍🥁🤘 Oh...and GOOD MORNING!!!

[@MrInsta.]

Thank you Tom for recording this.

[@Negative_Positron]

Something that will work for stickings in Muse score is to right-click on one, select all similar elements in staff, then use the inspector tool to set them to a specified height

[@tripledeluxedday]

this gives me some ideas for my tom stuff on the drum set. very cool work.

[@markhumphrey3311]

You are absolutely amazing! I banged on pots and pans when I was like three years old. Wanted the drummer spot in elementary school but was filled so I ended up with trumpet. Lol. I still play today but wish I got the lessons back then.

[@jojnokirk8035]

wow eric this is incredible- i would LOVE that autographed pic

[@Fantasy23Legend]

How can you not get emotional for old videos of some awesome memories of yourself. Thank you Tom.

[@thatbassplayer4454]

I'm from WT, kinda late but thanks for the shout out man, your the best!!!

[@aidanmartin46]

Always wanted to be a band kid but never had the funds. Became a bass player and huge percussion fan, love the channel!!!!

[@jalthealusdavis8762]

This video was awesome! How can anyone not like this? Wish I could play multiple toms but trying to read the sheet music is way over my head. I played snare drum in high school and one semester in college which was eons ago. Now I play drums at my church. I sure do miss playing in a drumline.

[@andrewhxrris]

You can fix the sticking by (this is gonna be a pain in the butt but bear with me) clicking on each individual sticking letter and moving them up or down using the arrow keys :( hope this helped!

[@MaxHamilton1]

Andrew Harris for me I just use the system text and just drag it wherever

[@owengalligan4052]

I drag it too, using arrow keys on each letter takes a long time

[@TwistedMotorcityCustoms]

I'm pretty sure you can select them all by shift clicking and then moving them all at once

[@matthewolive1262]

First of all, nice profile pic, second of all, good morning

[@CollinWestland]

Love the profile pic

[@Iplayquad]

The fact he (along with many others including me) think musescore is better than Finale is insane. I love musescore for caring so much and not selling out. Amazing team

[@gabegotmail2082]

Thanks, Tom.

[@Fishermhm]

In terms of sticking with Musescore, I've always used the Lyric method. If you press L while a note's selected you can put in a 'Lyric' for that note, so instead of words just use L & R for sticking. Space to move to next note, arrow keys to move back and forth.

[@kainpwnsu]

That solo went from good to EXCELLENT. 👌 Chops + wisdom

[@bandyboy6245]

I play trumpet and I could not read some of these rhythms but you do it so easily 😂 also some of the words go right over my head

[@chandlerturner3570]

Eric, you should try attaching a google doc to a post and make it to where fans submit there own cadences or solos that you have to perform. Then which ever one you like the best, you give them a prize of some sort.

[@benhernandez3853]

Ok to fix the sticking for musescore, you can click on one of the ones you want to change and go to the inspector on the right. Then move the y axis to where you want it, and set it as default by clicking the button to the right of it. This makes all sticking notations the same place as the on you set them too. Hope this helped a little!

[@turtlewarcry6321]

Yoooo my marching band regularly competes with Washington township, so cool to know you come from the area

[@markossmith8895]

I really don't get why this channel is so enthralling to watch. Last time I played a percussion instrument was middle school Still subbing

[@rbeezd1636]

I don’t play the the drums in band i play trumpet but i just love watching your videos 🎺🥁. I respect everyone in band percussion wood winds and other brass players

[@noahborgia6574]

thank you sir thomasson

[@BigJoee]

Thanks for recording, Tom!

[@tereya125]

For your sticking problem, try using the second verse for lyrics by pressing the down arrow on a sticking.

[@justanotherguardcoach]

Thank You Tom for recording this momentous occasion

[@waterbe3564]

Thanks for recording his solo Tom

[@brucejamilkowski2266]

Frickin' unbelievable. Take a second bow - you've earned it.

[@Sol-Lyra69]

12:13 is that the star from mario??

[@Skies6805]

Yes yes it is

[@iplaybadgames317]

i hear baby shark...

[@derekskidmore3319]

thank you tom for filming this

[@PuffyOne1898]

Good morning! Thank you, Tom 👏 👏👏

[@BxCortez2050]

Awesome that there are actually notes to play this ..i wish i study more

[@imnotchilla9482]

Thank you Tom, very cool!

[@danielnoboa554]

Imagine his past self finding this video in interdimentional youtube and having an epiphany of how godly good he gets in the future

[@Bigred13k]

Dude that was wicked awesome sticking 🤘🥁

[@hakkutheradiooctoling8178]

good morning eric! basically for the sticking that are in the measure, just choose that sticking, and where you see x and y, change the y so that it would be below the measure.

[@bradmuehlenbein]

21:38 “I’m gonna walk all the freaking way over here, obviously I’m done!” That cracked me up.

[@therickster8020]

Thank you so much Tom 💕

[@omarserrano3256]

😭😭🥀 beautiful

[@tobyprice7724]

At the end when you zoomed the camera in you should have made the camera shaky 😂

[@Skyliner_369]

12:01 I recognized that theme instantly. Starman... or wing cap... or intangibility... or metal... or... well you get my point.

[@weird0329]

“Then we got this part here let me see…” proceeds to play it perfectly ❤😂

[@tenzo1001]

Thanks Tom!

[@daviddotorg]

That 4 measure phrase sounds a lot like our school's kickoff pep song. It has the 3 on beat accents, 3 off-beat accents, then the 16th notes.

[@jonug1234]

That part that you talked about sounded like the song that plays when you get the gold star thing in super Mario

[@Matt-ud9op]

You have literally mastered the art of tenor drumming

[@carolinehaf21]

Adored watching this! Loved what you did with this but high school Eric still had some swag imo 😍

[@Jacob-fr8im]

Hi I'm not a percussionist but i still watch your channel and i think its amazing and someday i hope i could read percussion music(i mean the really complicated ones)

[@kevinbouffard9983]

The part you said to guess what price was from the solo was a remake of the drum solo too land of make believe by stevie wonder I think and I know this because I did it for jazz band at my middle school last year

[@jodywhite1971]

I love your channel. First of all, we look alike, except I got lasik a few years ago. I also played about as much quads as one could play between 1998 and 2006. I won PASIC solos in 2001 (HS) and 2006. I loved every bit the process of writing and performing them. Many years I’d start writing even 5 or 6 months in advance. Anyways, your channel is like a portal to my former life. I pretty much haven’t participated with marching percussion in 10 years. I started gigging, and just switched directions. It’s fun being a working drummer, but doesn’t have the “fighter pilot” feel of being able to fly on the quads...something I miss. Anyways, thanks for the content!

[@noahborgia6574]

21:50 for the magic

[@BobbySacamano]

Thank you, Tom

[@HalfHazzard]

10:04 I have that issue with sticking as well, from what I can tell it is Musescore 3.0's new feature "Automatic Placement" glitching out, which would explain why you placing a dynamic marking *kinda* fixes it. For sticking I usually do (Ctrl+l) which is technically "Lyrics" text, and unfortunately I will write one sticking, left-click it and de-select "automatic placement" for that one sticking in the inspector and then copy-paste it across a measure and change the hands if I need so they are all static and do not move anymore.

[@alexberra592]

Thank you camera man Tom

[@christianfroude4504]

Great work man!

[@owenorr532]

Good job young Eric👏

[@rucar4565]

I just watch 25 minutes about an instrument I don't even knew exists, but that solo was awesome

[@diondredunigan2583]

Am I the only one absolutely amazed that he can even read sheet music this fast like I struggle sigh reading on the flute and this is infinitely harder. I don't even know what to say-

[@Daveanyanwu]

I performed in MAPS also! Pennsauken High School

[@EEPELITE]

The damn smile in the sheet music

[@bluwolf098]

The last spock shot in the pad killed the rim because this was way too fire

[@GraduatedIn]

Well done. I love it it’s music to my ears! Ha

[@anthonyagbayani8205]

this made me get up and practice 🙌

[@bryanwiers6566]

He loves the word cool

[@leonardogonurb6740]

This is SOOO amazing!!!! I recently started to learn to play the I&E...AND I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE'S AND ENTIRE WORLD BEHIND THAT INSTRUMENT Edit: started to play* (sorry for my english)

[@1hotday1]

Awesome! Chops then, chops now, chops forever!

[@slightlyemojosh2810]

This Manz really out here putting the Nickelodeon theme in a freaking i&e solo. That’s my guess.

[@scsi2707]

👏you done good on the sweeps

[@king8of5drums]

I normally use "insert lyric" when writing in sticking in musescore. The "R" and "L" will be in the right spot and in line with the actual note. Hope this helps a bit

[@king8of5drums]

And you can use the right arrow to move to the next note so it makes the writing in the sticking go faster

[@ashtonallen5608]

You can also just press spacebar and it will move to the next note.

[@ashtonallen5608]

Command - L inserts lyrics

[@TylerDunphy]

If you're using ctrl +L (or on mac command +L) for the sticking everything should be just fine, I've never had that issue. Some people use the text function, but I prefer ctrl + L because it's like lyrics, so it stays at one constant height below the staff and it lines up with each note perfectly.

[@jay-rev]

‘walk all the wayover here cause it obvious,…..Im DONE’ loolololol

[@Jaelin_Showers]

This man need to start adding in a cool counter for how many times he says cool

[@seventh-seraph-cqc-1225]

12:12 it sound like the Mario star

[@dylancole5465]

Thanks Tom for filming this great solo we love you tom no homo

[@Dandaboi01]

Young Eric had the craziest chops

[@parkerpar10]

Flipping Amazing.

[@okey7261]

6:07 it looks like he's trying to put the sticks I'm the non existing stick bags. 🏚️

[@joncanaday7034]

Thank you Tom

[@TarGuzzler]

thank you tom for being drunk while you filmed this

[@optimum6664]

*THANK YOU TOM*

[@sbryan5133]

Me watching all the ads without skipping

[@Animefreakinfiniti7]

You need to use Ctrl+L (For Lyrics) to do sticking. It works from Note to note, it's cleaner and its less annoying lol

[@ducks_are_fun]

"Eighthlets also know as sixteenth notes." -Eric