by MHS Drumline

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Air Heads- see Colorguard, Woodwinds.
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Band Director- the one who always makes bad jokes; never gives the drumline anything except a hard time; leaves the band when we need him/her the most.
Band Room Games- Stuff we do during class to pass the time. Examples of this are: Old drum head frisbee, Kick the Mt. Dew bottle, Pull the chair out from under someone, etc.
Basses- Section of the line that aren't old enough to play snare or quads (except usually one or two people).
Battery- composed of: snare, quad or quint, basses, and cymbals.
Bottom Bass- the biggest piece of crap in the battery percussion; should be sawed in half and burned.
Brass- Second loudest section in the band; composed of: Trumpets, Mellophones, Baritones, Sousaphones, and Trombones.
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Colorguard- the Air Head section; very giddy; practices vagabond (see below); the only action that takes place on bus is fixing their hair and putting on make up. ("Oh no! Is my hair okay???)
Competitions- Places we go to show everyone how good we are.
Crab Stepping- the 'Flanks' of the drumline; done by crossing your left foot over your right when going right, and your right foot over your left when going left; really cool visual for the whole band to do simultaneously but it never happens.
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Diagonal Line- Like a straight line except impossible to make; theoretically it should be as easy as making a straight line but hey, we're talking about wind players here.
Dog from Mars- Man, Daniel, you the dog!
Drill- Marching from one spot to another as fast or as slow as you can; we march it as slow as we can get away with.
Drum Cabinet- What we pitifully use to attempt to store all of our concert equipment.
Drum Captain- the guy/girl that has no sense of tempo at all yet is picked as the tempo setter for the whole line and the whole band.
Drum Major- the person who gives the suggested tempo; usually ignored by the drumline.
Drum Room- Our storage for our piece of crap drums that don't work and pieces of crap drum parts that don't fit; where drum "sectionals" are held.
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Energy- Something no one has after band camp; drumline still manages to play warm ups despite this fact.
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Facial Expressions- Something a good drumline never has; generally a stupid smile from the flag corps.
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Gock Block- the hideous torture device; should be melted but fire can never be found when you need it.
Gong- Pretty much the only instrument the school owns that sounds better than the instruments we use at competitions.(Also used for the pleasure of beating Daiton's head in)
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Hazing- Something once done to rookies; after several lawsuits this pleasure was taken from us.
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Intervals- An equal amount of space between band members (ie two step intervals); "Fix your intervals!" translates to, "SPREAD OUT YOU BUNCH OF RETARDS!!!"
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Jason- Our old "beloved" drum instructor that taught us the God-awful 8&8 and 5, 7, 9 warm up exercises.
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Kicking Butt- What we do at competitions.
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Losing- Something everybody else does when they compete with us; something we've not yet accomplished.
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Marvin the Martian and K-9- the drumline's mascots; represents Dog from Mars.
Middle Bass- the drum no one in their right mind can play right; generally guessing and faking it sounds right.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail- the drumline's favorite movie of all time; our second Bible.
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Nerds- a.k.a. band geeks
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Old Drum Heads- Any head busted or skanked that we use for our frisbee game.
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Pecking- What we do constantly; playing a bunch of stupid stuff just to hear ourselves play; drives the rest of the band crazy; excellent way of getting someone mad at you. (including the band director)
"Piece of Crap"- the drumline's most used phrase. (which describes all of our equipment)
Pit- Usually the section that is making puppet shows while the battery is outside practicing.
Puppy- the faithful band dog that comes to band camp and home football games with us.
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Quads- the person who generally can't march; always speeding up the drumline making for major fits.
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Rookies- New band members with no clue as to what is going on at the moment; we usually know nothing about them.
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Section Leaders- the band members who think they know everything; they have no clue and is ignored by everyone, particularly by the drumline.
"Shut-up"- the most common phrase that the drumline hears.
Snares- the drummers that act like they know everything but usually don't.
Straight Line- the curviest thing in the world; Zig Zag; the closest way to travel between two points; that constitutes marching over cars, people, small bushes, wind instruments, etc while returning to the band room.
Stick Bag- the trash can of the drumline.
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Tempo- Supposedly the beat for the band to follow yet never happens; Drum Captain and Drum Major make feeble attempts to uphold it.
Toilet- what Daniel made out of a busted chair, and later was stuck in it.
Top Bass- the drum for the smallest drummer; requires the best rookie in the line to play.
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Under Tempo- A common mistake; a.k.a. dragging down the tempo.
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Vagabond- Wandering from place to place without any settled destination; see Colorguard
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Warm Ups- Things drummers use to make other band members mad, upset, and unable to talk or hear anything.
Woodwinds- the whiniest section of the band; majority (ž) are Air Heads (especially the Flute section); composed of: Clarinets, Flutes, and Saxophones.
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Xylophone- the heaviest piece of crap in the pit; the alter of the drumline.
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Your Butt- What gets chewed (though not literally) when you mess up during a major performance.
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Zany- clownishly crazy; buffoon; silly person; Chris/Dylan.
Zig Zag- see Straight Line
ZZZZ- the sound you hear on the bus ride home, while someone puts french fries up the sleeper's nose.
---Numbers---
5, 7, 9- the God-awful crap cadence that no one can march to. (not even the drumline)
8&8- the Original God-awful warm-up that the drumline plays; annoys the crap out of the rest of the band.