Studio (Day #1)

Today, it officially feels like I live in Nashville. Amazing.

Anna and I are spending all week in the studio with Billy (her producer). Today and Tuesday, we are planning the last 4 songs for her album. She started to lay down the guitar tracks for a couple songs. We also recorded some scratch vocals. Tomorrow, we will do the same for the other couple songs. It's so exciting to see how all the recording stuff works. We are jamming, planning, and imagining what it will sound like by the end of the week after all the (professional) musicians add their stuff: drums, guitar, keys, and all that cool stuff! She wrote some wonderful songs that nobody except Billy and I have heard so far...So just wait until you can hear them!

Wednesday, some of the studio musicians are coming to start laying down their tracks. It's all coming together. I think Thursday is some more of the same...Thursday night and Friday, we start with the vocal tracks! Crazy. I'm so blessed to be a part of it all!

I also get to start "managing" some stuff! Anna and I searched for cool venues in Nashville, and we got their contact information. Now, I get to plug it all into an excel spreadsheet. Haha! I feel very important. As long as she calls the places, I would be happy to find all the phone numbers. :)

I'm really excited to start performing lots again. Since I was at school (Drake, last semester) and Anna was in Nashville, we didn't get to play many shows...We were so far away! But now, we can really start performing together again. And once the album is released, we will be playing tons of shows! Hopefully we will be touring some, and doing our school tours. What an adventure. I am so excited.

At the moment, Anna and Billy are jamming out to one of her new songs! It's awesome...I am sitting on a couch-thing that is breaking. Actually, it is kinda saggy in the middle, and every time I move, I cracks a little. Yikes! It's comfortable though. And I just ate my dinner: a little bag of fritos, a slice of pecan pie, and for dessert, an oatmeal cream pie! What a lovely evening this is.

Tonight, Anna and I will be working out and then writing more music! I'm not exactly sure what else yet, but it'll be great. Nashville is such a wonderful place. It's definitely a place where dreams come true.

Maybe I will end up going to school here...or maybe even living here someday...Who knows? Anything can happen if you just believe. (Ok...That was a cheesy quote from the Hilary Duff movie, "A Cinderfall Story"....Haha! I love that movie!)

I am going to take some pictures of Anna and I in the studio this week, so you'll see what we're up to soon! :)