New song almost ready…
August 22nd, 2007 by Justin Meyer | Posted in New Music, Song Writing
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 and challenges us to write songs with interesting chord progressions. One of the other worship leaders doesn’t understand as much about music theory but has a great ear for a natural melody and fights to have things be accessible. One of my guitar players has been adding some really good guitar riffs. My drummer hasn’t spent alot of time in the studio so we have been actually writing drum parts that play off of the melody and it has been a great learning experience for both of us. I am not very good at communicating with some people about musical things.
All in all, so far, the experience has been wonderful. We have tracked the main guitars and the drums. I layed down some scratch bass parts tonight and we workshopped the vocals last night. I am really pleased with the lyrics to the song and feel like they are worthwhile. I don’t want to betray anyones trust and post the song yet but as soon as we get a go ahead, I will post and I would love to hear thoughts or questions. It definately is written to be played at our campus service or at our downtown church.
In other news, to keep developing our skills, we are going to be recording our downtown church live this weekend into an 8 channel protools rig. Then add more parts and give it to a bunch of guys to “Remix” then get together and talk about it and the decisions mixing we made. It should be fun to see how each of our sound guys mix. kind of fun eh?
well. peace. I hope that this finds each of you well!
be encouraged. -j
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I look forward to hearing a sample of your music.