A friend forgot his clarinet on a competition day. He looked a judge in the eye and sang his part. My marching band didn't have inspection. That is until he did that.
im a freshman but a junior told me about a time a trumpet player had forgotten his trumpet so he went to the bathroom and came out with paper towels wrapped around his arm (pretending he broke his arm)
When a judge is in your way, you're actually supposed to yell "Dot" to notify them to move. If they still don't move well don't feel bad about crashing into them.
The Arkle same! In guard, they told us that if you're doing your work and a judge is too close, don't stop. If they get hit, it's their fault. They should've moved out of the way
One of our judges was getting a little bit too excited during the build-up to the "hit". He was like, "You gotta bring it...It's comin'....It's comin...You gotta hit me" And then when we got to the "hit", he was like, "Ohhhhhhhhhh yeaaaahhhhhhh, baby! That's good! Perfect!"
"You have very shiny shoes. I just want to acknowledge that!" My band wears the really shiny Dinkles and a judge told us that during a state contest(?)
We had a field judge at Area contest. It was my freshman year, and I didn't exactly know how to react because I had never encountered a field judge before, so i winked at him. Later when we were reviewing the critiques as a band we heard on the field judge's recording, "I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I think that piccolo player just winked at me?"
During my Sophomore Year in High School, I was spinning rifle and my drill had me constantly moving left toward the front side line and I kept on walking toward the judge and he just kept walking into my next drill spot so he had to keep running backwards, it was great.
One of our sousaphones lost his bell during a visual (loose screws, apparently). The field judge watched people trip over it for a movement and a half before picking it up and moving it off-field.
Once on a judge tape last season a judge said "WOAHHH THOSE TRILLS MAN! HOLY CHRISTMASCAKES BATMAN, I AM PICKING UP WHAT YOU ARE LAYING DOWN" it was the most genuine compliment i've ever heard from a judge.
"On my first performance, we had a singer. But pit forgot to turn on the mic :( the judges said omg she's good but then why she not in the sound system lol"
We have a percussion judge that absolutely hates my school's band. Then, my cousin senior year the judge was behind him and my cousin swung his bass drum around and knocked the judge over. The judge didn't get up for the rest of the show, just kind of crawled on the field.
Even though this wasn't during marching band, we had a judge scream, "TASTY," after a woodwind run during a piece in concert band season. Now everytime we do something well, we describe it as being tasty.
Weston Murdock hey I’m a drummer and judges ALWAYS describe things we do as tasty I know the feels 😂 We once had a judge that used the term “scrumptious snare passage” and it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard
This wasn't a field judge, but he commented (and I quote) "Your step size make me salivate." When we heard that on the tape, it sounded hilarious, but also kinda creepy. That judge is my favorite
The Brass caption head in my school's marching band was a baritone in Bluecoats during the 70's or 80's and broke one of the judges jaws' when he had a horn pop!
my favorite "tasty woodwinds", actually, my favorite was this past season, which ended a couple days ago (high school). our opening statement was the fire of eternal glory, and the judging starts at the first forte in the chorale, the judge in front of me widened his eyes in shock at the attack of the low brass in front of him, and at the release after a power chord since we modded the ending, it rung throughout the stadium for about 4 seconds before we went on, and the judge audibly gasped, froze, put his recorder in his pocket and just started clapping. this was the first minute and 30 seconds out of 8 and a half. fire of eternal glory, people, best chorale ever
Funny field judge stories: almost all the brass comments for our band are "Don't color outside the lines, trombones!, nice tuba work!, and Too loud trumpets." Last year, at the end of the first movement, at the horns down, one of trombones hit his head on a prop and said "God F***ing Dammmit RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF JUDGE! He told him "We need to keep our language clean on the field!"
One of our snares ran a judge down this year. Unfortunately, even with three judge-killer moves and me playing trombone, I still haven't gotten one. Maybe next year.
We had one percussion judge who basically was about to get off to the ending of our show. His words: "Here it comes.....Yes! Yes!....the intensity, the phrasing, all the while balance....Yes! Yes! Yes!....oh wow!" And then there was a musical GE judge who was creeping on our center snare. He had a solo during our ballad and she responded: "Oh wow, that is just delicious." And then it was repeated at the end of the ballad to which she gave an "mmmmmm" for just a little too long.
1:13, once one of the guard members from my high school marching bands lost her shoe. One of the judges just picked it up right in front of me,, then ran away.
Just the other night one of the field judges got stuck in this one drill where all 300 of us jazz run to the middle of the field then we have a freestyle in that form and he was trapped in the middle with the drumline :3
The mallet players use to get the judges trapped in the beginning of our show in 1982. It was fun watching their faces and trying to figure out where to go with out getting run over
I marched mellophone in highschool. My band was well know for doing out of the ordinary stuff to get the crowd into it, and I remember marching in front of one of the judges during our 2010 Blues Brothers show. We got in a block formation in the middle of Everybody Needs Somebody, started dancing and saying "I need you, you, you!" The judge in front of me just said, "That's the band I wanted to see!" He had a huge smile on his face. Love those moments.
This year at one of our competitions we had one of our judges hanging out of the press box window freaking out and saying " WHOAH DO YOU HEAR THAT AMAZING CLARINET SOLO AHHHH IMPRESSIVE" ....and the band when we had a sixteen measure hand drum break and the judge was all like "AHHHHH AND THAT DRUM BREAK AMAZING TOUCH TO THE SHOW".
Brilliant. That last part cracked me up; I've seen it happen. The best is when the judge simply has nothing to say 90% of the show. We always joked, "Hey, thanks for the back-up music tape!"
I got to run over a judge in finals last year. At the start of the second movement I had to go backward at a 45 degree angle at a 6 to 5. This was the same guy I almost ran over in prelims. On his tape we heard "Fuck, I totally forgot about this move"
During our Super Regionals performance my freshman year, my friend's drill had her going towards a field judge and the show was supposed to have a bit of a horror theme to it. As she was doing the drill (she had to crawl too) she reached out and tried to grab the field judge's leg and play it off as part of the effect. I still laugh when she tells it to incoming freshmen.
Hehe. Twilight Zone was a fun year. You forgot to tell the part where one of the staff members literally offered 50 dollars if she manages to grab a judge's leg
In my freshman year we had a mellophone player and one of the judge said "The mellophones are on point!(I don't remember)" but he was a new player that joined late, so he never played a single note in the 1st movement. Oh, and he was the only mellophone player too.
This video never gets old! But hehe 1:05 actually happened to me the other day in class. For our Chinese oral presentations we were also supposed to record ourselves with the professor's recorder, but not until 5-7 lines in did I realize that neither my partner nor I turned on the recorder... but we still ended up getting a 94% on it!
at the Toledo Regionals, there was a field judge that kept bumping into some trumpets but he didn't move. Like 6 kids ran into him before he got out of the way.
I had a judge that said, “Can you automate the capes?” We wear Scottish kilts and plaids... and we don’t have the kind of budget needed to “automate them”. Like, what does he want? Robotic arms attached to each plaid? We ended up swapping the plaids with sashes...
My sophomore year, the only year we had field judges at a competition, a judge came up to me as we were standing still talking about our sound and she stood right in front of me. I began to panic because I knew what was coming up and I play trombone. We were going into the third movement because the music doesn't cut off and I had an 16 count move from the front hash to the sideline jazz running, I'm just going to stop there.
One time, we were listening to the judge tapes after a competition. Our judge complimented us on our makeup, and our coach screamed so loud that time, it scared us all. Funniest moment ever listening to tapes that season 😂
Love this! I got to sit with many judges up here for the Wisconsin circuit, and though I can't speak for field judges, I kinda get some of the things they say on the tapes...
Last year one of the brass judges gave us a horrible score and on the tape he said "the mellos aren't matching tone quality here"... They weren't playing. He totally did not know what he was doing.
soo it was the ending of the ballad for my pice and the judge stright up said "the guard is outplaying the band, *in the backround we scream let me out* oh my rifle that gave me chills* day made.
At state championships this year we had a guard judge who didn't know what was going on throughout the whole show. It was the closer and he was all like OHH SO THATS WHATS HAPPENING. We had him again at nationals :(
This year we had balance props... one of those props were 200 pound teeter totters... our pod had to jazz run with it, and we came within an inch of smashing a field judge with it, but he turned around and noticed it last second, literally DIVING out of the way.
My dad was a field judge for my band once. He tried to stand in the way of the trombones. Unfortunately, it was the part of the show where they kicked off their shoes, sending them onto the front sideline area. He was then pelted with approximately 14 shoes at that time.
"Battery, stop smiling. You're not allowed to be happy."
"Pit, smile more, you guys need to be less serious."
(same show)
"the spock roll was... 'CLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAN'"
best judge line ever
a judge once told us to buy our director a happy meal
I hate it when the snares place a super clean tasty lick and the judge totally ignores it and says something like, "good job basses." lol
A friend forgot his clarinet on a competition day. He looked a judge in the eye and sang his part. My marching band didn't have inspection. That is until he did that.
im a freshman but a junior told me about a time a trumpet player had forgotten his trumpet so he went to the bathroom and came out with paper towels wrapped around his arm (pretending he broke his arm)
@@drhollyums8348 ok first, don’t forget your instrument people, but second, that’s an awesome recovery/coverup for that mistake on his part
@@uvn6210 yeah i was impressed when i heard it
"I wish I could hear more of that mellophone line" well it'd be nice to have one.
We had a judge say "those were some tasty wind chimes!"
When a judge is in your way, you're actually supposed to yell "Dot" to notify them to move. If they still don't move well don't feel bad about crashing into them.
Wait, really?
Yup. They can't dock you for hitting a judge.
The Arkle same! In guard, they told us that if you're doing your work and a judge is too close, don't stop. If they get hit, it's their fault. They should've moved out of the way
Kenedy Russell It sounds more fun hitting a "in your way judge" in the head with a flag pole.
We weren't allowed to talk much less warn a judge.
"who tuned these guys, Hellen Keller?" D E A D
One of our judges was getting a little bit too excited during the build-up to the "hit". He was like, "You gotta bring it...It's comin'....It's comin...You gotta hit me" And then when we got to the "hit", he was like, "Ohhhhhhhhhh yeaaaahhhhhhh, baby! That's good! Perfect!"
That's amazing... xD
I've hit at least three field judges with my equipment over my four years of marching and it was awesome.
"You have very shiny shoes. I just want to acknowledge that!"
My band wears the really shiny Dinkles and a judge told us that during a state contest(?)
We had a field judge at Area contest. It was my freshman year, and I didn't exactly know how to react because I had never encountered a field judge before, so i winked at him. Later when we were reviewing the critiques as a band we heard on the field judge's recording, "I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I think that piccolo player just winked at me?"
OMG I AM DEAD😂
Oml really???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so did the whole band hear that?
During my Sophomore Year in High School, I was spinning rifle and my drill had me constantly moving left toward the front side line and I kept on walking toward the judge and he just kept walking into my next drill spot so he had to keep running backwards, it was great.
My guard just likes to keep tabs on how many judges we hit through the season!
One of our sousaphones lost his bell during a visual (loose screws, apparently). The field judge watched people trip over it for a movement and a half before picking it up and moving it off-field.
Once on a judge tape last season a judge said "WOAHHH THOSE TRILLS MAN! HOLY CHRISTMASCAKES BATMAN, I AM PICKING UP WHAT YOU ARE LAYING DOWN" it was the most genuine compliment i've ever heard from a judge.
Judge- *heavy breathing*
That is literally what every single judge has says, and you even have like the same voice
My brass caption head marched cavies and broke a field judges jaw during a horn pop
Neil Chugh Yikes
What a legend
I bet the Carolina Crown snare player who's drum fell off in the DCI Finals this year has a great story lol...
"On my first performance, we had a singer. But pit forgot to turn on the mic :( the judges said omg she's good but then why she not in the sound system lol"
I once had a judge that kept saying “tasty” after drum fills. And another that over pronounced his p’s directly into the microphone
We have a percussion judge that absolutely hates my school's band. Then, my cousin senior year the judge was behind him and my cousin swung his bass drum around and knocked the judge over. The judge didn't get up for the rest of the show, just kind of crawled on the field.
Even though this wasn't during marching band, we had a judge scream, "TASTY," after a woodwind run during a piece in concert band season. Now everytime we do something well, we describe it as being tasty.
Weston Murdock hey I’m a drummer and judges ALWAYS describe things we do as tasty I know the feels 😂
We once had a judge that used the term “scrumptious snare passage” and it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard
This wasn't a field judge, but he commented (and I quote) "Your step size make me salivate." When we heard that on the tape, it sounded hilarious, but also kinda creepy. That judge is my favorite
"This show makes no sense at all."
-Every judge ever according to
-every band mom ever
"OMG I LOVED YOUR SHOW SO MUCH ENERGY SO CLEAN" -Dan Meakes, OMEA percussion field judge
"Whoa the tenors have multiplied."
This is my favorite video EVER. You should do more like this!
"The name of your show does not fit the theme of your show."
In one of our competitions my freshmen year of marching band, I ran over a field judge. Best memory not forgotten.
It's an ongoing tradition in the drumline that if a drummer hits a judge with a stick/mallet they get a free pizza.
The Brass caption head in my school's marching band was a baritone in Bluecoats during the 70's or 80's and broke one of the judges jaws' when he had a horn pop!
We had a two sets that were drumline sauntering around and not in step on purpose. Got "UHHHMMM?!! These guys have NO IDEA where they're going?!!!"
Battery was the cleanest it had ever been, and the percussion judge talked about adding a little more chimes for about 5 minutes.
my favorite "tasty woodwinds", actually, my favorite was this past season, which ended a couple days ago (high school). our opening statement was the fire of eternal glory, and the judging starts at the first forte in the chorale, the judge in front of me widened his eyes in shock at the attack of the low brass in front of him, and at the release after a power chord since we modded the ending, it rung throughout the stadium for about 4 seconds before we went on, and the judge audibly gasped, froze, put his recorder in his pocket and just started clapping. this was the first minute and 30 seconds out of 8 and a half. fire of eternal glory, people, best chorale ever
There was one field called out our blond trumpet player during our improvement rehearsal
"Oh tubes, God yes" was used used to describe the sousas at the end of the second movement by a field judge and also "tasty, tasty mellophone"
Funny field judge stories: almost all the brass comments for our band are "Don't color outside the lines, trombones!, nice tuba work!, and Too loud trumpets." Last year, at the end of the first movement, at the horns down, one of trombones hit his head on a prop and said "God F***ing Dammmit RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF JUDGE! He told him "We need to keep our language clean on the field!"
Smooth, sweet, and dark like chocolate
At my last competition, all I heard was the guy yelling "ALTO SAX DROPPED OUT"
At area finals we had a judge say, “Ohhhh yes. Deep, rich, dark, and full. Just how I like it!!”
One of our snares ran a judge down this year. Unfortunately, even with three judge-killer moves and me playing trombone, I still haven't gotten one. Maybe next year.
***** I'm playing baritone this year anyway, since I played that for drum corps.
I've been marching for 5 years and I don't know why but I still get nervous around field judges.
We had one percussion judge who basically was about to get off to the ending of our show. His words: "Here it comes.....Yes! Yes!....the intensity, the phrasing, all the while balance....Yes! Yes! Yes!....oh wow!"
And then there was a musical GE judge who was creeping on our center snare. He had a solo during our ballad and she responded: "Oh wow, that is just delicious." And then it was repeated at the end of the ballad to which she gave an "mmmmmm" for just a little too long.
this HAS to go viral soon! you are hilarious.
once a judge was giving us a lecture about the shape of the bale of a contra
1:13, once one of the guard members from my high school marching bands lost her shoe. One of the judges just picked it up right in front of me,, then ran away.
We had the brass and drumline come out from behind some set pieces and one of judges yelled "WOAH! The band is bigger than I thought!!!"
“I feel like your face is detracting from your hands, Basses.” -Scott Johnson (yes, that Scott Johnson), WGI Las Vegas 2016
One time a judge (who decides all the other judges) said when you do it at finals and we didn't make finals
I actually hit a percussion judge at a contest last season
Just the other night one of the field judges got stuck in this one drill where all 300 of us jazz run to the middle of the field then we have a freestyle in that form and he was trapped in the middle with the drumline :3
"The guard soloist has a really nice body"
a judge called us out on the fact that they couldnt see 1 of the props cuz a support beam was blocking it
I think we're using the same Ibanez tuner.
Last year a color guard gave a field judge a black eye.
"I like that trumpets dont outplay the emsemble" You can tell them all you want its gonna happen lol
The mallet players use to get the judges trapped in the beginning of our show in 1982. It was fun watching their faces and trying to figure out where to go with out getting run over
"that's a cute marimba part"
There was a judge, at the company front of our show, he screams "THAT JUST HAPPENED" and "OHH NICE".
All guards hear, "Good recovery". Its heartbreaking.. :(
I marched mellophone in highschool. My band was well know for doing out of the ordinary stuff to get the crowd into it, and I remember marching in front of one of the judges during our 2010 Blues Brothers show. We got in a block formation in the middle of Everybody Needs Somebody, started dancing and saying "I need you, you, you!" The judge in front of me just said, "That's the band I wanted to see!" He had a huge smile on his face. Love those moments.
One of our field judges got distracted by a penny on the field, he literally said "Oooh look, a penny!"
This year at one of our competitions we had one of our judges hanging out of the press box window freaking out and saying " WHOAH DO YOU HEAR THAT AMAZING CLARINET SOLO AHHHH IMPRESSIVE" ....and the band when we had a sixteen measure hand drum break and the judge was all like "AHHHHH AND THAT DRUM BREAK AMAZING TOUCH TO THE SHOW".
Brilliant. That last part cracked me up; I've seen it happen.
The best is when the judge simply has nothing to say 90% of the show. We always joked, "Hey, thanks for the back-up music tape!"
1:40, literally every field judge at the comp. i went to (i play baritone)
This is amazing. Keep it up man!
One time I hit the field judge with my trombone slide
I got to run over a judge in finals last year. At the start of the second movement I had to go backward at a 45 degree angle at a 6 to 5. This was the same guy I almost ran over in prelims. On his tape we heard "Fuck, I totally forgot about this move"
"Your show has legs" thats one thing we got told
Another was someone talking abot triplets and they said strawberry soup
Wow this grass is awful, I feel bad for these guys
During our Super Regionals performance my freshman year, my friend's drill had her going towards a field judge and the show was supposed to have a bit of a horror theme to it. As she was doing the drill (she had to crawl too) she reached out and tried to grab the field judge's leg and play it off as part of the effect. I still laugh when she tells it to incoming freshmen.
Hehe. Twilight Zone was a fun year. You forgot to tell the part where one of the staff members literally offered 50 dollars if she manages to grab a judge's leg
"drum major kinda looks like colin mockery: FINALLY SOMEONE WHO WATCHED WHOSE LINE!!!!!!
In my freshman year we had a mellophone player and one of the judge said "The mellophones are on point!(I don't remember)" but he was a new player that joined late, so he never played a single note in the 1st movement. Oh, and he was the only mellophone player too.
"light breeze" sousaphones are literally being blown across the field.
This video never gets old! But hehe 1:05 actually happened to me the other day in class. For our Chinese oral presentations we were also supposed to record ourselves with the professor's recorder, but not until 5-7 lines in did I realize that neither my partner nor I turned on the recorder... but we still ended up getting a 94% on it!
we had a judge who was eating food while he was judging us... no joke
at the Toledo Regionals, there was a field judge that kept bumping into some trumpets but he didn't move. Like 6 kids ran into him before he got out of the way.
I had a field judge that was my violin teacher from 3rd and 4th grade
Once at a competition a field judge decided to use my pit's concert bass as an armrest...even when it was being used.
"Wow these guys are terrible..." "Good energy, good energy!"
The most annoying thing judges do...
I had a solo in our second song my freshman year and after I finished the judge clapped and said good job guy
my freshman year my band was at BOA San Antonio and a sousa bell fell off and it took the judge half a show of kids tripping over it to pick it up
What a huskie sound. Got some tall tubas there....
I had a judge that said, “Can you automate the capes?”
We wear Scottish kilts and plaids... and we don’t have the kind of budget needed to “automate them”.
Like, what does he want? Robotic arms attached to each plaid?
We ended up swapping the plaids with sashes...
The funny thing is, is that this is so true
"i like that triangle part. you should bring that out more." AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
My sophomore year, the only year we had field judges at a competition, a judge came up to me as we were standing still talking about our sound and she stood right in front of me. I began to panic because I knew what was coming up and I play trombone. We were going into the third movement because the music doesn't cut off and I had an 16 count move from the front hash to the sideline jazz running, I'm just going to stop there.
One of our judges said we had a "tasty procution" that was "full of calories"
I got that reference, "what a husky sound" hahahaha. Best judges tape ever.
One time, we were listening to the judge tapes after a competition. Our judge complimented us on our makeup, and our coach screamed so loud that time, it scared us all. Funniest moment ever listening to tapes that season 😂
Love this! I got to sit with many judges up here for the Wisconsin circuit, and though I can't speak for field judges, I kinda get some of the things they say on the tapes...
Last year one of the brass judges gave us a horrible score and on the tape he said "the mellos aren't matching tone quality here"... They weren't playing. He totally did not know what he was doing.
soo it was the ending of the ballad for my pice and the judge stright up said "the guard is outplaying the band, *in the backround we scream let me out* oh my rifle that gave me chills* day made.
At state championships this year we had a guard judge who didn't know what was going on throughout the whole show. It was the closer and he was all like OHH SO THATS WHATS HAPPENING.
We had him again at nationals :(
This year we had balance props... one of those props were 200 pound teeter totters... our pod had to jazz run with it, and we came within an inch of smashing a field judge with it, but he turned around and noticed it last second, literally DIVING out of the way.
I always wondered what it would be like to field judge the Cavies in 2006 and 2010 they probably make a shirt that says they survived that
My dad was a field judge for my band once. He tried to stand in the way of the trombones. Unfortunately, it was the part of the show where they kicked off their shoes, sending them onto the front sideline area. He was then pelted with approximately 14 shoes at that time.