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Permalink Reply by Charles Wolff on May 18, 2019 at 8:48pm

This is nice.  I wish there were more songs written specifically to open (or close) a worship service.

Only thing I'd suggest fiddling with is that it's basically the same chord pattern all the way through (and it's weird that the first time through the bridge it's the same chord all the way through, then the second time through it reverts to the same pattern as the rest of the song). I think I'd like it more if the bridge part involved a couple of chords that weren't in the rest of the song at all.

But nice simple lyrics, good message.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Aiken on May 18, 2019 at 9:04pm

Thanks Charles,
When I first wrote the song basically it had the same chord riff all the way through...but then I thought ‘Charles will probably mention that’ (that’s a positive thing i.e. it makes me look again at a song and not be lazy!)

So, I did try messing about with some other chords but the song seemed to start shifting too far away from its original feel. In the end I stripped out the 2nd and 4th chord in the riff for the verses and used one chord for the 1st time through the bridge and then into the main riff 2nd time for some dynamic shift...

Cheers,

Joe

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Permalink Reply by Charles Wolff on May 21, 2019 at 1:37pm

So, Joe, I do need to pick out a special music song for next Sunday... you mind if I do a couple little tweaks to this and then test fly it on Sunday, post back a recording of what we do?  Lyrical tweaks would be minimal, main thing would be trying out some chord variations on the bridge...

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Permalink Reply by Joe Aiken on May 24, 2019 at 6:10am

Hi Charles, Go for it...I look forward to hearing it... cheers, joe

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Permalink Reply by Joe Aiken on May 24, 2019 at 11:31am

CCLI number is 7130742

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Permalink Reply by Charles Wolff on May 24, 2019 at 12:26pm

Thank you.  I've started doing a demo recording, but I've been having some problems getting a good recording (guitars not sounding good / in tune, and I may be working in too low a key), so it won't be this Sunday, but soon-ish, I think...

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