Title: All to us
First Line: Precious Cornerstone
Artist: Chris Tomlin
Composer: Chris Tomlin, Matt Maher, Matt Redman & Jesse Reeves
Album: And if Our God is For Us...
Mp3: Yes
Sheet Music: Yes
Popular sources: SOF5
My thoughts: Happy Christmas! Leaving aside that I was surprised to see a posting on Christmas Day (well, OK, it is one they've posted before), I thought, hang about, it's that Mr Tomlin again. This is a good one, well structured and easy to listen to, and no angels or mangers in sight - I've always felt uncomfortable with such anyway.
It isn't one to get especially excited about though, but I can imagine it popping up in worship once in a while as it is a great one to drift along to...
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Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Kingsway 18th December
Title: Waiting Here For You
First Line: If Faith can move the mountains
Artist: Martin Smith
Composer: Chris Tomlin, Martin Smith & Jesse Reeves
Album: God's Great Dance Floor - Movement One
Mp3: Yes
Sheet Music: Yes - melody line and chords only
Popular sources: SOF5
My thoughts: Rather peculiar that the sheet music is melody line only, but in fact the chorus is in SOF5....a Kingsway publication. And as far as I can make out OK on the CCL. Laying aside that little oddity...
I was wondering how these guys manage to produce such beautiful stuff and I was loving this one. Must dig it out...in SOF5...and give it a turn at some point, because just lately I've been more keen to try out stuff less than 5 years old, having caught up on the last 20 years that I've missed. It does, however, remind me of another worship chorus, which may be by Paul Baloche, but I can't quite nail the words in my head. Also, for me, the chorus eventually began to grate (I can simplify for my purposes) and may benefit from a stronger middle section.
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First Line: If Faith can move the mountains
Artist: Martin Smith
Composer: Chris Tomlin, Martin Smith & Jesse Reeves
Album: God's Great Dance Floor - Movement One
Mp3: Yes
Sheet Music: Yes - melody line and chords only
Popular sources: SOF5
My thoughts: Rather peculiar that the sheet music is melody line only, but in fact the chorus is in SOF5....a Kingsway publication. And as far as I can make out OK on the CCL. Laying aside that little oddity...
I was wondering how these guys manage to produce such beautiful stuff and I was loving this one. Must dig it out...in SOF5...and give it a turn at some point, because just lately I've been more keen to try out stuff less than 5 years old, having caught up on the last 20 years that I've missed. It does, however, remind me of another worship chorus, which may be by Paul Baloche, but I can't quite nail the words in my head. Also, for me, the chorus eventually began to grate (I can simplify for my purposes) and may benefit from a stronger middle section.
This song is available on Kingsway from today until 24th December inc. To access, you must logon; or register with Kingsway, who in return will add you to their mailing list, but they are not serial spammers.
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Kingsway 14th August
Title: White Flag
First Line: The battle rages on
Artist: Chris Tomlin
Composer: Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Matt Maher & Jason Ingram
Album: Passion: White Flag
Mp3: Yes
Sheet Music: Yes
CCL: This is very very new I'm not going to bother looking. Give it a couple of months, it will be there
Popular sources: Far too new yet, literally hot off the press..
My thoughts: As you probably know, I'm quite fond of "reading" the music first before listening to the mp3, and my initial thoughts were - great, an 83bpm so relatively slow, or at least a gentle sway. It is moderately gentle, but with the addition of drums and rocky guitars which sound more than a little influenced by U2, it's turned into...um...a fairly decent Christian yoof rock chorus. From the beginning, the Tomlin and Redman influence is obvious (Redman rarely goes up and down the musical scale like a demented yoyo, and Tomlin loves things to sway) Think of How Great is Our God and You Never Let Go, put them in a pot, put a few spices and extra herbs and veggies and out comes this. A good flavour, but like sweet chilli sauce, not really my flavour. Shame, because I like all these artists, but I can't see me buying this, nor playing it. I dislike the trend lately of repeating the same line over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Call me a traditionalist (at best) or a pedant (at worst). Or someone that is maybe getting too old for this.
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First Line: The battle rages on
Artist: Chris Tomlin
Composer: Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Matt Maher & Jason Ingram
Album: Passion: White Flag
Mp3: Yes
Sheet Music: Yes
CCL: This is very very new I'm not going to bother looking. Give it a couple of months, it will be there
Popular sources: Far too new yet, literally hot off the press..
My thoughts: As you probably know, I'm quite fond of "reading" the music first before listening to the mp3, and my initial thoughts were - great, an 83bpm so relatively slow, or at least a gentle sway. It is moderately gentle, but with the addition of drums and rocky guitars which sound more than a little influenced by U2, it's turned into...um...a fairly decent Christian yoof rock chorus. From the beginning, the Tomlin and Redman influence is obvious (Redman rarely goes up and down the musical scale like a demented yoyo, and Tomlin loves things to sway) Think of How Great is Our God and You Never Let Go, put them in a pot, put a few spices and extra herbs and veggies and out comes this. A good flavour, but like sweet chilli sauce, not really my flavour. Shame, because I like all these artists, but I can't see me buying this, nor playing it. I dislike the trend lately of repeating the same line over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Call me a traditionalist (at best) or a pedant (at worst). Or someone that is maybe getting too old for this.
This song is available on Kingsway from today until 20th August inc. To access, you must logon; or register with Kingsway, who in return will add you to their mailing list, but they are not serial spammers.
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