Instead of couches, a coffee table and TV, imagine having microphones, instruments and soundproofing on the walls of your living room.
Taylor Dane Myers, 22, is making his dreams of producing music a reality out of a full-scale production studio in his house. Myers was valedictorian in high school, but after a few semesters at the University of Central Florida, he realized being a full-time student wasn’t for him.
Myers who was receiving a combination of Florida Prepaid, Florida Bright Futures and a Pegasus scholarship took some of that money, along with knowledge he gained from “YouTube University,” Google and Basement Studios to form Wholehearted Productions.
Myers, who started taking drum lessons at 10 years old, later got into song writing …show more content…
I had offers to record at other studios, but I didn’t feel comfortable there. Here it is just so easy. They helped me feel good about my music for the first time, and that’s when I knew I wanted to make my music here,” Marie said.
Myers said Wholehearted Productions got by on luck for the first year and a half, but the business is finally going strong.
“For the first year and a half or so we just kind of lucked out continually with getting projects just in time. Randomly people would come in and book a whole day, and we were like, well, that’s our rent or whatever. But now we meet our monthly expenses and we are in the green,” Myers said.
Wholehearted Productions name stems from the passion and dedication Myers and Sierra put into their work.
“We have a raw passion for music--the excitement and the curiosity and being wholehearted everyday,” Sierra said.
Wholehearted Productions strives to work on music of which they can be wholehearted fans. When Myers and Sierra started the business they told themselves that if they stay true to that, they we will be successful.
“The secret to getting a production studio in a house--find laid-back, desperate, landlord on Craigslist,” Myers
Taylor Dane Myers, 22, is making his dreams of producing music a reality out of a full-scale production studio in his house. Myers was valedictorian in high school, but after a few semesters at the University of Central Florida, he realized being a full-time student wasn’t for him.
Myers who was receiving a combination of Florida Prepaid, Florida Bright Futures and a Pegasus scholarship took some of that money, along with knowledge he gained from “YouTube University,” Google and Basement Studios to form Wholehearted Productions.
Myers, who started taking drum lessons at 10 years old, later got into song writing …show more content…
I had offers to record at other studios, but I didn’t feel comfortable there. Here it is just so easy. They helped me feel good about my music for the first time, and that’s when I knew I wanted to make my music here,” Marie said.
Myers said Wholehearted Productions got by on luck for the first year and a half, but the business is finally going strong.
“For the first year and a half or so we just kind of lucked out continually with getting projects just in time. Randomly people would come in and book a whole day, and we were like, well, that’s our rent or whatever. But now we meet our monthly expenses and we are in the green,” Myers said.
Wholehearted Productions name stems from the passion and dedication Myers and Sierra put into their work.
“We have a raw passion for music--the excitement and the curiosity and being wholehearted everyday,” Sierra said.
Wholehearted Productions strives to work on music of which they can be wholehearted fans. When Myers and Sierra started the business they told themselves that if they stay true to that, they we will be successful.
“The secret to getting a production studio in a house--find laid-back, desperate, landlord on Craigslist,” Myers