drumFunny – percussive comedy & music humor

When teaching, if you ever need to drive home the point about keeping your hands relaxed when you hit a drum, show your students this video.

I dare you – eff it – I DOUBLE dare you to get through these pictures without breaking at least a smile.

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(via Ellen van Deelen / swns.com)

Thanks, Nathaniel!

In this, the most involved and produced video yet, the Xylopholks take us through New York’s five boroughs, bringing ragtime hilarity at the same time. This video was submitted by Xylopholks frontman Jon Singer, who was fortunate enough to receive a Fulbright to study mrudangam (south Indian drumming) through May 2010. The Xylopholks are hoping to raise enough money to bring the entire crew over to film a documentary (which, in all likelihood, will be even more hilarious than anything we’ve seen yet).

If you’d like to contribute, head over to their website and contribute a few bucks. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy their best installment yet.

Thanks, Jon!

If you’re my age (24) or younger and follow drum corps, consider yourself really damn lucky. There were days not long ago when dudes had to trade videos and cassette tapes of drumlines with their friends if they wanted to hear lot clips or street beats or book. Chances are the recordings were from well after the season or even worse, if you didn’t have any friends with recordings, you had nothing to listen to at all.

Then came youtube. Now we can sit for hours on end and watch countless videos great lines only days after it was filmed live. We can in essence follow a line’s progress throughout the season.

And NOW we have corps like the Cavaliers that are embracing the social media shift and posting audio clips MINUTES after they were recorded. Seriously, how cool is that??

And yet despite having such amazing access to all this FREE content that you don’t have to do a DAMN thing to get while getting it almost INSTANTLY, people use it as an opportunity to bash and call out groups.

So before you go and publicly crown yourself “internet douchebag,” realize how lucky we are.

Just an FYI, I’ve changed the handle on my twitter from @drumfunny to @ChrisLeone. If you were following @drumFunny, you will still receive all my tweets, they will just display with the new name. There’s nothing you need to do, just don’t direct anything to @drumFunny anymore . . .

-Chris

Vadrum impresses again with this accompaniment to Super Mario Brothers 3. Hearing this music always brings flashbacks of playing Mario (read: watching my brother play Mario). All of them have great music (even the new games), but the originals are something special.

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Four Malmö Symphony Orchestra horn players substitute their french horns for garden hoses to play the first movement of Leopold Mozarts Huntsymphony. Due to the increased difficulty of changing pitch by only using their mouths, some parts had to be…..hosed. uh huh huh huh