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November 29 2007

Songwriting to serve the revelation not your talent

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New video on You Tube from Andy McKee. I love Andy McKee’s music, he has an awesome sense of melody and despite his amazing talent he never seems to over do it. His ability always serves the song, I don’t get distracted by it. I can tell he aims to write the best song possible and not write the best song that demonstrates his ability. I just wish the dude could sing. I can have immense appreciation for instrumental music, I just can’t listen to it very often. If Andy is reading this blog post (chances are not good at all) here’s my suggestion to you Andy. Get Sarah McLachlan to do some vocals on your next cd. I guarantee you will have some smash hits. Your songs are perfect for her voice.

Before I get to the video I want to tie this into songwriting. As a songwriter it’s critical that when writing a worship song you have a concept or dare I say revelation that you are building the song on. That you write creatively to serve that revelation and not serve your talent. Sometimes simplicity in your writing will better serve the revelation, other times complexity will. As long as the focus and goal is finding the best way possible to capture, present and respond to the revelation then our talent becomes helpful and aides in accomplishing the goal instead of a distraction and a hindrance to that goal.

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