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Today’s guest is no stranger to great songs – The Great I Am, Rescue, Amazed. But Jared Anderson and I talk about so much more than just the songs and the music.
Truth is, Jared never wanted to write worship songs. But God had other plans.
We talk about living for the Kingdom of God, making disciples, his story of adopting two kids from Haiti, being present, and some of his top songwriting tips. Yea, it goes in a lot of different directions. But typically the best conversations do.
Enjoy my conversation with Jared Anderson.
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Our sponsor for today’s show is an eBook project, The Worship Songwriter. I wrote this book to help people finish songs. I found that I had journals full of ideas but not many songs to show for it. And it was all because of self sabotage. I would criticize my song before it had time to breathe.
So this book is a step by step process – to go from no idea to a finished worship song. Included in the book is also a journal as well as the audio book.
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In this Episode You’ll Hear More About:
- Why Jared never wanted to be a worship songwriter.
- Jared’s story of adopting two kids from Haiti.
- Why we’re not called to be “spiritual event planners.”
- The heart behind Jared’s new record, “Where I Am Right Now”
- How to become more present in the everyday and what that means.
- Why you may need to reorient your “success criteria”
- Why worship leaders need to cultivate the unseen.
- Why we need more joyful expressions in our worship services.
- Jared’s biggest songwriting tips
- Practice other people’s music
- Read great literature
- Develop a healthy prayer life
- Some of Jared’s favorite writers/authors.
- A surprising way to build a worship ministry from scratch.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- Show Sponsor: The Worship Songwriter
- Website: Jared Anderson
- Music: Where I Am Right Now by Jared Anderson
- Book: Orthodoxy by G.K Chesterton
- Twitter: @jaredanderson
- Facebook: Jared Anderson Official
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Here is how all of the great songwriters going back to the days of Martin Luther have written popular worship songs and there are very few examples of popular worship songs that deviate from these principles:
1)Usually there are six or more tones of a major or minor scale in the vocals but a few are done with five tones.
2) There will be three consecutive notes of a scale in the vocals which are of the same duration meaning all eighth notes or quarters usually.
3) Most songs written have four notes of a major scale in the vocals and end up in the discount bin quickly at Christian book stores.
4) Often but not always a phrase of vocals (duration between breaths or pauses) is at least 7 seconds.
5) The six tones of a scale need to be done within two or three bars, then be done several or more times in each verse, then several or more times in the chorus.
6) Some get into the negative trap of going several bars or the entire song where they repeat two notes in the vocals or even three or four notes of a scale in the vocals and they get discouraged about the lack of response to their music.
7)The three consecutive notes need to go both up the scale and then in other places of the song down the scale.