1982 DCI Snare Solo Scott Johnson

[blackman520]

lol he does the same shit before plays now a days to,

[funkywhite]

There's a new Scott Johnson video where he plays at PASIC 2008. Very very nice. Very confident playing. The newer snare drum manufacturing makes all the notes more defined as well.

[j054uaj054ua]

The Chuck Norris of drumming.

[jackhammer10101]

@j054uaj054ua

Chuck Norris is better and faster...All he needs to do is round-house kick the judges to win...Chuck Norris is the only snare drum champion that never needs to play a solo...

[PhantomDrums917]

I love the laundry hanging in the back.

[codawsome]

i just shit my pants

[andythedruumer23]

wow he has been playing this for years..

[shooster11]

Impressive!!! I know someone here said someone else would have "smoked" Scott Johnson, but that's not the point, don't pay any attention to them, and tell them where they can shove it. This is impressive.

[jnyfknblz]

frantic at times

[treefalse]

Large open gyms; apparently the best acoustics for solo's back then.

[jcoopa123]

i saw this somewhere else and i thought he just through it together...guess not.lol

[killabutcha]

What year did he age out

[sgt2112]

Ken Mazur would smoke him.

[jmc647]

solo is called cultivation...as in growing that green

[AnAZNK1d]

look how skinny he was haha

[MrJCStephenson]

Scott Johnson wrote the spida toss section for the 04 blue devils

[Djsilver64]

Even his buzz rolls are squeaky clean.

[Inspadave]

Has Johnson ever done the arranging for the Blue Devils? From my understanding Dave Glyde writes the battery book.

[FleugenFlagen]

that would be correct. Scott is responsible for the exercise routine.

[tdubasdfg]

Dave Glyde writes the good stuff for the line to play

Scott Johnson trains the line to be good enough to play it

[NahteAzn]

That's how you become from playing when you were 6. Totally legendary.

[Angelzxairwaves]

actually he was 4 =P

[omzi79]

that was awesome

[daryk44]

Now i know how Noel Alvarez was so good last year. He copied this.

Of course i'm being facetious, but you get my point.

[thatmantraman]

Good God! That was a lot of notes in a short amount of time! Beautiful!

[funkywhite]

Really nice. Obviously, this is not the "winning" performance, but a practice routine. Listen to the singles from :24 to :29, they are slightly uneven in places. I'm not saying that Scott isn't the Man, as he most likely is, but it's interesting to try and find weak spots in the solo. (where you can figure out what the heck he is playing, right? LOL!) Again, the dude plays better than me, so this isn't a diss.

[JumpStop1]

yeah you can hear some of the weak spots, but there is no way in hell i can play anything remotely like Scott, DAMN he is great!

[LZdude532]

i dont know the technical term for it cause im not a drummer but that stick stuff he was doing at 2:03 was sick nasty

[WhrsTheMoneyLabowski]

you mean "stick" nasty...Ziiiiiiiiiing (slaps self in face)

[clownhc]

I really hate it when people diss Scott Johnson, guy's fucking amazing. Definitely one of the best snare drummers to ever compete in DCI as well as one of the best snare drummers OUT there.

[davekrepp]

Thats what a snare drum should sound like, Thank you Float!!!!

[Moog167]

OMG THE FLAMS!!!!!

[whitecastleawesome]

..and then spida, toss, spida, toss, hi-mom, spida..

[harleeondrums]

Beastly

[drumworkshop593]

Am i mistaken or is this the solo he won i&e with?

[drumrguy]

Definitely not warmed up. Look how weak that left is in the beginning. :p

[prodigydrummer]

He looks like chuck norris back in the day lmao

[panhead55]

they should go back to the older sounding snares, great sound!

[ERICpwnsNOOBSallDAY]

what does dci stand for?

[bigdrummerboi]

it stands for drum corps international

[babemomlover]

What does that chick say in the beginning?

[PhantomPhire25]

It's amazing Sco Jo doesn't look that old.

[tendura]

ScoJo's Lick of the week!

[IHATEPLAID]

HAHA LMAO!!

[drumgod4]

won too aw aw...

if your not having fun...

[CPGLOCK]

lmao

[1OOYears]

its kind of creepy how theres cloths everywhere, hehe... ^O^

[abda53]

It's called drum corps.

[1OOYears]

kind of a joke, haha... :]

[thaiguy20fromla]

haha, he makes low tension snares sound great to play...

[JeffoftheShout]

"This guy" Scott Johnson was a marching member in the Blue Devils snare line from 1976 through 1979. He became a member of the Blue Devil staff as a Percussion instructor from 1978 through 1989 and later rejoined the organization in 1994 as Director of Percussion and Percussion Arranger.

[vissonari]

this guy is amazing, but most of what he plays ends up being just buzzy noise...still he's crazy he should do set

[drumperson1]

you havnt been playing/listening to marching snare long. your ears arent tuned to hear the differences in time signatures, tempos, rudiments, hybrid rudiments etc. the buzzing noises are beucase he is playing fast. once you have been around long youll hear how musical this realy is and how complicated it is.

[vissonari]

maybe

[jackhammer10101]

@drumperson1

But...what if I have...and my ears are?

[PunkDrummer45]

OMG HES MY NEW HERO

[1OOYears]

woa, what Corp did he march for?

[captandrummer]

HE TEACHS THE BLUE DEVILS

[1OOYears]

I Know, but if he marched a corp, which did he march?

all I know is that when he was young, he was in one, but dunno which... :]

[littlesnareboy]

He teaches Blue Devils, and he marched for them when he was younger. He was in some other corps first but I don't remember which ones

[BrianandJacob]

he played in the blue devils drumline

[avisupchurch]

HOLY CRAP!

[reeldeelpeel]

well yeah, of coarse, but I'm just saying 2 and a half decades ago, marching snares were much lower in pitch. Everything is higher in pitch today

[reeldeelpeel]

it's funny how low pitched the snares were back then

[GreenCowboy]

Sounds like a snare drujm to me? :)

[malletphreak]

seriously before they cranked them until they can't be cranked no more eh?

[BlueDevilsTowelBoy]

@reeldeelpeel mylar head

[panhead55]

@reeldeelpeel that is what a real snare sounds like. dont be fooled

[reeldeelpeel]

@panhead55,

Well, someone alive 200 years ago could argue that a snare drum from the dawn of the 19th century is how a real snare sounds. Drums change, just like people's minds do over time. I think high-tension kevlar heads sound better with today's more demanding passages. But I appreciate the sound of a 70's or 80's snare drum.

[reeldeelpeel]

How did you get this

[GreenCowboy]

In the collection. . .Just had it