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Normally around this time of year, the cavalier 
marching band would be doing their rehearsals,  

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preparing for football games. We'd be rushing to 
the buses, we all have these songs we sing them on  

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the bus and scream out the windows and try to get 
the blood pumping before we go in for the game.  

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Obviously this year is different with the 
situation with Covid. Right now a lot of people  

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are playing in a practice room alone which is not 
what band's about. It's about being together. When  

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we were asked to provide some music for the games, 
knowing that we wouldn't be there, we immediately  

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thought this would be a way to get the band 
together. All right let's give it a shot all right  

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here we go. Everybody records alone except the 
drum line. All the wind players have to play alone  

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right now. We recorded the drum line standing in 
a 10-foot grid and we laid that down as sort of a  

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master track and then Michael Idzior, the other 
band director and i are laying down the wind  

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tracks for the instruments that we play and then 
we'll give that to the students and they'll play  

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with us effectively and eventually we'll have a 
file with a hundred or so many tracks. Personally  

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i've loved this project! It's something fun to 
distract you from, you know, all the stresses.  

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We'll at least have our presence at football 
games. Coming to university is obviously a really  

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scary thing and you don't know that many people 
but as soon as you join the CMB you know you  

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instantly have like over 300 friends so the CMB is 
really like a 300 person family. I know as soon as  

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this situation is over when we can meet in person 
that there's going to be like this great reunion.