Posted in Guitars, Music, christian music, guitar, guitarists, inspiration, musicians, youth ministry on March 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
People get inspired by lots of things: Pictures they see, songs they hear, conversations they’ve been in; lots of things. Over the course of my life, like others, I’ve gotten inspired by lots of different things, but certain wise words I’ve heard from various people have probably inspired me the most. Not surprisingly, these have [...]
Posted in Studio/Recording, Worship Music, christian music, christian worship, recording, songs, songwriting on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Listen to the song!
I actually wrote this song a couple of years ago, and have played it live a ton of times since then. Don’t know why I didn’t record it earlier, but I think I was a little scared of the arrangement of the guitars - I needed three to pull it off, with [...]
Posted in GarageBand, Worship Music, catholic music, christian music, christian worship, recording, songs on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wrote this song about three years ago, and finally got around to doing a recording of it that I liked. My original recording was only a piano and an acoustic guitar, but I always wanted to do more with it, and also arrange it a bit differently than I originally wrote it, which was [...]
Posted in Studio/Recording, Worship Music, catholic music, christian music, christian worship, church, performing, playing live, songs on September 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Song Title: We Sing with Joy!
Description:
This is a pure praise song, very simple to play and sing, and VERY easy to play. The main riff has only three chords and the bridge only adds another two chords. The trick to this was not to make it monotonous.
Posted in Studio/Recording, Worship Music, catholic music, christian music, christian worship, church, recording, songs on September 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Title: If Today (Psalm 95)
Description:
I wrote this song for the Catholic Mass (though it could easily be used in both Episcopal and Lutheran services) as a sung Psalm response. It’s lively and upbeat, and a departure from the more meditative songs you normally hear during this part of the service.
Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Live Performance, Music, Studio/Recording, Worship Music, catholic music, christian music, christian worship, church, guitar, musicians, recording, songs on August 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In my latest GarageBand project, I just finished recording a song that I wrote back in 2004, but never managed to record it until now. The song is called “I Will Sing (of Your Salvation).“
While the song is very special to me, the recording was actually a bit of an experiment as I wanted [...]
Posted in Guitars, Worship Music, christian music, guitar, guitarists, musicians, recording, songs on August 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last night, I finally finished re-recorded a solo for a song I’ve been working on releasing (Great God). The original solo was actually pretty good, but because of some errant picking on my part, there some distracting “extras” that I could easily wave edit away. So I decided to re-do the solo entirely. But that’s [...]
Posted in Guitars, Music, Studio/Recording, catholic music, christian music, christian worship, church, iMac, mac, musicians, recording, songs on August 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I finally got a couple of songs to a mostly finished state though I have to tweak the vocal volumes on one of the songs.
You Stir My Soul
Great God
For the past week, I’ve been ever so tickled by the ease of recording that GarageBand provides. But no matter how easy the recording process has [...]
Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, Worship Music, christian music, guitar, guitar gear, iMac, musicians, performing, recording on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
All I can say is WOW! GarageBand is absolutely OFF THE HOOK!
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was going to be using GarageBand to create song foundations for performing live. But to get myself more familiarized with the application, I decided to lay down a groove for a worship song that I wrote [...]
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