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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
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 :/
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.
@@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.
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’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 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 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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. 😂😂😂😂
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.
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'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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 - _-)
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.
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 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
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.
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.
“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)_/¯
It's not a tuba it's a susiphone.... I'm in a small high school marching band and we have one susiphone... I our show every one has to bend backwards and sometimes our susiphone falls backwards lol
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
@@BenCooperMLM Nope! It happened when we were setting drill, and he is taller than me and has longer legs and just accidentally overshot how quickly he had to move because it was the first rep and we had to get from our dot to the next backwards with a slight curve in 16 counts and we had to move very fast to make it in time.
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
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
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 TH-cam too
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.
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
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?"
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.
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.
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)
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.
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!"
Just wondering is dressing up for Halloween football game only for some marching bands. Cause my band does it. My freshman year I was a penguin. My sophomore year I was Naruto. And this year I was a manta ray even though the game got cancelled due to rain.
Hey, you're from north Alabama? Me too! I went to East Lawrence with an equally small band as the one at TVI in Muscle Shoals (I believe it's Elkmont), but I played lead trumpet at UNA for a few years.
at 5:48 with the 7 tuba pile up, that’s my school’s half time performance 😂😂 the guy who caused the domino effect was on good morning america and i know his sister! the entire band today still talks about it too 😂😂
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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
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
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
“At first it was a mess of people”
“Then it was a mess of people”
Manny Munoz Hahahaha 😂 whoops
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!
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!
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
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?
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
“this is like drum corp!”
carolina crown: am i a joke to you??
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
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!
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!
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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!
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 😂
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 😂
2:30
Theres actually a body cam video for this one 🤣🤣
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 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
It’s always low brass😂 but I’m proud to be one of them
Abbey K me too!
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
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!!
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
The DCI video with the drum falling off has a 1st person POV video also. Look up DCI embarrassing moments at 25 seconds
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!
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
My teacher says the way we take care of instruments it's going to be when we have kids.
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
on the third clip, I've actually seen the head cam footage. its on yt.
*where his drum fell*
YEAH THE LAKE TRAVIS TUBA DOMINOES 😂 my school makes reference to that almost every day
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.
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
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
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 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!
8:58. Thats our show this year! Phantom of the opera!
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
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.
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.
“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)_/¯
It's not a tuba it's a susiphone.... I'm in a small high school marching band and we have one susiphone... I our show every one has to bend backwards and sometimes our susiphone falls backwards lol
Ouch!
Ya last week it happened he cracked his back 😋
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.
in the beginning, he says that "tubas fail the most" then says "that's great"
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.
Mark te Grotenhuis wow!! I had no clue! Very cool!
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.
You know this video really hits close to home because I've fallen down with my base drum so many times to count
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
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!
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.
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
You have my old high school band director welbourn he left us for y’all 😪
He’s fantastic!
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.
Emma Lindsey oh man! Hope they didn’t fall!
@@BenCooperMLM Nope! It happened when we were setting drill, and he is taller than me and has longer legs and just accidentally overshot how quickly he had to move because it was the first rep and we had to get from our dot to the next backwards with a slight curve in 16 counts and we had to move very fast to make it in time.
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!!
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
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
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 TH-cam too
The POV video is awesome!!
Idk if I feel bad for that kid in the beginning. He shouldn't have broken their ranks. 😭 fr though the sousa shouldn't have tripped him
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.
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.
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
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!
8:28 dang that sax had a smooth recovery
R!ckey yes! Haha quick!
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?"
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.
Anime Nerd oh man! That’s a lot!
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.
During our schools Band day 2019, when pride of arizona was performing a tuba tripped and 2 others came with
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!!
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)
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!!
The one where they’re dressed in costumes I’m guessing it was a Halloween run lol
Yeah some kids from the school found this video and said that’s what it was! Pretty awesome!
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
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!"
Just wondering is dressing up for Halloween football game only for some marching bands. Cause my band does it. My freshman year I was a penguin. My sophomore year I was Naruto. And this year I was a manta ray even though the game got cancelled due to rain.
8:52 I KNOW THAT BAND, Elkmont High School. Their former director teaches at our school now.
The one dressed weird that might be their Halloween show. Some high schools let the kids dress up for Halloween
Emily I wish my highschool let us do that!
It is our Halloween show! :) I go to school with the washing machine lol.
Hey, you're from north Alabama? Me too! I went to East Lawrence with an equally small band as the one at TVI in Muscle Shoals (I believe it's Elkmont), but I played lead trumpet at UNA for a few years.
As someone who’s pants have almost fallen due to a button popping. It happens more often than you would think.
Dark Kit-Kat ohhh uniform malfunction makes a lot of sense I didn’t think of that!
Hey, this guy was our tuba instructor at band camp this year!
At a comp the pianist hit one note and the piano started screaming so she had to unplug it
at 5:48 with the 7 tuba pile up, that’s my school’s half time performance 😂😂 the guy who caused the domino effect was on good morning america and i know his sister! the entire band today still talks about it too 😂😂
lyla louise wait woah!!! Good morning America?!? That is the best thing I’ve ever heard
Ben Cooper ahahaa yeah!
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
Things like a drum falling in drum corps don’t really take points off, they might just give you lower chances of a high general effect score