If you need help, other band members around you, your section leader, and the Drum Majors will help you. Do not be timid in enforcing this important tradition. NO ONE may cut through the band. The UC Band never takes the field for a marching performance with sheet music. After every game we play Cheer Cincy followed by the Alma Mater.
Auxiliary members sing while the band plays.
If the team wins the game, we turn our hats around during Cheer Cincinnati, but then the hat is striaghtened during the Alma Mater. Dismissal After all relevant rehearsals and performances of the Bearcat Marching Band, the Drum Majors will dismiss the band. This dismissal consists of a vocal and physical cadence modeled after the one originated by George N. Parks. This dismissal will be taught to you during your first year. When the basketball team scores its first field goal of each half, the band throws confetti up into the air.