I’ve been a part of marching band for 4 years now, and throughout my time there the staff and the players taught me about values and which ones pertain to me. Through the program I asked to join the leadership team, where I discovered what values I follow by: integrity, communication, and respect. These qualities in a person aren’t used strictly in the realm of band. I seek these traits in friends and family, as well as those who I’ve had a few brief encounters with. To others, I want these qualities to display, too. Though there are numerous traits people keep to, I find that these three apply to me because of my experience with the band. One main core value I follow by is how honest a person is, especially when nobody is a witness for proof. Integrity shows trust in a person to do the right thing or what they are told without recordings, pictures, or any other form of evidence. During marching band season if players were told to practice outside of rehearsal to understand a part, they would do such. Integrity showed through the next day when the kids were able to play a certain piece better than the last time, including myself. Outside of band, my brother and I …show more content…
I’ve experienced both sides of the coin during practice with my section. I was told good communication was a mix of positive criticism, honest thoughts/feelings, problem solving and negotiation. Because there was no understanding between the two, conflict rose in the section. We turned our behavior around when we learned to let others be leaders, critique players to advance their skills, and openly express emotions to fix our troubles. I’ve taken what I learned in band and connected it with my life, and it has helped resolve arguments and emotional distance. Communication has strengthened relationships with those around me such as my partner, close friends and family members because of our ability to speak openly and
My older sister loved the marching band, so I always got dragged to their performances. I could not tell what was so appealing about it all; it consisted of walking on a field while playing instruments and flags being swung in the air. Participating in a marching band was never what I intended nor wanted to do. The idea bored me, but my mom insisted.
What do you consider a sport? Go back 30 years ago. Most schools only had your typical sports, like football and basketball. Today, most schools have more options for students. More extra curricular activities today are being considered sports, like bowling and golf. If those activities can be sports, why is marching band not considered a sport? While some people think marching band is not a sport, marching band is a sport, because it has physical exercise, professional bands, competitions and after school practices.
I have been a member of marching band ever since I was in eighth grade. Marching, and music itself, was almost part of my DNA, with my entire family having been involved in musical organizations before me. My journey into the world of marching band began as a timid, reserved, and anxiety-filled girl who did not know anybody else involved in the organization. I was convinced that I was going to hate it, and came home from most of our summer rehearsals in tears. That was when older members started reaching out to me; they invited me to lunches and dinners during band camp, and sat with me during breaks so that I did not have to be alone. Eventually I made other friends my age, and I did not need to cling to them as much, but I still considered
I believe that with integrity come all the other values of leadership, service, and excellence. Integrity is all encompassing. You can't have it without having the other values.
I remember those Friday nights in high school going to the football games. Listening to the fans roaring in the crowd and the cheerleaders chanting cheers on the sidelines for their team. While eating nachos from the concession stands, I enjoy the halftime show done by the dance team and marching band. The best part of it all is winning the game, celebrating with friends, and before the night ends listening to the sound of your school 's fight song in the background. I do not know about you, but these were my favorite events to attend during high school. I mostly enjoyed the sound of the music that was played by the marching band which I was a part of.
“All the worlds a stage …” William Shakespeare once said and to a marching band that football field is their stage, and that green field is the canvas which the members paint upon. But should this type of entertainment be considered a sport or just musical art? There has been a discussion in the past few years questioning if marching band should be considered a sport or left as an art form. Marching band in its essence is simply a concert band placed on a field in which the players move sequentially in time with one another. Wayne Markwork says in his book The Dynamic Marching Band that “Marching band needs to be approached as an athletic activity” (78). Agreeing to this statement I push to outline under what circumstances this musical entertainment
Marching band is a lot harder than the average person would think and a lot of people underestimate it. Teachers/band directors have to be P.E certified in order for band to count as both a fine arts, and P.E credit. Even if many people say marching band is only a competition, I believe it should be classified as a sport because it’s very time consuming, it takes a lot of hard work, and the definition of a sport.
I never thought I would enjoy marching band before high school, but once I joined, it changed my outlook on life. I have had leadership roles in my school's marching band since my sophomore year, acting as a librarian for two years and a section leader for one. This has allowed me not only to become more comfortable with my abilities as a leader, but has made me more confident overall. Before my senior year, I could not envision myself interviewing to become a section leader because I did not feel comfortable with my abilities in the band, or speaking in front of people. However, after three years in the marching band, I not only became part of a family I never envisioned myself joining, but I grew into my own skin. I became self-assured and
Communication is something we all humans use. Communication “is the sharing of information between individuals by using speech”. People have ways of communicating some have their weaknesses in conversations and others have their strengths. When I communicate with others I feel that some things I say I do not verbalize right. I have two strengths and three weaknesses in my communicating. My three weakens in my communication are, check nonverbal feedback, to make people wrong and recognize that people understand information in different ways and my two strengths in my communication are being flexible, and take responsibility for the communication.
I believe that core values are essential to construct my character and personality as a leader. My core values that I believe are as follow:
I also know that I am held accountable for everything that I do or don’t do. I realize I have responsibilities such as warm up, stretches, and helping others to improve. Respect: I need to be respectful to my band director, guard instructor, and my section along with people in other sections. I will get respect from others if I am respectful to them.
Two weeks before school even started, the Hotchkiss High School Marching Band began its march to the state-qualifying competition in Delta. We worked four hours a day for five days, getting our fundamentals going and getting a feel for our new show. Once school did start, we started practice at 7:00 a.m. and went for two hours every day, working on music and marching. Our band was once again small (eighteen people!), but our sound was great. It was actually easier trying to teach a smaller group because of the difficulty of the moves we were attempting. Of course, I didn't help matters much by my trials of congeniality with the podium. I figured if I didn't fly off with flapping of my arms, then surely I would walk right off the stand.
Although I have many core values, including diligence, happiness, helpfulness, true friendship, freedom, and intelligence, the most significant in my life are love, morality, honesty, and forgivingness. Throughout my life, these particular values have proved key to becoming the person I wished to be. “The term leadership involves our self-images and moral codes” (Values in Leadership). In order to lead and to be someone who upholds their values, one must be fully aware of what is important to them and what drives them.
Amid my early years of band my attendance and devotion was lackluster to say the least, though with a few minor tweeks and alteration to my motivations I believe I have improved for the better. My personal traits consist of being a very vocal and can-do individuals, who at the end of the day is a hard working individual. As a consequence to putting myself through an entire year of wrestling season, I found a sense of
The importance of being a good listener has brought me to realize the consciousness of how to be more considerate of my friends and family when they are trying to communicate with me and I am in turn trying to communicate with them. Communication has taught me to remove myself from the picture sometime and see in the eyes of people around. I find that when I am more attentive to the needs of those who are trying to connect with me, life is much easier.