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 Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:55 am
Have you ever screwed up so badly when marching?
for me it was at the post band camp picnic my freshmen year and i somehow ended up at least 4 steps from my spot....
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:06 pm
I epic fail all the time.....
Lol.
I fell in the middle of a parade in 7th grade and made 7 people fall xD
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:45 pm
this didn't happen to me, but during band camp last year I was sitting out due to a head injury and the trombone section was supposed to do a point turn and they kept tripping over each other and hitting each other and other people with their instruments. I was falling out of my chair it was so funny, but the whole routine had to be changed because of that.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:42 pm
My first set for our show was moving backwards, and I was supposed to take extremely tiny steps...well, I kinda forgot about that, and I ran into our quad player and he almost fell over as he was moving from behind the prop. D= I felt really bad, because I did that a lot when we first learned the drill...this was a home show, too.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:35 pm
I fell when I marched sousa freshman year in highschool...
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:26 pm
one day at practace before a home game, the director decided they wanted to bring my podium down (i'm the drum major)
i was conducting off of the podium, and i get a little into the music (i dance) while i'm conducting....
well, lets just say that i danced my way to the edge of the podium and then very shortly found myself on the ground.
(i fell off.)
it was rather hilarious, but it hurt quite a bit because i fell on the colorguard's equipment.
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:18 pm
It was around the finale of the show (Bill Chase show) We had to do a twelve count slide to the left, then reverse it and go twelve to the right. I started going in the wrond direction sweatdrop , and almost collided with the whole line. It was horrible, and in a band of about 40 people (including pit) somthing like that dosn't go unnoticed. stare
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:56 pm
epic fail..i am saldana fail cause i started to complain that my lips hurt from playing too much..:/
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:14 am
Lol I've had a lot of epic fails. Mostly Freshmen year though (I'm a Junior now razz ).
Freshmen year band camp there was this really troublesome spot where I had to back march in tiny tiny (!) steps and I always ended up taking too big of steps and not being in the right place. XD
Also at Freshmen band camp we were doing practice for the parent show at the end of band camp, and we'd JUST learned the drill all the way through so I didn't know the end of the drill very well. At the end both sides had to split and go two different ways, I was supposed to left but I got so confused and I didn't know what move we were on or anything and ended up going right. XD There was no way to fix that mistake so I just followed the person in front of me until the end. Luckily it was only band camp and practice. Lol
Um...once also during practice (not at band camp) we were practicing our transition from our opener to the drill for the football game and me and the girl in front of me (she was a senior) misheard what part of the drill we were supposed to go to. We ended up on the complete other side of the field than the rest of the band....lmao
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:38 am
I've managed to trip/almost fall during practice.
Why is this so epic fail?
...I'm in pit. I stand still. gonk
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:16 am
Lol, I've had quite a lot, especially as I've only actually marched for two years (drum major).
My freshman year of high school, there was a move in our first song where we had to move quickly backward, while a line of flutes moved forward right by us. I tripped over the flute players a few times, until they learned mellophones don't come with rear-view mirrors. In college, I had another fast backward set. During practice one day, I tripped over the divots (sp?) in our field. I did this awesome rolling twist and got back up and in line in about two beats, without hurting my mellophone. It was amazing! Of course, no one noticed but the person marching behind me.
Speaking of epic fails, at my college, whenever someone would be noticably off during a performance, we would watch the tape and the BD would point out the person for everyone to see. Encourages being right, doesn't it?
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:16 am
EPIC FAIL THAT WASN'T MY FAULT
It's December 2006. We're at the 6-A State Football Championships -- Brantley vs Miami Northwestern, playing in Dolphin Stadium.
It's halftime.
We're on the field, playing the closer (Amazing Grace/When Johnny Comes Marching Home).
During the last section of the piece it gets fast and frantic, and some of our pit players run a flag across the band. The flag is fifty yards long (yeah, it covers half the football field), and probably ten or fifteen yards wide.
Well, because of the air flow in the stadium, the wind didn't get under the flag and lift it properly, so it just dragged across the band, knocking hats off, pulling instruments out of hands. The worst part was we couldn't do anything to avoid it because we'd break formation.
This had happened once before at practice on a really windy day, but people dived out of the way. On that day, a trombone slide got caught on the flag and pulled off the instrument, then went sailing through the air toward one of our Sousaphone players, who couldn't dive out of the way without damaging his instrument.
Good times.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:55 pm
>.> My most epic fail, is when I made my section leader trip, I was rather embarrassed, But i would say the most epic fail in our band(Only counting how long I been in the band) Is when my friends brother tripped and the flutes fell down like dominoes :3
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:08 pm
DeathlySugaryPurpleStar >.> My most epic fail, is when I made my section leader trip, I was rather embarrassed, But i would say the most epic fail in our band(Only counting how long I been in the band) Is when my friends brother tripped and the flutes fell down like dominoes :3 LOL. my friend in the clarinet section mis-stepped so caused the whole mellophones to trip and fall + 1 sousa xD my mello friend actually got her arm cut open...but it was funny after that lol
my brother (clarient) marched in the wrong direction during a performance when he was a freshman rofl
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:19 am
Cathartic Denouement EPIC FAIL THAT WASN'T MY FAULT
It's December 2006. We're at the 6-A State Football Championships -- Brantley vs Miami Northwestern, playing in Dolphin Stadium.
It's halftime.
We're on the field, playing the closer (Amazing Grace/When Johnny Comes Marching Home).
During the last section of the piece it gets fast and frantic, and some of our pit players run a flag across the band. The flag is fifty yards long (yeah, it covers half the football field), and probably ten or fifteen yards wide.
Well, because of the air flow in the stadium, the wind didn't get under the flag and lift it properly, so it just dragged across the band, knocking hats off, pulling instruments out of hands. The worst part was we couldn't do anything to avoid it because we'd break formation.
This had happened once before at practice on a really windy day, but people dived out of the way. On that day, a trombone slide got caught on the flag and pulled off the instrument, then went sailing through the air toward one of our Sousaphone players, who couldn't dive out of the way without damaging his instrument.
Good times. Lol, that's amazing! We had a flag that wasn't quite that big, but nothing happened to ours!
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