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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)an understanding hard ass,
but a hard ass none the less.