DCI Embarrassing Moments 

"It's ok we have godlike percussion"

It's all about recovery. Except for that last one. There is no recovering from that.

for anyone wondering: you get points taken away if you mess up, you get some points back if you recover as if nothing happened. My section leader told me a girl locked her knees one competition and we got extra points for *stepping over her unconscious body.*

I know the guy at 0:28 who dropped his snare. Whenever he introduces himself to band people that’s the first thing he tells them. Everyone to this day still makes fun of him for it. 😂

I was in the stadium when the tenor fell over in the second clip. He was down for a good few seconds, but man did haul absolute ass 50 yards to get back with the line.

It's amazing how short the video is, I think it's because DCI has the least mistakes in the world. LOL

The way the snare drummer played it off when he lost his snare was amazing

I actually never noticed the BlueCoats fail...

What I learned: Cavies are blessed no matter what happens And SCV 2015's pit is full of legends

I absolutely lost it with the sound effect of the solo rifle smacking his head. Thank you!! BAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

You missed so many more Bluecoats eating shit off the ramps. Also need that 89 BD solo.

wait how the hell did he get his snare back

Fun fact, SCV 2015 (the one where the piano died) had the piano part picked up by the mallets by default, so it’s not the fact that it’s godlike percussion, it’s the fact that they actually played their show

The phantom regiment member falling off is my band director😂

Imagine being that pianist when you got a solo part :(

aww...they didn't have the judge almost getting taken out a crowns guard

Well good thing recovery is apart of the DCI grading

The scv 2015 one is a tragic story, he has severe social anxiety so when the camera was on him he opened his eyes and panicked and stopped playing. He froze up

Me clicking: oh I’ve missed a set nothing can be that ba- First one: Me: *AaAAAAHHhhhHhhH*

0:28 - that one gets me everytime i can’t stop laughing for some reason

but whats really impressive it that they all kept going. they all were having fun. and to the last group, im sure it seemed like a great idea that year

You missed the bluecoats at the very end in the victory run I think a color guard member dropped their rifle on the last chord

Idk if this only includes finals performances but there's that one clip of that BD Horn player getting beaned on the head by a huge rifle toss during a run through

"I think you droped something" XD

The Cavaliers did that one on purpose...

How about Cavies 2001 when one guy fell flat on his face at finals, or Phantom 03 when one trumpet player misses the first horns up of the show with the multicam right on him (also at finals, of course), or BD 07 finals when the mellophone right in the front of the circle missed the stepoff and nearly gets run over

I love how my current percussion instructor is in every single dci embarrassing moments or fails video.

That judge returning the snare was awesome! One of my favorite DCI moments.

0:05 the guy in the vid works at my school. His name is Nick Skinner and he’s our music caption head😂

Those recoveries tho

I cringe every time I hear the SCV one

I love how many of the fails are in the winning shows or top 3.

0:26 he locked his knees and he passed out

does anybody know what actually happened with the scv guy, ive heard different reasons for why he cut out

If I lost a snare I’d keep air-playing and pretend nothing happened. Well... I say that I’d probably panic. 😂

The SCV one... :'(

2:05 that one trumpet quartet in the band that are always together🤣 (me)

Had a couple good ones like these when I marched. Had a snare player fall backwards on my line fall backwards, the snare came off the hanger and rolled up his chest, the rim cracked him right in the nose and broke it, so much blood but he finished the show. Another night we had my tenor players pull right up on the 50, front sidelines for their solo, my center tenor lowers his drums for the solo and PLOP! Fell right to the ground! He just looked around and kept marching the rest of the show drumless. Things happen, just recover best you can and keep going.

Holy shit these guys recover remarkably well

The the 2nd one I screamed KNEES LOCKED

I needed this because I had fallen yesterday at a Halftime show, trying to run back to our spots after our trumpet quartet. I can confirm that band shoes have little to NO traction! Haha

OMG THAT POOR BD TENOR GUY HE LOOKED SO SAD WHEN HE FELL OFF THE PROP 😭😂

When I first started watching Drum corp videos. I looked up videos like this to no avail, cool to see one finally show up. A very entertaining!

The Cavaliers... I watched quarterfinals this year in theaters. They had one of those visuals where everyone does something kinda different from each other.... the guy I chose to watch held up the tradition and whipped :,( Dead inside

Make more of these omg

0:56 “catch my instrument too”

How about the poor Cadet who stepped out early in the TEN set on finals night.

1:59 I love how obviously fake this is

1:43 every new marching band member trying to figure out the official uniform. Basically me this year.

The editing makes it so much better

This video made me realize the cavies are the best.

Thank Jesus for the marimba anchor.

Love this. You rock.

WHEN HE LOST THE SNARE OMFG

1:35 I guess the good thing about this clip is that it was a victory run, and the Cavaliers already won the 2006 world championship. Bro got a little too pumped up 💀

1:36 is not embarrassing it’s full savage he hit the drum so hard it fell off 😂

This video never fails to make me laugh

That yard marker got disrespected lmao

0:56 I CRINGED SO HARD THAT PHYSICALLY HURT I NEED A MINUTE TO RECOVER I THOUGHT HE DROPPED IT BY ACCIDENT *OOOOOOOOFFFF*

Hope you got footage for another one of these after this season. Watched two drumline members fall just in the 6 corps at the theater opening night.

How does one lose a snare??

2:05 I would most definitely want to do this during a show 😂

I felt that riffle to the head

The dude In the first one is a mellophone tech at my school😂 he's a really cool guy, he also does our breathing exercises with us

Marching backwards during my high school show. For like a whole 2 minutes. I tripped and rolled backwards with my snare rolling in other direction, the three other snares and the tenors had to hop over me as I tried to get up and I had to run like 10 yards to get my snare. I tripped at the end of the movement and during the complete silence before the ballad I was trying to march/sprint to get my drum and then sprint while trying to act like I’m fluttering during our ballad to get behind a prop where drumline was chilling.

after last night's 2017 championship i have something to add... bluecoats step off fail XD

If there’s anything this video can teach us, is it that if you mess up just go with the flow

The tenors went so hard the drum flew off 😭 there was power in that hit

I️ I thought dropping my stick was bad. But this guy dropped his snare

This is awesome.

How about we all realize how amazing SCV's percussion is!

When nobody noticed the Crown mistake until this video because the guard feature was just too beautiful. Love live E=MC2 👑

Did the thing with the SCV keyboard happen on finals night? I was in the audience on finals night and I don't actually remember it happening.

one of my alumni performed in front of all his former high school teammates while he was on a college team. he had a solo part during the show like on the front side line so he took of his shako, but when it was time for him to go back on the field he forgot his shako and marched the rest of the show without it 😂

The worst part is that all of this is during finals

OMG I don't think I can stomach watching this, I'll get "omg, been there" performance anxiety.

But good job with the DCI clips

A couple years ago we had a sousaphone player trip over a prop (the metal hitch of our cart, ow) during finals at a marching competition. Backwards. Poor girl fell pretty hard and the whole show was paused (other sousas couldn't see her either so it was a safety concern). Turns out she was already lightheaded from heatstroke and passed out briefly from the impact of her head against her instrument. We also realized the colorguard was roughly 5-10 yards off when they moved the prop during a set and so it was in her way. I don't think we had any other accidents like that though, and I imagine guard was chewed out pretty throughly. Glad she's okay.

The seccond one must have hurt. Those are heavy.

I missed all of these moments live tbh, I was caught up in love with dci haha! But I am going to show this to everyone!

The Cavi's face when he did catch the yard marker.....😂

I need more of these. Make me a playlist yall

We all had that embarrassing moment happend to us i remember there was this one show where my plume fell right out of my shako

the judge running with the snare just like IM ON MY WAY DEAR

Why am I watching this before our show tomorrow

I wouldn’t even feel bad about being the guy who lost the snare. He did exactly what he should have and kept on going

#relatable. As a band kind/percussionist.... This is too true..

This was hilarious🤣🤣

When I marched, I lost a mouthpiece to my trumpet at the beginning of the closer and had to finish the show without it. Never got it back too.

The snare drop is not embarrassing, it's epic.

1:39 bro took a second to realize his tenors were on the ground 😂

The one who dropped the snare is my high schools percussion teacher

The one at 1:10 is actually one of the helpers in my high school marching band, all the baritones hate her because she wont leave them alone since she marched it

Love the guy who’s drum just gave up on him. Somehow he got it back (or at least got a replacement snare???)

That guard that took a rifle to the face... I feel ya. I am in the US Navy, and after boot camp I was in an honor guard. We spun real M1 Garland rifles. I hit myself in the mouth once with the metal butt. I almost passed out. I saw colorful spots everywhere for a few minutes.

0:45 *bro did somebody just have an extra snare ready for him???*

0:30 Yes, occasionally the judges hand you something that you drop. Not often, though...

30 YARD LINE MARKER MY BELOVED NOOOO

1:43 I THINK THATS MY BAND DIRECTOR LMFAO