Has anybody ever had a "over-hyped" drummer in their high-school, like the pretty much categorized as the "the best" drummer. I had one of those in my school everyone constantly talked about him and such and thought he was amazing while there where other drummers who got no chance under the spot light. Has anybody experienced this or have a "High-School Drummer"








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yeah it was me haha. kidding kidding! i know what you mean though. i had like a rivalry between a kid at my school. but i took it more seriously then he did and kinda passed him up. i havent seen or spoken to him since highschool. makes me wonder what hes doin now?








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there were a few of us that were pretty good. it was totally healthy competition tho. we'd get together and show each other stuff.








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i wasn't overhyped man, i was da-badest-mufucker-in-da-world.

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there were a few of us that were pretty good. it was totally healthy competition tho. we'd get together and show each other stuff.

Thats how it was at my high school. we rotated playing on each others kits every couple weeks. I was hated by the other drummers tho because i had been playing half as long as them and was better than all but one. i've surpassed him now but he's making alot of money playing.








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The "this guy's totally better than you" thing only happened to me once and I didn't give a rat's ass about it. When he came up from 8th to 9th, we actually became friends by joking about it. He even told me, "I don't know why people think I'm better than you" one time.

I don't know, drumming's never been about competition to me. I prefer sports and/or exercise for releasing my competitive energy.








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it was me for a short while but then a new sixth former came and hes got the spot light...
not bragging but i'm probs better than him, i've never seen him do anything special and he aint even got a kit or know how to look after one.








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Yeah, in high school that guy was one of my best friends. He was a drumline kid - played marching tenors. He wasn't completely over-hyped: he was a verifiable badass at marching percussion. After HS he went into a division I drum and bugle corps, I believe he teaches marching percussion now. But in retrospect, his style on the drum set was a little underdeveloped. His technique was perfect and that kid sure could MOVE (like all good tenor players), but he tended to be a bit heavy handed, and his solos often sounded pretty much like marches... which is appropriate in some contexts and not in others.

I never got caught up in the competition thing because I was only beginning to learn at that point, and thus I could barely even keep a beat, much less compete with anyone.

Right now I'm a student at a small college in a very small town. There are about a half-dozen competent drummers at the whole school, and once again, there's that one guy who is very clearly at the top of the pecking order, but he knows where he stands in the big scheme of things (he's seen enough of the real world). In other words, he's good, and he knows he's good, but he doesn't claim to be in the same league as Buddy Rich like "the High School Drummer" sometimes will.

Definitely had a senior like that when I was but a freshman, and then the next year I had to fill his shoes the best I could. The worst part was that he is insanely good. Painfully good.... even still, he has not withered or stopped playing, he's better than ever. What with his left foot claves and ghost notes that don't stop.

Check him out and tell him how great he is...

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i guess there was a couple of those high school drummers that were in the marching band when i was in hs, and one in particular was really arrogant. he was good but he wasn't hands down better than the rest of us and he only played in the marching band so no one got to see how good he was with a rock band. it was never a competition for me, if i come across a better drummer i try to learn from him not out play him. i am really happy with where i am as a drummer right now but i still have so much to learn, i think the best drummers arent the types described, i think they are the ones that never settle with their skill sets and are always ready to learn new things.

In the two years I've been at my high school, there have been three or four with that "best" title. I've only seen two, and neither has any skills you won't find amongst the bored kids at Guitar Center every weekend.








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R to the Core, baby.

The drummer that I replaced in High School, I had been compared to since I was in middle school. He was a year older than me and came from a family of well known drummers. I was always compared to him. I really didnt mind it, but I made it my goal that I wanted to hear him say that I was better than him before I graduated. One weekend my senior year, my band was playing at a barn party. This guy just happened to be back from college for the weekend and was in attendance. During a break I was talking to him, just catching up, and the words just came out of his mouth. "YOU SOUND GOOD, YOUR DEFENITLY BETTER THAN ME". That was it, all of the comments that I had to hear for years just didnt matter anymore.








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everyone sees th best drummer in my school as the fastest, the most metal.

it was funny when i had a drum off and went all jazz/buddy rich/tech/drum n bass on his ass... you could tell he was like wtf.

people still bum him cause hes a superfast metal drummer, no groove or tech. just speed. Hes a nob too.

Im just tapping away in my band slipping in those little accents








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everyone sees th best drummer in my school as the fastest, the most metal.

it was funny when i had a drum off and went all jazz/buddy rich/tech/drum n bass on his ass... you could tell he was like wtf.

people still bum him cause hes a superfast metal drummer, no groove or tech. just speed. Hes a nob too.

Im just tapping away in my band slipping in those little accents

haha, that awesome! I had/have a good punk drummer in my school that was "the best" and then the drummer in my band was getting better and better while the punk drummer was playing a lot of guitar and stuff and then eventually the drummer in my band became "the best" and it pissed me off cause all the sudden he could do nothing wrong and everything he did was the greatest thing ever, which just wasnt true! oh well, its all about the rolls in school contests anyway and a lot of rolls are closer to jerking off than music!








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no one really talks about music in our school, but I know one guy who thinks he is the shit at drumming and knows everything. I just laff.








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Happens in every high school out there.....another one that pissed me off in high school was people referring to the band their in as "MY BAND" or Hey have you seen "Random Name's Band?"








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