I wanted to switch to Bass Clarinet, but my band directors don’t let me.
I been playing Bf clarinet since 6th Grade and I have been enjoying it a lot since then. During my 7th Grade year after Halloween Season, my band was starting to choose our bass clarinets and they needed to have them before Christmas. I decided to signed up and i try and fell in love with it. I been a huge fan of the lower notes of the clarinet so that could be the reason of why I loved bass so much. Anyways, they chose me and this girl one year older than me to play bass music for Christmas but with normal clarinet because they were supposed to gave us the instruments after Christmas break. After the concert, the band directors told us that we were not gonna be able to play bass anymore because they were gonna switch two bass clarinets from concert band to our symphony band. I was so mad after that because I felt that the band directors betrayed us. My friends told me that it was common that 8th Graders were chosen to play bass so I thought that next year I would have a chance.
8th Grade year arrives and I was so excited because I felt that this was my year for becoming bass. Halloween season ends and auditions starts. We need to clarify also that by this time I got moved to Concert band because I fail my audition to remain in symphonic. In concert, I didn’t expect that 7 kids (mostly 7th Graders) were trying to audition for bass clarinet. After my band director finished to talk with them, he decides to talk with me in private. He told me sincerely that he didn’t look at me as a bass clarinet player and that I could suck on the instrument. The reason was because our clarinets were trash this year, I was always 1st Chair and he noticed that. He told me that they needed me to remain on bf clarinet so he told me that I was gonna be the last one to audition for bass. SPOILER ALERT: I never auditioned for bass. By the end of Christmas, he finally announces that this stupid 7th grader and this bad expression 8th grader were the chosen ones for bass. I was so mad because I never auditioned and he told me that he didn’t see me as a bass player.
I been thinking in quitting band because they always treats me bad and I don’t have many friends on it. Next year, I will be a freshman and I think that maybe it could be my third chance to become bass player. What do you’ll think? Should I keep trying, or do I just stop trying and quit instead?