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 Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:03 pm
So, at the end of this school year, the two remaining seniors of the percussion section are graduating and going away, leaving me, currently a junior, in charge of FOUR freshmen. I know these kids as eighth graders, and frankly, I'm disgusted. They're loud, annoying, obnoxious, and have no respect for the director. I have to retrain them to be obediant band students. Any suggestions? Frankly, I'm willing to seal each of them in a differnt timpani and wail on them until their ears bleed.
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:27 am
Sounds good to me. the freshies that we have this year were like that. they think they know everything, and refuse to listen when you try to help them. one (the freshie on snare during marching season) was screwing up the rythem for Circle of life, which is part of a disney medly that we are playing, and the trumpets have the same rythem, so i was trying to tell him "Your part is the same as the rythem the trumpets are playing" and he refused to listen. I am not a section leader, but i am a senior, and he thought i didn't know how to read rythems because i march cymbal! so i smacked him with my gong mallet and brought over the trumpet section leader to show him that the rythem was the same. (after that... He still refused to listen)
Mostly, to controle my freshies, i just hit them till they listen. but if you are going to be section leader, you are allowed to disaplin them. when they do something wrong, give them pushups or a lap. but dont be to hard on them, because they will hate you and they wont do anythign you say. trust me, it happened plenty in my band. and if that doesn't work, you could always have the Drum Major/ conductor take care of them. blaugh
("HAha! Freshies are your problem now!" )
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:25 pm
Well, I attend a fairly small school. Fully marshalled, our High School band had I think 25 members this year, and only 4 of them were seniors. Two in Percussion and two in Trumpet Section. Since they'll gbegan, the power is shifting. The Freshies will be under my rule, and I'll be under the Conductor's rule. officially, I have no power over them, but my band director has told me that I will have to do my best to keep them in check, which essentially means I'm in charge. I don't WANT to be cruel or mean to them, but they need to learn to pay attention or they'll drag the whole band down. On top of that, what I do with them next year will have a lasting impact on the bands for the next three years. I have to watch them to make sure I can trust one or all of them to lead the section when I'm gone. As percussionists, they carry a heavy responsibilty on their shoulders. Wether they'll admit it or not, the rest of the band relies on percussionists to keep the tempo and lay down the beat, and if the percussion section fails, the entire band suffers for it. To be honest, I'm afraid that to reign them in, I'm going to have to do things I really don't want to do to them.
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:28 am
You can always just ask for help from the director or a former band member who would help. I know that Ryan, a former drum line captain that we had (who now in his sophmore year of collage is the co captain of the line at the collage he is going to!) comes back to help us out a lot.
And when you are incharge of people, you always have to do things you don't want to do. like punishing them for slacking off, or calling extra practices when they cant get the music right. no matter what, no matter who, no matter what you do, someone will hate you. but the band will profit from it, and it wont last long if you are nice when they aren't doing something wrong.
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