The Facts Of Marching Band

The facts marching band...and the reasons...



1. We are a sport.
- 16 steps in twenty yards, be in step, stay in line, snap your hips or else. OH! And roll step while double time marching and/or jazz runs.

2. Piccolos cause you pain.
- Attention freshman! DO NOT ask the senior piccolo to play the highest note possible in your ear as cool as you may think it is. I don't want to call the ambulance.

3. Mellophones are the weird ones.
- Mellos are a trumpet hybrid. Those who play this instrument are often the weirdest ones you may find. I suggest you make some new friends.

4. Plumes.
- They're weird looking, they smell odd, they remind you of dead birds. What more is there to say?

5. Your left foot.
- This is your best friend. It always goes first. LEFT GOES FIRST! Never the right, always the left. Don't mess it up your marching judges shall see you and therefor consequences. *glares at freshman*

6. Three minute uniform changes.
- You have the mad ability to put on under armour, pants, jackets, sinches, gloves, gauntlets, shoes, and hats in under 3 minutes without help.

7. Your baby.
- Instruments are babies. They also have names! You always name it and assist freshmen in naming theirs.

8. You are a beasty roll stepper.
- Roll stepping comes in handy. You can roll step when there is too much food on your tray, when you're about to drop your text books in the hall way, and when you're trying to sneak around.

9.The number 12.
- It's bad. Counts of 12 are horrib things that haunt you in your dreams.

10.Tucking.
- "When one places their instrument underneath their arm to carry from one area to another." You love tucking, but you take your mouthpiece out in fear of losing it.

11. Mouthpieces are sacred.
- As a mello/horn/trumpet player I have a total of 4 mouthpieces. One for my crap mello, one for my show mello, one for my horn, and one for my trumpet. If I lose my horn one, I'm dead. That is my like my child!

12. Color guard.
- Spells death if you are in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

13. Your sinch is a pocket.
- It's true. You can stuff just about anything up there. Flip folder, bottles of pop/water, fruit rollups, lyres...etc.

14. Shorts count as lyres.
- Alright so at least in my band they are. Don't have a lyre to stick your flip folder when it's not in use? Stuff it halfway down the back of your pants, it stays put!

15. Hairspray = <3
- Hairspray, bobby-pins, and extra hair ties are the bes things ever. They make comp about 20 times better!

16. The "falling promise".
- If someone in your section falls in practice, you fal with them. If they do it in comp, you run them over and scold them multiple times. <3 ya section!

17. Injuries.
- Oh yes it;s possible. Either hit by guard, popped in the mouth with your instrument, kicked, tripped, etc. etc. etc I could go on for a while.