Breaking Marching Band Career

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Leading up to the 2014 band season was a record breaking marching band. In the 2011 and 2012 band seasons we blew away all of our old records, and it was the best shape the band has been in since 2004. Our freshman class(my class in 2011) was set up to do nothing but succeed in our marching band career. The leadership skills taught to us our first three years in band gave us better value than any leadership book probably could, our staff had big plans for my class. Over the years, many of the members had decided to not continue with the program for their own individual reasons, by the time it came to the 2014 season, there were only 13 seniors, and as we progressed through the season, there were 11 at the end. The band struggled that year to find any basic form of leadership with an ununited senior class there was no hierarchy to our leadership and the freshman at the beginning of the season didn't know what to do. …show more content…

From my perspective however, in the top leaders of the band, the drum majors, there was hardly productivity or leadership, even though I didn't want to leave the drumline, I forced myself to audition for drum major. From that point, I knew plans had to be made to augment the member's outlook on the rest of the season, from band activities, to spirit days along with many other fun things to help ease the tension. My hope was, by the end of the season, no matter the score, everyone would be happy with what the band had done and anyone feeling negative about marching band would feel

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