Typical Band Instrument Stereotypes 

Lauren Bradley, I Am A Trumpet Player From Tennessee!!! I Agree With Some Of The Trumpet Stereotypes!!! 😁😁😁

I thought i was trippin that “euphonium” was huge compared to mine lol

I am a clarinet (and saxophone) player, too!! 😄🎷🎵

The tuba part is so true though😂

OMG, I SWEAR I JUST SAW MY BAND!!!!

I- No that's pretty accurate I've done that before

ok i have home room/1st period band so i am like really tired and i thought i was the only one that did this lol

bro this is accurate

Very true

I play the clairenet and that is accurate

aRtymis 24 yes

aRtymis 24 but they can’t play loud

flutes: plays louder than usual band director: YOU GUYS NEED TO BE IN TUNE. U ALL SOUND REALLY GROSS AND UGLY. UR FLUTES UR NOT SUPPOSED TO SOUND UGLY

as a flute/piccolo, I agree with this statement.

For the low notes this is true. For high notes we can get out of control

Agreed, the blacksiphone needs more attention

last year I was the only tuba player in a band with three bass clarinet players. you could hear me over all of them (no offense intended for bass clarinet players)

Oboe's in my experience are the most forgotten instruments in my bands

hahaHA

Lyra0702 lol try bassoon, at least y’all have the melody, half the time the band directors will forget to rehearse our parts

Bro I actually swallowed part of my reed. I felt this

@@MikeyCelestine y e a h

ah yes, i also consume my reeds

@@-kiwiflower3783 don't we all at this point

My fellow saxophonist swallowed a piece of his Reed and he choked hahaha

John Coyle LOL ACCURATE

Suprising thing but in our school the percussion plays almost every time basically in a duet through quintet with the other sections

Legit I'm in class I be like BRUH I WANNA SHOW OFF LET ME PLAY

As a percussionist I can confirm this is true

BRO RIGHTTT

The trombonists in my orchestras always make car sounds

Tromboners, lol.

The section leaders yell at me for talking about ww2

Lmao also my section makes weird noises by tapping the mouthpiece😅

Oddi-Bun me and my friend are just racing on our trombones

I play quiet..

@@troyandrade435 Congrats, do you want an award? /s/

@@RavenLunatic517 I'm just saying that not all trumpet players are idiots, you don't have to be a jerk... Seriously...

the quietest they can go is mezzoforte :l

@@asssmacked5943 I practice quiet a lot but it's difficult sometimes a don't use enough air and just blow air through my instrument...

Same!

That’s true. People don’t consider bassoons. ;-;

Dude I’m trying to get my BD to get a bassoon I really wanna plAY IT

I feel your pain bro

Bassoons are actually really hard to play I should know I play the bassoon and let me tell you we are the crazy ones out of the band

swear

I got slightly mad as a tuba player

@_abby flaherty88_ same

@_abby flaherty88_ same but in my case I am french horn and it is with the clarinets and saxophones

That's kinda the opposite for me XD I'm a Baritone/Euphonium and half the time I'm the only one in the band, but we have 2 tubas so they usually get to play

Lol, you must come to my school then xD

RIGHT! the saxes at my school also play 7 nation army

I'm a percussionist but I have a sax just so that I can play careless whisper lol

All the saxes in my band hate it except me

I'm an Alto, all we do is talk about Vines and memes And all the flutes are Instagram™ snakes And the clarinets don't play, yet they use 5 reeds a day

Oof my best friend plays an oboe.. yup

Omg I'm the only oboe in my band, that's all I deal with

Me too

I have had that happen to me so many times

Me

The ominous clicking sound of spit will forever haunt my dreams

Then, if your instrument doesn't have a spit valve, you either have to take all of the valves out and empty them individually or you have to spin your instrument around and around

Ya haha and people are weirded out when I am practically taking my instrument apart to get spit out

Agreed, then the annoyance of dumping it out

beesavior I know how you feel

Domio yeah and they should have randomly started playing the Star Wars theme

klepto zach. Yeah, or just blasting in general

Domio I hate to agree because I play the trumpet but it's really true

Jazmine White There are three types of trumpet players. The stereotype. The players who know they're bad and don't work to improve. Then the actually good players 😂

Cpjh true that. 👍🏼

Pffffffft yup pretty much sums it up

Now just imagine needing oboe reed money lol

Omg that is so true.

Me

shhh 26 there’s more of those when you go to marching band

You have no idea how many times I have been asked if I play like squidward

@@az.e1618 It's ok, if you play good, you play good, ya

@@az.e1618 Np I've been playing clarinet for 4.5+ years I still love it and I'm glad you enjoy your instrument too

me: *proceeds to squeak intentionally and play meme songs the entire period to piss off my director*

yes

Aikaterine Jackson sad but true lol

Aikaterine Jackson no we dont

yes we do. think about it.

Aikaterine Jackson cause they always BREAK

Aikaterine Jackson I'm a bass clarinet and we call ourselves the depressed shady bitches

Timothy James how could he play it without a mouthpiece?

Trueee

Omggg trueee

Our band teacher had to ban careless whisper because people were playing that during rests

Why do people think that’s all we do?!!!! I hate it! We play other stuff too, ya know! Like epic sax guy, um... tequila, um... actually that’s about it. Except me, I play tenor sax, and me and my low brass buds play megalovania, crab rave, once me and my friend who plays pretty much every (low) brass instrument went to the commons at our school and he followed people around playing the following fat people thing (until our band director came and got mad at us)... um there’s more, but I can’t really think of them

as a percussionist, this... this is what we do.

BRUHHHH SO TRUE!!!!!!

Can you save comments?

I did that thing with the bells today it was quiet then I accidentally hit it, and legit everyone looked back at me ;-;

Nope

I literally cringed hearing it

Same man same

Yoshiyahoo same. I’ve never heard a French horn sound this bad😖

I'm the only Double French horn player at my school the others are single horn players we all suck-

Maddie I know right half of practice is just waiting for everyone to play the right notes and in tune which we don't have a problem with.

Same but when I do play I get yelled at for playing incorrectly:(

trashgal yeah

Tbh half the time there isn't a percussion part so my director just adds random stuff in, half the time I don't play lol

Director: We're gonna set by set and chunk the show. Percussion: f u c k

Yeah that bothered me too.

Same with the oboe

Because they were just borrowing it to make this and they don't really play those instruments and didn't want to dirty them because others use them

Sounds about right

Lmao. Its just cuz they are always having trouble with their instruments.

DrNoVa you speaking French? It’s spelled bassoon.

There isn’t even bass clarinet though

I don’t think so because the euphonium part was just the same

@@morganbarnum1028 The euphonium joke was that he had a tuba instead.

@@morganbarnum1028 they weren’t the same because on the bassoon they press buttons with it in their mouth but the other one shows them about to put it in their mouth

Yesss

HONESTLY THOUGH!!!! It’s kinda crazy how easily they break!! Like, you don’t notice, but all of a sudden you can’t play, and it’s like “oh what my reeds cracked when did that happen this one’s only like negative two days old”

Yeesss, I’m an a oboe

LPS Hydra how long have you been playing

LPS Hydra I have been playing for almost a year now

Diana Archer Don't we all? X3

Same

Lol. The only one for my band that didn’t really fit was our oboe. Cuz that’s me and I’m usually in tune when I go tune.

I have one kid that fits every stereotype on different days

same! i’m the oboe in my band and i’m normally in tune. also not most of these stereotypes are in my band. the flutes trumpets and french horns are not like that at all.

Haha a trumpet next to me is also like this. ( I am also a saxophone) what a coincidence

the flutes are extremely annoyed when the sax's r *tOo lOuD*

I agree with this as a fellow trumpet player in the back next to the saxophones

Ase a saxaphone this is so true

I am a saxophone and I dont think that is all correct we have a try hard in my saxophone group and only one person in my section hits on people lol but a few of us know meme song but not really Careless Whispers though lol

Llama box My saxophone section is mainly boys who think they’re all that matters

Lol I feel bad for you dang

flutes are like the background of the melody, its there to add volume but u cant hear us for shit

Excuse me? I play careless whisper

Ye

Lolol same here

A Wild PotterLocked Whovian Has Appeared! I sense a hypocrisy here

How did this thread turn into people fighting over clarinets and trumpets...?? Literally every school is different. Also, why does someone even have to be better? Can we not just all be polite since we all obviously love band?

I agree that flutes do talk a lot.

Stacy Koopmann this is so accurate

@@madison_life_lol3160 Yeah... frickin 50 measures of counting the rests to play 3 notes. One time we got up and went for a cofee.

Sounds so accurate

Stacy Koopmann BAHA

I'm sorry this is so beautiful but I can't like it. It's at 69. *please understand*

Xo Virginia oX it did not

I saw that it cracked me up

I just realized he didn't have a mouth piece omg, I'm so stupid and I'm a saxophonist.......Bruh

Grayson White I

Grayson White true expect if they were pecking it would have been 110% accurate

No. My percussion is ALWAYS PLAYING

We are always being loud and can never sit still lmao

The complete opposite of my Drumline

I can

Yep.

y E s

I have a whole collection of broken reeds

Even worse for bass clarinet

totally relate

Pretty much, I'm a flute,but marching band season all I could hear was we are number one, megalovania, and the Russian anthem, lol I love them

Honestly that’s more the trumpets at my school. The saxes, me included, just mess around a lot but somehow still play better than the clarinets

Ayee Clarinet gang

• No One here • YEAHHH

Madison Sweeting “Pretty” underrated? We are so underrated, it’s insane

Here, have the mystery reed

Farmer Villager You have some how made this very creepy 🤣🤣🤣

Kiwi Samara that’s not the worst of it. My friend had a low C that a tenor sax broke by putting her instrument ON his. She still hasn’t paid for the repairs.

@@jakebramhall3479 Don't worry, not all tenors are bad people. We're usually at least more normal than the altos.

EM11212 I can confirm that is true

I’m a bass clarinet and that’s my life with the saxophones and this one kid I accidentally hit him every class and he is like that

succulent recc how mean

I have two saxes that just randomly play the Soviet Russia anthem and we are number one and recently started working on the Rocky theme and I just dont understand where they have the time to learn these songs.

He should have been louder and been saying something about a broken reed

ThePeacefulForest Yes... I play alto The reed brand I use is so fragile I hate it xd

Mi Mi The Dragon if you don't use Vandoren reeds I would recommend them I play bari but my friends that play alto use them and they have fairly good durability and they have never done me wrong yet

Specifically blue box btw

lol I'm a girls alto sax player We usually just pretend we know Shît, and jam out in random Jazzy pieces

Fr I’m like the only bassoonist at my high school and my director will forget I have the same part as another section and I’ll just sit there like “...aight then”

@@hoottoad6492 ikr then I just don’t play and justify it with, “but you didn’t tell me to!”

By some freak of nature my high school managed to have three good bassoonists and the band director just went ham on making the band bigger

@@hoottoad6492 bruhh- it’s been two years and I’m just remembering this comment. But facts like my director I had this year, never remember that me and the bari sax played the same parts as some other instruments and we always got the least reps

@@thomassmith0009 my 7th grade year I had 3 bassoons as well lmao…I made the adv. band at my middle school…kinda small band with three bassoons…I miss not being the only player

Lol me as a sax

I agree

yee

As a euphonium player I agree

I agree

As a euphonium player I agree

Lol that’s my whole band 😂

Tru

Ethan Ayala yes

That's my saxes. They play Soviet Russia anthem, we are number one and the Rocky theme

Ethan Ayala saxes too

bro man12345678 I mean, brass isn’t the only type of wind instrument. Bassoon, Oboe, saxophone, flute, and English horn are all Woodwind which were in the video, minus English Horn.

No he only plays tuba, we just grabbed every instrument after school that we could out of storage to make this :)

why is this so true??

@@marissacarter8981 😂

tubas/sousas are the most inconvenient instruments of the band, to ourselves and others.

Then there is me, a young bassoon fan who supports everyone in the band

Then theres us euphoniums that just kind of play

Or doesn’t get to play the entire time

*off

As a percussionist, I'm offended.

My school’s percussion is amazing and behaved

@@untitledtitle_9228 As the "leader" of all 4 of us, I think were pretty good.

Zephyr The Octoling lol. I play bb clarinet bass clarinet ukulele violin and trumpet but im literally percussion.

I play bassoon and I get that a lot😅 I’m like “omg I screwed that up so badly!” And everyone’s like bro wdym it sounded the same

As a bassoonist, can confirm, we are constantly drowned out by one of two sections: A: The blasting brass players(usually trumpets) B: The tenor saxophones that sometimes double our parts, but "quiet" is not a word in their vocabulary, especially when the dynamic marking is "ppppppppppp".

Exactly what I came down to the comments section to say.

D3ADgamerZ it made me sad

Layton Rosen yeah. that's the 1 instrument I was waiting for

B. A.C ™ same

me

I'm glad we never showed this to our director he would have KILLED us

Tinyman Me too, it actually did make me laugh though, just because of the accuracy😂

Same!

yeah same

NosnhoB_NahteB same

Same

It’s so accurate tho. I’m a flutist and my teacher(I’m in middle school) is ALWAYS yelling at the flutes to play.

The Roleplay Pack see that was the opposite for us, as flutes we just constantly played and we had to be told not to play

My band teacher is usually yelling at the trumpets and clarinets to play.Prob different for all bands.

Honestly for my school it’s not, we just talk a little, while the teacher helps some instruments *cough* trumpets*cough* get their shit together and play right

Euphonium don't usually get asked to play their part. They're usually ignored.

Ong yea

Siberian Tiger it just depends what kind of trumpets you’re dealing with, I play trumpet but I practice and pay attention while the saxophones and other trumpets talk all clads

Siberian Tiger THANK YOU

Yes! Exactly!

Siberian Tiger what is the deal with clarinets hating trumpets 😂 we are better! Your just mad cuz clarinets are quiet and never the main instrument! (Not trying to be super aggressive)

Siberian Tiger accurate

Same

And the directors keep calling us "baritones" Sheesh.

I mean, there are differences-baritones are the smaller one between the trombone and the euphonium, and the euphonium is the one between the trombone and tuba, and is bigger-but no one really cares or notices.

yeah it is, and i am anything but awkward in band lol

Ikr

Yes.

Bass clarinets are with the clarinets, same as bari sax is with the altos

Hello, as an oboe I’m also forgotten, I think my BD forgot I exist

my bad bro

Joseph Carden Tuba is painfully accurate

No the Trombone player is awful

thats true, we should have been the talkative ones who always play with their slide and keep dropping their mouthpiece and forget things

the trombone one isn't that accurate

Joseph Carden I play Tuba and it’s so accurate..

same...

Same

No bass clarinet tho 😩😩 I cri

Double reed representation!

Btw I’m a tenor sax

@@alexnicole6345 I have a friend who plays tenor sax and when they chip a reed they keep it just in case their currently good one chips. One day our band class went on a walk around a pond and she finally threw them away

I play alto sax

Yesss

Syreen Drew I'm a flute by I act like the trumpet

Neither am I! #TeamFlute

The flute stereotype was nothing like me, also

In my school the flutes are the quiet innocent ones until the band director isn't around. Next thing you know we're talking about excorsiscm and weed brownies xD

Mimiwarriors we had a concert the other day and now I fear my section. They wanted to have sex with a band director and i was dying cause the band director was married. I took a sick day the day after cause i threw up cause of them

Allyson Birds same XD (Alto Sax)

Murphy Schnauzer Alto Sax too

Diamond Blue nice

Murphy Schnauzer Thanks

I have to play alto, tenor and Bari....

Its basicly the 2nd row in my band class which is made up of clarinets and trumpets (im a clarinet :>)

I'm a flute,in my school we are the pets lol

The saxes ( my instrument)are the pets in mine

As a bass clarinet/Bari sax player, this is relatable as hell

*I WANT TO SUCCEED*

@@viaazx69 I WANT TO SUCCEED TOO

Jayda Powell well at least you get clarinets! When oboe/bassoons are sxcluded we don't have anything close to it.

I Am Awesome clarinets and bass clarinets are very different, and I’d say that in the band the only similarity we have is fingerings. Everything else we do and CAN do is different.

@@jakebramhall3479 Bass clarinets are more like bassoons.

They had euphonium too, but no bass clarinet 😩😩 bass clarinets are always forgotten, even by the substitute teacher

GO BASS CLARINET!!