The split in bands

As concert band season is getting ready to begin, we have to make a couple changes, such as we have to make more than one group, because we can’t have all 140 something of us in one band. So we go into three smaller groups. We have Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band and Concert Band. Most people who really care about band and want to be a good player strive to be in one of the top two bands, but there are some people who really don’t care about what band they are in and purposely fail their chair audition just to be in concert band.

The people in Wind Symphony work their butts off every day to make sure their music is perfect with little if any mistakes, the people in the next band down, is Symphonic band, and again in that band they work hard too, but not as hard at Wind Symphony, then there is Concert band. Most of them don’t care, some of them are there just for the easy A. So many of them don’t even try to play right. Some days they don’t play at all.

As much as it sucks to get split up from all your friends, the split is good. It puts people who have the same determination together to help the band as a whole. Like in Marching band there is some people who don’t care and don’t try and that hurts the band as a whole but there isn’t much anyone can do about it. So in concert band season the split puts those people who don’t care and don’t want to try together and it also puts those who work their butt off and those who want to be there to play and who don’t care about the grade together to create an even stronger band.

Even though it is based on music ability people think it’s more about someone being better than another person, and that’s not always the case. Although many times people in Wind Symphony act like they are better, they really aren’t. They are just better at playing their instrument and have more experience with playing in band. Because a majority of the time it is upper class men, not many freshmen and sophomores make it in.