Today we had ANOTHER three field trips! AHHH! We first went to Stephen Leiweke's studio. His website is www.stephenleiweke.com. He is an independent producer, session guitarist and artist. He showed us his studio and talked to us about producing music. He used a lot of terms that I didn't know (but our program director told us that by the end of the semester, we WILL know those terms). He was really cool and seemed really serious about his job and work. Before we left he played his guitars and used different pedals for effects.
Next we went to visit Jason Halbert, the music director and producer of Kelly Clarkson. His daughter, Kennedy was there as well. Kennedy has an awesome voice on her; she will be famous one day (she kinda is already- look up Kennedy Noel Halbert). Jason talked about tours, and producing a famous musician. He discussed with us how much time and work goes into everything with Kelly. It was excellent to listen to him talk about it all. He was a down to earth guy and really enjoys his job. His house was full of records of Kelly and DC Talk. It was cool.
Next we went to EMACK, TobyMac's studio in Nashville. We toured the small place that used to be a Mexican restaurant and talked to one of the music engineers (Kyle Lee) and an alum from CMC (Brad Pooler). It was cool to be there. So I texted Greg Murray, who did some work with Toby on his tours. Greg was excited to hear I had the opportunity to be there.
Today was really cool, once again. It is so surreal to be hanging, yes, hanging with these people in the industry who are associated with people like TobyMac, Kelly Clarkson, The Fundamental Element and Michael W. Smith. It's crazy!... and awesome! haha.
Tonight the techs are going over to our professor, Marcus dePaula's, house for a chili dinner and some getting to know each other. It should be good.
Scoot up to the mic please...
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