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Hey Ben I have no idea if you know this person but he was a Assistant band director in the Million Dollar Band His name is Mr. Heath Nails, I love him so much he just came to our school during the summer and he is the best director I have had in my band career #trombone #lowbrass #band
Ben Cooper, marching backwards is easy ask anyone in Drumline lol, with my show one of the tubas backed up into me during a mello sustain and cracked my tooth with the mouthpiece
Ben Cooper yeah if u get up and get back in ur dot I don’t think they take off points (and if they do it isn’t much) but if u just lay there and continue to make mistakes they take off more points (and it depends on the judge and what mood they’re in) if they’re in a good mood they won’t take off as many points so it varies
Kayla Wallace during a competition i was marching backwards and i tripped over the Colorguard flag and almost fell but i saved myself then not even 2 minutes later my trombone slide got stuck in another guards flag so that was fun trying to get out without ruining the show
That happened to me once. It was the worst day ever, I had to get off the field because I yanked it so hard that I had really bad headache after that :/
I remember when I was a Junior and I realized that I had the wrong “dot” for half the season. And the director never noticed so I never changed it cuz I played Sousa and it would be a huge difference. But it still worked out.
I am the only girl in my high school tuba section and I am the shortest in the band i am 4 feet nine inches weighing 118 i march sousaphone. It is funny how much taller my section is compared to me. My sousa is a little shorter than me. Its always nice to see and hear about us short sousa players
I had a vocal where I screamed “times up let’s do this” then the rest of the drumline goes “LEEROOYYY JEENKINNNNSSS” but at the last comp of the season I was off by a whole beat and messed the whole band up and every judge tape talked about it 😂
THATS FUNNY- last year my section (and others) had a visual during a drum break with curved hands, and we would yell “BARBIE HAND!” every time it was great
I need to find a clip of a girl in our band my freshman year. She completely face planted and it was so funny although I didn’t see it because she was behind me, but it was a good fail
At Nationals one year, the person in front of me tripped and we had to just run around her(we were moving to the front sideline for the woodwind feature). I felt so bad for her, but man did she play it off well. There is a video of it somewhere, but u need a membership to the site it's on to watch it, I think. :p
I’m a bit jealous are band doesn’t really get to do that for games but we have practice on Halloween so they let use dress up I went as Logan my collage stoner alter ego
I had a rookie tuna last year, at practice he fell for the first time, and he knew to get right up and keep marching, I had a lot of respect for him because of that
I fell my freshman year the year I’m in, I’m a sousaphone we were on the track and are track is so grippy and bumpy and we were marching backwards and just hit a bump man it hurt
Im in colorguard and percussion (concert percussion) My fails? We practice on the road behind our school and it's also were sixth graders, or even our grade goes and spend time outside when it's nice during lunch. So they lined they're lunch boxes on the curb.....and here comes me and my flag. I go to a right slam and it caught the handle of the bag....and I snapped it to right shoulder not realizing......and threw it back in the middle of the band..... The next day I was sick so when I came back we had a silent lunch cause they thought one of the kids did....so I admitted it AND THE TEACHERS THOUGHT I WAS LYING. Like they're like "how can this girl be THAT clumsy" so the principal took me out of class and bring me out and told me to demonstrate. So yep that's that perfect timing. Another time we were doing sixteen drop spins (part of our routine) and it was a against the wind.....took my glasses clean off... All I hear behind me is "I CAUGHT THEM" it was another colorguardist behind me...she caught them ON HER FLAG. 😂😂😂😂
I don't think the drum corps (Carolina Crown 2014) got any points deducted. The snare player kept sticking like he had his drum to maintain visual affect. In all honesty, I doubt they could deduct since it was in the closer (I believe) so it was most likely not an "oopsie," but maybe something that had been progressing throughout the show.
During our show, there is a really fast part in our 3rd movement. I have to march backwards from one hash mark to the other in 16 counts (I am a sousaphone by the way) (I have short legs too)one time we were doing our show it was going great. Until 3rd movement, I was marching then all of a sudden I saw my shoes in front of my face, I had slipped and my body did some kide of weird fold thing. I hit the ground and My head hit the screw on the Sousaphone bell and I was knocked out, it didn't help that the mouth price had come out and hit me in the eye. I woke up on the bus with everyone starring at me. Apparently my section leader picked me up with my sousaphone while he was holding his and he rushed me to the sidelines. Then after it was over him and some of the others grabbed me, lifted me up and carried me to the bus. I'm ok and I am thankful that I don't have any brain damage.
The trombone one at the end killed me. The way they all reacted after they tumbled all over each other was gold omg 🤣 This is coming from a trombone player myself :)
@@gregwells458 Ig yeah, but as a senior who's been through and seen the most crazy things that can happen in marching band, I thought it was pretty funny, not in a bad way or anything, just for a good laugh. I remember my freshman year, we were going theough a run through of our show furing rehearsal and tripped one of the sophomores in my section on accident. The dude was fine, but I still thought that was funny too lmao
@quentin vaga im a Junior and the only bad thing I've seen in marching band was my girlfriend that is a tuba fell backwards and i broke set to help her up
I'm in highschool, single A band, and we just had our 1st comp. We were the only band with all superior other then the open class bands, and we got third place overall, beating 5 other single A bands, 4 double, 3 triple, 1 quad, and an open class band
So the other day at a competition a kid from another band (I think they were a Mellophone) fell forward, did a flip forward, and stuck the landing and stood up right. It was amazing.
One of our saxophones had their ligature fall off during our final run at the end of a long camp day. Someone ended up stepping on her ligature after it fell off. Her reed also fell off with her ligature so she ended up singing the rest of her part because she couldn’t play.
I just want to say, the ONE time I trip during a show, it was during preliminaries for world competitions. tHE oNE tIME!! (I'm in Pit, I tripped over the gong - _-)
I’m not in marching band yet, but there was this one time where this kid (he was first chair) was demonstrating a B flat Major scale and he apparently hadn’t planned ahead because he, from going from first to sixth position the threw his slide HALFWAY ACROSS THE ROOM. Needless to say we still laugh about that.
At a home game this year I was performing halftime and my trombone slide flew off and everyone saw it, it just sat on the field but I had to keep moving acting like I was playing
Marching band fail from a clarinet. While Marching out of the stadium in parade formation, while doing the "up and over" with our instruments during the drum cadence, my clarinet came apart and FLEW across the parking lot. I didn't stop but continued up and over with the bottom half of the clarinet.
my friend fell at a competition and she got up right away. she was so excited since it earned us recovery points. she tripped over a sabre marching bandwards. i saw her in the corner of my eye fall
My biggest band fail happened in my second season of dci. Im a tuba player and it was a show in whitewater Wisconsin and we had just finished with a tuba feature and for some reason i forgot where i was on the face of the earth and it took about 20 seconds before i realised that i was in the middle of a show and i was so far behind i was just jazz running in time to get back in the form and then the rest of the show went great however when the show was over and we huddled up with our sections in front of our caption heads for feedback about the show and our brass caption head looks straight at me and goes "Charles, how was your run?"
It’s actually very common for snare drums to fall off of the harness. There’s nothing we can do about it because it’s how the drums are made. Field judges usually grab the drum and run it back to its owner because it becomes a safety hazard and they feel bad. We don’t get points off since it out of our control.
My show was about children and we had huge blocks as props. One of the blocks was in the wrong spot and a trumpet marched backwards right onto it. She flipped right over. Lol
If someone trips and falls at rehearsal, there is NO EXCUSE for not cutting out of safety. Part of the DM's job is to watch for that...otherwise you;re leading to injuries to people and damage to instruments.
I remember the DCI days and yes the judges are on the field watching you, besides two I think that are on the box. Nerve wracking especially when they just follow you around lol. But I swear that one band looks just like my old style band uniform in the day lol. Just watch out for the guard flags getting stuck inside the trombones lol. Good times indeed, I miss it.
I have read some of the comments, and NO.1 - I believe that 2 points are deducted for dropped equipment. Standard rule. If you notice, the drummer still acts like he is playing his drum, which is good. And maintaining his spot on the field during the drill and the performance. Nothing deducted. Just the embarrassment of dropping his snare drum.
hey ben that fail in 2:52 is the same fail from your last try not to laugh video but it was in first person with the text that would keep appearing in the screen.
Im a trombonist. At the last half of the season last year, we had a move where we moved backwards and the trumpet in front if me backed up so fast i was so close to impaling the back of his head. I don't remember,if i hit him at all, i probably just hit his ploom if i hit him at all.
7:55 is a clip from Marching band DVS Katwijk from the Netherlands. Marching bands in the Netherlands aren't school bands, they're all community bands. Bands like this mostly have members between 16 to 60 years old.
While we were at state Marching band we have quite a bit of tech in our show and one of our friends plays the mallet station and it was like 3 times louder than the band. It was because to control it we had to connect to the WiFi and we couldn't get it to work😂luckily she didn't miss any notes
Once at a concert (not for marching band but for concert band) my slide flew off (I'm a trombone) it was my favorite song and I never got to play it live 😣😂at least we got free food
My senior year of high school, 1999, I was THE tuba player in band at Locust Fork High School in Locust Fork, Alabama. We had an away game and it had rained that day so the field was supper soggy and mushy. I was on the fifty yard line, and my feet slipped out from under me and fell and busted my rear end. It’s not fun to fall, but at least I can laugh at it now. Lol. Mind you we may have had a total of 30 people in the band including color guard.
Although I am a freshman, I have, these all happened in rehearsal, dropped my phone, lost a shoe, and dropped my clarinet, and had to get a new mouthpiece.
I’ve gotten hit by trombone slides and run into people. I also almost passed out once. My section leader fell over a prop right behind me one time. I broke the guard’s form yesterday in competition while moving a prop. In my defense, the guard’s form landed wrong.
i have 2 fails. so last year at one of our home football games (im in pit) and i was getting onto the field and my instrument tipped over. other fail was that at the end of our show a 8th grader (whom was wearing a marching uniform) was supposed to (at the end) turn into a guard member by all guard people surrounding her, while she took off her marching uniform (she had guard uniform on underneath), but almost every time her pants fell down. and thankfully at the Atlantic Coast Championships (and we got 1st place!) her pants did not fall down!
8:04 I am also a sousa so if I did that, I would not get in trouble because we are in 3 step intervals and no one is to walk through the band. We are supposed to stop people from walking through the band or messing with our instruments. It's a mild issue we have to address often because at games people will move us out of their way, play with our plumes, hit the drum, press our keys, and walk through us so we do whatever needs to be done to stop it.
I’m a marching alto sax at OTHS. We have a couple of spots where we march backwards. The person in front of me was out of time and she stepped on my foot and I went down and two flutes went down on top of me... Long story short I had a bruised tailbone for a few days.
when i was in middle school we went to the high school to perform at game and a guy in the pit has a number of instruments on a stand and it collapsed and all the instruments fell on the wet grass
I’m in the band @ tanner high school and I wish more of our fails were recorded. Guard was practicing tosses just the other day and my friend knocked her tooth out 😂
Glenda dawson high school marching band state 2018. Our pre-show messed up and we were told to just skip it. Our synth player didn’t get the memo at first. Percussion teacher just turned him down until he fixed it
i was a 'guide' for a band at our schools hosting competition.. they had won the state championship in their class the year before.. so they were pretty strict and hardcore in how they represented themselves.. it had rained the entire night before and there had been a football game (wasnt turf)... so consequentially a bit of a 'mud pit' had formed from the 45 to 45 yard lines along the front line... anywho.. they had pretty fast drill, and poor guy slipped and smashed right into his instrument.. dude jumped back up like lightening and right back to what he was doing.. when i was walking off the field with them (i was on the sideline) he looked at me and goes 'i think i need a doctor'... so i ran to their director and told him.. then ran to the ambulance and got them to come. turned out poor dude had bruised his ribs and had kept on marching and playing like a champ.
the best "fail" that I've seen was during prelims at state in 2017 one of the trombones in my band tripped and fell, did a somersault, and got up just in time for the brass feature.
So, I play snare for my high school marching band. And I have some of the more challenging moves, not distance wise, but spacing wise, and I have not only fallen during a rep, but backwards matched right into a giant prop. It sucked
The Seven Tuba Pileup video from Lake Travis High School will always be my favorite fail video of all time. My high school is actually in the same city as them so we always joke about not pulling a repeat of the incident.
Ben Cooper My school played them just a few weeks ago. Their football team absolutely battered us, but all that aside their band improved SO much! They like to joke about it too, so they clearly don’t let it get to them anymore. I have a lot of respect for the Cavalier Band.
In our new Closer, a Tenor has to go backwards through a block, passing a Clarinet who’s right in front of me (Flute) She has to take such small steps to let the Tenor pass so he doesn’t bump into us and topple us over, every time we do the set, her puffy hair gets caught in my flute 😂 We’re still working out the kinks
I don’t *think* the snare caused Carolina Crown to get points off but the drummer himself released the go pro vid and said that he went a bit too hard on the drum break which caused the snare to become loose and the judge was joking with him abt it
There was this one time at band camp, (yea I know) I was wearing pants that were really loose, and I didn't have a belt, and I twisted up a piece of paper and used it as a belt!
It is hard to score well in small bands. my marching band is only 29 playing members including the pit. But we do score very well in our class. Small bands also have to know their limits when it comes to different shows. A band that we run into a lot has a show with a lot of potential, just not enough members to execute it well. Small bands are awesome though. It’s a great opportunity to get close with everyone and have a great time.
OMG when I was in band and colorguard we had a tuba collision at rehearsal, but the last tuba to be crashed into did a backflip and landed on his feet while carrying his tuba and there was a random cone on the field during rehearsal and I tripped and fell over backwards with my flag. In one competition one of the drums in drumline slipped and fell but got up ninja style but the rest of the drum line broke their solo because they were laughing too hard
Oh my gosh. I was bored and not expecting to see the band im in lmao. None of the same people but the same uniform and comp we still go to every year. The small one at muscle shoals is the one im talking about.
Last year at a away game the opposing teams marching band was linking up behind the goal line for their post or mid game performance. there was like 1 min. Left on the clock, and a football player ( I don’t remember what team) completely clobbered the base 5 player and a saxophone player. Both were checked out by the paramedics who were already at the game. The base 5 player just had a sprained ankle from the way he landed and the saxophone player was fine the drum had a hole in it.
At the competition before state, we were beaten by 2 points to a band whose drum line fell over like fucking dominoes. Fine, whatever. But the most infuriating part? Their drum line won the caption award over our kickass battery! To be honest, I think it was judge bias because the percussion and general effects judges were alumni from the school that beat us.
So my biggest fail in Marching Band. So this was my freshman year in high school. So the very first show of the season we did not learn the last part of the closer, so we were marking time during that. In between the first and second show we learned that part. So during the second show when we got to that part, I started marking time instead of moving. I watched it later when our Drum Major handed us the DVD’s of the season. That was the only big fail I ever had
dci doesnt go by the tick system anymore so you simply get points for things you do well, also you get points for recovery, so it probably didnt hurt score to bad
The marching band we have been rivaling against for 10+ years made it to state at yesterdays competition and we didnt they started shouting about how bad we are lmao
At 8:35 I don't think is shows that they are wrong, because you can hear things in that band that you might not be able to hear as an audience member, or from an audio, so I think that they were able to hear like a watch out type of thing so the dominos didn't get worse
My first summer with Boston Crusaders I was coming from behind a prop and got hit with a rifle which cracked the bell of my baritone and knocked me out causing other people to trip all over me.
Y’all wanna talk about fails try having an entire prop fall on your entire guard team and having one get trapped underneath it at a state competition. We still came in 3rd place bc of the recovery points and we were all okay just a few minor injuries like cuts and bruises. That was only last year and we’re going to state again this weekend so let’s hope there’s no 50 mph wind and if there is let’s hope no props fall on my guard team especially since some of us spend quite some time in front/ behind the props.
We've actually had the problem where our keyboard didn't work. It happened at my very first competition. All of our pit mics went out as well. We always did a sound check in the pit before a show, so they knew before we actually started and one of our marimbists (idk if that's what you call them) actually played the keyboard part by ear for our intro. We still got grand champs at that competition though.
