Post by Zylaa on Dec 2, 2007 0:35:16 GMT -5
Here, for your convenience, is a handy quiz to figure out if you are a drummer or not. (What, you thought the only criteria was playing the drums in band?)
1) You are bored. You are handed drumsticks. You...
a. put down the drumsticks
b. idly beat on things
c. start drumming on the hardest surface you can find, the better to make a loud noise.
2) You are on a crowded bus, on the way to a parade, and you have your drumsticks with you. You...
a. don't play. People may be trying to have conversations.
b. idly beat on things.
c. begin beating on the bus seat, bus windows, bus walls, and if available, the luggage racks- whichever makes the most noise.
3) While waiting for the parade to start, you are in an echoing alleyway, one that the entire marching band must stay in for an hour. You...
a. don't play. People may want to keep their eardrums after this hour is up.
b. idly beat on things.
c. begin to play your favorite rhythm as loud as possible, along with the other drumline members, and plan to challenge other marching band drumlines to drum battles.
4) At the end of the parade route, there is an underpass which echoes five times as loud as the alleyway did. You...
a. don't play. The parade route is over.
b. play, but play softer, so as not to deafen people.
c. sense that you now have the capability to make a sound as loud as a rock concert, and play at maximum volume.
5) On the way home, the band director tells you to stop playing for a while, because people need to make phone calls. You...
a. don't play. People need to make phone calls.
b. drum on the seat, which is muffled enough that you won't be a bother.
c. wait fifteen seconds, the time it takes for the band director to turn around and sit down, and then resume beating on the bus seat, bus windows, bus walls, and if available, the luggage racks.
The correct answer, according to our drumline, is "c."
1) You are bored. You are handed drumsticks. You...
a. put down the drumsticks
b. idly beat on things
c. start drumming on the hardest surface you can find, the better to make a loud noise.
2) You are on a crowded bus, on the way to a parade, and you have your drumsticks with you. You...
a. don't play. People may be trying to have conversations.
b. idly beat on things.
c. begin beating on the bus seat, bus windows, bus walls, and if available, the luggage racks- whichever makes the most noise.
3) While waiting for the parade to start, you are in an echoing alleyway, one that the entire marching band must stay in for an hour. You...
a. don't play. People may want to keep their eardrums after this hour is up.
b. idly beat on things.
c. begin to play your favorite rhythm as loud as possible, along with the other drumline members, and plan to challenge other marching band drumlines to drum battles.
4) At the end of the parade route, there is an underpass which echoes five times as loud as the alleyway did. You...
a. don't play. The parade route is over.
b. play, but play softer, so as not to deafen people.
c. sense that you now have the capability to make a sound as loud as a rock concert, and play at maximum volume.
5) On the way home, the band director tells you to stop playing for a while, because people need to make phone calls. You...
a. don't play. People need to make phone calls.
b. drum on the seat, which is muffled enough that you won't be a bother.
c. wait fifteen seconds, the time it takes for the band director to turn around and sit down, and then resume beating on the bus seat, bus windows, bus walls, and if available, the luggage racks.
The correct answer, according to our drumline, is "c."