Trombone Champ is way more than just a Trombone Game

Trombone Champs is the Dark Souls of rhythm games, no seriously this game is Dark Souls
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[@RTGame]

TROMBONE IN THE SKYYYY AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO FLY SO HIGH IT MAKES ME WANT TO FLY SO HIGH TROMBONE IN THE SKYYYYYY AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO FLY SO HIGH IT MAKES ME WANT TO FLY SO HIGHHH

[@TheMichaelTaskerChannel]

Ah so it’s still affecting you then

[@fourtrifiveo4350]

can we get much higher

[@azo560]

You're the Rumblin' Trombone Gamer now

[@carloghirardini4693]

Just gonna put this on loop for 10 hours straight

[@mcstevebrine12]

TROMBONE IN THE SKYYYYYYYYY

[@raeann1572]

Someone out there really said "I'm going to take my special interest and my trauma from the marching band and make it into a game" while everyone in the office just stared

[@ashrowan2143]

A mixture of the trauma and the dream of ever getting to play the melody

[@Tang-qi6zw]

This is concert band, not marching band. Marching band only plays marches and rock songs arranged as marches, and involves a lot more movement. Concert band gets to play the better pieces. Though no saxophonist got smacked in the head, so inaccurate to the concert band experience,

[@KingNedya]

@@Tang-qi6zw That might've just been your experience. In my experience, we got to play from a variety of genres, and even had custom pieces arranged for us. As for the "better pieces" being in concert band, my favorite piece I've ever played was a custom arrangement of In The Hall Of The Mountain King, during marching band.

[@TampicoV2]

And baboons

[@pissip]

@@Tang-qi6zw my HS marching band had themed shows (myan/sun worship, aliens, wolves) all with melodies from various related pieces. Mixed with choreography. There's even competitions. Your marching band experience really depends on how much funding your program can get.

[@funx24X7]

I like how you can't fail a song, you're just forced to wallow in your own shame

[@BlackTecno2]

Just like in band

[@cyncynshop]

I'm just mesmerized in my shame over here. I always fail rhythm games but the rhythm game never hurt me like this game when I fail.

[@XellosNi]

@@BlackTecno2 Weird. I remember my band teacher stopping the song every time we fall apart way too much. I consider that a fail state.

[@mr.astronuts3825]

@@XellosNi but if you’re the only one who’s failing

[@EspressoStreams]

@@BlackTecno2 I was ill with something during one of my band outings. I was 2nd trumpet and couldn't even hit a high D. My band director shut me down mid orchestration and made me sit at rest with my trumpet on my knee the entire 14 minute piece after I fucked up a slur. Pretty sure my body temp was too high for me to give a damn, but it was embarrassing after.

[@johnnyshortfor]

As a bassist, I sympathize DEEPLY with whoever on the development team decided to make Mozart the final boss.

[@Madmandr._sam]

How the hell does this have 0 replies

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

​​​@@Madmandr._samidk man idk none of the 1.1k people who liked the comment cared enough ig

[@verityi5545]

​@@Madmandr._samhow do you add to perfection?

[@chibicelesti4859]

With a man who's first name is WOLFGANG, Mozart is one composer you'd be afraid of taking on. Musically speaking

[@justas423]

I feel like this game, on top of being a meta game about games, is also a meme game about hard it is to make a rhythm game for a wind instrument since they can only play one note at a time.

[@qarblins_4288]

Truly a timeless classic

[@jman7418]

I literally do not know if you are joking or not about the wind instrument part

[@fenris6070]

@@jman7418 They're not joking. Wind instruments can generally only play one note at a time. There are some techniques to get two notes on certain instruments, but they're really hard to pull off.

[@Blaze-nm1uh]

@@fenris6070 I think they were referring to the fact that they called a trombone a wind instrument, as that’s usually referring to woodwind instruments and not brass instruments.

[@fartmachine7486]

@@Blaze-nm1uh wind instruments are all instruments that you blow air through. So a trombone is a wind instrument

[@stormie5666]

"There are between 2 and 4 spiders living inside the average trombone" factoid is actually a statistical error. Average trombone contains 0 spiders. Spiders Georg, who eats 10,000 spiders a day and keeps them all inside of his extensive trombone collection, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[@gothiiispiderz]

as a spider, i deconfirm this i live in a trombone and it is super cozy

[@dunkerdoodle]

@@gothiiispiderz would the owner of said trombone happen to be a certain "Spiders Georg"?

[@gothiiispiderz]

@@dunkerdoodle nop, never heard of him

[@kkachi560]

i came to the comments looking for this immediately once that came up

[@stormie5666]

@@kkachi560 It was an obligation, really.

[@Imstillhangintherethankgod]

As someone who took the trombone for my grade 9 music class, I can confirm this is what playing the trombone is like. It's actually scary how accurate they got it

[@Blue-fg8vt]

as someone who played the clarinet, I fear anyone who can play the trombone

[@AnEmu404]

As someone who used play the oboe, if the embouchure is anything like as annoying as the double reed is, i hope your mouth is okay.

[@yourfriendlycynic]

as someone who played trombone for 9 years. i can assure you it is not like this game.

[@basdekonink1667]

Especially the the fear of finding out the song is really fast and you're pretty sure it's physically impossible to slide from one end to the other so quickly. I once as a kid accidentally threw my slide across the room because I lost control

[@haji260]

As someone who played the trumpet, hey cuz.

[@elizabeth3506]

my favorite thing about this game is how it gives the trombone every melody possible, even when the melody belongs to an entirely different instrument

[@basdekonink1667]

It's the revenge of the tromboners, they never get to play the melody even though it's always the best part. Always made me sad back when I played trombone as a kid

[@Roeclean]

Well, I had fun playing the backup music, and their a few times when trombone had the melody for a few meaures

[@Exeggutor_Enjoyer]

@@basdekonink1667 Trumpets and Clarinets always get the melody, and It’s part of the reason I loved Jazz Band so much.

[@Armund_Wolffe]

i wish they had given the sax/flute part of William Tell to the trombone in the game, but that would have been nightmarish

[@shandycandy3165]

You say this but I bet you there are a bunch of musicians out there who decided to set their minds to figure out how Melodys went for songs that their instrument was not featured in (example: me. I was that musician. I have a notebook full of me trying to figure out the notes bc I didn’t want to look up/pay for the song book XD)

[@BaddAssSquirrell]

The final boss being “trazom” or “Mozart” backwards is really something special

[@HideyoshiKinoshita84]

I thought Trazom was just some Trombone specific historical figure until you made me realize this.

[@shadowflamelightburst4503]

I was thinking they just didn’t want to spell Tchaikovsky’s name

[@nate_scrub]

It took way too long for me, someone who has been studying music for over a decade, to realize this

[@johnnyshortfor]

@@nate_scrub exactly the same here. Wasn’t until the remix of his piece was playing that I realized XD

[@Tanzklaue]

probably the best baboon-focused trombone game on the market.

[@Paluto0409]

Yeah, the market was very saturated with this concept, good thing there was a diamond among the rubish

[@RisingRevengeance]

At least in the top 10

[@lenseeing829]

You forgot the hotdogs

[@landlocked_lifts332]

Probably.

[@tempest6027]

don't forget the album cover for the touch my katamari OST

[@boneafide]

having played the trombone in public school, I can confirm this game is entirely accurate to how that felt. randomly moving up and down the scale and just hoping no one notices is exactly what I did.

[@Meme-pg5tw]

Same

[@ShnoodleMc]

I'm convinced no one can actually play it, they do it randomly

[@Ellisepha]

So, can you also confirm that "Tromboner" is the correct term for a trombone player?

[@volodyadykun6490]

What about baboons part

[@loafylovebit9964]

Tombone gang

[@hofficalz]

It's hard to believe there's anything funnier than the long silence in Zarathustra between the notes, the anticipation, long awaited notes highlighting the masterpiece, and it's just fart sounds. Absolutely brilliant

[@Roeclean]

That always gets me

[@pinkcupcake4717]

The insane lyrics being added puts it over the top for me. THUSSSS SPOKEEEEE ZA-RAAAAA THU STRA THU STRA THU STRA

[@ClodsireBeans]

custom dadi freyr pfp go brrrr

[@thedoctordancestdd6987]

The most unrealistic part of this game is that the trombone is always getting to play the melody

[@Dooperbooperlooper]

Imagine being one of the 100 flutes or something and when you stop the song sounds the exact same

[@lemonyorkshirepudding]

Exactly

[@AJMegaScizor]

so true!!!!!

[@dbpeel]

psshhh, you guys had it more often then me. The Tuba player. :P

[@ThyLavenderMenace]

@@Dooperbooperlooper well people can't hear us in the first place lol

[@WitchLunaEstrella]

Fun fact: as a joke, Punchy did a speedrun of this game. Unfortunately, the song that gives the best toots-to-time ratio is God Save the King so most of that speedrun is repeatedly playing that song.

[@cyberneticsquid]

"toots-to-time ratio" Glad to know there are experts studying this field

[@charleslambert3368]

I'm surprised they remembered to change the string to say 'King' after the 8th.

[@maxrodgers5702]

I’ve played trombone for 8 years and this game is 100% accurate to how playing trombone feels.

[@elliecore]

You should probably take a break soon 8 years is a long time to play the trombone nonstop, get a glass of water or something

[@homemadefilms5718]

@@elliecore and don’t forget to do those weird jaw circling movements to relieve the pain!

[@Orzech05]

@@elliecore Not funny, didn't laugh

[@chriscornellify]

Same

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

@Elliecore Very funny, did laugh

[@pichugirl-me7tp]

i love RT being terrified of the game's difficulty at the beginning, because as someone who plays rhythm games a lot, this is actually one of the kinder ones

[@goreman7160]

Rhythm games are just great, persona 3 dancing all night holds a special place in my heart

[@goldenpig6453]

(traumatic flashbacks to playing beatmania)

[@dogehkiindogeborn5339]

Seems like it isn't because it controls awfully

[@pichugirl-me7tp]

@@dogehkiindogeborn5339 yeah but you can still learn it, it's a lot of muscle memory. what makes it kinder is that it looks like the "good" equal keeps the combo going, as some games don't, and most rhythm games WILL cut you off mid-song if your tension meter drops to 0. games that let you keep going are good since you can still learn the muscle memory instead of just being yeeted back to the menu.

[@dudewheresmycar4203]

@Shane I think it's because the characters look like miis.

[@F2p7YshCn9]

I can think of one control scheme that would make this game fun. A trombone shaped controller

[@rileymeister7793]

So you just play the trombone?

[@ckay8145]

someone already did that

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

I feel like the big flaw in it is how you have to wildly flail up and down the entire screen every 3 seconds. Guitar Hero works cuz you press the button on the remote to change the note. With this. You need to fling the mouse back and forth and nail the exact positioning to actually get the notes right

[@olipolygon]

i bet we could easily make this game playable on-the-go as well! just put all the sound-making into the controller and write down the notes for the songs on sheets of paper

[@griffindrucker5712]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 Actually, a trombone controller would make it much easier, probably. It would allow for more reliable muscle memory, which is what trombonists rely on for each slide position. A mouse moves in 2 axes, which makes precise positioning more difficult in this type of game, where only 1 axis is required. That’s why a trombone controller is probably much better.

[@lupusgirl64]

Fun Fact: They used to call him the Trombone King back in college

[@ambozz3726]

RT alias Really Trombone

[@NachtAsile]

The Succulent Tromboner King has returned

[@DoctorPortal_IX]

Underrated comment

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

*The Trombone Champ

[@multie6677]

He was a real Tromboner back then

[@_soothsayer_]

for those who didnt know: apparently trombone skyze was written with inspiration from butterfly from DDR according to the devs. so if you ever felt the song sounded familiar, that may be why

[@dubliumm]

THANK YOU I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT FOR LIKE 3 WEEKS NOW

[@averynaiveoddish7052]

I've never heard that song, but it sounds so familiar

[@dashcamandy2242]

Now that song's stuck in my head... Never played DDR, I'm neither speedy enough nor coordinated enough, but some of the music is enjoyable, I used to unironically bump "Butterfly" when driving in the city.

[@golden_eye8494]

Melody also comes very close to Sofia by Alvaro Soler

[@PentiSam]

That... makes so much sense omg

[@sasquatch8245]

Weird fact and my only claim to fame; my grandfather was one of the best trombone players ever. Literally, he's played Royal Albert Hall multiple times, won the international championships 4 times in a row and was even featured on a George Harrison song. I miss him :(

[@herdustisverypretty]

That's really cool! Sorry for your loss too, I really miss my grandmother so I feel you 💗

[@sampelletier9798]

Which song, if you don't mind

[@littlekakarot]

Very cool! Sounds like he deserves his own card

[@kazoomonkey4447]

This is actually very accurate to trombone playing. Just playing random notes, hoping the teacher doesn't look directly at your slide and sees that you aren't playing the right notes

[@EspressoStreams]

we did the same with 2nd section brass. We basically just prayed

[@victiinite]

yeah

[@Tem-gaming]

as a trombone player, I agree

[@roj0riot]

as a trombone player, i second this. basically the entire brass section except for first chair trumpet

[@jan_harald]

I mean, the first rule of music, if you can't hear it's wrong, it's not wrong!

[@ashrowan2143]

I feel like this game perfectly re-creates the feeling anyone in junior high or highschool band had when the director handed out a new song and you got your sheet music and went... 'oh god no that's way to fast I'm going to die' then you get to the section for the first time and everyone panics and it was pure chaos

[@spicedramen7283]

I read this comment as the video was playing and "'oh god no that's way to fast I'm going to die'" perfectly matched trombone in the sky.

[@goguirina9178]

@@spicedramen7283 I DID THE SAME THING LMAO

[@davidgeorge1943]

As someone who played the trombone back in 8th grade, I can confirm this feeling.

[@laras678]

It's the same when your instrument is voice, and you get a piece with a ton of intricate runs. In a large chorus it's not too bad--if you can't get it then you hit the main notes and just go silent and keep moving your mouth the rest of the time. But when it's a group with only a couple people on each part, well... let's just say it's noticeable. Handel, your Messiah is a work of great beauty. And I am very sorry for what I have done to it in the past!

[@ashrowan2143]

@@laras678 I don't know complex choral music never gave me as much fear as a complex piece of flute music, I'd rather have to intentionally singing discordant notes that clash with the other notes because it's a crunchy piece than have to play some of the fast sheet music we got in band.(our school choir was barely large enough to actually classify as a choir but I also went to a provincial choir once a year for like four years until I aged out of that group and that choir was fucking massive)

[@5PctJuice]

"Is this physically possible in real life, to play the trombone this quick?" Someone get this man to listen to Blue Bells of Scotland or any bebop solo.

[@Roeclean]

Aight

[@es_jacque]

Slyde Hyde was a legend. He taught my dad almost everything he now knows about tromboning. His death shook us hard. Even in jest, that was a nice surprise.

[@fntthesmth423]

Somebody with the name of "Slyde" becoming a tromboner is the kind of thing I would find a bit on the nose in a children's book Sometimes reality be like that

[@RaveDecoy242]

@@fntthesmth423 Sorry to break it to ya, but Slyde is his nickname because of his tromboning skills. Real name is Richard. Don't fret though, there are still so many examples of what you though this was, formally known as "Nominative determinism" hypothesis. Someone named "Sue Yoo" literally admitted that her name helped her decide to become a lawyer from a young age.

[@runedoom]

@@RaveDecoy242 or the writer, Page Turner.

[@chinsaw2727]

@@runedoom Is it spelled Page or Paige?

[@runedoom]

@@chinsaw2727 page

[@thatoneswordguy]

About a week after this released, I bought this game for my friend, a trombone player. Almost immediately, the entire internet has been overcome by trombones, and as a percussionist I reject this future

[@thecommonman9524]

I for one welcome our new tromboner lords.

[@thatguybutter7797]

Trombone Gang!

[@oricoriopauenthusiast]

Me, a violinist: **Habanera intensifies**

[@ubermaster1]

The future is now, the revolution of the trombones has come. Either accept the future, or be snuffed out.

[@calamaribowl8683]

As a deacon of the cult of winds, I too say that this is a dark future

[@GhostsOfThings]

As an adult who used to be a band kid in a Canadian high school I have to say I have never experienced such whiplash nostalgia like I did listening to that short clip of a trombone struggling through O Canada.

[@frank1015]

did it sound like a animal dieing

[@canadapirate]

You and me both...

[@_soothsayer_]

5:28 so glad they included "youre not a clown, youre the entire circus" as a song

[@porkyminch1640]

i still wanna know how a military marching song became the theme for a fucking circus.

[@Chaosrunepownage]

@@porkyminch1640 "Circus music" is also known as a "screamer" and they're all military marches played at double speed. I guess the strong beats makes for fun?

[@jolenemathews]

I just think Edgeworth everytime I hear that

[@Exeggutor_Enjoyer]

@@porkyminch1640 The song was accompanied with the Italian army in WW1, which was an utter disaster the whole way through.

[@DrSabot-A]

@@porkyminch1640 Just like how an Italian marching song turned into a theme about pizza

[@josephayers8419]

As my high school's official most mediocre trombonist, I can confirm that at least 5 trombones exist.

[@JubioHDX]

thank you for clarifying

[@levitobecontinued]

As a high school level trombonist, this game is 100% accurate to my daily life.

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

*tromboner

[@unknowncreature-0069]

Can confirm. Highschool trombone is basically just this game

[@Sm0k3turt]

I’ve heard that from a few people about this game. Genuinely so fucking funny

[@IC-23]

As a College Level Trombonist this game is still 100% accurate but you aren't allowed to mess up.

[@ilikepizza1275]

As yet another high school trombonist (tromboner?) I feel compelled to play this game

[@ad111]

Mozzart's been real quiet since this drop

[@AdminAbuse]

Who is Mozzart?

[@yustinj.3910]

@@AdminAbuse A very famous Austrian cheese-poser

[@slayeroffurries1115]

Mozzart has been real quiet for a long time

[@_bad_wizard_]

and it's not because he's dead

[@kona-dere]

Hey, this is the funniest thing you could've said

[@nuyabuisness7526]

There's a reason why band kids' favorite game is "One time at band camp" Trombones are possibly the most cultish of all the band sections and end up being the focus point for many of the funniest stories.

[@dracothewarrior4316]

As a tromboner, I can 100% confirm this

[@chinsaw2727]

Trombones are the most cultist because it’s possibly the hardest instrument to play (besides percussion). Everyone else gets the luxury of playing their notes with valves that are all nice and close together where all you need to move is your fingers. While us tromboners in the back are all doing a full arm routine jacking our instruments off and praying that we are in the right positions to hit the notes.

[@loki_is_tired]

It’s funny watching this as someone who uses to play trumpet in a brass band, with a friend who played trombone, because I’ve played a lot of these pieces. The greatest reward for my many years of playing is a quote from my trombone playing friend, “I picked up the trombone because playing the slide bits is fun - it’s the best part about playing trombone. However, it’s also the only good part about playing trombone.”

[@bedekuuu]

Can we talk about how much of a bop Trombone Skyze actually is?

[@slbhugomarques2]

I know right

[@Envy_May]

TROM BONE IN THE SKY

[@buttercupirl]

@@Envy_May AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO FLY SO HIGH

[@CobyTheLuckyFox]

@@buttercupirl IT MAKES ME WANT TO FLY SO HIGH

[@Envy_May]

@@CobyTheLuckyFox TROM BONE IN THE SKY

[@justanedit001]

Did you know that the trumpet was originally designed to be played by your pet while you played the trombone hence the name? This was later canned when they found out animals have a terrible sense of music

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

Also most pets cannot pucker their lips

[@marcinkrz3140]

That's why we invented frogs

[@monith9496]

I don’t know, man. Birds have pretty good music tastes.

[@polocatfan]

thank you fact core from portal 2

[@D1EHARDTOO]

Another little know fact is that the Timpani originated with Tim Panini, he wanted to create a drum you could tune because he couldn't tuna fish, and after created the world famous sandwich: the Grilled Cheese, he found out that by adding his names together (but removing the last ni since the Knights no longer say "ni") he created the Timpani

[@__Pigeon]

As a former Tromboner I think even if I did embark on a fever dream of an adventure like this, I don’t think it would have convinced me to keep playing.

[@__Pigeon]

Also good to see RT whip his Tromboner out now and again (I’m sorry)

[@reagansido5823]

Surprisingly fitting to play the clown theme off-key. almost like it just adds to it.

[@TheHutchy01]

It's 47's theme for the rampages.

[@StickMaster500]

The mods for this game are going to be insane, especially with someone already making a Megalovania mod already. But I know that even RT, the Trombone King can take on any Tromboning challenge for us Tromboners!

[@someriversong1793]

He got the title "The Trombone King" in college

[@gameyfirebro9645]

We need a mod that adds RT's voice as an instrument or whatever.

[@megahunter2981]

can't wait to play freedom dive on the trumbone.

[@TemplarWarden]

RT stands for Real Tromboner.

[@yolojocolo5523]

My first thought for mods was banjo kazooie songs on this, sounds fun.

[@laurapalmer511]

And this is why trombones are not the instruments carrying the melody in anything. Not even in their classic song. (And the reason Stars and Stripes forever was impossible was because you were playing the notes for both the flute and brass parts at points, which is... terrifying.)

[@calebbenedict5587]

I remember one time in high school we played a symphonic band arrangement of an orchestra film score and for some reason they gave the bass trombone part the string section. So that was fun constantly jumping up and down two octaves between sixteenth notes.

[@shadowflamelightburst4503]

I very much disagree with this comment, trombones being given the melody for anything is fine so long as they are given time and have no 1-5 repeat sixteenths, all it needs is practice to get it down. My highschool band’s low brass section is the best simply because they practice their instruments because of how much they need to practice to sound good. Other instruments simply believe they are good enough to play it and therefore aren’t given any vital parts because they don’t care enough to practice

[@michaelweiske702]

I believe black and blues is a piece where the trombone is the melody

[@grubybysior8635]

This what happens when a big studio decides to make a meme game. And it's absolutely beautiful.

[@honkstheclown8631]

The studio that made this isn't a big one.

[@Noah-wx7fm]

@@honkstheclown8631 Big relative to most meme games I think, is what the comment meant

[@Namenamenos]

I am so happy that someone actually put in the effort to explore the lore in this game.

[@cpMetis]

As a euph player who had to manage an entire 9-person brigade of tromboners in HS as low brass section leader, Dan is way too coherent and normal to play trombone.

[@bloodydrnkr]

As a tromboner who had a euph section leader I'm sorry you had to go through that

[@potatoandbeans1543]

as me (potatoandbeans fyi) i feel sorry for you

[@somerandomgoblin2583]

was a horn section leader, and my hat's off to you. our band's low brass leaders were all tubas/euphs and our trombones were unruly as all hell until my senior year.

[@WMDistraction]

As a trombone and euphonium player who’s led both, we are unhinged af. I’m an English teacher now, and when I mentioned to my vice principal I played trombone, he just nods and goes, “That makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.”

[@theres92others]

as a tromboner, i can firmly say that we are incoherent blabbering messes

[@lucatdcat8720]

Can we take a moment to appreciate Dan's rhythm skills? There was an entire one hour long video on why he was bad at playing rhythm games, but he has really improved

[@appointmenteer]

right?? like considering how hard this game is to control dan did a really good job. good for him

[@bananaisgood3743]

tbf you can do very well in this game purely from visuals, don't need no rhythm.

[@astronights]

@@bananaisgood3743 this! dan isn't as good in rhythm heaven because rhythm heaven relies purely on rhythm, visuals are just an added bonus

[@zo0bit]

I've had Trombone Skyze playing on loop in my head for the last three days thanks to you Dan

[@evertime123]

theres a great trombone cover of it on youtube now

[@totic1998]

This game feels like several completely different games at once and I absolutely love it

[@MLGHazrad]

Nearly choked on my water when it introduced a gatcha system in this game.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

It's fake.

[@jackhazardous4008]

I shat when i saw the Smash Bros main menu

[@lionel2405]

*Gacha. It's short for gachapon

[@plimpusblimpus]

I never thought a game could so perfectly emulate the feeling of being in a high school marching band playing Stars and Stripes forever. That dogfight was *shockingly* accurate.

[@nickkurzy2246]

March dogfights for winds: *Panic* March dogfights for snare: "this is where the fun begins"

[@GreatFernicus]

RT cutting himself short when he pulled REBB is so funny to me 22:41 “Another Blue-Eyes White Baboon-RED-EYES BLACK BABOON?!”

[@solarkness5077]

If you compare the beginning of the video to the end, it's incredible how quickly Dan picks up and learns games.

[@jadennigel773]

The best part is that even when Dan hits the note on screen, it still sounds out of tune

[@drummajorsam4248]

As a music edu major who had to learn the trombone, I would say this game is pretty accurate

[@rosierose8643]

so sorry you had to learn the trombone. my condolences.

[@thatguybutter7797]

Trombone gang.

[@nataliechance2838]

stop i take brass techniques next year i’m not excited 😭

[@Argfield]

As a music ed major who specializes in trombone, this game is way harder than the actual instrument :')

[@Musicallison]

I'm actually just about to pick up trombone again for instrumental methods (I already took brass tech)

[@BloodyAltima]

This game reminds me of those flash puzzles where you need to navigate your mouse cursor through a maze, except here its at speed and to rhythm.

[@ethanwolters7901]

As someone who has played trombone for almost 7 years, I can in fact confirm that that encapsulates the feeling I get when I get good at a song.

[@awkwardbutterfly1636]

RT is starting to understand why trombone band kids stash weed in their cases and why other band kids don’t stay anything about it

[@OriginalGameteer]

Having been an orchestra kid, I see no reason to see this statement as anything but the truth, having no knowledge to disprove it

[@thatguybutter7797]

I have the knowledge to disprove it as I never stashed weed in my case. But then again I feel you are referring to middle schoolers more than anything

[@djweavergamesmaster]

@@thatguybutter7797 if you didnt stash you were never in the tromboner squad

[@ashrowan2143]

Listen when the brass section does something you just kind of let it happen

[@gothiiispiderz]

as a former french hornist, the weed was definitely a thought at some point

[@jovanj2717]

RT’s musicality between Rhythm Heaven Fever and Trombone Champ has grown so much

[@HazeEmry]

Watching him play Monkey watch was a nightmare. Idk why I watched the looped version of it

[@dayraiser]

"how are you supposed to do this withou- no, i need a controller" [2 seconds into o canada] *"oh no it's harder with a controller"*

[@kathl.5598]

Was listening to this during work and constantly had to try not to crack up in the beginning. By the end, I was oddly invested in whatever strange trombome lore they have going on.

[@rascalcreeper3472]

Nintendo wanted an RPG but they accidentally make the Wii Sports devs do it while drunk.

[@kiora1947]

Oh god I can’t unsee it

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Uh, high, not drunk.

[@kamithesnom]

As a tromboner who has played trombone for 5ish years, and who has played Stars and Stripes Forever, I'm glad that the difficulty of the part at 11:04 is well represented. That shit gave me ptsd as a freshman in high school. Honestly can't wait for mods for this, I personally hope that my fellow marching band and pep band friends will mod in some of those tunes and see how they translate into this wonderful monstrosity of the trombone experience.

[@Glace_cakes]

Can confirm as a piccolo player it’s not much easier for us XD

[@redstonecat1232]

it is kinda funny that rt seems to believe it's america's national anthem.

[@HazeEmry]

​@@redstonecat1232 until I read chat I thought so too

[@malpheus4299]

the intro to this game is literally just dark souls 2 intro but trombone and I love it. Edit: and now the baboons are Frampt and Kaathe. This game is incredible.

[@beaniedoodle5724]

As a Canadian, your rendition of our anthem brought a tear to my eye

[@Daniel-jk6ve]

Terrance and Phillip would certainly agree!

[@Someone-sc2hk]

out of all games that released this year, this is definetly the most trombone related out of all of them

[@drcgaming4195]

this is the trombone game ever

[@maxineshideout852]

Trombone in the Sky better be the theme song of this years Best of for your channel it has clearly proven it is majestic enough

[@Bubbble_Bear]

and it has to be him playing it rather than the song just playing in the background

[@maxineshideout852]

@@Bubbble_Bear 2 months later and trombone in the skye was indeed the theme song for the best of 2022 video

[@milladmac2005]

I am here for the pure elation RT got once he reached Trombone Skyze.

[@inabeanaregina]

Cloe did such an incredibly job editing this to make it even funnier than it actually was. The well-timed zooms made me laugh EVERY time. This is one of my new favorite RT videos

[@sierrav4289]

the best part of this was watching as a trombone player and listening to rt go “this would be impossible to play in real life” and then it’s something you could play in middle school

[@cs82271]

As a university level trombone player, I hate to say that these songs are all relatively doable at the high-school/secondary school level. And although humorous, glissandos are actually rare for trombones to play as not many composers include them in their music

[@qwertyram4598]

Okay, IT student with failing senses bere. What's a glissando?

[@basdekonink1667]

@@qwertyram4598 it's the thing where you play a note while doing the slidy thing. BWAAAA*EEEEE*OOOOOWWWH*

[@thatguybutter7797]

@@qwertyram4598 In basic terms, it's where you go from one of the 7 positions and move it to another one of the positions without tonging making it once continuous note. There's more to it but that's the idea.

[@s.colins2050]

@@qwertyram4598 easier way to think of it, when a strings player on a violin is playing one note with one stroke and slides to another mid stroke intentionally, so there's no pause or break. It's just a slide.

[@mr.goldfish1530]

@@qwertyram4598 You slide from one note to another while playing continuously. The other explanations here felt too jargony.

[@allenk8243]

As a real life tromboner myself, I can confirm this game is more difficult than actually playing

[@littenfire3563]

As a real life Tromboner, did you ever have to face against...baboons to prove you're the ultimate tromboner?

[@allenk8243]

@@littenfire3563 Yes! They have very good breath support! But when they mess up they throw a tantrum

[@zeyalderson]

I really appreciate that we can see RT get progressively better at the game

[@waterotter52]

I played flute for 11 years and played many of these songs. Even if it's harder, I like that they put the game flowing right to left because the notes move up/down like they would on a musical staff.

[@MalamiteLtd]

Which is also a little weird because on a trombone the further out the slide is, the lower the note. If played with a mouse, I'd assume the lower notes would be near the top as you'd be sliding the mouse further away from you.

[@Holgast]

@@MalamiteLtd The game has inverted controls by default, but most players switch it because it's weird

[@karalyzel3177]

I feel like this game was funded by some corporation that really only watched the dev team for the first week and just okayed the final version without playing it for more than a couple minutes, and because of that, we got this absolute masterpiece of a game. So, thank you devs, we appreciate you.

[@neonblast3520]

Trombone in the sky is now forever embedded in my brain

[@WhoThoughtThisWasGood]

This game is quite litterally the darksouls of rhythm games with that intro/ending and homage to the 2 heads in DS1

[@second7057]

i can only IMAGINE the level of purgatory this put you and your editors through. how many times of playing those same two songs were cut out of the video. madness

[@idkwhatslife]

Wait, bee from tumblr???

[@martrew4349]

I love the Wii feel of this game

[@charloot9799]

It’s giving Wii music vibes and I love it

[@IamaPERSON]

I’m glad Wii feel the same way

[@duxangus]

This game lets puny mortals understand the difficulty and power of being a real Tromboner. Bask in its glory, the greatest instrument.

[@onelovelylilidiot4959]

RT stands for Rocking Tromboner

[@theKungFuFerret]

Fun fact, even if you get all perfects, the song still doesn’t sound great bc of how tinny the trombone recording sounds

[@transorm987]

Wouldn't be suprised if that was on purpose

[@stavbearer9878]

Trumpet?!

[@selfloathinggameing]

I remember back in high school i was at a show choir competition and in one set the trombone section just played Megalovania durinh a dance break, it was legendary

[@shadowflamelightburst4503]

As a tromboner myself, I can confirm that this is exactly how we sound when playing fast songs

[@PalpatineGaming]

Rt now knows what it's like to be a band kid. This game is 100% accurate, including the baboons

[@qarblins_4288]

Damn now I wish I never quit band... though I was a Clarinet player so I was still pretty cringe

[@cocoa2251]

@@qarblins_4288 squidward

[@qarblins_4288]

@@cocoa2251 "Oh no not again"

[@SuperPerry1000]

Tbh I do respect this game for just doing what it wants in the wackiest way.

[@pokemonmaster6016]

Much like most trombonists

[@CalifornianCuttlefish]

*I never thought I'd see the day where an RPG would be themed around trombones but here we are*

[@maho_nishizumi_tigertank]

You played so much of Trombone Skyze to the point it’s now stuck in my head, thank you 😫

[@grfrjiglstan]

I feel rewarded for knowing the opening notes to "Entry of the Gladiators" to properly set up that gut punch.

[@somethingtheoneandonly]

When you play this game in VR and your parents catch you play the trombone:

[@dfrancz]

You've somehow made my instrument look 100x harder than it is. I am utterly speechless.

[@oliviahege2113]

I’ve never seen a trombone training montage before but I’m glad I saw this one

[@lunnihyre4215]

seeing the difference between Acai and RT's playthroughs is hilarious. Seeing someone who has experience in rhythm games and RT gives two entirely new experiences.

[@aliteralcabbage]

How it feels like to walk past a middle school band class

[@thepixelmasters1846]

it even has the jokes of a middle schooler

[@lunaticberries_]

12:55 and he was right, there is a game theory about trombone champ

[@ryuail]

The combo drop noise made me realize that a slide whistle is just an alto-piccolo trombone.

[@ItsSeraphie]

They really did capture the intricate lore associated with being a tromboner

[@TheTopHatGamer618]

God, I remember when I started the end game and thought I needed 10 S ranks. I grinded those suckers out until my eyes hurt and it turned out you needed 10 god damn cards. I was /so/ disheartened

[@appointmenteer]

oh god that sounds terrible

[@theemiester4090]

As someone who played trombone for 6 years I'm (kind of) reading the music in some of the songs and I can only imagine the chops on these guys to be able to go between octaves like that

[@Pem_Pire]

"I'm not fucking Beethoven!" I mean, I'd certainly hope not. He died ages ago

[@inschaal8454]

As a person who played trombone in Middle school band I can confirm that this is how difficult it is to play trombone.

[@SirDog]

I love how genuinely good RT is at playing games.

[@aclulaidannuvera6588]

Hey, you know what, the character always looks like they're having a blast. More power to em. As long as I don't have to hear it.

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

I genuinely like how the game has a no-frills menu for people who want to, as much as they can, take the gameplay seriously. The line between joke game and serious game is thinning with speedrun culture and the like, so it's a smart choice. And I learned that mandrills aren't baboons!

[@obvalenvee338]

There's something about RT playing the same songs over and over that completely sends me