It’s been great to hear you guys have already using our songs at church - particularly in the New England area (surprise, surprise)!
This is what it’s all about for us - so keep letting us know how you’re finding the songs at church. What’s working? What’s not working? Need any extra parts made available (e.g. guitar tabs, piano parts, transposed parts…).
Don’t forget to browse the Teaching new songs page in our Church Music Resources section for helpful tips in this area.
Make a comment below or send us an an e-mail if you’ve used any of our songs.
Till Your Time
Man Of Sorrows
Oh How Dark The Night
Here Is Love
To access the free sheet music and mp3s for these songs hit www.reason.mu/music.php
Alex
It’s finally up! The “Music in the Small or Under-Resourced Church” material from TWIST Conference 2006 is now available on our new Church Music Resources page.
The page is essentially a re-worked version of the seminar handout but is a lot more readable/browsable in online format. All the pages are hypertext cross-linked and you can go directly to places of interest from a couple of index pages FAQs about church music and Solutions to common music problems.
Two specific downloads you might find useful - the Musicians’ Questionnaire and the Church Song Survey.
The Musicians’ Questionnaire is a hand-out to give to anyone interested in serving with music at church - it’ll help you find out more about people’s individual gifts, and what areas of training you might focus on.
Assuming you already have given thought and prayer in choosing great biblical songs to sing at church each week, you should find the Church Song Survey a great tool for keeping that weekly song selection enjoyable and fresh. People at church get to fill it in and let you know which songs they like (and which ones they don’t). There’s also room for them to suggest new songs you could use at church.
We’ve done this one at Unichurch for the last couple of years and the results are often surprising - the first time we did it there were two songs from our regular repertoire that most people disliked! Nothing wrong with the lyrics, but the music had done its time.
The song survey is an excel file that allows you to plug in your song list, and will spit out a printable survey you can hand round at church. Then you come back with the completed surveys, plug in the data to the worksheet, and it’ll generate a summary of results … all your songs in order of popularity. That summary is a fantastic tool for choosing songs each week - you can use your solid songs judiciously, not overplay the favourites and avoid the ones that few people enjoy.
Hope you find it all helpful! Let us know if you have any comments or questions at all (or find any bad links).
Alex
First up, I’d like to thank to everyone who has had a listen to the songs and given their feedback - we’ve really appreciated all of it. Keep it coming!
This is just a note to say that we have replaced all of the songs on the website with new mixes. I’d like to give a big shout to our man Michael Morrow for offering to take our master tracks and giving them a bit of extra polish - big thanks!
To some, it may not sound like much has changed but generally the sounds have been tidied up a little, the vocals easier to hear and a few wrinkles ironed out.
If you purchased the original CD with the old mixes and would like the new ones in hardcopy form, we’re happy to replace it with the new mixes for free. Just get in contact with us and we’ll get a new disc to you. Cool!
Now, on with the new songs! We can’t wait to get some new material to you. Stay watching this space because this is where you’ll hear about it first…
Keep rocking in His grace
Joe
