knowing when the song is done. I think the [WM] When writing with a variety of writers,
younger me was satisfied a little easier than whether seasoned or young, do you change
I am now. And so, young writers – and I was your approach?
visit. Tell me about what’s been going on...
[Mike Weaver] Dude, we have been through
the same – you get your verse, chorus, and
the gamut! It’s like extreme highs and extreme
bridge, and you’re excited that you’ve got a [Jason] No, I treat each write the same. I lows. But the Lord can be found in that extreme
song that’s done, and that’s great. There’s don’t have a different approach for different low, you know what I mean? It’s like it’s not the
some momentum in that, but the thing that environments. I usually find my way into melody kind of stuff you ask for, but you encounter Him
I’ve seen seasoned writers do more and more and chord progression first. But, I never want if you look for Him even in a more profound way
is go back and rewrite and rewrite and look to work too hard and long on a melody or than in the highs... in a different way. Because,
at each section to see if it is as strong as the chord progression until I have an idea of what see, you find out He really is in everything. We
section before it and after it. I think that’s the it is we want to communicate and what it is we had been through the thing with my brother and
main difference. I’ve heard Matt Redman say want to say. Almost every co-write starts with we lost my dad back at Christmas last year.
about songwriters writing a batch of songs that just a conversation with whomever is gathered There’s so much real life we’re going through,
there aren’t “bad” songs written in the batch, in the writing session. What is on our hearts you know? Finding out though... some of those
but there are “unfinished” songs. It’s learning to say? What is the message? What is the things are the things that you dread and some
to stay in the songwriting process longer and theme? Does anyone have a title or a quote or are things that you’ve been afraid of maybe.
work on a song and push past the first thing a thought to give us a central focus or message But, when you go through it, you find out that
you have, and even come back to it at a later of the song? That’s the most important thing to God is so real and He is so there… and He is
date and see if it still is as good as it felt when me for getting started. I would be that way with so faithful.
I wrote it. It’s difficult to do because it always young writers or seasoned writers.
feels so personal. Any negative feedback, you
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[WM] That leads us to your song, “Great is
feel it personally.
Thy Faithfulness (Beginning to End)”. How did
[WM] Mike, it’s been a while since we got to
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you get drawn into that project?
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