![]() Seniors wear their gloves on their right shoulder, everyone else wears them on their left (This is before the game) This is basically precision drills while playing tradition march music. Well, the NUMBER ONE tradition we have is marching Military Style. We have lots of inside jokes that you wouldn't get without me going on a tangent. The trumpet section prays each time we have dinner before a game.īefore/after rehearsal, our tuba section hopelessly plays a tuba cadence that the band directors won't let them play in the stands. Then every goes "WOOOOOH!" and yelps and hollars and screams, and the drumline does a short cadence.Īfter football games, we go to iHop at 4 in the morning.Īfter rehearsal, we have section meetings, and in our saxophone section, we get together (each section has a mascot, and ours is a snake) and we yell 1, 2, 3, SNAKE 'EM! Bird is Cool" or something.Īt the end of each rehearsal, our drum major summons us to attention like this: While doing jumping jacks, we spell things out, like "RHS band is awesome" or "Mr. Their are other chants our entire band says on the bus ride home, but most of those are pretty inappropriate and actually banned by the directors.Īt the beginning of each rehearsal, we have a stretch time, and we usually do jumping jacks. The title itself is probably safer to not say as it may offend some. The chant itself contains certain phrases and actions that aren't appropriate for discussion here. My favorite low brass tradition, well it involves everyone putting a hand on a freshman and then jumping around in a circle chanting a chant and starting out soft and getting louder every time and jumping more. Our initiation is to eat anywhere from 3 to 5 of the peppers in the pepper sauce available at every table. Low Brass go to Steak and Shake for the first breakfast before the first competition. Most sections initiate their freshmen differently. Huge banquets where somewhere around 225 families bring in a main dish and a side or dessert big enough for 8. We light candles and stand in a circle before senior night. Its basically the coolest stretching warm up ever with added vocals. We do grunts, not sure how to explain them. ![]() On State practice when we do exercise 1 in basics during the direction change instead of saying the next direction we shout something inappropriate. Trumpets wear a hear sticker every competition. Trumpets always do a heart, but everyone else usually does something different every time. Then he says, "Show the World".īefore we get in that circle mentioned above every section constructs something or some shape on the field out of our instruments. Instead of saying yes sir we all yell, "Hell Yes!". ![]() The co-director says, "Look around at others and repeat after me: I! Will! Not! Let! You! Down! "After that the director will say the proper response is, "Yes sir" and then yell, "Are you ready band?". Get ready to rock the house with this dynamic arrangement of a tune made famous by the legendary band KISS.Fire truck sprays water in a fountain at the end of band camp and we run around it.Īfter practice on a competition day before we leave we get in a big circle and cross arms and join hands. ARTIST(S): KISS COMPOSER(S): Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Bob Ezrin ARRANGER(S): Victor López Description: ![]()
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