Here's this week's song taken directly from James 1:2-4 (NASB). Enjoy!
-Tom
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Monday, June 18, 2007
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8 comments:
Biblical poetry should lend itself to hymnodization, but that's interesting that you could do it to straight prose as well.
I'm not against prose by any means. But I think the ultimate purpose of Scripture songs is to help children memorize God's Word exactly.
-Tom
Constructive criticism: You should bring out the words more. In your recording, I could hear the music fine, but I could not make out all the words. And I have young ears. My parents or grandparents would not even be able to hear enough key words to guess the subject of the verses.
The words are inspired. The music is not. Make the inspired words primary to the listener.
A,
Thanks for the comment. The purpose of the recording is to simply give people an idea of how the song should sound. I currently don't have the best of recording capabilities, but hope to improve upon that. I simply use the built-in mic on my MacBook. When my recording abilities improve I hope to re-record the songs. Until that time I hope that the recordings simply help you to be able to perform the song.
-Tom
Tom,
Kewl! I don't care if this is intended for kids, it's going on my playlist. I've been listening to Scripture memorization such as at ForeverGratefulMusic.com (Mark Altrogge is reformed, by the way...)
Thanx for making it available!! I'm excited for more!
Also, any chance you could put them out in mp3 format?
Nevermind, it's super easy to convert them to MP3 in iTunes. Just right-click, choose export to MP3, done.
This song is so catchy!
But one suggestion, if you can do it. One thing that Mark Altrogge at ForeverGratefulMusic.com does is add the Scripture reference right into the song. Sounds awkward but it gets memorized, too, and then I can find the verse later much more easily.
Just a suggestion.
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