Top 20 Drumming DISASTERS (Epic Fails #2)

[@KyleTheCadet]

Dude, that Timpani story hurts… 💔

[@RedDogMamaHD]

I know! So Sad!!!

[@ElusivG]

Fr #timpanilivesmatter

[@theautisticdoomgod]

INTRUSIVE MINDS EVERYWHERE!!!!!! POOR THING!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Gil_07]

My dog chewed off the tip of my favorite drum stick a few months ago. Still haven’t gotten over it, it was an artist series

[@YoursUntruly]

Which artist? Picasso?

[@strangementalitypaperYT]

I honestly love how direct and honest you are when you talk about the importance of reading music.

[@brandonking1737]

Not necessarily a drumming disaster, but my band performed a "reverse parade" (we were at a cancer charity run, so we stood on the side of the road while everybody ran past). Anyways, there's a video of us there where we spook a dog being walked by a young kid and the dog drags the kid off screen. It's by far one of the best band videos I've ever seen. I also have a gopro video where I catch one of our trombones trip and fall and lose his shoe in a practice run

[@macerunner4674]

thats a little funny

[@stutterstutterr50]

there’s no way this isn’t stampede showband LMAO

[@Mrjazzzery]

That was the most serious moment of silence I have ever taken in my 31 yrs of life and made my eyes water

[@verdethefurrywolf8949]

me too remove your covers for the timpani

[@mehp8064]

Not a drumming disaster but front line: my sophomore year of high school I was playing vibraphone, and we were at one of our biggest comps of the year when this happened. I dropped one of my mallets when I was switching from four to two (it was a really quick transition, like one measure at 168 bpm) and the next time I stepped over to play my cymbal I stepped on it. When I heard the snap under my foot I felt my soul leave my body, but I kept going and didn’t let it mess me up. It ended up being one of the best reps of the season though. Later that same year, at our last comp of the season, I cut my finger on my cymbal at the end of the first movement and started bleeding really bad. Like there were drops of blood on my board, blood was flowing down my hand, and my mallets was covered with blood by the end. My finger was fine, it wasn’t a very severe cut, I guess it just cut in a place where there was a lot of blood lol.

[@Chaosdude7111]

I marched bari sax in high school, and my senior year we had a particularly difficult drill move during our show's closer involving tight waterfalls or something. My friend was a trombone player, and he had to move behind me at a weird angle and constantly hit me on the back of the head with his slide during that part. In order to get him to stop, we made a bet that if he hit me during finals, he would owe me Burger King afterwards. While he did avoid hitting me during most rehearsals and competitions after that, he did in fact whack me during finals, so the chicken fries were mine! (also, speaking of timpani at the end of the video, would it be cool to see the tenor part of Jig 2 played on timpani sometime?)

[@mrnoname2353]

In the Jig2 collab, @Kyle the Cadet did that

[@crymeslv.1893]

Why would you want Burger King 😐

[@sghg]

This one person in my band keeps playing it on timpanum😭😂🫣

[@qwerthyuiop]

Should’ve asked for Wendy’s tbh

[@RedDogMamaHD]

11:40 I saw those images on Facebook and Instagram. Now, I know why you created them. Very Nice! And Happy Marine Corps Birthday (tomorrow) and Thank you for your service!

[@christinashelby6083]

"I need to stop thinking for myself!" Nothing more military ever was spoken, lol.

[@samgermain6283]

Omg I love your videos 😂. My percussion director actually met you at PASIC this year and got a selfie with you.

[@treepriest697]

Someone’s cymbal harness got detached during a halftime show once Also my drumline has a rule where if you drop a stick you do 5 push-ups and if you drop an entire drum or cymbal, that’s 50

[@hughneutron5303]

instadrum seems cool and all but it doesn't seem like there's a pc app. that's a deal breaker for me. i don't use my phone for games and never will. plus i don't like the amount of stuff the app asks for access to

[@braidenwendling1830]

Eric, you should do best college drumlines for a video idea! @EMCproductions

[@RedDogMamaHD]

TBDBITL!

[@E.b.c_drum]

Funny story Today my schools band was setting up the percussion instruments for Veterans Day performance. I stayed pass the bell to help my band teacher bring the timpani’s to the gym but the 32” one could not make it through the door so we turned it side ways but my left arm got stuck in between the door and timpani and crushed my arm. I’m so glad I did not break it but we then had to bring the janitor to basically break the middle section of the door(it was a dibble door) and let us put the timpani in. Needless to say I was late to lunch with a hurt arm, I love being a percussionist.

[@samrusso4374]

That band at 9:16 is the Wakefield High School Marching Band from Wakefield, MA in 2000. They had a large marching band back then, but not a particularly great band program. That began to change when their current director came around 2005/2006. Now, they are one of the best marching bands in New England. They consistently get some of the highest scores in NESBA and recently made finals at the Bands of America New Jersey regional. They are making a case for being one of the top bands in the Northeast.

[@michael1234252]

never been in the military but from what I've seen from movies and tv is that you should never argue with your drill sergeant.

[@theangrybavarian3876]

I think my worst one in marching band was at our local BOA regional my senior year. Our props for that year were 10 foot staircases that we moved around on wheels during the show. During this particular run, one of our color guard members got her uniform caught on one of the wheels, which caused the stairs to not be able to move to the correct dot. I distinctly remember seeing the stairs, thinking "I'm gonna hit them, aren't I". I did, kinda fell onto the step, got up, finished show. Actually got one of our better scores ever at that event, even with the prop issue. Probably the next worst one was that time the sole of my shoe peeled off in the middle of the run, luckily it was a non-judged run of just the opener (Was at a Meet-the-team type thing for our fall sports teams).

[@bobbarksofficial4335]

BAHAHAHA

[@pianopeach]

8:57 is the Pride of Maine Black Bear Marching Band 2008(?). We were the guest performers at a local high school competition. :)

[@jck817]

EPIC DRUMMING DISASTER!!! I'm a marimba in my high school band and on middle school night I marched bass 1 back from the stands. However, I was picking up trash in the stands just before we marched out and unknowingly cut my index finger open on a coke can. I knew some of the cadence and decided to play. Right when we were about to get back to the alley we march to after games I noticed my index finger was bleeding. I got blood all over two bass mallets and a little on my uniform and had to get first aid from one of the band directors.

[@DerpOKat21]

4:30 Why Papa Roach though?

[@srgnt_chargles]

My marching band's percussion tech actually performed that show where the piano solo cut out

[@gc1215]

Good morning! Video 9 of asking EMC to make a video of him playing the Rock Band game series

[@darrenboyd4837]

Nice touch doing "Taps" on the timpani at the end. As a retired Marine I can attest to the doing dumb stuff part but not giving those to another Marine band was heinous.

[@brokensnares]

before we left for our second comp this season i got sick ans threw up all over my drum during rehearsal and we had an hour until we loaded busses 😭

[@vvillv6995]

Can I get a trophy or something for getting so many first comments?

[@NicDunn]

At last year’s orchestra uil, one of the strings on the chimes broke in the middle of red cape tango. If you don’t know that piece, it’s very chime heavy, and when it broke one of the chimes fell on the floor and made a loud bang. Fun times

[@lightning3970]

One time in 7th grade I was switching between instruments for concert band and I knocked the snare drum over as I was putting my music on the stand. Cherry on top. My band director played it off perfectly. He said "Now that's what we call a drumroll".

[@creeperfusiongaming2670]

Video 5 of asking for my music to be under bad percussion writing

[@cuber9215]

First hehe

[@RedDogMamaHD]

4:25 Eric getting called out by his dad to take out the trash!!! Reminds me of that great scene in Galaxy Quest where Brandon has to stop "saving the world" because he has to put out the garbage!

[@ilovehomies]

please do not threaten me with a good time (thumbnail)

[@cadenm.9386]

Not him clicking him sticks on beat on accident at 12:10 lol

[@mrnoname2353]

Good morning The Guy Said: ow man, now i have to Film again

[@georgeprice4212]

Planned drumming disaster: any Keith Moon performance

[@thrashmobin6235]

Now I wanna see you play rock band

[@gisibus]

46/55 minutes ago! Woooooo! :D B)

[@m.a.6478]

The last one broke my heart.

[@judecrawford2351]

Taps on the timpani 😂

[@samsignorelli]

Video of the 1984 Whitewater Wipeout (Garfield Cadets) would be the Holy Grail of 80s DCI, but I doubt any exists....there IS audio from a judge, tho (GE brass, I think). And I love how the DCI marching ones in this vid are all from corps that WON those shows!

[@winstonseesan2116]

One of the first people to comment

[@SaxonGames]

Didn't happen to me but in the WGI group ConneXus last year (both in the same show); our center snare's drum fell off during movement 2 and another snare tripped but recovered in movement 3. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apXTknihm7mSj9E Time stamps: 1:37 and 4:40

[@brianrandol]

1989 SCV Tenor Break... far left tenor drops left stick. 1992 Cavaliers Snare Break...center of snare line misses right stick flip. Cadets Contra Player falls at top of drill on the 50. I believe was 2002.

[@snaildude22]

I marched BK this year, and as we were walking onto the field in Lucas Oil for our prelims performance, one of our snare player's bottom heads popped. The staff ran the drum off the sideline and he marched that show with no bottom head or hardware. Pretty funny for everyone except him.

[@ebinnie2380]

Imagine having a backup camera, especially if it has one of those beep Beep BEEP!!!! It’s just beeping at you the whole time.

[@duncanrobinson1]

I can feel the thumbnail

[@lynndrumz7366]

imagine you pin this! you’re my biggest inspiration ❤i started drumming in 7th grade and i’m now in 8th, and i get invited to highschool marching band! i love drumming. it’s my life 🎉

[@TOGSwollen]

Bro my freshman year of high school I was third out of four bass. My mom wanted to buy one pair of band shoes that would last me all four years. Needless to say she bought them way to big. We where to use black dress socks which are slippery. I had to march backwards in them after it rained and both shoes got sucked into the mud right off my feet causing the entire drum line to stumble over them. Luckly no one fell. But i continued on marching in my bare feet for the rest of the show. It wasn’t bad until my feet hit the gravel driveway and had to marsh 50 yards through it. i stayed the course and didn’t miss a beat but my feet where bruised. Ill never forget it! Somewhere is a vhs tape of it all ill try and find it and digitize it for you and send it to you

[@extracter1]

This was my first year of marching band, and at the beginning of our show, we had this body visual where we flung our hands around with our instruments in our hands. So I'm doing the body visual and i realize my mouthpiece had flown off(i play trumpet btw). Luckily the General Effects judge could get it back to me before anyone noticed.

[@NickToThickk]

Can you give me money?

[@SirJarlsburg]

Hahaha. I didn’t know how much I needed Timpani playing taps in my life until this video 😅

[@sehyunjun251]

Where can I find that timpani destruction video? Is it on Liveleaks? Asking for a friend.

[@TheStickCollector]

interesting

[@mayanntesoro9672]

Sir ineed your help pls can you do "Hot pepper cheese drumline?" Because i don't know how to used notes plsss i hope You noticed my comment requestp

[@mayanntesoro9672]

Sir ineed your help pls can you do "Hot pepper cheese drumline?" Because i don't know how to used notes plsss i hope You noticed my comment request

[@Goalie29]

Good morning! This is video number 26 of me asking Eric to make a set of tenors out of differently sized or tuned snare drums.

[@williampletcher8091]

Catching up on unwatched EMCproductions videos ... under THIS account! With Ads!!! Earning Eric the big bucks!!! And, Yes, the Timpani story makes me cry!!!

[@SlyHikari03]

6:08 glad to see Burmese Percussion on here. Used to be obsessed with this stuff as a kid. Ps. I feel bad for the kettle drums.

[@FiresideEst2016]

That one where he falls on the tenors in the hallway i saw and literally commented: The director: Is the drum okay?

[@kayspillman4499]

Did anyone ask you to interrupt every single clip multiple times??? Unwatchable. Who asked for this???

[@zabooka]

Yes!

[@shanelogan3306]

Flowermound at 2021 Wylie Marching Invitational Finals. Trombone flies off massive stage

[@tj1lincoln182]

If you drop the drum always always always always always check on the drum

[@ChrisTexan]

Just came across your "Fails" videos (first and #2), haven't seen if you did anymore, but one epic one is "Neil Peart missing tom" in live concert. I haven't researched the history, I seriously doubt they setup and sound-checked without it, more likely it broke and the techs were repairing/replacing, but if you've ever watched a Rush show, they don't really stop (except for I think R30, where they did 3 hours with 2 intermissions or something like that). Anyhow might be worth it for the "next Fails video", although really it's a massive "recovery" more or less for one of the world's greatest drummers, plays right on through even though it's a part of multiple tom fills in the song (if you know it well, you'll hear the gaps, but unless you do know it by ear really well, you'd probably never notice the absence). kzbin.info/www/bejne/omqqfaOch7GNec0

[@harlanbowman3268]

Hey EMCproductions in a week you should react to Canton High School Marching band State finals 2021 and Canton High School Marching Band State Finals 2022

[@AndaraBledin]

Four years of high school marching band, and I can't recall a single instance of a pile-up during rehearsal and especially not a performance. Oh, wow... I can't believe some idiot in the DRMO system would wreck instruments as opposed to sticking them up for Auction. With as many listings as they have for things like random clothes, books, and other unclaimed personal effects or desks, chairs, etc, that they can't even get pennies for, you'd think they'd jump at the chance for the return actual expensive items would bring. >_

[@MinebatVR]

Video 1 of asking you to do a Thanksgiving Drum Cadence

[@mreynoldstrombone]

It's not a drumming disaster, but there was a video from my freshman year of high school. It was at my very first tournament I performed in. Look at this video starting at 8:04 to the end: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHjFqHxmabmZZsk I play trombone so I was with that block of low brass players on the left side of the video. The block moved backwards as we should. But, the black backboards were placed too far to the left (right facing towards the audience), so the two rightmost columns of the block moved backwards into the backboard. This had a few trombones (including me) and a couple sousaphones involved. I stepped on one of the sousaphones' feet from this. What a memorable moment to have this happen at my first tournament. After this, in future performances and rehearsals, just before that moment in the show, moved a little further left (right) and I barely squeezed between the block and the backboard. I do believe the drill here could have been better planned.

[@gamingamalgam1197]

You should watch some of my band The Rocket Band Of Blue from Chapel Hill TN if you don’t mind our marching season just ended but we could use some advice for next year this year we got 4th at state division 1 our last time winning state was 2007

[@GeneThe3rd]

Unsat salute FOR THE WIN!!!! Happy 247th Marine!!!

[@UnH0lyTempest]

Sorry that I’m late to this, but I got something awkward. On a faithful marching practice, I was pushing out the second vibes (we happened two but one of sadly broke) out to our practice field. But let me context around our area, we have a sort of patio and you had to two people to put down the front ensemble (till we figured a way to get up.) and me and somebody in battery (I think… we are busy getting stuff out of to the field) put the vibes down and I started to wheel it to the practice field but then right side of the vibes popped out of the support to control the stuff together. So I got attention of my section leader and so other people in my section and we got fixed, once I finally got to the road before the vibes decided to fall apart (has one of my front ensemble members put it, “fell apart like Lego pieces”) till my two section leaders said to get the other marimba with my best friend in also front ensemble. Lucky it was that only way I had that other marimba, though that day was engraved into my mind. Have a good day EMC!

[@chymnster4445]

Hey man, I saw you at nationals, in the convention center, loved seeing you! You should watch our show, North Hardin Ky. Give our percussion some feedback (some need it) lol. Thank you!

[@keithbarnes9419]

Marching tenors in SOA, In practice marching along playing my part all of the sudden I hear one of the color guard members close to me yell OH S^*T! next thing I know a rifle hits my left drum and knocks it off my carrier. My shoulder hurt for days after that.

[@parkerphelps2759]

Hey Eric, my friend and I wrote a cadence and I was wondering if you could go over it and give some feedback over it. I am wanting to do tenors more than anything so I bought a pad and taught myself how to read the music and I've wrote 3 cadences and grooves, but I have a favorite and I was wondering if you could look over it. you're pike one of my favorite KZbinrs and it would mean the world to me. Thank you

[@alecj3454]

Govt waste in a nutshell. 20k in Timpani? Meh - just destroy it. We will get another trillion to spend next year. Every tax season i think about things like this...

[@cosmoreed3461]

My junior year of high school in the front ensemble I was told to channel my anger into my vibe mallets. so when a cymbal hit came up I hit it so hard the head popped off and flew right into the bleachers. Our tech yelled “ok take a break everyone!” And for the rest of the rehearsal he couldn’t stop laughing.

[@HallyPorter]

5:44 is exactly the kind of kid who tries to do exactly what he did. USMC didn't think of donating them to a drum corps. Well, they are are all flush with cash, none of them ever cease to exist year after year or anything. That kind of sucks.

[@joshuarinker6042]

So I’m marching bass 4 this year, and I can’t see we’ll normally, and hardly can with drum on, and the guy I asked to guide me walked away…. I proceeded to break my band directors taillight with it

[@Jaysonjams04]

So our school hosted a concert that was going to headline drummer Zoro. The concert was our high school jazz group opening the show with a half hour. And then zoro played along with his soundtracks for half an hour. After the concert zoro was going to hold a private master class with the jazz group about how to be a better overall musician and how to make the most out of practice time. So after Zoro finished his set the school jazz band (who were sitting front row of the auditorium) were supposed to walk up the stairs to the stage and take a bow with Zoro. Well sure enough I was the first kid to walk up the stairs and sure enough I fell on the last step before getting on the stage in front of the audience. I jumped up and Zoro gave me a hug and asked if I was alright. I told him I’m fine and then he autographed a drumstick for me.

[@Dollar-Tree_Peter-Griffin]

During my first BOA, which was this year, I dropped my right bass stick in the beginning of the ballad, so noob-y me had to play fast splits and sex-triplets on one hand.

[@CommonwealthAndDaLads]

Yo EMC you should check out Downey High Schools marching band for the 2022 season

[@BrianBegnoche]

I submit this nightmare (that happened to a really good drummer): kzbin.infoMwkVvm-IPko

[@potatoesdeterre]

In middle school we were watching a performance at a festival and this one kid did a suspended cymbal roll and g9t so happy that they did the “yes” motion with their hands but must’ve forgotten about their mallets and one of them fell and hit the cymbal. Second:there was another band I saw that was hitting metal bowls for a song and their rubber mallet hit the bowl and broke in half then flew in the air and over the backdrop that was probably like 20 feet tall. I got that one on video!

[@nahoonaboona2771]

I play trumpet for HS and I have 3 dog I can't practice with them inside otherwise they go absolutely crazy lol and as a skater can relate

[@lopingmymule3104]

My dog is too afraid of the drums to get anywhere near them. The guy swinging the bass drum around his neck didn’t even check to see if the girl was ok lol he just snuck down there got his drum and snuck back up in the stands

[@jordansargent8823]

My high school marching band was lined up before a parade once and we were getting ready to start marching, we, the drumline, were still dicking around as drummers do, and i went to hit the bass drum with my stick and it went straight through the head. he had to run back to the school and grab a new drum while we counted off and started marching. we got a couple hundred feet down the street ( was movin slow still) and he comes runnin up behind us with his new drum while he had been playing most of his way back to us.

[@georgehaines1014]

I love these videos!

[@yunalee6707]

I remember a show in which I think someone smashed a hole the bass 3 or was it bass 4 or maybe it was bass 5 drum. Fun stuff. This also came after the kid who was obsessed with breaking drumsticks graduated so the big question was if smashing a drum was better or worse.

[@heartssracin]

My head split mid halftime show this year at an away game lmaoooo

[@harlanbowman3268]

I am a vibraphone player for the Canton High School Marching band I saw you reacted to Hebron why not us

[@MilesClewell]

I dropped a stick in the middle of a pregame show. Went to pick it up and some people thought I was having a stroke... 😅

[@brandonc4051]

One day I was going to afterschool marching band practice and we loaded our marching drums on the bed of truck and my marching band drum was first base and then the person that was driving made a sharp turn and then drum fell and broke the hoop that was on it. We have done this many times because it was easier to take down to the field and for some reason the drum was not sitting properly and we stacked for we can take all the marching drums over to the field and come back for the drum set. So there is that 😅

[@octoman2272]

We have a disaster in our tenor line every day. Out tenors have only 5 which is normal but our high schools tenor are surprisingly over 50 pounds. I learned the hard way

[@remenia]

My dog keeps barking exactly when I play the drums and stops when I finish

[@kailiw.8462]

When I still used an electric kit, my dog would try and attack the beater of the bass pedal. I'm pretty sure she managed to rip a piece off one time.

[@silver_freshYT]

What does EMC in EMCproductions mean?

[@lokitheferret9815]

Another bass drum in my lines mallet head popped off and nearly hit a wind player in the head

[@lanabanana538]

In high school I was in pit, one time the guy behind me was playing a brake drum, and he hit it so hard the top of the metal mallet snapped off and flew right by my ear, very nearly had a serious injury there

[@keeganwoolverton2980]

React to the Londonderry High School winter percussion. They did so good last year at Nesba

[@riverwithoutwifi3198]

Can you review tarpon HS BOA performance from this year. i got to see them in indy and it was crazy.