Ranking Every Percussion Instrument (HARDEST to EASIEST)
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Percussion: a mix of extremely easy and extremely difficult.
They perfectly sum up all musical instruments: a minute to learn, a lifetime to master!
@@oscargill423 especially the triangle.
True
Sums it up perfectly
@@jamesmylife6578lol definitely
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.
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.
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.
I KNEW someone would know that piece
so do almost all the songs off of the slipknot self-titled album
Please stack 69 drum sets 😂😂 cymbals and all hahaha loved it!
I thought it would be more fun to stack 69 bodies/pp’s but either way.
ZackGrooves Oh I love your channel Zack. You make great videos.
Yuy
But it would be hard to stack 69 bace drums (consort ones)
my two favorite percussion youtubers in the same place
Stack 69 FLUB DRUMS! Like so he sees. EHEheheheheheee!!
You are the best drummer ever
Connor Jones AGREED
make another tutorial. i need another drumming tutorial
69 tenors tho 👀
No one like, it's at 69 rn
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.”
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
I agree with this top 3, although I do not enough timpani experience to personally confirm.
how is timpani harder than marimba?
@@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.
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
Lol u said :| (repeat)
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to be fair...
It's too bad the word "Triangle" isn't dirty or this would be hilarious. I'm sure it is in other languages.
Eric, I just wanted to say while I’m having my band class at the moment to have a good morning!
I had band a few hours ago 😃🥁🥁🥁
Same
I had band an hour ago too
are you guys having band class over zoom?
Ale Sanchez yes
How many slide Whistles can you play at one time
exactly what I was thinking. 69 slide wistles
All of them.
69 exactly no More no less
Yes
Too easy
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.
I would like a link
link pls
We didn't use brake drum so our middle school percussion used a rail road tie and I was the one to use it😎
I want a link
Where da link at
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.
Awesome comment bro!
Also don't give the kid who has no idea what he is doing the crash cymbals lol
When i was a freshman I was given the slapstick part to sleigh ride...
Is the air guitar a percussion instrument
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
@@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.
@@-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.
Yes
I would love to see a giant stack of amor guitars
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.
Couldn't he have put the stick inside the Cowbell and wiggled it around?
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.
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
I play bari sax and Idk why but I am so fascinated with this channel, I could watch for hours
Same! Bari fam
I play the flute and I watch him
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
Been here since 20k, just want to say keep up the awesome content! Really enjoying it
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
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.
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)
as a suspended cymbal player myself it can be an integral part to a piece and not very hard to do wrong
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.
I LOVE Angels in the Architecture!! Playing it in high school junior year was amazing.
stack 69 of the blurred out one
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
Emc: Concert Bass Drum is really easy
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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)!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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)
bass drums can't type on CZcams you liar
Taiko Drums need to be Wwaaaaaaay higher. Taiko ensembles are really really legit
Awesome work!
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
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
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.
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
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
Good argument but you have to have more playing zones in Timpani and (possibly) more drums.
"Lion Roar sounds cooler than cuica"
Brazilians: TRIGGERED
A kid in my school made a 20 ft tall slapstick
Congrats on 111k subs!
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.
That censored photo is actually the album cover for a death grips album called “no love deep web”
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.
Hey eric just wanted to say thanks for the upload, i wanted to show my music teacher a new competitor in the music war
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.
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
me in my percussion pieces playing 9 instruments and swapping mid measure because my part was made for 3 people not 1
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.
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.
How do you forget the timpani in a list of 69 percussion instruments???
Awesome video, btw!
he didnt...
You should listen to Forge of Vulcan by Micheal Sweeney. It has very amazing dynamics and it has trash cans too.
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.
I'd like to see you rate the Txalaparta. Maybe a reaction video to a concert? That's up to you.
Eric you should make a video where you play a piece of music using all of the instruments in this video
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
A real pro dual-wielding rainsticks is a thing to behold.
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
9:33 st. Anger noises intensifies
@emcproductions, Do you know what brand of rope tension drums the U.S Old Guard uses? If so, Can I know?
The tenor drums are actually called the Quad
I play way to much percussion in my school so i love these videos
A five octave Marimba. Please and Thank you
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.
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.
Id say he didn't give enough props to güiro either dominicans and puerto ricans tear them up.
@@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.
@@nochannel1q2321 definitely. Have you seen this video czcams.com/video/X8CqNiqKwQo/video.html ? 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.
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
Tenor stack would look pretty dope like a dome of tenors! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Ha! I play mallet percussion, and I’ve had to deal with that for years
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
Ah yes my favorite percussion instrument. Death grips' no love deep web.
MY SHOW THIS YEAR IN MARCHING BAND IS ANGLES IN THE ARCHITECTURE
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
Yup took me years just to get a good slap
1:31 Concert Bass
I’m happy to see that all the drumline instruments are in the top row
same with most pit instruments (besides rack) and that mkes me happy
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.
Flexatone is literally the only one I can't get a good sound out of
I really wanna see pearl tenors stacked up, even if it is just the individual drums
i want to see 69 drumkits stacked on top of each otherrr
EMC: Timpani and cymbals are S Tier/very difficult
Me: What? This is too easy
BRUH
Me and my friend have called the castenets "clam clappers" since 8th grade
Ahh someone who appreciates my marching cymbal pain
Triangle is unironically one of the hardest percussion instruments to master.
Well, The slide whistle is indeed a percussion instrument. Because my band class has the slide whistle in the percussion stock droor.
12:13 I agree. Mark trees should not be called wind chimes or bell trees.
eric are you a death grips fan? you talked about hacker in the virtual vs. drumline vid & the blurred out picture is the cover for NLDW :O
As a man who loves and plays the drumset, I thank you for putting that at number one. You got yourself a subscriber.
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
You left out the hardest of all!! Tabla
Let's hear them !
Oh god I'm not ready for another CZcams war
Love this
I want to see 69 drum sets stacked on top of each other
Mark tree? I'm used to calling that bar chimes.
Concert toms HAVE to be further up. Listen to Symphony No. 4 by David Maslanka, Tom parts go crazy!
Percussionists forever!!
7:24 as a Brazilian cuíca percussionist, i agree