Recording Experience

Each year at PWI one of the best things that happens is a combination of
the Songwriting Workshop and the Recording Experience. At the beginning of
the week, as a part of the Creative track, there are lectures on spiritual
and practical elements of the songwriting process. Then in the afternoon on
Tuesday and Wednesday we have songwriting workshops where tons of students
gather in groups of 4-5 in a large room with keyboards and guitars and
begin writing songs. Jeff and other professional songwriters move about the
room giving advice, sparking ideas, and adding focus. Wednesday evening we
pick a song that seems best fit to record and immediately begin the
arranging process.

Then, all day Thursday and Friday we "sick" our producers on the song, and
begin the professional recording process - right there in our mobile PWI
recording studios. As they track drums, bass, guitars, and keys (with PWI
Instructors) and then background vocals, and lead vocals (typically with
PWI students) its all something our PWI students can watch evolve, all the
while asking questions and learning how true professional recordings are
done. By Friday afternoon, we are finished mixing, and what started out as
nothing, then grew into an idea and then a song, is now a professionally
recorded mixed master. The Songwriting Workshops and the Recording
Experience is where it all happens!

Here's a taste of what's been written and recorded by students at PW