This Drumline got a PERFECT SCORE (Ep. 2)

[@sebastianw2075]

As a senior who just played this show a couple of months ago, I have to say, it was incredible. From how we started that season, the initial excitement from the ideas being thrown at us, to that night. It’s insane. It truly did feel like a coma back story though. From being a point or two behind in prelims, to less than a point in semis, to that night at finals. I still cannot believe that it actually happened. From 15th my freshman year in the A drumline (yes, Avon did have both), to that special night. That’s one moment in my life that I am confident I will never forget. Watching this video did put a smile on my face. So much work went into it, and I’m happy that we were able to pull it off. By the way, I was one of the center 4 marimbists

[@kerrychen3015]

dang good job, I wish to be part of program that good day one day lol

[@bitseketse]

me too

[@kerrychen3015]

@@bitseketse who is bitseketse, what a dumb name I cant imagine having this name

[@jmanderson8801]

I saw y’all perform a couple hours after my school did, and everyone fucking LOVED your show, including me lol

[@TwinkyyVR]

I actually know Sebastian in person

[@ZackGrooves]

Woah!!! This is the most incredible thing I’ve seen wtf!! Thanks for sharing man

[@shrukaiin2304]

hello zachary

[@alexalmond6862]

Do a reaction Zachary or else

[@davidk6504]

Whoa zackgrooves here!?!? Both you dudes are badass drummers! Love the content!

[@landoon995]

What’s up Zach I love your content

[@arcangel6436]

The drumset player is really underrated, they played those fills extremely well, as well as playing amazingly with the battery.

[@zeillingworth6344]

Dartmouth tho 💀

[@B_dUbZ]

The drumset player is the BEST! His name is Sebastian, this is my Highschool. Avon black and gold baby🫠

[@michaelwemhoff7577]

EMC needs to check out the challenge in Adam Neely's video titled This should be impossible and yet

[@EMCproductions]

Working on it!

[@ThePotatoGD]

I’m glad someone else saw it too

[@ChromVsChrom]

I WAS ABOUT TO SAY AS WELL!!

[@whoitisnot]

Came here to say this too!

[@alexanderlee5682]

@@EMCproductions do Bruno the dog from big hearted bosko playing the pan like a bass drum

[@WeabooMilk]

I marched Avon when our marching band reached the peak but our winter program wasn't quite at this level. It does my soul some good to see them make it so far.

[@KyIsRandom]

I loved every second of playing this show. Everyone in the drumline put in their 100% and it shows. Our directors are some of the best musicians I have ever met, and we could not have made it as far as we did without them.

[@kris_roe22]

As a student at Avon, we are very proud of our drumline and marching band!

[@Linguineo]

I’ve never really heard people talk about us though

[@spencerhoff7373]

Love hype PSW shows. Like you expect sick shows from PIW groups but when high school kids can pull it off, idk, that's next level to me. Super cool.

[@Forte.Athletics]

Awesome video! The fact that you learned the speed bag/snare section made me smile from ear to ear! 👏🏼🔥

[@Its_Leauxsacks_Music]

Brooooo, you’re the guy I see on Instagram all the time. I love your stuff

[@Forte.Athletics]

@@Its_Leauxsacks_Music I appreciate you! 🙏🏼😄

[@xxnvytechxx6417]

Literally saw you yesterday on insta and now you're everywhere. Totally gonna try your traditional snare stretch. Also sent that turning workout to my drumline since that's a super big part of our 1st movement this season, we gotta do it fast to, while getting of a platform haha...

[@Forte.Athletics]

@@xxnvytechxx6417 Get it!! Turns are all about core stability!

[@ScarzzzYT]

I actually am from Indiana, and got the privilege of seeing Avon perform in person at a local competition!

[@Brody839]

Same! What class?

[@RedDogMamaHD]

Wow! Video 68! And I remember that show in Dayton! It was awesome to see in person after watching it on FloMarching!

[@randyconn1183]

6:26 my 1.5 seconds of fame. Thank you, Eric.

[@flatbill2]

Absolutely amazing that a high school is performing at this level!

[@RhodesTTU]

It amazes me how far WGI has come since I competed back in the mid-90s (we won our class though)

[@candaces1023]

This is pretty impressive. I bet it would have been pretty awesome seeing it live.

[@Random-lc2ul]

I was lucky enough to get to see their show live and I was in awe because of how amazing it was. My group got to use their old tarp from 2019 for our show this year.

[@terrysmith4129]

It was honestly one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen and yeah it was better watching live. Once I heard them I knew my group had no chance of winning.

[@caleblatta9378]

fun fact avon swept all of wgi this season and won 1st in winds, percussion, and guard. also the director of the winds program is Matt Harloff who happens to be the brass caption head of carolina crown.

[@colinflanagan4609]

Saw their marching band play last year during a playoff game and got to talk to their instructor for a little bit in the booth while they played. Awesome group!

[@rrzamudio]

Your best reaction video yet! 💪🏼🤙🏼 You even learned the punching bag part, which was definitely going above and beyond. Im sure the bag would have been more firm in a colder room. 😅 Its science.

[@eliweldon9939]

I was lucky enough to experience this live. Is insane how different it is over video

[@MaxisaBandKid]

Good morning, Eric! A school I'd recommend watching is the North Shore Senior High School. they're in the texas colorguard circuit, and because our school's drumline is so good, they're the only world class drumline in the world class of tcgc. Because my slightly aggressive narcissism was pointed out, I'm going to recommend other drumlines because they're right. Avon High School Hebron High School All the Klein schools (Klein, Collins, Cain, Forest, Oak) (they don't have an indoor show, but they have a video of them in the lot) the Woodlands high School Drumine

[@christopherbernhardt]

"Our schools drumline is so good," can you recommend other drumlines?

[@MaxisaBandKid]

Sure

[@christopherbernhardt]

@somethingwhatever no, my high schools drumline was the best! Sure we didn't do WGI or literally any competition but objectively they are!

[@jangles1839]

This was really impressive for....an old guy! 🤣 No, I thought you did a very awesome job keeping up with those young whipper snappers! No possible way in this universe I could do it again but, I surely do love reminiscing through your vids! 🤘🏼🥁🤘🏼

[@jessebrooks1991]

This is easily your most impressive video to date. Congrats and thank you for your engaging content. I am sure your videos inspire the younger generations to go after their dreams!

[@insertchannelnamehere632]

EMC I love when you react to indoor shows can you do more of that?

[@rafftabugan9894]

You're just incredible in playing the drums and editing the videos👋👋👋👍👍👍

[@tylerpigee-sessoms1895]

And I agree best content creator on KZbin

[@jameshohmann1251]

My daughter goes to Avon High School. Their programs are awesome!

[@lindygrrl658]

Eye of every tiger❤❤❤ good shit Avon, all y'all, entertained and impressed!!!🤗🤗🤗😘

[@michaelbecker5995]

Just wanna comment and say "you actually doing the parts really separates you from the ocean of reaction channels. Also you are reacting to OG content, not whatever's trending and that's awesome!"

[@Officer_Browning]

EMC is amazing

[@lh1678]

I was in the Clinton High School Band back in 1986 with Keith Carlock..He still knows me and my brother.

[@RyanAlexanderBloom]

If I went to that school now as an adult I’d probably only be able to make cymbal line…. As a HS student I think they would have made me a full-time stairs mover. And I was the best percussionist at my school.

[@dylanshay646]

it should be illegal for a high school to be this damn good

[@SALEENS7GTR5]

7:40 I forgot Davie504 was in this show!

[@irrsinnrainer]

Man, I literally just saw a video yesterday, where someone made rhythms with one of those boxing bags and thought: "What if someone incorporates this into a drum performance?" And here I am watching this video and they're doing it. Nice!

[@noahsadler6632]

In case you didn’t know who that dude was who made the speed bag video, it was most likely Forte Athletics! He does a lot of stuff like that, with mixing rhythms into workouts as well as giving great stretching advice lmao, worth checking out

[@magdong8839]

Indiana music back on top!!!

[@snickpickle]

First of all, THIS WHOLE VIDEO IS AMAZING! But second: As a string and brass player, and only having taken a snare drum techniques class in college, I have a couple of questions for you regarding drum notation. I'm looking at the passage at 3:51, where the pentuplets are: Why are they notated as 16th notes with the single bars below? Would that make them 32nd notes, or are you doubling them (which I would assume from seeing this in string parts), effectively making them 64th notes? And that begs the next question, in that why aren't they then labeled as 64th notes? Next, in the dotted-16th-32nd-16th-16th, what does the "x" notehead (the third note in the brace) represent? And finally, there are the lines above the notes in the triplet-16ths-8th buzz: What do those lines represent? They look like tenuto ("separate the notes," oversimplifying the term for those of you who don't know what "tenuto" means) markings to me, which would seem odd in the context of the instrument being played (sharp-attack snare drums)? I have never in my life ever read notes that fast! Other than amazing flutter-tonguing on a brass instrument (which I still can't do, even after playing horn for 42 years) or tremolo bowing on a string instrument (or very fast, controlled plucking on a guitar or mandolin, etc.), I am puzzled at how any single person can play like this, let alone two and more people in a section! Mad props to all of you percussionists out there! I learn more and more all the time from this channel. And I plan on watching more and more, so I can learn more and more -- and try to control my drooling over such great musicianship. Wow.

[@Jelly88875]

Not emc but I can reply, he is essentially doubling those notes in the pentuplet bar, those bars across the note symbolize a “double” where you play the note twice in one stroke of the drum, while technically they can be written as 32nd notes, it’s more cleanliness of page type thing. For your second question that “x” notates a rimshot, where you hit the drum and rim at the same time creating a sharper noise. For the third question. You’re right about them being tenuto, but for drummers it just means to hit the drum slightly harder than soft

[@snickpickle]

@@Jelly88875 Many thanks for the reply. I suppose if I played drums for real, I could read that fast, but thankfully (in a way) I've never had to read that fast for string bass! Haha! But seriously, after a while, Western notation runs out of markings for some things (in my own classical compositions, I have had to do some of my own "improvising," to get the message across as to what I want to happen at certain points, as well. It does make sense to use a "tenuto" marking for a slightly harder hit, as opposed to an outright accent mark. When one is rifling off hits that fast, I could see that a tenuto would be more clear than peppering the notation with accent marks. Again, thanks for the reply! Cheers!

[@aviatr9542]

@@snickpickle It's not really about "reading the notes fast" - we drummers break this stuff down extremely slow, and learn the sticking patterns at slow tempos before building them up. Gradually it builds muscle memory, and reading a passage like this is not about reading the individual notes quickly but recognizing "groups" of notes at a time that have been practiced/broken down already. That section you pointed out has some seemingly very fast individual notes at the end, but to us it's simply groupings of "threes" (RRR or LLL) played at the intended rhythmic spacing (32nd sextuplet note timing). It's essentially just 5 strokes mechanically in the big picture (RLRLR), with the first 4 strokes getting "three" 32nd sextuplet notes out of the overall stroke, and there's intended technique/muscle memory behind all of these different patterns (we call "rudiments").

[@jmanderson8801]

I was actually in winter percussion that year, and after we performed we got to see Avon, and wow… let’s just say I feel bad for the people who go against them every year. Also side note: apart from their bad spell in like 2018 or 2019, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them lose, both in winter percussion and marching band. I’m convinced the only reason we have band contest is so those freaks of nature can pick up their state champion rings every year.

[@thenelsonbruhs722]

Hey, Avon had a good year in 2019. We medaled for the first time in over a decade

[@CyrixOLD]

This will be the last video before he shaves his beard. RIP EMCProductions' beard, 2022-2022

[@yeeet2676]

I saw this show in person at WGI finals and starting screaming when they were playing and hitting the punching bags at the same time

[@greglmao6185]

I think they got the sparring ball idea from Forte Athletics

[@BobbySacamano]

Incredibly impressive

[@Maceface133]

Amazing editing on the video

[@thomasestling3400]

I also am a Bluecoats 2008 enjoyer

[@wild331_]

I went to school in Avon, still live there, but this is one of the things I'm mad about myself forever for, I was a percussionist all the way from intermediate to 8th grade, then I stopped because I....I dunno. I'm forever upset I did because I could've been part of this stuff. Whatever, I'm still so proud of my school.

[@jerrywangPMSS]

I love Avon High School aaaaa!!!!

[@connormoore1585]

Nice movement emc 3:35

[@roll9898]

thats Richard henshaw for ya....

[@lilluy0lol444]

Avon will for ever haunt me even on my feed

[@akaiyui9300]

Video 1 of commenting for a collab between Steven Sassafrass VI and Clarence Boudreaux.

[@spork7266]

It’s weird to think that that school is just a short drive south of mine

[@Bladeballer57]

let’s goooo you’re a ravens fan

[@tadbarnes1499]

Got to compete and watch live

[@gant73]

Theres a third one now. Union PSO 2023 in music effect.

[@marcushawkinsmusic]

Great job!!!

[@SapphireDrummr]

Maybe EMC could look through the medalists of each class and discuss them. Video idea maybe?

[@LENNIE-LCO]

It’s the penultimate video of your growing out your beard. I will miss your beard.

[@trainsandstuff2040]

West Ranch High School Percussion is going against them this year

[@yawnmower5600]

you’re still awesome yo

[@tadbarnes1499]

Wish I had a video of my school so you could review 😂

[@christinashelby6083]

3:37 Aw, you shoulda found some stairs to do that on.

[@ferretyluv]

Holy shit, that speedbag thing looked really hard! Hype for the next video. That’s when he’s gonna shave it. 69 is the man’s number!

[@bobbarksofficial4335]

Awesome

[@aidenyork4962]

Nothing to do with there drumline but good lord they’re contras are beautiful(I know there’s none in the video but I saw this and they’re winter winds performance)

[@biwy1289]

Literal gods

[@isaiahharvey338]

Bro my tech got to go there and she said it was so amazing in person

[@afterburn2600]

Here I thought my line in highschool was pretty hot. Goodness.

[@avonblackandgolddrumline8616]

me just casually checking the videos you post to see the beard go at 69

[@xenicP]

Do clover high school

[@sectorisclear7301]

You should do a video on the 2022 dci show for the troopers

[@christopherbernhardt]

They probably got the idea from the video of the guy talking to some people about control when doing punches and him doing drum cadences on a punching bag. I'll have to find it and reply with the link

[@christopherbernhardt]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXimi6Fsq92CopY Here it is

[@vectorjiu-jitsu955]

As an old drummer this show is awesome As an jiu jitsu kick boxing instructor watching dudes try to pull of the hard look throwing really poor punches is hard to ignore :) like watching poorly animated drumming cartoons

[@shaanfliesplanes]

Rip chino hills from getting Number 1

[@austincash5054]

Was that you on America’s Got Talent with the cow mask playing on the buckets?

[@harrisonchan8160]

Abt the whole drum line in the back our marching band show starts with the battery on the very back yard line spread out a lot so that was fun and then at the end they end up almost hitting me and the rest of the front wich is difficult

[@bradpilcher7337]

Please call the shaving video “Chin Reveal”

[@breadmustdie4874]

Can you please, for the love of god, make a drum set head replacement and/or tuning video? I can’t find one that just gets straight to the point and tells you how to do it.

[@andrewtorka9093]

This is a high school! What are they feeding them?

[@GH_percussion]

Broccoli and Cheesy Poofs.

[@tylerpigee-sessoms1895]

Could react to Pearl high schools indoor performance

[@atree5915]

quite out of topic. but may i ask what is your ideal drumstick for snare and tenors? iknow everybody has different feels taste but i'd like to know yours!

[@flameboik1424]

Think about it...it's your last video with a beared...

[@yooitsalyssa]

Can you make a video of stick tricks to do on different marching drums? My school’s halftime show, we’re playing a groove for the whole 2nd half of it and the drumline is allowed to just relax and flow with the music while playing and we wanna add stick tricks but don’t want to go with the normal twirling our sticks.

[@michaelmarbaldovino6501]

What does the pit play at 10:28-10:29 it sounds rlly familiar

[@chihiroueki8885]

The Good The Bad and The Ugly main theme by Ennio Morricone

[@michaelmarbaldovino6501]

@@chihiroueki8885 Thanks!

[@kalebkurrie1090]

Hi EMC could you please check out the 2021-2022 Spring Hill high school marching band AKA blue brigade. We are a military band and I know that’s not your thing but it would be awesome to have you critique how we did. We were the only military band to go to the open class state UIL contest here in Texas. Our band director passed away before he got to see it happen so it would mean the world to me and my classmates

[@mrfranksss_]

lowkey wanna see emc react to this

[@squillz8310]

@@mrfranksss_ same

[@xandermijares342]

Next video, he shaves the beard!!!!!!

[@edanrussell5656]

first! EMC IS THE BEST CREATOR ON KZbin!

[@jaxsonrodriguez916]

good job!

[@EMCproductions]

Thanks! Good job being first.

[@adricprigodich3751]

I saw that Sherwood high school got a 100 or two in music effect...

[@sucitilll]

You should react to fmbc state champion timber creek high school 2021 “the hill we climb”

[@maldenfoster]

Ever heard of the band drumcorps

[@bommeryeet4982]

Amazing

[@LanceCSTCuddy]

Is there no link to the video without commentary?

[@sklur]

NEXT VIDEO IS THE SHAVENING

[@loganbelloma6674]

React to the winner of independent A!!!

[@Jelly88875]

I always find it so ridiculous that these guys are high schoolers

[@tigbittiesmcgee3284]

Watch Ninety Six HS in SC. 2022 WGI finals run

[@christianbg8222]

Can you try knight of binigno Drum and Lyre? can you rate it please 🥺

[@djwhitt3718]

3:43

[@gzwro-wrestlingfederation2957]

And can u also do the music notes on it to

[@MrDrummerboi6661]

Its DCI season

[@zmbipi]

ITS BEEN 4 DAYS AND I WANT TO SEE YOUR BABY FACE

[@robertcalifornia4821]

What is all that stuff on your shirt??