Worship Musician April 2019 | Page 71

Music publishers like collaboration as well. My longer a problem. There are also agencies worship classics enjoyed by the church father used to tell me that, “any percentage of that even pair songwriters who are complete worldwide, over the past 25 years. In a beautiful something is better than 100% of nothing”. strangers, in order for them to write together. way, Brenton teamed with Gospel artist Tasha When songs are co-published, it allows Cobbs Leonard, to pen “You Know My Name”. mechanical and performance royalties to be Different streams also manifest themselves distributed between multiple parties. When through cultural, denominational, and worship those publishers are owned by record labels, music styles. This can be one of the most it increases the chances for the song to be beautiful aspects of collaboration. recorded and released by multiple labels and multiple artists. In short, the pieces of the pie We read in Psalm 133… are smaller, but more people get to eat. “How good and pleasant it is when God’s “You Know My Name” So how is music collaboration done these people live together in unity! days? The old-fashioned method of “Tin It is like precious oil poured on the Well done Brenton and Tasha! God is pleased Pan Alley” style song creation was simply for head, running down on the beard, when we dwell in unity. Two streams have made songwriters to meet face-to-face in offices and running down on Aaron’s beard, down a river. May we all contribute to the River of Life. music rooms. It’s still done that way, however, on the collar of his robe. It is as if the there are also other popular methods in our dew of Hermon were falling on Mount technology-driven world. Many songs are now Zion. For there the L ord bestows written in simple exchanges of emails or texts. his blessing, even life forevermore.” Other collaboration writing times are done (Biblica/© 1973 1978, 1984, 2011) via Skype, Facetime, Zoom, or other online live communication methods. Geographical Brenton Brown, originally writing songs for differences separating songwriters is now no Vineyard UK/Eire, has written many “modern”, April 2019 Alexander MacDougall A former member of Daniel Amos (DA), the Larry Norman Band, and the Richie Furay Band. He has toured and recorded with all of the above, as well as Andrae Crouch, Bob Bennett, Phil Keaggy, and hundreds of additional artists and projects. He has served and serves as an Adjunct Professor, teaching in Music Business at Dallas Baptist University and Trevecca Nazarene University’s National Praise and Worship Institute, in Nashville, TN. Alex is available for lecture, teaching, and conference workshops. [email protected] Subscribe for Free... 71