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 Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:32 pm
toco clarinet KayKay1220 Well I'm in 7th grade middle school band right now and our band has like 100 people in it so they had to split us up into two seperate bands. one band is band A and the other is band B. I'm in band B And i just found out that they put all the REALLY good players in band A and put everyone else in band B. I play clarinet and I am third chair out of 20 clarinets! but after reading all that above it's not really that big of a deal sad so I'm like really mad at my band teacher! BANDS NEED TO BE BALANCED!!!! NOT HAVE ALL THE GOOD PLAYERS IN ONE BAND AND EVERYONE ELSE IN THE OTHER BAND!!!!!!!!!!!! why? if you put good players with mediocre players, you're stunting the musical growth of the good players. if you put mediocre players with good players, the mediocre players will get discouraged because they aren't as good as the good players. the mediocre players will then become depressed and not practice, which means they won't get any better, and they will continue to hold back the good players. if you think that's fair, you certainly are one cruel person. well yeah you have a point but the mediocre players never practice. most of the good ones never practice. most of them dont wanna be in band but their parents make them. but she did put a few good people in band B. like me and my best friend whos second chair and this one percussionist ((yeah I spelled that wrong)) player. He's really good! There's this one good trumpet player and saxophone! biggrin hey I guess we do have good people in our band! ^__^
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:37 am
I'm second chair out of three trombones but there is a baritone who plays trombone part who's a junior so techinicaly i'm third chair.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:17 am
In marching band there's just section leaders and others. The section leaders are based on seniority... god dammit...
But in concert band, I'm the section leader! Woo! No more crappy sounds! Me no likey that.
I was third chair sousa in the Ohio fair band out of 20. 4laugh I was so proud of myself!
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:21 am
im third chair because i was fourth but the guy that was second chair moved away so now we all moved up one! yay
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:26 am
i was in first chair two years ago for my section, which was flute that played the lower part. last year i was first cause i was the only tuba. this year we have a new teacher and i don't think he has them arranged, but i might be wrong. i was only in band for the second half of the year.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:14 pm
im second in playing music but i also help and play with the thirds. my actual chair is the 3rd hah. wink playing first seems like a pipe dream haha
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:34 pm
I am Third chair Clarinet. in advanced band. smile
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:47 pm
I'm 3rd chair in the the top band as a freshie whee
Needless to say, I am quite thrilled. We have 8 horns in the top band, and 3 are seniors. Overall, I think we have somewhere around 15 horns. Or something.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:30 pm
In the school honor band I'm first chair. I also made first chair middle school region band one, but they put the west side chick before me (even though I was wayyyy better, not even kidding; she asked me, "do you think they make a left-handed flute?" and her playing pretty much reflected upon her ignorance.). Luckily they put me in first chair for orchestra though, 'cuz I got to play piccolo there. ^_^
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:34 pm
In Jazz band I'm second Tenor Sax and in Concert band I'm 3rd Alto sax. I'm lucky to be where I am now. The other players have been playing for many many years. And I'm a freshman and they're juniors and seniors. *shrugs* I'm happy where I am.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:56 pm
I'm first chair out of 9 clarinets, but i'm pretty much the only clarinet that actually practices.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:07 pm
KayKay1220 toco clarinet KayKay1220 Well I'm in 7th grade middle school band right now and our band has like 100 people in it so they had to split us up into two seperate bands. one band is band A and the other is band B. I'm in band B And i just found out that they put all the REALLY good players in band A and put everyone else in band B. I play clarinet and I am third chair out of 20 clarinets! but after reading all that above it's not really that big of a deal sad so I'm like really mad at my band teacher! BANDS NEED TO BE BALANCED!!!! NOT HAVE ALL THE GOOD PLAYERS IN ONE BAND AND EVERYONE ELSE IN THE OTHER BAND!!!!!!!!!!!! why? if you put good players with mediocre players, you're stunting the musical growth of the good players. if you put mediocre players with good players, the mediocre players will get discouraged because they aren't as good as the good players. the mediocre players will then become depressed and not practice, which means they won't get any better, and they will continue to hold back the good players. if you think that's fair, you certainly are one cruel person. well yeah you have a point but the mediocre players never practice. most of the good ones never practice. most of them dont wanna be in band but their parents make them. but she did put a few good people in band B. like me and my best friend whos second chair and this one percussionist ((yeah I spelled that wrong)) player. He's really good! There's this one good trumpet player and saxophone! biggrin hey I guess we do have good people in our band! ^__^ Actually I disagree with you Toco. We mix our band up. We have some good players and some really bad players but we all help each other out. If you stick mediocre players with mediocre players then they will have reason to anything more than just mediocre. Soon the good players will just be all cocky and jerks. We don't have a Band A or a Band B probably because we're really small, but we all help each other out in some way even if we our from different sections. But its your band directors decision on having a Band A and B and who to put in them. If you have a problem with that the you should definitely take it up with your band director! That's just my opinion though.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:10 pm
I'm technically 2nd chair out of 4 Trombones. But since our first chair person has early release(can leave school at 11:30 instead of 3:20) and doesn't haven't band on her schedule she's hardly there. She's still in band, but she only shows up every other day or every two days and doesn't even know the concert music. So all in all I would say I'm first chair out of 4 Trombones. Wow that's kinda confusing!
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:46 pm
bsquared123 Actually I disagree with you Toco. We mix our band up. We have some good players and some really bad players but we all help each other out. If you stick mediocre players with mediocre players then they will have reason to anything more than just mediocre. Soon the good players will just be all cocky and jerks. We don't have a Band A or a Band B probably because we're really small, but we all help each other out in some way even if we our from different sections. But its your band directors decision on having a Band A and B and who to put in them. If you have a problem with that the you should definitely take it up with your band director! That's just my opinion though. yeah, my school has only one band. but, at a lower level(when there's typically more people interested in band) you have people who are really good, and people who aren't. you need to split those two groups up so that you can work more individually and make greater progress quicker. if you combine them into one huge band, it's harder to keep them focused and it's harder to pinpoint just exactly what needs to be worked on. that puts the students in a situation where it's really hard to improve. if they feel like they're not improving, they think that they've "mastered" their instrument and have no reason to keep playing. in reality, you can't really "master" an instrument because there is ALWAYS more to do. once you hit a certain point which could be considered "mastered" by most people, you should start working on discovering things which haven't been discovered(and believe me, there are plenty of things to be discovered) if you split your band into smaller, more specific groups of people(with similar strengths and weaknesses) you will be able to improve greatly over a much shorter period of time than if you grouped them all together.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:45 pm
Now I'm second chair. (although we don't really have chairs, I'm the second person on 1st Bassoon)
Yeah, I know... Big deal, second chair bassoon... But there is five in our band. It would be hard for me to be first chair because the girl who is first chair has been playing for over 10 years, I've been playing for a little over 3.
Today she wasn't there for various reasons and I was the only first bassoon. It was kind of scary for me because she's so confident in her playing and plays really loudly... lol. I was likely expected to reach said confidence and play just as loud.
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