September 2011
Colorado Christian University - Student Songwriters SPRING 2011
These are demo recordings of the six songwriting students at CCU for Spring semester 2011. Special thanks to Steve Taylor, Mark Dorn, Sarah Watson, and Janet Sefross at CCU for all their help in creating and resourcing this class. Thanks also to Jamie Wolf (http://www.indieheaven.com/artist_main.php?id=25195) for lending her [...]
Mark Lowry & Bill Gaither Comedy/”Turn Your Radio On”
LOLOLLOL @ Mark. with mark lowry, bill gaither, jd sumner, ben speer, ann downing, sue dodge, candy hemphill christmas, joy gardner and the rest of the homecoming friends. I posted the comedy part before but i had several people request that I post the full thing so here it is.
Duration : 0:7:26
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Free Write - AckDavis (with lyrics)
Awesome track off of AckDavis’s Downtime Mixtape. Lyrics below:
Yeah, one two one two it’s like that AckDav in the booth it’s like this
Yo, yeah, uh, one two yo, uh
Yo, Yo we can’t do this alone, there’s one church and it’s wrapped in the globe
Do your math on the scrolls, we’re tied tight without a [...]
How I Write a Song - The Making of “Dogfights on the Moon”
As seen on http://www.benchilcote.com — Watch me in real time as I develop a song from scratch. In this video I show my first look at the challenge and document my creative process all the way to getting writer’s block.
See how I develop the ideas, lyrics, music and everything else AS IT HAPPENS.
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The Almost - They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song, But Here I Go
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How I Write Songs
I hum & strum. I always have something ready to record ideas with. I treat those ideas like gold. I have over 500 snippets in my iTunes.
Duration : 0:3:14
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Melody/Song Snippet - This is how I write songs
This is how I write songs: hum & strum… that is, fiddle on the guitar and hum a melody. Works for me. I have about 500 of these snippets that are a pool of ideas to write songs from. Get a voice recorder or use your laptop or phone, but always have something handy to [...]
The Call - Original Song
If you believe in the message of this song, please share it with someone you think needs to hear God’s Call.
The song that was born out of the crying mess God made of me this at church this week - when He planted the seed of sorrow for this world in me… and the burden [...]
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songwriting inspiration
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C3 Worship song writing “Help me” part 1
A close up look at how the song ‘Help me’ was written.
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Duration : 0:9:53
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