Drumming Up an Audience

Have you ever been out somewhere and seen people performing music, dance, or even comedy on the street?

Here’s a video of a young man doing some very fast percussion with some plastic buckets on a street in what might be New York. Enjoy his skills and look for the ways he’s working to make the experience valuable.

How is he making money off this performance? Do you see how it’s not just through what people drop in his tip bucket?

If you don’t, you might read the description of the video on the YouTube page. You might also learn who William Wei is, as well as his motivation for naming the video what he did.

Do you know people (or are you someone) who would try performing music or similar in a public place like this? What would be important, in terms of personality and outlook, to make something like this work?

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Best Drummer Ever by William Wei on YouTube (4:18)

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