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Post by Sherri the Bari on Sept 19, 2007 16:00:37 GMT -5
When we dismiss...
DM/DIRECTOR: BAND TEN-HUTT! BAND: PRIDE! DM/DIRECTOR: BAND DISMISSED! BAND: SOJ HOOJAH!
O.O - AND
RANDOM PERSON: JA-LA-PEN-O! BAND: THAT'S WHAT'S UP!
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Post by Jennnnnnnnnnnnnnn on Sept 22, 2007 15:44:50 GMT -5
We do an ex-lax chant the trumpet section leader starts it... SL: Give me an "E" Everyone: E!! SL: Give me a "X" Everyone: X!! SL: Give me a hyphen! Everyone: Hyphen!! SL: Give me a "L" Everyone: L!! SL: Give me an "A" Everyone: A!! SL: Give me a "X" Everyone: X!! SL: What does that spell? Everyone: EX-LAX!! SL: What does that spell? Everyone: EX-LAX!! SL: Whats that make you do? Everyone: GO GO GO!!!!
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sakura11irving
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Post by sakura11irving on Oct 18, 2007 18:08:09 GMT -5
At the end of practice... DM: Band ten-hut! Band: *hiss* DM: How are your feet? Band: 45! DM: butts? Band: tucked DM: stomachs Band: in DM: chest Band: out DM: back Band: back DM: arms Band: open DM: chins Band: up DM: eyes Band: with pride DM: EYES! Band: WITH PRIDE! DM: Dismissed!
Usually done in very loud voice and as quickly as possible.
Then before competitions, us clarinets get into a circle of love, and we just talk. it's very amazing.
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Post by mea on Oct 26, 2007 7:54:30 GMT -5
Our band at the end of every practice, before games and competitions, etc. we do a chant like this...
BD: HEELS
BAND: TOGETHER
BD: TOES
BAND: APART
BD: STOMACH
BAND: IN
BD: SHOULDERS
BAND: BACK
BD: CHIN
BAND: PRIDE!!!!!!
Our old director did: "Band how do you feel!?" reply: "We feel good, oh we feel so good! UNH!"
We also this year have our seniors that our clarinet SL starts "WOO" and we reply "YEAH!" over and over. It really gets us pumped sometimes.
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Oct 27, 2007 22:57:07 GMT -5
Here's our traditions:
The Baritone Mouthpiece Toast Baritone Fun Run You'se a Ho (trombones and baritones) A song called "400" that is awesome Hot Juicy Burgers and chicken (chant)
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jguy1288
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Post by jguy1288 on Oct 28, 2007 10:48:43 GMT -5
The low brass (and sometimes the tenor saxes) would all do "the windmill" handshake. And then all the low brass would put our hands in and scream "L B K A".
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Post by clari on Oct 28, 2007 19:55:37 GMT -5
Well the flutes used to do the hokey-pokey but the section leaders now are boring.
My section does the time warp. The freshmen hate it. My freshmen year that was our parade song. Well i'm a senior now.
The whole band pinky swears each other.
That's about it. We used to do a bunch of cool stuff but the people that kept those things going left and the snobby freshmen now think that they are too good for the fun things that make band.....well, band!
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Post by kahlen on Nov 12, 2007 23:19:32 GMT -5
We have the basic stuff than:
DM: Eyes! Band: With pride! DM: More! Band: Hustle! DM: More! Band: Sweat! DM: More! Band: Desire! DM: More! Band: Heart!
Then our voices would echo and it would be like "Heart-heart-heart..."..Creepy.
Towards the end of the season some of the band members would start saying "more" along with DM and it made me confused...
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Schoolspirit
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Marching Band, Concert Band, Pep Band, 2 Jazz Bands... :P
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Post by Schoolspirit on Nov 14, 2007 20:22:10 GMT -5
I don't know about other sections, but in my band, the flutes have a tradition where we kiss our flutes and then cross them with the person in front of us until we get to the front of the line. Haha me and my friends always kiss each other's instruments too. And when we're marching to the field, we have to march through the elementary playground and some people always run out of line and start swinging on the swings and skipping around. Dont really know why...we're always hyper before the games
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Post by orangepolarbear on Nov 16, 2007 22:39:05 GMT -5
Let's see...
After practice, before we're dismissed, our field conductors do an attention call, which we ALWAYS do standing (even if it was just a music rehearsal)~ FCs: Band, Attend-hut! Band: GO BEARS!
Before pre-game, right after our FC has blown the whistle and just before the drums start their cadence, our entire band leans back as one and roars.
Before halftime, we all gather on the other side of the student hill, so we're out of the stadium view. Usually, our BD will have us think through the drill or the music or have us play a scale and tune or play the first and last notes of each song. Then he says "okay, hands in" and we all get in this giant cluster with our hands as close to the center as possible (there are 165 people in our band, not everyone's hands can be in dead center) and we all start jumping up and down and yelling.
After the football game, win or lose, we gather on top of the student hill and the football team gathers below us around the goal post. We then play the long version of our fight song, singing the first time through, and the football team joins in.
And those are just my college band's rituals.
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Schoolspirit
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Marching Band, Concert Band, Pep Band, 2 Jazz Bands... :P
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Post by Schoolspirit on Nov 17, 2007 18:17:00 GMT -5
Before halftime, we all gather on the other side of the student hill, so we're out of the stadium view. Usually, our BD will have us think through the drill or the music or have us play a scale and tune or play the first and last notes of each song. Then he says "okay, hands in" and we all get in this giant cluster with our hands as close to the center as possible (there are 165 people in our band, not everyone's hands can be in dead center) and we all start jumping up and down and yelling. our football team does that at the beginning of every game we also have a raffle at every game, and one time when the football team was all jumping around, my friend was like "I think we know who won the raffle" haha
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PhantomStrad
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Post by PhantomStrad on Dec 13, 2007 21:28:51 GMT -5
The trumpets get together before a game and we have this thing where we all get together, we get a little 2 second pep-talk, and then we break and this is how we do it: *everyones hands and/or instruments are in* Section Leader- "Cornets on 3! ready! ONE TWO THREE!" Section- CORNETS!!!
I dont know the origins of it except for our Facination with Cornets...for the last football game, our section leader was debating whether or not we should all march out with Cornets instead of our Trumpets, but in the end she decided against it cause there werent enough to go around...and it would have looked weird. (for the record, My high school has a Drum and Bugle corps, not a marching band...so our instruments are all Silver)
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Post by Horn man on Dec 16, 2007 9:36:10 GMT -5
Our horn section has our own hand jive, but i cant tell it because its a secret.
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Post by theshizzz09 on Jan 3, 2008 11:59:23 GMT -5
Cheerleaders: HEY BAND, HOW DO YOU FEEL? Band: WE FEEL GOOD! OH, WE FEEL SO GOOD UNH! (and vice-versa)
And then there's the Trombne section:
THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS! OOOOOH!
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Post by theshizzz09 on Jan 3, 2008 12:03:04 GMT -5
Oh! One other thing...
BD: BAND! TEN HUT! Band: PARK!
And: WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT THOSE COLORS? ORANGE! ORANGE! ORANGE! ORANGE! BLACKBLACKBLACKBLACKBLACKBLACKBLACK!
WPHS PWNS.
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