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Sheet music for new songs coming soon

Sunday, June 05, 2011
Just an update about the sheet music for all the new songs sung at our album recording - we're working on them right now!

When the album is released in early July you'll be able to download the sheet music, lyrics, piano arrangements and powerpoint files for free (as with all our albums).

I'm going to try to put together piano arrangements for all of them because we get lots of requests for them. It's tricky to know quite how to put piano arrangements together - because to do the arrangement you need to know what other instruments are playing at the same time. If there is a bass player, for instance, I really don't want to be playing the root note of each chord in the left hand (that'll just annoy her!). So for the piano arrangements I'm going to assume that you've got nobody playing with you except a congregation who is relatively okay singing.

Any thoughts on arrangements of church songs? What resources are useful to you?
Comments
Bren McLean commented on 18-Jun-2011 04:29 PM
Thanks for yuor generosity guys. Making charts availabe for FREE is wonderful. Some writers are also creating video files showing how the song is played on acoustic. St Paul's is also looking at providing FREE text files, so that lyrics can be imported
easily into projection software. Just an idea :-)
Tom Barrett commented on 20-Jun-2011 11:09 PM
I reckon your plan is spot on. There are too many crappy church piano arrangements out there that include the melody (that I don't want to hear) and hardly any rhythmic or harmonic interest (which I do want to hear!). As you say, there's no written arrangement
that will work with every band lineup, so a good solid solo piano chart is the most useful. It needs to include enough notes to create some rhythmic momentum in the absence of a drummer. But a big bold warning at the top saying "don't play all this if you're
in a band - talk to your colleagues!" might not be a bad move :)