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Squireman131

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Well today was the first day of my marching bands band camp. I have played bass drum for 2 years and tried out for snare this year. I have said more then once that i probably will not play this year if they put me on bass. Which is true. I just dont enjoy playing bass the parts are to watered down because the rest of the basses cant play the parts our instructor cecil fish writes. I respect cecil but not our band director because he pretty much doesnt care about the line besides a few occasions such as this. Well They have known i probably will not be doing it if i get put on bass so during our lunch hour cecil came up to me and tried to reason with me about doing bass and here is there reason. I am better then the whole bassline and they want me to basically hold them up and i can see where they are coming from because its a all freshman bass line but i dont think they should put me on bass just because they want me to hold it up. I think that they should try to atleast make the experience enjoyable for the kids playing. I only had one other kid trying to be snare and we are pretty much the same skill level i being a little better just because i have one year of band on him. Well there you go just had to put that out there.
 
Id tell em "Im here to learn and excel, Im all about being a team player, but at whos expense?"
 
ShortBuSX said:
Id tell em "Im here to learn and excel, Im all about being a team player, but at whos expense?"
i agree...it's your education....it isn't your duty to "carry" less talented players but to learn and play the instrument you want to....

ww
 
So i decided to keep doping it even because of bass because my instructor wrote harded bass music. Plus i enjoy being in marching band... just not playing haha but ill deal its better with harder music and not just like quarter note runs.
 
Squireman131 said:
So i decided to keep doping it even because of bass because my instructor wrote harded bass music.
stay of the dope man...just play them drums! :poke: :rotflmao:

ww
 
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