Discover Pinal: Taking notes on the music industry 🎸

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Good morning and happy Saturday RJ,

The recording studios at Central Arizona College’s Signal Peak Campus are state-of-the-art facilities where students can practice how to do just about everything in the recording industry from the stage to the studio to managing their own band.

The studios are just one part of the school’s Entertainment Industry Technology program which is directed by Dan Bush. He’s a musician himself and released three full-length albums with the band “Chaotica” in the 1990s.

Subscribers can read more about how Bush teaches students the fundamentals of recording, editing, mixing and marketing music and keeps them coming back for more, even after they’ve graduated.

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