Underrated comment right here XD I feel like the next merch/product drop needs to be Frank Drum Sticks. Just laser engrave or paint or something a nice set of sticks with the face of Frank
"Drums are the backbone of the band" "No that's the bass guitar" This is why as a bass player I love good and especially educated drummers, you guys know how rhythm sections work
@koolBOY8323 I use EMCProduction's notation. It's best suited for marching perc, but his drum set and concert notation is very simple to understand when sightreading
One thing I'm surprised you missed is at 5:36, where you can see Money by Pink Floyd, probably the most famous 7/4 song of all time, being used as their one example of a song in 5/4, which is... just great, honestly.
@@joanhailey8969 Not a great example for a drummer. There's a polyrhythm going on in "5/4"; while the guitar part is indeed in 5/4, the drums are in 4/4.
As a bassist, hearing a drummer even MENTION bassists warms my heart. Like an unwanted, unloved child hearing compliments for the first time. Yes, do it more, mention our one and only (but important) job in a gig, ive never heard it before it my life
Bass is something that often you only notice when it's absent. The music loses almost all of its "body" and just sounds dull and flat. It might not be appreciated but you damn well can't live without it.
This is 100% a made-for-bookfair product. This is designed to take advantage of a child's inability to gauge value properly. "Oh, its not just a book, it comes with THINGS!! so its worth it even though i could get 4 Magic Treehouse books for the same price"
this definitely looks like something a kid would blow their entire Scholastic Book Fair budget on (which would probably be 20 bucks), just because they liked drums and saw the big box that had a cool flap with a window that showed off the "drum sticks"
I would have totally been one of those kids (even though I learned piano instead). No lie the dedication to bare-minimum quality here is actually really disappointing, and I definitely had the feeling that some of these kits kinda could have been junk.
I remember seeing it at a book fair around 2010, and yea it was my whole budget. Never did end up getting it because there was always some book or those stupid foot long noodle erasers that I wanted
I spent my whole Book Fair budget on a copy of the DOS CD version of _Star Wars: X-Wing,_ and my only regret is that _TIE Fighter_ was also available for the same price but I didn't yet know that was the better game.
TBH the Scholastic Book Fairs were a good way to teach kids first hand about being careful with their money and how to spot things that look flashy but were actually junk. If you were smart with your money you'd get a Calvin and Hobbes book or a jewelcase edition of Need for Speed III, if you weren't then you'd waste it on this type of crap.
Scholastic is a publishing company that used to (or maybe they still do) hold events at elementary schools called "book fairs" where kids would get to browse and buy books and crazy erasers and stuff. A lot of the books came packaged with little nick nacks like plastic jewelry or fake gem stones. I imagine this would have been a very hot product for young boys back in the 90s!
They also did mail order catalogs that were passed out monthly. I remember getting a remote control lightswitch (really a thing with a motor that you velcro'd to the actual switch) when I was in middle school, and the damn thing was missing a gear.
I remember those. I used to beg my parents to buy some of the books they sold, but they always said no, which was probably for the best. A lot of the supplies they sold were absolute crap. There was this one little contest they had (which I won) and one of the rewards they gave was a "bendable" pencil that was completely useless for writing anything. The last book fair I went to was around 2011, so they might still be doing them!
@@efficiencygaming3494 some of it was good. I really enjoyed the "How To Survive (Almost) Anything subscription thing that my mother got me. Most of it was cheap tat, though.
@@spacebassist Money is quite clearly felt in 7 (with swung subdivision). The 7 in 7/8 refers to the number of subdivisions, whereas the 7 in 7/4 refers to the number of beats. 7/8 is usually felt as a combination of two shorter beats (2 8th notes per beat) and one longer beat (3 8th notes per beat). Listen to the beginning of Subdivisions by Rush - that's a good example of 7/8 (subdivided as 2+2+3). The riff of Money on the other hand sounds almost like two bars of 4/4, but it sounds like every other bar is missing one beat, pretty similar to All You Need Is Love by The Beatles. This is why I think it makes way more sense in 7/4 than in 7/8.
@@MaggaraMarine I'm thinking maybe 7/4s right but the part I get hung up on is "it sounds like every other bar is missing one beat" which is where I assumed it was 7/8, 7 beats over 2 bars. Not the greatest logic but I don't write sheet music lmao Is it fair to define it as 4/4 + 3/4 or is that completely off? Also, when I tried counting the beat with the patented "1 and 2 and 3 and..." thing, it always ends with "2 and 3 and 1 and... " which further led me to believe the final "and" makes it so, just because of the way it's cut off
@@spacebassist "which is where I assumed it was 7/8, 7 beats over 2 bars" That's not what 7/8 means. 7/8 means 7 8th notes per bar. So, three quarter notes + 1 8th note. It sounds like 4/4 that's missing the second half of the last beat, or 3/4 with an extended beat. And that's not what happens in Money. Now, it is true that two bars of 7/8 do add up to 7/4. But that's a different feel - the accents pattern is different. The downbeat needs to feel like the downbeat, and that's why two bars of 7/8 doesn't feel the same as a single bar of 7/4, even though mathematically it's the same thing. 7/4 is basically the same as alternating measures of 4/4 and 3/4, and that's what happens in Money. If you listen to the drums, the first 4 beats is typical kick-snare-kick-snare. The next 3 beats are kick-snare-kick(+crash). Then it just repeats the whole thing. So, basically, it's missing one snare hit in the end.
@@MaggaraMarine Im not entirely sure now why I thought a time signature would go over one bar. I even checked out a metronome for both signatures and yeah, headass A lot of this is flying over my head probably because its all text and hearing it would make more sense but it sounds right and I appreciate you taking time to explain even if I'm currently unable to grasp it
To be fair, I reckon there should be at least one or three days a year where drum kits should be set up lefty and all the right handers get told to 'just play open handed'. I play open handed just to save time and when I'm ok with not being quite as comfortable or capable as I am left handed. But I've never once met a right hander who will do the same.
Yea i cant play borrowed house kits but i learned the "wrong" way at a young age and im sticking to it! Although i would like to become as ambidextrous as travis orbin. Even have a symmetrical kit like his.
I really like how along with ragging on the cheap book, Wade gives genuine advice on how to take your first steps into drumming. You can really tell how much he enjoys getting others interested into it
It's so sad to know that there might be a kid out there who would've loved drumming, but their first introduction to it was that kit and it put them off it forever
This is the sort of thing my parents would have gotten me, I would have not found my way around and eventually lost all the bits, then felt bad about it and internalized the guilt of wasting a gift, only to think about it 15 years later and realize it was a gimmick that was wasteful to sell from the get-go.
sometimes i forget dank isn't a pro nugget reviewer, but also a legit pro drummer. Then he pulls stuff like bouncing the sticks on the wood flooring and makes it sound neat af. truly an inspiration.
Interesting thing about the Paradiddle (that caught my eye) is that it's how most V8 engines fire. A crossplane V8 (the most common form outside of exotic cars) generally fires RLRRLRLL (or some variation of that) and having the two cylinders on the same side firing one after the other is what gives V8 engines that distinctive rumble.
I remember the late 90s, before the internet was common, Barnes & Noble would have all sorts of little kits packaged alongside books. Like, how to play table football (with a leather table football), dollar origami (including a dollar), various drawing books, I remember pickup sticks for some reason. They were fun.
It wasn't just B&N everyone did it. It was so widespread that even (i forget the name of it now) a library ship that made the rounds of the seas had various kits you could buy. Music, computer learning, electronics, various stuff. Bought my first electronics and computer kits there.
As someone who owns a practice pad and a nice pair of sticks this is hilarious to me because I got those for less than this entire kit. I also had an entire kit with me for a summer from when I went to Drum Camp and won a raffle that allowed me to take one of their kits home, probably the loudest summer I ever had and one that continues my love of music today. Also I found a book that had a baby on the cover that taught me drum skills that was written by an actual musician who knew his way around the sticks. Merry Christmas my stick bashing friends
I heard from a friend who's a sunday drummer that a cheapo way to make a few practice pads would be to get some cheapo exercise mat foam and cut some pieces out of it and glue them to cheapo cutting boards.
Good old scholastic. It would be a decade after graduating highschool when I find out what a monopoly the whole group is and how they basically only pick up your book if you were a friend or family of its upper management which is why so many of their books are objectively terrible.
Its made by Scholastic so I'm betting it was sold directly to the kids at a school bookfair. At my school they would show up one day and display all the weird educational toys and books in the school library and make all the kids tour it during the schoolday, they'd send the kids home with a catalogue of all the stuff, and they were supposed to beg your parents to buy it for them.
You just gave me flashbacks to a gig I went to where every band insisted on setting up their own kit. Oh yeah it was a metal show, so half the bands had massive over-the-top only use most of these once in the whole set for that one song, you know the one. They had to sound check after every band, it was a joke. The audio guy was good though, saw him post about the event on reddit after the fact, was pretty hilarious. Oh yeah and none of the bands were any good. This was probably 11 or 12 years ago at this point.
When I saw it was Scholastic, I was expecting the typos to be text typos, a staple of the shite in book fairs designed to trick you out of your parents' money. I wasn't expecting notation typos.
The phone book comment killed me. Reminded me of the time my elementary band teacher brought in some yellow pages books and told the snare drummers to practice with those. Everyone looked at him like he was an idiot until they realized how well the sticks bounced off em
Hey I know you'll probably never read this but thank you for getting me back in to drumming with these videos. Played Snare and Quints on the drumline as well as playing drums for the Jazz band for my school when I was in high school 15 years ago but never had the money for a kit back in the day and just kinda stopped after that because I lost access to the drums. Your vids here finally pushed me to buy my first kit and stepping behind a kit for the first time in over a decade was the most incredible feeling.
"I bet you paused the video to read this too, I hope it was on a smart TV because they have the worst controls of any electronic device I own." man, i love you
Pretty sure you could have played on the plastic packaging it came in and it would have sounded better 😂 also, your comment on the very poor way they explained the paradiddle is completely on point. From the way they explained it, I thought they meant LRLR LRLL. 🤦 Any kid attempting to learn ANY amount of music notation from this book is gonna have a real bad time of it!
The fact this is a Scholastic product makes it 10x funnier that's the brand you would get at the "book fairs" in elementary school in the states. (holy shit I thought by drum head they meant like an actual practice pad not a literal drum head hahaha.)
The note about drumming along with music is a great one, the way I learned how to play was by listening to Metallica through my headphones and just mashing out what I heard, and over time lowering the volume of the music until I felt comfortable playing with my friends.
I was told as an early drummer to stick with 2Bs and only discovered the wonder of 7A when I went to a music store and clammed up when they asked what size sticks I needed and bought the wrong ones... If I've learned anything about drums in my short time playing it's that nothing matters just hit the damn things
I love how the book tries to teach people about multiple bounce rolls and then includes those sticks. Diddles are already hard to learn and master, imagine trying to with those sticks anyone would just give up.
i remembered going on tour with a drum and bugle corps over a decade ago and one time the entire 9 person snare line was just hacking away and practicing on a metal gate between rehearsals
I did in fact start watching this on a smart TV and did in fact have to try multiple times to pause the 3/4 bit. I came here on my phone just to tell you that it worked. Well played, sir
Watching these vids almost makes me wanna buy some stuff to practice drumming on, but then I remember that I'm dyslectic as all hell and I can barely move my arms independent of one another
If I hadn’t tried music before and absolutely SUCKED at at it (and rhythm was the hardest part, what is time) I think I would have now another thing in my hobby graveyard.
Go for it! A metronome, practice pad, and sticks are relatively cheap for music equipment. My advice: start very slow. I know from experience that learning music with a learning disability can be extremely frustrating, but it's oh so rewarding!
@@SilverTao it won't be easy, I have severe ADHD and sitting through practice was torture for me. But as you practice you'll notice the things that were once difficult to get your head around will become second nature. Plus drums are the best first instrument because all music relies on timing and rhythm. I'm a self taught drummer who branched into guitar and keyboard.
I have never laughed so hard from the included "snare drum pad and sticks". Their "snare drum head" is like a spock's head for marching drums. It would probably break at the moment the tension from the rim and tension rods is applied. I am a drummer and have been playing for years. love the content and the channel. I love to laugh at people's ideas of drumming and how to do it. Also the notes and notation in the book look like they where written by a drunk composer or a child.
This was produced by Scholastic Books, and as a former empoyee of theirs AND a drummer, I am shocked at the mistakes. When I was editing and researching for them, there was serious care to get it right.
I remember at my first grade school, how every year when the Scholastic 'fundraising' catalogue(s) circulated how many of my schoolmates were upset that so many of the 'cool' products weren't available "that year" in Canada. (and when they did they were clearly the overstock from other regions with the Canadian price was stickered over the US/other region's pricing.). And while 2009 would have been long after I'd have seen it, that Scholastic (Canada) doesn't list it as one of the titles they distributed does give me an odd feeling of pride.
I saw Ladytron in concert, and their hired drummer was doing egregious fills much like this book describes. I was so upset for the band having to hire a Scholastic drummer. Ladytron was still awesome in Seattle that night.
Scholastic book fair junk, the stuff you looked at as a kid and wanted really bad, then got and read through once before playing with the included materials for about a week before it all went into storage. I had a book on yo-yos. Good times.
Wow this actually brought me back. I remember seeing this at one of the book fairs, but I never bought it (thankfully) because that was around the time I was getting into middle school band in the percussion section. Honestly, I really wanna pick up some sticks and check out one of the books mentioned at the end to try to get back into drumming.
I actually paused this in my smart tv and had a good laugh so now I’m on my phone commenting. 😂 Music is basically all I did in high school (yes, playing the sax will get you lots of action lol) and laughed even harder at those manky example bars they wrote out. 😂😂😂 Absolutely brilliant stuff mate, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the rhythm drumming book suggestion, wade! I literally ordered one from au, to the uk. It cost a fortune, but i know its gonna be wirth every single penny as an investment for my future! I started playing drums a couple weeks ago and i am hooked and addicted. I do not ever want to stop. As someone who has been playing guitar, bass, keys, etc.. it is incredibly liberating not being tied down by chords when jamming and it is a great way to stay in shape!
Dude, if you made a drum course and put it on your Patreon or something I'd genuinely be interested in learning the drums. Like, I always thought they were cool but I've only ever played piano/keys. I'd need to like, buy a drum kit I suppose... but my point is, the way people just love hearing you talk, and the fact that you've taught before, would make for a really cool online drum course. On your dank pods Patreon as a new subscriber tier would be sick. For like $5 or $10 a month, (idk I'm not a money guy) people could learn drums from a super cool guy!
As someone who is watching on a Chromecast where I had to skip back 5 seconds a couple times just to read the on screen bit... I appreciate the shout-out 🤣
That footage from Casablabla was triggering, so many nights battling the crowd trying to get the kit in and out through groups of people grinding on eachother.
Sorry son rhythm can't save you we're getting the paper plates out again Thank you for another awesome video~ Glad you decided to branch out and show off your passion more, It's always interesting to learn new stuff about drums and you find the most hilarious stuff to thrash on Thank you for your hard work, Keep it up~ I hope your having a lovely day, Have a wonderful rest of your week, Be safe and Take care out there wherever you are (^=W=^)7 And Merry Christmas/Happy holidays too And to you too fellow viewer
The alleged snare that comes with that book looks like one of the metal covers we use to keep dust and stuff from falling into the coils of our oven when not in use.
You know it's high quality when accidentally dropping the stick on the floor sounds better than your practice plastic party plate
Man say that 5x fast
The PPPP™
nice pfp ^^
Cute pfp
That description made my day.
This guy's so serious about drumming he got a pet shaped like a drumstick.
this got a good chuckle out of me, now all dank needs is a frank 2
Underrated comment right here XD
I feel like the next merch/product drop needs to be Frank Drum Sticks. Just laser engrave or paint or something a nice set of sticks with the face of Frank
Frank the Drum Stick
As smart as a drum stick
That's a good one.
@@nicolle2126 then he could finally play some snake jazz
"Drums are the backbone of the band"
"No that's the bass guitar"
This is why as a bass player I love good and especially educated drummers, you guys know how rhythm sections work
Who let the bassist out?
@@mattd6085 we opened the side gate mate, it wasn't locked
@@notyouraveragebassist4822 There were two of you? That explains how you got in
@@Hyjy0 Yo, make room for three - saw the gate was open, thought I’d see myself in, make a cup of coffee, and lay down a few riffs with the boys…
@@K12machinima Fourth here... didn't notice the gate. Is this private property? Here for coffee and jams...
The fun part about reading perc music is that the notation is whatever the composer wants that day. There is no consistency
Plus, every piece of software for learning them has an original notation of its own that you'll never see elsewhere.
indeed. i use the buddy rich method myself, and i use this lack of consistency as justification.
@koolBOY8323 I use EMCProduction's notation. It's best suited for marching perc, but his drum set and concert notation is very simple to understand when sightreading
@Rainbow Nati or they throw out logic entirely and cram all parts into one. Variations on a Korean Folk Song has the worst notation I've ever seen
huh, that's why I could find no clear answer when I looked on a whim... turns out there isnt one
One thing I'm surprised you missed is at 5:36, where you can see Money by Pink Floyd, probably the most famous 7/4 song of all time, being used as their one example of a song in 5/4, which is... just great, honestly.
it wouldve been fine if they put 7/8 since it was written in 7/8 according to david and roger.... but of all things it's 5/4. how
I cant play any instruments very well but one listen and even i can pick out the notes of the bar
A great example of a 5/4 song would be the Gorillaz track called... 5/4.
@@joanhailey8969 or… Take 5
@@joanhailey8969 Not a great example for a drummer. There's a polyrhythm going on in "5/4"; while the guitar part is indeed in 5/4, the drums are in 4/4.
As a bassist, hearing a drummer even MENTION bassists warms my heart. Like an unwanted, unloved child hearing compliments for the first time. Yes, do it more, mention our one and only (but important) job in a gig, ive never heard it before it my life
bass deserves more love. also more solos
Somewhere Glenn Fricker's ears just perked up
Same, and seeing davie504 as his bassist picture warms my heart further
Bass is something that often you only notice when it's absent. The music loses almost all of its "body" and just sounds dull and flat. It might not be appreciated but you damn well can't live without it.
@@Croz89 so if the song was a meal, the bass would be the salt?
This is 100% a made-for-bookfair product. This is designed to take advantage of a child's inability to gauge value properly. "Oh, its not just a book, it comes with THINGS!! so its worth it even though i could get 4 Magic Treehouse books for the same price"
The value of a Magic Treehouse book during those times can never be overstated.
Until he could afford a drum pad, my cousin used the ol' Phonebook + Towel combo for years. Now he's got a PhD in music and is a college professor.
goddamn
DOCTOR JOHN DRUM REAL
Hey, Dave Grohl played on pillows, and with his teeth.
@@SilentProti with his... teeth?
@@blakksheep736 yes, with his teeth
this definitely looks like something a kid would blow their entire Scholastic Book Fair budget on (which would probably be 20 bucks), just because they liked drums and saw the big box that had a cool flap with a window that showed off the "drum sticks"
I would have totally been one of those kids (even though I learned piano instead). No lie the dedication to bare-minimum quality here is actually really disappointing, and I definitely had the feeling that some of these kits kinda could have been junk.
I remember seeing it at a book fair around 2010, and yea it was my whole budget. Never did end up getting it because there was always some book or those stupid foot long noodle erasers that I wanted
I spent my whole Book Fair budget on a copy of the DOS CD version of _Star Wars: X-Wing,_ and my only regret is that _TIE Fighter_ was also available for the same price but I didn't yet know that was the better game.
TBH the Scholastic Book Fairs were a good way to teach kids first hand about being careful with their money and how to spot things that look flashy but were actually junk. If you were smart with your money you'd get a Calvin and Hobbes book or a jewelcase edition of Need for Speed III, if you weren't then you'd waste it on this type of crap.
I got exactly those kits but “build your own robot!” and stuff. And it was just as cheap, dysfunctional, and disappointing.
Scholastic is a publishing company that used to (or maybe they still do) hold events at elementary schools called "book fairs" where kids would get to browse and buy books and crazy erasers and stuff. A lot of the books came packaged with little nick nacks like plastic jewelry or fake gem stones. I imagine this would have been a very hot product for young boys back in the 90s!
they still actually do
They also did mail order catalogs that were passed out monthly. I remember getting a remote control lightswitch (really a thing with a motor that you velcro'd to the actual switch) when I was in middle school, and the damn thing was missing a gear.
I remember those. I used to beg my parents to buy some of the books they sold, but they always said no, which was probably for the best.
A lot of the supplies they sold were absolute crap. There was this one little contest they had (which I won) and one of the rewards they gave was a "bendable" pencil that was completely useless for writing anything.
The last book fair I went to was around 2011, so they might still be doing them!
I don't know if they still do it but the past time I seen one was in 2020
@@efficiencygaming3494 some of it was good. I really enjoyed the "How To Survive (Almost) Anything subscription thing that my mother got me. Most of it was cheap tat, though.
5:36 I love how the book mentions "Money" by Pink Floyd as a well known example of a song in 5/4, when Money isn't even in 5/4, it's in 7/4
I think it's 7/8, there's definitely not 7 whole notes in the first bar of the riff anyway
@@spacebassist Money is quite clearly felt in 7 (with swung subdivision). The 7 in 7/8 refers to the number of subdivisions, whereas the 7 in 7/4 refers to the number of beats. 7/8 is usually felt as a combination of two shorter beats (2 8th notes per beat) and one longer beat (3 8th notes per beat). Listen to the beginning of Subdivisions by Rush - that's a good example of 7/8 (subdivided as 2+2+3). The riff of Money on the other hand sounds almost like two bars of 4/4, but it sounds like every other bar is missing one beat, pretty similar to All You Need Is Love by The Beatles. This is why I think it makes way more sense in 7/4 than in 7/8.
@@MaggaraMarine I'm thinking maybe 7/4s right but the part I get hung up on is "it sounds like every other bar is missing one beat" which is where I assumed it was 7/8, 7 beats over 2 bars. Not the greatest logic but I don't write sheet music lmao
Is it fair to define it as 4/4 + 3/4 or is that completely off?
Also, when I tried counting the beat with the patented "1 and 2 and 3 and..." thing, it always ends with "2 and 3 and 1 and... " which further led me to believe the final "and" makes it so, just because of the way it's cut off
@@spacebassist "which is where I assumed it was 7/8, 7 beats over 2 bars"
That's not what 7/8 means. 7/8 means 7 8th notes per bar. So, three quarter notes + 1 8th note. It sounds like 4/4 that's missing the second half of the last beat, or 3/4 with an extended beat. And that's not what happens in Money.
Now, it is true that two bars of 7/8 do add up to 7/4. But that's a different feel - the accents pattern is different. The downbeat needs to feel like the downbeat, and that's why two bars of 7/8 doesn't feel the same as a single bar of 7/4, even though mathematically it's the same thing.
7/4 is basically the same as alternating measures of 4/4 and 3/4, and that's what happens in Money. If you listen to the drums, the first 4 beats is typical kick-snare-kick-snare. The next 3 beats are kick-snare-kick(+crash). Then it just repeats the whole thing. So, basically, it's missing one snare hit in the end.
@@MaggaraMarine Im not entirely sure now why I thought a time signature would go over one bar. I even checked out a metronome for both signatures and yeah, headass
A lot of this is flying over my head probably because its all text and hearing it would make more sense but it sounds right and I appreciate you taking time to explain even if I'm currently unable to grasp it
Love how for the Neil Peart part, they added that he wrote the lyrics, not that he revolutionised the way how drummers play prog rock
Let's be fair. YYZ has some amazing lyrics. I love them so much I got a tattoo of them
@@matthewcampbell3146 La Villa Strangiato, Where’s my thing? and Leave that Thing alone, all have amazing and fantastic lyrics
@@matthewcampbell3146Hearing “Ting tingtingting ting ting tingtingting” always brings a tear to my eye. Poetry.
at least it HAD neil in it, would've been an automatic 0/10 without him.
Same thing with Ringo tbh, heavily influential drummer who practically created matched grip.
“Yeah his name’s Richard Starkey”.
I'm a lefty drummer who just plays open hand. Just learned to get used to it
I'm a lefty up and regular down, I just use my bad foot, my HH pedal flies!
To be fair, I reckon there should be at least one or three days a year where drum kits should be set up lefty and all the right handers get told to 'just play open handed'. I play open handed just to save time and when I'm ok with not being quite as comfortable or capable as I am left handed. But I've never once met a right hander who will do the same.
Gene Hoglan plays that way (Testament, Dark Angel, Death, Strapping Young Lad) and hes literally known as The Atomic Clock in the Metal drum world
Yea i cant play borrowed house kits but i learned the "wrong" way at a young age and im sticking to it! Although i would like to become as ambidextrous as travis orbin. Even have a symmetrical kit like his.
It's a common thing, ain't it? I'm a lefty guitarist but play right handed, much easier to even find instruments to buy
I really like how along with ragging on the cheap book, Wade gives genuine advice on how to take your first steps into drumming. You can really tell how much he enjoys getting others interested into it
That's that teacher coming through. Stuff like this makes kids try it, learn bad habits with bad equipment, and then give up forever.
It's so sad to know that there might be a kid out there who would've loved drumming, but their first introduction to it was that kit and it put them off it forever
LOL there's someone literally saying that in the comments. Not forever but years
Hearing dank have a proper laughing fit over those sticks cures my depression
11:24 “just a bit keen on the drums”, I don’t think any of us would have guessed
This is the sort of thing my parents would have gotten me, I would have not found my way around and eventually lost all the bits, then felt bad about it and internalized the guilt of wasting a gift, only to think about it 15 years later and realize it was a gimmick that was wasteful to sell from the get-go.
sometimes i forget dank isn't a pro nugget reviewer, but also a legit pro drummer.
Then he pulls stuff like bouncing the sticks on the wood flooring and makes it sound neat af.
truly an inspiration.
"...versus _THE FLOOR!_ "
Interesting thing about the Paradiddle (that caught my eye) is that it's how most V8 engines fire. A crossplane V8 (the most common form outside of exotic cars) generally fires RLRRLRLL (or some variation of that) and having the two cylinders on the same side firing one after the other is what gives V8 engines that distinctive rumble.
I never thought about it but the 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 firing order my Chevy has absolutely sounds like a paradiddle. Huh.
Bro, are you into old Muscle Cars????
I remember the late 90s, before the internet was common, Barnes & Noble would have all sorts of little kits packaged alongside books. Like, how to play table football (with a leather table football), dollar origami (including a dollar), various drawing books, I remember pickup sticks for some reason. They were fun.
It wasn't just B&N everyone did it. It was so widespread that even (i forget the name of it now) a library ship that made the rounds of the seas had various kits you could buy. Music, computer learning, electronics, various stuff. Bought my first electronics and computer kits there.
@@aserta right, i forgot about waldenbooks!
I miss waldenbooks. Their stores were smaller but they picked up manga faster than B&N did.
@@rwberger6 I recall getting all my Calvin & Hobbes there.
@@aserta what is a library ship, that sounds awesome
I never imagined drums being a left-handed or right-handed instrument. Learned something new 😂
Guy: donk
drum: wrong hand mate
Imagine a left-handed piano being mirrored (probably exists)
@@Liggliluff it does, although it isn't as popular obviously
I played guitar for a while, I'm left handed and always wondered why some guitarists would prefer to use the weaker hand for chords.
As someone who owns a practice pad and a nice pair of sticks this is hilarious to me because I got those for less than this entire kit. I also had an entire kit with me for a summer from when I went to Drum Camp and won a raffle that allowed me to take one of their kits home, probably the loudest summer I ever had and one that continues my love of music today. Also I found a book that had a baby on the cover that taught me drum skills that was written by an actual musician who knew his way around the sticks. Merry Christmas my stick bashing friends
I heard from a friend who's a sunday drummer that a cheapo way to make a few practice pads would be to get some cheapo exercise mat foam and cut some pieces out of it and glue them to cheapo cutting boards.
i bet some kid bought that at an elementary school scholatic fair then forgot about it cus thats what happens to all scholastic fair books
Except for Animorphs book. Those were the bomb
I'm the weirdo who actually read them. I'm sure books saved my life growing up.
Good old scholastic. It would be a decade after graduating highschool when I find out what a monopoly the whole group is and how they basically only pick up your book if you were a friend or family of its upper management which is why so many of their books are objectively terrible.
I'm a lefty that was taught to play right-handed. As a result, I can usually play whatever kit I sit behind, no matter the orientation
Its made by Scholastic so I'm betting it was sold directly to the kids at a school bookfair. At my school they would show up one day and display all the weird educational toys and books in the school library and make all the kids tour it during the schoolday, they'd send the kids home with a catalogue of all the stuff, and they were supposed to beg your parents to buy it for them.
You just gave me flashbacks to a gig I went to where every band insisted on setting up their own kit. Oh yeah it was a metal show, so half the bands had massive over-the-top only use most of these once in the whole set for that one song, you know the one. They had to sound check after every band, it was a joke. The audio guy was good though, saw him post about the event on reddit after the fact, was pretty hilarious. Oh yeah and none of the bands were any good. This was probably 11 or 12 years ago at this point.
Scholastic is a company that makes products for elementary school book fairs. Id say this top-quality product fits that category just swimmingly
@@wombatgirl997 Exaclty! lmao
It's an MLM/direct selling company fyi
@@FreyaCatherineMusic There's a difference in direct selling and MLMs, though.
@@FooPanda Not a massive one, both aren't a good idea to get involved in and sell overpriced products
They're also just a publisher in general.
Even almost a year later, seeing Taylor still stings.
What's the story behind it?
@@blakksheep736 About Taylor Hawkins? He died last year very suddenly, while on tour with Foo Fighters.
When I saw it was Scholastic, I was expecting the typos to be text typos, a staple of the shite in book fairs designed to trick you out of your parents' money. I wasn't expecting notation typos.
I like that reading "one and-a two and-a three" made Dank read the rest of the book in an Italian-Australian accent
The phone book comment killed me.
Reminded me of the time my elementary band teacher brought in some yellow pages books and told the snare drummers to practice with those.
Everyone looked at him like he was an idiot until they realized how well the sticks bounced off em
I love how loving he gets when he says certain things, “My Vater sweet rides mmmm……”
Love how they left fucking Bonzo out of a 'drummer gallery' of rock drummers lmao
and they already filled half the book LOL
I was wondering how sticks could possibly fit in that box but then I got my answer. They’re tiny.
You know it's high quality when it's scholastic
Hey I know you'll probably never read this but thank you for getting me back in to drumming with these videos. Played Snare and Quints on the drumline as well as playing drums for the Jazz band for my school when I was in high school 15 years ago but never had the money for a kit back in the day and just kinda stopped after that because I lost access to the drums. Your vids here finally pushed me to buy my first kit and stepping behind a kit for the first time in over a decade was the most incredible feeling.
"I bet you paused the video to read this too, I hope it was on a smart TV because they have the worst controls of any electronic device I own."
man, i love you
11:57 " Where are you going?! *I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU!!!* "
Oh god its Scholastic...
12:19 ngl you could play jazz on that floor, BEAUTIFUL stick definition
Pretty sure you could have played on the plastic packaging it came in and it would have sounded better 😂 also, your comment on the very poor way they explained the paradiddle is completely on point. From the way they explained it, I thought they meant LRLR LRLL. 🤦 Any kid attempting to learn ANY amount of music notation from this book is gonna have a real bad time of it!
Im surprised you didn't notice that the kid on the cover seems to have two right hands.
The fact this is a Scholastic product makes it 10x funnier that's the brand you would get at the "book fairs" in elementary school in the states. (holy shit I thought by drum head they meant like an actual practice pad not a literal drum head hahaha.)
The note about drumming along with music is a great one, the way I learned how to play was by listening to Metallica through my headphones and just mashing out what I heard, and over time lowering the volume of the music until I felt comfortable playing with my friends.
I was told as an early drummer to stick with 2Bs and only discovered the wonder of 7A when I went to a music store and clammed up when they asked what size sticks I needed and bought the wrong ones... If I've learned anything about drums in my short time playing it's that nothing matters just hit the damn things
I love how the book tries to teach people about multiple bounce rolls and then includes those sticks. Diddles are already hard to learn and master, imagine trying to with those sticks anyone would just give up.
i remembered going on tour with a drum and bugle corps over a decade ago and one time the entire 9 person snare line was just hacking away and practicing on a metal gate between rehearsals
11:10 don't talk to me or my son ever again
I did in fact start watching this on a smart TV and did in fact have to try multiple times to pause the 3/4 bit. I came here on my phone just to tell you that it worked. Well played, sir
Watching these vids almost makes me wanna buy some stuff to practice drumming on, but then I remember that I'm dyslectic as all hell and I can barely move my arms independent of one another
If I hadn’t tried music before and absolutely SUCKED at at it (and rhythm was the hardest part, what is time) I think I would have now another thing in my hobby graveyard.
Go for it! A metronome, practice pad, and sticks are relatively cheap for music equipment. My advice: start very slow. I know from experience that learning music with a learning disability can be extremely frustrating, but it's oh so rewarding!
@@1988casco will definitely have a try! for 20 years of my life I've never really tried to "practice out" my dyslexia so it may be a good thing to try
@@SilverTao it won't be easy, I have severe ADHD and sitting through practice was torture for me. But as you practice you'll notice the things that were once difficult to get your head around will become second nature. Plus drums are the best first instrument because all music relies on timing and rhythm. I'm a self taught drummer who branched into guitar and keyboard.
Thanks for uploading this today. The holidays aren't the best of times for me, but your videos cheer me up. Thanks.
I have never laughed so hard from the included "snare drum pad and sticks". Their "snare drum head" is like a spock's head for marching drums. It would probably break at the moment the tension from the rim and tension rods is applied. I am a drummer and have been playing for years. love the content and the channel. I love to laugh at people's ideas of drumming and how to do it. Also the notes and notation in the book look like they where written by a drunk composer or a child.
This was produced by Scholastic Books, and as a former empoyee of theirs AND a drummer, I am shocked at the mistakes. When I was editing and researching for them, there was serious care to get it right.
At forst I thought he said "You're tax is a jew"" and was really confused. 9:52
Aussie accents are kinda something.
2:48 heartache. Miss you buddy.
I remember at my first grade school, how every year when the Scholastic 'fundraising' catalogue(s) circulated how many of my schoolmates were upset that so many of the 'cool' products weren't available "that year" in Canada. (and when they did they were clearly the overstock from other regions with the Canadian price was stickered over the US/other region's pricing.).
And while 2009 would have been long after I'd have seen it, that Scholastic (Canada) doesn't list it as one of the titles they distributed does give me an odd feeling of pride.
When you can hear the echos right from the start...
You know it's gonna be amazing video mate
"Drums are the backbone of the band- no, that's bass guitar"
Thank you!
10:21 i've definitely eaten cheap birthday cake on that at a kid's party
I'm impressed.
Something so dedicated to put people off drumming and not one swear word!
Oh man the scholastic book fair sold so much garbage like this. I'm certain this would have sold for like 20USD when I was in school
Scholastic: *Turns around plastic dinner plate* "Guys, I have an idea."
“Listen to your favourite rock songs to see if you can find the fills”
Listens to Mastodon.
Everywhere. Fills are everywhere.
12:07 Sounds like literal gunshots lol
2:14 as a beginner bassist this is really motivated me
American V-8’s firing orders are RLRRLRLLRLRRLRLLRLRRLRLLRLRRLRLL. That’s why they have such an iconic burble.
“It’s a little bit y’know, how’syourdad in some spots…”
Australian English never ceases to amaze me.
can you translate for me please
11:14 dont talk to me or my son ever again
Thank you for the cool Christmas gift, Dankin!
peep that angelfire watermark on the left handed drum diagram, HELL yes only the best! Love it!
This man’s laughs can cure any depression I swear. Such a joy to have our Dank King to bring us good vibes
Yes. Hold a grudge against that company. Screw these companies for putting in no effort.
My only disappointment was that you didn’t use the book as a drum. Still a great video.
I wonder if any drum book has actually tried to do that .. pass off the book itself as a drum pad, LOL
I saw Ladytron in concert, and their hired drummer was doing egregious fills much like this book describes. I was so upset for the band having to hire a Scholastic drummer. Ladytron was still awesome in Seattle that night.
Thank you for the bass acknowledgement.
Scholastic book fair junk, the stuff you looked at as a kid and wanted really bad, then got and read through once before playing with the included materials for about a week before it all went into storage. I had a book on yo-yos. Good times.
I just binged all the videos on this channel, I'm glad there's a new video lol!
Wow this actually brought me back. I remember seeing this at one of the book fairs, but I never bought it (thankfully) because that was around the time I was getting into middle school band in the percussion section. Honestly, I really wanna pick up some sticks and check out one of the books mentioned at the end to try to get back into drumming.
With a proper professional stick, this guy * GUN SOUNDS *
In my Death Metal band, our Drummer is left handed… he’s ✨special✨
I actually paused this in my smart tv and had a good laugh so now I’m on my phone commenting. 😂
Music is basically all I did in high school (yes, playing the sax will get you lots of action lol) and laughed even harder at those manky example bars they wrote out. 😂😂😂 Absolutely brilliant stuff mate, keep up the good work.
never clicked a video soo fast
I love hearing the music teacher coming out of danks
Thanks for the rhythm drumming book suggestion, wade! I literally ordered one from au, to the uk. It cost a fortune, but i know its gonna be wirth every single penny as an investment for my future! I started playing drums a couple weeks ago and i am hooked and addicted. I do not ever want to stop. As someone who has been playing guitar, bass, keys, etc.. it is incredibly liberating not being tied down by chords when jamming and it is a great way to stay in shape!
Wasn't Scholastic the books you order from a catalogue each year in primary school?
That feels so weird for books to not be available on demand.
Even in the late 80's, it was weird. Copyright has held back so much.
Dude, if you made a drum course and put it on your Patreon or something I'd genuinely be interested in learning the drums. Like, I always thought they were cool but I've only ever played piano/keys. I'd need to like, buy a drum kit I suppose... but my point is, the way people just love hearing you talk, and the fact that you've taught before, would make for a really cool online drum course. On your dank pods Patreon as a new subscriber tier would be sick. For like $5 or $10 a month, (idk I'm not a money guy) people could learn drums from a super cool guy!
12:05 With a proper professional stick, you know this guy
*bodycam gunshots*
As someone who is watching on a Chromecast where I had to skip back 5 seconds a couple times just to read the on screen bit... I appreciate the shout-out 🤣
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing this at the scholastic book fair as a kid going for $40
Man this is a gift for it's self
That footage from Casablabla was triggering, so many nights battling the crowd trying to get the kit in and out through groups of people grinding on eachother.
Hey mate! As a leftie drummer, I can attest, I am SOOOOO GRATEFUL I learned to drum the 'proper' way. Same with guitar!
Sorry son rhythm can't save you we're getting the paper plates out again
Thank you for another awesome video~
Glad you decided to branch out and show off your passion more, It's always interesting to learn new stuff about drums and you find the most hilarious stuff to thrash on
Thank you for your hard work, Keep it up~
I hope your having a lovely day, Have a wonderful rest of your week, Be safe and Take care out there wherever you are (^=W=^)7
And Merry Christmas/Happy holidays too
And to you too fellow viewer
11:31 please teach us that hand technique for uptempo swing
you know it's quality when the "snare head" sounds like a gunshot
The alleged snare that comes with that book looks like one of the metal covers we use to keep dust and stuff from falling into the coils of our oven when not in use.
Seeing you sad about Taylor had to be the best thing I’ve seen today