Archive for the ‘Songwriting’ Category
“Essential Songs” Survey Results
After something like 10 hours wrangling with all this data, I think I have some results to share with you. You can click on the images in this post to see the results, or download the whole thing as a PDF here. Please, comment, repost, and share with anyone you think might be interested. Is […]
Filed under: Hymns, Singing, Songwriting, Worship, Worship Leaders | 1 Comment
Tags: best songs ever written for church, favorite hymns of all time, Hymns, top advent songs, top christmas songs, top hymns
Last week we discussed singable melodies. I am suggesting that the most important feature that makes a song suitable for corporate worship is the strength of its melody. Songs that get sung across the world are the ones with strong, compelling melodies that are able to stand alone, because those work well on the only […]
Filed under: Hymns, Melody, Songwriting | 2 Comments
Tags: Bob Dylan, singable melodies, the Eagles
The human voice is the first and most important instrument on which a song must sound good if that song is going to survive beyond the cultural space and moment in which it was written.
Filed under: Hymns, Songwriting | 3 Comments
Tags: a cappella, Melody, Songwriting
