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Apr. 17th, 2003 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elsajeniAll right, I'm clarifying on no-music boy.
First: this isn't the first time he's forgotten/lost music. He is a true percussionist, and as such, he follows the section tradition of losing major pieces of music, preferably originals rather than Xeroxes, within twenty-four hours of receiving them. I've told him before that he needs to get his act together, as well as that he needs to start taking his music home to practice rather than just abandoning it at school (which may contribute to the fact that it tends to disappear).
Second: I am percussion section leader. It's my responsibility to make sure my section knows their parts, plays their parts correctly, doesn't cause the entire trumpet section to fuck up by giving them their snare drum cue at the wrong time, et cetera. It's also my job to set section law, within reason, and enforce it as appropriate. The section leaders like to moan that "we're responsible for our section's stupidity." Being percussion section leader, regrettably, I tend to have more to be responsible for (with fewer players, and we're talking net stupidity here, not per capita).
So, having corrected the general impression that this was a first offense, can I get my readership to re-cast their votes between:
1) go easy on him, and
2) be a total hard-ass.
First: this isn't the first time he's forgotten/lost music. He is a true percussionist, and as such, he follows the section tradition of losing major pieces of music, preferably originals rather than Xeroxes, within twenty-four hours of receiving them. I've told him before that he needs to get his act together, as well as that he needs to start taking his music home to practice rather than just abandoning it at school (which may contribute to the fact that it tends to disappear).
Second: I am percussion section leader. It's my responsibility to make sure my section knows their parts, plays their parts correctly, doesn't cause the entire trumpet section to fuck up by giving them their snare drum cue at the wrong time, et cetera. It's also my job to set section law, within reason, and enforce it as appropriate. The section leaders like to moan that "we're responsible for our section's stupidity." Being percussion section leader, regrettably, I tend to have more to be responsible for (with fewer players, and we're talking net stupidity here, not per capita).
So, having corrected the general impression that this was a first offense, can I get my readership to re-cast their votes between:
1) go easy on him, and
2) be a total hard-ass.
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Date: 2003-04-17 09:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-04-17 09:11 pm (UTC)an understanding hard ass,
but a hard ass none the less.
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Date: 2003-04-18 09:39 am (UTC)So this isn't the first time he screwed up, and you're responsible for his fuck-ups. Definitely let him know that. If he's the "stew in his own juices" type, don't do much about it. He'll do a better job with guilt tripping than you ever will.
If he doesn't care much, then just ask him not to do it again. Then, explain what's going on to the man who has the music, and make a copy of his part beforehand. We swim in redundant copies of everything with our literary magazine, I don't see why you can't have a back-up copy of sheet music, especially for the people who are more prone to do this.
I know some section leaders in my school. Here, at least, they think they have a lot of power, but they really don't. People perceive them as the Orchestra sponsor's bitches. I don't know what it's like where you are, but try not to cross that line, regardless. Once you're there, it's only a few short steps to people writing nasty limericks about you in instrument cases.
I'm not sure if that actually happened to the ones I know or not, but according to the oppressed, they certainly deserved it. So, I guess the point is, don't be too harsh or it'll make it worse.
In conclusion: Let him know he did something wrong, ask him not to do it again, then go behind his back and make a copy of his part.
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Date: 2003-04-20 11:34 am (UTC)I'm Jimmy!
Yes... Jimmy
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Date: 2003-04-22 07:21 am (UTC)