Category Archives: Music Projects

Harbor Chapel Memory Verse – Music Project

Yeah, I started another music project. Once again, this doesn’t fit in with any of my other artists, so it had to be its own thing.

My community church, Harbor Chapel has a monthly memory verse. It’s sponsored by a few charitable givers within the church so that whoever is selected (after volunteering) to recite the memory verse (from memory) correctly can win a prize. I wanted to aid people in their memorization process by putting the Bible verses to music. So I started the Harbor Chapel Memory Verse music project.

The first memory verse put to music is for October 2019. It’s Jeremiah 29:11. I hope you like the song and it helps you memorize the bible verse. Take care!

Links

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2EpwEli8p9RFXadFE3Eg1p?si=ak9qzJ6CRg6E8hQHXj5QzQ

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdBpxogGJknsFseJtgS0Y1A

 

 

Beats are Better – Like a Gym for Musicians

Musicians, including guitarists like me, are told from their first month of learning their first instrument, to practice with a metronome. A metronome is time keeping utility that, instead of measuring seconds or minutes or hours, measures Beats Per Minute. Learning to play along with a metronome is fine and well, except that it’s incredibly boring to play along to a constant clicking sound.

Beats are Better

So I came up with an idea, “make metronome training fun”, and the only way to do that was to get rid of the metronome.  Beats are Better is the result. Drum beats are easier to listen to for long stretches, provide musical context, sound more like songs (music), and are more fun to play along with. The full name of this project is Beats are Better (than a metronome) and that is the point. Musicians who want to work on rhythm training can select a track with a ballpark tempo and perform their drills over the track. It’s like having a personal, steady, tireless drummer at your disposal.

Musicians can perform rhythm drills, chord changes and progressions, or practice vamping in a given key. The tracks can be streamed or downloaded from any major music distribution service. More albums are planned.

Beats are Better on Spotify

If you are a musician who has been avoiding metronome training because it’s boring, give Beats are Better a try. If it helps you, share with a fellow musician. Practice can be hard, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun.