Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Aug 16, 2008 18:30:42 GMT -5
Since Anthony will be leaving next year, he's passing on all the trumpet traditions he's picked over the last four years. Actually, most of these were created within the last two years. Anyway, here they are. We may add a few more as we come up with more or remember some more old ones. It's our job to keep these traditions alive!
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Marching Band
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Brass
- Location: Fun Void
- The Cha Cha
- Trumpet Triumverate
- Brass Rule, Woodwinds Drool
- Spitballs
- Racecar
- Scooping
- Mouthpiece Stealing
- Slide "Adjusting"
- Saliva
- "Hold the butter"
- "Hi, Mom"
- Agony Sticks
- Backwards marching with a quarter
- Super Cool Uber Modified (SCUM)
- SAVO lolol (Super Awesome Valve Oil)/SALIVA (Super Awesome Lol Insane Valve Applicant)
- "Make them throw babies!"
- Trumpet Greeting
- Shotgun
- Mission Super Throoper
- (Your Mom's) On Wisconsin
- Slammin' Jlammin' Flammin' Cheerin' Packin'
- We are the Trumpets
- What would you do with a Trumpet Player?
Full Explanations:
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Marching Band - Be Professional (in other words, NO FUN AT ALL)
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Brass - Save the trees. Pick BRASS.
- Location: Fun Void - Where Everyone's Pro
- The Cha Cha - Trumpet secret handshake (MUST be preserved)
- Trumpet Triumverate - a trio of trumpet legends
- Brass Rule, Woodwinds Drool - self-explanatory
- Spitballs - special foam balls used to clean trumpets and annoy the woodwinds out of their minds
- Racecar - special trumpet technique for making a racecar sound: push the valves halfway down and do random buzzing, moving the valves very slightly and very slowly
- Scooping - hold trumpet like you are at attention, lower it, and raise it up on someone's back side
- Mouthpiece Stealing - self-explanatory: when someone's not looking take his/her mouthpiece (inconspicuously)
- Slide "Adjusting" - basically the same as mouthpiece stealing: pull out/push in someone's tuning slide when he/she's not looking (if you're really good, you can take the slide out completely)
- Saliva - "What did the drummer get on his IQ test? Saliva." The joke about saliva is that, when Mr. Howard came to help out during class last year, we spent ten minutes telling band jokes. He asked that joke, and I answered in just about the dullest, most boring, uncaring voice you've ever heard.... that's the joke.
- "Hold the butter" - at band camp, Mr. Howard had us play through some of the show music individually. I was first, and, when I did something wrong, Mr. Howard said something. I can't remember exactly what it was.... I think it was "Don't hold over" or "No vibrato" or something. Anyway, Geoff was half paying attention and he heard "Hold the butter." So that's our new way of saying "No mistakes and no excuses."
- "Hi, Mom" - "Hi, Mom" is written on the bottom of your shoes. This is something we say to get everyone to keep their toes up while forward marching. If that message is on the bottom, you want to lift your toes up so high that your mom will see it from the stands. (We all know nobody can actually read that far, but it's just a trick.)
- Agony Sticks - any stick-like instrument that makes a squealing sound (clarinet, flute, oboe, clarinet-shaped soprano sax, etc.)
Backwards marching with a quarter - tighten your butt like you have a quarter and your trying to hold it there. This helps with toe height and bouncing.
- SCUM - we all know SCUM. I don't know where it came from, so I can't really explain it, but I do know that DCI corps use it (maybe not with the same name though).
- SAVO/SALIVA - Anthony's Super Awesome Valve Oil. He's had it for a while. It has tons of crazy typos.... and it was "Mode in USA." The Chinese type better than us!
- "Make them throw babies!" - last year, Mr. Rice started coming to our practices to help us out. He explained it basically like this: "You know how when everyone's excited in the audience, and they want to clap, but they have a baby in their hands? What do they do? They throw the baby up into the air! So we want to make them throw babies!!"
- Trumpet Greeting - "Hi, I'm better than you." Because trumpets are so egotistical... and we ARE the best.
- Shotgun - the best chord/dynamic/balance exercise ever!
- Mission Super Throoper - Section Leaders (I need to start doing this): whenever Mr. Mote asks for attendance, every few practices say "Jacob Throop's missing." (For anyone who doesn't know who Jacob is.... sophomores and under, so pretty much everyone, he's an Etowah alumni trumpet player. One of the best Etowah's ever seen... after Drew Raesler and Josh Salas. So mention his name every so often when you're doing attendance.)
- Your Mom's On Wisconsin - two years ago, in class we were playing On Wisconsin, when Katie (not in band anymore) and Anthony decided to write "Your Mom" on the song.
- Slammin' Jlammin' Flammin' Cheerin' Packin' - it has to rhyme!
- Trumpet Songs - we come up with new songs to glorify trumpets and put down woodwinds every year. These are just some of them.
Lyrics for songs:
- We are the Trumpets:
We are the trumpets, my friend.
And we'll keep on playing till the end
We are the trumpets. We are the trumpets.
No time for woodwinds, 'cause we are the trumpets...
OF THE BAND!!!
- What would you do with a Trumpet Player?:
What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player early in the morning?
Throw him in the brig if he can't play high C! Throw him in the brig if he can't play high C! Throw him in the brig if he can't play high C early in the morning!
What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player early in the morning?
Take his mouthpiece when he's not looking! Take his mouthpiece when he's not looking! Take his mouthpiece when he's not looking early in the morning!
What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player early in the morning?
Pull out his slides and loosen his valves! Pull out his slides and loosen his valves! Pull out his slides and loosen his valves early in the morning!
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Marching Band
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Brass
- Location: Fun Void
- The Cha Cha
- Trumpet Triumverate
- Brass Rule, Woodwinds Drool
- Spitballs
- Racecar
- Scooping
- Mouthpiece Stealing
- Slide "Adjusting"
- Saliva
- "Hold the butter"
- "Hi, Mom"
- Agony Sticks
- Backwards marching with a quarter
- Super Cool Uber Modified (SCUM)
- SAVO lolol (Super Awesome Valve Oil)/SALIVA (Super Awesome Lol Insane Valve Applicant)
- "Make them throw babies!"
- Trumpet Greeting
- Shotgun
- Mission Super Throoper
- (Your Mom's) On Wisconsin
- Slammin' Jlammin' Flammin' Cheerin' Packin'
- We are the Trumpets
- What would you do with a Trumpet Player?
Full Explanations:
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Marching Band - Be Professional (in other words, NO FUN AT ALL)
- Number 1 Rule of EHS Brass - Save the trees. Pick BRASS.
- Location: Fun Void - Where Everyone's Pro
- The Cha Cha - Trumpet secret handshake (MUST be preserved)
- Trumpet Triumverate - a trio of trumpet legends
- Brass Rule, Woodwinds Drool - self-explanatory
- Spitballs - special foam balls used to clean trumpets and annoy the woodwinds out of their minds
- Racecar - special trumpet technique for making a racecar sound: push the valves halfway down and do random buzzing, moving the valves very slightly and very slowly
- Scooping - hold trumpet like you are at attention, lower it, and raise it up on someone's back side
- Mouthpiece Stealing - self-explanatory: when someone's not looking take his/her mouthpiece (inconspicuously)
- Slide "Adjusting" - basically the same as mouthpiece stealing: pull out/push in someone's tuning slide when he/she's not looking (if you're really good, you can take the slide out completely)
- Saliva - "What did the drummer get on his IQ test? Saliva." The joke about saliva is that, when Mr. Howard came to help out during class last year, we spent ten minutes telling band jokes. He asked that joke, and I answered in just about the dullest, most boring, uncaring voice you've ever heard.... that's the joke.
- "Hold the butter" - at band camp, Mr. Howard had us play through some of the show music individually. I was first, and, when I did something wrong, Mr. Howard said something. I can't remember exactly what it was.... I think it was "Don't hold over" or "No vibrato" or something. Anyway, Geoff was half paying attention and he heard "Hold the butter." So that's our new way of saying "No mistakes and no excuses."
- "Hi, Mom" - "Hi, Mom" is written on the bottom of your shoes. This is something we say to get everyone to keep their toes up while forward marching. If that message is on the bottom, you want to lift your toes up so high that your mom will see it from the stands. (We all know nobody can actually read that far, but it's just a trick.)
- Agony Sticks - any stick-like instrument that makes a squealing sound (clarinet, flute, oboe, clarinet-shaped soprano sax, etc.)
Backwards marching with a quarter - tighten your butt like you have a quarter and your trying to hold it there. This helps with toe height and bouncing.
- SCUM - we all know SCUM. I don't know where it came from, so I can't really explain it, but I do know that DCI corps use it (maybe not with the same name though).
- SAVO/SALIVA - Anthony's Super Awesome Valve Oil. He's had it for a while. It has tons of crazy typos.... and it was "Mode in USA." The Chinese type better than us!
- "Make them throw babies!" - last year, Mr. Rice started coming to our practices to help us out. He explained it basically like this: "You know how when everyone's excited in the audience, and they want to clap, but they have a baby in their hands? What do they do? They throw the baby up into the air! So we want to make them throw babies!!"
- Trumpet Greeting - "Hi, I'm better than you." Because trumpets are so egotistical... and we ARE the best.
- Shotgun - the best chord/dynamic/balance exercise ever!
- Mission Super Throoper - Section Leaders (I need to start doing this): whenever Mr. Mote asks for attendance, every few practices say "Jacob Throop's missing." (For anyone who doesn't know who Jacob is.... sophomores and under, so pretty much everyone, he's an Etowah alumni trumpet player. One of the best Etowah's ever seen... after Drew Raesler and Josh Salas. So mention his name every so often when you're doing attendance.)
- Your Mom's On Wisconsin - two years ago, in class we were playing On Wisconsin, when Katie (not in band anymore) and Anthony decided to write "Your Mom" on the song.
- Slammin' Jlammin' Flammin' Cheerin' Packin' - it has to rhyme!
- Trumpet Songs - we come up with new songs to glorify trumpets and put down woodwinds every year. These are just some of them.
Lyrics for songs:
- We are the Trumpets:
We are the trumpets, my friend.
And we'll keep on playing till the end
We are the trumpets. We are the trumpets.
No time for woodwinds, 'cause we are the trumpets...
OF THE BAND!!!
- What would you do with a Trumpet Player?:
What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player early in the morning?
Throw him in the brig if he can't play high C! Throw him in the brig if he can't play high C! Throw him in the brig if he can't play high C early in the morning!
What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player early in the morning?
Take his mouthpiece when he's not looking! Take his mouthpiece when he's not looking! Take his mouthpiece when he's not looking early in the morning!
What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player? What would you do with a trumpet player early in the morning?
Pull out his slides and loosen his valves! Pull out his slides and loosen his valves! Pull out his slides and loosen his valves early in the morning!