Top 11 Best (and worst) Band Call-Outs

[@NovaBasalt]

my first year on snare, we were rehearsing an 16-count “just do a little dance” visual at practice and the clarinet section leader did a fortnite dance. the director (over the speaker) immediately made him run a lap

[@okey7261]

"When will you learn, that your actions have consequences!?"

[@kitkatkid1976]

The sounds like something I would do

[@Cracrayglitterbug]

our go to for visuals where we dance is a grapevine and or the macarena

[@SeanLaMontagne]

Which is odd because all the fortnight dances are just real dances stolen for fortnight's benefit

[@compostbin5967]

Typical clarinet player (I know cause I am one)

[@griffinbesore5812]

Sophmore year, I was on third bass. My band director from the box says, "bass drums, I know the average age back there is 10 and a half but I need more confidence in your parts"

[@captainjirk9564]

Lmao.

[@thequartermaster6268]

That's amazing

[@Cody-hs6bg]

That's what she sead

[@aprilmoore2917]

Oooh, harsh... and then so FUNNY...

[@kylianlol13]

oof

[@tompeavy8254]

Box callout to me in drum corps. We were having a bad season and this rehearsal was going awful for everyone. Many mistakes, but a lot of laughing and just not seeming to care. Me, as an older veteran, finally lost it and I loudly went off on everyone (bad move). So from the box comes the voice of our Japanese vis tech. And he rattles these instructions off, rapid fire with no pauses through his very broken english. "Brass, control your body through the section, battery your feet are sloppy, Tom Peavy you shut the f&^#$ up, guard improve timing with rifles." So embarassing.

[@Mikey-og4my]

Where did you march and what year(s)?

[@SeanLaMontagne]

Please tell me this was a corps from Wisconsin...

[@tompeavy8254]

@@SeanLaMontagne the tech was a Wisconsin corps vet, but this was before I marched in a Wisconsin corps

[@King-ty7mz]

@@SeanLaMontagne Why did you think it was Wisconsin?

[@owenfleck4435]

I once tripped over a fire hydrant with a bass drum

[@snarls-1651]

Fleck Channel i dropped my quads down the stairs the other day

[@owenfleck4435]

My friend also once tripped over a camera box at a football game with a bass drum

[@codypops3000]

I fell with bass 5 and got 7 stitches :)

[@brucejamilkowski2266]

All I can think of is "why did the hydrant have a bass drum?" (Sorry, it's rather late and I'm old.)

[@Nareimooncatt]

@@brucejamilkowski2266 that's a good dad joke. I'll allow it. Lol

[@charlies7894]

Mom: Tenor drum playing man child doesn't exist he can't hurt you Tenor drum man child: 0:39

[@DouglasStevens0521]

So my junior year I was section leader of our tenor line and after a percussion feature in our show the tenors had an extended triplet roll and one of the other two people in the section would dirt it out every time at practice one day. There was not a single clean roll that day. And finally one rep they both nailed it... but that was the one rep I ticked. Our tech just looked at me and laughed then slowly walked over to the tenors and threw his sticks at me and told us to reset

[@dominicmazenko9490]

Haha yea. My tenor line could play really intricate stuff clean but our triplet rolls were only together and clean during competitions. Lol

[@paladinapollo4967]

Los Papeles that's probably because the spocks have tigher tension, so they have better rebound, making it easier to play fast rolls

[@grammarpolice7339]

Must be nice to have a tenor line... it’s just me and 1 other...

[@willy5838]

Grammar Police feels bad

[@weefslider]

@@grammarpolice7339 my school doesnt even have a drumline lol

[@trashbinentertainment7895]

my freshman year of high school, i was in the pit on paino. The piano music was similar to the flutes. So when the director singled out the flute section he would say "Flutes, play measure 21, and (my name here)" Specifically calling me out on my part, drawing the entire Band's attention to me. Well, because i once dropped the Center Snare's Personal Bass drum(braking the wood around the rim), him and the entire band(including the directors) called me 'Rim job' because of that. Eventually the director morphed over to saying "Flutes play measure 21, and Rim Job too" And everyone would always giggle. Sometimes the director would occasionally give a slight laugh too

[@doimahkaw1375]

Trash Bin Entertainment rip lol

[@Max-dd4ow]

Ouch dude, that’s harsh

[@definitelynottigerwhitten5865]

Why would a center snare have a bass drum?

[@AnonYmous-oh8ry]

AHAAA NOOO RIM JOB

[@BigBurgerBoy557]

Geez, that’s harsh

[@PercussionEnsembles]

Imagine you look out the window and you see this man marching across the field. 0:40

[@18JasonM]

If your tech yells at you in front of the whole band it’s way worse than being called out from the box

[@ObsidianSkateboardi]

During a high school band rehearsal, the battery was rehearsing a chunk involving a small head visual. Our percussion director was in the box giving us comments and after one rep he mentioned something about the head visual needing to be improved. We did another rep with that in mind and he gave us a couple of unrelated comments on the music. After he finished his comment, our center snare yelled up to the box “How was the heads?”. He didn’t hear her clearly, so his response over the loudspeaker was “How was the head?!”. We had to stop rehearsal for 5 minutes so the battery would stop laughing.

[@nbctheoffice]

16:16 is straight up one of the coolest licks. My favorite parts of your videos are the random licks interjected between the different sections.

[@cookie0329]

so my drumline has a move where they move forward where the rest of the band is marking time, and the first time they do it every year at camp they shout "PENETRATION!", and my band director this year was just so tired of it and he just said "ok can we do this again, but, without the vocals?"meanwhile the trombones are shouting "BONER GANG" every practice

[@zacharymcdowell7710]

I love the snare/tenor licks in between clips like that. Keep doing it!!

[@TheRealDJ09]

Haven't gotten a whole lot of box calls (thank the lord) but there's one call I'll always remember: Sophomore year, I was in front ensemble and had a timpani solo. At one of our biggest competitions, we went inside where a judge went over our performance and he paused after my solo and called out "Who played timpani?! Please stand up!" So I did and he said "the tuning was amazing, beautiful sound, and very well played! Good job my friend!" And that was probably the best call out I've ever had in front of the whole band, I felt good haha.

[@legocon2004]

Sophomore trombone player this year. One day at practice after doing a choreo section, band director called out my name and the world stopped for me. He proceeds to tell me that I did the choreography really well and man that was relieving

[@mattydread6618]

High school: Bass drums had silver dot heads on them. We had the brilliant idea of reflecting the sun off the heads into the faces of the other football team. Was working great until they stopped the game, called us out and threatened our team with forfeiture. Yea, we were way beyond in trouble. Ugh...we were idiots!

[@manofsteele777]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TreadTheDonutDuck]

auowherensgijdlkvz I can feel the cringe through this comment......

[@benrosasco2667]

You should do a funniest band stories (dci included) of all the absolute funniest memories you have

[@nickromano7441]

I got called out for “shaking my butt” to much when I mark time 😂 guarantee you I now have the least amount of movement in my hips ever since then

[@nothingimportant5561]

NickComment s lmao, im the tenor line section leader in my highschool and someone in the tenor section always pulses and marks time with his butt sticking out dramatically and I’d call him out every time but hopefully by this season be catches my drift and stops that habit 🤣

[@Kranvagn__]

The low brass section + Mellophones got called out for shaking our butt when we were double timing.😂

[@staceyduggan562]

During a crowded full corps clinic/ensemble rehearsal session - George Zingali (from the box): "What's your name! Drum Corps Member (yelling from the field): "Morehead!" George Zingali: "What's you first name? Gimmie!!?"

[@trentthedrummer8983]

Nah💀

[@Scjdrilldesigns]

I had to cut a trumpet part. I went to the sectional, and went "trumpets, there is a change from 72-75. Get out your pencils and I'll sing it to you; it's easy." They grabbed pencils. "Ok... I'll count it off. 1...2...3...4...." Insert 16 counts of silence. "Got it?"

[@Max-dd4ow]

Savage

[@j1dawg348]

I love your vids emc I'm look forward to the random drumset lick

[@RobertMacCready]

In High School there were announcements at the beginning and end of the day on the public address system, that went school wide. We forged a note dropped off at the office to announce that "Mike Hunt needs to report to the nurses office before going home today". Laughted so that I could hardly breath.

[@jabelsjabels]

So I was in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, like 4th grade. We rehearsed on the stage at the same time as the 5th graders were having lunch, and I was right at the front of the stage playing bass drum. Apparently I was somewhat distracted by the kids eating lunch, and the director stopped the rehearsal, walked over to me, and yelled "WELL IF YOU'RE SO INTERESTED IN THE KIDS EATING LUNCH, WHY DON'T YOU GO JOIN THEM?!?". He dragged me by the arm down to some random table and made me sit next to some random girl, TOOK HER SANDWICH OUT OF HER HAND, and made me take a bite of it. I think I ran out of the rehearsal in tears. I will never forget that moment. pst those hand mutes in the tenor intermissions are siiiick

[@theweeb4888]

That's not good....

[@cashyobm778]

That's a lie

[@Hewatza]

The first question where I'm from when someone falls with their drum on is "Is the drum okay?". Then we ask if they're alright.

[@ProudPapaJD]

Stock.

[@Apples9327]

Thats a given

[@BandKidBambi]

Faceplanted with tenors the other day looney toons style Everybody asked if is as okay but I didn’t even check myself until I knew the tenors were intact

[@Nareimooncatt]

During high school, I was playing tenor and we were doing one of our songs in the stands at a football game. It was one of my favorites, so let's just say I was getting really into it. I rushed so bad that the director had to stop the entire band to call me out. How did he know it was me specifically rushing the tenor part? I was the only one. So that's 150 band members, plus about the same number of spectators close enough to see, and the entire stadium that heard this sudden cut in the music.

[@lucasz8825]

Section tech? More like money our marching band doesn't have

[@Defnotken]

frr, i’ve never heard of a section tech. our ranking goes as : crab, upperclassmen, section leader, loading crew leader, band captain, drum major, band director.

[@hwm_alex]

@@Defnotken bruh our band goes regulars, upperclassmen, section leader, drum major, bd. No fancy captains or loading crew leader lol

[@Defnotken]

Alex Xie oh 🤣

[@Defnotken]

Alex Xie band captain is basically drum major, but they don’t conduct or touch the mace. or dance.

[@Defnotken]

Alex Xie and loading crew leader is just the person who carries the color guard flags and the water jugs to the field or game.

[@ethanboulanger9984]

Absolutely love these drumline cadence transitions

[@chrisredacted4797]

I like how you can hear Eric laugh a little after 1:42 lmao

[@cheyennenewman7805]

My band has one more call out; *staff to staff call out*

[@MegaMech]

Did your stalve go to marriage counselling after?

[@cheyennenewman7805]

MegaMech yes

[@steverman2312]

My band has that too but its a good thing because my directors always joke around about it

[@Jillhovah.Witness]

My rookie year my Band Director yelled at the snares: I am about to have three triangle solos next game.

[@brice5863]

I'm the first quad player at my school since the 70s, so we had no music for quads, so I had to improvise, during a silent moment, I played 4 8th beats on 1 to 2 to 4, and apparently everyone liked it.

[@Nimbus6464]

Eric! I can TASTE your dirty beats from here!

[@beachballl]

Freshman year, my school’s quadline couldn’t play triplet rolls, so we split it, I had the first three, section leader had the next three, other guy had the last three, and then we all had a shot on four. Once, we all missed it at the same time and the snare tech fell over and just started dying 😂

[@drayxx3382]

what the fuck, zach? why are you on here.

[@Randombikekid]

Wait what did you miss?

[@asher1013]

It was my first year this year, and I never got called out from the box. I have gotten called out by other students and the tech sometimes. But they were really nice about it and it actually helped me fix some issues that I wasn’t aware of. It wasn’t like berating me over something, more like just pointing it out and letting me know what I could do to fix it. And I’ve gotten a couple compliments too. One of my favorites was when one of the brass techs complimented my backwards marching. But the only time a student tech or teacher is mean in a call out is if they’re calling you out for a behavioral problem like being disruptive in rehearsal, or if you keep making the same mistake over again and you just don’t care about fixing that mistake that is slipping you up.

[@treekomax]

This year the best call from the box so far is: “Base 4 and 5, are we playing?” Said by the band director right after a rep Had to be repeated by the drum major cuz they couldn’t hear

[@receiverofmemory1622]

During the 2019 marching season I was walking down concrete stairs with my tenors and I accidentally missed the last step. I tripped and it was pretty epic. I didn't fall on my face, it was more like kneeling on one knee. My right knee still had the scar below it. But what hurt the most was when my carrier jabbed into my thigh and that hurt for a few days after!

[@cutter_edm_official]

Theres LITERALLY a kid in my band named Michael Torres

[@galaxyofreesesking2124]

"stop tying your shoe" we weren't even marching

[@akaiyui9300]

Getting called out has to be the scariest part in corps back in my time. You could get your section, or even the entire corps punished just because you made a mistake. There were even stories of members quitting on the spot because they had the entire corps punished, fearing that everyone would do something to them out of hatred. Dunno if this is still the case on everyone past my batch. As for me, I had my own fair share of call-outs like the one where I was told to not screw up cause everyone will hold a grudge on me and the one where I got punished and had to awkwardly introduce myself because I pulled the pants of one of my fellow snare drummers during practice. Take note that I was already an assistant coordinator (section leader) of snare drums when the 2nd one happened and I still cringe whenever I think about it.

[@brodizzle4]

i’m on the guard (still a percussionidt and love it) and one time i was maybe half a step off dot, and so bc i’m the only rifle my band director knows well he calls me out from the box and tells me to move to THE left, and so i move to my left and he says “no to your left” so i move to my right and he goes wait “wait no to my right” and it was just this series of confusion that left the whole band laughing!

[@jakobharrigan1934]

Sprained my ankle the day before finals and got yelled at all morning (from the box) for “bad technique”... then we had a killer run and won so it was all good

[@aaronlanders98]

Nothings as bad as my director throwing his headset on the ground and SCREAMING at the kid for moving at set

[@PuffyOne1898]

I got called out for not having my snare facing the box exactly at 90 degrees once. It was horrible. Also, Good Morning!

[@EllingtonReborn]

its 9:10 mang but different time zones i guess also howdy neighbor

[@kalechips5972]

It's 11:00am here, so good morning.

[@EllingtonReborn]

Well, here is a callout from my own experience. We were rehearsing the national anthem as a full band one day, and it was going fairly well. But then when we ended the song, our band director says no word and looks right at our section of 8 people (low brass (trombones+euphoniums)). There was a brief moment of silence when all of a sudden he says "WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOUR MIND?! YOU KNOW WAY BETTER THAN TO DO THAT!!! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!". And so we look at each other all bamboozled and whispering to ourselves who it was. Then he says a moment later "For those of you who don't know, you don't play FF at a F dynamic!". So once rehearsal was over, me and my friends were chilling in Bd's office (per usual), and once he arrives at his chair, i say 'Hey Mr. [Bd's last name], I'm using my other bone with less tubing. I use that same amount of air with my other bone to get a nice F sound but i wasn't quite accustomed to my new one yet so that same amount of air just turned into extra volume." And he said in a calm voice "Alright, Matt. That's completely understandable." So yeah that's my little call-out story.

[@josephrivera8507]

Eric isn’t only a good drummer. He’s an amazing editor

[@adamsdiwhy]

7:04 last month, my band went to a off campus rehearsal during school, and every kid on my bus was screaming 99 bottles of beer and hitting their cases for a makeshift percussion

[@8020drummer]

Thank you for resisting the temptation to reference Whiplash :P

[@sillypplproductions2]

Ive been watching a bunch of your videos, and i really enjoy how you'll put the sheet music for what you're playing during the transitions in the video

[@box3229]

Freshman year. at a private woodwind ensemble rehearsal there was a song where everyone had to scream and when the group was starting at measuring 57 I thought everyone must scream so I let it rip but I am not supposed to scream at measure 57 and everyone heard me scream and I felt like such embarrassment as all 17 people were laughing at me including the conductor but she said I set a good example on how people should should scream super loud, and I think this memory will go on for the rest of my life. This happened today.

[@seancarr972]

i just noticed ur initials are E=MC^2... thats why its in ur intro...

[@jacobhanekamp2534]

But he didn't march in 2013....

[@timcrockett71]

This was not in marching band but one time in class I said something stupid and my teacher stopped everyone pulled out his wallet, which had nothing in it, and said I dont get paid enough to deal with your bull crap Tim! I dont remember the context of this one but there was another time where he said Tim you're the reason I drink, he doesn't drink.

[@EJandtheFleet]

This has to be my favorite video you've ever made, I just started my freshman year on bass 4 and I've managed to dodge callouts so far

[@LANDONK-so2cg]

I made snare line as a freshmen this year and i have band camp soon and I hope I don’t get called out

[@onhyex7428]

I know the feeling, that was last year for me, this year I'm on tenors and only second to the senior center snare. I just practiced a lot before and during the season and did great, but I'm still really not that good it's just that basically no one else in the line really cares except for me and the captain.

[@chrismartucci8146]

Landon Kirts happens bröther

[@itisnottaken4444]

You will so don't trip

[@ClaytonD719]

I'm a freshie and this is my first time hearing about this. We have a comp next week. Pray.

[@oo0sixletto0oo]

So i wasn't even drum captain yet but our band instructor called *_me_* out for not having the drumline memorize the show music. Like sis it's not my job but ok

[@calebforeman2107]

My junior year of high school, another student had my name, Caleb. Our Band director didn't realize it till the second week of Band Camp when he got really pissed and called "Caleb" out. I thought he was talking to me, the other guy thought it was him and it ended with our Band Director going, "I'll call one of you by your middle name!" he pointed at me and I quietly said, "Marselles." He paused for one second then declared, "Nope, Caleb number 2 what's your middle name." So this other Caleb licked his lips cause he was really nervous being the first time actually called out and goes, "It's Caleb." And it went back and fort between them going "What's your middle name.... Caleb" before it was discovered that is name was actually Jame Caleb R. This whole process took twenty minutes and our Band Director forgot which Caleb he was yelling at and what it was even about. Great memory. P.S We were in the same section, and the following year we had two Alyssas in the section as well.

[@elijahwilliford7957]

We had a trumpet get called out to play by himself in place a part where we were marching across the field in a slide. The directors response was “dude, that was unacceptable. You are so cut. If that’s how bad it sounded standing still, I don’t even want to hear it on the move.”

[@Sarrge]

Drum tech from the box: I’m not going to name any names, but bass 5 messed up the body a little. That bass 5 was ME.

[@jacky_b_0363]

During my first year of marching, our show had some barrels on the the field that were used by the colorgaurd. Since they used them it was their responsibility to make sure they where put in the correct dots. There was a point in the show where the drumline (I played bass 3 at the time) had to go through the barrels. One rehearsal the colorguard kept putting them in the wrong dots so we kept crashing into them. Eventually, the assistant band director (who was also the drumline tech) got so mad he went out onto the field, grabbed one of the barrels and threw it off onto the track, then yelled something like "you have to get your shit together" at the color guard. It was terrifying in the moment but when I look back, it was pretty funny.

[@JaggedFish104]

Before I was on drumline (cause I was told no), I was on Bari sax and stood in front of the Quads. Well my best friend was on the quad behind me and we were messing around. His spock head was very close to breaking, but our director was anal about changing heads till they break. Well the Drumline captain comes over, cranks the head about 5 turns each and we wait. Well at this playoff game we’re all hype as heck. They’re playing as loud as humanly possible, and my friend is trying to break this head. Finally I hear a weird sound, and here comes a stick flying into my bell. Then I just hear laughing and someone yells “HE BROKE THE HEAD!!!” At the end of the song, ALL of the drumline members, and me, come over/turn around, and start doing “things” to that broken head.

[@prrproductions5469]

Me: marches to my dot My line: doesnt cover down Line Behind me: Perfect BD: Good job line behind me. Your line is ok

[@EdgeVr_YT]

I just imagine every person Eric’s worked with just thinks “this guy’s so immature…”

[@maclanemirrotto9720]

You are my actual favorite channel

[@oceanbarnes5260]

the first time we practiced as a full ensemble (i play synth in pit) my bd: Ocean, you know that thing your doing during movement 2? me: ? bd: you know like when you suck for 16 measures? yeah? stop doing that me: thumbs up

[@SlippPlays]

Hey, I'm synth. And I also got to choose the patches for our last part. So, basically I have a volume pedal, and I'm connected to a soundboard. So, I keep getting called out on volume.

[@nonexistenttt3023]

one time our director came down from the tower and threw a soccer ball in someone's sousaphone

[@link7837]

This happened to some trombone today. The director walks down and gets mad because people are moving when they should be set, and he starts to move this trombone’s instrument and move his hat and the the director is like “IS THAT MY HAT?!”. It turns out during water break someone had took the director’s hat from where he had left it and gave it to this guy, and he got called out in front of the whole band while the director gave a speech about touching his stuff.

[@steverman2312]

Im a freshman trumpet player and my best (as in positive) call out was when i got back to school after being sick in the hospital. I was gone for three days and in that time, i missed *six* bits of choreography in our opener. So one of the section leaders pulled me off to the side to help me get caught up. In about five minutes, i was fully caught up and knew all the choreography, and when i got back onto the field, the band director called me out through a microphone/speaker setup about how i learned the choreography. He asked “you learned it that fast” and after replying “yes”, he applauded me and a bunch of band kids joined him as i just sat there flattered

[@seanwool]

I had a crush on one of the flute players in high school. In spirit band a few minutes before we walked into the arena I asked her if I she could show me how to hold her flute, you know, to get the conversation going. It worked and it was going pretty well until the director stormed up to us, grabbed the flute and gave it back to her and said "Sean, if I catch you playing somebody else's instrument again, you're GONE!" The girl gave me a look like "sucks to be you." We're married now, so it worked out, but yeah, rough call-out.

[@dirtykeyz]

The Mike thing is even funnier because you could've just used their actual last names

[@kevinhanger3438]

My freshman year of high school I was on bass and during drum line camp my teacher was talking to the whole line and I was playing a bit on my pad he kept giving me a little glance and I didn’t know why when suddenly he throws a marker at me and yells in front of everyone SHUT UP about 10 minutes later we take a little break and I get in front of everyone and hand him his marker saying “here’s your marker back”

[@kevinhanger3438]

Now I’m a junior in high school and I’m pretty much assistant (to the) section leader and one day he was working with the bass drums and I was working a bit with the snares and a freshman on our line said to me I’m gonna go(he’s on snare everyone good graduated my freshman year) I ask him if he had somewhere to be and he said no just wanna go home so I say alright take your drum in and talk to Mathew(the section leader) and when he picks his drum up off the stand I notice his bottom head is broken he dropped it on the little peg that’s meant to hold the drum up so I make him tell Mathew the amount of anger Mathew had bottled up in that moment is unmeasurable he also constantly plays in French no matter how many times we tell him to play match he sits during rests and gets up about 2 beats before he plays I once saw him play with his hands about 3 inches from the tip of the stick he was just playing with his hand that far up on the stick calling him out isn’t working anymore guess I just have to deal with it for another year and a half(Mathew doesn’t have the authority to kick him off plus that’s gotta feel pretty shitty)

[@litink120]

Seriously what drum corps show is played in the beginning?? It is absolutely fire 🔥

[@DavidThePercussionist]

The box can see everything

[@icruz101]

Semper Fi Eric! Your stories are hilarious!

[@ajgutierrez2351]

my freshman year i had gotten out of flat feet correctional surgery and my marching and feet were really bad but they still put me on snare (i was pretty good😎) so my marching was so bad one of the directors (no relation to percussion at all) said i marched like a drunk shrek

[@anonnymoose2372]

I love that bit at the beginning way too much.

[@voiceofreason9238]

It's 2023, four years later and THIS video shows up in my feed! Standing the test of time, this is still pretty funny. 🤣

[@Hevonen55]

So I march contra and there’s only two contra players in my marching band. Both of our names are Hannah. So everytime someone says Hannah we both just answer. It’s great

[@WolfsPercussion]

I recently discovered that both my band director and caption head in high school taught at Township, before they started working at my high school(RV), at the time you were there, so when you told the high school stories I sat here trying to imagine either of them saying those things. I'm really tempted to send this to both of them and ask. lol

[@moltenaluminium]

I remember the one that got me the most was in 2006 Bushwackers. Snare line had the cymbals in front of us and we were playing a ride cymbal pattern. Our snare tech called out, "Dave, you work on computers, right?" "Yes. " I replied as that was my day job. "You LOOK like you work on computers!" he said, meaning I looked like Sassafrass playing drums. Good times. :)

[@JaggedFish104]

My Senior year on Bass 5, we had a loud rim click part in the back of the field to set time. (For context we practice on a black top parking lot) Well we faced in reverse, so my right hand was showing to the audience. We click at FF four 4 counts and do a turn 180 degrees. Well me being as enthusiastic as I am I absolutely destroyed the mallet and it went flying off the field and hit a car tire. The percussion director notices and asks why I’m playing everything with 1 hand. So I hold up the broken mallet so proudly (No idea why), but he just gives me that death stare we all know and love. I argued and said I’m playing on 4 year old mallets and I’m gonna play loud when told. Ended up buying the basses (me) many mallets and said double tape.

[@alexsch5742]

Quick question: What was the stupidest reason you got upset with a performance (indoor, dci, etc.)?🤷🏼‍♀️ Mine was during my first EVER indoor performance and I cried afterwards cause I dropped a mallet. It’s stupid when I think about it now.😂

[@DiSCO_YT]

Oh this was about two weeks ago. For context, I’m a freshman in my school band’s pit. I play timpani for most of the show but during one section of the show I play triangle. I have my timpani set up on a cart, where I keep my triangle when I’m not playing it. During my first competition, in the space between moving onto the field and the section I need my triangle for, I lose track of the triangle beater. So, being resourceful as I am, I use the back of a timpani mallet. I don’t think we even got docked for it lol, but I was beating myself up for losing it.

[@AidensFeets]

I just got on Tenors this year, I went from base to it. Never got to play snare even. I was trying to do the tryouts and got 4 of them down perfectly. But the last one sucked and I had a mental breakdown trying to get it perfectly.

[@Apples9327]

Last year, I got called out by the director for not being loud enough. At this point in the song. It says in the ink "fff". I'm aware that means play as loud as possible, and especially as a percussionist. I said to the direct that if I played any louder, I might put a hole in the head, I think he thought I was joking, but I wasn't. So I play a little louder, they call me out again. And it gets to the point where the tech has to come up to me and tells me to play a lot louder. So I did. Three hits into the rep, a hole opened up in the middle of the head. I walked over to the tech and showed it to him. He had the audacity to ask why I hit it so hard. Anyway, they replaced all the heads on the bass drums 2 days later and I think the heads they put on there were the really good ones cuz they felt bad about telling me to hit my drum harder just for me to break it.

[@Chicken_Wang1]

The silent bus ride this is interesting. For my marching band I’m a sophomore and we always have two busses- a quiet bud and a loud bus- so that kids can choose which bus they want to go on

[@arise8078]

During my first indoor percussion season, I was on rack, and my mallet head flew off while we were playing the show and hit one of the snares.

[@yeeny.]

Heard a funny callout in my band (it’s a high school, i’m currently a junior) a few weeks ago pointed towards bass drums who were slowing down, with one of the techs saying “BASS DRUMS, YOU’RE MAKING ME AGE FASTER, I WANT TO AGE SLOWER! FIX YOUR SPEED!”

[@oliviapeterson8945]

1:13 scared me bc I know an Eric Carr and he plays quads lmao

[@ceoofclarinetyt4720]

My section leaders name is Eric Carr.

[@Lillianp3473]

we’re working on learning drill for our second movement and my director called me out and I was very confused since I was on my dot. turned out my twin sister was wrong and he mixed it up. very fun.

[@matsenmenage]

The other day I watched a 2021 DCI celebration in the movie theatre and we watched to bluecoats practice and on the show one guy got called out in front of the band and the whole movie theatre.

[@andyzavala2349]

In our band, when we get called out, it doenst matter if we get called out so bad, or if our leg is broken, nothing matters. All you do is say/scream “YES SIR”, accept it and move on

[@brandonmiller8436]

I have a question where do you get the Yamaha marching tenor drum from

[@RishiJalukar]

Yamaha

[@michaelwemhoff7577]

Probably the internet

[@Regularlively]

I'm 1st trombone in highschool and every year the directors constantly have to remind me to quiet down because "you're playing louder than the entire band". I'm ok with that call-out, it's a great confidence boost.

[@KleinkMusic]

I REMEMBER ONE DURING BAND CAMP So uh the basses had a not so good rep during an ensemble block (this was indoor, before we get drill clean we have ensemble in the auditorium) and the battery tech was like "Basses what do we sound like?" And all of them collectively and disappointedly say "Shoes in a dryer..." And everyone including the band director laughed. It was one of my favorite moments of the season this year lol.

[@zkyishot]

9:17 ingoring weird eric, the stadium is in katy (basically houston) called legacy stadium. i went there before is surreal being there

[@thespanishinfluenza1]

When I played concert band in middle school, the band director called out one kid and said “can you play x to y for me” and followed it with “And that’s why you’re last trumpet”

[@SlippPlays]

Haha, last year, I was a synth player for my high school, and there were 2 MIDI synth players (me included) and one of those YAMAHA electric pianos on an OLD synth cart (which the piano was a little bigger than the synth cart). So anyways, the 2 MIDI synth carts were sharing the ONLY laptop (which was on mine) and I was in charge of changing the Mainstage patches, cord management, playing CHORDS, and the samples on the Roland 404 while the other Synth guy was in charge of playing runs and talkbox. You would not know how many times I haven't gotten called out by the box, which was surprisingly 1 or 2 times. And since i haven't learned my lesson on wearing pants in the middle othe the September/October rehearsals, all the pit players took out their phones and played KZbin videos of a fireplace, because it was about 45 degrees.

[@Clipmations]

I was called out by someone in my section and my section tech stopped him but the guy who called me out could not even do what he was calling me out for.

[@UrBoiMigue]

Hey I'm a freshman and I'm just starting in drumline and I was just wondering if you could make a video covering the basics in being a good drummer.

[@Griffin그리핀]

Just don't suck and be a tot

[@oo0sixletto0oo]

Metronome and Rudiments, I'm self-taught so that's what helped me

[@sausageside442]

Ive got 2 stories about call outs, but some information first. I play a Jupiter Quantum euphonium in band and I am the section leader of 3 where is am the loudest. 1. Last year during a run of the first movement of my show there is one set where all brass are boxed together and the mello's have the melody with some of their parts being echoed in the baritone parts. The box called out the entire mello section for being too loud when in reality it was me and the mello's had nothing to do with it. 2. One rehearsal I had to use the restroom, so I was gone for long enough that the band started back up and did a few runs of a section. I got called out by a tech for my section not knowing their music. They also told me it was a good thing to have left them their exposed because they would have never found out otherwise. Moral of the story, I am was being too loud for the techs to realize there was something wrong.

[@nathansu3691]

8th grade wind ensemble, percussionist is reading his book during the rest. misses entrance, director sees his book. Director takes his book and throws it on top of the instrument storage lockers which were against a wall. The book slides on top and goes down the space between the wall and the lockers.