Section Leader Problems

When members of your section step and help make your life easier while being the only section leader before they pick a new one.

When your fellow section leader is injured early in the season and for a while, you’re the only leader for a section of 28.

When you have to lead two sections at the same time and you have to hold their hands through everything and somehow they’re still not getting it

The feeling when other kids actually come to you for help.

I don’t want to nag, I want to help them improve! But they don’t listen! Ugghhhhhhh.

When a student in your section was there his freshman year, went to a “better and more elite” school for his sophomore year, and now is back at your school and he tries to lead the section like at his old school even though I was chosen as section leader for a reason….

When you’re Trumpet™ section leader, but second chair, only girl, and only a sophomore so the freshmen don’t listen.

When you have the quietest voice in your section and they can’t hear you yelling at them to stop talking.

People in your section having crushes on you, and you having to spend 3 hours a day with them for the next 4 months.

When you’ve graduated and you visit band camp and the new assistant section leader, the only responsible one left, is bawling her eyes out begging you not to leave because the new section leader, your old assistant, isn’t doing their job and the section won’t take the assistant seriously and before you can contain yourself your Mom™ self comes out and you roast the section leader and maybe threat to fight them if they don’t straighten up. You know. Just Section Mom things. Ser

When you don’t have an ounce of swing in your body, but are chosen to return to your alma mater and teach your former section an entirely swing show.

When you’re a junior and the seniors refuse to listen to you, which makes the underclassmen think they don’t have to listen to you either

When your section is the most ADD section in the band

Trying to resolve a fight between section leaders, and then starting a fight over how to solve it.

When you’re the brass section leader and the drum major but you give your brass more attention than the woodwinds because they are your babies and you Love them even though they can be exhausting💜🎵🎶

When half of your section is eighth graders and neither of them want to listen to you 80% of the time

(Trumpet Edition) When half the section is playing on a 7C mouthpiece…