Nashville

Today was one of the better days I've had in a long time! I didn't even mind the whole 4 hours one way travel thing. Me and dad went over to Nashville today to visit Sae Institute.

1. Nashville: Love it. I love that its a big city but its really not that big. I love the energy there. I totally see myself living there for at least while I'm at school. Maybe longer. Me and dad drove around downtown after the open house at Sae and they were filming a music video right outside of Margaritaville and Legends, i wish i new who's video, but just the production crew was there. Ive just always wanted to be somewhere where i could turn a corner and run into an amazing street performer. My family never traveled much so this was my first time in Nashville if you haven't figured that out by now. :)

2.Sae: I can't even tell you how amazing this place was. When we found it we kept driving past it and if you guys don't know where it is, its on Music Circle North, so when you turn the corner there's Sony Productions. On the other side of the street there's GAC. A little further down I about had a major freak out when we passed Curb Records. But anyways, about the school in general. Its just one building, small classes, only about 100 students are enrolled at a time. One big lab for learning Pro Tools/Logic and stations for learning how to use EQ's and stuff, plus that's where we would work on ear training, and if i remember correctly...5 or 6 sound studio labs. and 2 big classrooms. (by the way, speaking of the sound studios, I'm going to have a bunch of mixing projects that I'll need musicians for. FREE STUDIO TIME, it can be solo stuff, bands, whatever, the only thing though is that the further i get in with my knowledge, the more I'll need in the studio at one time, you just have to come to Nashville and hang out in one of the studios with me. I get all rights to finished products, so you'd get your professionally recorded song at the end of the day. Just keep that in mind :) )
One of the boards they just bought they were telling us about was shipped in from Oxford. It was used to mix for Elton John. Another board they have, their most advanced board, which is literally bigger than my living room couch, they bought from Whitney Houston. They also have an old analog board that records on the old 2 inch tape that they used before computers were used.
The coolest thing about the school though. The senior lecturer is from somewhere just outside Oxford. This dude worked in Abbey Road Studios when the Beatles recorded there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's also mixed for Queen, Meatloaf, The Who, STYX, tons of other huge names that I can't remember now, he's also done movie tracks for 40 Year Old Virgin and a couple others. He's also a trained classical guitarist, so he has these nasty, long, thick nails on his left hand. Ive seen people with a couple long nails for guitar, but it was every finger on his left hand. Dude's legit. Blew my mind!
So yeah, as you can tell, I'm beyond excited about my future right now.:)