Normally around this time of year, the cavalier marching band would be doing their rehearsals,
preparing for football games. We'd be rushing to the buses, we all have these songs we sing them on
the bus and scream out the windows and try to get the blood pumping before we go in for the game.
Obviously this year is different with the situation with Covid. Right now a lot of people
are playing in a practice room alone which is not what band's about. It's about being together. When
we were asked to provide some music for the games, knowing that we wouldn't be there, we immediately
thought this would be a way to get the band together. All right let's give it a shot all right
here we go. Everybody records alone except the drum line. All the wind players have to play alone
right now. We recorded the drum line standing in a 10-foot grid and we laid that down as sort of a
master track and then Michael Idzior, the other band director and i are laying down the wind
tracks for the instruments that we play and then we'll give that to the students and they'll play
with us effectively and eventually we'll have a file with a hundred or so many tracks. Personally
i've loved this project! It's something fun to distract you from, you know, all the stresses.
We'll at least have our presence at football games. Coming to university is obviously a really
scary thing and you don't know that many people but as soon as you join the CMB you know you
instantly have like over 300 friends so the CMB is really like a 300 person family. I know as soon as
this situation is over when we can meet in person that there's going to be like this great reunion.