Hi, my name is Emily. I am 9 years old and this is my seventeenth video

October 15, 2017 4:23 PM

Emily's drum cover of "Be Yourself" by Audioslave (check out the subtle sideways glance at 4:05). Emily posts videos of her drum covers of rock songs, and has been doing so for a while. The drum only audio track for the linked Audioslave song.

I am 6 years old and this is my second video: "Fortunate Son" - CCR
I am 8 years old and this is my tenth video: "Animal" - Neon Trees
I am 9 years old and this is my fifteenth video: "Surrender" - Cheap Trick
I am ten years old and this is my twenty-fourth video: "Just What I Needed" - The Cars
Hi, my name is Emily and I am 13 years old. (35th): "A Song For The Dead" - Queens Of The Stone Age

"Surrender" was her 2013 submission for Hit Like A Girl , which features a ton of other great drum covers by kids (and adults). Including this amazing submission by the 12 year old A. Tobler: "Wax Simulacra" - The Mars Volta

posted by Gorgik (16 comments total)

No matter what you do, there's a ten-year-old on Youtube who does it better than you.
posted by clawsoon at 4:35 PM on October 15, 2017 [28 favorites]

OMG. She is perfection. Already has "drummer face."
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:40 PM on October 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

\m/!!!
posted by btfreek at 4:40 PM on October 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

compare this to this
posted by growabrain at 4:47 PM on October 15, 2017

more mystery meat: remember this?
posted by growabrain at 4:54 PM on October 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

I'm just thrilled to learn there's a thirteen year old girl in 2017 who's heard Cheap Trick.
posted by davebush at 4:58 PM on October 15, 2017 [15 favorites]

I... feel like I... get drumming better from watching this.

Hats off to her.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:04 PM on October 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

Hats off to her.

I see what you did there
posted by Philby at 5:10 PM on October 15, 2017 [6 favorites]

I love this. I adore her. She is my newest hero.
posted by vrakatar at 5:21 PM on October 15, 2017

She's wonderful!
The mean old man in me, though, wants her to tackle some Keith Moon.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:35 PM on October 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

Just watched the Audioslave one but that was great. Her micro-"fuckin' GET IT" expressions on the big hits is the best. Also digging the Angry (Drummer) Birds in the background.
posted by curious nu at 5:44 PM on October 15, 2017 [3 favorites]

"Don't start anything new unless you start it when you are five or six years old." Words of wisdom to live by.
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:33 PM on October 15, 2017

I just sent "Just What I Needed" to my sister. My sister who insisted from the age of about 5 that she wanted to be a rock and roll drummer when she grew up. Mostly because of Animal on the muppets. (Parents never did get her a drum set, 30 years later her husband did.)
posted by Gotanda at 9:37 PM on October 15, 2017 [4 favorites]

And, the comments! I just flipped through the comments on that video and they are almost uniformly awesome. She wins at drums and at the Internet by having a YouTube vid with nice, friendly, fun comments.
posted by Gotanda at 9:40 PM on October 15, 2017

[Turns in chair and glares with resentment & disapointment at 2^3/4 year-old banging erratically on a cookie tin with chopsticks]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:09 AM on October 16, 2017 [10 favorites]

Wow, really kicks up a notch with the QotSA. It's cool to see someone growing into a body that can produce so much more POWER than the one that they had when they were learning this skill.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 9:40 AM on October 17, 2017 [1 favorite]