Top 11 Best (and worst) Band Call-Outs

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[@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

[@purplecatloverrandompizza]

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

[@xavierwindon8968]

Geez, that’s harsh

[@PercussionEnsembles]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.😂

[@18JasonM]

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

[@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......

[@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.

[@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💀

[@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.

[@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

[@zacharymcdowell7710]

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

[@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.

[@j1dawg348]

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

[@ethanboulanger9984]

Absolutely love these drumline cadence transitions

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@chrisredacted4797]

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

[@Nimbus6464]

Eric! I can TASTE your dirty beats from here!

[@cutter_edm_official]

Theres LITERALLY a kid in my band named Michael Torres

[@slowlybooming]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@galaxyofreesesking2124]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@aaronlanders98]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@seancarr972]

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

[@jacobhanekamp2534]

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

[@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

[@bradensteen5599]

By far one of your funniest videos, great job Eric!!

[@8020drummer]

Thank you for resisting the temptation to reference Whiplash :P

[@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

[@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.

[@icruz101]

Semper Fi Eric! Your stories are hilarious!

[@maclanemirrotto9720]

You are my actual favorite channel

[@ClaytonD719]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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. 🤣

[@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.

[@DouglasStevens0521]

I could go all day with all these stories 😂 drumline is an interesting time

[@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

[@noahbeidelman8178]

one time during my first year of outdoor I was on bass drum 3 and during the ballad we would go to the back of the field during a drill move, it was something like a twenty count set. one of my techs left their bag in the back of the field an I tripped over it and fell straight onto my back. now I am a tenor player and can only hope that it doesn't happen to me again. P.S. Keep up the great content. :D

[@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!

[@eddduran3953]

heyyy I was there for two of these! good times

[@derrickfielden9940]

I love these story videos

[@brandonmiller8436]

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

[@RishiJalukar]

Yamaha

[@michaelwemhoff7577]

Probably the internet

[@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

[@fluanitolo-fi8333]

Very nice thanks for sharing!

[@EMCproductions]

First Comment!

[@sammyidobelieveiammy]

I love this video! I'll definitely show it to my section this year to let them know I'm not THAT bad ;) haha. What corps is playing in the intro clip? I really enjoy it!

[@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.

[@rigorhead01]

Awesome!

[@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.

[@anonnymoose2372]

I love that bit at the beginning way too much.

[@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.

[@RobLawMusic96]

A lot of these stories remind me of my time at West Milford HS. 😂😂 techs and everythibg

[@cmfshermana]

You are hilarious! Thanks for the laughs

[@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.”

[@adnwzhre]

You deserve way more subscribers man😕

[@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.

[@nonexistenttt3023]

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

[@cryptid_brain]

When I become a tech I really hope to be like you it’s always the best when techs are funny

[@iangillies711]

My sophomore year this one dude on snare line got called out on his beads not being in the center of the drum from the box at the stadium

[@LandonPrizeIverson]

I am so glad you didn’t make a “must be that time of the month again” joke with the girl that spiller the soda

[@oliviapeterson8945]

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

[@ceoofclarinetyt4720]

My section leaders name is Eric Carr.

[@brycegoodman8676]

Currently watching this during my 3rd week of band camp

[@MikeAvinMusic]

There's two call outs from HS that I know I'll remember forever (1 embarrassing and 1 hilarious). The first one was my sophomore year like late-September, early-October. Anyway we were in full ensemble running the drum break and we had this seemingly random direction change in the middle of a paradiddle-diddle (which itself was in a weird spot but I digress). Now we had done a couple shows already and I had no problem with it. I guess maybe I was overthinking it that day, but I kept either doing the direction change a step early or a step late; never right where it was supposed to be. I had messed it up easily 5 times in a row before my band director up in the box goes, "We wanna go on but we're waiting on Sophomore snare drummers". This was in front of all 130+ band members and I was the only Sophomore snare. Before that rehearsal and for the rest of the season I never missed it, can't explain that one day haha. The other one was my senior year and I was the section leader. This also was 2016 so I think dabbing was still funny then. But during the opening statement of our show the battery ended up right behind the front ensemble for a mini feature. There was a spot where we had 3 beats of rest before moving again. I had a good relationship with the drum staff but I also liked to drive them crazy. So I decided that the whole battery would dab during this rest. So we did, and every football game the crowd would go nuts (we didn't do it during competitions for obvious reasons) but I guess the battery staff didn't notice. Anyhow months go by and we keep doing it until finally we're in percussion ensemble on the field. We do it, and there wasn't a "check, adjust" call following the rep but we do see the staff looking at each other and obviously discussing something. Next thing we know our battery coordinator goes "alright guys put your drums down", and then a pause and then he said "might wanna put your harnesses down too", and we all go "oh no". Then our caption head without the mic then just screamed out "Now Run!" and we had to run 4 laps around the stadium. When we got back our caption head was like "Mike I'm guessing you were behind this so after this block you owe me 20 pushups." It was hysterical but needless to say we stopped dabbing.

[@CavinLee]

I need more stories from you as a teacher

[@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

[@xandercasey5314]

Definitely thought this was the CALL OUT where you play something to start a battle with another drumline

[@KlockoFett]

Never knew that about ticking. I never heard the term until my brother was doing DCI (I stopped playing after HS). I had assumed they were calling people out and making a tourette's joke at the same time. It was during one of the couple of resurrection years of Magic of Orlando and there were some really dysfunctional things going on, so without getting into the details it makes sense.

[@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

[@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.

[@flummy1692]

I forgot my trumpet twice in a row and my shoes for the first two games so now I get called out asking if I have everything

[@zonen.o.t.w1713]

Freshman year i was in rack and in front of every one i hear hey bass drum/gong dont fuck up the down beat, love you though. That was one of my favorite quotes ever.

[@OtterSauce_]

In last year's season I marched clarinet and we were running a rep and we had a part in the show where the snares run forward and the woodwind stay in a hold for four beats, so I forgot about the four beats thing so I took a step off and then I put my foot back and was like aww dang but the second I put my foot back one of the techs yells right at me DO IT AGAIN AND YOU RUN A LAP, and I get super mad at myself like darn silly mistake but it turns out he was yelling at the snares behind me and someone had to tell the tech that I thought he yelled at me because my face went bright red.

[@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.

[@thechoccymilk881]

I’m a bit late, but I was trying out for snare in high school my freshman year and could do a rlrrllrl in sixteenth notes. The director sighed and I was on marimba “luckily” that year

[@zkyishot]

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

[@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