20 Memes, Trolls, and Pranks for Drummers

[@EMCproductions]

What memes, trolls, and pranks do you want to see next?

[@DesertDuc]

Used to play iPhone ring tones on marimba randomly to see who would grab their phone, the people that did have their phones with them (even if they were on silent) usually got in trouble, lol. Also used to sneak behind the concert bass and play thumb-rolls to encourage that impending sense of dread in unsuspecting flautists. I got so good at thumb rolls I became my school's principle tambourine player. Winning. Also would randomly bow various metallics. Impending sense of dread, so on so forth.

[@johnbroe]

You should play the world's longest solo on a drum set.

[@quackstere]

i find a lot of memes you can play on tenors are very funny because nobody expects it at least not in my band. crab rave and we are number one are 2 of my favorites to play

[@zabooka]

hi

[@NamelessArtists]

Rush e

[@Goalie29]

Good morning! This is video number 53 of me asking Eric to make a set of tenors out of differently sized or tuned snare drums.

[@kh6li]

great idea

[@azxtnt]

He said he would do it once he can afford it

[@ducks_are_fun]

Yes please

[@dinkindane]

He kinda did that in the Ottomotone spiritual

[@hgt_sr7034]

Didn’t he do that in the otamatone spiritual???

[@Haze_XD]

I'm a quad drummer in 4th grade, this is top tier memes, trolls etc especially the pink guy with the fireman hat's voice makes me cracked up, and the way he laughs is killing me (yes cracking and killing me at the same time(

[@Qythero]

Steven is slowly becoming a villain and I love it

[@SALEENS7GTR5]

SSCU Steven Sassafras Cinematic Universe

[@hughneutron5303]

@@SALEENS7GTR5 that's steven's evil twin stephen sassaphras

[@amazngdrummr27]

I usually nail those Hi-Moms every time, I swear!

[@bandthings]

It's the amazngdrummr27!! MY HERO!🥺🥺

[@pulsar-_-4504]

have you ever said hi to ur mom tho???

[@bandthings]

@@pulsar-_-4504 i havent:)

[@j-drummer9132]

Sure u did Steven

[@ethanol3800]

LOL!

[@SALEENS7GTR5]

My college line instructor/writer had a great time confusing us by throwing in random bars of the 5/4 Mars lick into nearly every piece of music we played, as well as an entire sideline drum jig that was just Mars repeated.

[@macerunner4674]

thats kinda hilarious

[@DennisJohnsonDrummer]

@@macerunner4674 Guilty as charged. I overused the Mars 5/4 lick as well.

[@creamyhummus]

That arrangement of Megolovania was unironically spectacular lol

[@Garrett7789]

Our pit meme was very of the time. We would play “I write sins not tragedies” from Panic at the disco. Sound kind of cool when you have like 4 marimbas pounding the power chords.

[@RedDogMamaHD]

Hey I love your new Mr Krabs temple blocks! 2:22

[@Garrett7789]

Hey real talk though. You might be onto something with the snare under the marimba. It’s an interesting sound if you could get it just in the bass notes. Could write a whole piece around that.

[@jacobhanekamp2534]

Here’s a fun one. For this, you need to have access to Timpani that have a fine tuner knob. These are common on Timpani that utilize a clutch on the Tuner Pedal that is designed to help hold a specific pitch and eliminate the chances of the pitch increasing or decreasing at random. All you do is either turn the tuner all the way to the right, or all the way to the left. The next person will hop on and be surprised to learn that the pedal positions for their notes had changed. I did this completely on accident to a colleague in my Studio, and although he wasn’t too happy, the simple fix is to turn the Fine Tuner until the pitches match what they were before.

[@MuriKakari]

My Sharona was a meme and a college near me had a song that included random measures of 5/4 , 9/8, etc. which always occurred after enough simple 4/4 measures to get the cheerleaders clapping along.

[@pigeon4422]

thanks I went back to play my drumset for a bit for the first time in a while after seeing this and it was honestly the most fun I've had on an instrument in a long time

[@sowirmango5572]

"Bb please" My brother in christ, thats an A.

[@Tophadoodledoo]

Missed my all time favorite: shifting the accidentals on the marimbas. When it works, the confusion of the marimba player is priceless.

[@bigboiinanut9967]

Omg thats evil

[@alexthehuman163]

When the teacher is thinking or pausing the band, I like to play the Jeopardy! theme.

[@danielhughesmusic]

interesting detail about the moon theme, the first few measures are in 15/16. (They're essentially missing a 16th note)

[@brandonking1737]

Colin McNutt also writes percussion for my old band, so we get our fair share of McNutt specials...

[@Airlo-rk8wj]

Funny thing is that Collin McNutt was actually the percussion judge for one of my mb comps this year.

[@aspoon1]

Any of the ringtones involving marimba make for a good prank

[@NATcha94]

man work sucks but #8 totally brought me back to life. love you eric

[@colincrenshaw9482]

Says tune to Bb, proceeds to tune to A

[@Jòśíäħ]

LOLLL

[@moyamedia9]

What about the Sleigh Ride slapstick in the conductor's ear?

[@MuriKakari]

One of our snare drummers and the tenor sax scored the Naruto theme song on muse score and tried to get the band to learn it. Also, the saxophones played veggie tales during the third quarter and the football coach complained to the band director.

[@ferretyluv]

WHICH Naruto theme song? There’s like 20! Fighting Dreamers?

[@MuriKakari]

​@@ferretyluv Naruto Main Theme

[@excuses6016]

Hi emc most of my high schools drumline watches you and it’s fun to try and replicate the things you do

[@box3229]

Half of My high schools drumline doesn’t like him because they all think he is nerd Most band kids in my school are potheads

[@ferretyluv]

@@box3229But all band kids are supposed to be nerds. Do they not see the hypocrisy?

[@box3229]

@@ferretyluv my school is a whole different story, I am one of the very few who act like a band kid. While the rest of the band finds me annoying

[@ferretyluv]

@@box3229 Wow, they sound like douche bags. Fuck them. You’re awesome. Keep being you.

[@CoolDudeClem]

4:02 How modern music is made.

[@JamesThatcher]

11:11 nah... we're fine... we all learned how to cycle breathe years ago... that's the only way we could keep from going bored while you were off playing 8 on a hand for the 5000th time....

[@djmoosie7237]

#11 Was really funny cause I’m actually playing Yellow After The Rain for a recital 😭 💚

[@johnbroe]

Brilliant, excellent, amazing, sassafrasling, ergonomicon, illasaurus recks, infinity and beyondicide, metal gear sorid, and tricks are for kids. Very good.

[@ProudMAGAFan]

This guy's videos bring me back to the old youtube, the good youtube

[@RedDogMamaHD]

3:10 Kyle the Cadet!!! EPIC!

[@katharinemay4040]

When I marched SCV, whenever someone did anything extra stupid, the center snare would tap off the Poison lick and everyone within earshot would play the last note as loud as they could or tap it somewhere on their body. The few times he did it to the box were the best.

[@rithikv9816]

9:13 bro popped his flam 💀💀

[@theclimbingchef]

You should dona video of all your instruments and how much they cost. As a former oboist, I thought 5k for a loree was pretty standard in the pro level series minus the strad level heritage series. I can't imagine that the marimba is cheap

[@JPINFV]

This is always the surprising thing with indoor percussion. At some point someone had to say, "You know what... let's take a bunch of teens and give them access to $50k+ worth of instruments. You know what's an even better idea? Have said teens run with the instruments because we've minimized set up and tear down time to maximize show time. Surprisingly enough... very little actually goes wrong.

[@theclimbingchef]

@@JPINFV 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sheevpalpatine4413]

When I was in band our band director would often give us songs with NO PERCUSSION(❗️❗️❗️) so we would goof off back there. When we were juniors and seniors the freshman band had rehearsal right after we did, so we loosened the straps on the crash cymbals, so they would fall off. We were evil. Additionally we would mess the timpani up for them. We got detention once for doing the “tuba knight” thing with a sousaphone bell.

[@grimproductions1174]

Steven is just an absolute menace at this point

[@Damian_Wyane]

A person in my school band played the PH intro during our area concert

[@Ethang1103]

I remember back in 2019 when Eric was reading awkward band moments and had no idea what Megalovania was😂

[@Leonlion0305]

idk if this is consider a drummer meme, but whenever my school play zombie nation at football stand, the tenor would do paradiddles down the drums at the 4th measure of the famous chorus. Also, tenor can definitely play Mario and Tetris theme song

[@brythkaltaris]

4:43 except for that time when it's your school's fight song XD

[@tannerlebo9862]

0:00 I love you Eric, but f*ck you, f*ck you, f*ck you, hahahaha. I always played that when I was on the vibes and made my friends get in trouble once lmaooo

[@ethanbrown6352]

I like how your marimba sounds Ours a extremely resonant, and its a bit off putting sometimes It sounds cool in slower music But when it comes to faster melodic stuff, playing different notes quickly kind of muddles the tone in my opinion because you can hear the previous notes still on top of the notes you're currently playing It's like when you play the bass, and you don't mute the previous note, yknow Everything just gets in the way

[@samoliver9132]

The McNutt special is not what I was expecting 🌺

[@shloman_j3582]

"ill get it this time!" *misses* *"AAAEUUGGHH"*

[@armourofcontempt]

Tim and Eric Awesome Drum Great Job

[@zanmolecules4105]

1:47 this brings me back to my childhood

[@JLogz418]

This is a band directors worst nightmare Coming from a band director who is also a percussionist

[@Apollo_2763]

Fun fact: EMCproductions actually made the original meme remix back in 2014!

[@BSKY4907]

If your gonna do a “Drums are never animated correctly…right?” Part 7, you should really check out the KISS X scooby-doo crossover

[@garminkid]

I like the Nitro, Volcano, and Hersheypark stickers 😃

[@BDubs0610]

I had to play Wipeout for a concert, when I got the part I thought it was really hard, but then I went through the piece and it wasn’t that hard, I then played Wipeout (because it the beat was just a small part of a larger piece) and I loved how simple it was 😂😂😂

[@ragomtb]

"Still not done! Still Not done!" Me: We will we will ROCK YOU!

[@No_Me_Hables]

9:57 Bro I almost died of laughter😂

[@GabrielSiloterio]

Give this guy 1,million subs

[@Alex-ix2zu]

I remember watching AGT with my grandma and I saw you I was like heyyy I watch him on KZbin

[@popeyesailor9571]

Wipeout but with paradiddles and the one thing I always hated hearing in the 70s "can you play Hawaii Five-O?"

[@BrainsAndBeats_]

Legend says they still aren’t done. It’s just a half note rest for the final power chord

[@Ryans.instruments]

Poor Steven, 2 years and he still can't play the hi-mom

[@drdrums1]

Nice reference to Yellow After the Rain!

[@theautisticdoomgod]

I feel bad for those trumpets and trombones. Because they're STILL NOT DONE. Edit: I forgot to include Mellophones, Baritones, maybe Cornets/Flugelhorns, and Tubas.

[@BestANT832]

3:20 Fun fact: he's saying: *"Not My King!"*

[@mrhalfbacon]

Playing the original Mario theme so many times

[@forteka81]

That duck tales was really awesome..

[@xbiomsvlogs3770]

Are we not gonna mention how talented he is to play ALL these instruments

[@_ed21]

Best part 😂 07:41 👇

[@shadowcobragaming5364]

The rugrats one brought back memoriws

[@iriu2403]

Dang the precision!

[@BeatCarrier]

I love how the mii theme at 1:30 takes a schizophrenic turn about halfway though

[@leemcd56]

I waited the entire video for the McNutt Special. Was not disappointed.

[@thepuppetboy87]

Not really a meme but we have this inside joke of “Cody that’s a gong!” And practicing 4 mallet with pencils

[@snickpickle]

The only thing missing in “still not done” is a pitch bend downward as the brass pass out

[@Jazzy5989]

In my 6th grade percussion class my percussion teacher played that exact flam video

[@Rusli1659LPSoldier]

0:15 same first 5 notes from Master of Puppets. 7:18 wait, Where did I get the exact same snare sound as this?

[@Jazzy5989]

My first year of percussion my teacher showed me the grace note video.😂 also, he hates the McDonald’s theme song

[@armourofcontempt]

I understand almost nothing, but I love it.

[@ShrikerN955MG]

Merry had a little lamb over and over during practice

[@Mayhxmmmm]

We’re allll excited and waiting for Things drumline kids (and techs) say 3

[@tboneboi]

I think it's funny that my band director has officially banned the use of megalovania in anything band related, and that's the first one on this list.

[@Person-bp7qk]

i literally love ur drumset is soooo pretty

[@wyattthewafflefry3485]

Start of winter season and some random ass flute player says he’s gonna be center snare

[@noamdrums3764]

The Best Video on KZbin!

[@kode1841]

The most effective prank is to send their music to the underworld 😁

[@P1kaSans]

nice of you to put my theme song first ;)

[@ethanol3800]

“Okay! B flat please!” *plays A*

[@Hans5958]

At least Steven didn't take an hour for that shot

[@Hans5958]

I just came from his upload on his channel and I am disappointed that Steven took at least 24 hours for that shot.

[@Potato_the_third]

Big country has led to many shenanigans in my schools front ensemble…

[@Sheepish16]

this kid in my high school ensemble won't stop playing this song 😅

[@TrojanManSCP]

Really dating yourself with the Rugrats Theme. We played that all the time in HS over two decades ago. lolz

[@PoshDinosaur702]

Crab rave next please, one of the other freshmen would not stop playing it our freshman year

[@oh_rip_6783]

Yellow after the Rain

[@Benny-Thunder]

My favorite way to troll is to ask whoever I like the least in the band to stand in front of the speaker, and then I play the loudest sample with the volume all the way up.

[@Fl1pdOver]

2:21 aka the "before class"

[@fl1ppR]

8:15 This is for all the Enemy Chasers out there that are Hardstuck in Gold from watching Chilling Smite xD.

[@syobonactionfan]

Hey Eric, may i know your drumstick brand you use while playing marching stuff?

[@BigMack06]

6:16 hey, what song is the marimba playing?

[@MisavengersHQ]

Is there going to be a marching madness this year?

[@connorsmith9597]

I don’t know what it is about wipeout but I just finished 8th grade and the younger classes worshiped me because I could play it 😂

[@rakninja]

this works really good for me, my good friend is a drummer, and i play recorder.

[@DennisJohnsonDrummer]

Just don't play Careless Whisper on the saxophone and we'll be happy!

[@gc1215]

video 31 of asking EMC to make a video of him playing the Rock Band game series