Band Observation Report

September 23, 2014.I stood on the football field trembling between two of my fellow band members as the announcer proclaimed “Is the Parkway South band ready to perform?” As I stood there on the field at my first marching band competition, despite every runthrough, practice, set, and note we had gone over I was still nervous and I still didn’t see the point. I moved my feet along to the multitude of drill sets we had learned, I played the notes as we had practiced, but I still wasn’t engaged in the performance. When we finished I was more relieved to be off the field and have finally finished our show than I was proud or concerned of our band’s, or my own performance. However during my years in band, set by set, beat by beat, note by note, two years later at our last competition I walked off the field swelling with pride at what was the climax of both our band’s three months of dedication and hard work and my personal accomplishment and development as a …show more content…
It was so difficult for me to perform correctly that I just aimed at doing it well enough to not be called out for performing poorly. In my mind at the time, I had fulfilled my duty as a marcher if I made it through a run without being picked out of the crowd, without being the anomaly that wasn’t right. Practices were just endless repetitions of something I could easily mess up. While my own performance was something that I rarely took pride in, I was continually amazed at how remarkable some of the marchers in the top scoring bands were, how perfect they seemed as they performed, how effortlessly they glided across field, the vigor in which they played each note. If only I could emulate that I