Tell me your best "one time, at band camp" story.

@as0-gamer999

6 ай бұрын

One time at band camp, I made the Drum go boom!

@collinhatesthis7761

6 ай бұрын

This one time at band camp someone pulled back the section leaders chair so he punched the guy in the balls

@RedDogMamaHD

6 ай бұрын

One time at band camp (as a 70+ year old), the music room that the Drumline used had typical raised floor levels. But this classroom had an entrance from the outside, as well as from an inside hallway. Since it was summer, the entrance used was from outside, so you came in at the highest level. It was the last day before the Sacramento Mandarins left for tour, so they had changed all the drum heads. I decided to grab one of the old drum heads to get it autographed by the drumline. It was my first time in the room, and I was carrying it in front of me. I entered the room, talking to the Tenor tech and the other tenors who were tuning the drums ... and suddenly the level floor "disappeared" and I fell! Crashed! Knees, Elbow rug burn! OUCH!!! It's probably been 50+ years since I had been in a music room so it didn't even occur to me that the floor was not level. Fortunately, my new titanium replacement knees absorbed all the impact. It could have been really bad, otherwise! Loopy Grandma definitely has a great story to tell! 💥🥁💥

@andrewbouse8968

6 ай бұрын

One time, at band camp, The Bass 5 broke their drum head during our final run at the end of the week (that we do for our parents)

@upside1284

6 ай бұрын

One time at band camp, I forgot all my sheet music. I played percussion in the pit. The pit leader had to write music for me.

One time in band camp, our freshman tenor player (he had practice in middle school so they made an exception) was walking back from our practice field. In front of our band room we have this little concrete wall architecture that was about 1’5” high. He got the great idea to jump over it. Now, granted, he had done this before and other people have to show that they think they did well at rehearsal (he did do pretty well tbh). But this time he tripped over the concrete wall and fell on the tenor drum that while he was falling went into playing position. He fell on the tenor completely parallel to the ground. We all heard a crack and all of percussion gasped. They all were saying “is the drum okay??”. It turned out it was just a fractured bone 🥰. *before anyone asks he was in a sling for his arm but it did heal fully about halfway through the season. No one ever stoped doing the jump thing but they were definitely more careful from then on 💀.

Some schools do actually let their students write music for their band, as was the case for one of the other schools in my area. Granted, they're a performing arts-focused school, but they still let their students make the show.

@Knitspin

4 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I was thinking. I knew high school students who could have written music for field shows, but they also had been playing music from a very young age, were studying composition, etc.

I think our band is an outlier because we don't do competitions and we perform four shows throughout the football season. during Bandcamp we at least have one to two team building activities each day of band camp (they are relay silly). I don't have a bedtime story but during an actual performance the director told us to run onto the field from different sides of the field, she also said be silly. me and my friend decided to run up to each other and look around each other a couple times and then run to our spot. the problem with the plan was that we are both snare drummers so when we tried to maneuver we both fell over because we ran into each other. that was bad enough but I found out the pegs for my snare drum became misaligned after the accident so I had to do the entire performance with one hand while holding my snare drum in place with the other hand. a few days later my friend told me that this performance was also on TV.

Our band has 2 really good composers that are students and our percussion director is a composer too, and the director almost let one of the students write this year's indoor percussion show

My director had a professional pancake flipper come to our band camp for breakfast. We won states this year and I think it was because of that

I wrote the show for my school for my senior year. The director bought a show and it came it messed up. It was way to complicated and was written for different instrumentation than we had and there was zero drill. After camp started, he waited a week for the company to fix it as they had promised and we couldn't wait any longer. He asked if I thought I could write a different show that he had always wanted to do and I said yes. I stayed up 3 days straight writing the entire show including the drill and we marched that show. And won a lot. So yes, a student can write the show and it work. The director knew I could do it and knew I'd work to make it as amazing as I possibly could and he let me do it.

For my drumline, John Mapes writes our music

I love these types of videos!

I've never watched this movie, but from the clips you used in this video, it looks more like the individual camps I and my friends have been to for e.g. drum major/leadership, musical performance (like Interlochen, Blue Lake or a concert band camp hosted by a university music program), etc. Since those were sleep-away and not about getting a field production ready to perform without breaking UIL rules, they had some time for socializing, games, etc. and while they didn't end with a full band marching contest, drum major camp did end with a drill down. We had a bit of this in my marching band camps (weekly spirit days that were a contest between sections) but when you have three four hour rehearsal blocks there's not much time left for flag football or whatever.

You'd think after 24 years since the release of American Pie, I wouldn't hear "one time. . ." anymore when I mention being a band director. Uggh.

The amount of times I’ve heard this from guys at work when I have to take time off (I’m 15) is ungodly lol

Well, my band had a once in a lifetime experience. We had no director during band camp, so leadership ran the program for 3 weeks. And then our director had no experience with American marching band, so leadership continued to run the program and we ended up placing 7th in the state of AZ overall in our division.

@supermemeriobros.8752

6 ай бұрын

what school did you go to? We might have seen you this year!

@Altoclarinets

6 ай бұрын

Congratulations, though I'm not sure whether that says more about your student leadership or marching bands in Arizona...

@travislash205

6 ай бұрын

​​@supermemeriobros.8752 Lee Williams High School, we are one of the smallest bands, so we are in division IV in ABODA AZMBA championship we didn't place as high as we did for ABODA semifinals, and then we placed 7th for ABODA championships

@travislash205

6 ай бұрын

​@Altoclarinets that's a good question, I can assume it would say more about each student overall since it could have taken just a few people causing problems to end our marching band program early or turn it into a disaster at any point. As far as this saying something about bands in AZ, this literally never happens, normally we probably wouldn't have had a marching season this year, so hopefully this situation says something positive.

@Altoclarinets

6 ай бұрын

@@travislash205 I mean that if a fully student led band can place so high... what's the competition like, lol

Our school does like a week at an actual camp and then two weeks at school. Tbh it feels like a movie

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Bro this is your 1,000th video congrats what an achievement

this one time, at band camp

The only time i ever heard of students writing the music was when i was in my junior year i was able to write the battery part for the opener, but that was it

at band camp we had mini band olympics, but mostly marching happened

I've also been to a lot of band camps. I came from a very small high school, so the band camps I went to were different - more college-oriented I guess. They were always held at the colleges, put on by the college staff, and you would even stay in the dorms. I went to some that were orchestra band camps (you felt spoiled at these ones because it's indoors!) and I went to marching band camps. These band camps had students from all over the state, it wasn't just one school attending. These band camps were expensive, but they did offer scholarships to attend. That's how I got to go. Most of the time it's group rehearsal, sectionals, one-on-ones, and back to group rehearsal, very little 'play' time. They would have either 1 day or night set for 1 fun event, but we never really played sports or held competitions. One time we did get to go white water rafting. That was a blast. As in terms of staffing, you're right, there wasn't really a moment you weren't supervised. Band camps were great, nothing like the movie.

Drum go boom!

4:46 funny story, at my school i'm friends with the bass 4 who's a sophomore and he says that he's going to try out for bass drum section leader once the current one leaves (3 of the bass drums including current section leader are juniors) he's going to try out by rewriting all of the bass drum stand tunes because they are currently pretty off from what's supposed to be played, and the footage of oak mountain playing jig 2 is funny because I'm in oak mountain's marching band

Closest thing I got to 4:16 was bringing a self-written drum cadence to Boise State audition, but I was supposed to have done prepared material that I didn’t see..they did offer me a scholarship based on that odd merit

This movie has heart

The 2000s was all about vicarious embarrassment (the Germans call it Fremdscham). So many movies were about putting the protagonists in super embarrassing situations and barely overcoming them. I remember struggling through Meet the Parents because I felt so sorry for Greg. In a way, it was more British style humor. Stephen Fry said it best: Imagine the scene in Animal House where John Belushi smashes a guitar over a guy’s head. In Britain, the protagonist would be the guy getting smashed.

Here at the UBC thunderbird marching band, we are a student lead ensemble, with absolutely no director, no instruction, just other students elected to president drum major secretary etc… and almost all of our music are student arrangements

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@EMCproductions

6 ай бұрын

First Comment. Good work.

I am a relative to a person who a character in the movie was based on as the movie was based of real life in east grand rapids where I'm from and I liked this movie because im a drummer my self and we have a 7 year streak for winning state and allways get into semis at nationals (rockford mi)

This one time @ band camp... I got sunburn on just my left forearm/elbow n I knew them my traditional was right 😎

EMC how do you do those recordings of you playing side by side with clones of yourself?

How do you have multiple of you on the screen like, how do you edit videos so there’s multiple of you side by side playing? Trying to make something similar, thanks a lot, Good Morning.

Hey i see last time video of green army drum corps from Disneyland Hollywood.Can you do video about this "army"? Btw i love your video's

For my school the best percussionists write the percussion and mallet parts

my band camp we did band olympics

Anything goes at band camp

I challenge you to make marching temple blocks

one time in band camp the kit player (pit section leader) and his girlfriend got really drunk and were hungover this was this year btw. my friend got some vodka and said they were mixing it with skittles. so weird.

I'm curious how accurate the drum animations are in the new Fortnite Festival mode. Do you think that might be something you could make a video on?

I can't imagine even watching this movie ... from you description, it is definitely 10 out of 10 in cringe-worthiness!!!

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I was teaching students, and they said “one time at band camp.” I was like “do you even know where that’s from?” And they said “no isn’t just a thing people say”

Video 14 of asking for a Video of you playing exactly 69420 Notes

OK, so my freshman year in high school, I was placed on triangle... The Jr high band director caught me talking shit on my way out, told the high school band director, and he proceeded to make my 3 years there absolute garbage. I actually compare him to JK Simmons' character in Whiplash, because he would actually yell at us about folders and throw things at us such as chairs and boxes of music. He later died of cancer... Poetic justice. Anyway, what you say about triangle going into front ensemble (we called it the pit) was exactly what happened to me. The first few weeks for band camp, I was marching with the rest of the section, but I later found myself awkwardly standing on the sidelines next to the bell players. That was our "pit.." I hope my "Fletcher" felt vindicated, or even somewhat justified in his creative decisions. Maybe if someone else were director, the band might have seen more funding...? OK, maybe not, but it's relatively possible.

Shout out (R)MCM

Day 56 of asking you to march the spocknspeel

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FIRST edit: damn, i was so close 😔

@RedDogMamaHD

6 ай бұрын

When I got the notification, I checked and there were already 3 comments. Back in the USMC days, Eric used to post at 7:30 (10:30 EST), So I was lucky to get first a few times! Not so much anymore! 😭

@steamedmushrooms

6 ай бұрын

one day i'll get first @@RedDogMamaHD 😂

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Dude your yt chanel rules f@ck this movie so harddd