Today is a good day because you’re reading this. And you are an awesome person.
But it’s also RELEASE DAY for our latest album, “All For Jesus.” I am the worship pastor at Allison Park Church in Pittsburgh, PA and these are the songs our team has written and our church is singing.
I’ve never been more excited for a group of songs in my life. They were recorded live earlier this year and are the collective prayer and declaration of our church.
You’ll find a wide variety of sounds here. From the electronic to the soulful, simple prayers to anthemic declarations, the spontaneous to the disciplined craft of songwriting – writing and rewriting…and rewriting some more 🙂
My prayer is that these songs would stir a deeper love for Jesus, a reverence for His glory, and a passion to do His will.
The song All for Jesus sums it up:
Only one life, will soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
One life to live, one heart to give all for Jesus.
I will live, I will give all for Jesus all for Jesus.”
We also crafted these to be songs for the local church to sing. So enjoy and let me know what you think!
Here’s a couple videos of some tunes:
Let us know what you think of the tunes!
Wow, this song beautiful mystery is beautifully crafted. What a great expression. Thank you for sharing it. Great job on the project can’t wait to hear more!
Thanks Raul! Means a lot, man.
I listened to your songs and I have noted that Beautiful Mystery has mostly four notes in the vocals and Brilliant Glory has five notes in the vocals. Songs like this would tend to be popular within the Allison Park Church Community but would not become songs that are sung widely and weekly throughout the USA. These songs are good songs for four and five note songs in the vocals which would stimulate others to worship while singing them. Previously I think have sent you an article on How To Craft Excellent Tunes That Win Awards with a shorter version posted on the internet and I suggest you give this to your writers telling them to adhere to the principles in the article and your next CD will have songs that will go world wide and be sung in churches all across the USA weekly with a profile like Chris Tomlin or Michael W. Smith. I am hoping you will take my comments as being objective, without emotion, and something to inspire you to much greater heights that you could not have imagined. I’m also hoping you will avoid what happens to writers where the song writer they listen about song writing is one of the most well known in Christian music today and hang off of every word they say and feel inspired but the result is no improvement in their songwriting. They will see an article like mine and my lack of name recognition and dismiss it as not relevant to song writing. If you doubt what my article says, why not try writing one song in a pragmatic way to see what happens and trust me your congregation will go wild over your song writer’s song(s). What would you have to lose since it is common to see a middle of the road song writer release 10 songs and then there are a hundred others that no one ever hears about. Here’s a quick note about song writing principles:
1) Six or more tones in the vocals.
2) Four notes in the vocals songs have only limited duration in terms of popularity. (A few months quite often)
3) Three consecutive notes of a major scale sung 7-10 times throughout the song .
4) Don’t have long sections in the song where only a few notes are used in the vocals.
5) When singing a phrase and then taking a pause for a breath, make the phrase 6-8 seconds long and then do that throughout the song. I’ll try to contact you sometime in the next month or two.