S T U D I O : day six

I drove back fom South Carolina this morning, to head straight to the hotel, check out, grab Scott and get to the studio by 11:00. This meant a 8 a.m. wake up at my sisters lake house. Luckily, she is a mini-mom and packed me brakfeast! ( Doughnuts in a bag. Mmm) I called Scott when I was about 15 minutes away “ Are you all packed up and ready to get into the studio” … “ yup” …” ok cool” !

(My sister and soon.to.be brother in law!)

I walked into the room and the lights were off. He was still asleep. Unpacked. Unshowered. And the remaining m&m cookies had apparently all dissapeared. I tried not to be too frusturated. Its hard not to laugh, because Scott looks really silly when he gets woken out of a deep sleep.

Anyways, once we made it into the studio, we felt pretty great about where we were at. Finishing so much of the vocals was such a great feeling. Scott finished up the song he forgot about today as well – and now was the fun part. We began adding on to each song and building them up. Although we are an acoustic duo, it was beautiful to get to bring these songs to their full potentiol on this album.

Some of the instruments we used and used to build were:

Drums ( Snare, tom, kick)

Cymbals

Xylophone

Sleigh bells

Tambourines

Acoustic Guitar ( Taylor GS mini )

Electric Guitar ( 72 Gibson Hollow Body)

Shakers/ various hand percussion

Piano

Today had a lot of drums. Some of them are so rad it’s silly! Especially on the song “As happy as I am “ ( Title, still not official lol) Ugh it is so killer! Somehow though, with the HORRBILY loud banigng, scott, with headphones on that were pumping the drums into his ears slept through an hour of them recording. It was truly astonishing… he has a gift.