16 Things Musicians Do in the Pit

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  • @ZaddyGohan
    @ZaddyGohan 5 років тому +13286

    My first pit experience involved me turning around and seeing every. Single. Wind player. All with a glass of wine

  • @wesley8697
    @wesley8697 5 років тому +8507

    When I was in pit I collected feathers from seagull costumes that floated into the pit.

    • @annabellevanover5521
      @annabellevanover5521 5 років тому +89

      Wesley little mermaid?

    • @solarsch8536
      @solarsch8536 5 років тому +220

      My friend got confetti blasted at his head

    • @lgbaloni
      @lgbaloni 5 років тому +20

      Little mermaid? I was in one

    • @caitlynmarie8186
      @caitlynmarie8186 5 років тому +15

      James and the Giant Peach?

    • @toasted_mello
      @toasted_mello 5 років тому +168

      Right now a bunch of beads are falling off Cinderella's slippers and hitting us in the heads. We don't collect them, we throw them back with spite cuz they hurt

  • @Janka007
    @Janka007 3 роки тому +2765

    I heard stories about percussionists who literally left during tacet for another performance, came back for their last bang. Two salaries for one night. :D Why did I chose the violin????? :D

    • @shivanigautam670
      @shivanigautam670 3 роки тому +70

      lmao pog

    • @Baobaip
      @Baobaip 2 роки тому +83

      I play the clarinet and I’m barely heard, I can pretend to play. (Don’t do it)

    • @crystalgrapes
      @crystalgrapes 2 роки тому +69

      Your ‘:D’ looks like it’s in pain

    • @lucticide
      @lucticide 2 роки тому +54

      @@crystalgrapes achievement unlocked: you now know how to spot sarcasm

    • @wyn3951
      @wyn3951 2 роки тому +2

      Because it’s superior

  • @mafaldaviana9060
    @mafaldaviana9060 4 роки тому +6722

    I once did a workshop with a clarinettist who told me a lot about life in the professional orchestra.
    Apparently, he was part of the orchestra for Mozart's "The Magic Flute". Now, the pit usually had one (1) table full of food in a place the whole orchestra could reach. So, when they played the overture, the wind players immediately started eating like crazy while the string players suffered. When the violinists could finally eat, there were only apples and bananas. They did this. Every. Single. Opera.

    • @norocosul33
      @norocosul33 4 роки тому +290

      animals.

    • @camidreamscometrue62
      @camidreamscometrue62 4 роки тому +189

      Is this the Movie "The Platform"? XD

    • @mafaldaviana9060
      @mafaldaviana9060 4 роки тому +124

      @@camidreamscometrue62 No but the orchestra is just as savage

    • @marafortune3713
      @marafortune3713 4 роки тому +101

      At least you got healthy food, haha. Perhaps they were doing you a favour ? 😂😅

    • @gbkgames2087
      @gbkgames2087 4 роки тому +12

      Bruh

  • @anonymousperson8942
    @anonymousperson8942 5 років тому +9802

    Was in the middle of a show and I looked down to see some of the people in the pit playing cards😂

    • @rocketqueen9887
      @rocketqueen9887 4 роки тому +154

      Anonymous Person LMAO

    • @madi-tv2sb
      @madi-tv2sb 4 роки тому +36

      Haha

    • @kainpwnsu
      @kainpwnsu 4 роки тому +515

      They often forget PEOPLE CAN SEE YOU. In high school, there was no pit unless a thrust was erected for the stage. We precussionists quickly learned how to discretely build a blind using stacked folios and timpani for some privacy.

    • @angeldoesthingss
      @angeldoesthingss 4 роки тому +7

      1000 like!

    • @meraldlag4336
      @meraldlag4336 4 роки тому +40

      I paused the video at 0:32 to read the comments and I came across this one

  • @mitchellhinderer
    @mitchellhinderer 5 років тому +4690

    im the sax player that has a solo in the first 5 minutes then sleeps

    • @ohdear279
      @ohdear279 5 років тому +236

      As soon as the second act gets going we can just say goodbye to any hope of playing lmao

    • @trash-3058
      @trash-3058 5 років тому +16

      Phat m00d

    • @LurkerPatrol5
      @LurkerPatrol5 4 роки тому +22

      @@ohdear279 What's stopping you from just leaving? lol

    • @floraostberg
      @floraostberg 4 роки тому +80

      the worst is when its like a three hour show and you play in the middle of it

    • @marrassek
      @marrassek 4 роки тому +30

      if you are lazy its extremely lucky but if you get easily bored its a pit-y xD

  • @purp.mp3
    @purp.mp3 4 роки тому +5932

    No. 17: Collecting things that fell into the pit
    No. 18: Trying to avoid things that fell in the pit
    No. 19: Playing on their phone
    No. 20: Try to compete with other musicians (I've seen a few people do this)

    • @sofiaeleanore
      @sofiaeleanore 4 роки тому +376

      No. 21: (for my fellow females) braiding each other's hair lol

    • @lunamoonfang2
      @lunamoonfang2 4 роки тому +268

      No. 22: making fun of the pianist. (I do this everytime I get in the pit)

    • @sublimezoe2810
      @sublimezoe2810 4 роки тому +216

      No. 23: asking where we ended

    • @velvetsrose
      @velvetsrose 4 роки тому +218

      No. 24: Watching sports matches
      No. 25: Making fun of what happened on stage

    • @lia5911
      @lia5911 4 роки тому +100

      DyliEpicPotato my teacher told me of one girl who knitted during

  • @genna7727
    @genna7727 5 років тому +3859

    Pretty sure Eddy whispered “viola” in Brett’s ear

    • @thirstyanddrinking
      @thirstyanddrinking 4 роки тому +147

      Did you get that from the captions?

    • @lilyrosepunkunicorm9871
      @lilyrosepunkunicorm9871 4 роки тому +61

      Yup just check the captions

    • @michaelwoon
      @michaelwoon 4 роки тому +148

      I thought he was gonna kiss him and literally fell off my bed

    • @yannanhuang6510
      @yannanhuang6510 4 роки тому +34

      @@michaelwoon oh fantasies

    • @d.akiehs
      @d.akiehs 4 роки тому +13

      Hey guys I’m kinda new and I don’t understand what’s funny about violas and why they dislike them so much 😂 can someone explain

  • @varp.
    @varp. 5 років тому +5826

    I can fully relate, I once had a 300 bar break and we were sitting in a spot where the audience could see us. Holy shit it was torture.

  • @grown.ass.nerd.
    @grown.ass.nerd. 4 роки тому +2833

    As the opera singer on the stage, I can absolutely confirm a lot of these, especially the chips, the accidentally loud videos, and definitely snoring.

  • @miaapollonio8723
    @miaapollonio8723 4 роки тому +1239

    When I was in the pit, we would assign a different character (from the musical) to each orchestra member and unless you were playing, you had to mime along with them. We switched the characters around for every show just to keep things interesting 😅

    • @Roma-kp4qg
      @Roma-kp4qg 4 роки тому +37

      That sounds like fun!

    • @brookebos7060
      @brookebos7060 3 роки тому +39

      I did that sophomore year when my high school did Beauty and the Beast! The other violinists and I would mouth the script to the trumpet players across the room, and by closing night we all had nearly the whole show memorized lol

    • @tammylaronde8593
      @tammylaronde8593 3 роки тому +3

      😂😂😂

    • @WicusIsntOkay
      @WicusIsntOkay 3 роки тому +7

      I desperately want to do orchestra but my family is far too poor, my shool doesn't do orchestra, and unless I finally get a violin for Christmas(actually possible this year) I wouldn't even have an instrument for orchestra.
      I only have a ukulele, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar. I play bass guitar(at school) but I don't have one.

    • @lableurose1747
      @lableurose1747 3 роки тому +1

      I made the devils number by liking...😈

  • @user-rl8ly4ki9k
    @user-rl8ly4ki9k 5 років тому +2115

    EVERYONE WATCH THIS VIDEO WITH CAPTIONS ON best captions I have ever seen

  • @kilmor3151
    @kilmor3151 5 років тому +3465

    How about a orchestra edition of "what I think I do" "what my fellow instrument players think I do" "what other sections think i/we do" - you get the gist.

    • @sanchitakoppa4027
      @sanchitakoppa4027 5 років тому +23

      What I think I do- play mediocre-ly?
      What fellow violinists think I do- act like a second chair brat and show off
      Violists- think I think violas suck
      Cellists- they look at me like I'm crazy (they're probably not wrong)
      Basses- twirl their basses just to piss me off

    • @aechols
      @aechols 5 років тому +17

      Sanchita Koppa ok I’m a bassist and I can confirm that in bass section when we’re not playing all we do is twirl our basses or make inside jokes

    • @sanchitakoppa4027
      @sanchitakoppa4027 5 років тому +4

      @@aechols ikr, but the thing is, one of them know that it annoys me, being that they could lose control any second. And know one of the cellists, the second chair one in fact, tries twirling his cello just to annoy me.......

    • @gdolphinz7486
      @gdolphinz7486 5 років тому +1

      They are going to have a field day over the violas if they try that idea

    • @PreservationEnthusiast
      @PreservationEnthusiast 5 років тому

      @@sanchitakoppa4027 As a violinist, we love to joke about the violas.
      At school we used to do stuff like detune their instruments and slacken their bows if we got a chance. Now we just make jokes about them.

  • @davidwallerstein3113
    @davidwallerstein3113 5 років тому +2591

    that one dislike is the conductor

    • @djboo7779
      @djboo7779 5 років тому +49

      David Wallerstein nah the conductor has most likely been a pit player before. He gets it

    • @mytasteinmusicisyourface3020
      @mytasteinmusicisyourface3020 5 років тому +3

      I was the 1000th like lol

    • @collectorofcats294
      @collectorofcats294 5 років тому +2

      David Wallerstein I love the kitten in your profile picture!!!

    • @olaoluwakolade9575
      @olaoluwakolade9575 5 років тому +1

      Lol

    • @RzelAkira
      @RzelAkira 5 років тому +2

      now its 88 conductors are disliking this video

  • @roseophiose3335
    @roseophiose3335 3 роки тому +216

    Bit late but needed to share this: I played in the pit usually since I played woodwinds, but in one show I had an acting/singing part on stage. And the musicians in the pit kept holding up score cards at me everytime I had lines/songs/dance. And yes they were brutal.

  • @Ciaran55
    @Ciaran55 3 роки тому +141

    1:56 Paganini could play the violin, but Brett can play the bow

    • @seths.173
      @seths.173 3 роки тому +5

      Do you know what the peice they played is called?

    • @Ciaran55
      @Ciaran55 3 роки тому +6

      @@seths.173 The piece they mauled to death is Russian Dance from the Nutcracker

  • @charleschien4243
    @charleschien4243 5 років тому +3233

    You should also add avoid stuff falling into the pit. I play double bass and was covered in shaving cream pie from a on stage fight. In another I almost got hit in the head from a candelabra.

    • @monique__3398
      @monique__3398 5 років тому +116

      charles chien I play double bass too and I’m always scared that with open pits someone is gonna step on the headstock

    • @ibenindrevr2547
      @ibenindrevr2547 5 років тому +24

      charles chien that’s comedy gold omg

    • @dmitrishostakovich9559
      @dmitrishostakovich9559 5 років тому +19

      What kind of opera is that

    • @proxima-nova
      @proxima-nova 5 років тому +19

      @@dmitrishostakovich9559 Beauty and the beast is my only guess lol. but not an opera obviously.

    • @OccyDaBoss
      @OccyDaBoss 5 років тому +21

      Phantom of tthe Opera anyone?

  • @rramirez7078
    @rramirez7078 5 років тому +3085

    I can confirm that every single one of these is true, BUT YOU FORGOT THE PERSON WHO PLAYS MEME SONGS DURING INTERMISSION TO TROLL THE CONDUCTOR!

    • @aro4457
      @aro4457 4 роки тому +101

      me:*Sees Comment*
      also me:*Turns away pretending i didnt see that*

    • @yoongoboongo231
      @yoongoboongo231 4 роки тому +206

      very true!!! lmao our percussion kept on playing the pornhub intro on the drums 😔

    • @neo_solaris5271
      @neo_solaris5271 4 роки тому +20

      Lmao wth that’s so funny😂

    • @TheTravisAustin
      @TheTravisAustin 4 роки тому +22

      yoongo boongo lmaoooo 💀💀💀

    • @kaydubsthekoifish
      @kaydubsthekoifish 4 роки тому +9

      😂 WOOOOW! 🤣

  • @minniki7139
    @minniki7139 4 роки тому +1835

    No one:
    Absolutely no one:
    Not even Bach himself:
    When you pull on the zip tie to make it tighter: 0:36

    • @kazfreedman9964
      @kazfreedman9964 4 роки тому +19

      Yes so true

    • @angelaziegler4746
      @angelaziegler4746 4 роки тому +19

      I really want to like this but at time of posting it has 69 likes and I don't know if I want to be responsible for ruining that

    • @thirstyanddrinking
      @thirstyanddrinking 4 роки тому +9

      OMFG I DIED🤣

    • @marrassek
      @marrassek 4 роки тому +10

      this made me laugh so hard, btw not gonna destroy 420 likes :P

    • @stealthy_velociraptor
      @stealthy_velociraptor 4 роки тому +6

      So true 😂

  • @jannie3968
    @jannie3968 4 роки тому +890

    “eating”
    wind players couldnt relate

    • @paris5410
      @paris5410 4 роки тому +87

      I'm a wind player and literally always ate. My poor trumpet.

    • @toasted_mello
      @toasted_mello 4 роки тому +61

      Pit makes you do desperate things

    • @benjaminjones8782
      @benjaminjones8782 4 роки тому +8

      Sonia Ruiz still an airpipe

    • @toasted_mello
      @toasted_mello 4 роки тому +6

      @@SUNNSARO it says wind not woodwinds

    • @paulwagner688
      @paulwagner688 4 роки тому +16

      This bassoonist has Twizzlers as his go to pit snack.

  • @heyitsbeppa4809
    @heyitsbeppa4809 5 років тому +2124

    This perfectly captures the pit mood.... except the lights.... where are your stand lights you sacrilegious bois!

    • @kainpwnsu
      @kainpwnsu 4 роки тому +50

      It is always TOO MUCH LIGHT or not enough due to cheap stand lights. Never between. The exception is when everyone has a dim light and one person brings their own light that is WAY brighter.

  • @KawaiiFluff
    @KawaiiFluff 5 років тому +2995

    Ling Ling practises playing flight of the bumblebee fast in the pit

    • @gunnarskochstube3522
      @gunnarskochstube3522 5 років тому +127

      He doesn't need to practice it, always remember: If you can play something slowly, you can play it quickly!

    • @gavinwarner3480
      @gavinwarner3480 5 років тому +42

      He practices slowly, because then in the performance he plays it quickly.

    • @jolianalai1273
      @jolianalai1273 5 років тому +18

      Kawaii Fluff he does it in under 30 seconds

    • @gideoncheung8731
      @gideoncheung8731 5 років тому +26

      Ling Ling plays flight of the bumblebee 16 times every second

    • @areys_16
      @areys_16 5 років тому +16

      100 notes per second

  • @lamphiaalonso5341
    @lamphiaalonso5341 5 років тому +350

    I went to see the Family Addams musical in my local theatre last year and cause I was in the front row, in a small angle I was able to see a small screen that they had put on the other side of the stage, where you could see a pianist in what looked like a small booth (I couldn see anyone else passing by) I dont know why in the hell they chose to put a screen there, maybe see was supposed to signal if something went wrong with the music? And it was half-hidden in the sides and with the courtain.
    Thing is, I spent half the musical watching how she worded every song, half-danced to the music and acted when apparently she didnt need to play, 10/10 would watch every musical with a small screen of the musicians (tho I kinda feel bad, I dont think she knew some viewers could see her)

    • @mxballin
      @mxballin 4 роки тому +47

      Surprised no one commented on this before this, so I figured I'd give a potential explanation even though it's a year later. They probably had it set up like that because she was also the conductor. In a lot of local productions, that can be quite common. The monitor (what the screen is called) is so folks who are off stage can see the conductor if they're singing in the wings, etc. As the musical director, they'll often mouth along to keep actors on time, keep their energy up, and convey the emotion of the music to both the orchestra and the cast (they also just clown around and act along just as you mentioned... It also gets caught on the monitor because it's not like they're going to turn it off and hopefully anyone who sees it will get a good laugh). In particularly high tech theatres, I've actually been given a small monitor of my own as a musician because I wouldn't have been able to see the conductor otherwise. I've also had friends who have done productions where they had a monitor because the orchestra was in an different room from the stage because they wouldn't have fit and so the actors wouldn't have been able to see the conductor otherwise. If you enjoyed watching the monitor, when you next have the chance to see a show (who knows when that will be...), take a look behind you as well, sometimes they're put up or projected near the light booth!

  • @lydialo1700
    @lydialo1700 3 роки тому +235

    For those people watching without captions, ya'll are missing a lot. Editor-san's subtitles are AMAZING!! They don't just read what Brett and Eddy are saying, he also makes commentary and writes out their thoughts in the captions, which just makes everything so much funnier.

    • @dummyaccount2652
      @dummyaccount2652 3 роки тому +8

      This is miy first time doing that, and it is GOLD!

    • @skateata1
      @skateata1 2 роки тому +2

      I forgot to turn my captions on! Thanks for reminding me.

    • @wakingtheworld
      @wakingtheworld 2 роки тому +5

      Glad I scrolled down to see this comment. Yes, it added another dimension and yet more laughs to this vid...

  • @djalto
    @djalto 5 років тому +518

    Why is this so accurate??? Especially the "choking on stage fog" part

  • @rovlovideo4156
    @rovlovideo4156 5 років тому +612

    1:28
    *You looking at me*
    1:53
    *The reason why you’re looking at me*

    • @Jesper007
      @Jesper007 5 років тому +2

      Nice 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @elliotgrant9524
      @elliotgrant9524 5 років тому +1

      Ahahaga dying from bronchitis rn

    • @himasekiwari155
      @himasekiwari155 5 років тому +1

      The coment was random XD

    • @RichieK2005
      @RichieK2005 4 роки тому

      Hey, what's the song's name at 1:53 ? I like it but I don't know what it is.

    • @RichieK2005
      @RichieK2005 4 роки тому

      Nevermind I found it.

  • @TheSleepyOne1219
    @TheSleepyOne1219 4 роки тому +550

    Me: accidentally has the captions on
    The person who did the captions: :>...
    I swear to God it was hilarious. They kept mentioning ling ling lmao

  • @kenzie1256
    @kenzie1256 5 років тому +242

    Is it bad that this makes me want to play in a pit?
    I miss this kind of thing so much, I was in orchestra in school for 7 years but since starting university I haven't. So any sort of "being in an orchestra" video gives me all the feelings lol

    • @angi4912
      @angi4912 3 роки тому +8

      I hope you get to make music again in an orchestra

    • @theclimbingchef
      @theclimbingchef 3 роки тому +2

      I miss it too!

    • @aeriseong1270
      @aeriseong1270 Рік тому

      Ik... we finished our school's musical last year and I was in the pit band... and i miss it a lot... definitely going to do it again next year :')

  • @TheKoreanDrifter
    @TheKoreanDrifter 5 років тому +230

    I love the splat sound effect whenever they touch an instrument in an ungodly manner.

  • @witch.y
    @witch.y 5 років тому +115

    When your school doesn't even have a pit so everyone is squished between the first row and the stage

  • @leosmusicroom824
    @leosmusicroom824 5 років тому +267

    I got smacked in the face with a menorah

  • @11vlyleven
    @11vlyleven 5 років тому +178

    No. 17: missing their cues when it's their time to play because of the other 16 things! Hilarious video, guys!

  • @RB-eb9mr
    @RB-eb9mr 5 років тому +224

    As a horn player, number nine is my life. I usually have to make hand signals to my violinist friend from across the pit to get an answer.

  • @keelie300
    @keelie300 5 років тому +34

    My director for my high school's pit orchestra told us that he once saw a trumpet player in a pit entirely disassemble his instrument, clean it, adjust it, and put it back together just in time for his solo. He had it timed down to the measure!

  • @ariokart5458
    @ariokart5458 4 роки тому +575

    I'm in pit for the musical at my hs every year (we have a really good music department so our musicals are very impressive) and one of my favorite stories to tell is this:
    My freshman year we did Shrek (which did involve an awful amount of trying, AND FAILING, not to laugh), and the two trumpets and one of the trombones, who were all guys (the other trombone didn't participate because she was Responsible), had a stash of cookies back there. I never actually saw it even though I did have to crawl back there occasionally to grab a water bottle out of the huge bin that was behind them, but it included a lot of fortune cookies and probably a couple boxes of cupcakes and other cookies they snagged from the musical brunch or something. Anyway, our conductor had been getting on the first trumpet's case a lot for moving out of the window he'd created so he could see him, and one rehearsal fairly close to opening night our conductor turns to look at the first trumpet - whose mouth was ridiculously full of cookie.
    Obviously our conductor gets mad because we are NOT allowed to have food in the pit. He's like "WHAT ARE YOU EATING????" and the first trumpet can't talk because of how full his mouth is. Our conductor goes on at him for a little, you know, like "I TOLD YOU YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE FOOD IN HERE!!!!!!" and stuff, and of course, in response to this, the second trumpet and first trombone both shove cookies into their mouths. Our conductor's reaction was basically the surprised pikachu meme. It was pretty great.
    So yeah that's the story of how my freshman year the brass got their pit cookie stash confiscated.

    • @WicusIsntOkay
      @WicusIsntOkay 3 роки тому +20

      My school doesn't have any stringed instruments except for a fUcK ton of guitars, a couple bass guitars, I think a few ukuleles, and one double bass I don't think anyone's allowed to use(how they got a double bass and not a cello or a beginner $200 violin is beyond me).
      We don't really have orchestra, our musicals are decent I guess, and we have an acapella group I think.
      Please kidnap me and get me enrolled in your wonderful school.

    • @vlakz3308
      @vlakz3308 3 роки тому +2

      Better than Wish edition of recorder for everyone to use without cleaning it.

    • @harvestedvoltage4324
      @harvestedvoltage4324 2 роки тому +1

      They got doubloons too?

    • @itzafran
      @itzafran 2 роки тому

      bruh my hs has a musical every year too and i joined pit for the first time just bc the musical was spongebob this year and i sat like right in front of the conductor and would eat all the time lmaooooo

  • @shizuko_zx8770
    @shizuko_zx8770 4 роки тому +199

    As someone who used to be in performing arts I can confirm this happens every time we wait backstage . 😂 the most hilarious one in my experience was trying to make a tower of stage props or how far we can push the limit of edging towards the stage before we get caught 😂

    • @bluechord2928
      @bluechord2928 4 роки тому +22

      shizuko ZX we had a backstage silent sing a long to the lion sleeps tonight with movements and mime clicks. This was going on until the last syllable of our cue

    • @shizuko_zx8770
      @shizuko_zx8770 4 роки тому +1

      BlueChord 😂 beautiful

  • @substitoad7069
    @substitoad7069 5 років тому +441

    #15 is exclusive to strings though unfortunately. Us tuba players just leave the hall and come back. Nobody notices anyways

    • @micahanderson8903
      @micahanderson8903 5 років тому +40

      Yah... All winds wish we could eat.

    • @substitoad7069
      @substitoad7069 5 років тому +1

      Micah Anderson facts.

    • @samw5924
      @samw5924 5 років тому +24

      In a show I did the tuba player had both the tuba and trombone 2 parts. He also had a role in the play (including a full song/dance) that more or less worked with his tacets.

    • @substitoad7069
      @substitoad7069 5 років тому +1

      Sam W We normally have to play multiple parts either the bass trombone if available or the second trombone part or sometimes even double bass per the conductors instruction

    • @belledelphine9692
      @belledelphine9692 5 років тому +12

      Substitoad Nope. In orchestra the percussionists basically never even play anything. If we just ran off the and never return then nobody’s even notice.

  • @rodneysworld8328
    @rodneysworld8328 5 років тому +1319

    Yes. All those poor string players. Who don’t have to count 400 million measures of rest. AND WHO CAN EAT WITH OUT BLowing stuff into their instrument. Those poor poor string players...

    • @belledelphine9692
      @belledelphine9692 5 років тому +64

      CrystalPhoenix 547 I’m not a wind instrument player or part of strings but I’m part of percussion. And all I can say is, boi stop complaining who tf would even eat while playing and counting is much easier than playing in my opinion.

    • @ssguptamusic
      @ssguptamusic 5 років тому +50

      I mean our 9 hour practices before shows kinda gets ya hungry in the middle. And as both a bari sax player and a clarinet, more often than not its easier to play parts cause bass lines have really weird counting structures that you gotta think much more about and are easy to get lost on.

    • @chriskatselis1338
      @chriskatselis1338 5 років тому +6

      What's the song at 1:00?

    • @stephanietrejo2565
      @stephanietrejo2565 5 років тому +26

      When i get asked why i chose my instrument I literally said "bc I can eat while playing". Can't relate lol sucks for uuuuu

    • @unapersona7699
      @unapersona7699 5 років тому +1

      Lol

  • @schwarzerrogen930
    @schwarzerrogen930 3 роки тому +42

    Can confirm. Was a percussionist for a pit orchestra. Snare drums make amazing card tables.
    Have done all of these, would do again.

  • @anonymouswombat2354
    @anonymouswombat2354 5 років тому +220

    The percussionist who has to remember when to use each of the 27 sound effects/instruments. And has to improv some vocal percussion when one of the instruments is lost

    • @angi4912
      @angi4912 3 роки тому +3

      Respect

    • @sushigoose_
      @sushigoose_ 3 роки тому

      This is why I quit percussion

    • @anonymouswombat2354
      @anonymouswombat2354 3 роки тому +12

      OMG one time the percussionist forgot to bring the maracas and the conductor realized last minute so he ended up saying, "ch ch ch," really loudly because it was an important part in the music. I was on stage and I've never had to work harder to keep a straight face.

    • @kevinsundelin8639
      @kevinsundelin8639 3 роки тому

      "Sound effects"?

  • @ainsleymason852
    @ainsleymason852 5 років тому +117

    15 should be changed to “flexing on the wind players”

  • @MarsFireballCharge
    @MarsFireballCharge 4 роки тому +34

    eddy: offers brett a pretzel
    brett: *just sticks his nose in the bag*

  • @ChaoticPossumDesigns
    @ChaoticPossumDesigns 4 роки тому +72

    Okay, so, i did lighting for a few shows my school put on and for musicals we’d have our band and orchestra in the pit. For high school, they didnt out me in orchestra like I asked and like a baby frsshman I didnt ask about it and went on not playing for high school.But that meant I didnt go down there. On the night of our last show, all tech ppl were playing hide amd seek beforehand and like 4 of us hid down there and I found so many phone chargers, empty cans of soda, bags of chips, cereal, and a damn can of almost gone soup. And I believe like 2 pillows and a blamket😂
    Pit people really be out here thriving😂

  • @bellamoe1609
    @bellamoe1609 5 років тому +51

    My friend was brass in this mostly string related thing so he was just eating and chilling while I was dying cause I'm playing the cello

  • @karaadams269
    @karaadams269 5 років тому +90

    Stopping other players from eating from your giant bag of food that you brought

  • @dacoconutnut9503
    @dacoconutnut9503 5 років тому +283

    0:07 Eddy: this sheet is so sad, let's invent something new
    Brett: what about singing/acting weirdly?
    Eddy: great idea!!!

    • @josesoto9401
      @josesoto9401 4 роки тому

      Da Coco Nut Nut whats the song?

  • @meraldlag4336
    @meraldlag4336 4 роки тому +31

    Stage fog in half the room
    Brett and Eddy:
    Stage fog fills another cubic centimetre:
    Brett and Eddy: suddenly and simultaneously both start coughing violently

  • @svungflower
    @svungflower 4 роки тому +26

    Me an my boyfriend where stand partners in the pit doing swan lake. And during the rests we ate trail mix and watched twoset.

  • @napalmedyourdad4870
    @napalmedyourdad4870 4 роки тому +39

    Queen Of the Night Aria was as accurate as ever.

  • @Adamml321
    @Adamml321 4 роки тому +25

    One time my friend on stage and I had a specific scene where we secretly played rock paper scissors every performance.

  • @joshjams1978
    @joshjams1978 3 роки тому +15

    I’m doing a double program (classical guitar and theater), and I can tell you, if there’s one thing actors and musicians have in common, it’s the amount of dumbassery that happens in the pit or backstage/makeup and dress up rooms

  • @aminaebrahim7154
    @aminaebrahim7154 3 роки тому +66

    Once some guy in the trumpet section ordered pizza for the entire pit
    Best pit experience ever

    • @saje7355
      @saje7355 3 роки тому +3

      Lmao I just rlly wanna go in the pit now lol

  • @mistmoon1292
    @mistmoon1292 5 років тому +26

    "Brass/percussion who's been tacet for 300 bars" LOL
    omg I died that is great

  • @ledge-magee
    @ledge-magee 3 роки тому +19

    I used to pity the orchestra in the pit, but now that I see it's an absolute rave I'm cool with it.

  • @crystalbuck2295
    @crystalbuck2295 4 роки тому +41

    2:10 Brett is me on a diet

  • @kurohakumurasaki5964
    @kurohakumurasaki5964 4 роки тому +62

    *turns on captions*
    Me: *cant stop laughin*😂😂😂
    Salute to the person who made these subtitles😎🙌🙋😂

  • @adiemuller9486
    @adiemuller9486 5 років тому +128

    Stage smoke = yes
    but it's too dark to read :(
    #13... Playing an entire piece upbow
    One time, during an especially long tacet, we snuck out for sandwiches next door...

    • @sangerzonnvolt6712
      @sangerzonnvolt6712 4 роки тому +1

      It's too dark to read the map
      Silent Hill 2 reference

  • @katherineronauly
    @katherineronauly 5 років тому +72

    *the content we all signed up for.*

  • @erika._.lex6
    @erika._.lex6 3 роки тому +22

    For this music camp i went to pre-covid, there was these plays at the last two days of the camp that everyone had to do. If you weren't in one of the plays, then you'd be down in the pit. During the second day, I was in the pit and there was a part where only the clarinets played. Lo and behold, during our ONE SOLO OF THE ENTIRE DAY, this group of people were dancing over a section of the pit (there was a wooden roof thing cause the stage was sorta small) and dropped all this GLITTER onto everyone in the pit. Most of us clarinettists started either choking on glitter and trying to not get it in our clarinets. After the play, our conductor started yelling at the dancers lol. Apparently the most of the glitter on these props they were using got shaken off and fell in the pit.
    Oh, and, they were dancing on they roof so a lot of people kept losing count during rehearsals so we barely made it through the concert XD

  • @rhphoenix5
    @rhphoenix5 5 років тому +13

    1:04 YES. I once had time to go out of the pit ( during rehersals), tall to the actors backstage, go to the washroom, and get myself an aero bar before I got back to the pit with 50 more bars of rest.

  • @zoeguan9941
    @zoeguan9941 5 років тому +163

    0:36 honestly me and my friends during class tho 😂

  • @insub0rdinationaj249
    @insub0rdinationaj249 5 років тому +40

    I have done a lot of that. Our orchestra behind the scenes is just wild.

  • @palmocorbus9839
    @palmocorbus9839 3 роки тому +13

    I played in a pit for community theater/orchestra. this is totally spot on. There were a few shows where things would get thrown across stage and it was very important to watch the conductor during those parts cause if her eyes got really big, it meant something pointy/heavy/unplesant was probably going to fall into the pit.

  • @lya3108
    @lya3108 5 років тому +21

    2:16 i’m literally eating the same brand of pretzels as them 😂😂

  • @jugglerjim01
    @jugglerjim01 5 років тому +33

    I used to run the green room bar for a local amateur theatre company, the trombonist was *always* the first of the musicians to the bar at interval and end of show 🤣😎

    • @entenwood9024
      @entenwood9024 5 років тому +6

      I'm a trombonist and can confirm, in a lot of pieces we don't have to play. Also the trombonist are probably the biggest alcoholics of the orchestra.

    • @randoprior4130
      @randoprior4130 5 років тому +2

      Would confirm, but I'm too drunk. Tromboning all these ladies after the show

  • @lizzylambardo8103
    @lizzylambardo8103 3 роки тому +13

    When our university wind symphony plays for the graduation ceremonies, the rule is be quiet but basically anything is fair game. My favorite thing was the people who brought nintendo DSs and Switches and were just playing those together the entire time. We literally would play for 10 mins at the beginning and 5 mins at the end and we'd have a whole 3hr ceremony with nothing to do. But we got paid, so it was worth it.

  • @nomyum7042
    @nomyum7042 4 роки тому +105

    A easy guide to playing instruments:
    Brass: blow into a chunk of metal and make it sound good
    Strings: make an overpriced piece of wood with strings sound good by sliding a overpriced wooden stick over it
    Woodwind: blow into a pipe and make it sound good
    Percussion: hit stuff with sticks and make it sound good

    • @zetjet9901
      @zetjet9901 4 роки тому +28

      Piano: delicately slap inedible black and white candy bars and make it sound good
      (As someone who plays piano)

    • @LOLlol-hy4co
      @LOLlol-hy4co 4 роки тому +17

      Brass should be the following (I'm a trumpet player): Blow a raspberry into a 50 meter long tube of metal

    • @synvolatris8679
      @synvolatris8679 4 роки тому +4

      @@LOLlol-hy4co this is so true (I play the French horn) and my friends telling the secondary 1 that instruments are just give the instrument a bl**job (not writing the full word, please don't report me)

    • @zelbarbero
      @zelbarbero 3 роки тому +9

      Harp: Running your fingers along a multitude of strings and make it sound good.

    • @inactivefatimahgianna245
      @inactivefatimahgianna245 3 роки тому

      @@zelbarbero YES!!!!’

  • @woahdaddy.standbackman.902
    @woahdaddy.standbackman.902 4 роки тому +7

    honestly, I do more socializing in the pit then I do in the rest of my life.

  • @meganarisaling
    @meganarisaling 5 років тому +87

    OMG you guys should do a quiz that decides which instrument you should play. Could be a viola you never know 😏😏

  • @erichofmeister6399
    @erichofmeister6399 5 років тому +17

    1:24 when you bite down on something cold

  • @emilfuchs3336
    @emilfuchs3336 3 роки тому +7

    In Finland brass players go to sauna during tacet :D

  • @bethanyhovermale1184
    @bethanyhovermale1184 4 роки тому +15

    I’m really sad because my art school put on Addams family this year and I got picked to be the cellist in the pit, but because of covid-19 it was cancelled. :(

  • @lavenderthreat4435
    @lavenderthreat4435 5 років тому +139

    I’m not a classical musician so whenever you say pit I imagine you in the mosh pit of a metal concert

    • @irokosalei5133
      @irokosalei5133 5 років тому +20

      That's sacreligeous

    • @collectorofcats294
      @collectorofcats294 5 років тому

      IrokoSalei lol, indeed... very sacrilegious...

    • @jbertucci
      @jbertucci 5 років тому +1

      Now THAT would be fun

    • @alexjgraves
      @alexjgraves 4 роки тому

      ME! 😂

    • @mayra7683
      @mayra7683 4 роки тому

      I thought they were talking about pit as in front Ensemble in marching band for percussion. I was like "wait those arent marimbas..."

  • @shuthestupidpotato
    @shuthestupidpotato 5 років тому +73

    Correction:
    10. Watching TwoSetViolin Videos

  • @Moonys17
    @Moonys17 5 років тому +60

    0:12 that happened to me, but I play a wind instrument so...

    • @MrWhangdoodles
      @MrWhangdoodles 3 роки тому +1

      Clarinet with me. I can relate. Not good.

    • @aliciacharlene2442
      @aliciacharlene2442 3 роки тому +2

      I blew the fog and played with it lmao XD I’m in the youth orchestra, messing around lol XDDD

    • @mogmason6920
      @mogmason6920 3 роки тому

      Nothing like a bit of Wagnerian fog, as a Brass and Wind player!
      Don’t worry, only 14 more hours to go!

    • @Roititouan
      @Roititouan 3 роки тому

      Gbb

    • @SoBeIt9033
      @SoBeIt9033 3 роки тому

      @@mogmason6920 I saw a comment saying it's Das Rheingold, but I'm not 100% certain. If yes, may I know which part?
      Also, do you know the music @ 0:49 & @ 1:13?

  • @tristantrombonegilley83
    @tristantrombonegilley83 3 роки тому +7

    I’d always see a couple sax kids playing smash during a dress rehearsal

  • @exaltedmu2
    @exaltedmu2 5 років тому +22

    1:23 this is what all pit musicians do: watch twosetviolin

  • @vanja6023
    @vanja6023 4 роки тому +7

    Next time I got to opera, I just wanna vibe down in the pit with the orchestra

  • @nicnic6871
    @nicnic6871 4 роки тому +51

    No one:
    The subtitles: * sipipipipipip *

  • @ottopatchen6577
    @ottopatchen6577 3 роки тому +4

    There's usually a guy with vodka in a water bottle, or a girl with a starbucks mug full of irish coffee.

  • @morganthroumoulos6003
    @morganthroumoulos6003 5 років тому +7

    I’m a dancer and I sometimes dance with a live orchestra in the pit and it’s so interesting seeing what’s going on right underneath me and my friends when we dance

  • @alysiaburrows2307
    @alysiaburrows2307 5 років тому +197

    0:31 when your mum says she wants you to play the viola and not the violin.

    • @fuseki23
      @fuseki23 5 років тому +1

      what a great thumbnail

    • @chickenpickle6909
      @chickenpickle6909 5 років тому +5

      What kind of mother would do that

    • @gabrielxiong8710
      @gabrielxiong8710 5 років тому

      Alysia Burrows 2

    • @irokosalei5133
      @irokosalei5133 5 років тому +1

      0:31 Or when she says she wants you to become a doctor or an engineer and not a musician

  • @jena4052
    @jena4052 3 роки тому +4

    im obviously the doodle one... i love drawing so much that my whole accolay concerto is covered with doodles

  • @gothgirlgraveyard3539
    @gothgirlgraveyard3539 4 роки тому +5

    I work on the stage but I constantly see people in the pit doing work during intermission😂

  • @CherrygroveCity
    @CherrygroveCity 5 років тому +171

    you can do so much in the hard ball inside a cherry

  • @Pearagon10
    @Pearagon10 3 роки тому +9

    My first pit experience was a the low brass book in a high school production of Mary Poppins. Like 5 instruments, but still had time to do all the shenanigans. Another time in the South Pacific pit the trumpet player I was sitting next to looked at me, reached down and grabbed a beer out of a cooler he had at his feet and like a pound bag of m&m’s. Damn, pit is so fun...

  • @GregoryM1
    @GregoryM1 5 років тому +13

    Number 6 is so freaking true for French Horns in Mozart's Early Operas

  • @girlwithoutpearlearring
    @girlwithoutpearlearring 4 роки тому +5

    0:26: our entire brass section at every rehearsal

  • @carolynleung9253
    @carolynleung9253 5 років тому +17

    When you’re a pianist fighting for a position in the pit and failing

    • @ashleethao9401
      @ashleethao9401 5 років тому +1

      Carolyn Leung For me, true story every time. Also, the moment when as a pianist, you realize balance with the rest of the orchestra is a real issue.

  • @krisweller1498
    @krisweller1498 3 роки тому +5

    My high school band director caved one year and finally allowed us to have our phones/books/entertainment at graduation. We play in the very beginning and at the very end, with at least an hour in between just sitting in the sun. I listened to an audiobook and my stand partner and his neighbor watched basketball. Good times.

  • @lieke__1339
    @lieke__1339 4 роки тому +4

    There was one scene where we didn’t have to play, It was so funny and everyone else in the orchestra looked so serious and I was CHOKING of laughter. the scene was deleted from the script the next day 😂😂

  • @mmclean9560
    @mmclean9560 3 роки тому +4

    As an actor, I do #1 backstage too.
    When you spend 3 months rehearsing the same show over and over again you start to memorize other people's lines and songs.

  • @benceszabo5515
    @benceszabo5515 5 років тому +61

    No. 17. Switching from a B natural
    ... to a B flat

  • @Discusser
    @Discusser 5 років тому +570

    Next video: 19 Things musicians talk about
    edit: im bad at making jokes so this is the most likes i got

    • @dacoconutnut9503
      @dacoconutnut9503 5 років тому +30

      "I hate being in an orchestra, I only have whole rests all throughout the piece" - Musician that plays trombone

    • @agnesmarias2905
      @agnesmarias2905 5 років тому

      That would be awesome

    • @priyeeshofonie9615
      @priyeeshofonie9615 5 років тому

      Ling Ling

    • @definitelynotskittles
      @definitelynotskittles 5 років тому +8

      @@dacoconutnut9503 ok but that's what a trombonist literally said during a rehearsal once.
      "I have a 200 measure rest" - said trombonist

    • @1helluvakiller352
      @1helluvakiller352 5 років тому

      How you can get to BBC news for being the world's fastest violinist without hitting a single right note and getting away with it by saying "If you can play it slow, you can play it fast."

  • @CeciliaTan
    @CeciliaTan 2 роки тому +6

    I remember the guys in the pit band doing an interview when A Chorus Line became the longest running show on Broadway, and the same guys had been in the band pretty much the entire time, for decades. They talked about how they could read the New York Times cover to cover *while playing the show* (not during breaks) because they knew it so well by that point. They'd buy one copy of the paper, and then split it up into sections and rotate it from section to section. (It only just now occurred to me to wonder what did they read in the second show on matinee days when they had two shows...?)

  • @Loziwig
    @Loziwig 3 роки тому +3

    My most fun pit experience was when there was some smoke effects that covered the stage and also our lil musician hole. Couldn’t see in front of my face let alone the music or conductor. Didn’t mind though as I found it fun.

  • @williammullighan3118
    @williammullighan3118 5 років тому +5

    I have played in exactly one orchestra that was in a pit, and all of these happened

  • @HAKSHI
    @HAKSHI 5 років тому +20

    17) decorating the pit
    Man i wish i had pit everyday tbh rip

  • @michaelwoon
    @michaelwoon 4 роки тому +5

    When Eddy went to whisper in Brett's ear I legit thought he was going to kiss him lmao

  • @Bushwhacker-so4yk
    @Bushwhacker-so4yk 4 роки тому +6

    I love playing in pit! I’m totally the person who mouths along with half the lines. It keeps me from getting lost/distracted.