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Forget the people. ARE THE INSTRUMENTS OK???

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.

one time during a football game, one of the girls in my guard got her hair stuck in a trombone slide 😂

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

“At first it was a mess of people” “Then it was a mess of people”

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-

Most of them weren’t tubas they were susas

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 😂

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

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 .-.

Lolll I’m in the band with the washing machine and it was our Halloween game😂😭we have to dress up

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

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.

“this is like drum corp!” carolina crown: am i a joke to you??

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

They probably didn’t get docked at all. Him still marching would’ve actually been recovery points

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.

First off, the guy was holding the "tuba" correctly. Secondly, that was a contrabass bugle, abbreviated contra

I fell my freshman year the year I’m in, I’m a sousaphone we were on the track and are track is so grippy and bumpy and we were marching backwards and just hit a bump man it hurt

Im in colorguard and percussion (concert percussion) My fails? We practice on the road behind our school and it's also were sixth graders, or even our grade goes and spend time outside when it's nice during lunch. So they lined they're lunch boxes on the curb.....and here comes me and my flag. I go to a right slam and it caught the handle of the bag....and I snapped it to right shoulder not realizing......and threw it back in the middle of the band..... The next day I was sick so when I came back we had a silent lunch cause they thought one of the kids did....so I admitted it AND THE TEACHERS THOUGHT I WAS LYING. Like they're like "how can this girl be THAT clumsy" so the principal took me out of class and bring me out and told me to demonstrate. So yep that's that perfect timing. Another time we were doing sixteen drop spins (part of our routine) and it was a against the wind.....took my glasses clean off... All I hear behind me is "I CAUGHT THEM" it was another colorguardist behind me...she caught them ON HER FLAG. 😂😂😂😂

It’s always low brass😂 but I’m proud to be one of them

The reason that everyone is dressed up is bc it is prob a Halloween game

During our show, there is a really fast part in our 3rd movement. I have to march backwards from one hash mark to the other in 16 counts (I am a sousaphone by the way) (I have short legs too)one time we were doing our show it was going great. Until 3rd movement, I was marching then all of a sudden I saw my shoes in front of my face, I had slipped and my body did some kide of weird fold thing. I hit the ground and My head hit the screw on the Sousaphone bell and I was knocked out, it didn't help that the mouth price had come out and hit me in the eye. I woke up on the bus with everyone starring at me. Apparently my section leader picked me up with my sousaphone while he was holding his and he rushed me to the sidelines. Then after it was over him and some of the others grabbed me, lifted me up and carried me to the bus. I'm ok and I am thankful that I don't have any brain damage.

The synth one scared me so bad, being that I play the synthesizer. 😶

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.

I'm a tuba player and can 100% confirm we are the dumbest section to have ever existed

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 :)

We had a bass drum player fall during a show and he rolled to get up in the rain

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

My teacher says the way we take care of instruments it's going to be when we have kids.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I was marching and I hit a girl's plume with my trombone lol

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 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

The DCI video with the drum falling off has a 1st person POV video also. Look up DCI embarrassing moments at 25 seconds

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’m not in marching band yet, but there was this one time where this kid (he was first chair) was demonstrating a B flat Major scale and he apparently hadn’t planned ahead because he, from going from first to sixth position the threw his slide HALFWAY ACROSS THE ROOM. Needless to say we still laugh about that.

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 - _-)

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.

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.

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

YEAH THE LAKE TRAVIS TUBA DOMINOES 😂 my school makes reference to that almost every day

love ur channel!

on the third clip, I've actually seen the head cam footage. its on yt. *where his drum fell*

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.

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

During our schools Band day 2019, when pride of arizona was performing a tuba tripped and 2 others came with

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!"

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.

Lol the one where the drum fell of is Carolina crown "out of this world".

My biggest band fail happened in my second season of dci. Im a tuba player and it was a show in whitewater Wisconsin and we had just finished with a tuba feature and for some reason i forgot where i was on the face of the earth and it took about 20 seconds before i realised that i was in the middle of a show and i was so far behind i was just jazz running in time to get back in the form and then the rest of the show went great however when the show was over and we huddled up with our sections in front of our caption heads for feedback about the show and our brass caption head looks straight at me and goes "Charles, how was your run?"

It’s actually very common for snare drums to fall off of the harness. There’s nothing we can do about it because it’s how the drums are made. Field judges usually grab the drum and run it back to its owner because it becomes a safety hazard and they feel bad. We don’t get points off since it out of our control.

If someone trips and falls at rehearsal, there is NO EXCUSE for not cutting out of safety. Part of the DM's job is to watch for that...otherwise you;re leading to injuries to people and damage to instruments.

I marched for 6 years. 4 in high school, 2 at a community college. I do miss some of it.

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

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

“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)_/¯

You have absolutely no clue how difficult it is for small bands lol. We have 11 wind players. 4 sax, 4 trumpet, 2 bones and a tuba

when i was in middle school we went to the high school to perform at game and a guy in the pit has a number of instruments on a stand and it collapsed and all the instruments fell on the wet grass

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.

I have read some of the comments, and NO.1 - I believe that 2 points are deducted for dropped equipment. Standard rule. If you notice, the drummer still acts like he is playing his drum, which is good. And maintaining his spot on the field during the drill and the performance. Nothing deducted. Just the embarrassment of dropping his snare drum.

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)

in the beginning, he says that "tubas fail the most" then says "that's great"

Me: sees this video. Also Me: plays the tuba

You know this video really hits close to home because I've fallen down with my base drum so many times to count

Any player falling...band director's worst nightmare, especially at competition. 😳

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

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 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 seriously broke my foot this year and fell with my tuba on me

8:58. Thats our show this year! Phantom of the opera!

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!!

I started marching this and I fell with my trombone backwards marching

Last week and half the week before was band camp for us and my section leader accidentally stepped on my foot while we were marching backwards.

I hate that I'm laughing at these because I'm only a HS freshman and on a marching band so I have plenty of time to fall and kill everyone 😂 Great and entertaining video!

Although I am a freshman, I have, these all happened in rehearsal, dropped my phone, lost a shoe, and dropped my clarinet, and had to get a new mouthpiece.

While we were at state Marching band we have quite a bit of tech in our show and one of our friends plays the mallet station and it was like 3 times louder than the band. It was because to control it we had to connect to the WiFi and we couldn't get it to work😂luckily she didn't miss any notes

Once at a concert (not for marching band but for concert band) my slide flew off (I'm a trombone) it was my favorite song and I never got to play it live 😣😂at least we got free food

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

The DCI drummer who lost his drum has his own youtube channel and have a POV of when he dropped it.

Im a trombonist. At the last half of the season last year, we had a move where we moved backwards and the trumpet in front if me backed up so fast i was so close to impaling the back of his head. I don't remember,if i hit him at all, i probably just hit his ploom if i hit him at all.

Sousaphone's aren't used at SMU, so they do hold their tubas over the shoulder as the guy did with his pants falling down. These were pretty funny, especially as marching band is my life currently.

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.

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 KZfaq too

Lol this past year was my freshman year and I fell. We were rehearsing and it was like a 12 hour day and my legs just fave out 😭

I know the Carolina crown guy who lost his drum. Later they did a meetup so he could thank the judge properly

As a Tuba/Sousaphone player in the Famous Maroon Band, I can confirm the thing about Tubas always failing often is true. We are idiots. It's fantastic.

7:55 is a clip from Marching band DVS Katwijk from the Netherlands. Marching bands in the Netherlands aren't school bands, they're all community bands. Bands like this mostly have members between 16 to 60 years old.

I am a freshman in the band with the 7 tuba pileup. That was 2013 though.

At our most recent competition, I got so close to falling during the parade, like 4 times because I was on the outside, and the road was awful.

I’m a marching alto sax at OTHS. We have a couple of spots where we march backwards. The person in front of me was out of time and she stepped on my foot and I went down and two flutes went down on top of me... Long story short I had a bruised tailbone for a few days.

At a comp the pianist hit one note and the piano started screaming so she had to unplug it

So actually if there is anything like that that falls on the field it’s the judge’s responsibility to move it from the field