Short and Sweet Tech Sayings

[ARZiehm]

"come on! that *beep* owes you like 50 bucks and your homeless and you want your *beep* beer so beat the *beep* out of her!" <--- we play aggressive like crown/teal sound

"Dude your beating her like you have her *beep* up your *beep*" "wait "she" is a transvestite?!"

What?

It makes perfect sense to me. It's just extremely vulgar. As you can tell by all the beeps.

Doesn't seem like a good saying IMO.

[billc36]

Doesn't seem like a necessary saying at any level.

[cunninghamkid]

We had a friday rehearsal before are 2nd show on the next day (saturday) are snare tech says, "you need to hit that note like a red headed step child." Everyone just looks around and laughs, it was one of those did he just say that moments haha.

[schorsquatch]

we have:

"Hamster the met"

"Grab the wire" or "don't lose the wire"

"Step up...THROW DOWN"

"Find your dots" for stick placement on heads

"Brains on"

Ok, I get "Brains On" and "Find your dots", but "Hamster the Met"?

[Wagsdrummer92]

i think it means "get the met inside you", as in feel the beat

[Hertaz]

i think it means "get the met inside you", as in feel the beat

Your tech puts hamsters inside you?

[sxetnrdrmr]

we have:

"Hamster the met"

"Grab the wire" or "don't lose the wire"

"Step up...THROW DOWN"

"Find your dots" for stick placement on heads

"Brains on"

Ok, I get "Brains On" and "Find your dots", but "Hamster the Met"?

I'll have to PM ya because the description would probably get me in trouble with the mods...

[sxetnrdrmr]

i think it means "get the met inside you", as in feel the beat

exactly, based off of a story i was telling the kids about when my friend was a resident at a local hospital ER and some of the stuff he encountered

[schorsquatch]

OK... then it was what I thought it was.

That will definitely NOT make the list.

Seems like this is turning into a thread about "That which will never be uttered on Schorsquatch's drumline"

Once again, I knew I could count on you guys for true inspiration.

[Flammin5s]

"BASSES! Why do your unisons sound like shoes in a dryer?! Clean it up!"

[billc36]

The little pearl that I pull out of my hat every once in a while..

"Basses, that sounded like a fat man falling down a flight of steps!"

[hotbeats645]

"perfect, we never have to practice that again"-after we totally fail on a lick. been hearing that a lot because we just got show music, first time runs in rehearsals were pretty awful

[JLbluefan09]

"You can play dirty by yourself any time. Just don't do it here."
"Make them (the crowd) throw babies."

[Wagsdrummer92]

"These are your notes, I wrote each specific note for you as individuals, they are your notes. Own them."

[Wagsdrummer92]

"Drumming is not just about ramming notes, its just as much about playing the rests.
Think of percussion as a sustained sound and you have to insert rests into it to create music. Without those rests its just noise."

[Novak]

"Before you can play it clean you have to be able to hear it clean."

I used that and it blew my kid's minds.

[Wagsdrummer92]

"if you can say it you can play it"
"find a stop sign hug it then come back" (we were on the football field) <- it was to make us stop rushing

[Novak]

"if you can say it you can play it"
"find a stop sign hug it then come back" (we were on the football field) <- it was to make us stop rushing

"From your last rep of 8s I can tell you guys dig the band Rush. Here's a hint, you're doing it wrong." That always gets the point across, I use it a lot.

[Randall112]

SNARES! Stop making popcorn!! Listen!

[KBoe5]

"Grey is bad. Grid is good."

"Dude, you're playing from a defensive position, you gotta think of that like taking it in the ass."

"You march like a yak. (Couple weeks later) You march like a hermit crab."

"Up on them toes! Down on dem *beep*..."

[Bustamento]

"clean it up"
No one has said this
bahaha, but i like "Stay Sexy" and we have to reply with "Always"

[shyguy]

*Playing around, sloppy drumming, loud children, unnecessary rim shots*
"Why don't you do something more productive, like stare at a wall?"

[schorsquatch]

*Playing around, sloppy drumming, loud children, unnecessary rim shots*
"Why don't you do something more productive, like stare at a wall?"

My response to this is "Gentlemen, this is a HACK FREE zone..."

Hacking is my pet peeve.

For sloppy playing during rehearsal...

"Gentlemen, this is a HACK FREE zone! Wait a minute? You were trying to play the music? Oh well, my bad, carry on..."

I also started using the NATO phoenetic alphabet to describe terms that adults aren't supposed to use around/at students:

Bravo Alpha = Bad Ass
Charlie Foxtrot = Cluster *beep*

You get the idea

[schorsquatch]

Also (for poor marching or dress)

"Guys, that line looks like my Grandmother's teeth, and SHE'S BEEN DEAD FIFTEEN YEARS!"

[doylejd]

Two of my personal favorites of my own design:

"Check in."

"Ring ring! Hold on... *pull out phone* Hello? Oh hey! *pull phone away from head* It's you guys phoning it in!"

Two of my favorites I have heard others say:

"Don't get lost in the reps!"

*The instructor bends down and acts like he is collecting something. He then offers 'full' arms to the bassline* "Basses. These are all of the notes you dropped."