We play a game between the snares and tenors, and basses if they're sideways. It doesn't work on tecnique, but it really is a good cardiovascular workout. It's called snareball. You take a tennis ball or superball (golfballs work too, but they can easily break something... or a head, drum head and human head) Anyways you take a ball and you hit it off of your drum drum into the air. It's basically hacisac with marching drums. With a group of at least 4 people in a circle or just scattering it gets realy realy competetive. That plus you will be amazed at how much it works your back and legs, and how much of a cardio workout it is... especially with tenors. You'll have butt tons of fun playing it.

I don't know if this is exactly what you want but..we call it the accent game...and both people (2 person game) start doing taps with one hand and the one person...probably the teacher or whoever will play any random accent and the other person has to do his/her accent right after

Friends and myself took a band trip and we were in a restaurant and we were bored. one friend had a backpack with a pad, we all had stix (not sure why though) and we broke the stuff out and i taught them pyramid of pain, thanks to this website. we played those until the food came, and then after. We were doing it elimination style. the furthest i ever made it was like 42 measures of rolls, and i won its good times, and the name of the excercise is very fitting.

we split cadances between two people, one plays left hand, other plays right


its fun

we play an end of the year game that our band director hates

bust your heads
either during the last competition or right after, everyone tries their damnedest to play through their heads.

of course the 5th bass keeps his heads intact so that the seniors can sign it and hang it in the drum room

Race 3 Camps by buzzing them. Two people go head to head and whoever nails the final rimshot wins.

basketball with a flat basketball so its kinda like rugby. tenor bass armada vs the snares woot

We played a game where we'd make a story out of rudiments like one person would say "I went on a" and then play a short shopping spree and then the next person would say "and bought" and play a swiss cheese etc. it was pretty funny.

Well my line just have a drummin freestyle battle on a table or anything we can find and people just join in, it's fun, people learn how to do more rudiments or tricks, it's a fun experience. Take it from me

When it was time to play game, it wasn't time to drum... we played nut-ball; everyone sits in a circle and spreads his legs, and we try to hit each other by bouncing a basketball off the ground in just the right way. There was also sac-tap tuesday; on tuesdays it was not a punishable offence to hit a guy where it hurts except during rehearsal.

I'd also do "drum-battles" with the bass line. We'd set up a pad on a stand, and see who could play the worst, easiest lick with the most arrogant, ridiculous attitude... we'd talk terrible crap and play something like a buzz and an out-of-tempo paradiddle, while saying, "Yeah, I'm the best!" making a spectacle for the horn players to watch during meals.

During a sectional at band camp, we took office chairs and tracked down the hallway playing on pads. Then there was race-to-the-finish-let diddles, where the snareline would see who could get to the end of our triplet diddles exercise first.

...generally screwing around.