Synergy
I spent the day yesterday writing with Jaime Jam. (If you don't have her CD “Reason to Live“...you need it) I came in with a worship chorus idea that I thought might be in the direction she was headed. We completed the chorus quickly. The verse lyrics ideas I brought weren't as intimate as the chorus became, so after lunch we scavenged the ideas and wrote new lines. By the end of the afternoon we had something that really moved us. She is going to take it back and play around with it.
Today was a very rich day. I met in the morning with Marty. I got there a little early and though I had a few ideas in mind for the session, as I sat there in the writing room, a new idea struck me. When he got there we went to on it work right away. Marty says some of his best ideas come to him in the elevator on the way up to the writing rooms. Wow, when it clicks, it clicks. Marty is such an encouragement and oozes chord progressions. We wrote a big 'ol Easter anthem. I could hear the timpani rolling. That kind of synergy is amazing when it happens.
I hiked over to Lorraine's for the salad bar for lunch as Sue finished up her session with a couple other writers. She read me the coolest lyric from that write.
Sue and I finished the song we started. She had e-mailed me the second verse lyric but I hadn't put it to melody yet. When we got into it we found the verse was 40 seconds...just to long! So she took out the virtual rewriting scissors and cut them down. Wow, what a difference a few words make. It was much cleaner and clearer. After working through the accent of the phrases I wrote a melody and we did a work tape. There is no feeling like finishing the work tape of a song you love and doing the high five.
On a serious note, Guy asked me to pray for a good friend's little boy named Ethan who was badly burned. Please lift him up to the Lord if you read this.
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