i feel like no matter what you do, pride is just a matter of how well you get the job done.

For instance some kids at school would call me an overachiever because of my grades. I on the other hand don't think so. I simply work on something (let's say a project) until i'm finished and Im happy with it. When i get to that point i can look at my project and be proud of it, and will gladly tell anyone that it is my project.

Same with marching band. Even if you guys are terrible, if you can look back and be happy with your performance than i feel like you have something to be proud of. Not necessarily being proud of the fact you are a cymbal, but being proud of the amount of work and effort that you put into your position.

And ultimately the more work that you put into something the more benefit you will get from it. For instance, our quad line this year put in a lot of work and a lot of time and we still had fun. And i can easily look back and be proud of what we accomplished.

My advice: work hard, and when you can look back and be happy with what you did, you're there.

I used to hate cymbals until my good friend Greg came to our high school from University of Alabama, ever since he taught me technique i've been working hard at cymbals, even went to A-Day game to play with their line, instead of snare. and although i'm marching snare in college, i'm trying out for cymbals at solace, just because i LOVE cymbals now!

I'm playing cymbals for a DCA corp this year. I'm not ashamed of it; it is very fun, but it's just not my calling. I'm a snare player and I feel out of place playin cymbals. I can say I'm proud because our cymbal line is up there with the better corps, but like I said, I'm a snare player by nature.

The problem for my area with cymbals is we just don't have enough people. We couldn't cut people if we wanted - everyone who showed up was enough to run the bare minimum for our size band, 4 bass 1 quads 2 snare in a 50ish person band. No pit. No cymbals.

I get where you're coming from though - I played bass 1 this year and while I enjoyed it more towards the end of the year, I felt like with how our music was written, as in pretty easy, it wasn't as important as the snare. That said our last song for the show was amazing

If you are not proud of something, then take it into your hands to change it so you can be proud of it. There can always be some good, it just takes the right perspective to see it.

Having played cymbals this year and loved them, all I can say is to work harder and add visuals whenever possible.

BUT, in delldrummers defense, he's right. I live below Baton Rouge, in southeast Louisiana. We actually took our cymbal line out of our competition band this year, for the first time ever. The only cymbal line I can remember from the state competition, is Lafayette Highs line. And thats because they hire a cymbal instructor and he's outstanding with them. I remember watching them from the tunnel and at one point they pulled a perfect Viper, SCV style. They also had crashes at one point where they played patty-cake with each others' cymbals.

But we had no cymbal visuals at all this year. By about mid season, I had gotten tired of it. by the end of the season we had at least four, maybe more. If you dont respect your cymbal line, do something about it.

nope, i started on cymbals it was embarrassing but it gave me the foundation to move on and advance to snare