Posted in GarageBand, Studio/Recording, recording, songs, songwriting on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of years ago, I called Tom Booth, a prolific Catholic songwriter and recording artist. I was seeking advice on the best way to approach putting a demo together of the songs I’d written for Mass. I wanted to know things such as how much I should budget, what players I should bring in [...]
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 Studio/Recording, recording, songs, songwriting on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Praise the Lord My Soul
I wrote this song in mid-2006, but didn’t get around to recording it until this past week. It’s yet another praise song, but it’s a praise song with a twist. It’s written as a blues/funk piece. One wouldn’t normally equate funk/blues with contemporary Christian music, but all I can say is [...]
Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Studio/Recording, gear, iMac, mac, recording on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Talk about putting a product through its paces! My Mac fatally crashed yet again! Yikes! When that happened, I didn’t panic because based upon Boyd Jarvis’ input in my previous article on my Mac crashing, I went down to my local Apple store, and purchased a copy of Disk Warrior. I also talked to a [...]
Posted in GarageBand, Studio/Recording, recording, songs on November 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Actually, this goes for any Mac user: BACK UP YOUR MACHINE!!! Spend $100 on a decent FireWire drive, and save your life!
I was going to go into the horror story first, but I decided to just come out with the point of this article instead. About a month ago, my iMac started acting up, running [...]
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, 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 [...]
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