To play cymbals you have to have a certain mind set
everyone thinks of cymbals as being not good enough for a drum people think of cymbals as just being overflow of the drum line or the worst drummers for that reason alone cymbal players are becoming a dying breed more and more High Schools and Drum cores don't march cymbal lines anymore so you should be proud of what you play whether its a snare drum ,cymbals or the triangle whatever it is you have to play play it with all you got thats all i got to say i play cymbals and i love every second of it at first i hated cymbals but i enjoy them just have fun with it

Usually if you are not proud to say you played a certain instrument or even to have been in a certain group, it usually means that you and/or your section did not put in enough work and effort to be "proud" of the end product...I love good cymbal lines, some of the toughest percussionists I have known marched cymbals

It sounds like you don't want to play cymbals, therefore you don't want to be at practice because it's a "waste of your time".

IF this is the case, you should quit. There is no sense in doing something you hate.

I don't think anyone ever joined drumline because they thought "Hey, lets go sit out in the sun and fry all day! That sounds like a ton of fun!" or "Man, I just love practicing. No, I can't go to the movies Saturday night because I'm going to practice my sets." No one likes practice. From what I've gathered, (now, I could be wrong...) people generally join the drumline because they love playing. If you don't love practicing and you dont love playing, then you probably shouldn't keep wasting your time. Go find something that you're more passionate about. Otherwise, suck it up and learn to love playing cymbals.

no your not the only one, last year we didnt have cymbals and it just wasnt the same.

Santa Clara Vanguard Plateline. Nuff said. Put some work into it and you will be pleased with the end result, no matter what.

Be proud most people have played them at one time.

I am the pit captain, so I have to play cymbals, and I am ashamed to walk in front of the crowd. Cymbals are so degrading to me because our line doesn't have much emphasisi on the cymbals. Cymbals dont march in the show, and we dont have very many visuals in the stands except for occasional cymbal flips and twirls, which some people on the cymbal line can;t do anyway.

So no, its alright to be not be proud of being a cymbal player.

You're the Pit Captain . . . So . . . Y'know . . . Do what Captain's do and teach'em something. If you yourself don't know anything about Plates . . . Learn. Use the internet.

Playing cymbals with basic technique and visuals isn't rocket science. Hell, make up your own technique. As long as you guys look and sound good. I bet it'll make a lot of difference if you just taught your line a little something, and gave them/you something worth being proud of.

Every section in the show, every part, should be emphasised appropriately.

"our line doesn't have much emphasis on the cymbals"?

Again. You're the Pit Captain. Do something about it, rather than letting the situation stay the same.

The thing is that nobody in our area emphacises cymbals. Nobody marches them on the field, you have to go either south of New Orleans or west of Baton Rouge to find a decent band marching cymbals. We only play them for stand cadences and marching into the stadium. We have some visuals, like I said, We move around while playing, we twirl around every onece in a while, but most people just move up from cymbals at the end of the year. I know I would've, but I was needed because we weren't supposed to get anybody else and I was going to be the only melodics. People here don't think, "I'm gonna play cymbals!" they are thinking about bass and tenors, and even snare. Cymbals are just a bump you roll over on the way.

An example of a cymbal-emphacized school: Salmen, across town. They are all into cymbal visuals and twirling and spinning and frotees, but their drumline, and their band are not top notch, to be as nice as possible.

All I'm saying, is that its perfectly fine to not be proud of playing cymbals.