I have a feeling that a lot of the rules about stuff you can't have in your show (glass, live animals, powder or sand) are there because a winterguard tried it once

When we found out the score we got, we literally cheered. So grateful to be in a group that could pull it off.

I SAW “a crashy bongo” LIVE

Now I want to find a bunch of military retirees and form an old ass drumline called the OK Boomers.

Fun fact, when their equipment truck arrived they ended up getting first place. Yee

Imagine having to memorize an hour long solo...

They never said anything about dead animals......

The bongo player is Robbie. He is one of the keyboard techs at my school.

"It would have gotten a perfect 100" no lol, the flip wasnt together

If you make the hour long solo I will listen to the entire thing uninterrupted

fun fact, just met the bongo player for that show, super nice guy! He was actually the 2019 Bluecoats Pit section leader too

Yeah, you could aim for the lowest score possible... OR you could aim for the most epic show with pyrotechnics, elephants, and balloons for ONLY ~65 or 70 point penalty. You may only get a max score of 30, but your performance will live on in infamy.

Not gonna lie... That blue chicken in the back is pretty hot

For a "weird" entrance that would cost them points, they should rappel down from the ceiling mission impossible style.

That bongo player is a tech at my high school

ok but seriously this would have been so much more entertaining than some of the top 5 shows

I was one of the lead staff running that show at the college. The energy in the room was electric. Everyone knew what was happening, and it was outstanding.

I’m so late to this video, but I worked for my cooperating teacher after my student teaching semester. We would keep adding things to an idea called “The Show”. This concept was going to be his last show before retiring in which he would purposely break each and every rule. It was a super fun way to pass the travel time to and from competitions. The end was “as the smoke clears from the pyrotechnics, an adult chaperone would push a remote control that would release the latch on a box; revealing a cat with a red helium balloon attached to its collar” all of which was and is illegal. 😂

I bet I can figure out how to get lower.

But wouldn't the bongo props get them a higher visual score?

6:13 ahh Mr Ken Giese. My high school math teacher who also doubled as my band's visual designer. Good man

*me who went to college with rhythm X members *me laughing as soon as he brings up them having the lowest score Okay I guess it wasn’t that bad of a performance not gonna lie

Let's go with the bare minimum: Decides to add 30 faulty bongo stands

I laughed way harder at this than I should have. Thank you for making tears come down my face.

Time for that hour long tenor solo, huh? 😂

I stumbled in from recommendations and I'm scared. There's a professional percussion section tournament or something? Why? When? Where?

Hey Eric could you do a tutorial of how to crab step with marching snare, bass and Tenor drums?

There is a penalty cap at like 8 I only know because my school got it... in Dayton.

Hey Eric can you please brake down Crashy Bongo? XD

Eric, the package is in the mail. Made sure I was home by 3:00 EST! Showed the clerk at the Post Office the Heurta 2 video (cause there was no line!) She loved it! but then I turned around and there were 3 people in line! 🙄😜

me, with no knowledge on how to play the drums: mhm, yeah, obviously, i'll avoid that, thats too easy

I looked up tenor a few months ago. I found you and now I have a 3 o clock addiction.

I was actually there for that show and i loved every second of it

When you brought up the age specification for military personnel all I could think about is how in world guard there is no age limit. So that old dude could be in a world guard doing spins and flips (@paramount) just cuz

I do not watch band videos on this account, but oh my god I saw this video circulating on facebook and I’m so glad people are still talking about it

This video was so educational, I couldn’t afford the 40 bongo props, so I had to settle for -30 points. When I told my drum line, they were so happy they lost to urmother high school who didn’t even show up because our 4th cymbal player decided to give them all food poisoning. I thought we would just get disqualified, but the judges were nice to us even when our 10 elephants tracked mud from outside.

more than enough likes: *exists* Eric: oh god no

Its so hard to believe I went to school with so many amazing people. The Buetow's are absolute legends.

this is why i love percussion. i'm so glad i joined indoor!

You left out two crucial tick system categories: Exposure to Error and Musical Analysis. These two captions were to allow corps with more difficult shows to get a higher score than a corps that played whole notes perfectly. It was not ALL tear down scoring from perfect. There were several captions that started at zero and built up. The two I mentioned were build-up scores. Therefore, the "Crashy Bongo" show would have suffered just as much under the tick system as with the current system. (By the way, the last season to use the tick system was 1983. In 1984 we had the first year of the current method, and all the scores were ridiculously high that first year, leaving the judges nowhere to go. This lead to more finalist ensembles to score in the nineties than ever before and the hopelessly wrong scores of 97.90 and 98.00 for BD and Garfield in shows with many obvious errors. Anyway, my point is that DCI scoring under the tick system included both tear down and build up categories. Exposure and MA were quite important and weighed heavily on the final scores of groups based on how difficult what they were doing was as compared to other groups.

I used to judge for a circuit in Southern California, a few tiers lower than WGI. Safe to say, we’ve scored drum lines in the single digits.

I normally dont question why things are in my recommended, but this one is bringing up so queries. Love your humour, I know nothing about drums.

Fun fact: the bongo player teaches our pit for marching band

WHEN YOU REFRESH YOUR INBOX AND THERES A NEW EMC VIDEO :))))))

Hey I was on the genesis team and played in point indoor percussion in Dayton oh and we helped rhythm x with their truck after it got there

I love this video i couldnt stop laughing once he started adding the hypothetical penalties lmao

Jesus this video was uploaded 6 hours ago and it already reached the goal of 3,000. Good luck with that solo Eric....

You make the best vids and even though I don’t play drums I love the vids

Bruh I was there It was a beautiful show

i'm still very proud that i saw it live

i was marching the 2020 rhythm X winds season when this happened. fortunately the wind trailer didn't break down so we had a good performance that night. Robby is such nice guy and killed it at crashybongos

Don’t forget to like, I wanna see the hour long tenor solo

Love it! Super fun video idea 🎉

Still waiting on that 1 hr solo

according to rule 4.3.1 flammable liquids and gasses are not allowed, but it says nothing about flammable powders. A catapult launcher firing something like sawdust or coffee creamer when exposed to an open flame makes a damn good fireball. Additionally powder like the kind that get used in color runs are nor banned.

the cymbal on the far right, that’s David Peterson. he used to tech for our battery in like, my freshman year.

love your video's. Just one major slip: the large dangerous prop on 10:43 is the Grenfell tower fire in London UK in 2017, where 72 people died. Not the best prop

Very educational. Very informative.

That sounds like the most amazing show to ever happen in the history in the universe. It needs to be performed at the superbowl, cause then I would actually care to watch it.

Eric: 6:34 WGI: "If we're consistently inconsistent, then that means we're consistent. Hehehehehe."

0:21 oh look it’s the school that wins my school’s competition every single year, Clover

I'm pretty sure there was an independent open group that got a 10 point penalty at finals last year because they brought their generator onto the floor.

My school just hosted an indoor competition and one percussion group had no visual

This has 9000 likes where's the hour long tenor solo that we were promised?

Haha this is my friend playing the bongos.

Bro, I went to this one!!!

I love crashy bongo

I would drop everything in my life to see the hypothetical show IRL

Rest in peace rhythm X...

Anyone else wonder how stuff gets added to the whiteboard in between shots lol

my guy we liked the video. make the hour long tenor solo

As a synth player, I despise rule 4.2.1, lol

The way you spelled Albuquerque at 0:30 hurt my soul

Ayyyyye that’s my boi Robby on the bongos

This week on "Why is this in my recommended?"

Your intro is the most random thing I've seen since the Ramahfool intro

"A crashy bongo" is a great example of needing to improvise when you get fucked by unforseen problems. They came up with *something* to do instead of just giving up and going home.

Crashy bongo makes me cri every time time :'(

Imagine being beaten by crashy bongo. I would cry

Still waiting on that hour long tenor solo.....

Bruh I was in the show that the pic at the end is from. Clovis High 2016. Show was 🔥🔥🔥

Where can I buy a Quad or a tenor

Why tf am I here. All I own is unused drumsticks.

I would love to see one of the percussions from a military band do WGI after 20 years in the military.

Poor Robby and the cymbies

Hour Long Tenor Solo!!!

The crashy bongo solo was cool the first time but it became bando af within the first day

Watched this while roommate was asleep. Had to resist loling so much my sides hurt.

the hour long tenor solo is just an hour long freestyle... big brain

I didn't even know you score drumline

Clover HS still #1! Okay I've never heard them play, but big thumbs up to Clover HS for Box 5 shower facility.

I have to see this 1 hr. long solo... like the video please lol

500th like! Can't wait for that solo!

U need to update the sub count lol. Almost to 69420!!

React to Wisconsin's lottery drumline ad

thank you youtube algorithm

WAIT HOLD UP?!?! THEY DID THAT AT ONU?!?! Broooo I live like 5 minutes away from ONU, that’s crazy!

A lot of people just got a lot of VERY GOOD ideas

Im in middle school Solo and ensemble is 2 says away and I'm kinda nervous

I- I'm an orchestra kid, why am I watching this?