my first year on snare, we were rehearsing an 16-count “just do a little dance” visual at practice and the clarinet section leader did a fortnite dance. the director (over the speaker) immediately made him run a lap
Sophmore year, I was on third bass. My band director from the box says, "bass drums, I know the average age back there is 10 and a half but I need more confidence in your parts"
Box callout to me in drum corps. We were having a bad season and this rehearsal was going awful for everyone. Many mistakes, but a lot of laughing and just not seeming to care. Me, as an older veteran, finally lost it and I loudly went off on everyone (bad move). So from the box comes the voice of our Japanese vis tech. And he rattles these instructions off, rapid fire with no pauses through his very broken english. "Brass, control your body through the section, battery your feet are sloppy, Tom Peavy you shut the f&^#$ up, guard improve timing with rifles." So embarassing.
So my junior year I was section leader of our tenor line and after a percussion feature in our show the tenors had an extended triplet roll and one of the other two people in the section would dirt it out every time at practice one day. There was not a single clean roll that day. And finally one rep they both nailed it... but that was the one rep I ticked. Our tech just looked at me and laughed then slowly walked over to the tenors and threw his sticks at me and told us to reset
my freshman year of high school, i was in the pit on paino. The piano music was similar to the flutes. So when the director singled out the flute section he would say "Flutes, play measure 21, and (my name here)" Specifically calling me out on my part, drawing the entire Band's attention to me. Well, because i once dropped the Center Snare's Personal Bass drum(braking the wood around the rim), him and the entire band(including the directors) called me 'Rim job' because of that. Eventually the director morphed over to saying "Flutes play measure 21, and Rim Job too" And everyone would always giggle. Sometimes the director would occasionally give a slight laugh too
During a high school band rehearsal, the battery was rehearsing a chunk involving a small head visual. Our percussion director was in the box giving us comments and after one rep he mentioned something about the head visual needing to be improved. We did another rep with that in mind and he gave us a couple of unrelated comments on the music. After he finished his comment, our center snare yelled up to the box “How was the heads?”. He didn’t hear her clearly, so his response over the loudspeaker was “How was the head?!”. We had to stop rehearsal for 5 minutes so the battery would stop laughing.
so my drumline has a move where they move forward where the rest of the band is marking time, and the first time they do it every year at camp they shout "PENETRATION!", and my band director this year was just so tired of it and he just said "ok can we do this again, but, without the vocals?"meanwhile the trombones are shouting "BONER GANG" every practice
NickComment s lmao, im the tenor line section leader in my highschool and someone in the tenor section always pulses and marks time with his butt sticking out dramatically and I’d call him out every time but hopefully by this season be catches my drift and stops that habit 🤣
High school: Bass drums had silver dot heads on them. We had the brilliant idea of reflecting the sun off the heads into the faces of the other football team. Was working great until they stopped the game, called us out and threatened our team with forfeiture. Yea, we were way beyond in trouble. Ugh...we were idiots!
Faceplanted with tenors the other day looney toons style Everybody asked if is as okay but I didn’t even check myself until I knew the tenors were intact
I had to cut a trumpet part. I went to the sectional, and went "trumpets, there is a change from 72-75. Get out your pencils and I'll sing it to you; it's easy." They grabbed pencils. "Ok... I'll count it off. 1...2...3...4...." Insert 16 counts of silence. "Got it?"
Sophomore trombone player this year. One day at practice after doing a choreo section, band director called out my name and the world stopped for me. He proceeds to tell me that I did the choreography really well and man that was relieving
frr, i’ve never heard of a section tech. our ranking goes as : crab, upperclassmen, section leader, loading crew leader, band captain, drum major, band director.
Haven't gotten a whole lot of box calls (thank the lord) but there's one call I'll always remember: Sophomore year, I was in front ensemble and had a timpani solo. At one of our biggest competitions, we went inside where a judge went over our performance and he paused after my solo and called out "Who played timpani?! Please stand up!" So I did and he said "the tuning was amazing, beautiful sound, and very well played! Good job my friend!" And that was probably the best call out I've ever had in front of the whole band, I felt good haha.
During a crowded full corps clinic/ensemble rehearsal session - George Zingali (from the box): "What's your name! Drum Corps Member (yelling from the field): "Morehead!" George Zingali: "What's you first name? Gimmie!!?"
During high school, I was playing tenor and we were doing one of our songs in the stands at a football game. It was one of my favorites, so let's just say I was getting really into it. I rushed so bad that the director had to stop the entire band to call me out. How did he know it was me specifically rushing the tenor part? I was the only one. So that's 150 band members, plus about the same number of spectators close enough to see, and the entire stadium that heard this sudden cut in the music.
So I was in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, like 4th grade. We rehearsed on the stage at the same time as the 5th graders were having lunch, and I was right at the front of the stage playing bass drum. Apparently I was somewhat distracted by the kids eating lunch, and the director stopped the rehearsal, walked over to me, and yelled "WELL IF YOU'RE SO INTERESTED IN THE KIDS EATING LUNCH, WHY DON'T YOU GO JOIN THEM?!?". He dragged me by the arm down to some random table and made me sit next to some random girl, TOOK HER SANDWICH OUT OF HER HAND, and made me take a bite of it. I think I ran out of the rehearsal in tears. I will never forget that moment. pst those hand mutes in the tenor intermissions are siiiick
In High School there were announcements at the beginning and end of the day on the public address system, that went school wide. We forged a note dropped off at the office to announce that "Mike Hunt needs to report to the nurses office before going home today". Laughted so that I could hardly breath.
Freshman year, my school’s quadline couldn’t play triplet rolls, so we split it, I had the first three, section leader had the next three, other guy had the last three, and then we all had a shot on four. Once, we all missed it at the same time and the snare tech fell over and just started dying 😂
I'm the first quad player at my school since the 70s, so we had no music for quads, so I had to improvise, during a silent moment, I played 4 8th beats on 1 to 2 to 4, and apparently everyone liked it.
This year the best call from the box so far is: “Base 4 and 5, are we playing?” Said by the band director right after a rep Had to be repeated by the drum major cuz they couldn’t hear
It was my first year this year, and I never got called out from the box. I have gotten called out by other students and the tech sometimes. But they were really nice about it and it actually helped me fix some issues that I wasn’t aware of. It wasn’t like berating me over something, more like just pointing it out and letting me know what I could do to fix it. And I’ve gotten a couple compliments too. One of my favorites was when one of the brass techs complimented my backwards marching. But the only time a student tech or teacher is mean in a call out is if they’re calling you out for a behavioral problem like being disruptive in rehearsal, or if you keep making the same mistake over again and you just don’t care about fixing that mistake that is slipping you up.
During the 2019 marching season I was walking down concrete stairs with my tenors and I accidentally missed the last step. I tripped and it was pretty epic. I didn't fall on my face, it was more like kneeling on one knee. My right knee still had the scar below it. But what hurt the most was when my carrier jabbed into my thigh and that hurt for a few days after!
Sprained my ankle the day before finals and got yelled at all morning (from the box) for “bad technique”... then we had a killer run and won so it was all good
Getting called out has to be the scariest part in corps back in my time. You could get your section, or even the entire corps punished just because you made a mistake. There were even stories of members quitting on the spot because they had the entire corps punished, fearing that everyone would do something to them out of hatred. Dunno if this is still the case on everyone past my batch. As for me, I had my own fair share of call-outs like the one where I was told to not screw up cause everyone will hold a grudge on me and the one where I got punished and had to awkwardly introduce myself because I pulled the pants of one of my fellow snare drummers during practice. Take note that I was already an assistant coordinator (section leader) of snare drums when the 2nd one happened and I still cringe whenever I think about it.
Well, here is a callout from my own experience. We were rehearsing the national anthem as a full band one day, and it was going fairly well. But then when we ended the song, our band director says no word and looks right at our section of 8 people (low brass (trombones+euphoniums)). There was a brief moment of silence when all of a sudden he says "WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOUR MIND?! YOU KNOW WAY BETTER THAN TO DO THAT!!! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!". And so we look at each other all bamboozled and whispering to ourselves who it was. Then he says a moment later "For those of you who don't know, you don't play FF at a F dynamic!". So once rehearsal was over, me and my friends were chilling in Bd's office (per usual), and once he arrives at his chair, i say 'Hey Mr. [Bd's last name], I'm using my other bone with less tubing. I use that same amount of air with my other bone to get a nice F sound but i wasn't quite accustomed to my new one yet so that same amount of air just turned into extra volume." And he said in a calm voice "Alright, Matt. That's completely understandable." So yeah that's my little call-out story.
the first time we practiced as a full ensemble (i play synth in pit) my bd: Ocean, you know that thing your doing during movement 2? me: ? bd: you know like when you suck for 16 measures? yeah? stop doing that me: thumbs up
Hey, I'm synth. And I also got to choose the patches for our last part. So, basically I have a volume pedal, and I'm connected to a soundboard. So, I keep getting called out on volume.
I know the feeling, that was last year for me, this year I'm on tenors and only second to the senior center snare. I just practiced a lot before and during the season and did great, but I'm still really not that good it's just that basically no one else in the line really cares except for me and the captain.
Freshman year. at a private woodwind ensemble rehearsal there was a song where everyone had to scream and when the group was starting at measuring 57 I thought everyone must scream so I let it rip but I am not supposed to scream at measure 57 and everyone heard me scream and I felt like such embarrassment as all 17 people were laughing at me including the conductor but she said I set a good example on how people should should scream super loud, and I think this memory will go on for the rest of my life. This happened today.
Ive been watching a bunch of your videos, and i really enjoy how you'll put the sheet music for what you're playing during the transitions in the video
My junior year of high school, another student had my name, Caleb. Our Band director didn't realize it till the second week of Band Camp when he got really pissed and called "Caleb" out. I thought he was talking to me, the other guy thought it was him and it ended with our Band Director going, "I'll call one of you by your middle name!" he pointed at me and I quietly said, "Marselles." He paused for one second then declared, "Nope, Caleb number 2 what's your middle name." So this other Caleb licked his lips cause he was really nervous being the first time actually called out and goes, "It's Caleb." And it went back and fort between them going "What's your middle name.... Caleb" before it was discovered that is name was actually Jame Caleb R. This whole process took twenty minutes and our Band Director forgot which Caleb he was yelling at and what it was even about. Great memory. P.S We were in the same section, and the following year we had two Alyssas in the section as well.
Before I was on drumline (cause I was told no), I was on Bari sax and stood in front of the Quads. Well my best friend was on the quad behind me and we were messing around. His spock head was very close to breaking, but our director was anal about changing heads till they break. Well the Drumline captain comes over, cranks the head about 5 turns each and we wait. Well at this playoff game we’re all hype as heck. They’re playing as loud as humanly possible, and my friend is trying to break this head. Finally I hear a weird sound, and here comes a stick flying into my bell. Then I just hear laughing and someone yells “HE BROKE THE HEAD!!!” At the end of the song, ALL of the drumline members, and me, come over/turn around, and start doing “things” to that broken head.
So i wasn't even drum captain yet but our band instructor called *_me_* out for not having the drumline memorize the show music. Like sis it's not my job but ok
During my first year of marching, our show had some barrels on the the field that were used by the colorgaurd. Since they used them it was their responsibility to make sure they where put in the correct dots. There was a point in the show where the drumline (I played bass 3 at the time) had to go through the barrels. One rehearsal the colorguard kept putting them in the wrong dots so we kept crashing into them. Eventually, the assistant band director (who was also the drumline tech) got so mad he went out onto the field, grabbed one of the barrels and threw it off onto the track, then yelled something like "you have to get your shit together" at the color guard. It was terrifying in the moment but when I look back, it was pretty funny.
We had a trumpet get called out to play by himself in place a part where we were marching across the field in a slide. The directors response was “dude, that was unacceptable. You are so cut. If that’s how bad it sounded standing still, I don’t even want to hear it on the move.”
7:04 last month, my band went to a off campus rehearsal during school, and every kid on my bus was screaming 99 bottles of beer and hitting their cases for a makeshift percussion
My Senior year on Bass 5, we had a loud rim click part in the back of the field to set time. (For context we practice on a black top parking lot) Well we faced in reverse, so my right hand was showing to the audience. We click at FF four 4 counts and do a turn 180 degrees. Well me being as enthusiastic as I am I absolutely destroyed the mallet and it went flying off the field and hit a car tire. The percussion director notices and asks why I’m playing everything with 1 hand. So I hold up the broken mallet so proudly (No idea why), but he just gives me that death stare we all know and love. I argued and said I’m playing on 4 year old mallets and I’m gonna play loud when told. Ended up buying the basses (me) many mallets and said double tape.
i’m on the guard (still a percussionidt and love it) and one time i was maybe half a step off dot, and so bc i’m the only rifle my band director knows well he calls me out from the box and tells me to move to THE left, and so i move to my left and he says “no to your left” so i move to my right and he goes wait “wait no to my right” and it was just this series of confusion that left the whole band laughing!
This happened to some trombone today. The director walks down and gets mad because people are moving when they should be set, and he starts to move this trombone’s instrument and move his hat and the the director is like “IS THAT MY HAT?!”. It turns out during water break someone had took the director’s hat from where he had left it and gave it to this guy, and he got called out in front of the whole band while the director gave a speech about touching his stuff.
So I march contra and there’s only two contra players in my marching band. Both of our names are Hannah. So everytime someone says Hannah we both just answer. It’s great
we’re working on learning drill for our second movement and my director called me out and I was very confused since I was on my dot. turned out my twin sister was wrong and he mixed it up. very fun.
I remember the one that got me the most was in 2006 Bushwackers. Snare line had the cymbals in front of us and we were playing a ride cymbal pattern. Our snare tech called out, "Dave, you work on computers, right?" "Yes. " I replied as that was my day job. "You LOOK like you work on computers!" he said, meaning I looked like Sassafrass playing drums. Good times. :)
I recently discovered that both my band director and caption head in high school taught at Township, before they started working at my high school(RV), at the time you were there, so when you told the high school stories I sat here trying to imagine either of them saying those things. I'm really tempted to send this to both of them and ask. lol
I had a crush on one of the flute players in high school. In spirit band a few minutes before we walked into the arena I asked her if I she could show me how to hold her flute, you know, to get the conversation going. It worked and it was going pretty well until the director stormed up to us, grabbed the flute and gave it back to her and said "Sean, if I catch you playing somebody else's instrument again, you're GONE!" The girl gave me a look like "sucks to be you." We're married now, so it worked out, but yeah, rough call-out.
Quick question: What was the stupidest reason you got upset with a performance (indoor, dci, etc.)?🤷🏼♀️ Mine was during my first EVER indoor performance and I cried afterwards cause I dropped a mallet. It’s stupid when I think about it now.😂
Oh this was about two weeks ago. For context, I’m a freshman in my school band’s pit. I play timpani for most of the show but during one section of the show I play triangle. I have my timpani set up on a cart, where I keep my triangle when I’m not playing it. During my first competition, in the space between moving onto the field and the section I need my triangle for, I lose track of the triangle beater. So, being resourceful as I am, I use the back of a timpani mallet. I don’t think we even got docked for it lol, but I was beating myself up for losing it.
I just got on Tenors this year, I went from base to it. Never got to play snare even. I was trying to do the tryouts and got 4 of them down perfectly. But the last one sucked and I had a mental breakdown trying to get it perfectly.
The other day I watched a 2021 DCI celebration in the movie theatre and we watched to bluecoats practice and on the show one guy got called out in front of the band and the whole movie theatre.
My drum teach was salty after we got a 75 in percussion and this was his text afterwards. “Outstanding performance. Thank you for putting the work in. I appreciate all of you 75ers Overall score for finals- 85 Superior”
Ive got 2 stories about call outs, but some information first. I play a Jupiter Quantum euphonium in band and I am the section leader of 3 where is am the loudest. 1. Last year during a run of the first movement of my show there is one set where all brass are boxed together and the mello's have the melody with some of their parts being echoed in the baritone parts. The box called out the entire mello section for being too loud when in reality it was me and the mello's had nothing to do with it. 2. One rehearsal I had to use the restroom, so I was gone for long enough that the band started back up and did a few runs of a section. I got called out by a tech for my section not knowing their music. They also told me it was a good thing to have left them their exposed because they would have never found out otherwise. Moral of the story, I am was being too loud for the techs to realize there was something wrong.
This was not in marching band but one time in class I said something stupid and my teacher stopped everyone pulled out his wallet, which had nothing in it, and said I dont get paid enough to deal with your bull crap Tim! I dont remember the context of this one but there was another time where he said Tim you're the reason I drink, he doesn't drink.
Haha, last year, I was a synth player for my high school, and there were 2 MIDI synth players (me included) and one of those YAMAHA electric pianos on an OLD synth cart (which the piano was a little bigger than the synth cart). So anyways, the 2 MIDI synth carts were sharing the ONLY laptop (which was on mine) and I was in charge of changing the Mainstage patches, cord management, playing CHORDS, and the samples on the Roland 404 while the other Synth guy was in charge of playing runs and talkbox. You would not know how many times I haven't gotten called out by the box, which was surprisingly 1 or 2 times. And since i haven't learned my lesson on wearing pants in the middle othe the September/October rehearsals, all the pit players took out their phones and played RUclips videos of a fireplace, because it was about 45 degrees.
I don’t know if this is good or bad but: BD: Tenor saxes bring out your part “bu de da baaaaa” Me: *plays as loud as I can on the next rep* BD: Okay I heard you Ben, but I couldn’t hear anyone else in your section or the melody, so try and balance with the ensemble Me: *thumbs up*
I was called out by someone in my section and my section tech stopped him but the guy who called me out could not even do what he was calling me out for.
In last year's season I marched clarinet and we were running a rep and we had a part in the show where the snares run forward and the woodwind stay in a hold for four beats, so I forgot about the four beats thing so I took a step off and then I put my foot back and was like aww dang but the second I put my foot back one of the techs yells right at me DO IT AGAIN AND YOU RUN A LAP, and I get super mad at myself like darn silly mistake but it turns out he was yelling at the snares behind me and someone had to tell the tech that I thought he yelled at me because my face went bright red.
Long time watcher, first time writer (cue Strongbad: "ooooh...an LTWFTW!!") My first season as a drum instructor (an embarrassingly bad one...), I think back in 2000?, for some reason most of the staff was up in the box instead of, I dunno, on the field being helpful. The director gives his comments, passes the mic to the guard instructor, she says her bit, the brass guy says his thing, the director has the mic back, and looks around and says "anyone else got anything?" "Oh, um, yah I got something" I say. This was high school band, so it is a given that the drumline is in the back of the field, furthest away from the box. Also it was night time. And DRUM line- as in the people wearings DRUMS in front of their waists. So I calmly take the mic and say to the tenor player, "hey, uh, Whitey- your fly is down." The only other time I specifically remember commenting from the box (actually the scaffolding) was me having the biggest conniption ever about insufficient dot books at a drum corps rehearsal. Everyone present that day remembers it well. Just....do your dot book and have it with you; it's really not too much to ask.
At the end of last school year, this was 7th grade concert band, we were rehearsing this one really cool piece called "Awake the Iron", and I was on timpani. After we played our rep, the conductor called me out on how I was muting the timpani, because I was pressing down on the head, and he said "Instead of hearing 'bum bum bum, stop', I'm hearing 'bum bum bum, wEEE!'" And everyone, including me started laughing hysterically at it. Then, we had a rehearsal on April Fools Day, and our instructor told me to, on the very last note of the piece, to floor the tuning pedal and glissando up. So I did this, and the conductor just gave me this look of confusion and put his baton down without saying anything. All the rest of the percussionists were laughing hysterically at this, it was extraordinarily funny.
Heard a funny callout in my band (it’s a high school, i’m currently a junior) a few weeks ago pointed towards bass drums who were slowing down, with one of the techs saying “BASS DRUMS, YOU’RE MAKING ME AGE FASTER, I WANT TO AGE SLOWER! FIX YOUR SPEED!”
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my first year on snare, we were rehearsing an 16-count “just do a little dance” visual at practice and the clarinet section leader did a fortnite dance. the director (over the speaker) immediately made him run a lap
"When will you learn, that your actions have consequences!?"
The sounds like something I would do
our go to for visuals where we dance is a grapevine and or the macarena
Which is odd because all the fortnight dances are just real dances stolen for fortnight's benefit
Typical clarinet player (I know cause I am one)
Sophmore year, I was on third bass. My band director from the box says, "bass drums, I know the average age back there is 10 and a half but I need more confidence in your parts"
Lmao.
That's amazing
That's what she sead
Oooh, harsh... and then so FUNNY...
oof
Box callout to me in drum corps. We were having a bad season and this rehearsal was going awful for everyone. Many mistakes, but a lot of laughing and just not seeming to care. Me, as an older veteran, finally lost it and I loudly went off on everyone (bad move).
So from the box comes the voice of our Japanese vis tech. And he rattles these instructions off, rapid fire with no pauses through his very broken english.
"Brass, control your body through the section, battery your feet are sloppy, Tom Peavy you shut the f&^#$ up, guard improve timing with rifles."
So embarassing.
Where did you march and what year(s)?
Please tell me this was a corps from Wisconsin...
@@SeanLaMontagne the tech was a Wisconsin corps vet, but this was before I marched in a Wisconsin corps
@@SeanLaMontagne Why did you think it was Wisconsin?
I once tripped over a fire hydrant with a bass drum
Fleck Channel i dropped my quads down the stairs the other day
My friend also once tripped over a camera box at a football game with a bass drum
I fell with bass 5 and got 7 stitches :)
All I can think of is "why did the hydrant have a bass drum?" (Sorry, it's rather late and I'm old.)
@@brucejamilkowski2266 that's a good dad joke. I'll allow it. Lol
So my junior year I was section leader of our tenor line and after a percussion feature in our show the tenors had an extended triplet roll and one of the other two people in the section would dirt it out every time at practice one day. There was not a single clean roll that day. And finally one rep they both nailed it... but that was the one rep I ticked. Our tech just looked at me and laughed then slowly walked over to the tenors and threw his sticks at me and told us to reset
Haha yea. My tenor line could play really intricate stuff clean but our triplet rolls were only together and clean during competitions. Lol
Los Papeles that's probably because the spocks have tigher tension, so they have better rebound, making it easier to play fast rolls
Must be nice to have a tenor line... it’s just me and 1 other...
Grammar Police feels bad
@@grammarpolice7339 my school doesnt even have a drumline lol
Mom: Tenor drum playing man child doesn't exist he can't hurt you
Tenor drum man child: 0:39
my freshman year of high school, i was in the pit on paino. The piano music was similar to the flutes. So when the director singled out the flute section he would say "Flutes, play measure 21, and (my name here)" Specifically calling me out on my part, drawing the entire Band's attention to me. Well, because i once dropped the Center Snare's Personal Bass drum(braking the wood around the rim), him and the entire band(including the directors) called me 'Rim job' because of that. Eventually the director morphed over to saying "Flutes play measure 21, and Rim Job too" And everyone would always giggle. Sometimes the director would occasionally give a slight laugh too
Trash Bin Entertainment rip lol
Ouch dude, that’s harsh
Why would a center snare have a bass drum?
AHAAA NOOO RIM JOB
Geez, that’s harsh
Imagine you look out the window and you see this man marching across the field. 0:40
During a high school band rehearsal, the battery was rehearsing a chunk involving a small head visual. Our percussion director was in the box giving us comments and after one rep he mentioned something about the head visual needing to be improved. We did another rep with that in mind and he gave us a couple of unrelated comments on the music. After he finished his comment, our center snare yelled up to the box “How was the heads?”. He didn’t hear her clearly, so his response over the loudspeaker was “How was the head?!”. We had to stop rehearsal for 5 minutes so the battery would stop laughing.
If your tech yells at you in front of the whole band it’s way worse than being called out from the box
so my drumline has a move where they move forward where the rest of the band is marking time, and the first time they do it every year at camp they shout "PENETRATION!", and my band director this year was just so tired of it and he just said "ok can we do this again, but, without the vocals?"meanwhile the trombones are shouting "BONER GANG" every practice
I love the snare/tenor licks in between clips like that. Keep doing it!!
I got called out for “shaking my butt” to much when I mark time 😂 guarantee you I now have the least amount of movement in my hips ever since then
NickComment s lmao, im the tenor line section leader in my highschool and someone in the tenor section always pulses and marks time with his butt sticking out dramatically and I’d call him out every time but hopefully by this season be catches my drift and stops that habit 🤣
The low brass section + Mellophones got called out for shaking our butt when we were double timing.😂
High school: Bass drums had silver dot heads on them. We had the brilliant idea of reflecting the sun off the heads into the faces of the other football team. Was working great until they stopped the game, called us out and threatened our team with forfeiture. Yea, we were way beyond in trouble. Ugh...we were idiots!
🤣🤣🤣
auowherensgijdlkvz I can feel the cringe through this comment......
The first question where I'm from when someone falls with their drum on is "Is the drum okay?". Then we ask if they're alright.
Stock.
Thats a given
Faceplanted with tenors the other day looney toons style
Everybody asked if is as okay but I didn’t even check myself until I knew the tenors were intact
I had to cut a trumpet part.
I went to the sectional, and went "trumpets, there is a change from 72-75. Get out your pencils and I'll sing it to you; it's easy."
They grabbed pencils.
"Ok... I'll count it off.
1...2...3...4...."
Insert 16 counts of silence.
"Got it?"
Savage
Sophomore trombone player this year. One day at practice after doing a choreo section, band director called out my name and the world stopped for me. He proceeds to tell me that I did the choreography really well and man that was relieving
Section tech? More like money our marching band doesn't have
frr, i’ve never heard of a section tech. our ranking goes as : crab, upperclassmen, section leader, loading crew leader, band captain, drum major, band director.
@@Defnotken bruh our band goes regulars, upperclassmen, section leader, drum major, bd. No fancy captains or loading crew leader lol
Alex Xie oh 🤣
Alex Xie band captain is basically drum major, but they don’t conduct or touch the mace. or dance.
Alex Xie and loading crew leader is just the person who carries the color guard flags and the water jugs to the field or game.
You should do a funniest band stories (dci included) of all the absolute funniest memories you have
Haven't gotten a whole lot of box calls (thank the lord) but there's one call I'll always remember:
Sophomore year, I was in front ensemble and had a timpani solo. At one of our biggest competitions, we went inside where a judge went over our performance and he paused after my solo and called out "Who played timpani?! Please stand up!" So I did and he said "the tuning was amazing, beautiful sound, and very well played! Good job my friend!" And that was probably the best call out I've ever had in front of the whole band, I felt good haha.
16:16 is straight up one of the coolest licks. My favorite parts of your videos are the random licks interjected between the different sections.
During a crowded full corps clinic/ensemble rehearsal session -
George Zingali (from the box): "What's your name!
Drum Corps Member (yelling from the field): "Morehead!"
George Zingali: "What's you first name? Gimmie!!?"
Nah💀
During high school, I was playing tenor and we were doing one of our songs in the stands at a football game. It was one of my favorites, so let's just say I was getting really into it. I rushed so bad that the director had to stop the entire band to call me out. How did he know it was me specifically rushing the tenor part? I was the only one. So that's 150 band members, plus about the same number of spectators close enough to see, and the entire stadium that heard this sudden cut in the music.
I love your vids emc I'm look forward to the random drumset lick
My band has one more call out;
*staff to staff call out*
Did your stalve go to marriage counselling after?
MegaMech yes
My band has that too but its a good thing because my directors always joke around about it
So I was in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, like 4th grade. We rehearsed on the stage at the same time as the 5th graders were having lunch, and I was right at the front of the stage playing bass drum. Apparently I was somewhat distracted by the kids eating lunch, and the director stopped the rehearsal, walked over to me, and yelled "WELL IF YOU'RE SO INTERESTED IN THE KIDS EATING LUNCH, WHY DON'T YOU GO JOIN THEM?!?". He dragged me by the arm down to some random table and made me sit next to some random girl, TOOK HER SANDWICH OUT OF HER HAND, and made me take a bite of it. I think I ran out of the rehearsal in tears. I will never forget that moment.
pst those hand mutes in the tenor intermissions are siiiick
That's not good....
That's a lie
In High School there were announcements at the beginning and end of the day on the public address system, that went school wide. We forged a note dropped off at the office to announce that "Mike Hunt needs to report to the nurses office before going home today". Laughted so that I could hardly breath.
Absolutely love these drumline cadence transitions
My rookie year my Band Director yelled at the snares: I am about to have three triangle solos next game.
Freshman year, my school’s quadline couldn’t play triplet rolls, so we split it, I had the first three, section leader had the next three, other guy had the last three, and then we all had a shot on four.
Once, we all missed it at the same time and the snare tech fell over and just started dying 😂
what the fuck, zach? why are you on here.
Wait what did you miss?
Theres LITERALLY a kid in my band named Michael Torres
Eric! I can TASTE your dirty beats from here!
"stop tying your shoe"
we weren't even marching
I'm the first quad player at my school since the 70s, so we had no music for quads, so I had to improvise, during a silent moment, I played 4 8th beats on 1 to 2 to 4, and apparently everyone liked it.
I got called out for not having my snare facing the box exactly at 90 degrees once. It was horrible.
Also, Good Morning!
its 9:10 mang but different time zones i guess also howdy neighbor
It's 11:00am here, so good morning.
This year the best call from the box so far is:
“Base 4 and 5, are we playing?”
Said by the band director right after a rep
Had to be repeated by the drum major cuz they couldn’t hear
I like how you can hear Eric laugh a little after 1:42 lmao
It was my first year this year, and I never got called out from the box. I have gotten called out by other students and the tech sometimes. But they were really nice about it and it actually helped me fix some issues that I wasn’t aware of. It wasn’t like berating me over something, more like just pointing it out and letting me know what I could do to fix it. And I’ve gotten a couple compliments too. One of my favorites was when one of the brass techs complimented my backwards marching. But the only time a student tech or teacher is mean in a call out is if they’re calling you out for a behavioral problem like being disruptive in rehearsal, or if you keep making the same mistake over again and you just don’t care about fixing that mistake that is slipping you up.
Nothings as bad as my director throwing his headset on the ground and SCREAMING at the kid for moving at set
During the 2019 marching season I was walking down concrete stairs with my tenors and I accidentally missed the last step. I tripped and it was pretty epic. I didn't fall on my face, it was more like kneeling on one knee. My right knee still had the scar below it. But what hurt the most was when my carrier jabbed into my thigh and that hurt for a few days after!
Sprained my ankle the day before finals and got yelled at all morning (from the box) for “bad technique”... then we had a killer run and won so it was all good
Getting called out has to be the scariest part in corps back in my time. You could get your section, or even the entire corps punished just because you made a mistake. There were even stories of members quitting on the spot because they had the entire corps punished, fearing that everyone would do something to them out of hatred. Dunno if this is still the case on everyone past my batch.
As for me, I had my own fair share of call-outs like the one where I was told to not screw up cause everyone will hold a grudge on me and the one where I got punished and had to awkwardly introduce myself because I pulled the pants of one of my fellow snare drummers during practice. Take note that I was already an assistant coordinator (section leader) of snare drums when the 2nd one happened and I still cringe whenever I think about it.
i just noticed ur initials are E=MC^2... thats why its in ur intro...
But he didn't march in 2013....
Well, here is a callout from my own experience.
We were rehearsing the national anthem as a full band one day, and it was going fairly well. But then when we ended the song, our band director says no word and looks right at our section of 8 people (low brass (trombones+euphoniums)). There was a brief moment of silence when all of a sudden he says "WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOUR MIND?! YOU KNOW WAY BETTER THAN TO DO THAT!!! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!". And so we look at each other all bamboozled and whispering to ourselves who it was. Then he says a moment later "For those of you who don't know, you don't play FF at a F dynamic!". So once rehearsal was over, me and my friends were chilling in Bd's office (per usual), and once he arrives at his chair, i say 'Hey Mr. [Bd's last name], I'm using my other bone with less tubing. I use that same amount of air with my other bone to get a nice F sound but i wasn't quite accustomed to my new one yet so that same amount of air just turned into extra volume." And he said in a calm voice "Alright, Matt. That's completely understandable."
So yeah that's my little call-out story.
Eric isn’t only a good drummer. He’s an amazing editor
the first time we practiced as a full ensemble (i play synth in pit)
my bd: Ocean, you know that thing your doing during movement 2?
me: ?
bd: you know like when you suck for 16 measures? yeah? stop doing that
me: thumbs up
Hey, I'm synth. And I also got to choose the patches for our last part. So, basically I have a volume pedal, and I'm connected to a soundboard. So, I keep getting called out on volume.
I made snare line as a freshmen this year and i have band camp soon and I hope I don’t get called out
I know the feeling, that was last year for me, this year I'm on tenors and only second to the senior center snare. I just practiced a lot before and during the season and did great, but I'm still really not that good it's just that basically no one else in the line really cares except for me and the captain.
Landon Kirts happens bröther
You will so don't trip
Freshman year. at a private woodwind ensemble rehearsal there was a song where everyone had to scream and when the group was starting at measuring 57 I thought everyone must scream so I let it rip but I am not supposed to scream at measure 57 and everyone heard me scream and I felt like such embarrassment as all 17 people were laughing at me including the conductor but she said I set a good example on how people should should scream super loud, and I think this memory will go on for the rest of my life. This happened today.
I'm a freshie and this is my first time hearing about this. We have a comp next week. Pray.
Thank you for resisting the temptation to reference Whiplash :P
Ive been watching a bunch of your videos, and i really enjoy how you'll put the sheet music for what you're playing during the transitions in the video
My junior year of high school, another student had my name, Caleb. Our Band director didn't realize it till the second week of Band Camp when he got really pissed and called "Caleb" out. I thought he was talking to me, the other guy thought it was him and it ended with our Band Director going, "I'll call one of you by your middle name!" he pointed at me and I quietly said, "Marselles." He paused for one second then declared, "Nope, Caleb number 2 what's your middle name."
So this other Caleb licked his lips cause he was really nervous being the first time actually called out and goes, "It's Caleb." And it went back and fort between them going "What's your middle name.... Caleb" before it was discovered that is name was actually Jame Caleb R. This whole process took twenty minutes and our Band Director forgot which Caleb he was yelling at and what it was even about. Great memory.
P.S We were in the same section, and the following year we had two Alyssas in the section as well.
one time our director came down from the tower and threw a soccer ball in someone's sousaphone
Me: marches to my dot
My line: doesnt cover down
Line Behind me: Perfect
BD: Good job line behind me. Your line is ok
Before I was on drumline (cause I was told no), I was on Bari sax and stood in front of the Quads. Well my best friend was on the quad behind me and we were messing around. His spock head was very close to breaking, but our director was anal about changing heads till they break. Well the Drumline captain comes over, cranks the head about 5 turns each and we wait.
Well at this playoff game we’re all hype as heck. They’re playing as loud as humanly possible, and my friend is trying to break this head. Finally I hear a weird sound, and here comes a stick flying into my bell. Then I just hear laughing and someone yells “HE BROKE THE HEAD!!!” At the end of the song, ALL of the drumline members, and me, come over/turn around, and start doing “things” to that broken head.
So i wasn't even drum captain yet but our band instructor called *_me_* out for not having the drumline memorize the show music. Like sis it's not my job but ok
During my first year of marching, our show had some barrels on the the field that were used by the colorgaurd. Since they used them it was their responsibility to make sure they where put in the correct dots. There was a point in the show where the drumline (I played bass 3 at the time) had to go through the barrels. One rehearsal the colorguard kept putting them in the wrong dots so we kept crashing into them. Eventually, the assistant band director (who was also the drumline tech) got so mad he went out onto the field, grabbed one of the barrels and threw it off onto the track, then yelled something like "you have to get your shit together" at the color guard. It was terrifying in the moment but when I look back, it was pretty funny.
This has to be my favorite video you've ever made, I just started my freshman year on bass 4 and I've managed to dodge callouts so far
We had a trumpet get called out to play by himself in place a part where we were marching across the field in a slide. The directors response was “dude, that was unacceptable. You are so cut. If that’s how bad it sounded standing still, I don’t even want to hear it on the move.”
7:04 last month, my band went to a off campus rehearsal during school, and every kid on my bus was screaming 99 bottles of beer and hitting their cases for a makeshift percussion
It's 2023, four years later and THIS video shows up in my feed!
Standing the test of time, this is still pretty funny. 🤣
You are my actual favorite channel
My Senior year on Bass 5, we had a loud rim click part in the back of the field to set time. (For context we practice on a black top parking lot) Well we faced in reverse, so my right hand was showing to the audience. We click at FF four 4 counts and do a turn 180 degrees.
Well me being as enthusiastic as I am I absolutely destroyed the mallet and it went flying off the field and hit a car tire. The percussion director notices and asks why I’m playing everything with 1 hand. So I hold up the broken mallet so proudly (No idea why), but he just gives me that death stare we all know and love.
I argued and said I’m playing on 4 year old mallets and I’m gonna play loud when told. Ended up buying the basses (me) many mallets and said double tape.
i’m on the guard (still a percussionidt and love it) and one time i was maybe half a step off dot, and so bc i’m the only rifle my band director knows well he calls me out from the box and tells me to move to THE left, and so i move to my left and he says “no to your left” so i move to my right and he goes wait “wait no to my right” and it was just this series of confusion that left the whole band laughing!
Semper Fi Eric! Your stories are hilarious!
This happened to some trombone today. The director walks down and gets mad because people are moving when they should be set, and he starts to move this trombone’s instrument and move his hat and the the director is like “IS THAT MY HAT?!”. It turns out during water break someone had took the director’s hat from where he had left it and gave it to this guy, and he got called out in front of the whole band while the director gave a speech about touching his stuff.
I love that bit at the beginning way too much.
During my first indoor percussion season, I was on rack, and my mallet head flew off while we were playing the show and hit one of the snares.
So I march contra and there’s only two contra players in my marching band. Both of our names are Hannah. So everytime someone says Hannah we both just answer. It’s great
we’re working on learning drill for our second movement and my director called me out and I was very confused since I was on my dot. turned out my twin sister was wrong and he mixed it up. very fun.
My sophomore year this one dude on snare line got called out on his beads not being in the center of the drum from the box at the stadium
I remember the one that got me the most was in 2006 Bushwackers. Snare line had the cymbals in front of us and we were playing a ride cymbal pattern. Our snare tech called out, "Dave, you work on computers, right?" "Yes. " I replied as that was my day job. "You LOOK like you work on computers!" he said, meaning I looked like Sassafrass playing drums. Good times. :)
I could go all day with all these stories 😂 drumline is an interesting time
I recently discovered that both my band director and caption head in high school taught at Township, before they started working at my high school(RV), at the time you were there, so when you told the high school stories I sat here trying to imagine either of them saying those things. I'm really tempted to send this to both of them and ask. lol
Definitely thought this was the CALL OUT where you play something to start a battle with another drumline
I had a crush on one of the flute players in high school. In spirit band a few minutes before we walked into the arena I asked her if I she could show me how to hold her flute, you know, to get the conversation going. It worked and it was going pretty well until the director stormed up to us, grabbed the flute and gave it back to her and said "Sean, if I catch you playing somebody else's instrument again, you're GONE!" The girl gave me a look like "sucks to be you." We're married now, so it worked out, but yeah, rough call-out.
Box callout in high school: "Ron, stop inspecting your fingernails and put your horn up"
Quick question: What was the stupidest reason you got upset with a performance (indoor, dci, etc.)?🤷🏼♀️ Mine was during my first EVER indoor performance and I cried afterwards cause I dropped a mallet. It’s stupid when I think about it now.😂
Oh this was about two weeks ago. For context, I’m a freshman in my school band’s pit. I play timpani for most of the show but during one section of the show I play triangle. I have my timpani set up on a cart, where I keep my triangle when I’m not playing it. During my first competition, in the space between moving onto the field and the section I need my triangle for, I lose track of the triangle beater. So, being resourceful as I am, I use the back of a timpani mallet. I don’t think we even got docked for it lol, but I was beating myself up for losing it.
I just got on Tenors this year, I went from base to it. Never got to play snare even.
I was trying to do the tryouts and got 4 of them down perfectly. But the last one sucked and I had a mental breakdown trying to get it perfectly.
I am so glad you didn’t make a “must be that time of the month again” joke with the girl that spiller the soda
1:13 scared me bc I know an Eric Carr and he plays quads lmao
My section leaders name is Eric Carr.
When the “drum tech” was driving around them in his rental car, he sounded like muscle man from regular show
The other day I watched a 2021 DCI celebration in the movie theatre and we watched to bluecoats practice and on the show one guy got called out in front of the band and the whole movie theatre.
My drum teach was salty after we got a 75 in percussion and this was his text afterwards.
“Outstanding performance. Thank you for putting the work in. I appreciate all of you 75ers
Overall score for finals- 85 Superior”
Ive got 2 stories about call outs, but some information first. I play a Jupiter Quantum euphonium in band and I am the section leader of 3 where is am the loudest.
1. Last year during a run of the first movement of my show there is one set where all brass are boxed together and the mello's have the melody with some of their parts being echoed in the baritone parts. The box called out the entire mello section for being too loud when in reality it was me and the mello's had nothing to do with it.
2. One rehearsal I had to use the restroom, so I was gone for long enough that the band started back up and did a few runs of a section. I got called out by a tech for my section not knowing their music. They also told me it was a good thing to have left them their exposed because they would have never found out otherwise.
Moral of the story, I am was being too loud for the techs to realize there was something wrong.
This was not in marching band but one time in class I said something stupid and my teacher stopped everyone pulled out his wallet, which had nothing in it, and said I dont get paid enough to deal with your bull crap Tim!
I dont remember the context of this one but there was another time where he said Tim you're the reason I drink, he doesn't drink.
Haha, last year, I was a synth player for my high school, and there were 2 MIDI synth players (me included) and one of those YAMAHA electric pianos on an OLD synth cart (which the piano was a little bigger than the synth cart). So anyways, the 2 MIDI synth carts were sharing the ONLY laptop (which was on mine) and I was in charge of changing the Mainstage patches, cord management, playing CHORDS, and the samples on the Roland 404 while the other Synth guy was in charge of playing runs and talkbox. You would not know how many times I haven't gotten called out by the box, which was surprisingly 1 or 2 times. And since i haven't learned my lesson on wearing pants in the middle othe the September/October rehearsals, all the pit players took out their phones and played RUclips videos of a fireplace, because it was about 45 degrees.
Some guy: *spits a devastating roast in the form of a rap*
Me, overwhelmed: "You- you taste bad!"
I don’t know if this is good or bad but:
BD: Tenor saxes bring out your part “bu de da baaaaa”
Me: *plays as loud as I can on the next rep*
BD: Okay I heard you Ben, but I couldn’t hear anyone else in your section or the melody, so try and balance with the ensemble
Me: *thumbs up*
I love how he has the same sense of humor as his students😂😂
I was called out by someone in my section and my section tech stopped him but the guy who called me out could not even do what he was calling me out for.
"ten push-ups because [tuba player]'s an idiot" is my personal favorite
I forgot my trumpet twice in a row and my shoes for the first two games so now I get called out asking if I have everything
In last year's season I marched clarinet and we were running a rep and we had a part in the show where the snares run forward and the woodwind stay in a hold for four beats, so I forgot about the four beats thing so I took a step off and then I put my foot back and was like aww dang but the second I put my foot back one of the techs yells right at me DO IT AGAIN AND YOU RUN A LAP, and I get super mad at myself like darn silly mistake but it turns out he was yelling at the snares behind me and someone had to tell the tech that I thought he yelled at me because my face went bright red.
Imagine being bad and getting called out lmao
:(
Hehehe- oh
Long time watcher, first time writer (cue Strongbad: "ooooh...an LTWFTW!!")
My first season as a drum instructor (an embarrassingly bad one...), I think back in 2000?, for some reason most of the staff was up in the box instead of, I dunno, on the field being helpful. The director gives his comments, passes the mic to the guard instructor, she says her bit, the brass guy says his thing, the director has the mic back, and looks around and says "anyone else got anything?" "Oh, um, yah I got something" I say. This was high school band, so it is a given that the drumline is in the back of the field, furthest away from the box. Also it was night time. And DRUM line- as in the people wearings DRUMS in front of their waists. So I calmly take the mic and say to the tenor player, "hey, uh, Whitey- your fly is down."
The only other time I specifically remember commenting from the box (actually the scaffolding) was me having the biggest conniption ever about insufficient dot books at a drum corps rehearsal. Everyone present that day remembers it well. Just....do your dot book and have it with you; it's really not too much to ask.
I have a question where do you get the Yamaha marching tenor drum from
Yamaha
Probably the internet
Hey I'm a freshman and I'm just starting in drumline and I was just wondering if you could make a video covering the basics in being a good drummer.
Just don't suck and be a tot
Metronome and Rudiments, I'm self-taught so that's what helped me
At the end of last school year, this was 7th grade concert band, we were rehearsing this one really cool piece called "Awake the Iron", and I was on timpani. After we played our rep, the conductor called me out on how I was muting the timpani, because I was pressing down on the head, and he said "Instead of hearing 'bum bum bum, stop', I'm hearing 'bum bum bum, wEEE!'" And everyone, including me started laughing hysterically at it. Then, we had a rehearsal on April Fools Day, and our instructor told me to, on the very last note of the piece, to floor the tuning pedal and glissando up. So I did this, and the conductor just gave me this look of confusion and put his baton down without saying anything. All the rest of the percussionists were laughing hysterically at this, it was extraordinarily funny.
Heard a funny callout in my band (it’s a high school, i’m currently a junior) a few weeks ago pointed towards bass drums who were slowing down, with one of the techs saying “BASS DRUMS, YOU’RE MAKING ME AGE FASTER, I WANT TO AGE SLOWER! FIX YOUR SPEED!”