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Your drum major quit? That's silly. A good drum major should know they should never quit. How big is your band right now? I'm assuming you're talking about your marching band, right? What's your concert band like? How many people are there?

What I would suggest is to get the rest of the band members together. Try to get them all to work on memorizing their music and recovering from this. Get a new drum major, someone who is above all else, a good, enthusiastic leader (and hopefully a decent conductor, although at your band's current state, I'd go for leadership first). If you guys have a hard time getting a show together this year, concentrate on what you can do - basics, memorizing music, and eventually getting a song on the field. Concentrate on keeping current members. In the spring, work on recruiting new marchers, emphasizing that marching band is fun, but not always easy - that memorization is expected, but that if people come to class each day, that nothing is too difficult. Good luck with this. Don't quit yet - try to do what you can to save your band. Only quit if the entire band quits, which hopefully won't happen.

Exactly. You quitting won't make things any better. We're going through a similar thing, but it is due to the director. Our old director left for a bigger pay check and the new guys SUCKS. NO ONE likes him and we're putting super easy shows on the field. But I'm just trying to stick it out. A band is like the stock market. It goes up and down. You're just in a regression.