Idiot- (myself) the tenor player that thinks they can run with their drums and drops everything in their hands. Most of the time in front of a another line.

"Reef-it" - verb: to crank a drum, crank the tempo, crank the volume, increase the speed, tension or intensity of anything.

"Yo dude... let's reef some flam drags" or "Dude... this snare souds terrible...you need to reef it!"

haha i loved it!!...time to update my vocab with some of these words haha

red skull- when your caption gets so mad that his/her head turns blood red and his/her eyes come out of their head (from personal experience, it aint fun)

"Potatoes Rolling Down Stairs" -- What a thoroughly mangled bass drum run sounds like.

I actually heard this one on a drum corps field percussion judge's tape.

Okay... so i have a BIG list lol

Apes**t - Using large movements of the arm while going very fast

Bag - anything that was horrible

Bag of suck - where there is a whole lot of Suckin goin on where there is a whole bag of it

Ballzando - A dynamic level far above traditional dynamic levels

Beaver - to cut up ones sticks from rimshots

Beech 'Em - when your section leader calls "beech em" and everybody takes their drums off because the Directior wants to yak his head off for an hour

Female Dog - a relatively virgin drum line addition whom is frequently called upon for such services as fetching water, picking up trash, Carrying things around the field, and being subjected to countless act of ridicule and emberassment

Brass Slapper - Cymbal player

Buzz kill - Expecting a Cool Lic, but it turns out to suck e.g. "The Bluecoats drumline is a total Buzz kill"

Cattle Guard - Derogatory term for the Color Guard

Cheezz - A poorly written part

Chef, The - A percussionist who plays Traditional and cant keep that good ol' left hand down, just like stiring Chicken noodle Soup

Clusterf**k - a set in which everyone is disoriented and misplaced

Cop Killer - when a member of the snare line puts his/her stick through the Kevlar head

Doin it up for Grandma - when a freakin ree-ree wears his hat way up on his head so his Grandma can take pictures, even though it looks Ridiculous

Doughboy - Name given to one who is gasping for air after the first 15 minutes of practice

Druminese - the Universal language implimented by Drummers consisting of mouth sounds used to imitate the sounds of Drums

Eargasm - Climax of an incredible drum lic listening experience

Flaggot - derogatory Name for any color guard member

Flash Flood - when only one snare cant hack the part so it gets watered down

Flem - when a flam is played so dirty is sounds like someone coughed it up

Give Good Head - to play Well

Hailstorm - a Dirty Roll

Hatin' it - a state of being which is somewhat like suffering





Well there is actually a lot more... but what im gonna do is get on my scanner.. and get some PDF's of them for ya lol there are about 7 more pages

Ive seen this list before,i think its great. and some of the things on there are pretty funny.

Mama=My Drumline instructor

Drop a House - an over the top accent much like "Ballzando" to help accentuate the fact that the band is also playing an incredibly over the top accented note. denoted by drawing a small square house with a triangle roof over the indicated note to be accented.

sub woofer: bottom bass

master: the doctor beat
virgin: someone who hasnt doen the standard hourly workout
dut: sound used to imitate sound of drum