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 Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:36 pm
ok my high school gets its students from 2 different middle schools and one of them has a really good BD which is the school i came from no one goes out of that school without know the basic note and rhythms most come out knowing more while the other school the BD is terrible and most of the kids that come out of that school cant read music and it is starting to get on m nerves cause we have to play things cause they arnt getting the right note especially in sectionals cause it is really obvious that they arnt getting it right
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:41 pm
NeoRaptor99 ok my high school gets its students from 2 different middle schools and one of them has a really good BD which is the school i came from no one goes out of that school without know the basic note and rhythms most come out knowing more while the other school the BD is terrible and most of the kids that come out of that school cant read music and it is starting to get on m nerves cause we have to play things cause they arnt getting the right note especially in sectionals cause it is really obvious that they arnt getting it right hey just because theire not so sharp with music doesnt mean its their fault, it could be thier band instructor, half the time i have no clue what note im looking at cause my intstructor was a lousy teacher. lighten up a bit
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:54 pm
Zukospersonalperv NeoRaptor99 ok my high school gets its students from 2 different middle schools and one of them has a really good BD which is the school i came from no one goes out of that school without know the basic note and rhythms most come out knowing more while the other school the BD is terrible and most of the kids that come out of that school cant read music and it is starting to get on m nerves cause we have to play things cause they arnt getting the right note especially in sectionals cause it is really obvious that they arnt getting it right hey just because theire not so sharp with music doesnt mean its their fault, it could be thier band instructor, half the time i have no clue what note im looking at cause my intstructor was a lousy teacher. lighten up a bit oops im sorry i just realized that sounded really rude but no i guess your right but you know i kinda wish my Band director now would try and at least help them cause he doesnt even really encourage practice... of course most people just laugh at how "passionate" he is about his music (he sweats more then we do and he just like starts yelling out give me more and stuff and can get interesting cause i live near one of the perverted kids in the band)
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:16 am
I've had similar experiences. I transferred from my middle school, which had an excellent band program, to a different high school in the area. Their feeder middle school did not have a good music program. For a long time, they had a bad director who scared everyone away. They could read music still, but they weren't at the same level as my middle school and most of them hated band. My high school had to deal with that. There's not a lot you can do except be enthusiastic about music yourself and hope to inspire others.
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:52 pm
hehe yeh the other middle school director should focus on teaching better...
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:15 pm
WickedSong I've had similar experiences. I transferred from my middle school, which had an excellent band program, to a different high school in the area. Their feeder middle school did not have a good music program. For a long time, they had a bad director who scared everyone away. They could read music still, but they weren't at the same level as my middle school and most of them hated band. My high school had to deal with that. There's not a lot you can do except be enthusiastic about music yourself and hope to inspire others.
I had the same problem.
I moved from a school with an EXCELLENT percussion program, the dominating percussion instructor being Tim Overturf, who spent a few years with the Blue Knights(I think) and Santa Clara Vanguard.
Then I transferred in middle school to a really bad middle school percussion program, which is just barely getting on its feet. Some of the high schoolers are very decent though. I'm pretty sure we have the next Mozart and the next Asian super-genius, lol.
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:29 pm
its really not the kids fault i guess but band im gald i lived in the right place our middle school is like 5 times better than the one we have better teachers and a better school and we usually scored some of the highest scores in testing like had like the 2nd or 3rd highest test scores in Maryland
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