Music Teacher Got Scared and MORE: Beginning Band Survival Guide 

Me: "Uh, my reed is broken." Band director: *stares in visible confusion* "You play trombone."

I just imagine this teacher making bets with the students that if they practice enough, and do good, they can make a RU-vid video lol.

I love how they just broke reeds and then just threw mouthpieces everywhere like it was no bug deal😂😂

You forgot the “My mallet broke!” Kid who’s mallet breaks every day somehow.

I wish you were my music teacher

As a freshman this makes me miss middle school 😭

After 2:11... "Uhhh, Mr. Soandso...? The slide on my trombone keeps sticking..."

what would really make "brass blast" would a sponge bob background "my leg" and at the beginning someone yell "fire in the hole"

I have been a band director for 25 years, teaching all levels of band grades 4-12. This is spot on!!!! I am currently the only band director in the Jim Thorpe Area School District in northeast Pennsylvania (Poconos). I have 43 beginners this year. There’s a special place in heaven for folks like us.

I only played a flute in my school band for one year but when she put it together like that my heart literally screamed

2:01 the kid in the white is literally me everyday for school

Im a senior in high school and I love how I can remember the amount of times people would do all of this and the amount of equipment that was poorly treated. Takes me back, also Shepherds Hey is a great song. It was so fun when I played it. (for anyone Shepherds Hey is the song being played between each thing)

I quit band in seventh grade, but I remember it well, and this video is so nostalgic. The parts with saying to tiptoe over the cases and with the brass blasting were most memorable, not gonna lie. I played in brass, and my eardrums would be lucky if they weren’t bleeding at the end of the lesson because I was right near the tubas just trying to quietly play my euphonium.

band teacher: "can anyone play this for the class?" the class: **hides** me: **hides*** teacher: **picks me** "can you play this for the class?" me knowing why i was picked: "sure-" i was the only trumpet in my class ;-; and i played the songs on point, no flaws

Im wondering how they got the band teacher to be on board with this idea.

3:48 best part of the video

3:58 That's EVERY day reguardless of whether you're in band or not, it's not always the same class but it happens once a day for everyone.

As an ex-trombone player (band started directly after lunch in elementary and I didn't want to get food in my trombone) that is 100% why you should clear out before brass begins to play. (even though I was the only trombone player among woodwind and a few trumpet players)

I basically did all this on my first day in band, best day ever

OK I have a valve trombone but it's longer

1:38 I laughed too hard here

Teacher: Lilly, will you play that on the flute for me please? Lilly: No. My flute shrunk.

The only problem with having a trumpet is I can't assemble my instrument incorrectly. I remember one kid put a penny in his alto sax when we were warning up for our concert that night and it came out while we were playing and our band teacher said, "I don't know who that was but parents one of your kid is making money!" We all found it funny and the kid had forgotten he put it in there. Ahh good times. Also 3:52 headphones users beware.

0:45 Valve trombone?

the stand one is really true especially because we got new stands and every time we would try to raise them the top would just fall off

Me in wind ensemble watching this

The brass section: If we play loud maybe they will think we are Good!

2:24 that kid swore in Spanish lol. That's basically some of my classmates in our band class cause we know how to speak Spanish lol.

Every one went to the bathroom then the teacher well I guess that's every one. I have to go to the bathroom to 😂

I’ve had all of those stand issues except the broken one. Also that assembled flute and those broken reeds pained me more than anything despite not being a woodwind player.

3:52 best surprise ever

I'm an orchestra geek, but this is still very relatable with picking the right stand, coming up with excuses, leaving the cases sprawled out everywhere, blaming the instrument for our lack of practice, etc. Lol the bathroom one is definitely true, though the conductor's I had were strict and told people to either wait after reversing a song or until someone else is done going.

Ok this reminds me of 6th grade. We were playing a Chinese song, and one of our saxs (I’m a clarinet btw) said “it sounds like a Chinese song” the whole class just erupted in laughter, myself included. We still tease him about it to this day, and it’s been two years. 😂 And the time in 7th grade a different band director had to teach my class bc our band director wasn’t here, actually played this electric piano to how he felt. It isn’t the best thinking about this when your playing something Samba Le Le. 🤣🤣

3:40 This one is my favorite XD

1:43 Dude the eye contact one is so dang true almost everyone in my band class does this

I’m not a band kid but I was a choir kid and this is still so true lol

If only I saw this when I was in beginner band

Same because I am in middle school band and play the clarinet every day that I have band that exactly happens

lol the brass section always does this when woodwinds try to warmup

I am a band student and I can confirm this lol

I hope the whole class reacts to there video

2:34 and the whole of that part was *hilarious* I broke

THE BRASS BLAST AND THE "surprise for the band director"

When the students snuck behind the teacher and played was too funny lol.

3:10 that was painful to watch

the reeds! and the woodwinds on the floor thats a killer 🥹 😭

I have to agree with brass blasts I am a tUba player and I take pride if being the only one in my school

4:00 Lol I recognize the piece. It was played for my 6th grade end of the year concert. The Magnificent Five.

I play clarinet and I see my self just breaking my reed when my band teacher asks me to play for him lol

As a trumpet player irl this video is so relatable

Thank you this will helpful next year 😊

I’ve been in band since I was in 4th grade, and I do understand all of those strategies

I’m a sixth grader so a newbie I’m gonna use all of these on my teacher

OMG THE MUSIC STANDS WERE SO ANNOYING IN MY BAND THEY WERE ALL BROKEN

I love this! I remember getting ready to play with the band and tried to adjust my music stand; the flat part of the stand, as I pulled up, came apart! Memories!

This video is b e a u t i f u l I love it!

Im a cellist but i can HEAVILY relate to the tiptoe around the cases one. There are 3 cellists in a tiny room and there is NO space for us to unpack. Also last year we had 5 but in a bigger room. We put all of them in one area. Was a nightmare to step around them.

THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO EVER!

This is absolutely fantastic

Brass concert F destroys everything. Me: I had the experience of the noise and almost blew my eardrums

haha shepherd’s hey playing in the background!! we’re playing that for uil next week!!

We need more videos like this please add more

This band teacher is the coolest ive ever sen he put up with this just for the video and probaly had a fun time!

0:55 The flute underneath him made me cringe so hard. Also almost everyone in my sixth grade band class snuck their phones in and hid them on the stands

the fact that this class has 7 trumpets lol- my jazz band class only has 3

0:58 fully expected a Flute to crack and say "It's my reed, I swear!!"

I sat here cracking up, too funny. I mean that’s definitely not how I acted in band I was a little more forward with playing but still, pretty funny!

This helped me last year but now I need us symphonic band Survival Guide

Thanks for the tips LOL i'm goining band so I watched this video

The brass one in the beginning is so true and reed on is so true

Guys if your stand is wobbly either use your fingers and screw the thing on the bottom of the stand bass or just rotate the bass.

3:52 Makes me laugh every time!

When tuning, my whole class had a running joke where every trumpet would just blast- it was great! (Especially when me and all the higher ranked trumpets did it lol)

as being in beginning band right now, i want to go to the bathroom everyday more than ever

The Brass blast is so relatable ✨

for brass this is true i am a trombonist and my ears blow up hearing especially the trumpets

I can definitely relate to the music stand one haha!

“Richard will you play on your trumpet for us?” On that bit when he threw his mouthpiece he did the most evil smirk I’ve ever seen

For the bathroom one, i remember that song, i think i played it last year for my band concert! I would have to look at my old music to remember it!

i could tell that the band director is filming because when the girl was putting her flute together i saw his foot

Where I live middle school doesn’t exist! Just elementary considers grade k-8. I graduate this year and hope to be in band in high school if everything is normal again! My elementary school oply allowed us to have recorders to learn in grade 7 and this year we can’t because of covid! I think I forgot how to play the recorder 😂 I want to learn a band instrument in high school!

I’m in middle school band and I can relate 😂

When they played night flight i was blasted with memories

This was so funny!!

When people started breaking their reeds, I mentally screamed cause I'm a clarinet player who needs a reed to play and it just hurts to see perfectly fine reeds just break

That last Eli part was hilarious

I love getting concussions while also having a cold!

2:06 at least im a freshman right now so the upperclassmen do the demonstrations

2:25 Some kid really said “a la verga!” 😂😂

That shrunken flute😂😂

1:13 lion king

3:10 that reed breaking hurt me & i dont even play woodwind

Never seen a valve trombone in a any school before. Wild

Never avoid the brass play tuba trombone and trumpet and put ur cases away

THE MEMORIES

“Could you play for the band?” Me playing french horn: “ uhhh I have none of my valves :)”

i love this ahhhhh all the dislikes are the people on how jealous because they cant play as well as you guys

The brass blast is so accurate 😅

3:51 omg this is so funny 🤣🤣

I wish my band teacher was like this