My Favorite Part Of Band :)

Drumline Season started today, with tryouts. I don't even have to try out. I'm probably TEACHING the tryout music. I already have my music, and I'm working on learning it. To top it off, Jeremy and I talked Jennifer into signing up for marching bass drum, so she'll be staying in Band, and she and I will get to be in Indoor together.

Sounds great, right?
Sure it does! And it is, if you exclude:
-Teaching the music
-Whiny people who only want to learn a certain amount at a time for a long time instead of getting it all learned and memorized quickly and then working on dynamics, time signature switches, tempo switches, and the like
-That very first full practice where we automatically suck because we've never played the song altogether before
-Actually trying on the costumes we pick out
-Loading and unloading the trailer at competitions
-That nervous butterfly feeling that comes with our first competition

Basically, if everyone in the mallet section could read music like everyone everywhere else can, and they could learn their OWN music, we would be fine. But c'est la vie. I think the one thing that makes me mad is even though it CAN be kind of not good, Mrs. Young swears up and down that she doesn't want to have "captains" for each section this year even though there is usually one person out of each group that does the teaching and most of the work. Then again, even if she did pick, I'd get stuck being so-called "co-captains" with a senior who can't read the music and only gets co-captain because of seniority.

I know God says to be patient and to not have wrathful feelings toward people. I know He doesn't like that I'm not fond of this certain senior because ever since she won Band Sweetheart (which she didn't deserve), she's been rude to me because I was upset that Jennifer didn't win. *shrug* I'm trying not to strongly dislike her, but I can't help it. Anyone who treats my friend like dirt and then does it to me because I support my friend, does not deserve my patience. Ah well. I'm learning.

This was just a drumline rant. Meh.