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I had a pretty good lesson today (minus my altissimo's stubbornness in squeaking...need to fix that before the jury), and I feel like I've come a long way this year in terms of playing the saxophone. My lessons teacher complimented me, and also said that he felt I had come farther in the spring, largely because there's no marching band in the spring.
This was an issue I was really hoping to dodge, because I didn't want both prof and TA bothering me about it.
I know I'll be confronted again about it after juries. I've already done two years in the SMB, I seem to play better when I don't have it, and I have no leadership position to use as leverage against them (but that's an entirely different can of worms that no one wants to hear about). Overwhelmingly, it seems as if there is not a single good reason to go out for marching band.
But not going out for it is an option I've refused to consider seriously, for pretty obvious reasons. I owe the SMB a lot for who I've become since I entered college. I don't want to give it up while I'm here, period.
Do I want to deal with that amount of angst and hostility from the studio? There's not a way to make everybody happy here, unless my playing continues to improve while I'm in marching band, and that's not something that I can guarantee will happen. It'd be a risk.
I was really hoping I could avoid all of this. Instead, things worked out just right so that I'm forced to.
Dammit.
This was an issue I was really hoping to dodge, because I didn't want both prof and TA bothering me about it.
I know I'll be confronted again about it after juries. I've already done two years in the SMB, I seem to play better when I don't have it, and I have no leadership position to use as leverage against them (but that's an entirely different can of worms that no one wants to hear about). Overwhelmingly, it seems as if there is not a single good reason to go out for marching band.
But not going out for it is an option I've refused to consider seriously, for pretty obvious reasons. I owe the SMB a lot for who I've become since I entered college. I don't want to give it up while I'm here, period.
Do I want to deal with that amount of angst and hostility from the studio? There's not a way to make everybody happy here, unless my playing continues to improve while I'm in marching band, and that's not something that I can guarantee will happen. It'd be a risk.
I was really hoping I could avoid all of this. Instead, things worked out just right so that I'm forced to.
Dammit.