I don't know if this may be the right forum but it involves winter.

There was this girl on my drumline that tried out for tenors but she did not make it. The year before she was bass drum section leader. She got stuck in the pit with us. Her attitude towards the instrument was not very good at all but she got through the season. In winter she tried out for her bass drum again but she was told that the fall bass line would be the ones playing. Do you think this is ok for her. She quit the winter line since she did not want to be in pit. Should I help her someway or not?

I think that is unfair. I do not know about other drumlines but ours has kind of an unwritten agreement that once you make an instrument you can stay there as long as you want.

Well we be lucky to have that if our instructor would let us.

Oddly enough, our line USED to have that policy (where you can't get moved off your instrument unless you wanted if you were a vet). But then 2 seniors got moved to bass from tenors/snare (2 different years, but they were consecutive yeras). So now everyone knows they have to reaudition for their spot.

that's really dumb. sorry to be blunt, but if she's played bass, then she just got shafted. if i were her i would quit too. nothin AGAINST pit, but i would rather march flute than do pit. its just not near as fun. and man, if she was section leader...

your instructor is not being consistent. if she tried out for somethin else and didnt make it and got kicked to pit, then the fall battery should have to reaudition for their spots too.

We do reaudition for our parts every year. The thing that gets me is that she tried out for bass in winter and did not make it because he said that he liked the fall bass line better.

i think it is fair. gotta remember that she didn't get shafted without providing opportunity to be shafted. if she was fed up with bass enough to try tenors, and she wasn't good enough for tenors, then she should expect to be put somewhere where she can succeed. if she didnt do her part in the pit, why would she be moved back to section leader of the basses?! that would be dumb.

I didn't say she had to be section leader of the basses. I was just saying that there has got to be a reason that he made that decision of putting her in a place where she doesn't really belong. I mean when you think about it he told her that he was going to keep the people from the fall in the bassline.

as an instructor, this is a no-brainer.

why would he break up a group of people that have experience playing together (the fall bass line) just to get a diva back into the section.

you're overlooking the possibility that the bassline played better with the people that were currently in it, which is most likely why she was not offered a spot in the line.

not really much controversy here

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The thing is that it does not seem fair to everyone since he said to everyone that they may try out for anything in winter. I think he should have said something for the five people that tried out and didn't make it. They could have just said I'll go to another instrument.