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Week 12: Ek sal hier wag
This week’s song is about waiting. Not something I’m good at and there’s a lot of it going around. Waiting for schools to open (they finally did this week!), waiting for vaccines, waiting for normal life to return, the list goes on. And all the time we’re waiting, God is still working in us and around us. This is a prayer about submitting to God’s timing and recognising that He is working us into His bigger picture. He is creating a symphony requiring not only my little part, but all the parts to work together for the sake of beauty. In terms of songwriting techniques, there’s quite a bit of…
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Week 11: As die virus weg is
This week I wrote a fun song with my girls about all the things we’re going to do when the virus finally goes away! We used the loops on the iPad Garageband app again and had great fun arranging our song. Photo by Matt Seymour on Unsplash
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Week 8 – Ek moet swyg
“Ek moet swyg voor U heerlikheid, Ek moet swyg en U almag prys Wanneer U aan my genade bewys Ek moet swyg” This week’s song is a Christmas worship song. I had written the chorus in 2017 with the idea to use it together with Psalm 8 out of the Afrikaans hymn book (Die Liedboek). When I started writing the verses for this new song, it just fitted together so well I decided to use it here instead. The whole song talks about the world and our response to the Christmas message – darkness that has to flee before the Light of the world; nations that will bow before His…
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Week 7 – Kortpad deur die Vrystaat
There’s nothing like the long road ahead of you – kilometre after kilometre of flat farmland and time and space to think. Except if you have to dodge trucks on the N1… So, we decided to take a shortcut through the Free State this year on our way down to the coast. We even drove some dirtroad due to Google maps’ recommendation of the shortest road. Well, it turned out that the shortest road was indeed the prettiest and I really enjoyed driving through the Free State. As a little girl we always went to my grandmother’s farm just outside Edenburg and there I learned to love the Free State…
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Week 2: Jakarandamat
There’s something about the rythmic footfall of jogging that creates an automatic drumbeat to compose to. And if your surroundings are beautiful it really helps with inspiration. This time of the year the Jakaranda trees transform our neighbourhood into a green and purple painting and it feels like you’re running on a purple carpet as the flowers fall down on the ground. Thanks to some lyric ideas from Carien and Rachel on our Saturday morning jog, this song was born. I had fun playing around with a drum loop in Ableton and used one of the Sundaysounds keyboard patch presets to create the idea of jogging footsteps and movement in…
