Here are sound files recorded from my many tapes of pregame and halftime
shows. Included are some school songs from the "sheet of six" and
the "old" and "new" drum cadences, along with as much history as I know.
All these sound files are in .mp3 format.
In 1962, the consolidation of Wooster Twp & Franklin Twp (both
had grades 1-8) and Shreve (which was 1-8 and a high school) created the
school district known as Triway Local Schools. Since Shreve
was the only school of the three that had a high school, and therefore
a high school band, the Shreve "Fight Song" became the Triway fight song
and the words were adjusted accordingly. Mr Brooks re-arranged
"Triway" when he became the Triway band director in 1968, and it is that
version that is still played to this day. Learn
more about the origins of the Triway fight song.
Every year at the end of band camp, the marching band will perform
its show for band parents and others who wish to see the band in the pre-season.
Before the show, everyone is invited to a pot luck supper in the high school
cafeteria. "Triway" was recorded from the 1983 pot luck show.
Hear that annoying dinging? Yes, the band used to have marching bells.
Every year at the end of the marching band season, the last home
game is the band's "Senior Night". In addition to each senior being
announced with his or her parents, they end up standing in the formation
of a small "T" next to the rest of the band standing in a bigger "T".
The seniors play one chorus of Triway, and then the rest of the band joins
in the second chorus. This was my senior class.
Triway had an alma mater before 1986, but over the years it became
a forgotten tune. Here are the words to the original Triway Alma
Mater (courtesty of Shelva Wachtel):
We pledge to thee Alma Mater, allegiance so true
We know in our hearts that we'll always think of you.
We'll shout and cheer for our team as they fight gallantly.
And we'll always love our school and Triway memories.
THS band director Ned Brooks and high school English teacher Judy Bridger
got together to come up with a new Triway alma mater. As a freshman,
I learned the words by reading them every day during gym class from a sign
on the gym wall with the words painted on it. Here they are for your
memorizing pleasure. By the way, this recording is from the 1993
marching band. Last two!
Since Mr. Brooks was an Ohio State graduate and 4 year member of
the marching band during his time there, the Triway band played a lot of
the Ohio State school songs for pregame and postgame, as well as playing
them in the stands at football and basketball games. In fact, by
the time I was in high school, we were doing a full ramp entrance and marching
down the field to 2 choruses of Buckeye Battle Cry. The only difference
was we didn't play the verse and do the slow step - we went right from
the intro into the 2 choruses (and the tempo was about 160 rather than
180). The band still plays Buckeye Battle Cry as the beginning to
their pregame, but they no longer do a ramp entrance or march all the way
down the field to the other end to play the SSB.
This recording is from our performance at the 1994 Wayne County Fair
on "School Day" - the Monday when all kids get out of school to go to the
fair for free. In the morning, all the marching bands from all the
high schools in the county play for about 20 minutes at the grandstands.
Those bands are Rittman, Norwayne, Northwestern, Chippewa, Dalton, Waynedale,
Triway, Smithville, Orrville, and Wooster, generally in that order, but
subject to change as bands gain or lose members from year to year.
I always enjoyed playing for the people in the stands... now I am
one of those people in the stands.
Before 1989, the band used the Bill Moffit arrangement of the National
Anthem. Many Wayne County high school bands still use this arrangement,
including Norwayne, Waynedale, Smithville, and Dalton. For whatever
reason in '88 or '89, Mr. Brooks started to use the version played by The
Ohio State University Marching Band. This recording is from 1994.
As I said above: before 1989, the band used the Bill Moffit arrangement
of the National Anthem. This is a recording of it from 1987, including
the effer part!
Drum Cadences
Ever since the "new" Triway drum cadences were first used in 1996, there have been some changes and additions to what was originally played.
In fact, the YOH (Jump) cadence made a return to the sequence starting
in 2003. The other cadences are called "Funky Junque" and "Caribou Stomp", both written by Matt Savage, a nationally known percussion director and arranger who has written many percussion cadences through the years.
This recording is from the 2002 Wayne County
Band-a-rama. The Triway percussion section is marching from the away
sidelines to the home sidelines before they bring the bands onto the field
for the combined national anthem.
This file was created by splicing the cadence
sequence together using several recordings from the season. I just
had short clips as the band marched by the camera.
Beginning in the 1996 marching band season,
the traditional Triway drum cadences were replaced with new drum cadences.
Since that time, the "old" Triway drum cadences have become drum cheers that are
played in the stands.
This is definitely an old cadence because it wasn't played anymore
by the time I got into high school. I recall Brian Musselman (snare
90-92, quads 93) telling me once about an old cadence that the percussion
section used to play and something about a new cadence being written using
it as a guide, and I'm quite sure he called it "Crash". (If I see him around,
I'll have to ask him if he still remembers the story) This is the
"Powerful Purple Percussion" of 1987 coming across the field at the beginning
of the 1987 Wayne County Band-A-Rama, which is a marching band event where
all the Wayne County local schools (which excludes Orrville and Wooster)
come to show off their stuff. While it was originally held at Wooster
High School's Maurer Field,
Triway has been hosting the Band-a-rama since 1966 because of the "excellent
parking facilities." Since it's on our home turf, our percussion
section "provides the cadence to bring the bands onto the field," which
is a slow Ramp cadence, but they also come onto the field themselves with
one of their own cadences. "Crash" was the designated one in '87.
Yes, those are tri toms you hear. We didn't replace them permanently
with quads until 1991. Tonal bass drums came in 1992.
A cadence more commonly known as "Yoh," mainly because this was
the year of the Yoh, Jeremy Yoh (trombone, 1990-1994) to be exact.
He had always been popular amongst the band crowd, but he was even more
so his senior year. The percussion section learned this cadence at
a percussion clinic and incorporated it into the cadence sequence for the
1993 marching band season and thereafter. It was also used to bring
us onto the field for our first show that year where we opened with "Live
and Let Die." This recording is from our second playoff game (vs.
Wauseon) when we spliced together some drills from the season: Live and
Let Die, The William Tell Overture, and Big Spender. Also, the band
became somewhat creative and started making "Y" "O" and "H" with their
arms during the cadence while calling out the letters and shouting "Yoh!"
at the end. And do you know, the band still does it to this day,
even though all the Yohs have graduated from Triway!
Written and named after the new band director in 1995 by Scott Roessner (snare '93, quads '94-'96). Mr. Brooks sometimes called us "my children", so we would then refer to him as "father" or "father Ned". When John Puster became the new band director and he wasn't old enough to be anyone's dad, the band started referring to him as "Uncle John". This drum cadence was only in the sequence for the 1995 season. It led directly into "Shaft".
The 1996 marching band seniors' show closed with the theme from
the movie "Shaft." As I listened to it, the drum line specifically,
I thought, "Hey, that really sounds familiar. It sounds like one
of our cadences. Which one is it... Shaft, yeah. Wait a second...
ohhhh, so that's where it came from!" Whoever came up with that in
the Triway percussion section, cute! This recording is from the 1991
season as we're marching around the track before the Band-a-rama.
Fondly named after Triway band director, Ned Brooks. I don't
know where this cadence came from, but this recording is also from the
1991 season as we're marching around the track before the Band-a-rama.
The first drum cadence written by Scott Roessner that was incorporated into the sequence; it was used during the '94 and '95 seasons. It led directly into "Rhumba". This recording is from 1995 as the band is marching on the track in front of the home stands.
I don't know who wrote "Rhumba" or where it came from, but by the
end of my high school days, it was exclusively the cadence we used for
coming off the field. We started using it for that purpose in the
middle of my junior year of marching band and all of my senior year.
This recording is from the 1992 marching band as we were marching into
the stadium and lining up for pregame. This was the first year Triway
had 4 tonal bass drums, upgrading from our "standard" number of two.
Our snares also got really cool blue click blocks (I'm not sure what the
official name is, maybe that's what it is?) The percussionists discovered
them at a percussion clinic. I'm sorry to say they're not used anymore.
(The blocks, not the percussionists.)
