Mark Beecher - Crazy Army (Rudimental Drumming)

[superugly75]

Damn fine chops,very good!!!!!

[newfunkdrummer]

Hermosa combinaciòn de rudimento...

[viniciustrecool]

Nice !

[mickeydrummer29]

Drumcorps-fife and bugle

[tokarev445]

swedish chef can play the snare

[CJCbassman09]

tell your bass drummer to either raise his hands up towards the center of the head or lower the damn thing. thanks :D

[TheDragonmaster18]

@CJCbassman09 dude this is how the bass drum was origionally played. in the description it says this is anceint rudimental drumming. although this style of drumming still exsits today but only in black college drumlines. look up southern university's drumline. they play their drums exactly the way these guys in the vid just played them

[CJCbassman09]

@TheDragonmaster18 dude im in a fife and drum corps. Rudimental drumming is found A LOT in the Northeast. So it doesnt exist only in black college drumlines. i NO HOW to play the bass drum And the snare drum. the point of asking to lower the drum is because he will play in the center, getting a better tone out of the head. Look up The Connecticut Patriots fife and drum corps. They are the best senior corps in the Northeast.

[TheDragonmaster18]

@CJCbassman09 i wasnt talking about rudimental drumming i was talking about his technique which i assumed you were referring to.

[nadademamaditas]

These guys are awesome! They must get so much ass with those skills! Nicely done

[dave89891]

Nice check our version too!

[ascetic43]

I don't know about the drum sound (don't bother, I'm sure it's a historically accurate...something), but nice playing. Cheers.

[XxStrongDrums1996xX]

The bass drummer is experiencing one of these four things. He's drunk. He's High. He's Retarded. He hates his job.

[XtremeChicken1]

This is totally easy! Even my grandpa can play this

[rockstarduh5]

Am I the only person who was reminded of Santa Clara Vanguard's "Electric Wheelchair" by this?

[ryan9312]

@rockstarduh5 yeah thats just what i was thinking. i think electric wheelchair was based off of this actually

[rockstarduh5]

@ryan9312 oh cool, i had no idea. Im glad it wasn't just me imaging it haha

[rocknroolskool]

@rockstarduh5 i was like this sounds alot like electric wheelchair.

[nimajnebenneb]

This is really nice! I like it

[shildrine]

The base drummers face! lol. :) good job tho.

[gruvboy]

Nice sound Mark.

[TheDice2008]

slower please



[CJCbassman09]

bass drummers a little scaryyyy..

[sawfish33]

Nv mind I found the sheet music

But how'd u do the sort of 5 stroke roll really fast?

Is it llrrr because I tried that and that's kinda hard to play

Or is it lrllr because a paradiddle would make sense

Or it could be lllrr which isn't bad either

What is it??!!!!

[Darrell2811]

@sawfish33 All the rolls are 7 strokes starting on the left ending on the right

[ForDrumStudents]

Those videos are great Mark !!

[sawfish33]

i got the sheet music from a fife and drum website but i dont think its the whole thing, whered you get the sheet music?

[PhillyGregA]

marrrrrkkkk! great stuff!

[Parkyurkarkas]

I lover that Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor pattern.

[EnterTheOcho]

Jack Black plays bass drum?! Nice drumming! Very old school.

[castlesnaredrum]

very nice! I love the sound you get and how you play!

[JumpShotDude]

Santa Clara Vanguard Electric Wheelchair

[yeptiny09]

was based off of crazy army

[SomeGuyDrumming]

@JumpShotDude is a variation off of Crazy Army.

[mustafac1979]

Great

[SAHBfan]

Wow! Nice...

[Boofa125]

o i wish i could play the fill! that was awesome

[jjdepass]

mark beecher, wow this guy was my teacher back at valley forge military academy, i was in the pipe band with him

[baridopamarin]

steve gadd own u bouth :P

[fainshmekers]

steve gadd owns nothing :P

[shockimage]

cool, very nice drumming!

[LegallyMoi]

It was cool but got a little repetitive.

[CJCbassman09]

its ment to be repetitive

[Metalmozes]

nice

[AndyOPBFB]

its alrighte like. wouldnt be hard to learn like

[johncp1962]

Excellent job folks! I love this ditty! First time I ever heard it as a teenager was on Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor. Great sticking and execution.

[atomikfzr1]

so close to electric wheelchair

[strikeme5]

no electric wheelchair is so close to this

:)

[atomikfzr1]

true true

[Orangebeenyboy]

Ahh...

back when snare drums had a little tone..

and when rudiments had nothing to do with "cheese"

And when you wanted to have a timpani in your corpes, you carried it.

Love this stuff.

whats a pit?

[joeyisfunny]

Husky in the background scared the shit out of me at 0:57!

[gbc520]

I noticed that on measures 22-24-31-33 tha you don't accent the diddle coming off of the two triplets. Is that intentional?

[mbdrums]

Yes ... it is intentional - it's the way it's written :-)

Thanks for writing.

Mark

[hanyngve]

Very Nice

[lovesdrumsalot]

man i wonder what the lifespan is on one of those drums because of rimshots and stuff

[pebeau]

loll ! nice :D

[cliffnboyzy]

very very nice guys

[rwjazzz]

very nice

[hanyngve]

Nice.

[juanpcloy123]

look at dem old azz drums

[ludwigsupra]

Great!

[2ndpadrummer]

kinda funny how this song was made during the 20th century but it sounds like it was invented during the rev war or war of 1812

[djdresmith]

these guys are sick

[drummerman091593]

is this suppoese to be the electric wheelchair of the colonial times

[jurihaake]

you dont maybe think that murray gusseck was inspired by this to write part of electric wheelchair, chronologically that would make a shitload more sense dont ya think?

[drummerman091593]

im not sayin its electric wheelchair im jus sayin the beginning part is like it

[Pimsnare]

Yeah the beginning part is also like Legend of the one eyed sailor

[john3047X]

its the other way around

[dxkevinxd]

haha.. i dont pause long enough after the seven rolls i guess

[FerrariF50gt1]

is there any place where i can download this type of drum music?

[kevinpitcher4]

google the village volunteers and yorktown fife and drums

[RedeyeSPR]

7s are pure. Sweet.

[xSabiaNx]

Did you take this off of music? I have never heard the triplets before which start later in the piece, either way, great job both of you.

Maybe next time have the bassist leaning over with his hat covering his eyes like the snare drummer, makes it even badass-er.

Great job overall.

[lalleflab]

Wow - great job guys. I love how you bring some sort of authenticity in to this piece. I love Gadd and all his improvising over the song but this is just completely different and old school. 5 *'s!

[sebastiamer]

Hello Mark, I'd like to know where can I get the original Ed Lemley's Crazy Army sheet, because the one I use to study this riff is incomplete, there are many things missing, like flams I had to figure out by myself when watching Gadd perform, and especially those crazy triplets in part B, I love them haha. Congratulations to you and your team for this great video.

Sebastian

[therealTOTOfan]

@ sebastiamer:

I have the transcription and if you want i can scan it and mail it to you..

@mbdrums: it's cool, but the 7 stroke roll is too slow so there's always a cut in time =/

[sebastiamer]

hey therealTOTOfan, Mark sent it to me few months ago, I've been studying this riff for a year and a half now I love it it's so addictive and deep I always play it when I sit on my drumset hahaha.

[scott54555]

What is the rudement with the flams at 49 sec ?

[mbdrums]

Hey Scott, thanks for the question!

I think what you're probably referring to is the "doubling" of Crazy Army (Part B)- something which Steve Gadd leaves out in his version (which is fine and he always does an awesome job!). However ... what I play is the full original part, written by Ed Lemley and taught to Gadd by Bobby Thompson, whom I've played with on many occasions. The "rudiment" is a "Single Stroke Seven" (instead of the Flamacue in Part A) with the regular Flam Tap on the end.

M.B

[calism23]

Pretty tight, guys.

[mbdrums]

Thanks, Tom! The extra tap at the end of the song is a little ditty that we would play in tribute to a now defunct fife & drum corps - the Connecticut Yanks. A few of their tunes they would end with an extra note or flam on the upbeat or 2nd 16th note after the downbeat - just to make it funky ;-)

M.B.

[CAFanTom]

Very good. But what's with the extra tap at the end of the song?

[myaturney]

Awesome, Love it!