Music Teacher Got Scared and MORE: Beginning Band Survival Guide

Here is your 10-point survival guide to Beginning Band (only band people may understand). Whether you play trumpet, flute, clarinet, trombone, or another band instrument, you will LOVE this hilarious look at the middle school band classroom! The music teacher gets scared is only one of the hilarious moments in this Survival Guide. Don’t try beginning band without watching this FIRST!

[kevinli]

Me: "Uh, my reed is broken."
Band director: *stares in visible confusion* "You play trombone."

[PixelatedPixelz]

I just imagine this teacher making bets with the students that if they practice enough, and do good, they can make a YouTube video lol.

[meredithmoore]

I love how they just broke reeds and then just threw mouthpieces everywhere like it was no bug deal😂😂

[ArtemisCassini]

You forgot the “My mallet broke!” Kid who’s mallet breaks every day somehow.

[josueportillo]

As a freshman this makes me miss middle school 😭

[drtsprt]

After 2:11... "Uhhh, Mr. Soandso...? The slide on my trombone keeps sticking..."

[eric]

I have been a band director for 25 years, teaching all levels of band grades 4-12. This is spot on!!!! I am currently the only band director in the Jim Thorpe Area School District in northeast Pennsylvania (Poconos). I have 43 beginners this year. There’s a special place in heaven for folks like us.

[Vampirehtr]

Im a senior in high school and I love how I can remember the amount of times people would do all of this and the amount of equipment that was poorly treated. Takes me back, also Shepherds Hey is a great song. It was so fun when I played it. (for anyone Shepherds Hey is the song being played between each thing)

[Ratyrat_]

I only played a flute in my school band for one year but when she put it together like that my heart literally screamed

[BontrasSnide]

I quit band in seventh grade, but I remember it well, and this video is so nostalgic. The parts with saying to tiptoe over the cases and with the brass blasting were most memorable, not gonna lie. I played in brass, and my eardrums would be lucky if they weren’t bleeding at the end of the lesson because I was right near the tubas just trying to quietly play my euphonium.

[brendo]

3:58 That's EVERY day reguardless of whether you're in band or not, it's not always the same class but it happens once a day for everyone.

[austinsenkerik]

what would really make "brass blast" would a sponge bob background "my leg" and at the beginning someone yell "fire in the hole"

[kenny]

band teacher: "can anyone play this for the class?"

the class: **hides**

me: **hides***

teacher: **picks me** "can you play this for the class?"

me knowing why i was picked: "sure-"

i was the only trumpet in my class ;-; and i played the songs on point, no flaws

[RKGaming]

As an ex-trombone player (band started directly after lunch in elementary and I didn't want to get food in my trombone) that is 100% why you should clear out before brass begins to play. (even though I was the only trombone player among woodwind and a few trumpet players)

[randomgaming]

2:01 the kid in the white is literally me everyday for school

[ilverdsgames]

Im wondering how they got the band teacher to be on board with this idea.

[mustafamubarak]

THE BRASS BLAST AND THE "surprise for the band director"

[ussarizona]

I’ve had all of those stand issues except the broken one. Also that assembled flute and those broken reeds pained me more than anything despite not being a woodwind player.

[emerald]

The only problem with having a trumpet is I can't assemble my instrument incorrectly. I remember one kid put a penny in his alto sax when we were warning up for our concert that night and it came out while we were playing and our band teacher said, "I don't know who that was but parents one of your kid is making money!" We all found it funny and the kid had forgotten he put it in there. Ahh good times. Also 3:52 headphones users beware.

[Humphrey-munq]

I'm an orchestra geek, but this is still very relatable with picking the right stand, coming up with excuses, leaving the cases sprawled out everywhere, blaming the instrument for our lack of practice, etc. Lol the bathroom one is definitely true, though the conductor's I had were strict and told people to either wait after reversing a song or until someone else is done going.