Personal Narrative: My First Marching Band
When I first started marching band during the summer going into my freshman year, I didn’t expect to fall in love with it. Freshmen percussionists at my high school are required to be in the front ensemble their first year and couldn’t be in the drumline until their sophomore year. Knowing this, I thought of the upcoming marching season as just a waste of time because I wanted to be in the drumline and I would never want to stay in the front ensemble beyond my freshmen year. Although I wasn’t expecting much, I was still hopeful going into the first day of summer band. The first day came and went, but I still saw front ensemble as just something I would have to do to pass the time until I could tryout for drumline the next year. It wasn’t until
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In the spring of my freshman year I auditioned for a spot on the snare line and I got it. I had wanted to be a snare player since my sixth grade year and I had finally made it, but something had changed. I used to think being a snare meant that you were the best of the best and everything else was second rate. After being in front ensemble for a year and going to snare the next year, I realized that neither one was better or worse than the other. They were just different from each other.
With this new information, my entire outlook on life changed. As ridiculous as it may seem, there was a time for me when I only cared about my own interests and I thought everything else was irrelevant. With this mindset, I was very arrogant, close minded and I never entertained the idea that I could possibly enjoy something that I wasn’t already interested in. Because of this, I’ve already missed out on so many opportunities and I now understand that if you go through life thinking like that, then you’ll never get to experience it to the fullest. I learned all of this because I was forced into front ensemble my freshman year.
What started out as an unfortunate circumstance, ended up changing my entire life for the better. Even though the cause for my new mindset was just something that happened in high school band, it has really changed the way that I think and how I see experience
In the spring of my freshman year I auditioned for a spot on the snare line and I got it. I had wanted to be a snare player since my sixth grade year and I had finally made it, but something had changed. I used to think being a snare meant that you were the best of the best and everything else was second rate. After being in front ensemble for a year and going to snare the next year, I realized that neither one was better or worse than the other. They were just different from each other.
With this new information, my entire outlook on life changed. As ridiculous as it may seem, there was a time for me when I only cared about my own interests and I thought everything else was irrelevant. With this mindset, I was very arrogant, close minded and I never entertained the idea that I could possibly enjoy something that I wasn’t already interested in. Because of this, I’ve already missed out on so many opportunities and I now understand that if you go through life thinking like that, then you’ll never get to experience it to the fullest. I learned all of this because I was forced into front ensemble my freshman year.
What started out as an unfortunate circumstance, ended up changing my entire life for the better. Even though the cause for my new mindset was just something that happened in high school band, it has really changed the way that I think and how I see experience