Excellence in Music and Worship
Original Musical Compositions and Thoughts on Worship
Here's an arrangement I wrote for this past year's Patriotic service. It's probably the most challenging lines I've written for the group, to date. I finally had a chance to mix it down.
Hope you enjoy!
Here's an arrangement of the popular Christmas song, "Go Tell It On the Mountain" I wrote for this year's upcoming Christmas. While I was preparing the practice vocal tracks for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass, I sang each part in a range that fit my voice, which turned it into a 'male' (barbershop) arrangement. I thought it sounded fun, so I went ahead and mixed it down.
Hope you enjoy!
Now that Christmas is past and I've had time to 'harvest' some of our recordings of performances, I was pleased with this quite difficult a cappella vocal ensemble piece. It's sort of a 'mash-up' of fragments of familiar Christmas songs (i.e. "Deck the Halls" and "Jingle-bells"), but not really using any complete melody.
I consider it to be more of an original composition than an arrangement, using Classical techniques of linear motivic patterns in a Jazz swing style. At times the clashing harmonies drove my vocalists crazy, when we were working the piece up. The group performed for memory and learned the piece as much from audio recordings as from the sheet-music score.
Hats off the the hard-working praise vocalists of Odessa Christian Faith Center, bringing it to life. As I was part of the team, my experience was one of exhilaration, knowing that if one section got off track just a little bit, the whole thing would have snow-balled...it was a little like riding a toboggan down a steep hill wondering if we were all going to fly off at some point!
Hope you enjoy!