35 things I've learned as a drummer...
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1. Pencils make wonderful drumsticks for practicing during math class.
2. Having 2 section leaders, 1 female 1 male, is NOT a good idea!!!
3. We rule the band. Don't argue with us.
4. Flutes- unimportant spacey creatures; woodwinds- don't need 'em; trumpets- just THINK they're more important! trombones- scary with those sliding things... Tubas- in their own little world. Colorguard and Danceline- dangerous creatures w/ weapons, to be avoided at all costs!!
5. You WILL see your drumline more than anyone else. You'll live in the bandroom with them, eat with them, change clothes with them...
6. We are never without sticks/mallets. ever.
7. No, you may not hold a stick/mallet or touch a drum. We WILL break your fingers.
8. Drum Camp- practicing for weeks in the summer, 8 am till 11:30 pm, to always be the best drumline in Alabama
9. It's pretty funny when a colorguard gets knocked out by a flag.
10. It's even funner when they whack a flute player...
11. We are NOT... ok, so we are all hott! we're drumline!
12. Yeah, our music is crumpled and ripped. Hey, it's usually lost, so there.
13. Rule for all girls in drumline... Never, EVER go into the drum room when male drummers are in there.
14. extension on rule 13... being violated in odd ways is normal, what do you expect?
15. NEVER make a mallet player mad. They will ALWAYS have mallets handy. ok, never mind, just never make Kim mad...
16. We are easily amused. give us a few sticks to throw into tuba bells or at the ceiling, and life is good.
17. All rookie drummers will do the hokey-pokey to learn their left and right
18. You will do a rain dance at some point during practice. Just get over it.
19. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, is more important than food and toilet paper.
20. DON'T roll your band director's yard in the middle of the afternoon.
21. DON'T roll your section leaders' yards! They will find out! lol
23. Our cadence is better.
24. roll-stepping? marching in step? only woodwinds do that...
25. You are not cool just because you ride the percussion bus.
26. Yes, it takes 5 of us to put together quads or 18 to screw in a light bulb. It's a group effort, get over it!
27. We will always be misunderstood.
28. Never whine about being mauled by a bass drum. Unless you'd like to be mauled by 4 bass drums. Or run over by a marimba.
29. We're always looking for new ways to deafen the band. Khacking is life! (KHACK KHACK KHACK KHACK....)
30. We carry sticks around for defense, ok?
31. Don't ride on the xylophone. ever.
32. It is possible to crack a cymbal with a drumstick.
33. It's even more fun to crack snare heads with drumsticks.
34. Jamie and Kim WILL argue, fight, beat up, and permanently scar each other. Jamie doesn't care that she's a girl. Yes, he can be nice and they can get along, but you will never see it. Maybe it's a section leader thing.
35. No matter what happens; what breaks, falls, messes up, looks weird, doesn't work, whatever... It is always, ALWAYS the drumline's fault.
But yet, through all the torture, abuse, damage, molestation, drum camps, and obscenity, we're an awesome drumline and can't live without each other. The Pride of Southside 2001... Wild Wild West, baby!
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