New Music
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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 [...]
November 11th, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in New Music, Song Selection | 1 Comment »
Bob Kauflin has an insightful post on his blog: Worship Matters about the song “Before the Throne of God Above. I think it’s worth a read on a couple levels.
The song is not public domain!
Some good thoughts on the flow of music in worship
Good thoughts about instrumentation and arrangements in music for worship.
Give it [...]
August 22nd, 2007 by Justin Meyer | Posted in New Music, Song Writing | 1 Comment »
We are beginning writing with a team of people at Walnut Creek. I am working with a few different people and kind of overseeing the project. It is interesting how different people write songs. I have a girl who is working with us that has gone to Drake University and graduated as a music major [...]
April 19th, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Announcments, Ministry Philosophy, New Music | 1 Comment »
One of our contributers, Dan Price’s band Ish was just signed to Semper Reformada Records and they conducted an excellent interview with him.
I found questions 4 and 7 to be particularly good.
If a young musician felt called to become a lead worshiper for their church, what advice would you give them to help in their [...]
January 6th, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Ministry Philosophy, New Music, Song Writing | 36 Comments »
From the “850 Words” E-newsletter from Relevant Magazine.
Editor’s Note: In the latest issue of RELEVANT, we got the chance to ask seven leaders about seven big questions facing the Church. Here’s an excerpt from their responses. To read more, be sure to check out the January/February issue of the mag.
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January 2nd, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in New Music | 1 Comment »
Download two albums of free songs from IonWorship. They are mostly from relatively unknown Vineyard worship leaders (though there are a few recognizable names in there). Free songs are always good. New music is hard to find. And these come with the chord charts! How can you go [...]
October 26th, 2005 by Travis Swan | Posted in New Music, Song Writing | 1 Comment »
As I stated at the end of my Picking Songs post, you can just skip the weeding out process of picking worship songs by writing your own.
Everyone has different methods of writing – when I’m by myself I tend to do the “walk around the room playing my guitar and sing random stuff” thing a [...]
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