Sometimes the early bird gets a rude awakening instead of the worm. Because not a half hour after reformed night owl Halbert jumps out of bed, sends the reference vocals for the day's two "Kellyoke" songs off to Clarkson and gets in the shower, he receives bad news from one of the show's producers.
"It's not the challenge of changing music, it's really just we're up against the clock," he explains of getting everything together before their brief pre-show rehearsal. "Because every minute of our day is scheduled and we only have a five-minute window per song on the date with Kelly that she's available due to having to start the show on time."Time to see if they passed this latest test with flying colors.
Then Clarkson joins them at 10 a.m. with a bright idea. Usually their arrangements have the singer flashing her vocal prowess by jumping an octave at the end, but with the-fronted track that meant remaining in a lower octave until the last 10 seconds which "she just felt was kind of a waste," explains Halbert. "So last minute she just said, 'Hey, I just want to change the key to make it more interesting.
Her idea had them dropping the song by six keys, "So we had to do a little bit of scrambling instrumentation-wise to make it sound good that way," he says. "But we achieved it within the five minutes." There are sighs of relief all around, but little surprise from the band leader. "We have great musicians on stage that can adapt quickly and we got it done," he says. Plus, as always, Clarkson's "instincts are great.
Because while they do as much advanced planning as possible, with scripts coming in as late as midnight before a taping and only a broad understanding about what guests might chat about, "We have to guess what the tone is going to be: Is this going to be a sad segment? A happy segment?" he explains. "So I'm asking the producers, 'Hey, do you think this is going to lift up? Or are we going to stay sad?' And if it changes, we have to adjust our cues on the fly.
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