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Songwriters Tools Volume 1 Now Available!
Join Charles Brady as he takes you through a special live 2 hour Songwriters Workshop that was presented to the Branson Gospel Singer-Songwriter Association in Branson Mo. During this educational and informative 2 hour live workshop you’ll learn the tools used by the most successful writers to overcome the ominous blank page that stops many writers in their tracks and prevents most great songs from ever being written! The information on this instructional DVD can benefit everyone from beginning songwriters to seasoned pros. Continue reading
CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT
Charlotte Elliott
CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT
BEING highly cultured, strong in intellect, intensely spiritual, divinely gifted in song, a patient sufferer for fifty years, Miss Elliott was inspired to give the Christian Church some of the most tender and effective hymns to be found in our hymnology. She was born at Clapham, England, in Continue reading
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What To Write About When You’re A Tired Songwriter… REST!
A great example of what a songwriter does when they’re tired and need to write a song for a new project!
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Music 101 – Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark
From “Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark”
by J.C. AABERG
Early Danish Hymnody
DANISH HYMNODY, like that of other Protestant countries,
is largely a child of the Reformation. The Northern peoples
were from ancient times lovers of song. Much of their early
history is preserved in poetry, and no one was Continue reading
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Maria Pallante Appointed Acting Register of Copyrights
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The Nashville Number System
One of the most difficult things for many writers to learn is the Nashville Number System. Here is a pretty good explaination video that may shed a little light…. Continue reading
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Registering a Copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office
Registering a Copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office
An application for copyright registration contains three essential elements: a completed application form, a nonrefundable filing fee, and a nonreturnable deposit—that is, a copy or copies of the work being registered and “deposited” with the Copyright Office.
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Music Wit 006
The Chant Theory.
We are told that chanting is the most ancient method of concerted worship; that the psalms of David were chanted.
Of the simple (single) chant—two divisions, one of two bars, and one of three—it is argued that “A revival of this primitive, simple style of worship is Continue reading
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GSA Public Domain Poem – 001
MY HEART SHALL BE THY GARDEN
My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own, Into thy garden; thine be happy hours Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers, From root to crowning petal, thine alone.
Thine is the place from where the seeds are sown
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Music Wit 005
“Amid the storms they sang,
And the stars heard and the sea.”
“Thus they (the Pilgrim Fathers) opened the mouth, and in this they imitated the Master. All sang the melody, and without accompaniment, for they used only the oldest and best accompaniment, the vocal instrument. There were no hifalutin Continue reading
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