Take me out to the Ballgame

Week 2 here at the Alan Ett Music Group in Los Angeles, CA.
It's starting to get busy here, or so I'm told. I don't really know what "slow" is like out here, so I have no reference to know what "busy" is, but I'll take their word for it.
I'm still working on the nuts and bolts work, filing, stocking libraries, organizing the stock room, casting music (which basically means listening to alot of music and inputting into a database the feel, genre, mood, description, and tempo. It sounds fun at first, but it quickly becomes tedious and mind numbing.) All these things are helping me in basic ways, for that reason, I'm glad to do it, but I can't help but be eager to get my hands on some bigger things.
Today I got sit in on another spotting session, this time for a Pilot episode of a new TV show. For discretion reasons I can't tell you what it is, but it's a dark comedy, with an extremely depressing storyline.
It amazed me how important the right music is to a show. The juxtaposition of bright, slightly cheery, almost comedic music kept the show from going completely dark. As I said earlier, it's a dark comedy, it's supposed to be a funny show with a depressing story, the music kept it from being a depressing show with a few funny lines.
Now, whether or not the show gets picked up has yet to be seen, however I don't think I'd be exaggerating when I say it has a MUCH better chance with the music that was put in it today.
On top of that, those who read my last blog will (hopefully) remember me talking about getting to sing on some recordings that were done for a commercial and a movie trailer. No word back yet on either of those, however, yesterday I got asked to do two more songs! I should be hitting the studio sometime on monday to record and I'm pretty excited. No one has really told me anything about them, other than what songs they are, and that they are for a video game. Not the commercial, mind you, but will be placed in the actual game. I'm not sure what the game is, and again, for discretion purposes, I can't tell you what songs, but I'm very excited to be doing even more work with my voice.
Yes, Janice, it sure does pay to be versatile in this industry. I can't believe the opportunities I've gotten out here in just two weeks, and it's all because I had that extra bit of training that put me in the position to do these things.
It's a crazy industry we've chosen to get into, it can do amazing things for you if you can step up to the plate and swing the bat.