Band Vs. Sports
A/N} I wrote for English, as a
Persuasive paragraph, and I wanted to share it here. Hope you all
like it.
In Reply to NikkiPup who conviently
didnt leave me an email to reply to, and ffn wont let my
"review" again, so I put it here, because it has been
bothering me since I read it. Sorry to everyone that doesnt care.
"1. Surface errors are bad.
It's called proofreading. 2. Pit is easy. I don't care what
anybody says. At my band camp they get ot stay in the cool,
shaded rec hall and complain about being cold. -_- I would like
to see them try to march in 100 degree heat on a field with no
grass. Or during shows. I wouldn't mind lifting the pit
instruments. My band helps the pit every rehersal anyway. Pit is
easy."
1: I proofread it. I also used spell check. But, I am also
dyslexic so I might not have caught everything. You could have
pointed out what was wrong, or emailed me or something. Because
re-reading it I still dont see anything wrong. 2: In my band, the
pit does not get to stay in the band room. They have to walk the
ten blocks with the rest of the band to the practice field. They
get to pull the carts while the junoirs and senoirs drive cars
and shove their instrument in the back. Our pit does march 100
degree heat. We do parades, parade formations, and the like. And
I have marched. I was a flute my freshman year, marched it. I
thought pit would be easier to I switched. I was damn mistaken.
In my band, no section has it easy. It never gets below 90 here,
once we reach the end of may, up through about the end of August.
Which is when we do all of our band camp, at the practice field,
ten blocks away from the band room. If you are a freshmen, one of
the younger sophomores, or in pit, you get to walk that lovely
distance, no matter what your instrument. And pit does all the
marching fundementals with the rest of the band. Our band
director is very strict about everyone knowing how to march, and
being able to do it perfectly. At times, I wish I was in your
band, Nikki, because your pit gets to stay in a nice cool band
room. We don't.
And to everyone who talked about orchestra, we don't have one
at my school, so I don't know. Sorry.
And now on to my paragraph
Band
Vs. Sports
Band is just as demanding as sports.
Sure, it's not a required class. No one is forced to be in
band, and those that are shouldn't complain because they
chose it, but there are people that think band is just an easy
and that no work is required. A lot of stamina is
need to march the half-time show perfectly, plus play the
instruments. Some of those instruments are very heavy. The
sousaphone weighs forty-five pounds. Also, there is the pit,
which consists of the percussion instruments that are to large to
march. Pit members must have the strength to pulls pit carts,
which often weigh over two hundred pounds, depending on which
instruments are on it. They also need to lift seventy-five to one
hundred pound instruments off the carts and move them to the
proper position on the field within about forty-five seconds.
They then play the eight-minute field show, lift the instruments
back onto the carts, and pull the trailers off the field. Band is
not an easy class. Band is a commitment. It is a commitment that
requires strength, determination, and endurance.
