Today was ‘student recording-session day’! It’s just like working up your current pieces and performing them for friends and family in a recital setting: Same nerves wrecked and sweaty palms. But the students will get polished masters of their work at the end of the day.
The day was quiet at the studio and it sure was fun to set up a high quality pair of microphones… everyone’s been practicing two or three pieces for at least a month (after learning the pieces over anywhere from two to six months for each piece). Having a deadline to work up to is a great way to fully internalize the material. They all made such progress by having to be more focused… but on less material than on usual months.
And this is also the time when I encourage to memorize the material and to not bring any written charts or scores to the session
Great jobs!