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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
@@Jasmine-uj5ns a type of bass tuba to be precise. Baritones and euphoniums also belong to the tuba family. 😉 Fun fact: In the Netherlands a sousaphone is sometimes refered to as a ring bass because of it's shape.
A Sousaphone is a type of tuba. Tuba is the name for a 'family' of instruments including baritones and euphoniums as well. Even a tenor horn (like the ones you see in British style brass bands) is part of the tuba family.
@@loki3836 You mean for people who don't play in marching band. 😉 People who don't play tuba, but are playing any other instrument in band should know what a sousaphone is. Band members who can't properly name all instruments in band aren't really dedicated in my opinion.
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 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 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’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
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 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
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 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.
It was terrifying on Saturday when our base 1 wasn't feeling good and it was a pretty important competition. All of the band parents kept eyes on her the whole time to make sure she wasn't going to puke or something. She didn't thank god and we got first at our competition 😂
I know I'm a year late but during my freshman year, we were giving our final comp performance and during the horns up, my mouthpiece went flying. My section leader managed to catch it but the drill was starting, so we spent movements 1-3 pitching the mouthpiece (literally tossing it) between the members of the mello section till my buddy literally threw me a lateral right before the mello feature. Caught that guy, put it in, and played that feature and the rest of movement 4 like this was the last time I would ever form my embouchure!
Thank God this didn't go badly but I remember during my freshman year there was this really risky move where for some reason, my drill dot was 2 dots away from a colorguard member.
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.
As a tuba player I understand, it's hard to not fall over. We dont have a set marching style, and you have to be careful when running, you have to make sure it doesn't bounce around and if you trip, your done. Plus the wind, hate the wind; I'm wearing a giant wind catcher. Long story short, it sucks.
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 remember some very crazy fails from around here in Northeast Ohio. It was 2017 my freshman year: My band hosted 5 bands for a band show. The Liberty Golden Leopard band was getting ready to go onto our field, they ran on and a sousaphone landed face first on the field. I saw it with my own eyes in my band’s (Howland Tigers) shell
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
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 - _-)
Oh my god, my concert band played the piece in the first clip last year, (its called Peanut Vendor, but we referred to it as the piece from hell), and we literally begged our director to have mercy on the first chair alto sax and entirety of the trumpets and just forget about the piece, as we hated playing this difficult a piece, it being cut time and the changes in key/time signature kinda sucked. Our director also forced us to play it quicker than the band shown was going, which was not great on her part, if she had kept tempo the same, we would've done alright. We did end up performing it at our year end concert, and it wasn't horrible.
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.
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.
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 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
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 😂
Hey, I'm the uploader of the first video. Thanks for watching! I was like 16 and had terrible video-making skills back then but it's cool to see people still enjoying it to this day.
One time during a rehearsal (I am a tuba) we were learning the dots for the 2nd movement, and I just passed out while I was running to rest, so I just dived (we did not have instruments on)
I’m from muscle shoals high school band I didn’t realize that we were such a small band cause now this year we are a 6a band it’s crazy to think that we have come so far it’s SOOO COOOL
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.
Great vid Ben I'm a relatively newer sub (I've been watching your videos for 4 months now) and you deserve more subs you make very good quality content. Also are you on r/tuba
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?"
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 worst marching band fail happened at the friday night football game we had before area this year. I played the synthesizer and I play the first 4 notes of the show. I was absent the day before so my channel was muted on our mixer. Our drum major completely ignores procedure so we start before soundcheck. And for the entire first measure of the show there was nothing. In fact nothing I 'played' was heard before our 3rd movement where I had a duet with the soloist
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
7:33 something like this happened during BOA Regional Finals to us, a tenor sax was out of her line by accident and she just hopped in a line and played it off.
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
The video where one of the drummers lost their drum and the judge ran to give it back to them, there's actually a body cam footage from that exact drummer posted on yt
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.
“A lot of these include tuba players. That was not on purpose. It appears they just fail the most.” Welp, I’m a tuba player, that stinks. Haha. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At 3:20, that was a drum corps. It was during finals week which really had to suck for the performer and it was a judge that helped him out. The snare was also wearing a camera or something on his harness so his POV of the moment is on RUclips too
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
Can confirm falling with a susaphone hurts. Don't know about the shoulder mounted ones but when i was backwards marching during a halftime show my fresman year I stepped on a color guard flag which she immediately jerked up causing my feet to kind of slide out from under me. The fact that the turf had just been redone so it was super loose was probably why she could have been able to do that to me. You fall on your toosh if you're lucky to not break an ankle (which still hurts) Unfortunately if you are not lucky enough like me then you break your ankle. They could tell something was wrong when the sousaphone player wasnt getting up after 7 sets lol. Took them long enough. As for the susaphone, well, the way i feel the bell was esentially crumpled like a paper ball and the lead pipe and bits were bent beyond repair.
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.
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
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 worst fail was a wasp crawling inside of my piccolo mouth piece while I was playing and when everyone was at attention, I shook the life out of it. This was at a competition, mind you.
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.
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
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
Update: craziest marching band fail i ever saw was just recently. 2021, Dublin California. Terra Nova HS's bluetooth Sound system hooked up to the judges box and we could literally hear everything that the judges were saying. One person said "hey, has anyone seen my wireless headset?" another said "I laugh when i get nervous!" the crowd burst out laughing and they realized what had happened. The announcer said "Looks like they picked up our feed!! Hope we didn't have to bleep anything!"
At our rehearsal yesterday, we were going through the last movement of the show. I'm a little trumpet player running backwards behind a sousa. We were in diagonals and the person by me was too close and stepped on my foot, and then while going backwards I ran right into a snare. Somehow I made the set without hitting the sousa but it definitely hurt a bit. Also, our director tried changing one of our sets. It was a box drill where every four counts was a quick turn but he sped up the drill. It was way too fast and so many people fell. Just trying to make the set ended in us running in circles.
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.
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Hey I live in Alabama I'm in band
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 hey you should do a reaction to best tuba features and if so look up Bullitt east marching band 2019
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
There also called contras the non-SUSAPHONE things
Forget the people. ARE THE INSTRUMENTS OK???
Charlotte Grubbs that’s what my band director always used to say if people fell haha
This is my first reaction
That’s my section leader right there
rip all of the trombone slides in that collision
@@BenCooperMLM lol
3:36 that was a DCI field judge and it doesn’t matter if u make a mistake it matters how u play it off
Woah for real?!? That is amazing!
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
I guess that judge was in a good mood bc he did a lot to help out!😂
Also I think that one is the same one as the last video but the last video was using a go pro and this one is from the press box
I've always been told that you get points for a good recovery
Most of them weren’t tubas they were susas
Lloyd Rittenhouse same thing right? 😂
Lloyd Rittenhouse tubas are a wide term sousa is a type of tuba
@@Jasmine-uj5ns exactly. 👍
@@Jasmine-uj5ns a type of bass tuba to be precise. Baritones and euphoniums also belong to the tuba family. 😉
Fun fact: In the Netherlands a sousaphone is sometimes refered to as a ring bass because of it's shape.
Mark te Grotenhuis that’s awesome!
I swear to god if you’re a low brass player and can’t differentiate between a tuba and a sousaphones you deserve to be kicked out.
Timmy Test classic
A Sousaphone is a type of tuba. Tuba is the name for a 'family' of instruments including baritones and euphoniums as well. Even a tenor horn (like the ones you see in British style brass bands) is part of the tuba family.
@@marktegrotenhuis Plus tuba is way more recognizable than susaphone for people who dont play tuba
@@loki3836 You mean for people who don't play in marching band. 😉 People who don't play tuba, but are playing any other instrument in band should know what a sousaphone is. Band members who can't properly name all instruments in band aren't really dedicated in my opinion.
Or a shoulder tuba
one time during a football game, one of the girls in my guard got her hair stuck in a trombone slide 😂
Kayla Wallace I cant even imagine how that would happen😂
😅🤣😆
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 :/
Ouch, I play trombone and I'm just imaging how bad it would be if somebody's hair got stuck on my slide
as a sousa, i’m small. everyone else in my section are trees. i can’t tell you how many times i’ve been almost run down-
At my university we’ve had several smaller people in the section and they always get the most respect bc those people are always the toughest!
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 started Summer band camp not that long ago and I'm not the best marcher out there so I'm watching this to feel better about myself .-.
Bean Sanders hahaha I’m sure you’re doing great!
“At first it was a mess of people”
“Then it was a mess of people”
Manny Munoz Hahahaha 😂 whoops
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
Sp00ksman ouch!! Hahaha
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
The 3rd one is Carolina Crown, and the dude recovered really well thanks to that judge, I’m pretty sure they didn’t lose any points from that
BernieGzz yeah apparently the system is really forgiving for that kind of thing
Recovery can be worth a lot of points
What's really impressive is he got the drum back AND on right when a fast and larger crab step came up....
Allan Kristensen has been around forever (I marched DCI 30 years ago and hes a great guy. Drummer just helping out another drummer
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 😂
Zero Technique hahaha that’s one of those things that no ones going to let you live down 😂
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
Lolll I’m in the band with the washing machine and it was our Halloween game😂😭we have to dress up
I loved the costumes!!
I loved that music
That's what I was thinking. Because we have to dress up for our Halloween parade in my mb.
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 think I recognize that peice is it malagueña?
Like my band director told me...
if you make a mistake make, make a big one. It is all in a matter of how you recover from it.
I like that!
They probably didn’t get docked at all. Him still marching would’ve actually been recovery points
That’s a great system!
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
First off, the guy was holding the "tuba" correctly. Secondly, that was a contrabass bugle, abbreviated contra
Oof
Ben Cooper rip
That's a tuba. The full name for contra is contrabass bugle in g. The guy is using a contrabass BBb marching tuba. But yea he's holding it correctly.
At my last football game a sousaphone (I’m a mello) ran into our section, and one of my mellos fell into the drum line. We had like 10 people down.
Margaret Jean Davis woah! That’s a ton of people! That would’ve been great for the video haha
Margaret Jean Davis My mello section has the tendency to fall...a lot
Mellllloooooo
Arden Pruett Mellos unite!
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. 😂😂😂😂
New Milo wow! You know it’s bad when the teachers don’t even think it’s possible!
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
Joseph Robinson I feel like it’s probably easiest to fall on grass so it doesn’t hurt as much!
Ben Cooper yeah
Ben Cooper sousaphone was okay
“this is like drum corp!”
carolina crown: am i a joke to you??
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 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.
samsyoutube that’s so cool to me. I didn’t realize that’s how they did it but I love it
@@BenCooperMLM right?! it's so interesting to me! also, Im from Alabama, but I'm from the other A-Town that you probably wouldn't be too fond of
samsyoutube oof
Ben Cooper just the comment i expected ahahaha
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.
Chad section leader
The synth one scared me so bad, being that I play the synthesizer. 😶
Kingzy 53 hahaha I’m sure you wouldn’t have that happen!
samE
A few years ago the batteries in our synth died in the middle of the performance...
That’s terrifying
It was terrifying on Saturday when our base 1 wasn't feeling good and it was a pretty important competition. All of the band parents kept eyes on her the whole time to make sure she wasn't going to puke or something. She didn't thank god and we got first at our competition 😂
The reason that everyone is dressed up is bc it is prob a Halloween game
Hope 9 that makes a lot of sense!
It was my band and it was Halloween
@@jonathanlatham5433 really?
It’s always low brass😂 but I’m proud to be one of them
Abbey K me too!
I know I'm a year late but during my freshman year, we were giving our final comp performance and during the horns up, my mouthpiece went flying. My section leader managed to catch it but the drill was starting, so we spent movements 1-3 pitching the mouthpiece (literally tossing it) between the members of the mello section till my buddy literally threw me a lateral right before the mello feature. Caught that guy, put it in, and played that feature and the rest of movement 4 like this was the last time I would ever form my embouchure!
Thank God this didn't go badly but I remember during my freshman year there was this really risky move where for some reason, my drill dot was 2 dots away from a colorguard member.
The DCI video with the drum falling off has a 1st person POV video also. Look up DCI embarrassing moments at 25 seconds
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
Wow! Great job!
@@BenCooperMLM thanks😊 proud of my band
Brandon Scoggins That is awesome. Our band has a long way to go if we wanna beat open class bands.
We had a bass drum player fall during a show and he rolled to get up in the rain
I bet it wasn’t fun being all wet and muddy the rest of the game 😂
The one called small at the end is not small at all compared to my high school marching band we are only 8 people on instruments and 3 guard members
Woah!! Very small!
I'm a tuba player and can 100% confirm we are the dumbest section to have ever existed
Dalton Dixon it’s part of our charm right? 😂
Yes. As a tuba player I can say this true
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.
Clark Fletcher wooooaaahh that’s something people will talk about for a long time haha
our piano broke during a comp and the marimba player made up her own music that sounded like the piano part and she saved the whole show pretty much
As a tuba player I understand, it's hard to not fall over. We dont have a set marching style, and you have to be careful when running, you have to make sure it doesn't bounce around and if you trip, your done. Plus the wind, hate the wind; I'm wearing a giant wind catcher. Long story short, it sucks.
In the sax dominoes I think the people on the ground were yelling to those in front of them to move out of the way to avoid more issues with it
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 :)
The reactions are the best part of the Fails for sure!!
Bro im a trombone and that made me just feel bad
@@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
some of the slides literally came all the way off theres no recovering from that
I remember some very crazy fails from around here in Northeast Ohio. It was 2017 my freshman year: My band hosted 5 bands for a band show. The Liberty Golden Leopard band was getting ready to go onto our field, they ran on and a sousaphone landed face first on the field. I saw it with my own eyes in my band’s (Howland Tigers) shell
2:30
Theres actually a body cam video for this one 🤣🤣
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
I was marching and I hit a girl's plume with my trombone lol
John Lang haha I’ve seen that happen before!
My teacher says the way we take care of instruments it's going to be when we have kids.
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 - _-)
ThatOneEmoGirl hahaha that’s rough for sure
on the third clip, I've actually seen the head cam footage. its on yt.
*where his drum fell*
Oh my god, my concert band played the piece in the first clip last year, (its called Peanut Vendor, but we referred to it as the piece from hell), and we literally begged our director to have mercy on the first chair alto sax and entirety of the trumpets and just forget about the piece, as we hated playing this difficult a piece, it being cut time and the changes in key/time signature kinda sucked. Our director also forced us to play it quicker than the band shown was going, which was not great on her part, if she had kept tempo the same, we would've done alright. We did end up performing it at our year end concert, and it wasn't horrible.
Lauren Shymanski I’ll have to look up that piece! Sounds scary tbh😂
Ben Cooper It was horrifying! Unfortunately, there aren't any recordings of the arangment that we played, that I can find, at least.
YEAH THE LAKE TRAVIS TUBA DOMINOES 😂 my school makes reference to that almost every day
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.
Wait wait wait. 1:30 that honest to goodness looks like my band and we had a guys pants fall down while playing a few years back
Robert giudice maybe it is!!
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’m in my last year of regular marching band (meaning not DCI but as a college student) and I’m definitely gonna miss it!
I marched for 6 years. 4 in high school, 2 at a community college. I do miss some of it.
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 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
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 😂
Your band director was my middle school band director! He helped me learn tuba for the very first time!
Ben Cooper Mr stone?!
Pan Panda yes! Way back when he taught at cedar ridge middle school. I started middle school in like 2009 or something like that.
Ben Cooper I’m gonna ask him tomorrow. He probably remembers! That’s so crazy.
Pan Panda I’m sure he does! He and my dad (also a band director) have known each other for a long time! Tell him I said hi haha
During our schools Band day 2019, when pride of arizona was performing a tuba tripped and 2 others came with
8:58. Thats our show this year! Phantom of the opera!
Hey, I'm the uploader of the first video. Thanks for watching!
I was like 16 and had terrible video-making skills back then but it's cool to see people still enjoying it to this day.
There’s a POV version of that dci video. The same dude dropped his snare. You can hear the audio and stuff too it’s pretty cool. 2014 Carolina Crown
Gabriel French turns out I had already seen it and reacted to it in my first video like this! Whoops XD
Ben Cooper what a coincidence haha. Love your videos!
One time during a rehearsal (I am a tuba) we were learning the dots for the 2nd movement, and I just passed out while I was running to rest, so I just dived (we did not have instruments on)
I’m from muscle shoals high school band I didn’t realize that we were such a small band cause now this year we are a 6a band it’s crazy to think that we have come so far it’s SOOO COOOL
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.
Woah!!! A somersault?! That’s amazing. Best one yet
Great vid Ben I'm a relatively newer sub (I've been watching your videos for 4 months now) and you deserve more subs you make very good quality content. Also are you on r/tuba
Qlbie DB thank you! And yes of course!
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?"
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
I am a freshman in the band with the 7 tuba pileup. That was 2013 though.
Austin Kar that’s crazy! I bet your band director talks about it all the time when teaching what not to do haha
Yeah he does.
If only there was vid of the infamous "Whitewater Wipeout" by Cadets at Whitewater finals in 84....and they STILL got a perfect marching subcap!!
My worst marching band fail happened at the friday night football game we had before area this year. I played the synthesizer and I play the first 4 notes of the show. I was absent the day before so my channel was muted on our mixer. Our drum major completely ignores procedure so we start before soundcheck. And for the entire first measure of the show there was nothing. In fact nothing I 'played' was heard before our 3rd movement where I had a duet with the soloist
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
7:33 something like this happened during BOA Regional Finals to us, a tenor sax was out of her line by accident and she just hopped in a line and played it off.
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
The video where one of the drummers lost their drum and the judge ran to give it back to them, there's actually a body cam footage from that exact drummer posted on yt
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.
“A lot of these include tuba players. That was not on purpose. It appears they just fail the most.”
Welp, I’m a tuba player, that stinks. Haha. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At 3:20, that was a drum corps. It was during finals week which really had to suck for the performer and it was a judge that helped him out. The snare was also wearing a camera or something on his harness so his POV of the moment is on RUclips too
The POV video is awesome!!
Lol the one where the drum fell of is Carolina crown "out of this world".
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.
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.
CT-5736 oohhh man that is rough! I would be so mad
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.
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!
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.
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!
Allison Creutzer hahaha the pants falling down is the craziest to me. I couldn’t imagine.
Can confirm falling with a susaphone hurts. Don't know about the shoulder mounted ones but when i was backwards marching during a halftime show my fresman year I stepped on a color guard flag which she immediately jerked up causing my feet to kind of slide out from under me. The fact that the turf had just been redone so it was super loose was probably why she could have been able to do that to me.
You fall on your toosh if you're lucky to not break an ankle (which still hurts) Unfortunately if you are not lucky enough like me then you break your ankle. They could tell something was wrong when the sousaphone player wasnt getting up after 7 sets lol. Took them long enough.
As for the susaphone, well, the way i feel the bell was esentially crumpled like a paper ball and the lead pipe and bits were bent beyond repair.
Semi-Serious youtuber oh man!! That’s scary!
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.
Imagine having that as your opposing school. Must make y’all feel pretty good!
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.
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
It’s crazy how it’s so easy to do that now. It really helps keep stuff like that from ruining everything. Technology is awesome!
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.
This Saturday were going to a competition in Muscle Shoals!
Good luck!!
the one that dropped his drum at 3:04 has a bodycam footage of it up on youtube. its cool to see it from both angles!!
I have fallen with my sousa on before and let me just day it knocks the winds out of you.
PoorHouseGaming I bet it does!!
You have my old high school band director welbourn he left us for y’all 😪
He’s fantastic!
My worst fail was a wasp crawling inside of my piccolo mouth piece while I was playing and when everyone was at attention, I shook the life out of it. This was at a competition, mind you.
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.
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
You know this video really hits close to home because I've fallen down with my base drum so many times to count
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
Show tune for this summer was Carmina Burana, and... Mid-tune, I sneeze... Into my trumpet... Thank god it wasn't a competition
Wolfie Griffin hahaha if you did it right you might could have made it blend in
I fell at my first competition at a visual to go on my knees I fell coming back up
Matthew Swengel sounds like a difficult visual!
Update: craziest marching band fail i ever saw was just recently. 2021, Dublin California. Terra Nova HS's bluetooth Sound system hooked up to the judges box and we could literally hear everything that the judges were saying. One person said "hey, has anyone seen my wireless headset?" another said "I laugh when i get nervous!" the crowd burst out laughing and they realized what had happened. The announcer said "Looks like they picked up our feed!! Hope we didn't have to bleep anything!"
At our rehearsal yesterday, we were going through the last movement of the show. I'm a little trumpet player running backwards behind a sousa. We were in diagonals and the person by me was too close and stepped on my foot, and then while going backwards I ran right into a snare. Somehow I made the set without hitting the sousa but it definitely hurt a bit. Also, our director tried changing one of our sets. It was a box drill where every four counts was a quick turn but he sped up the drill. It was way too fast and so many people fell. Just trying to make the set ended in us running in circles.
Sounds chaotic!!!
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.