What songs DIDN'T work?

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Permalink Reply by Justin Kirkendall on November 19, 2008 at 5:06pm

My Refuge- by Jessie Rodgers Goodman-

It was one of my favorite songs and I loved it dearly...learned it- did it- and it totally flopped.
Nobody liked it.

"Salvation Is Here" also flopped. i guess it was too young....sounding.

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Permalink Reply by David Goodwin on December 4, 2008 at 1:23pm

Ah...Salvation Is Here...the song to freak out bass players everywhere...

When I convinced the team we didn't need to copy Hillsong United, this clicked...we "Harboursided" it :-)

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Permalink Reply by Bennie Kendrick on December 5, 2008 at 8:01am

"Salvation Is Here...the song to freak out bass players everywhere..."

That's what picks are for. :)

You're right, though. You don't have to copy the song note for note to make it work.

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Permalink Reply by Junjie on February 23, 2009 at 5:16am

I don't like 'Salvation is Here'. I think it's the "It's gonna be alright!!!" bit. It sounds too causal, from a wannabe trying too hard to be hip. That's MY opinion...

And, as I mentioned in Justin's Sing Sing Sing discussion, I don't like parts where the vocals can jump up an octave. It is so congregation-unfriendly. There's that in the bridge.

The most recent time I saw this song it was attempted in a trio set-up, electric guitar, bass and drums... *cringe* I couldn't tell if the problems were because of the song itself or the set-up. As you can see I don't have any happy experiences with this song... :)

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Permalink Reply by Justin Kirkendall on February 25, 2009 at 4:01pm

yeah that part in Salvation is Here troubles me...unless you've got a bunch of people who really "get" the song and "get" excited about it.

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Permalink Reply by ladylh on November 19, 2008 at 5:41pm

I call you Faithful Donnie McClurkin...I guess we don't have enough soul! lol

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Permalink Reply by Justin Kirkendall on November 20, 2008 at 4:52am

lol!
enough soul...i have had that problem

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Permalink Reply by Lee Gunter on November 20, 2008 at 8:44am

I've had two songs that musically just never quite got any air under their wings:

Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing) ... the team just could not get in sync with that wierd rhythm pattern

and one of my own songs. The last Sunday we scheduled it, I changed the song 40 minutes before service to something else. Drummer issues... and I like my drummer better than I like the song.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Tan on November 20, 2008 at 9:20am

Yes, the rhythm is important. When we did Brenton Brown's 'Everlasting God' (Strength will rise) the first time, I think the rhythm was a bit of a mess. When we did it again, another drummer suggested that we removed some of the syncopation in the middle of the verse, and it was much better. I really like the notes coming off the beat, but it might be more important to have something that hangs together well.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Kirkendall on November 20, 2008 at 5:35pm

Awe. We did Halleljuah (Your Love is Amazing) the other day- and it flew off pretty well.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Gunter on November 21, 2008 at 3:10am

I've done it before just fine. It just doesn't work for my team now. AND, to add to the irony, the song is co-wrote by Brian doerksen and Brenton Brown, two of my favorite worship writers.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Blue on November 26, 2008 at 2:31am

"I like my drummer better than I like the song"

As a drummer, I'll THANK YOU for that comment!

There are some songs that some drummers just can't do...And a lot of the stuff out there on CD now is programmed and/or has multiple percussionists working...It can't always sound "just like" the CD, lol!

Blessings!

~M

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