Well, this is sort of a random thought that came across me today while I was at school. To start off, if some did not know, I was drumline captain for Herndon for the 2008-2009 marching band season. Now today I was asked by Cailin Clinton, one of my friends who is applying for the job as a section leader for the band next year, wanted me to look through her application that was going to be turned into Ms. Schoelwer our band teacher. So I thought hey simple enough, shouldn't have many errors, what I found was how much paper work and how many essay were required to even apply to be section leader or drum major. As I read through her essays I thought wow, when I applied for drumline Captain, I was only asked to write 1 short essay not 3 with also a open tryout infront of judges, requiring some conducting use even if you were not applying for drum major. Also as I thought, there isn't really a point of learning basic conducting either with the drumline, we have always used metronomes and relied on our own tap offs. Although I guess this is a price that comes with change seeing how Ms. Schoelwer had just finished her first year here with the Herndon Band. But, definitely a dramatic difference in the application process for captains/section leaders. Just a thought I had about comparing band a year ago, to now
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