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Manna: New co-writing project released
In 2018/ 2019 I got involved in a songwriting project at church. Just a couple of people who love Jesus and writing songs coming together to write. It was such an organic process of sharing what’s happening in our lives and then praying and writing together. By being part of this project a dream of mine – co-writing with other like-minded artists came true. We started recording the songs end of 2019 and the project was about 80% done when COVID hit. We continued recording from home last year and finally we had 6 songs completed by March this year. Most of March and April was consumed by getting the…
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My week attending The songwriting academy’s 555 Challenge
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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 1: Ek sal sing
Sometimes when you lack inspiration to write it helps to change instruments. My main instrument is the keyboard/ piano, so when I’m looking for inspiration it sometimes helps to pick up the guitar. This weekend we went away to the Bush and I grabbed my 8-year old’s Ukhelele to take with since there was no space in the car for my steel string. I only knew the few chords I’ve taught her so far, so it was lots of fun learning some new ones and playing around. This led to some chord progressions that sounded cool and a chorus for the song. Lyrically I was inspired by our churches’ online…
