Ranking Every Percussion Instrument (HARDEST to EASIEST)

[@thomas_lale]

Percussion: a mix of extremely easy and extremely difficult.

[@oscargill423]

They perfectly sum up all musical instruments: a minute to learn, a lifetime to master!

[@jamesmylife6578]

@@oscargill423 especially the triangle.

[@call_me_JJ]

True

[@keys-]

Sums it up perfectly

[@Drummer-ib8sm]

@@jamesmylife6578lol definitely

[@DJ-ov2it]

while the muller hammer might be mechanically easy, the pressure to get it absolutely perfect timing-wise and the attention that you get from everyone having to do it outshines most instruments entirely. thats literally the entire character of that hammer. to be so absurdly big and ridiculous that its CENTRAL in that one moment. So that alone makes it hard.

[@ouwebrood497]

Yes and you have to start moving the hammer at the right moment a few seconds in advance. I think the hammer should be a little bit higher.

[@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein]

Side note for trash/garbage can: The piece 'asphalt cocktail' by John Mackey has a garbage can part to it. Totally recommend listening if you haven't.

[@sachionang]

I KNEW someone would know that piece

[@alexanderdavlin]

so do almost all the songs off of the slipknot self-titled album

[@micahdavisonpercussion]

I'm (3 years late) to this party and I am delighted to say I, too, played the trash can part in Asphalt Cocktail. Unfortunately, you can barely hear it in the recording we did because our band is large and that piece is friggin' loud. I was beating the living hell out of it too. Oh well. 😂

[@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein]

@@micahdavisonpercussion 3 years late you are always still welcome! I'm honestly jealous, I wish I could've played Asphalt Cocktail when I was in band!

[@genoobscureseverything7415]

Imagine how confusing yet awesome it would be if your band instructor handed out a musical piece and I’m the top left corner it says “cannon.”

[@snickpickle]

Tschaikovski’s “1812 Overture,” my friend! (I’m saying this before watching the video, so maybe he mentions it? Listening to the football game first…)

[@adityashenoy3214]

My Band teacher Stopped the ENTIRE CLASS and them told me to come to the front. He then proceeded to play the triangle with the beater and missed, and missed, and everyone laughed. Then he said it hard because the triangle beater is super weird and small, which was the same thing i said :|. i don't like him very much

[@JBSacayanan]

Lol u said :| (repeat)

[@jacobh9344]

f

[@agarcjaydagreat8716]

to be fair...

[@paulblichmann2791]

It's too bad the word "Triangle" isn't dirty or this would be hilarious. I'm sure it is in other languages.

[@ZackGrooves]

Please stack 69 drum sets 😂😂 cymbals and all hahaha loved it!

[@SuppleButts]

I thought it would be more fun to stack 69 bodies/pp’s but either way.

[@pringlecantpvp6446]

ZackGrooves Oh I love your channel Zack. You make great videos.

[@macs8862]

Yuy

[@noahzielinski7812]

But it would be hard to stack 69 bace drums (consort ones)

[@alexwinchell2930]

my two favorite percussion youtubers in the same place

[@wyattjones8907]

I think marimba is harder than vibes due to how big your mallet intervals can get, reading in two clefs, playing in the bottom octave and top octave require very refined technique. Top three 1. Drum set 2. Timpani 3. Marimba

[@rambunctant556]

I agree with this top 3, although I do not enough timpani experience to personally confirm.

[@lunarbacongrill]

how is timpani harder than marimba?

[@Hyrum_Graff]

@@lunarbacongrillYou get four drums, each with a pedal to adjust the pitch, and have to play all the notes, whereas the marimba all the notes are there, you just need to hit the right one. Of course, I play the trumpet, so that's probably oversimplified/slightly inaccurate.

[@Temulgeh]

@@Hyrum_Graff timpani also has more tone variation depending on how you hit the drums. i do think marimba and vibraphone are harder than timp though but that's probably because i've practiced timp more

[@jchalad]

From my Marching band pit percussion, of the extra percussive instruments (nice to actually see a brake drum) we also had Fire bell, Crotales, Laser bells, and Chains. At least this is what i can remember from 20 years ago. I think our performances are on youtube. Let me know if you want a link.

[@whyrwehere]

I would like a link

[@sleeptokenaddict]

link pls

[@thedancingpickle6362]

We didn't use brake drum so our middle school percussion used a rail road tie and I was the one to use it😎

[@SerenityMusic3]

I want a link

[@echo3568]

Where da link at

[@amazngdrummr27]

Stack 69 FLUB DRUMS! Like so he sees. EHEheheheheheee!!

[@connorjones4895]

You are the best drummer ever

[@HedgieForHire]

Connor Jones AGREED

[@cartistan1925]

make another tutorial. i need another drumming tutorial

[@robpena9152]

69 tenors tho 👀

[@YouCrossedMyPath]

No one like, it's at 69 rn

[@luisn642]

Eric, I just wanted to say while I’m having my band class at the moment to have a good morning!

[@shirleymanis4802]

I had band a few hours ago 😃🥁🥁🥁

[@matthewtrinidad3587]

Same

[@thegreennate8156]

I had band an hour ago too

[@alesanchez8492]

are you guys having band class over zoom?

[@luisn642]

Ale Sanchez yes

[@jayemm7891]

One important factor that was not mentioned on here...... level of exposure of the instrument is makes it harder. For example, the slap stick should be higher than tamtam. Slap stick cuts over the top of EVERYTHING and played even a fraction of a 16th note off, it's really bad. Tamtam has that slow developing sound without a clear attack. If I were assigning parts, I'd give the most experienced percussionist the slap stick.... the total doofus n00b the tam-tam.

[@alextorresmusic]

Awesome comment bro!

[@creepysplatter9260]

Also don't give the kid who has no idea what he is doing the crash cymbals lol

[@lightningj8954]

When i was a freshman I was given the slapstick part to sleigh ride...

[@Berry-mj9mp]

How many slide Whistles can you play at one time

[@maxmeszaros9527]

exactly what I was thinking. 69 slide wistles

[@the_sockdolager]

All of them.

[@FunnyVidsFor-U]

69 exactly no More no less

[@vicentehizon6202]

Yes

[@Berry-mj9mp]

Too easy

[@lukespielman]

Is the air guitar a percussion instrument

[@samuelmartinez141]

Given you using your mouth to make the noise but have no actual physical material making noise, its more of a singing method. I think

[@-perge]

@@samuelmartinez141 I feel like using the voice to imitate non-human sounds falls under beatboxing. And saying beatboxing isn't percussion is wrong and illegal.

[@samuelmartinez141]

@@-perge although anything that uses striking or hitting technique is considered percussion, there are a bunch of minor instruments that fall under the percussion category. beatboxing is vocal percussion. It falls under both of those categories. Air guitar is not the only air "instrument." Others include air drums, piano, and basically any other instrument that may be imitated. Since any other instrument may be imitated by "air" and vocals, air guitar would fall under vocals and strings instruments. Not percussion.

[@martymcfly2801]

Yes

[@evetui]

I would love to see a giant stack of amor guitars

[@garrisonjohnson8399]

One year we had a Latin music Field Show, back then my friend and I were in the pit. There was a cowbell part that was identical to the snare part, but the catch is there was 32nd notes for the part and he had to play it all on one hand because we didn’t have a stand for the cowbell. As a 14 year old percussionist jsut coming into highschool that’s hard to do and be in time.

[@MongerOfStrings8222]

Couldn't he have put the stick inside the Cowbell and wiggled it around?

[@charlesarnold2404]

I thought you were gonna be wholesome and put all the instruments in S tier with the message that all percussion is fun and important no matter which instrument you are playing

[@collinschrimpf840]

I play bari sax and Idk why but I am so fascinated with this channel, I could watch for hours

[@skylarrainer7941]

Same! Bari fam

[@pumbaplays396]

I play the flute and I watch him

[@nochannel1q2321]

I've played anvil. There's actually technique to it: rapidly pulling the hammer off to avoid dampening the ring, striking the correct part of the anvil to get the best ring, etc. It's not crazy difficult and a lot of the stuff carries over from timpani and glock.

[@debzfiedler6100]

I'm also a Sax player (primarily Tenor, but also the others), who recently had major oral surgery. So I am currently learning (on-the-job) how to assist with percussion, as I can't toot my horn for a while. It's been an eye-opening (and humbling) experience so far!

[@Happythonk]

Remember when Eric stacked a tenor vertically and hit all of the rims before smacking the snare on the drum set? He should stack 69 tenors vertically on a drum set, and rent a crane and someone to operate it so he can smack all of the rims from top to bottom.

[@Tyrrlin]

LoL, I love that you have cannons! When we did cannons in the Army, we had to use the salute battery, not our percussion section. If you get the likes, I'd love to see a stack of Crotales (my favorite) SINCE YOU DIDN'T HAVE THEM ON THE LIST!

[@zilikam2nd433]

The slide whistle is a fipple flute closer related to the tin whistle or recorder. It's not a Percussion instrument, just an instrument that percussionists are sometimes required to play.

[@MongerOfStrings8222]

I'm a drummer (mostly rock) who's still pretty new to aux stuff but I think Congas are the most daunting thing I've come across in terms of technique

[@danswaggin]

Dude you need to discover (and build) yourself the classic Australian instrument known as the Lagerphone. You take a stick, wood pole or mop handle and nail several hundred beer bottle caps to it. Can be all at once shaken, tapped on a wooden floor or box for your beat and at the same time hit with a shorter stick with your other hand for rhythm. I’ve built a few. You get the goodness of firstly drinking the beers and creative freedom of playing many percussion parts at once, all in the convenience of a stick.

[@psychedahlia]

Last year my band did an event where we went around to the four elementary schools that eventually feed into my highschool. I play cymbals and we were wearing t shirts and I ended up with a bunch of welts on my arm from being pinched by my cymbals.

[@nattyj8039]

I actually had to make a marching machine for high school band - it still exists (though could get restrung) and my now students (while not a band director) are all so excited to know who helped make it.

[@drumset09]

Well, I've played 69 of them - err, 61. I didn't play a cannon, but I simulated it with two muzzle loading rifles packed with 200 grains of pyrodex and blanks. Sounded like a small cannon. I'd put the suspended cymbal just below claves, and bump the mallet stuff above tenors and below timpani. If you don't think suspended cymbal is hard, you haven't been playing the right kinds of music. Wicked has a fantastic suspended cymbal part. Other than that, I'd more or less agree with rankings on everything (plus or minus 0.69 move up/down)

[@txth6051]

as a suspended cymbal player myself it can be an integral part to a piece and not very hard to do wrong

[@Finetales]

TIL bar chimes are correctly called a mark tree, and the thing I thought was a mark tree is actually a bell tree. Thanks EMC (and post-video Wikipedia)!

[@ashtonallen5608]

Emc: Concert Bass Drum is really easy Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Am I a Joke to you?

[@stevenhatcher9133]

stack 69 of the blurred out one

[@oscargill423]

I don't think I've ever seen a tier list video where the creator encourages others to make their own order. This tier video is officially S-tier.

[@dragonfire101g]

I remember playing Aggogo bells for a song called “Swahili Folk Hymn”, it’s a beginner piece but I’ve played xylo, aggogo, and clarinet for that song and they’re all really fun

[@taflhols278]

Well, I think you should check out the use of zils (finger cymbals) in mideastern music. Also, check out playing the riq--the middle eastern tambourine. There's quite a bit involved with each.

[@brandonking1737]

When my band played Angels in the Architecture a couple years ago, one of the whirlies broke right at the end of the piece, so the piece ends with the crash of the whirlie hitting the floor.

[@carmensandiego6922]

going off the water gong, for one of our shows we took some of the chimes off and dunked them in 5 gallons buckets of water. our shows theme was Bent, like bent pitches. idk how they got all the water on and off the field each time lol, but it was a cool effect.

[@moax_the_hoax]

HES USING THE TIER LIST WRONG AHHHHHHH

[@christinashelby6083]

I gotta admit, as much of a Twosetter as I am (that's how I found you), I was kind of disappointed in their triangle of triangles. You could definitely do better!

[@Vitamin_D_]

Trash cans are a percussion instrument. When I was in 6th grade, my band director made is percussionist play a piece called Fresh Trash which was played on trash cans.

[@corbinaderprod]

A kid in my school made a 20 ft tall slapstick

[@garminkid]

I LOVE Angels in the Architecture!! Playing it in high school junior year was amazing.

[@lunamcgrath3266]

Taiko Drums need to be Wwaaaaaaay higher. Taiko ensembles are really really legit

[@keshv3883]

i feel like quads should be above timpani but im probably biased cuz im on tenor. Marimba should be above vibraphone i think, cuz when i was in pit the marimbas had insane runs and we only had kinda insane runs. I feel like the water cups should be higher too, if you ever watch the turkish march video its insane

[@Kentthe.]

Good argument but you have to have more playing zones in Timpani and (possibly) more drums.

[@originsdemise]

How do you forget the timpani in a list of 69 percussion instruments??? Awesome video, btw!

[@LearningmyAbcs558]

he didnt...

[@lonely_ghost9857]

9:20 AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! YES THE TONGUE DRUM! As much as i have NO IDEA what the notes are i just play for fun and it makes me happy

[@Altoclarinets]

S tier: The traditional canon of marching and concert percussion, things any experienced percussionist is expected to be highly proficient with A tier: Difficult non-traditional instruments B tier: The easy and slightly less common traditional instruments and the non-traditional instruments that are fairly common and respectable C tier aka WTF tier: I only recognize 3 of these and have only actually seen two of them used in an ensemble D tier: Toy box, the ones that get the maniacal grins going when they show up on the score E tier: Elementary school music class, just needs sandblocks F tier: "Auxiliary Percussion" part that gets handed to the guy in the section who can't keep a beat well enough to play a traditional instrument and always takes 3/4 of the class period to get set up

[@MountainPieEnjoyer]

One time my entire section was absent and had to play 11 or so instruments at once for auxiliary percussion. (I think it was the ratchet, flexatone, sleigh bells, tambourine, suspended cymbal, crash cymbal, temple blocks, wind chimes, triangle, and bell tree) We're not all bad, I also play Snare for Marching Band. Do you get instruments from what you want? Our teacher kinda just assigns them randomly.

[@Altoclarinets]

@MountainPieEnjoyer I am a clarinetist, but at my highschool drumline and pit mallets/keyboards had to audition onto their instruments, and the rest would be put on rack type parts in the pit or be alternates whose primary duty was moving equipment If you only have one person doing several auxiliary parts, yeah that's pretty impressive! But the fact that one person can realistically cover all of them at once proves they're not that difficult when assigned one to a part!

[@connormclaughlin2673]

Just did my first concert. We are a small band (about 15 people) I am percussion and I had to play 4 different instruments in the same song multiple times over with quick switches (within 1.5 measures or less) It was definitely stressful as shit

[@willow_and_morel]

me in my percussion pieces playing 9 instruments and swapping mid measure because my part was made for 3 people not 1

[@ifmyworldwasreal1068]

I play/have played snare (concert snare and marching snare), glockenspiel, marimba, and concert bass drum!! And others those are just the main-

[@extrabingo10]

Been here since 20k, just want to say keep up the awesome content! Really enjoying it

[@tyb-largo7360]

Hey! I’m in highschool band and one of our favorite cadences, False hype, is what you used for the outro. When I herd the count off it surprised me a ton, awesome cadence! (I’m a bass drum)

[@rhyhood9328]

bass drums can't type on KZbin you liar

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

If you had to stack any one of these instruments, imma say stack some cymbals. I already love the sound of cymbal stacks (especially the Istanbul Clap Stack), so a 69-strong cymbal stack would be SUPER DRY

[@nino-ciampa]

Eric you should make a video where you play a piece of music using all of the instruments in this video

[@Kalamari386]

That censored photo is actually the album cover for a death grips album called “no love deep web”

[@Garfungus27]

someone noticed...

[@playing_jazz]

Conga chops are pretty comparable to tenor as well. I'd say because more injury risk and more techniques it's harder. You still need every rudiment and you need them across all five drums in a solo set up WITH all of the techniques. Doubles and slaps man?? Really the three kinds of different technique slaps the bata, open and closed are distinct beasts.

[@diegolara6652]

to be honest the rain stick can be a bit difficult especially if you need to have it be very smooth and consistent for long periods of time, look up Stormbreak and Dance, that beginning part (I’ve played) wasn’t hard but it wasn’t easy either

[@paulblichmann2791]

A real pro dual-wielding rainsticks is a thing to behold.

[@davidmcaninch4714]

As a man who loves and plays the drumset, I thank you for putting that at number one. You got yourself a subscriber. That said, I try to avoid keyboard percussion instruments because I can’t read music to save my life, and I tend to have a hard time with key changes. I’ll just say this: I’m not good at piano.

[@LetsGoToTheHeaven]

You should play some samba to figure out how hard cuicas anda tambourines (pandeiros) really are. And keep up with the good content, I'm not a percussionist but I enjoy your channel.

[@playing_jazz]

All the "latin" musicians I always know are always in awe of good pandeiro players. My progress has been slow as shit it's tricky. Seeing brazilians play melodies on cuica I can only imagine how hard it would be.

[@playing_jazz]

Id say he didn't give enough props to güiro either dominicans and puerto ricans tear them up.

[@nochannel1q2321]

@@playing_jazz Tambourines are crazy difficult to get really good with. Rolls, exact positions for striking, how to move them to keep them on beat, etc.

[@playing_jazz]

@@nochannel1q2321 definitely. Have you seen this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmmmooGfprCqh9E ? It's absolutely insane how far you can take friction rolls beyond thumb rolls even. There's also that great orchestral video that shows how their percussionist interprets the folk rhythm that are being represented with different kinds of frame drum techniques. Which brings up middle eastern frame drums with jingles and EVEN more shit you have to learn to the the king of the tambourine.

[@InsaneCoasterJunkie]

EMC: Timpani and cymbals are S Tier/very difficult Me: What? This is too easy

[@KyleTheCadet]

BRUH

[@ricardoalmeida986]

Percussion Instruments Here's the list: 1- Triangle 2- Tambourine 3- Snare Drum 4- Hammer 5- Octa Bonds 6- Agogô Bells 7- Bass Drum/ Kick Drum/ Pedal Drum 8- Belltree 9- Slide Whistle 10- Bongos 11- Congas 12- Tenor drums 13- Glockenspiel 14- Boomwhackers 15- Brake Drums 16- Cabasa 17- Whirly 18- Shaker 19- Marimba 20- Gong 21- Cajon 22- Cowbell 23- Cannon 24- Castanets 25- Timpani/ Kettledrum 26- Rain Stick 27- Ocean Drum 28- Vibraphone 29- Ratchets 30- Claves 31- Cuica 32- Cymbals 33- Djembe 34- Drums/ Drumkit/ Drum set 35- Finger symbols 36- Flexatone 37- Crystal Glasses 38- Gawk block 39- Tongue Drum 40- Guiro 41- Trash Can 42- Suspended Cymbal 43- Hi- Hat 44- Handbell 45- Kalimba ( Mbira) 46- Slapsticks 47- Whip 48- Surdo (Floor Tom) 49- Log Drum 50- Maracas 51- Marching Machine 52- Xylophone 53- Woodblock 54- Taiko Drum 55- Mark Tree 56- Shekere 57- Tom Tom (High Tom/ Low Tom) 58- Sleigh Bells 59- Steel Drum ( Steel Pan) 60- Wind Machine 61- Thunder Sheet 62- Temple Blocks 63- Timbales 64- Waterphone 65- Water Gong 66- Vibra Slap 67- Tubular Bells 68- Peepee

[@claib430]

As a drummer, (drum set player) I am very happy with this list.

[@kid_tyrant66.6]

I remember one time we didn’t have a front ensemble for our show so the percussion section had some of the aux parts and when we were chilling during our break I hit the other kid with the viber slap over the end and with the funny noise it makes we all were dying.

[@ouwebrood497]

I think both the wind machine and the thunder have to be tiered higher. The wind machine has quite some expression to it and you have to make that work as a percussionist (Don Quichotte R. Strauss or Daphnis et Chloe Ravel for example). You're not there if you just turn the handle. I don't know much about the thunder, but at least both shaking and striking produce sound, so that already makes it harder dan eg the whip. Anyway: stack 69 thunders please.

[@ElgatoEvade]

This dude just gave a triangle a s? IM SO PROUD OF THIS MAN

[@kisterdrums]

As a drum set player I never would’ve thought that it would be harder than marimba?

[@Denverdarbuka]

I'd put the vibes ahead of tenors for 3 reasons. 1. 4 mallet, 2. Sometimes we have to bow them which is weird, 3. Mallet dampening

[@frigow1899]

"Lion Roar sounds cooler than cuica" Brazilians: TRIGGERED

[@chuckjenkins9544]

I’m happy to see that all the drumline instruments are in the top row

[@LearningmyAbcs558]

same with most pit instruments (besides rack) and that mkes me happy

[@Milkman740]

I should have watched this before buying a drumkit. I could have been rocking out on the big stage with a rainstick instead of still being locked in a basement practising :D

[@chloeflores8683]

Hello! I enjoyed this a lot. I am a percussion major and I am in my sophomore year this was fun to watch. I haven’t even played all of these instruments also where are the crotales? They seem like pretty cool instruments even if sometimes they are ear piercing.

[@johnbowen5977]

Hey Eric, my birthday is tomorrow and I'm a percussionist as well

[@tacoknightakathestrangeman3258]

Hey eric just wanted to say thanks for the upload, i wanted to show my music teacher a new competitor in the music war

[@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein]

Flexatone is literally the only one I can't get a good sound out of

[@TheHolonConcept]

"The canon is an instrument." "WTF is a kilometer?!" Same energy 😂

[@connqraymond963]

One time at my church the lady who is kinda the director of the choir made us play jingle bells with hand bells. And we were like 8 at the time and we all had a certain note and it was terrible. When we played in front of everyone everybody was forgetting their parts and it was off time and just overall bad. At least it was kinda cool I guess not really.

[@dominicfrizzi2563]

I really wanna see pearl tenors stacked up, even if it is just the individual drums

[@andyzavala2349]

3:21 - Eric, how could you make a common mistake? After watching all those Expert Village videos, you should know that they are called Coongas?!?!! Jk just the first words that popped into my head when you said Congas

[@kisterdrums]

We played angels in the architecture two years ago and it was so cool lol. I didn’t get to play a whirly but I got to sub in for one sometimes

[@g-man8151]

I play way to much percussion in my school so i love these videos

[@danielmorris7926]

A five octave Marimba. Please and Thank you

[@SlyHikari03]

You forgot about the Udu (the pot thing) and several other world percussion instruments. Also, stacking 69 taikos would be bonkers.

[@averycontagiousmeal]

bonk

[@SlyHikari03]

@@averycontagiousmealB O N K

[@anders9127]

You should listen to Forge of Vulcan by Micheal Sweeney. It has very amazing dynamics and it has trash cans too.

[@irinuta-lucianaroca4728]

Felicitări pentru acest videoclip.

[@BenKirb]

12:13 I agree. Mark trees should not be called wind chimes or bell trees.

[@IparIzar]

I'd like to see you rate the Txalaparta. Maybe a reaction video to a concert? That's up to you.

[@johndennison2769]

Bongos and congas need to be higher. I think congas should be around drum set if not higher. Just look up any professional conga player like Giovanni Hidalgo. Thanks for the video! Oh yeah stack 69 marching bass drums

[@vernonbaros1195]

Yup took me years just to get a good slap

[@daniel_k_music]

Fun fact: Dr Will Rapp let my HS borrow one of his authentic handmade log drum and some idiot BROKE IT and I'm not totally sure what the resolution was

[@cressidalia2582]

Oh god I'm not ready for another KZbin war

[@DocRoblox]

Percussionists forever!!

[@playing_jazz]

Tambourines hard as shit man. Pandeiro technique to proper samba speed seriously one of the most difficult things in percussion. I'd put it above bass for sure. Thumb roll sure isn't bad but there's way way more.

[@emmettsimon9487]

Ah yes my favorite percussion instrument. Death grips' no love deep web.

[@marktegrotenhuis]

Mark tree? I'm used to calling that bar chimes.

[@JPINFV]

I wish I could find pictures of it, but my high school's marching band did a weather themed show with 8 ft tall thunder sheets... However they were also field props as well. It was circa fall 2001, so unfortunately I can't find any pictures.

[@violao206]

The tambourine is certainly more complicated in the right hands and if it is a Brasilian Pandeiro (tambourine-like instrument) it is infinitely more complex to play. It is literally a drum set in your hands. Samba patterns are incredibly technical and can be fatiguing as hell too. For reference find any classic Airto Moreira recordings that illustrate the instrument in a Mestre's (master's) hands.

[@linktheboi]

Ahh someone who appreciates my marching cymbal pain

[@t0mmygunmusic510]

Triangle is unironically one of the hardest percussion instruments to master.

[@colincharmley6858]

Well, The slide whistle is indeed a percussion instrument. Because my band class has the slide whistle in the percussion stock droor.

[@Broderick-d7u]

The tenor drums are actually called the Quad

[@sethsimpson16]

There is only one 'instrument' on the board that is actually dangerous...The cannon. I recall it was All Saints Day, Nov. 1, 1970, and the Saints were in the middle of losing a game, 30-17, to the Rams. The halftime show at Tulane Stadium featured a reenactment of the Battle of New Orleans. A cannon backfired, blowing three fingers off one of the pseudo-soldiers. Do one thing out of sequence and disaster will strike... That alone should move it way up on the list.

[@theodord9551]

i want to see 69 drumkits stacked on top of each otherrr

[@daviddrums2079]

Just glad that snare made it to S tier. Harder than timpani though. Timpani is pretty straightforward for me

[@brandonhedrick4309]

actually saw a stomp show in new york after my music teacher showed us

[@thomasbrooks29]

Me and my friend have called the castenets "clam clappers" since 8th grade

[@dkgentertainment1923]

Hot take: both the agogo and the timbales should be higher. I would put agogo just below triangle because of Latin rhythmic patterns and timbales just below Cajon because while they aren’t as complicated in technicality, they essentially operate as a drumset in Latin styles of music. The timbalero (timbale player) guides the tempo and feel of a Latin tune.

[@A.F.Whitepigeon]

What about the carillon? It looks pretty hard to me, especially since you can't really practice it in private. Also, you should stack 69 timpani because I want to see if you can get them all to balance and also if you can do it without damaging wny of the heads and also also if you can manage to get your hands on that many timpani.

[@melon4249]

there are practice carillon rigs, but it is very difficult