The Real Drumline Drummers (we started it all in 1982)...........

These 4 young men helped change black drumlines across America. Natives of Durham, NC they attended Hillside High and Later went to North Carolina A&T State University (the school that the movie Drumline was based on). While joining the Marching band in (1984/1985), they shared the techniques with the Drumline (Cold Steel) and learned new techniques as well. These techniques laid the foundation for all Black Highschool and Black College Drumlines across America. This footage was filmed in 1982 in Greensboro, NC where these 4 young men placed 2nd in a Talent Show where they were considered the minority. These 4 men started the drumming techniques seen in the Block Buster Hit Movie Drumline, at the high schools and colleges they attended. Some would even argue that the Movie was clearly inspired by and was perhaps even based on one or all of these individuals. Pernell Briggs, Gerald Tharrington, Timothy Bryant, and Daryl Spellman

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[tatumestes]

Also, to the video describer: This may have been started by 4 blacks and initially picked up by black schools, but don't you think it would be fair to say that it laid the foundation for ALL high school and college drumlines, no matter the race? We owe a lot of musical background to black culture, but blacks certainly not the only ones who play on drumlines these days.

[ptrol06]

@tatumestes - I was simply saying that we started this type of drumming at the highschools and colleges that we attended.

[ghostlat]

To be honest, Drum Corps were doing a lot of this before '82..

[yvetteaonmyown]

@CR4TES They were playing the basics. Tch...

[yvetteaonmyown]

@999124999 Soul stirring + amazing = !Blacks!

[yvetteaonmyown]

UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING!!!! Durham, NC YOU should be PROUD of these 4 AMBASSADORS - FAB to the 7th power!!! They make me ashamed to be from Houston, Texas - we got nothing like them especially in 1982. Eh, good in business not great - Great in hospitality to visitors and new persons though. Great to minorities- Great INTERNATIONAL business city!!! Of which I am eternally grateful and proud but no drummers like yours! Oh well, can't have everything...

[lardhasfoundhislunch]

BAD ASS SHIT!!

[poopmcdoopdoop]

@Dubstepmeliek Not invented yet bro

[GDItsMeInTheFlesh]

Even if you did invent it, it doesn't make you the REAL Drumline, just the first. And you obviously didn't perfect it.

[mldrake01]

does anybody else care that the routine is sloppy?

[Itachi90125]

Personally I don't like lines with snares like that. I think they're pussys. With a sound like that you're getting fake cleanliness.

[Mspendragon72]

WOW!!



[Th3Gam31z0va]

Aggie pride!! C/O 2004