Squireman131
August 5th, 2008, 12:35 AM
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.