Top 5 Most AWKWARD Band Moments - Episode 3

Intro Cadence - “False Hype” by EMC
Background Cadence - “White Boy Smooth” by EMC

Video Sources:

Jersey Surf 2008 in the Lot:

Carolina Crown 2018 in the Lot:

[EMCproductions]

I made an Awkward playlist. So you can enjoy all my awkwardness.

[amazngdrummr]

Aww geez...I seriously can't believe I got cut from the snareline. It's preposterous, I know.

[joshsanders]

In middle school band, there was only two of us in the percussion section for my grade (small school). For our spring concert, somehow 4 of our 6 pieces got left in the band room and we didn't realize until after we played the first song. I have no idea how this happened but we just made up the parts for all the pieces we had forgotten and our band director never asked us anything about it. Funny story about that band director, he once had us clean off the stage before a concert and there was a projector on a cart he told us to put behind the back door because he told the janitors to move it previously. What we didn't know is the back door led straight down a long staircase. It was extremely dark and the school was over 100 years old. Needless to say, the projector shattered into a million pieces.

[igachap]

My most awkward band moment (Ik I’m late but suck it up):
I’m a double reed player, so in high school during marching season, so I chose to go into the electronics section in the drumline. Well… it was the beginning of full band camp and I was fully recovered from a finger injury and was ready to get to work. I was taught how to use a soldering iron the week before when I had a finger splint on so I didn’t do it, but some of the XLR cords were messed up so I had to go back it and fix it. While I was doing that the other electronic members found sanitizing alcohol and a lighter in the Front Ensemble room. I saw the look on their faces and I tried to get them to stop thinking about it but before I knew it they poured alcohol on the floor and started a fire in the Front Ensemble Storage Room. I witnessed all of this while I was fixing a snake cable on the soldering iron.

[FastnOut]

The most awkward thing: Playing on a measure rest

[andrewdressler]

In my first year of marching in DCI, our caption head had chosen a lot spot in front of what appeared to be an abandoned gas station. So with this, we marched over, set up our warmup location and started drumming. About 20 minutes into our lot session, a car pulled up and an older gentleman got out. He then violently approached our staff and started screaming at them that were on his property and to get off of it immediately. In fact the guy was acting so aggressively that he got nose to nose with our caption head and almost kicked a Long Ranger. As a result, we had to stop drumming and move to a new location to continue the lot.

[kennethowrutsky]

Most awkward moment for me? My drumline was practicing, and then out of nowhere a lady drove up to us and complained that her baby was trying to sleep and told us to quiet down, and then drove away. After that, every time we rehearsed outside at night, we kept wondering if that lady was going to show up and complain at us.

[brandonking]

There's this one field that we use that always gets complaints. We've had the cops called on us numerous times for being too loud, a guy has came one time and screamed obscenities and death threats to the chaperones because we were too loud, and the cherry on top, this woman parked her car in front of our field and honked her horn for 45 minutes because we were too loud.

[kyleduvall]

When I was a sophomore as a tenor saxophone, we were coming back from our break and we had less than a minute to put on our jackets and get everything ready. Being hyped and anxious, I grab my neck strap and tried putting it on. However, it fell down onto the bleachers and on my foot. I sighed in relief and went to grab it when the strap slipped off my foot and under the bleachers. With 10 seconds left, I looked around and just grabbed my saxophone to play along with the band in the Final Countdown. After that, I took the walk of shame and went to grab my neck strap. I think at least half the band watched me grab it and come back up. Luckily, it wasn’t that rare and happened often enough.

P.S. - We need more awkwardness!!! More!! I love this mini series!

[nathan_khoury]

0:50 this guy came straight outta whiplash

[tahoehikergirl]

The words “Band and awkward” go hand in hand. I have many stories, but most recently, I’m the coach for a high school drumline here in Nevada. We were at the Nevada day parade (look it up- wild!!). We went to go watch the univ. of nv- Reno drumline warmup and a guy in the parade with horses told their d-line instructor they were told loud- disturbing the horses. I went to that coach and said the horse guy is INSANE- has he never been to this parade?!? We have multiple navy jets flying over followed by low hovering army helicopters, police and fire sounding their sirens in the parade, other groups in the parade shooting black powder rifle blanks (it’s Nevada) yet….. the drumline is the one who’s too loud?!?!?!?! LOL

[cheeseburger]

It would be cool if in your band growing up they had a gong hi-hat

[misteralt]

I assure you that my awkward story is WAY WAY worse than any old "I fell with my drum on" or anything else. Without a doubt, this is the single most embarrassing experience in my life.

Band camp of freshman year of High School. I'm nervous. Surrounded by 150+ people I have never met before. So on Thursday we have full ensemble in the gymnasium so that means the entire band is in the same room with me. I realize, crap. I left my sheet music in my dorm! Not to worry, there's a PDF in the group chat. While the Band Director is discussing something with the woodwind and brass, I make the HORRIBLE mistake of taking my phone out to pull it up. I'm entirely focused on my phone when I realize that some people around me are looking at me. I look up and the ENTIRE FREAKING ENSEMBLE OF STRANGERS IS STARING AT ME. The BD had called me out in front of everybody and I didn't have the balls to say I was trying to pull up my music so I just squeak out a "yes" when he asks if I understand. He then goes "I can't hear you!" so I have to shout "YES!" across the gymnasium which absolutely killed me inside. He then told me to run two laps after practice just to rub some salt into the would.

[brofrog]

My most awkward moment was when I was playing the drums for my church. I was supposed to hit the snare on beat 2 and 4, and I was supposed to hit the base drum on 1 and 3. I got those mixed up and did not realize it for the entire song.

[JackNJazz_]

Beautiful nose shot right there at the beginning

[dylanphillips]

U deserve way more credit for what you do. I'm a new sub and I gotta thank you for all the good shit you got on this channel. I've always played on the set, self taught, and it's cool to see all your experience and I've learned a lot from it. Creative videos. Insanely talented too.

[buntie]

I found you the other day searching for jig 2 and this is cool

[dragonslayer]

I was in a jazz band that went on a tour to cuba, and I choked during a live performance and played a 2:3 son clave for a 3:2 rhumba piece. I think that might have been the whitest I have ever felt lol.

[thats.coolig_]

A really awkward moment i had was in 8th grade and we had 8th grade night, which meant 8th grade and alumni could go march with the highschool marching band. I was on bass drum (i think i was on 2 or 3) and we were marching down this hill that had a very thin sidewalk on it. We were in 2 single file lines right beside each other. I didnt want to make my friend (bass 1) march on the grass so instead on marched on the grass and tripped over a tree root. I only scraped my knee but later a 10th grader asked me if i was ok and i was super awkward because i used to like him. I was in front of all of the 8th graders.

[Cashimat]

My most awkward moment was something I didn't realize until after it already happened. So during pep band, the band is encouraged to move around and dance as you play the pieces. After like 8 pep band games, I sort of got into the habit of bobbing up and down as I played. Well one day we have a school walk through, thats basically where whenever someone gets to state in any extra curricular activity, the school celebrates it and the band plays the fight song as the group that made it to state walks down the halls. So we do one of those, and for some reason I naturally due to force of habit, danced up and down while playing my sax for this. And I didn't think anything of it. Until I saw it on the band Facebook page, you can see the walk through, and there's me, the only one moving around, while everyone else is in that strict marching band look.