Thursday, October 23, 2008

Worship Songs

Top 10 Ways to Write Bad Worship Songs

BY Bob Kauflin:

1. Aim to write the next worldwide worship hit.
2. Spend all your time working on the music, not the words.
3. Spend all your time working on the words, not the music.
4. Don’t consider the range and capabilities of the average human voice.
5. Never let anyone alter the way God originally gave your song to you.
6. Make sure the majority of your songs talk about what we do and feel rather than who God is and what he’s done.
7. Try to use as many Scriptural phrases as you can, and don’t worry about how they fit together.
8. Cover as many themes as possible.
9. Use phrases and words that are included in 95% of all worship songs.
10. Forget about Jesus and what he accomplished at the cross.

For the full article click here http://www.worshipmatters.com/2008/10/top-ten-ways-to-write-bad-worship-songs/

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

right on!