Drums Magic

[Scodischarge]

Hi guys,
This is something I've been thinking about from time to time and Seth Hughes with his question about piano magic reminded me that I'm right at The Source For All Knowledge right here. So my question is, can you think of something magical I could do with a drumset (or other percussion instruments)?
As the percussion-ensemble I play in gives a concert twice a year this could be a possible setting for a performance.

Thank you all for your help!

 

[Seth Hughes]

My mind automatically goes to an ESP demonstration involving the drums playing themselves, or something along those lines.

 

[Scodischarge]

That's almost exactly what I thought: I sit at the drumset, playing something, the sticks "accidentally" fall out of my hands, but the sounds keep coming as I move my hands as though I'm still holding the sticks.
Problem: Everybody present will say there's playback and I never really played myself.
Also: I don't know, to me it seems it wouldn't have the humorous effect or the effect of wonder a magic trick should create. Or is that just me, feeling something weird?

Thanks for your input!

 

[DaveWmson]

Don't know if you've ever seen this:

More humor than magic, but fun either way.

 

[Seth Hughes]

Don't know if you've ever seen this:

More humor than magic, but fun either way.

I love Mr Bean

 

[Scodischarge]

Don't know if you've ever seen this:

More humor than magic, but fun either way.

Thank you so much for the clip! It really is hilarious.
Wish I had been so good in my first drum lesson ...

 

[Scodischarge]

My mind automatically goes to an ESP demonstration involving the drums playing themselves, or something along those lines.

I think I figured out what's bothering me about the scenario I described above: First of all, the drums would steal the show (if they're played well enough, and anything less would be boring). Second of all, nobody would see the sticks in the first place, so nobody would notice if I "dropped" them.
Third of all, let's be honest, nobody wants to hear a drum solo. For the layman (and for most drummers as well) most drum solos are the most boring thing you can do with any instrument.

So thank you, but I'll keep on searching.

 

[obrienmagic]

#drumistry

 

[RickEverhart]

My mentor Ed Ellis, does a selected signed card found "inside" the drum. He jams the drumstick down through the drum and produces it from inside the drum. Obviously this is done at the very end of the set and magic routine.

 

[Scodischarge]

My mentor Ed Ellis, does a selected signed card found "inside" the drum. He jams the drumstick down through the drum and produces it from inside the drum. Obviously this is done at the very end of the set and magic routine.

That is not a bad idea, quite the opposite actually. Thank you for sharing it!