In all honesty before they pointed out t his pants fell I thought his drum harness broke. It's not unheard of we had that happen during a performance once.
Look, if your shoe unties, you keep marching. If your shoe comes off in the middle of the field, you keep marching. If you fall, you recover and keep on marching. If your pants come down, you got to keep marching.
My instrument came apart during a performance. The whole end joint was just gone. I had to wait until the com petition was over and go find the trampled remains. But apparently it made a member of another band almost trip, so it wasnt all bad.
I come from a band with a 15 piece brass line that smashed hella competitions. Hell we constantly competed in 4a/5a in local competitions consistantly well. That band looks a good bit bigger than mine was and it definitely just not in shape.
jAdamariE broad statement, since it isn't a sport. It is like saying football is math for dumb people. Also literally a majority of the band at my school are insanely dumb
Lost my bits to my Sousaphone during a BOA competition. I didn’t even hesitate, I just told myself, “Keep Marching, we’ll get it after all bands finish the preliminaries.” We got them luckily, but this guy knows marching. You don’t stop marching unless you break your face off or die.
This reminds me about a fail that happened to me about a month ago when I had to unhook my neck strap inorder to do a wave. After I clipped it back on, it failed 5 seconds later. I nearly dropped my tenor sax, and I had to play it without the strap for the rest of the show.
It's true. Once a really big black be flew in my friends face and she just stood their not moving at all because we were in attention. SHE'S ALLERGIC TO BEES!
Mangle // Bite of 87 No, my Marching Band calls them overalls because they are literally overalls. Not Marching Band Overalls, they're literally just black overalls
same, they must not take marching band seriously. like we typically start band a month before school starts every day except for Sundays. I don't blame the students, I blame the directors
Nathan Jasper your band director sounds alot like mine although he probably would've made my band the Golden Regiment run like 10 laps around the track 100 push ups 100 sit ups and then probably shoot us in the face although I'm exaggerating sounds like what he would do
I was always taught that if you make a mistake, or something bad happens, just keep going. Most of the crowd will not realize what is happening. Props to that bass drummer. Good thing he did not have any drill moves that required long strides.
While watching a performance at MFA Grand Nationals I saw a judge get hit in the head by a trombone slide. The look on his face was priceless! Also at band practice one time a guard girl tossed a rifle...and it landed on her head. Ouch!
+Liliana Sandberg (faunawhisperer) LOL, as they remind us in my band, if someone is in your spot, you run them over and they won't be in your spot any more...
I'm in colorguard and we were at a competition a year ago and it was about 30 degrees. Mind you the uniforms were not very warm. Anyway everyone in the guard had at least 4 hot pockets shoved wherever and each band member had one in each pocket. We marched a great show and as we were leaving the field there must have been at least 20 hot pockets that have fallen out. The announcer actually said "Salem, I think you forgot something." Anyway the whole crowd laughed at my band director as he ran around the field picking them up.
When I was in high school marching band, we had two uniforms. One for the school year which was pants (not bibbers) and in the summer for competition we wore kilts. Part of our uniform for both styles were suspenders to keep them from falling, but it wasn't uncommon to have a clasp or two fail in a show. We were also required to wear shorts under the kilts, however we had some smart alec members who wanted to be "true Scots" (It was a Scottish themed band) and went commando. We had one routine that started with a twirl and with kilts being pleated, they occasionally would rise a little. One particular show was a little windy and the wind happened to catch the kilt of one of the smart alecs and lifted the entire kilt up to his shoulders, exposing all his "glory".
In my Guard, we had to wear a one piece that had a zipper from the right collar bone to the left ankle. So at a football game, I was spinning when I realized the zipper was sliding down. I freaked, knowing I couldn't stop, but at the same time I was NOT going to flash the entire audience. So as soon as the band hit a rest, I reached down and caught the zipper with my teeth and yanked it up, still smiling. That was some scary shit and I was lucky as hell I was able to stop it😂😂😂
Mood, i hate when that happens 😂, last year we had two peice coustumes and we were so used to one peice, so i notice that my shoulder strap was coming down (it only had one shoulder strap) and as soon as the band stoped i nuged it up with my shulder then grabed it with my teeth, nobody noticed except my guard instructor haha
😂😂😂 , one time I we had a kind of dress uniform and we had to wear strapless Bras and when I was marching my bra started sliding down and slide all the way down to my stomach and I knew the show must go on but I was trying to pull my bra back up while marching. Ended up marching that show with my bra on my stomach. Luckily the uniform was not see through so you couldnt tell that my bra was on my stomach 😂
LEFT IS WHEN YOUR FOOT HITS THE DAMN GROUND, LEFT IS WHEN YOU HEAR THIS SOUND, LEFT IS NOT... RIGHT! LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT... I honestly hate hearing that so much at practice it kills me
In my band, girls have to wear short shorts and guys have to wear boxers under their band pants. I had to fill in for my friend on the toms because he had a massive solo with a colorguard guy. I stood there in my bright neon green and purple "Rev Up Your Harley" joker boxers for the whole third movement.
I see all these comments on how horrible this is but the thing is is the video is 3 minutes long so we don't know how far they are in the season and we only see a few seconds of the second movement so they are probably a week or 2 into football season and still working it out all bands first and second football games have kinks awesome BD for keeping going and for Jesus Mary and Joseph THEY ARE CALLED BIBERS NOT FRICK ING JUMPERS OR OVERALLS BIBERS B I B E R S ty
Mike Krystyan it doesn't matter if the season just started. If that's how a band starts their season, it's going to awful. If the show is still not good enough, it shouldn't be put on the field for an audience
I can relate to this I got hit in the head by a trombone slide I swear it's always the trombones and I was laughing a little cuz my hat fell lol but I kept going. And one time I pulled something in my shoulder when I was marching I got hair in my face and mouth piece it was funny but you gotta keep going on. Highfives to this guy!!
I am in marching and if something happens while you are on the field, you must not move from your position for it will make the band look bad. That is what my director always taught us, and it has always been that way for many band directors across the nation.
So I had this one competition a few weeks ago. I had 2 solos, one before the actual show and the outro to our show. The first one was fine. I got through the entire performance, and we started the outro. I was the only one on the field playing, and every wind player and guard member was pointing at me while kneeling on the ground. I lifted my trombone and started on the high F. It started to double buzz (brass players know what I'm talking about). And so I kept going, and it just got worse. The whole crowd laughed as I took a moment to readjust myself and play the last two eighth notes. My entire band, and the whole crowd just died laughing. It was so embarrassing, I started to laugh. So yea. Good for this kid :D
Gabe Wilson oh God double buzzing is the worst. I tried to play the Star Wars main theme song, but during the second part my saxophone "died" and it was the worst.
i think its kinda fucked up to upload this and ruin that kids self esteem. i mean fuck, if this happened to me it would be the absolute WORST but then if i found out that someone uploaded to youtube and it got a lot of views that wouldnt help the situation at all. this is really mean of you to upload.. really
I've been in Marching band 5 years, and I can tell you that if anything happens, just carry on. I don't care if you fall, drop your mouthpiece, lose a shoe or whatever, keep marching. If a judge gets in your way, you're allowed to run them over. :D
Man I hated those judges at PCI Fessssssssssssstivaaaaaaaal of Bands in Eugene, OR. Freshman year I almost narched over a judgebwho unfortunately movd out of my way at the last second. Still clipped him with end of my flute.
+Caroline richardson We had suspenders. Saved this from ever happening! Now losing shoes in the mud? Totally common. I marched over 3/4 of a show once with only one shoe on in the middle of October.
Sophmore year I got smacked in the face by a trombone slide at band practice. Senior year at the competition in Corvallis, OSU, it had rained most of the week. Slick soled marching shoes and slick muddy grass do not go together. I have no idea how manybof us fell on that dang muddy field. All I know is I slid the last 10yards or so to my spot on my ass as we were marching to our spots.
That was so nice of them to stop their performance just to help him. He was certainly very brave to just keep on marching because if that happened to me I would immediately stop, put them back on and then continue but I would humiliated and dying on the inside.
Many times cameras and microphones don't catch the full sound, causing some major balance issues. Whenever we listen to recordings of our band and watch videos, it sounds horrible, but somehow we placed second at regionals.
His pants OMG I'm in band and I know how big them pants could be and I'm still shy of the crowd that was really brave he did good and ik how tough them band teachers be and I think that's y he kept playing 😌
Once during a show bee freaking landed on the hand of the baritone player beside me. It stung him halfway through the second movement. But this guy was Hercules because he didn't even react. He just kept on marching like a machine.
I had a pair of marching shoes for 3 years, and they were in such horrible shape. And I couldn't afford to get new ones, so I dealt with them. Until they got into such bad shape that I marched out of them at a competition. Both of them came off during the first movement, and I marched in my socks on an extremely muddy field for the rest of the show. We then had to march back to our warm up area after the performance. Everyone along the way just told them how disciplined I was lol. I was crying because I couldn't stand the feeling of wet muddy socks on my feet haha. But after that competition, (my senior year) the band moms, and the band director all pitched in and got me a new pair of shoes. In which I still have to this day.
I had marching band rehearsal one windy day and we all had to wear caps to shield from the sun. Mine went flying off at the beginning of the run but I kept going and luckily, the hat wasn’t squashed by the benches ☺️
