If your instructor is worth his weight he doesn't need to be around you during concert season. Ask any of the older guys on here and I'm sure they will say the same thing. A well seasoned instructor can generally gauge abilites rather quickly.



If you're as good as you say you are and your band director realizes that then he should be able to override any decisions made by the instructor.



That's disturbing. Just because he's "the man" doesn't mean he should cease from trying to improve. You can always find something to improve upon.

So, here's what I've drawn from my conclusions...it's only April and you've got two snares who sound like one, a tenor player who is "the man" and a couple of bass drummers who sound pretty good. What you really need now is an instructor who is going to give you an unbiased opinion. I went to my first drum corps audition when I was 15. I thought I was the hottest thing that ever picked up a set of tenors. On that fateful Saturday afternoon I proceeded to have my butt handed to me on a platter. Dennis Delucia told me I needed to work much harder while Bob Dubinski said the same thing but in a much more graphic, vulgar, and embarassing manner. Moral of the story is this...sometimes we, as players, aren't as good as we think we are and it helps to have a seasoned professional bring us back to earth. Get an instructor and learn from him/her.

That's really not what I meant. He's been with us from the beginning (he's a Junior.)

Theres no one else on the line who can play quads like him so he has no worry to getting his quads next year.

And I'm not trying to toot my own horn, trust me, but I am without a doubt the best snare on the line right now. If there were actual auditions, then I would have a snare over the other guy so easily it's not funny. But we don't have actual auditions.
If the drum instructor thinks you should have a drum than you get one.

This is part of the problem. Last year he let this chick have a bass who had absolutely no drum playing experience or marching experience. And she was bad. She was on the line this year too. She improved, yes, but she never should have had a drum in the first place.

I'm not the best high school snare in the county. But more than likely in the school. And you probably think that I just have a huge ego for saying that, but in all reality it's actually the truths lol.

this guy has a really good point. No one is as good as they can possibly be so your quad should practice just as much as anyone else and then some. everyone has room for improvement. my instructor says this to us all the time. i bet you even the more well known drummers such has Tim Jackson still practice tryin to improve in any area they can. so practice practice practice.

Read my last post.
Also this is hardly the issue.

haha lol my bad dude didn't see ur post there

It's np.

yea dude now that i read that post i totally understand what u mean by "he's the man"..my section leader is also a junior currently and is about to be a senior..which this'll be my 3'rd year under his command if u will...so basically he's "the man" of my line cuz u can't count on him to have his part down to the T by time band camp comes around..totally got ya man

What is it with Tenor players and always being the best?
Like I said I'm the best snare drummer, but he can do things on Quads I've never seen before (in person.)

what do you mean by

Haha it's the same thing with a lot of lines.
The Tenor players are always the strongest and the baddest.