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Post by enjoithetrumpets09 on Nov 15, 2006 18:22:47 GMT -5
At the end of band camp we get in a huge block and do a march-down. Where the drum major gives commands and you have to follow them, and if you mess up, you're out. The last 10 were all drummers and trumpets. I won.
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albinosaxgirl
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Post by albinosaxgirl on Nov 30, 2006 19:47:28 GMT -5
Football Games/Performances1) 30 seconds of silence- After warming up and before performing we squish in around our BD and take 30 seconds to think about the upcoming performance. 2) Alto Dance- Before performing all the alto's stand in a circle and do the alto dance. 3) Drumline Love- last year at every football game one of our DM's went around and kissed each member of the drumline on the cheek. Was supossed to be for good luck but our football team didn't win any home games so I think it was opposite. 4) Alto Head-But- Two members of the alto section grab each others visors on our hats and head but each other. I think it was actually started by girls. 5) Senior Gifts- At the last home game most sections buy the seniors in heir sections gifts. One senior from each section gives a speech to the band. 6) Backward Hats- If we win the football game we put our hats on backward. We do the alto dance. but all the saxes get to do it, because it was started by a tenor. Doo-doo dut doo-doo dut doo-doo, dut doo doo doo doo doo-doo... We also do senior gifts. Every senior in the band gets at least one box of condoms. The saxophone guys only get sex toys, but they usually get the girls something nice. And every year between marching season and winter guard season, the color guard writes a story about the Pirates of the Tennessee River, starring themselves. It's really funny. This year's was only 2 pages ((that go from roof to floor)) though. Last years was about 5 and took up at least one entire wall of the bandroom. I know we have more, but I'll have to add them later wehn I rememebr them.
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Post by trumpetbabe69 on Dec 5, 2006 17:54:08 GMT -5
At the end of band camp we get in a huge block and do a march-down. Where the drum major gives commands and you have to follow them, and if you mess up, you're out. The last 10 were all drummers and trumpets. I won. hmm, yup, your a trumpet alright... but no, we do the same thing, we call it a drill down and our BDD yells things out. And he'll do simon-says when it gets down tothe end to make sure people are really paying attention. I usually do pretty well, but then he'll say 'right slide, right flank' and i mess up... or a 'to the rear' those always get me too....
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Post by trumpetbabe69 on Dec 5, 2006 18:02:54 GMT -5
our band has soem great 'traditions'
Color Day - The last day of band camp...each section gets assigned a color to wear so it looks like one big rainbow on the field during band camp... the trumpets always get pink, probably because our DM's know how much the guys hate/love it. We also get to write our own crazy drill and perform it on this day and we have water fights... its great.
HighFives - the DM's ALWAYS give us Highfives and big smiles before and after every practice, performance, or competition...
Senior Night - all the seniors get to wear cool hats, not marching ones wen we perform and such at the game
The Breaking of the Bread - the drumline captain started this a few years ago, at the start of the 4th quarter the head of the drumline stands up and breaks this HUGE loaf of bread in half. Then they pass it around to the rest of the section.
and then theres about 1794327843 Trumpet traditions but they're just stuff like huddleing up and yelling BAMF (Being Awesome Making Friends) before each game and swarming the DM's... (ameoba)
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Post by sondosia on Dec 6, 2006 22:54:53 GMT -5
Hmm...let's see... -our section handshakes -when we stretch, we do this hip stretch where we lean forward, then side, then back (and hold all of those positions for like 30 seconds), and when we lean back everyone groans REALLY loud -at the beginning of practice, or whenever the BD gets done giving a speech or something, when they say what set we're going to, everyone cheers and runs to it -once at every football game, a certain person does the "Banana Cheer" with the rest of the band, and when that person is a senior he passes it on to someone who will be a junior the next year, and so on and so forth Then there's my personal favorite: At the last practice of the season, at the very end, we do the "Seniors' Last March", where everyone lines up on one side of the field and marches 100 yards to the other side, at their own pace. Even though I'm not a senior, I couldn't help but start bawling my eyes out when it was time to do it. ~M~
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Post by albinosaxgirl on Dec 9, 2006 12:05:17 GMT -5
-when we stretch, we do this hip stretch where we lean forward, then side, then back (and hold all of those positions for like 30 seconds), and when we lean back everyone groans REALLY loud JESSIE STRETCH, JESSIE STRETCH!!!! At least that's what my band calls it. Do you "Caw" like birds when you lean forward too, or is that just Jordan and Deanna's craziness making us look stupid? I found some more traditions! (That's one^) We have wierd things we scream at practice. -'The Hindu'. When the DMs say "set up for the Hindu" all the saxes and trumpets yell "But what about the (*other religion*)?" -Hip stretches/lunges/whatever you call them. They tell us to do it, and while we're in the position, they ask "What's this called?!?!" and everyone screams "RIGHT HIP FLEXXOR!!!" (or left, depending on they way we're leaning). Occasionally, a section will get together before practice and decide on something else to yell out ((Exe: "SEAN SICKLES' PEIRCED NIPPLE! and OTHER PEIRCED NIPPLE!" Long story. Someone always says "BRIAN FRANCICA'S MOM! and HIS OTHER MOM!" Usually it's the other DM)) Eventually the Dms get tired of us screaming, so they don't ask, but we say it anyway. Sometime's they'll ask what something without a name is called, so everyone screams something random or just screams. -After we do body buildup, we have to swing our hips around out of line so we can easily find where they're supposed to be. The trumpets and mellos are perverted ((but the again, so are the rest of us)) so when they say "Push your hips way forward" they trumpets yell, "Like you're givin' it!" and when they say "Now push your hips way back. Stick your butt out." The mellos yell "Like you're takin' it!" and the clarinets yell "Oooh, Jordan!" (DM) -At every practice, at least one person drops a mouthpeice and a drummer will break a stick. Everyone always yells "PICK IT UP!" Before the BDs do, because if they have to tell you, they get mad. What's funny is when the BDs drop their charts or something off thier perch thing and everyone stops marching to scream pick it up at them. -When we're running back sets or something, everyone yells "Get there!" in strange voices. again, because the BDs get mad if you have to be told.
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Dec 20, 2006 20:22:43 GMT -5
1. Huddle! BD gives us a pep talk then sends us to our sections. 2. Trumpet section has a designated "reverend" to pray for us before games/preformances. 3. Silence on busses in the parking lot. 4. Trumpet section's "bus list". [You don't want to know] 5. On the trumpet bus, if you are talking to anyone else on the phone besides family, the SLs have the right to take your phone and start talking to the person on your phone. [Not a good thing if you know what I mean] 6. Stoney pose. [You would have to see it.] 7. If it's you birthday during marching season, the BD sings [badly] over the long ranger happy birthday while you stand where everyone can see you. Sometimes you stand on the drum major podem [sp?]. 7. Oh yeah, the trumpets do the streach called in the woods. It's very akward if you are a girl in short shorts. I think thats why our section does it. Just to get on our nerves. 8. Sented valve oil. The trumpets bring secnted valve oil to every game and pass it around before halftime, smelling it. Sometimes using it too. 9. And at practice, when you run back to your sets... and the last person who gets to their set, gives points to the other team [teams are boys vs. girls]. 10. "YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" = D [would have to be there] That's all I've got so far. Katie
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Post by samthered on Jan 8, 2007 17:10:14 GMT -5
The trumpets get together before parades and do the hokey pokey, where you kidnap your DM and end with, " You put your drum major in, you put your drum major out...." It's really interesting when only 2 trumpets can sing.
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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 20, 2007 16:35:57 GMT -5
^But does that stop anyone?
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Post by carahtheodd on Jan 23, 2007 17:23:48 GMT -5
of course not, why would it? that fact just makes them sing louder. Then of course there is the whole "don't suck on three" mantra
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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 23, 2007 17:37:28 GMT -5
^Brianna... what will mb be like without him?
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Post by carahtheodd on Jan 23, 2007 17:39:49 GMT -5
I don't know. But all I know is this year if he is dm, our choreography (sp?) will be awesome, but no solos...except form engelbert..
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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 23, 2007 17:44:43 GMT -5
^I think Emily and Camille are going out for dm, not Brianna. As for solos, that depends on the song...
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Post by carahtheodd on Jan 23, 2007 18:15:26 GMT -5
I WANT BRIANNA TO BE DM THO
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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 23, 2007 18:27:19 GMT -5
^Ask him if he's going out for it, but I don't think he is.
Plus, do you REALLY want him too? That would make Onion Boy lead trumpet.
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