We headed into the studio at United Action for Youth over winter break. We were thrilled and surprised that almost all of our students were available to record!
Prairie Green School was invited to record "Robot Song" which will be featured on a cd compilation called "For Kids By Kids." Half of the songs are written by local artists including Pieta Brown, Dave Moore, and the Awful Purdies. The other half are written and performed by local young musicians. This cd will be distributed for free throughout Mission Creek Festival. We headed into the studio at United Action for Youth over winter break. We were thrilled and surprised that almost all of our students were available to record! Here we are stretching and warming up our voices. Pappy joined us to lay down some bass ukulele on our recording. You may be thinking, "What's a Pappy?" Pappy is our dear friend, Craig Klocke, who volunteers at the school. We got to work with Stu Mullins at UAY. Here he is setting up the microphones. We learned how to sing into a microphone. We started by recording the song all together. The kids did a great job! A sneak peek of our studio time. We recorded "Robot Song" four times which gave us a sense of what a studio musician does. Despite all the repetition, the kids sang and played with energy during each take. Lucy rocked the harmonica! Pappy handed her one earlier that morning and she ended up playing it on the recording. After recording, we piled into the sound room and took a listen. We needed to decide which of the four takes sounded the best. Overdubs! Some of our preschoolers listened back in the headphones and sang along to record another layer to our song. One final listen! Our youngest students were ready to play. :) We left Stu with the work of mixing the song. "Robot Song" after the mixing. Listen close for the added comments at the end - "Is it on the cd yet?" "Can we do it again?" We hope this is the first of many studio sessions.
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