Showcase of Bands: At least I got a t-shirt.

Reflection time again.


Drum Major: Division 1

Good. That's what he deserved. The only complaint last time was his tiny down beat.
He fixed it, and thus his division goes up. Keep going Luke, and keep getting one's.
You've made everything very clear. Every count, every crescendo, every decrescendo, I can tell exactly where it is.
Thumbs up.

Percussion: Division 1

Woohoo! What more can I say?
I said it last week, they weren't going to put up with the rating they received, so they changed it. It's amazing considering only 4 percussionists were present, not including pit. I will say this though, there is always room for improvement. Maybe you missed your spot once, maybe one of your hits was off? Next time, fix it, and you'll have earned that 1 even more so.

Color Guard: Division 1

Consistency is a good thing. Great job! You twirled through the wind, and didn't let it affect you.
Well, I mean that, you kept going despite the wind, you egg-beater(ed?), tossed, and spun like no one's business. You deserved what you got, but a word if I may,
like I said last week, don't get cocky, because it'll come back and smack you in the face. Quite possibly in the form of a flag pole ramming into your face. Not pretty, at all.

Band Overall: Division 2

I'm not exactly sure what they want from us anymore. I'd like to make a point if I may.

Band class is determined by the size of your school. Not the size of your band, the size of your school. How is that a fair representation of our band?

Example time!
School A and B have 500 students each. School A has 100 participants in band, while School B has only 25. Not the same is it? Then why should it be fair to judge them equally? Of course School B isn't going to be as loud as School A. It's just not possible, well it is, but School B would sound like crap if they tried too.

So...
given this situation, do you believe it's fair to judge them equally?
Hmmm? It'd be easy to stick microphones and amps on the sideline, but how does that prove anything?
Telling us to play out, when we are putting everything we have into an instrument, is completely ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.



You know what? I'm not dissappointed, at all. How can I be?
We put everything we had into that show, and nothing less. If they think it's only worth a 2, that's fine. We know we tried hard. We did our best.

I will tell you what really hurt me. I don't get frustrated much, but this is sickening.
While leaving the field, everyone was excited. We did ten times better than last year. We were happy! Nothing could bring us down.
Boy, was I wrong.

Sitting down to hear that every group around us had gotten a division 1 brought our spirits up so high there was nothing that compared to it.
But to sit there and hear that we got a Division 2, crushed me.
The idea that our best, wasn't good enough, disturbed me deeply.

At that point the excitement I had before, was quickly drained.
Of course I clapped when the other bands got their awards, but nothing would bring me back.
And here I am, typing this out. Still feeling horrible.

Oh, well, nothing I can do now...
except sleep.

Hey, at least I got a neat t-shirt.