For the most part, I teach it just like the CD until it is obvious that my choir can't sing it that way. Then, I get into creative mode and change some stuff to fit them.
For the most part, I teach it just like the CD until it is obvious that my choir can't sing it that way. Then, I get into creative mode and change some stuff to fit them.That's the way a real pro does it.
For the most part, I teach it just like the CD until it is obvious that my choir can't sing it that way. Then, I get into creative mode and change some stuff to fit them.
I agree. Occasionally, i will lower a song a half-step or two, for the songs that may be out of reach for our choir/praise team, or I may invert the choir parts.
Okay, sometimes I'm guilty of changing the key or arrangement...and I've been known to "gospelize" a mainstream praise chorus from time to time...
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... But if I may ask, why does our Gospel Artist go so complex most of the time?
For me I think it is a good idea to follow the path of the original CD provided you can, but there is no sense it trying to go the same way as the CD when you know the efficiency is not there. You can step it up if you can but dropping it is a bit awkward. But if I may ask, why does our Gospel Artist go so complex most of the time?
...do you:
1. teach it exactly like the song on the CD?
2. change the key to fit the choir?
3. deviate from the song or add alternate ending?
Just curious...I'll tell what I do later in the thread.
Because I am an arranger at heart, I never do a song just like the cd. I also like to encourage my people to make songs their own. If I wanted to hear Hezikiah Walker, I'll play the cd. I want to hear what my choir can do with the song. Also we don't always like the instrumentation used on a song. Other times it may be technical. I have real brass players, while many recordings use keyboards. Some of what they are playing on keys are impossible to do with real brass because of breathing or the range of the instruments themselves.
For me, substance should always preceed style. Many great worship songs are missed because we always hear it and never think what can be done to make that song paletable to our congregation. If a song is too vanilla, I might spice it up rythmically; at other times, it may be too busy, I then might clean it up some. The important thing is that I expand my people beyond their own comfort zone. I may think like this because I work in a church that is purposely pursing a goal of being multicultural.
...do you:
1. teach it exactly like the song on the CD?
2. change the key to fit the choir?
3. deviate from the song or add alternate ending?
Just curious...I'll tell what I do later in the thread.