Pep Band Cheers

Navin · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:29 am Post subject: Pep Band Cheers

Hello everyone, my name is Navin. So, I am a part of band council, a leadership group for our districts bands, and we were told to come up with 2 sports cheers each by tomorrow. Our pep band director wants the band to be more... peppy. I'm not exactly the kind of guy who cheers and shouts at sporting events so I'm not sure how this works. Does anybody have some appropriate cheers for high school sporting events?

This is quite a random thing to ask so I posted it in the lounge.

Thanks!
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LittleRusty · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:49 am Post subject:

I always thought cheers were created by the cheerleaders.

The band's purpose is to play peppy music and perhaps things like the "bugle" call "charge". Or thumping drums rhythmically in a slowly increasing cadence as the crowd claps along.

Don Herman rev2 · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:24 am Post subject:

Vocal or instrumental?

While the pep bands I was in did a few random'ish shouts at times, most of our "cheers" were fanfares we worked up, or variations on the school's fight song. We worked up a few that went back and forth with the cheerleaders (call and response style) that were fun.

If you want vocal cheers, Google (and YouTube) can help...
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Navin · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:49 pm Post subject:

Sorry for any confusion, but the cheers I am looking for are vocal. I've been googling a few an hockey cheers are quite morbid
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