It was our band director’s hope that we, as a bunch of awkward saxophone- and tuba-wielding 13 year-olds-in a costume that looked something like a bad rendition of the British uniform from the War of 1812 with a 3-foot tall faux-fur white hat (oh, I hope all pictures have been destroyed)-would glide past the audience come parade time. This mantra is basically a set of instructions to the “roll step”, which was paramount to marching band. High school marching band armed me with one mantra: heal toe, heal toe, heal toe, heal toe, roll your foot. In 9th grade, I was a music kid and played in everything from pit orchestra to pep band.
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