I want to say that it was 2015, but it's been too long and I can't find the airplane ticket.

I found myself on a plane. I was traveling a lot those days and I was working out of my laptop wherever I could.

I was sitting in the aisle seat - my preferred seat on an airplane because I'm tall - and the guy next to me pulls out Modern Drummer and starts leafing through the pages.

I shrug in approval. It's the type of shrug where you still shrug your shoulders, but you also nod your head in approval. You're probably doing it right now. And nodding to the previous sentence.

On the plane, I debate starting a conversation but I needed to comp some vocals for a record. Instead, I pull out my computer, open up Logic Pro and start working with my headphones on.

I immediately feel this person's attention shifting towards my screen. Out of the corner of my eye I see that there is very little leafing of pages going on and he seems fixated on whatever I'm doing inside the DAW.

So I slice up some regions, add some crossfades, and finish comping the vocal track before pulling my headphones off - the universal sign for "if you want to say something to me, I will be able to hear you now."

He jumps on the opportunity and asks me, "what are you working on?"

And I tell him about the band I'm in and how we're working on some demos.

He tells me he had just moved to Tucson and he's interested in audio engineering so I share my background. I ask him about his drumming and he tells me he's been a drummer since his teens.

So naturally, because I was looking for a drummer for my band, I ask him if he wants to play with us sometime.

And that's how I met the drummer in The Long Wait, whose playing you can hear in the Step By Step Mixing Folk Rock course that's available until tonight.

We ended up playing probably close to 100 shows together, released a few singles and an album, and became great friends before the band broke up.

I was even invited to his wedding, which prompted this speech from his wife during the reception: 

"...we've known some of you all our all lives. Some of you are family. Some of you are dear friends from childhood. And some of you my husband met on a plane."

So although I am NO cheerleader for striking up a conversation with strangers on a plane, in this case of crazy random happenstance, it really worked out.

Except for the whole band breaking up right after we released our album, but that's a whole 'nother story...

So if you'd like to take a listen to a remixed and mastered track from our album AND sit down in the virtual studio with me where I walk you through the entire process from start to finish, go watch my new course "Step By Step Mixing Folk Rock" right here.

The course will close TONIGHT at midnight Arizona Time. If you don't know when Arizona Time is, maybe grab it now before that happens?

If and when I offer it again, it will not be so affordable so this is your best deal on my latest training right now.

Click here to get instant access to the entire video series right now.

Enjoy!

Björgvin