Garfield High School Drumline | BDX 2018

[@9sworld381]

It was fun

[@9sworld381]

Thank you Sodano for making BDX happen

[@sodanomusic]

0.9C Yep. 👌 Rebranding next year

[@AlyCatNat]

These kids did great! That being said, I have a hard time believing that everybody who wanted to play a drum just happened to be male and everybody who wanted to play a cymbal just happened to be female.

[@sodanomusic]

Heyyyy random person on the internet proclaiming assumptions without any context past a KZbin view. Hi, how are you?😄 I guess you missed the quad section leader being female in this video .. but YES you are correct in identifying a HUGE issue in percussion and music education in general! You should have seen this line before I got here. The gender roles attached to instrument was a real problem. When I was teaching at Garfield we had many amazing female percussionist come through the program. BUT it was during that teaching assignment that I really became aware and learned about the gender issues with instrumentation overall. Percussion being the highest offender. I put a lot of effort into creating additional percussion classes to provide opportunities for folks to start learning drums in general. When you get a young person in your program that WANTED to play drums when they started band in 5th grade but were set on a different instrument buy their teacher... well you have to create options to help fix that. We also had male cymbal players. ACTUALLY one of my male cymbal players from when I taught at this school, is now in the NFL Drumline that I'm the assistant director for. If you want to help on a larger scale you can make a donation to www.girlsmarch.org.

[@sodanomusic]

Actually looking at this video I now remember that the quad section leader had a performance conflict as she had a crew rowing competition. She is not in this video

[@AlyCatNat]

@@sodanomusic Random Garfield parent, class of '11, actually. And a person who's spent a lifetime NOT getting to drive, control, or play with any of the cool toys because I'm a girl. Yes I did suspect that one of the drummers might be female but with the unisex uniform (no complaints! that's a good idea!) and them all being young and skinny I was not sure. Thanks for making an effort towards gender equality, obviously we all have a long way to go on that front. I'm not attacking the Garfield system, though I have found Garfield to be inflexible and hidebound as an institution, I'm criticizing the entire system.

[@sodanomusic]

@@AlyCatNat Class of 11. Cool, pretty recent. That was my 4th year teaching there. Obviously I wrote you back because you were stirring the pot and nowadays with CC it felt like you were attacking my pedagogy publicly. You were definitely not attacking the "entire system" tho as you made an exclamation directly on KZbin about my program and not about Garfield as a whole. That only came after I wrote you. But regardless I'm glad you liked the musical part of the content. I'm sure you are aware from being a current ghs parent that the entire administration and high % of counselors are different people from class of 11 era. Is that a good thing? I'm honestly not sure as I don't work there anymore.