Bad Drummers

[polishdog90]

I might just be a dick, but does anyone else find it funny watching bad drummers? They just like spaz on the plastic kit. I laugh my ass off every time my brother does a drum fill because he just starts hitting **** as fast as he can and it sounds hilarious. Anyone else find this funny or am I a heartless bastard.

[nificant]

Hehe, yeah it's pretty funny. Like when you know how a beat is supposed to sound, but when they play it just sounds like someone falling down the stairs. Or when a fill comes (or a tough part) and they're banging away and one of their sticks goes flying.

Maybe we're both jerks.

[WiseOldUnicorn]

Heh, I'm struggling quite a bit on Hard drums lately and I even laugh at myself. I told one of my friends (who's a real drummer) that I was going to make a video of myself spazzing out on drums and upload it to Youtube, so he could laugh at me.

'Course, me and my friends and family always laugh at people when they're sucking at music games, even if we're the ones sucking. Guess we're all heartless bastards. :D

[cb150]

A coworker was over and gave the drums a try on easy. I felt so bad, he couldn't even get 1 2 3 4 going where your right arm is 1 2 3 4 and your left is 2 4.

Speaking of bad drummers, I almost fail Maps on expert www.youtube.com/slowfaller

Chris aka slowfaller aka cb150

[Aldous]

I personally think they look like those old monkey drumming toys, the whole arm moves up and down instead of the wrist. I have one friend who is about the best guitar player i have ever met and i laugh every time he picks up drumsticks. I used to feel bad for him until i try guitar in front of him and he starts to chuckle.

i just wonder if i looked like that when i learned?

[GreatClips]

haha yea you can add me to the list of heartless people. My favorite is when they start pounding their whole leg onto the pedal as hard and fast as they can, and people wonder why they break...

[CaptainHowdy101]

My problem is that my friend, who plays on easy drums, its horrible. The main issue I have is not that he is bad, but that he SOUNDS bad, the beat is way off and sometimes there isnt a beat. It throws my playing way off.

[phulcrum1984]

That's me sometimes when I'm playing a harder song I don't know well. I feel like an idiot. =p

[neo666]

I personally think they look like those old monkey drumming toys, the whole arm moves up and down instead of the wrist. I have one friend who is about the best guitar player i have ever met and i laugh every time he picks up drumsticks. I used to feel bad for him until i try guitar in front of him and he starts to chuckle.

i just wonder if i looked like that when i learned?

the whole arm moves, not wrist...and they have thier index fingers on top of the stick instead of matched or french...which i find french is best for me for rebound purposes

[S1ashRev]

I am a guitar player so the whole reason I got Rock Band is to try my hand at drums. I was very pitiful at first. I've gotten better but I can not do a fill for nothing yet. You drummers have to remember that us beginners don't even know a basic beat on a set of drums. So you would probably laugh your @ss off at me. Although I do use my wrist rather than raising my whole arm to hit the pad. It just feels more nautral, maybe because you pick a guitar at the wrist and not with a full arm moving.

[HMXWhitestar19]

It is pretty funny. What newbs. I mean, come on! There's a beat! Follow the damn beat! 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2! Simple! Good thing I was never a newb at drums..... I go now... *bolts*

[Frederf]

Hehe, yeah it's pretty funny. Like when you know how a beat is supposed to sound, but when they play it just sounds like someone falling down the stairs. Or when a fill comes (or a tough part) and they're banging away and one of their sticks goes flying.

Maybe we're both jerks.

Hahaha, oh man that mental image of a drummer on a steady beat and his drumset careening over the top of some stairs all the way to the bottom with the drummer still in it and all of the sounds that would entail...

almost died laughing.

I do have to cringe when people mash on the bass pedal like they were a comet in the movie "deep impact", girlfriend swings the mic around by the cord, girlfriend puts metal stuff on the hood of my car.

I might have to RMA both the drumkit and the girl.

[WiseOldUnicorn]

My problem is that my friend, who plays on easy drums, its horrible. The main issue I have is not that he is bad, but that he SOUNDS bad, the beat is way off and sometimes there isnt a beat. It throws my playing way off.

I had that problem when my dad decided to try his hand at drums, with me on guitar. You don't really realize how much you depend on the drum beat for your timing until you get someone who sucks playing the drums, lol.

[polishdog90]

I am a guitar player so the whole reason I got Rock Band is to try my hand at drums. I was very pitiful at first. I've gotten better but I can not do a fill for nothing yet. You drummers have to remember that us beginners don't even know a basic beat on a set of drums. So you would probably laugh your @ss off at me. Although I do use my wrist rather than raising my whole arm to hit the pad. It just feels more nautral, maybe because you pick a guitar at the wrist and not with a full arm moving.

I don't expect beginners to be good at drum fills, but that doesnt make it any less funny as I watch my friends. I even do ****ty fills sometimes, and I get laughed at. If you are new on drums the easiest way to do a fill is just hit the snare drum in the same timing as the rest of the beat. It fits in every song and as you get better you can speed it up or add in some toms/crash.

[Jixzer]

I'm not that good at drums, but for the fills, I usually just do what I call the "Round-Robin"...you know RRRR-YYYY-BBBB-G" with a bass kick on 2 and 4, or something similar, depending on the length...not the trickiest, but hey, I'm a beginner.

[zack10house]

I had never played drums in my life, but I easily jumped into expert right away....at best buy lol. once the kick pedal was factored in I was bumped down to medium (no limb independence yet)

[teh_roc]

I get terrible, a few hours in on a harder (faster) song I cant help but to hammer the pads, but my fills sound better then the other drummers we have in my circle. At least practicing on the drums has improved my left hand coordination on guitar considerably.

[neo666]

...the other drummers we have in my circle....


Sorry I had to...damn hippies lol.

jk

[a terrible drummer]

Hehe, yeah it's pretty funny. Like when you know how a beat is supposed to sound, but when they play it just sounds like someone falling down the stairs. Or when a fill comes (or a tough part) and they're banging away and one of their sticks goes flying.

Maybe we're both jerks.

I'm an alright drummer and I lose a stick every 4 or 5 songs D:

[a terrible drummer]

Hahaha, oh man that mental image of a drummer on a steady beat and his drumset careening over the top of some stairs all the way to the bottom with the drummer still in it and all of the sounds that would entail...

almost died laughing.

I do have to cringe when people mash on the bass pedal like they were a comet in the movie "deep impact", girlfriend swings the mic around by the cord, girlfriend puts metal stuff on the hood of my car.

I might have to RMA both the drumkit and the girl.

Girlfriends don't have a warranty, I filed a complain to the local church and they told me to go away. I said it was gods fault for making a faulty product

[ClinTrojan]

I'm an alright drummer and I lose a stick every 4 or 5 songs D:

LIES


he is a terrible drummer......lmao sry I had too do it!

[a terrible drummer]

LIES


he is a terrible drummer......lmao sry I had too do it!

hey man, i 4 starred everything on medium and haven't failed anything yet on hard and i'm in seattle

I got a ways to go but still I can do it!

i think D:

[joegibes]

During the fills, I usually just continue the beat I was playing beforehand, and it sounds pretty good most of the time. Of course, there are times when you just need to freak out.

[Requiem]

I love watching my girlfriend try to rock on the drums. She tries her damndest... even though it still sounds like rubbish.

[Paradox]

for fills I usually try to match the tempo of the song and kinda go with what the guitar is doing at the time.

Every now and again I'll get a fill thats way longer than I expected and it sounds kinda weird but its better than wearing out the snare drum then hitting the crash at the end.

[CowboyGP]

Its not always being a bad drummer, though. Which probably makes it funnier.

As Rogue42 says in his sig: "Rock Band Drums: The instrument where one minute you're fine, and the next you become an uncoordinated quadriplegic."

For example, I played "Ballroom Blitz" on medium for the first time in a couple of weeks last night. During the sections of snare/off-beat bass I was cruising right along without a care in the world when all of a sudden I noticed my right hand.

It was hovering awkwardly up near my face, with the stick pointing almost vertical. Kind of like the weird body language that people sometimes use in hopes of getting a bowling ball to go where they want.

I started cracking up because I realized that I looked like a complete spaz, but also there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.

Note to self: No vids of me playing Ballroom Blitz until coolness factor has increased by at least 5.