Top 10 most AWKWARD Band Moments || Try Not to Cringe Challenge

[@zacharymcdowell7710]

“Oh crap! There’s a pole there.” Joe, from the snare line

[@zacharymcdowell7710]

Pole*

[@jgamesgeno4966]

Who is Joe?

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

@@jgamesgeno4966 "Joe Mama! OOOOH!" - Eric Carr, "3 Guys Named Joe"

[@dylken5695]

TheAvirus who’s joe mama

[@goaliejoe5923]

dylken 569 same as yuri

[@benrosasco2667]

One time is was leaving practice and I waved to my friend as I turned around, I accidentally slapped my drum major on the thigh. This was freshmen year. I died inside

[@JamesThatcher]

... and that's how you ended up going to prom with the drum major? --- just kidding, I could see that being pretty embarrassing..

[@fizzylemonleaf]

That's awesome😂so they were on the ladder?

[@benrosasco2667]

James Thatcher lol I wish. She actually marched Boston last summer. She didn’t like me very much.

[@JamesThatcher]

@@benrosasco2667 that's ok... most DMs didn't like me either... the important part is to just try hard and have fun, otherwise what's the point?

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

I'm a sophomore in high school, and I accidentally slapped one of the freshmen (this was in orchestra). Whoops.

[@GeoFitz4]

It's my freshman year of high school and I'm marching 4th bass. First home game of the year, we're just in shorts and t-shirts because it's Florida and it's still hot when football season starts. We go out for half time, just do our first song as that's all we've gotten down at that point and march off the field. Then we all turn to the right and start walking back over to the band seats. Next thing I know, I'm on the ground, my bass has come off, and a flute player is screaming. And I've got a big cut on my shin. Being unable to see anything over my bass, I walked straight into the box that the coaches plug their head sets into. Ended up needing 15 stitches to close it up. On Monday back in class, we're watching the video tape of half time and we get right to the end and it's been paused. The Band Colonel goes up, starts it playing again, points me out, and goes "And... there goes George..." and the video ended literally right as I started falling down.

[@drewga6468]

Freshman bass 4 gang 👌🏼🤙🏼 and I tripped over a drum major stand on the way to do cadences in 4th qtr with drum on, not nearly as bad as yours cuz I ran into bass 3 and could stay on my feet, but I still cut up my shin lol, just wanted to reply cuz of the huge coincidence

[@curtimongous]

What band

[@Hike-sl7ik]

I have a story of one if the percussionists in my band he was playing bass for the Veterans day parade and tripped over a fire hydrant and rolled down the hill just want to put that out there😂

[@mathcatsyt]

I was bass drum 3 for my freshman year of high school, while we were marching off the field after our pregame show, I couldn’t see over my drum, where there was a tire from an earlier football practice. I tripped over the side of the tire and fell in, drum first. Luckily, I was on the far side of the field from the main stands, but everyone in the visitor stands got a clear view.

[@jh28wd40]

I was 3rd bass and tripped over the football bench at a home game. Packed house. Bass went flying... SMH ROFL this was 21 years ago. Still good memories. :D

[@BertoDeMamp]

Not super cringy, but one time in Drum Corps we were all showering and I found a spider in the shower. Well, I began to bless the spider with a golden shower and pretty soon 5+ other dudes waddled over and joined me in the showering of this poor spider. Good times man.

[@otter5pain310]

@@g0ne520 legit, but spiders suck

[@GMtheTurtle]

BOYS’ LOCKERROOM:

[@skyhunter2k]

That's legit

[@nahaight1373]

Took me a minute and thats pretty weird

[@leethornton2270]

Th fuck

[@Loopy6677]

The pause in the beginning after you said "I'm awkward" 😂😂😂

[@fizzylemonleaf]

Yes😂

[@cameronwilliams6311]

I thought it was my WiFi lagging again

[@fizzylemonleaf]

"Blasting a duce"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 also I love the bus band director he's a pretty spicy looking dude

[@mitchelljroth]

Gotta love Chip eh?

[@okey7261]

Chip tOOOth

[@GengarYes]

*deuce

[@williamsj0054]

My 2nd year of marching band, we marched in the Memorial Day parade. As we started down the hill, my band director (really big and chunky guy) tripped and started rolling down the hill. Luckily, we were near the end of the parade route so not a lot of people saw, but those of us band members who did see it happen had a hard time trying not to laugh

[@nahaight1373]

Lmaoo

[@tinomurillo1999]

last story made fucking laugh in hard in the bathroom broo. Everyone in the bathroom said “you good man”. Thanks that was awkward lmao

[@oldchannel987]

I just had a seizure trying to read that

[@tinomurillo1999]

Daniil Oxyuk sorry, English is my 5th language

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

@@tinomurillo1999 For real? Polyglot squad bro

[@crazygamer-mr6nr]

5th language dang you smart asf

[@crazygamer-mr6nr]

@@oldchannel987 stop being a jerk

[@matthewk3859]

"im awkward" we know. thats why we watch you lmao

[@fizzylemonleaf]

😂

[@reaperswinter749]

It’s nice to be with your own awkward kind

[@Randombikekid]

I want to like your comment but its at 69

[@jasonkirshner]

7:09 That is literally my high school’s band room, made me do a double take 😂

[@ATS123]

Bridgwater raritan regional high school??

[@jasonkirshner]

Theo Anthony yep!

[@ATS123]

@@jasonkirshner I knew it, I had my region and All-state reading rehearsals there

[@jasonkirshner]

Theo Anthony Yep, I was there too

[@ATS123]

@@jasonkirshner what instrument and ensemble?

[@beercansam2304]

For my junior year homecoming week, one of the costume themes was Soccer Moms vs Grill Dads. I dressed up as a grill dad. One of the seniors (his name is Dominic this is important for later) had dressed up as a soccer mom, and he had really gone all out. He wore a wig, a stuffed sports bra (huge honkers btw), and two small spherical beanie objects in his pants for his butt. He comes in and starts a conversation with some people and the assistant band director walks in and is like “look, I hope you won the settlement with the plastic surgeon”. God that was so funny. The main band director come out of his office, stares at him for about 12 seconds trying not to laugh, and the only word he uttered was “Dominique?” LMAO. His girlfriend called him Mommy Dommy the whole entire day and it was so freaking funny.

[@classicalytrumpet9190]

I got hurt so I got switched from trumpet to pit, and now I respect you as a percussionist even more. I’ve had to learn an entire show for a BOA event in 3 days. I’ve learned a lot about percussion in the past few days.

[@BigBuster47]

Depending on what instruments you played in pit, that's gotta be the most stressful 3 days of your life

[@andrewdressler7076]

Thanks for the shout out Eric! My pleasure to help. Btw, most awkward story for me has to be my first summer of DCI in 2008. We were in Michigan City, IN and had just returned to the school from our rehearsal field. We were in the middle of doing some visual exercises in a hallway at the school when a tornado warning went out due to a severe thunderstorm in the area. With this, our drum major ordered us to go to the basement of the school where the locker rooms were so we all went downstairs, guys in the guys locker room, and girls in the girls locker room. When we got down there, I started getting really nervous for some reason to the point where I pulled out my phone and started calling my parents to tell them what was going on. Got a lot of awkward looks from everyone in the room....

[@moontime93]

1st comment

[@aero5194]

Oh no... :( I can only imagine your pain for the last one

[@JamesThatcher]

8:00 - probably the reason you didn't need a CDL (commercial driver's license) is because the truck was probably single axle in the rear. DOT only requires a CDL if it's a rear multi-axle truck and under (I think) 40' ...

[@Alanb6]

James Thatcher it all depends on what weight the truck is rated for and if it has air breaks or not

[@JamesThatcher]

@@Alanb6 I thought it had to do with the number of axles as well....

[@JamesThatcher]

@@Alanb6 huh... TIL....

[@Alanb6]

More axles you have more weight you can haul

[@okey7261]

Wha

[@peterquincytaggart463]

OMG Eric. Was killing time at work and trying to be subtle about it because my office is full of people. Totally got busted while laughing like hell at this. Nice vid.

[@jgamesgeno4966]

One time during indoor season, I accidentally rolled my ankle while crabbing and fell over, and I was directly behind the set player when this happened, while everyone else saw me fall, my director told me afterwards he thought I had just forgot where we were stopping because I was behind the drummer, and I just sit there thinking, dang he didn't hear the drum fall either?

[@vmprie]

Your last one reminded me of something- My friend came over, and I needed to go to the bathroom, and apparently SHE DIDNT HEAR ME And so I was doing my business and she runs all over the house looking for me then sees the bathroom door closed It was daytime so I didn’t need the light on, and guess what? She kicks it open. That was the most awkward 30 seconds of staring I’ve ever had in my life

[@Herobryce1075]

You stared at her, for a solid 30 seconds, with no words being said? I would've collapsed of heat exhaustion.

[@Benjamin_Bischoff]

@@Herobryce1075 I would’ve just fell over dead

[@slightlyemojosh2810]

My section leader is the most awkward person to ever live so I’m gonna make sure to send this video to her.

[@fizzylemonleaf]

Drumline section leaders are interesting humans😂in a good way lol

[@slightlyemojosh2810]

Leigh Dles facts

[@troyboi7662]

@@fizzylemonleaf as a alum drumline section leader I can confirm, we r indeed very “interesting” beings.

[@chloebeth469]

Our drum senior told me about the time he was in pit and they had nothing to do so they built a shrine around a coffee cup, then proceed to worship it until our director said "pit, play your part" then eventually got a very angry glare since all the equipment was surrounding a cup

[@AmazingErrChannel]

I was in pit last year and I wouldn’t doubt that something like this happened in pit. Like pit sits out a bunch during rehearsal and, in my pit, people would do funny dances and take pictures of each other until our director told us to start playing lmao

[@meandmyEV]

Great stories! It shows the difference between drum corps in the last 20 years vs drum corps when I marched in the early 90s. When I marched, they probably would not set times and just had us all shower together. I HATED the bathrooms with no doors on the stalls. If I had to poop, I'd try to go in the middle of the night when we stayed at those schools.😂

[@unknownuserdude171]

I couldn't even cringe at the last story because I was too busy laughing

[@TheHunter-sx1gn]

Random gong lick?

[@Chain_Star_Productions]

Yea! Or random marracca lick

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

Random tam-tam lick.

[@TheHunter-sx1gn]

@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 if they don't have a gong. Don't worry, I know there's a difference between the two

[@binguss.9778]

Random timpani lick?

[@Randombikekid]

Random ice cream lick.

[@bledsoee_]

#2 was hands down the funniest one and I am dying of laughter XD

[@BrettJSKelley]

This was one of the best videos I've ever seen. Thank you!!

[@markbrown2450]

I couldn't stop laughing more than once. Thanks for sharing those moments with us.

[@jh28wd40]

I was marching in the Magic Kingdom parade at Disney World and my clothespin became undone holding my pants up. I had to play one handed while my pants up the whole damn parade... I never heard the end of it for a week. lol

[@bledsoee_]

Great! Perfect! That was wonderful, you’re done! Let’s get you out of here ! Go GO GET OUT *GET OUT!*

[@stevenhatcher9133]

One time, i was at a golden coral, and I was going to the bathroom, snd I was really tired. I open the bathroom and turns out it's a women's room. I swear I saw a whole sofa lol. It was awkward

[@ReeWrayOutdoors]

Elevator wall thumb roll...EPIC! haha My most awkward DCI moment was while on tour traveling overnight on the bus, I accidentally slept through a rest stop...stop... and only awoke as we were leaving...to discover that I had to pee...REALLY badly. I held it and held it...and held it...until I was in full-on sweats and chills agony. Finally begged the bus driver to find a place to pull off... So the ENTIRE Cadets convoy had to prematurely pull-off so little ol' ME could limp to the edge of the parking lot and pee (I literally could not walk the 100 yards to the actual rest rooms). And of course, the entire corps was standing behind me cheering. hahaha oh it's funny NOW! :P

[@turkeysamich4059]

"Oh no a pokerchip!!!"-Band staff This was born from a practice when a pokerchip went flying across the field XD

[@mYLzT1]

I was walking off the field after a rehearsal, and this kid yells "watch out!!" but i didnt know he was talking to me, and my next step, i flattened his trombone because i couldnt see over the top of my bass drum. the band director picked up the trombone and face palmed as i kinda tip-toed away like i didnt do anything

[@michaelg9334]

That dividerless toilet one should've been #2

[@FightorFlightLeatherworks]

When I was in college, we made it to a bowl game, and as a freshman I had to assist in setting up the drum stands in the stadium. Well a couple of us piled in the back of the box truck that had all the drum equipment in it to transport to the stadium. Well, one of the assistants were driving the truck and went under a walkway and hit it with the top of the truck, peeled it back like a sardine can with about 5 of us in the back of the truck. We all fell over the equipment in the back of truck, but then had to rush out like we were never in there! Quite an experience!

[@michaelkirk4110]

Stevie T's brother is a drummer?

[@juniorburns9358]

That's hilarious 😂

[@gaigemercado2763]

Who can Djent harder 20 sting guitar or Bass Drum 6?????

[@michaelkirk4110]

Bass drum 6

[@michaelkirk4110]

😂

[@gaigemercado2763]

Michael Kirk Lmao thas rite 😎

[@ProudPapaJD]

I’ve been enjoying your vids but this is the one that got me to finally subscribe. Nice job! #4 and #1 were the best. I literally lol’d at your director just calling out “I saw that” that’s such a corps thing to do! 😂😂. I marched Scouts mid 90’s and one day we shared housing sites with the Colts for some reason. As an all male corps we always just used both men’s and women’s locker rooms because duh, we had no girls. I always used the girls because they were always nicer and usually had doors on the stalls! (Haha, totally relate to that to that one too) so at this school I went to go shower and go into the girls and there’s a bunch of my scout brothers there and there’s a bunch of naked girls showering too. I just stop and look for awhile and everyone’s acting like this is normal. I decide this is probably not going to end well once someone figures out what is happening so I just turned around and left. Speaking of awkward no stall doors situations. At Allentown there has never been doors on the stalls of course. Before the show I take the biggest dump of my life. I have to show someone so I call out to my friend who was right there to take a look. He sees it and laughs so hard the brass caption head sees him and asks what’s so funny. So he tells him and he has to come take a look. I haven’t even wiped yet when the brass caption head yells to the rest of the entire staff who was over in the locker room to come have a look at this thing. I mean, it was impressive, it looked like soft served ice cream and filled the bowl with the top poking out of the water. So the entire staff line up and take a look in queue. Everyone was very impressed and there was much rejoicing but yeah, it ended up being very awkward! I totally forgot these stories until I watched your vid. Good times!!

[@haylieg2780]

That’s so reminds me of being in marching band in high school. Short version whole middle of practice field going backwards caught the edge of it and took out three other bandmembers that was a danger of playing the trombone in matching band, very easy to take other people out with you

[@RedDogMamaHD]

Christmas Eve 2020 .... Always fun re-watching old EMCProduction videos! Must have watched this => at least

[@skyhunter2k]

18:35 did you just thumb roll on the elevator wall

[@coiLz0r911]

Eric, your stories make my day.

[@JohnZsAviation]

“Eric Carr I saw that whole thing” That is totally something that one of my my band directors would say

[@richchinnici6182]

One of the years I marched DCI, the housing site had ancient bathrooms. All they put between the toilets in the locker room were dividers about three feet high. Why even bother with that??!!

[@tristanstevenson1164]

I'm having flash backs to the band bus video.

[@Remco96187]

"He's blastin' a DEUCE" lmao

[@snowcatgaming9025]

Thank you for telling the last story it made my day a lot better👍👍😂

[@tutel1614]

5:37 the closing of the door sync with the cymbsls

[@sammyapple8695]

Bruh for the past 2 years I’ve been watching ur content and u man this is the funniest thing at of all ur funny content

[@Tealmaker]

My freshman year of high school i happen to be allowed to play 5th bass in the stands. As I am walking down the bleachers (which was pretty high up ) I accidentally trip up and literally tumble all the way down to the bottom. With a 5th bass drum...it sucked lol more embarrassed than in actual pain. No drums were injured in this story which as we all know is the important part.

[@bigpapasmash9545]

The cowbell was my favorite

[@kirapfeifer1866]

This video was made 4 years ago today. Happy birthday

[@jasonschreiber9984]

Title: Don't play with "bells on" at Hays high school (Texas). I was a sousaphone player, sophomore in high school with good chops and horrible marching skills. Minutes before halftime as the band was moving down the stands a mild storm front came in. The director said it was a go and we all moved onto the field. Midway through the second song winds picked up at 40 miles per hour and created cross winds on the football field. The drum line and sousaphones toppled like dominoes. Band parents ran in from the stands to help pick us up while the rest of the band was playing. The director finally got the drum majors to call us and we had to leave carrying the sousaphone bells in our hands...which is something the rest of the sousaphone was not designed for. 2 years later, I was the rank leader and we met those Hays high school cross winds again. I order all of the sousaphone players to leave their bells on the sideline and run the "no bells" slide tuning we practiced over summer band camp. We prob looked like six chickens with our heads cut off.

[@tylerrosier1068]

I absolutely love your stories

[@aprilmoore2917]

I love band trip stories! Band directors STILL talk about that crazy time on that one trip.. but I gotta say, "I had a drumline that INSISTED you use "THE CODE WORD" to excuse yourself if you had to fart. We were always stuck in tiny rooms - even outside, it was hard to find space that wouldn't bother classes AND wouldn't interfere with the horns... the two girls approached me and posed this solution to the problem... they were SO embarrassed about bringing it up, however - when I addressed the boys, couldn't they "excuse" themselves for a moment? Man, it was so funny - I gave them a nod just before wrap up the following rehearsal, and they took the bells and snare and left. I'm standing there with another snare, quads, four basses and a set of crash cymbals (all boys, ) and I've GOT to introduce the problem, declare the solution (a "tradition" now, from here on out... and (being a young woman, ) I too, am mortified that I have to speak to this, in public - to my drumline.... it started with "ok, so...." (my husband - being a man, of course,) had suggested that BLUNT and to the point would be the best route, AND expect laughing...(well I knew I was gonna laugh,) so I said, "at ease. Take a moment to laugh..." (oh boy, we sure DID laugh...) and finally, I called attention and - amid suppressed snickers - we went back in to put the drums away... the band and director had a quizzical look when we walked in (trying REAL hard not to laugh, now...) and we put up, came to attention... upon dismissal, the drummers hurried over to their compadres in the flags and winds to tell them how funny this was - each section erupted in laughter in turn - which raised the eyebrows of the director - who, then asked me in front of the brass and flag instructor WHAT was so funny?! Omg - they're all Male - and I'm beetred (still trying so hard NOT to laugh - but maintain my professional composure,) explaining THE code... and we ALL just bust out laughing! I mean, at least a full 60 seconds of gut busting guffaw! Finally, the flag coach says, "man - I'm glad I got all girls!" (More laughter from the director and I...) But the brass coach (by far, the most serious personality under the director,) says "actually - that is a BRILLIANT idea, because WE get stuck in that little alcove off the cafeteria sometimes, ya know?" Only a few seconds pause... and then.... ANOTHER gut busting (hurts to even REMEMBER it, ) round of laughter!

[@awildjared1396]

I'm a trumpet player, I've been doing it for 2 years, my best friend plays percussion, I like you channel. (I'm very awkward)

[@GrimmRetro]

I love your brave little toaster poster back there , I loved that as a kid

[@calvinvance3399]

When my dad marched phantom regiment in 96,97,98 many of the housing sites had a row of toilets with no dividers

[@sbryan5133]

Me: watches the whole ad to support my dude My friend: SKIP IT *tries to skip*

[@Gibb-E]

My most awkward story. I was on Snare line my sophomore year and during our show near the beginning the snares kind of trotted up a ramp onto a platform. Well the ramp was very slick and you had to have good shoes to run up it. I was on the far right so I went up first and well let’s just say I fell and I fell onto my snare. And the the other snares played the little feature they play on the platform while I was in pain and I got up and marched back to where they were during the tenor feature. At the end of the rep the band director said “Bravoexx, that was funny” and I got teased about it for a while.

[@philmeisner5237]

You really missed an opportunity to pull down like 5 pairs of underwear in that last skit

[@b-ballfanatic7988]

When your first chair *but a percussionist* pssst I know the feeling lol

[@Daves1world]

Hi Awkward, I'm morning! :3

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

Hi morning, I'm herta!

[@lucusspokemoncards2741]

Hi I’m, Im a swiss army triplet!

[@smyry]

@@lucusspokemoncards2741 hi Swiss army triplet, I’m snare!

[@lanenewsome6216]

best video yet! thank you

[@briang11]

This is my favorite video on your channel

[@andrewmortensen9265]

The number 2 spot went to a kid who went number 2

[@thebigcheese7239]

It was like the first day of band camp my sophomore year and during break my friend had said he was going to the bath room and then I lost him so I went anyways and I saw some dude in the stall so I decided to make a fart noise and then the dude flushed and walked out and it was my new front ensemble tech.

[@braydenchristensen2889]

When you said you ran into the yellow pole I heard it play in my head because I had the same thing happen to me driving a forklift at work. There was almost no damage, just a bloodcurdling bang.

[@bigpapasmash9545]

I was marching bass 5 and I was playing with noobs and turned to check on them see how they were holding up and ran straight into a yellow parking pole

[@Mrs.Mellie]

You are a great story teller. 😂

[@michaelingram9354]

I had the last but kinda opposite. Some of the showers were broken, so staff and members had to use the same ones. Decided that members would get till 10, staff would go after. Didn't get told that, so I go to shower at like 10:30 and walk in on most of the staff naked. Fun stuff

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

2:23 Plot twist: The bus driver was, in fact, cranking one out

[@megafonzie5541]

1985 Geneseo Knights show, Kankakee Il. The only available toilet to use was near the field. a 6'x6' room with a urinal, toilet and sink. The toilet stall was removed so the toilet was exposed. As I sat to poop, no less than 10 people came in. Some would just walk in and turn around and walk out, and some would use the urinal and/or wash their hand....so close...awkwardly pretending not to notice each other. Very traumatic for 17 year old me.

[@jfragale03]

Marching Bushwackers this summer, I think I know exactly what fence you’re talking about

[@nelly6016]

That kid shat his pants But still came back to finish the session That’s determination

[@keikothecat5568]

When we got the coach buses last time our bus driver almost ran a red light.

[@ExternalGodYT]

Our longest band trip was a 24 hour bus ride from Missouri to Florida to perform at Univeral Orlando Resorts we were there for a week

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

I laughed more than I cringed lmao

[@ehess1492]

The most awkward thing I’ve ever seen on drum corps tour was a shower room with those vertical 6-pack shower poles AND shameless shitters...all in the same place!

[@dkgentertainment1923]

Hey. I have bit of a random question. Have you ever gone into detail about the quick stick click technique you do occasionally, such as here 14:37? If not, is there any chance you could? That would be neat to know how to do.

[@jacobb4619]

At Grand Nats this year, my band already performed, so we were just watching bands. So I went to go to the bathroom and I walk by the door that says women's on it and I go into the next. Turns out Lucas Oil has 2 entrances for the women's bathrooms

[@weefslider]

I once tripped down the stadium stairs after a competition in high school lol. I was known for being especially clumsy though. I broke so many mallets in pit and tripped many times while we were on drums for football games and parades (coming from a small band)

[@FastnOut]

Bro the most awkward thing I've done in band is coming into band class late

[@MegaMech]

I have a cool delivery truck story. So I was in the shop at the work bench. There's a pickup truck already in the shop. I suddenly hear this loud BANG and the shop door literally bends a couple feet and then goes back. I'm like "Hey guys, Purolator is here." I guess the guy backed straight into the door at speed. Bent the rails that the door is on. If someone was standing at that shop door they likely wouldn't have legs anymore.

[@Smashedpumkin-09]

Freshman bass 4 here💯🔥 during a rehearsal on our show, it was the first run through of one of our dot chunks. Bass line was separated in our section ( drumline made a cross cross form it was soo cool) and while I was marching back. The tempo changed. (It goes from 82 bpm to 160 in that measure so imagine doing a oblique to straight down in that change) and I ran into bass 3 and bass 5 was supposed to oblique backwards and ended up pulling me for 2 measure straight. It wasn’t that bad though because a tuba player slammed a clarinet player.

[@TheAmazingDoorknob]

One of my old percussion instructors was working part time at an alternitave school somewhere else because my band program isnt well funded, she saw a group of kids, 7 boys one girl just sitting in the back where all the instruments were and she got two phrases wrapped up wrong and yelled at them "you guys need to quit jacking off back there!" and instantly one said back "oh crap she found out!" and they all scattered, she was mortified. Luckily they were all cool and wouldn't snitch on the nice percussion lady

[@murph23b40]

I play snare drum in my high school marching band, and About 3 weeks ago we had our St Patricks Day parade, and we were halfway through the route. In the cadence, we have this one measure where we raise our sticks in the air and click them together. I didn’t have a good grip on the one stick. It didn’t hit the other stick, bounced off my hat, and landed right at the curb of the sidewalk, in front of a decent amount of people. The other 2 snare players didn’t see it, but both the tenor players behind me saw it, and a few of the bass drums. I quickly rushed over to the side of the curb to pick up the stick. Looking back at the situation, I probably should’ve just abandoned the stick since I had another pair in the snare drum bag, but they were the bad pair so… I dunno if I should’ve picked them up or not. Anyways we reached the truck to load our equipment and the tenor and bass drum players were laughing over the whole situation, and I am honestly surprised I wasn’t as upset. I laughed it off too. We all make mistakes. My question is, Should I have picked the drum stick up or left it for some spectator to take home?

[@Lunette_Star_Gravy]

When I was in marching band we had a courtyard where people would eat lunch. The ground was cement. So we would usually park the trucks with instruments onto the cement. But this one time it was so dark that one of them backed into a bench and completely destroyed it

[@awokenanthony4715]

Me and my brother are both in 8th grade in percussion I play snare he’s a triangle beater he tried to flex on my with his triangle

[@bigpapasmash9545]

Don't be hating on that triangle

[@nahaight1373]

Dont underestimate the triangles power

[@Scjdrilldesigns]

#5... Same experience at a middle school in South Dakota, but we also had the showers on the wall . Two shower heads.... Only one worked. So we had a line to the shower running between the wall-less, and Shameless ####ers Oh and if you wanted to brush your teeth, the two sinks where opposite sides of each other... Beside the toliets

[@untiyx]

band director slammed into a pole during our homecoming parade. pole was about as wide as a stop sign pole. also went to the field for a rehearsal and completely forgot my mouthpiece, but didnt realize until we started playing. and probably a relatable thing for any trombone player, being on the field and ready to play at a comp, but you forget the slide is locked and your first note is not in 1st

[@Bobo-qq2ye]

That last one kindda of happened when I marched. We got out of last block early and the visual staff was showering. Be a quad guy, all 5 of us went to shower at the same time, probably to touch each other or something. Regardless, we walked in and the whole male AND female visual staff was in there. Now why the female staff was in there, I have 0 clue. But they were. P.S. we were all fully nude...

[@cosmoreed3461]

Never did I think I have to close my legs during one of your videos

[@illuminatihunters9503]

Dude I'm crying, that's awesome

[@EmoryBlake4Music]

EMC, When I was a private lessons teacher, I experienced number 2 (yeah, it literally was "number 2") in the exact same way you did, word for word. Only thing is, this kid shat his pants maybe 1 in every 3 lessons. Obviously this allowed me to prepare myself before his lessons because I knew his pooping problem could emerge again at any time. Looking back on it now, I probably should have charged double for his lessons.

[@taco_engineer]

Our corps had the benefit of having our own housing site that was an old school. The problem was the guy's shower ran out of hot water after a few minutes but the girls always had it. My now-wife was showering once and after rinsing the soap out of her hair, look next to her and saw the drumline section leader standing next to her. The guys on occasion would get fed up of the water situation and go to the girls shower.

[@that.happend5984]

At cross country in 7th grade we had a free run which ment we could run anywhere on the property -plus it was night time- we were chasing someone but he was on the other side of the 18 foot fence seoarating the parking lot from the foot ball feild. so we decided to scale the fence. So Jeff* climed up the fence hopled over got his pants stuck roy* took 10 minutes to get him down. Then Roy hopped over the fence and got stuck so I helped him down then aiden yells HEY THERES A HOLE UNDER OVER HERE all that for nothing.

[@isabelanderson9107]

So my school hosts a marching band show every other year and when we host we play the national anthem and I play bass normally but I play cymbals for the national anthem and so we’re all about to march onto the field when this other cymbal player turns to me and goes “I need to pee” and then slowly more and more percussionists realize they also need to use the bathroom. our band uniforms cannot be removed easily and nobody can just leave because we’re a really small section so the entire percussion section had to just wait until we A: finish playing for all these people or B: somebody to pee in their pants in front of everyone’s friends parents and several other schools (it ended up being ok, but it isn’t something we’re looking to turn into a percussion tradition)

[@ggmydudes3561]

Man I had so much fun watching this 😂

[@18JasonM]

I forgot this was a try not to cringe challenge. I lost miserably😂

[@tru_squid8641]

Such a great intro 😂

[@andrewbrown1936]

I think these are the ratings Superior Outstanding Very good Fair Thanks for coming