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<blockquote data-quote="researchfrog" data-source="post: 1057344" data-attributes="member: 5196"><p>Burn out was a major factor in why I quit band in 1999. It was when Youngblood decided that the different sections of the band must meet ten or twenty minutes prior to the official start of class. That wasn't a big deal for me two days a week, but I had a Friday afternoon class immediately before band and the professor frequently taught past the official end of class. That class was in my major and something had to give. Though my fellow posters have advised me that Youngblood is no longer so stringent with marching, it was his first year in '99 and he expected us to work very hard at playing and marching. It was also around this same time that they started to crack down on KKY's Freshman Orientation Party and prohibiting drunk alumni in the alumni band at Homecoming. As a college student, marching band no longer seemed very fun. </p><p></p><p>For many years afterwards, I would post on here regarding the need for the school to discontinue the traditional TCU marching band and switch to a scatter band concept such as the Rice MOB or the Leland Stanford, Junior University Marching Band. The School of Music could then retain a vestigial drum and bugle corp for band exhibitions. Given the continuous academic improvements in TCU's incoming classes and your discussion of burnout, I am renewing my old suggestion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="researchfrog, post: 1057344, member: 5196"] Burn out was a major factor in why I quit band in 1999. It was when Youngblood decided that the different sections of the band must meet ten or twenty minutes prior to the official start of class. That wasn't a big deal for me two days a week, but I had a Friday afternoon class immediately before band and the professor frequently taught past the official end of class. That class was in my major and something had to give. Though my fellow posters have advised me that Youngblood is no longer so stringent with marching, it was his first year in '99 and he expected us to work very hard at playing and marching. It was also around this same time that they started to crack down on KKY's Freshman Orientation Party and prohibiting drunk alumni in the alumni band at Homecoming. As a college student, marching band no longer seemed very fun. For many years afterwards, I would post on here regarding the need for the school to discontinue the traditional TCU marching band and switch to a scatter band concept such as the Rice MOB or the Leland Stanford, Junior University Marching Band. The School of Music could then retain a vestigial drum and bugle corp for band exhibitions. Given the continuous academic improvements in TCU's incoming classes and your discussion of burnout, I am renewing my old suggestion. [/QUOTE]
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