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June 05, 2006
Nashville – June 2006 - Day 1, 2, and part of 3
Day 1: Friday, June 2 – Drove all day! We left at around 7:30AM, thinking we would arrive at our hotel around 7:30PM. We even packed a picnic lunch to save a little time (and money!).
We ended up arriving at around 10:30PM. We passed three accidents on the way up, drove through a few storms, and spent more time in stop and go traffic on this one trip than we had spent all year. Of course, we can go weeks without driving in heavy traffic of any kind, so I’m not going to complain too loudly. The main thing is that we arrived safely!
Day 2: Saturday, June 3 – We attended a panel discussion at the Country Music Hall of Fame as part of the Nashville Screenwriters Association conference. This discussion was on the placing of songs in films and television shows.
The panel consisted of four music supervisors from various studios (Warner, Disney, etc.). We were shown clips of movies in progress, and informed of the types of songs they were looking for.
We learned a little bit about how songs get into films (a subject beyond the scope of this blog, but I plan to include this topic in a future email newsletter) and we were encouraged to pitch one song to one of the supervisors. So Sheryl and I will have to get home and work on a song for a movie!
Day 3: Sunday, June 4 – We attended a church called “Mosaic” with some friends of ours, Bob Nickerson and Jewly Hight. This church, which meets in a building dating from the 1850’s, was geared toward 20-somethings, and I ended up being the oldest person there! To me it felt a bit like attending a church youth group meeting, but the pastor was an effective teacher.
After lunch with Bob and Jewly at a local Thai restaurant, we went out to their place in East Nashville to see their project studio.
They bought a duplex, set up house in one half, and have the studio set up in the other.
Their set up is actually very similar to ours in that it’s a computer hard-drive based recording system, with the main difference being that they have a “tracking room” (where the musicians actually perform and are “tracked”, or recorded) set up in the room next to the control room.
Our “tracking room” is actually our bedroom. Sheryl built a very effective portable sound booth that we set up in the bedroom when it’s time to record someone. We then run all the cables out there, and set up whatever mics we are going to use, depending on what is being recorded.
Someday, we hope to add on to our house, and one of the additional rooms will become our tracking room. We’ll be able to keep mics and instruments permanently set up in there, just as Bob and Jewly do in their tracking room.
After our visit with Bob and Jewly, it was back to our hotel to rest up and prepare for playing at the Bluebird.
More on the Bluebird tomorrow!
Posted by leon at June 5, 2006 03:30 PM