Archive for December, 2009
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December 18th, 2009 by Travis Swan | Posted in Announcments, New Music | No Comments »
Announcing – “The World Will See” by The Unlikelies. Now available on iTunes and Amazon.com! Also check out the free full quality preview mp3 of “Almighty.”
When Travis Swan and Katrina Stone collaborated for the first time in 2005, it was unlikely that anything would come of that four-hour songwriting session. Facing differences in musical influences [...]
December 14th, 2009 by Travis Swan | Posted in Song Writing | 1 Comment »
The Unlikelies are Travis Swan (founding member of rockworship.com) and Katrina Stone – once a week or so we’ll be posting insights gained in the writing/recording/worship leading process of our album, “The World Will See.”
The marriage between a set of lyrics and the perfect melody is an often overlooked prerequisite in the art of songwriting. [...]
December 5th, 2009 by Travis Swan | Posted in Gear, Production | No Comments »
The Unlikelies are Travis Swan (founding member of rockworship.com) and Katrina Stone – once a week or so we’ll be posting insights gained in the writing/recording/worship leading process of our album, “The World Will See.”
I’m going to start with one word. Simplify!
The main thing to remember in both live and recording applications is that [...]
December 2nd, 2009 by Travis Swan | Posted in Song Writing | 1 Comment »
The Unlikelies are Travis Swan (founding member of rockworship.com) and Katrina Stone – once a week or so we’ll be posting insights gained in the writing/recording/worship leading process of our album, “The World Will See.”
I’ve been told at multiple conferences and by multiple books that writing music with someone else is absolutely the only way [...]
December 2nd, 2009 by Travis Swan | Posted in Song Writing | 1 Comment »
There are a lot of fundamentals behind good song writing: rhythm, rhyming, verse-chorus-bridge flows. However, I don’t really want to touch on those much – they can be learned, go get a book about songwriting. I’m going to instead touch a little on my own experiences in co-writing. There are a lot of thoughts out there about writing and productivity, but what finally worked the best for me was having someone else with me that could handle the pen and paper the entire time. Every time I sit down with the pen, my brain switches modes to a very non-creative space and just starts processing the physical act of pushing a pen and making letters with it. Melodies and lyrics pop into my head much faster when I’m doing the “walk around the room playing my guitar singing random stuff” thing.
December 2nd, 2009 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Mike Cosper of Sojourn Music recently conducted a short (5 min) interview of Kevin Twit of Indelible Grace. We do several IG songs at The Rock in Ames and Stonebrook church. Some neat insights into how and why they do what they do. Specifically he addresses:
The background of Indelible Grace
How Kevin Twit [...]
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