2008 CSU Trombone Suicides

[@bonetonelord]

Blindfolded. Because trombones weren't dangerous enough already.

[@MrRubik234]

Bone-Tone Lord This comment gives me life.

[@HellYeahCorp]

+Bone-Tone Lord These instruments are basically clotheslining devices, made to punch out teeth and launch mutes across orchestras.

[@AM-rv2bg]

Do you not see or hear the percussionists in the back? They were doing it by keeping a steady beat thus not hitting each other.

[@thatonedudeyouknow9603]

I had to match a show I played alto in it my move was to go in between the trombones at a angle Well long story short she missed her and my hat was gone

[@LonerChief]

I yearn to do blindfold but I know we can't

[@geeky9609]

But honestly my first thought when the vid started was "HOLY HELL THAT'S A HUGE BAND" and then I saw the blindfolds and then it was "Oh god someone's gonna die"

[@crunchyrats8732]

Sadly. Nobody did

[@vmprie]

Sage teh Dog the way you worded that sounded extremely concerning

[@brodysinko7872]

Imagine having more than 5 trombones

[@js1459]

The trombones are one of the biggest sections next to clarinets

[@euqhorian]

Ha- my marching band doesn’t have trombones, nor a clarinet section. We just have baritones and saxes

[@jacksonmcclendon7698]

Bruh there is 9 in my school out of like 200

[@aeonxa3282]

peepee

[@valnt8979]

I’m like the only trombonist in my band

[@cormorantcolors]

Imagine if someone’s slide was unlocked

[@maddyblackmon8729]

Cormorant Colors lol that’s so me

[@maddyblackmon8729]

Mines always unlocked

[@astracts]

i always forgit

[@mybirdiswierd5307]

There's gonna need to be some funerals arranged

[@javafloof]

oh no. Imagine you swung too fast and it just slid out

[@saeriellyn]

I was in the CSU band when they started this in the 90s. It was such a blast. I wish I knew if they still did it.

[@hybridone890]

99% sure they do!

[@crashthestash]

they no longer do :( it stopped in 2016 after someone got hurt

[@lordtacoz]

That's a looooot of trombones...

[@jordanfeilbach6159]

Sure beats my band! We only have 1 trombone... me!

[@BlazerGirl16]

Ive always loved trombone suicides, but Ive never seen them blindfolded! Thats crazy!

[@simplymarvelousliving]

If people didn’t know what you were talking about that sentence would be concerning

[@CatherineWangWHEEEEZY]

that would make one heck of an ab workout...

[@michaelszwabo3803]

That was some great precision and a visual thrill! Must of been fun practicing that routine.Great job!

[@ryanbrown2980]

That's a big band to need 5 tenors and 7 snares

[@LikeTotallyDonut2024]

Yeah

[@missunwonted7]

Being a trombone player, that was pretty damn awesome!

[@123SAVETHEWORLD321]

I'm in marching band and they tried to start teaching us how to do this, it was hard and scary haha they have serious talent (we started without trombones and good thing, because I would have been whacked in the face a few times)

[@jyanik8212]

0:38 I love how hyped everyone is ahhhh

[@lightningfastrc]

Every band should have this many trombones. We only have 6. But yeah...trombones...a good way to kill someone. During the first 2 parts of our show I am either nearly killing people or nearly getting killed.

[@ryanheidt4761]

lol we have 2

[@oldthejascob4864]

Jinky Games same lol,next year we'll have three,and the next four so we're slowly growing😂

[@gabeandthings2317]

LightningFast Rc our high school is one of the biggest here so we have ALOT

[@Witchy.222]

LightningFast Rc we have 3

[@thaddeusbeadle6546]

LightningFast Rc If they're played right, you only need two in any band.

[@zeta12ti]

In case you can't see it in this video, they're juggling their sticks while the trombones do the suicides. From a more technical standpoint, it really is rather hard to play isolated notes cleanly, so even when you see an "easy line", the snares see a note that 7 people have to play within a hundredth of a second in order to not sound terrible. They aren't even dutting through this. I'm not saying that the trombones are not impressive, but you still shouldn't dismiss the other parts so easily.

[@kevinthomas3692]

to see all those trombones lined up in a row is a beautiful sight to see

[@geeky9609]

When the fast tempo wasn't enough

[@flappypancake85]

For our senior night this year we had the trombones do it blindfolded and it was epic.

[@Shred2TheEnd]

lol id love to see the first day they practiced it

[@LordDiddyDot]

Imagine all of the trombonist who went to far in and busted there lip on there mouthpiece from hitting the ground, NOT THIS ONE BUT IN GENERAL ( Notice how i said trombonist not freaking tromboner, it got not funny after beginning band and every spams that joke to me )

[@ceebbees12345]

Our teacher calls us the bones.... we're allowed to make fun of the boners dude, it's funny.

[@LordDiddyDot]

Lol Maybe in like 6th grade...

[@kaylynntracy]

+LordDiddyDot my friends still make that joke tho..... But it's 7th grade so...

[@LikeTotallyDonut2024]

+Haley & Saria same

[@Mewyz]

Nicshuffin' Dude beginning band ALWAYS says that at my school. I feel you

[@MrAKL83194]

I don't know why, but every single time I watch this, my heart skips a beat.

[@Adhd_fairyy]

im from a small town and our band is really small and im sure our trombones couldnt do that. if we broke one we wouldnt have enough money to fix them and thats the sad part. but this is AWSOME (: i wish i could actually see that one day

[@MrAnthonyVance]

There is a proud mom of that trombone dare-devil on the 50th Yard Line -- and I can see why! All I can say is ... WOW!

[@COOKIEMONSTERATHOME]

i love playing trombone

[@milliondollarmolly2749]

I sooo wish I could do this.... but our section only has 3 trombones!!

[@AINGELPROJECT667]

This is why trombones are so awesome.

[@joaniehester3333]

This is awesome I am a trombone player also it is easy to do once you get the hang of it

[@12aNdOm]

I'm sure there are many names for it but if you listen closely the announcer says it. It's called "Number Five." The drum tech for my old high school went to CSU and brought it over so our line could play it when our band did trombone suicides.

[@jvseibel]

Just saying to all those people hating on football, I start on my highschool's varsity football team and am a trombone in band. I have done marching band for three years and my school is very competitive in it, but I would still say that football is much more difficult. Much, much more difficult. I am also in our All-State band so I'm no slacker in either

[@marinvidovic757]

That is an ENORMOUS trombone section. Holy...

[@juliannadefrane6997]

First of all that's the biggest trombone section I've ever seen and second best suicide video I've seen all all day

[@Thiscrapsannoying]

@ItsAJersseyThing Maybe you were right. I just saw the girls at the bottom left of the screen. BUT they could be a dance team. My school has them and they work as cheerleaders and also perform with the band at all of our performances. And yes. We do have 2 auxiliary teams.

[@jamescopenhaver720]

My school stopped doing this when they had to replace three 900 dollar trombones and sent several people to the nurse to bandage their heads xD

[@itsmebich9011]

The fact that they're blindfolded

[@Thiscrapsannoying]

@ItsAJersseyThing The Girls at the back are the auxiliary. they are running to the back of the field with flags at the beginning of the video.

[@GoldSabre]

Probably the main reason why I would want to be in a marching band right here.

[@zeta12ti]

The cadence is just called #5, following most of the other traditional names of CSU's pep tunes. For example, what is currently known as "Spell Yell" was once (and still occasionally is) known as #3.

[@SprecheDeutsch]

Instead of moving to Germany I should've gone to school at CSU on a band scholarship. :( Seriously now, that made me smile.

[@MajorasMaskMailman]

They're better than our trombone section and they're blindfolded. Of course, they probably practice way more the we do.

[@vidkte]

while im watching this i see peter griffin playing the trombone, pretty epic

[@zRhid]

I think its a cadence i heard called Funk. University of Texas plays it as their kickoff cadence. The music was on their website but im not sure if it is anymore.

[@kaykay9996]

holy shiz!! how can you not like this?!?!?! I'm a girl tromboniest and that was so cool!!!!! my band director is my nieghbor...

[@brandikaye1992]

I play Trumpet and I still think this is AWESOME!!

[@secretgranolabar290]

pov: their trombone section is bigger than your school's entire band

[@meagisamazingbro]

We have been begging our director to let us do these, so we practiced and perfected them all of band camp. He asked us if he could see them, and we messed it up. We do them in the stands at football games now.

[@ItsAJersseyThing]

i love the bass

[@787787787p]

This makes me proud to be a trombone and to live in Northern Colorado

[@bandnerd525]

@JamaicanBoy41 funny you mention that. I go to the university of Nebraska. you know, the one with the current record for consecutive sellouts and with a number of national championship titles. and funnily enough, not only does the band program predate the football program, they had to actually schedule football games around the band performances simply because the band drew so many more people than the games back in the day. so keep in mind what helped football get its start ;)

[@TheBulldawgnation]

I'm finally getting the trombone section at our school to try it. :)

[@tpm4st3r]

i do this in a litlle bandbut then playing and wihout the blindfolds nice work

[@Will_e916]

this is so awsome! TROMBONES ROCK!

[@magicianrexproductions4507]

See....i was the only trombone in marching band my junior and senior year of high school...

[@trujilbt]

We did that at CSU Pueblo band day yesterday

[@adder80]

Nicely done.. Looks awesome.

[@aidankrbe]

my section does suicides to gerban. Which is this cadence but with a breakdown. We also have more then just down over.

[@SuprSS787]

Wow. That is AMAZING! -student from UW-La Crosse

[@DKeller4113]

@JamaicanBoy41 you can't watch a marching band show from the away side. all the formations are meant to be seen from the home side, and you won't be able to hear the band well since they're playing in the opposite direction. i bet you the home side of those stands are completely packed.

[@AndrewFesmire]

Heck yeah! That was slickkkkk. nice pop

[@kaite9715]

I've played football on the freshmen 'guys' team, and marched trombone. It's harder to play football strength wise. But I garentee you, half of would not be able to count a trombone suicide.

[@Daniellestars100]

our school does the whole band, theres about 200 of us:) but props for the blind folds!!

[@shupea18]

our high school marching band attempted this........well lets just say we're never doing it again

[@THEGT956]

DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM YOU GUYS ROCK

[@kaybug4267]

it would hurt so bad if someone got hit while doing this 😂😂😂

[@LordBepisMaximus]

I did this last year for my high school band... i still have some of the bruises

[@93tiny08]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

[@phinchy007]

FANTASTIC..........

[@erie76]

Today was the first day of rehearsal that the bones actually did suicides. Lemme tell you, it's way cooler in person.

[@ambroom]

Please tell me more about respect. I have yet to see any football player EVER respect the band that is ALWAYS there to cheer them on.

[@SplendidDustofAncientSuns]

@wchstuba thats because the football team is there to fill in time when the band is warming up. ^^

[@TheBrendo525]

They are so funn to do I never get tired of trombone suicides :)

[@Drawzi]

Nice to see a celebration of the trombone

[@halftimeisgametime]

Incredible.

[@EmperorXaozx]

Sad our band doesn't have Trombones.

[@kikkim426]

i am so proud to be a trombone player im prouder that i was before i say THIS

[@themechanic345]

@ItsIncredibleInc Dude...just because your band doesn't play during them doesn't mean that mine doesn't... Our trombones wrote a short little piece to play while doing suicides. They also do it without drumline's aid

[@heheimloopy]

blindfolded?! dude!! thats damn awesome!!!

[@sophrosynes]

*someone fails to go up*gets hit* YOU ARE SHUNNED FROM THE SECTION.

[@JonasFanTess]

OMG!! i cant wait to go to CSU!!!

[@AgentMidnight]

I'm in the CU marching Band i still think this is cool

[@mtkizzlefoshizzle]

1! 2! 3! 4! "wait were starting!?! O SHIT"

[@gabriellagarcia3939]

We have two trombones in my band

[@SnoKing]

Blew my mind!

[@in_99]

holy crap! :) my brother plays trombone i wish he could do that!

[@SomeoneWeird-vx5jx]

The key is to do it by the counts. Two count for every direction. If everyone listens to drum line’s tempo everyone should be good if they have the technique down

[@nolanception]

so much badassery

[@andrewwagenknecht4290]

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! GO TROMBONES!!!!!!!

[@broski520]

Am I the only one that noticed that their slides go in between their legs, not straight down?

[@sophrosynes]

THIS IS WHY I LOVE BEING A TROMBONE PLAYER...AND BEING A FEMAAALE! WOOO LOW BRASS!!

[@504godzilla]

YEA.....GO TROMBONES!!!...MAKE US PROUD!!!

[@cameronventiquattro4256]

Trying to do a trombone suicide with a shako and a plume must be impossible

[@LexiBandGeek]

that is so awesome!

[@txndwa]

When I was in High School in the late sixties, I was was in ROTC,. We did something like this with M-14's with bayonets. I was 15. Wow, hope I don't get tromboned.

[@drtuesday2279]

where my cymbal players at!?!?!

[@halwaffles]

Dr Momiji heyo!!!

[@localocalopezes]

haahah looks fun. wish my tyngsboro high had this many trombinists. including me, there r 3 trombonists in the THS band, & i'm not even in high school yet (i play in the football games even though i'm in 8th grade lol). there's more ppl in the trombone section than there is enrolled in all 4 town bands combined(5th, 6th, 7th & 8th, high school)

[@xCrunchyCookie]

My trombones at my school has this thing about suicides, if you hear someone scream back the fk away from the line or stay down till it's safe

[@Jcards1992]

What is the name of this drum line cadence? and yeah we do these at my school and just a hint doing this with a bass trombone is freaking hard!!!!!!! the weight is all different

[@sageturtl4996]

so many trombones...

[@TheNamesWolf]

@wchstuba thats what happens with our band, our teams on a 20+ losing streak, were the only reason people come to our games.

[@LordCapybara08]

This is why im gonna switch to trumpet

[@rc100692]

@JndBStudios In my opinion, they are equally hard, but for different reasons.