Emphasis is placed on fundamental learning and rehearsal discipline. All Band students are combined at the end of the school year for their first performance as a band. After the first year of instruction, students are combined into the Seventh Grade Band followed by the Eighth Grade Band, both of which are performing, concert, and contest-oriented ensembles. Continued emphasis is placed on playing fundamentals. High School Band members are placed in one of three concert bands.
All groups strive for a high degree of technical proficiency and ensemble skill.
Over the past ten years the concert bands have participated in contests in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Orlando, St. Louis, Houston, and Atlanta. The high school concert bands were recently presented the Sudler Flag of Honor by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. Owasso High School is one of only two bands in Oklahoma to have received the honor. In 1997 the band performed at the Bands of America Regional Concert Band Festival in Denton, Texas. All three concert bands are combined to form the Pride of Owasso marching band.