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- Aug 8, 2016
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Okay I am not super judgey about music, but I am often pretty hard on the modern "praise chorus" or "praise song". They are offered on our screen without musical notation and are so generic in structure that to me it's pick-a-melody, which I often do, and sometimes the wrong melody.
The structure of these songs is pop music predictable with the last stanza repeating like, I don't know, five times. I guess it's at this point you're supposed to be singing the same thing and-- I don't know--contemplating God more? Working yourself into a spiritual state? You can see where my mind goes at this point. Not where it should. I have to shut down my musical mind honestly and pray for forgiveness during church, I am not kidding.
I know this sounds like snobbery and I don't mean it to. I don't mind a few praise songs here and there but they've taken over, and that's too bad. We can do better. That's all.
I'm not a fan of modern arrangment. No. Huh uh.But the last time I popped off about style, you kow ho wthat went, so. Ha.
But...speaking of styles, now we get into styles, so we have to consider them. Hm. Here we get back to frequency. I hate that part of it, it's a deep part of the discussion. That's a kink in the conduit. Now, how do you unkink it? Hm? How? lol.
Remember Bruce Lee? That cat was deep sometimes. I was watching an interview with him from years ago and he said do not believe in styles, styles separate man. Under the heavens we are but one family. That it's a process of continuing growth.
So. Rememebr what you were saying abut music being it's own language? Now we have styles in the mix.