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10:00 PM because that was like the only time I’ve learned over the years, since we’re not a good job or telling the truth who becomes
class was not going on. We would like set up playing at a church every Sunday, we’re not like really original.” So, in a personal setting like a
all of our stuff and I remember working on the evolving with the song with the church. We’re solo artist or a band who wants to develop a
song, “Amazing God” by Brenton Brown. When playing a lot of the same songs in different sound for themselves, I would say, don’t take
we started playing, I just said, “I’m just going places over and over and over. It wasn’t the music that influences you and inspires
to play it on the acoustic and play it from the planned out, but it just so happens that we you and engages you… don't look at that as
beginning and then we’re just going to build each have a passion for writing our own parts, like something else on the side. You need to
parts around that.” Rather than pulling up the which has really helped us over the years to take incorporate that into what you do and I think if
original version, learn that, and then change it. ownership in the song and to pour our worship you allow those influences to put their coloring
So, we just started from acoustic and built it up not only into when we’re playing live, but also in on who you are – you like those things because
to where we wanted it to be. It’s funny because being part of the production beforehand. of who you are. So, even in a band setting, it’s
now there are songs… like we have a keys
like no one else can sound like me, Johnny,
player playing with us this summer – which [WM] How does someone go about figuring and Emily together because it’s a combination
normally we don’t have a full-time dedicated out what “stamp” it is that they can put on of influences. We all have different bands that
keys player – and she’ll ask, “Oh, like do you their music? we admire or grew up listening to, like different
guys play the original version of Great Are You
genres that we think are better than others, but
Lord?” and I’ll be like, “To be honest, I don’t [Jeff] I think for me, the way I look at it is… when we put all that on the table and we can
really even know how the original goes as far as you know the phrase, “There’s nothing new find a middle ground of, “This is where we all
specific keys lines and guitar lines!” We would under the sun?” You could spend your whole are stoked about it”. Then that becomes “our
really just start from nothing because it allowed life trying to be original, but I read this quote, sound.” It’s about being honest about who you
us to put our stamp on the song. I think it was from C.S. Lewis, “No man who are. It’s finding the certain elements that inspire
cares about originality will ever be original. It’s you at a heart level and then finding ways to
only the man who’s only thinking about doing incorporate those while maintaining the focus
[Johnny] I think along with that, something
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