Music & Songwriting
APPROPRIATENESS: THE MARK OF A PRO
Throughout these articles we’ve mentioned our Cardinal Rule: Make all the elements work together to enhance the feeling of the message. That rule can be summed up in one key word: In message [...]
MORE ABOUT CHOIRS
All right! Which one of you wise guys sang that blues lick! CHORAL PERFORMANCE Some choirs sing everything in the same tone of voice, like an organ with only one stop. But the [...]
UP-THE-WALL SONGS
We said it once. We say it again . . . and again. . . and again . . . and again . . . In worship songs, pul-lease! Spare us the endless [...]
A WORSHIPING SONGWRITER’S PRAYER:
Lord, here I am trying to write songs about You. I think of all the awesome, magnificent, cosmic, larger-than-mortal-life words and, somehow, they just won’t do. I wonder— have we ever really understood [...]
IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!
Recently I had an electrocardiogram. I was lying on a table, hooked up to a machine by wires attached all over my body. Carol was sitting there watching. When the technician had me [...]
A SONGWRITER’S TOOLKIT
Here are some tools songwriters should always have available: 1. Rhyming Dictionary. It is not cheating. There is no virtue in running over “dog, fog, log, nog, sog, yog and zog” in your [...]
