What's a
Scramble Band?
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If
you were part of a marching band in high school, you can basically take all
that discipline and regimented marching you've learned and throw it out the
nearest window.....
 Like high school marching, we do have Point A and
Point B. The big difference is how you move from one to the other. The
typical scramble band only has about 4 formations in an entire show. As our
Voice reads the show's script over the PA, each band member can run around
however they want, as long as they get to Point B by the time the joke is
over. You can run in a circle, you can run is a very screwed up line, you
can fall down on the ground and writhe around, you can steal someone's
trumpet and make the chase you...you get the idea. Just go crazy until
you're supposed to be at Point B. Then we park in that formation, play a
song, and repeat the process a couple of times. Sounds like it takes maybe
one, two hours top to put this kind of show together. And that's a good
thing, because that's all we've got! We do a different show for every game
and rehearse the show at the preceding Wednesday night Field Rehearsal. So
each show is of significantly less difficulty than a high school marching
show, but we do a different one every week.
 You'll
find that a scramble band offers the following perks: no stress about
perfect marching and no subsequent guilt if you make a mistake, a helluva
lot more fun DURING the show, and a lot more free time in your schedule with
fewer boring, repetitious field rehearsals.
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Showwriting
As
part of our field show, our Voice reads a series of jokes as we scramble. Too
bad these jokes don't write themselves...hence showwriting. Showwriting
is a very laid back, casual, weekly event at which members of the band meet
and brainstorm ideas for an upcoming show. Typical showwritings are held on a
weekday in the late evening, usually Tuesday or Thursday, so as to not clash
with class times. Attendance is strictly optional, but it's very rewarding to
contribute to the show. And if you don't go to showwriting, you lose all
rights to say the show wasn't funny! Look for specific informational emails
from the Vice President, the man-in-charge of showwriting, about times,
places, and some possible topics for showwritings throughout the football
season.
Read
our past shows!
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