Songwriting For Worship - Vineyard (DVD)
Dan Wilt, Brian Doerksen, Matt Redman, Brenton Brown, Andy Park, Kathryn Scott, Tim Hughes
SPECIAL: Includes a free companion eNotebook with your purchase of this DVD.
Featuring: Brian Doerksen, Matt Redman, Kathryn Scott, Brenton Brown, Andy Park, and Tim Hughes.
Hosted by: Dan Wilt
Imagine having the opportunity to learn the craft of songwriting from some of the most influential worship writers of our day. Songwriting for Worship - A DVD Training Experience allow you to do just that. Watch, listen and discover how these songwriters address such issues as song inspiration, the writer's responsibilty, song structure, lyric writing, melodic development, the rewrite and much more. Insightful interviews offer a useful blend of practical and theoretical content that is sure to equip, encourage and motivate the emerging worship songwriter.
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DVD Chapter Topics include:
- Introduction
- Historically Speaking
- Songs for Today's Church
- It's in Me to Write
- Our Inspiration
- Developing the Song
- Anatomy of a Song
- Writing Lasting Lyrics
- The Song Vision
- Memorable Melodies
- Rewriting the First Draft
- The Co-Writing Experience
- The Finished Song
Editor's Notes: When I first read the review by our staff writer, Danny Mullins, on the Songwriting for Worship DVD, I was skeptical at how a good teaching tool could be made on a topic that is so subjectively viewed and creatively driven as songwriting. So, the review inspired me to pick up and watch the DVD myself, and I am glad I did. Dan Wilt and the resource team at Vineyard Music have done a great job making this product not just excellent, but inspiring. So now that I have read his review (below) and reviewed the DVD myself, I give a hearty "amen" to Danny's accolades below. Along with that, I am pleased to give Songwriting for Worship DVD an Editor's Choice Award as an excellent resource!
- Kim Gentes, Editor of WorshipMusic.com.
FREE eNotebook with DVD Purchase: If you purchase this Songwriting for Worship - A DVD Training Experience DVD, you will get a free downloadable notebook (Adobe Acrobat PDF format) immediately upon completion of your purchase. The eNotebook will include an outline format PDF that is for people who are taking notes as they are learning from the DVD. All you do is purchase the DVD on our website right here. Once you complete the online purchase, you will see that you have the opportunity to download the eNotebook immediately! Please note that you can download the eNotebook from our website, only once you have completed the DVD purchase online. The eNotebook is not a printed material that will be shipped to you with the DVD- you must download it upon completion of purchase. You will be given the opportunity to download the eNotebook on the last page of your online confirmation purchase. Note: the eNotebook is in Adobe PDF format, and you will need the Adobe Acrobat software to view and print it. To get your own free copy of the Adobe Acrobat reader software, please refer to our tools page to obtain the software to view PDF files.
Review
Attention Songwriters! Have you ever encountered an obstacle in the middle of the songwriting process and wondered:
"Where do I go from here?"If those are questions, you've had then Songwriting for Worship is a Godsend for you! Songwriting for Worship - DVD is a training video produced by Vineyard Music. In it, they have dealt with most of the problematic situations we meet while crafting a song and have offered us constructive options to help us over the hump. They deal with such issues as:
"Is this the right word to complete my thought?"
"Should there be an additional verse, or bridge?"
"Have I written too many lyrics or not enough?"
- Inspiration
- Song development
- Writing Lyrics that Last
- Memorable Melodies
- Rewriting and Co-writing
just to name a few.
The DVD includes interviews with some of the most successful writers in the Vineyard family and the UK worship leaders:
I found their insight into the various processes of songwriting to be extremely practical, apply-able and inspiring. Listening to these writers I couldn't help but thinking how great it was to be able to put faces to some of the songs I have so enjoyed singing and leading. To hear Kathryn Scott recount the history of writing "Hungry" and Matt Redman's journey in writing "Heart of Worship" was not only instructive, but inspiring. You discover that they are "people" just like you and I. The processes and life situations they walk through, though diverse, are amazingly common to us all. It was impossible to come away from the video without feeling that there were numerous songs locked up inside you that God, as well as these writers, wanted to born into the worship community.
- Brian Doerksen
- Matt Redman
- Kathryn Scott
- Brenton Brown
- Andy Park
- Tim Hughes
Dan Wilt does an outstanding job guiding us through this training video. Many kudos to whoever wrote the script for this project. The dialogue flows naturally from section to section without wasted words. That's a welcome relief from many training resources that seem to overwhelm us with an abundance of words! The dialogue on Songwriting for Worship is concise and extremely well articulated by Dan Wilt. He has a great speaking voice that you do not tire of listening to.
The length of the video is 45 minutes. This is not something that you will have to set aside an entire evening to view. Vineyard Music has done an excellent job packing wonderfully helpful and inspiring teaching into a 45 minute time frame. There is usually some area of weakness that we can suggest attention to, but it was difficult to find it on this project.
Brenton Brown said, "Many have said that our theology is shaped more by the songs we sing than the sermons we hear." If that is true (and it very likely is), there is a very great responsibility on those who are writing the songs we are singing. Songwriting for Worship goes a long way in helping us take that responsibility seriously.
Review by Danny Mullins
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