Drumming lolz
 

So I'm a drummer - I play for my church.

I was jamming the second song when suddenly I realize my bass drum wasn't making a noise. I look down and the spring that lets the pedal bounce back to be hit again had broken. Lol! I looked like an idiot sitting there trying to fix it, then to make matters worse my dad came to help too - all this while everyone else carried on playing/singing!

So, anyone else had any strange/funny drumming moments?

This takes a bit of explanation. For my birthday, a very handy buddy of mind made me some light sticks that I desperately needed. He got a bunch of very thin pieces of wood from the local hardware shop and taped them tightly together, giving me two pairs of very unique sticks. They weren't quite brushes, but they were nice and quiet, which I needed, because I have always had trouble staying quiet while playing, especially while playing fast. Anyway, to the story.

I was in the middle of playing with my old group and playing a very, very, very fast song. My sticks were quite beat up, and as I was playing, I was literally watching them shred while desperately trying to keep playing with what I had left. One completely disintegrated so I played with the other stick and my hand. Then the other one shattered and I ruined the song by playing a hands-only drum solo and kicking over my kick. It was pretty sweet.

That does sound funny.

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I've had several funny/strange drumming experiences.
The first was that when I was a child, I wanted to play drums so badly that I made my own kit out of the following items:

Kick drum - Large box that I would hit with my foot.
Snare - Old cookie tin with a bunch of screws, nails, and bolts in it.
Hihat - A bundle of silverware loosely banded together
Toms - Plastic tupperware of various sizes
Ride/Crash - Large metal pot cover.
Sticks - Sticks from the yard.

I played that thing for over a year before my dad finally felt bad enough for me to find a cheap deal on a real set.


Another drumming scenario I found hilarious and strange was when I was growing up in church, we had those worship teams with the full band setup and everything, and when I got old enough, they started letting my do fill-ins on Wednesday service and when I proved myself, the Sunday services, then full-time. Well, one Saturday night a friend and I did a bunch of acid and I completely forgot that I had to play for the Sunday morning service.
So I was just starting to come down by the time I was getting on the drums...
Let's just say that timing and LSD don't go together well. And my sticks felt like rubber, and the skins felt all saggy and weird. Thankfully I was no longer having open-eye visuals, but I did feel like a complete ass hole for being in church on acid...

Another scenario was when I started playing in Punk bands and all that. The band I was in was a Punk/Ska band and we were fortunate enough to land a gig opening up for an Australian punk band called Phrenzal Rhomb (Less than Jake was the headliner), and we got to smoke this huge blunt with Phrenzal's drummer before we opened for them. I was so baked that when I was adjusting my throne, I fell backwards off the stage (the kit was situated in the rear behind the frontman position in the middle) and I got laughed at pretty heartily.

Another time, when I was stationed in Germany, circa 2007ish, a metal band I was drumming for had a show at a little pub opening up for an AC/DC tribute band (IC/DC) that we played with quite a bit. Well I had a friend's kit at the time and his cymbal stands were horrible, and every time I'd hit the crash that was on it, the whole thing would fall, so we had to get a friend to sit there and hold the stand for me the whole show, as I destroyed the poor guy's hearing. Speaking of that, I need to get that video back! Poor Ferny. :D

There are more stories, but this could get a bit long-winded.

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Sounds like my first "set". Was a bunch of homemade plywood pads arranged like a real set. The heads were old mouse pads from dialup internet companies.

Was in marching band all through junior high and high school. We had a national winning drumline. Snare player would could do singles with one hand. (have it on video with some other cool videos) i was never a percussionist, but i loved what they did because of what great quality and how clean it was. One of my favorite moments though was a School Rally where the Drumline performed their show(not like the movie drumline, we put them to shame) and the snare players had a solo and one of the players dropped his stick. Youre not supposed to pick it up, so he continued on playing only the right hand lol

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The phrase, "A picture is worth a thousand words" would apply here:

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Looks about like my first kit. My crash literally sounded like a tin pan.

Okay, most of you know that in youth churches, there is a sound screen to reduce the sound of the drum player. Anyway, my friend Matt was playing (this actually happened twice), he was playing so hard, that the screen fell. My pastor happened to be playing bass in a bad place :P, he dodged it just in time, and the best thing is that we kept playing and it was louder than before!

These are great!
Ok, I was playing kit in a production for Jesus Christ Superstar, it came to a rather quick page turn, and i flustered and threw my stick out into the crowd, which hit a 9 year old child in the eye. I had to carry on, and did so whilst the mother angrily walked over and thrust the stick back into my hand. Embarrasing doesnt cover it.

once on a wedding gig I got some drunk couple fell over my set, wasn't fun. Broke a leg from my bass drum :<

When I was a little kid, my siblings and I played "a show" for my family on my 6th or 7th birthday, which consisted of my brother painting himself up like a little Gene Simmons, my sister playing a plastic button guitar and me on "drums": assorted buckets and twigs, and a sheet of plywood stood up in front of it.. because I was shy.

I recall a time while performing when our guitarist released the most vile fumes out of his keester. Mid-song, I dropped my sticks out of my hands to cover my nose and mouth in a desperate effort to escape the stench. At that exact moment, our vocalist is gagging, man on the keys stops playing, not to mention our bassist ceased with eyes watering.

Has anyone ever had their bass drum mallet puncture their bass head mid-song? Frustrating times.

mate get the beat flowing and youll go well, try play travis barker stuff youll improve alot haha