Worship Musician August 2019 | Page 51

popular music. Technology greatly impacted Culture impacts songwriting and songs impact I teach my students that there are three kinds of recorded music. culture. records. The same holds true for songs. There are “hits”, which are commercial successes. How does all of this affect songwriting? Let’s One of the church’s current truly impactful There are “misses”, which are commercial consider the notion of impact. England’s Sir songs, is and will continue to be the Andrew flops. And then there are “significants”. These Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion states, Peterson/Ben Worthy?” are songs that straddle the lines between “hits” “Every object in a state of uniform motion composition. Andrew’s reliance upon “story” and “misses”. Significant songs are game tends to remain in that state of motion unless in song has graced our spirits for years, and changers. Sometimes they are a commercial an external force is applied to it.” Impact can this magnificent song has had a spontaneous success, buy many times are not. But they be defined as: “the striking of one thing against life of its own. It has been affecting Nashville change everything. These are the recordings another”; area churches for well over a year and was just and songs that have impact. • “the force exerted by a new idea, concept, recorded by Chris Tomlin several months ago. technology, or ideology; or This action will bring it global attention. As of Let’s all be inspired to learn, examine, “to have a strong or bad effect or this writing it is approaching a total of nearly 10 investigate, craft, and express ourselves in influence.” (on something or someone) million views online. Well done! song! Aim for impact. • Les Paul Is He Worthy? August 2019 Shive, “Is He Alex MacDougall 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 via [email protected]. Subscribe for Free... 51