Here’s a confession I don’t know if I’ve made here on this blog previously: I want to write music. Songs, specifically. Music means more to me than almost anything and I just wonder sometimes how people come up with such miraculous combinations of lyric and melody. Sure I can sing and I can even play the piano, but writing music is not something I’ve ever really done.
Well I did once. I was 15 years old and had a guitar that I could barely play. My song was called “The Messy Hair Blues”. Yep.
I’ve written bits and pieces of lyrics in the past year but I’ve failed to follow through with them.
So I was completely and utterly surprised when I watched this video from Christy Nockels about how she wrote the songs to her amazing new album Into The Glorious. Seriously, these are great songs…annointed, even.
She says most of them were written in her mini-van. Many while shuffling her kids to and fro. Much like how I spend a big chunk of my time. Go ahead, watch this video and see for yourself!
If she says writing music in her mini-van works for her, maybe I could give it a shot.
Now go check out her new album because it’s really really good. Especially for listening to in a mini-van. It’s available on iTunes and Amazon.
Disclosure: I was provided with a copy of Christy’s album and compensated for this post. But that doesn’t make it any less true.
Sarah,
I have countless little .mp3’s of me singing a verse or two into my iPhone “voice notes”, with the sounds of Bailey and Reagan in the background. Inspiration strikes when it strikes, it’s almost never planned out, for me at least. 🙂 Great post by the way~
Sarah,
I have countless little .mp3’s of me singing a verse or two into my iPhone “voice notes”, with the sounds of Bailey and Reagan in the background. Inspiration strikes when it strikes, it’s almost never planned out, for me at least. 🙂 Great post by the way~
Sarah,
I have countless little .mp3’s of me singing a verse or two into my iPhone “voice notes”, with the sounds of Bailey and Reagan in the background. Inspiration strikes when it strikes, it’s almost never planned out, for me at least. 🙂 Great post by the way~
Sarah,
I have countless little .mp3’s of me singing a verse or two into my iPhone “voice notes”, with the sounds of Bailey and Reagan in the background. Inspiration strikes when it strikes, it’s almost never planned out, for me at least. 🙂 Great post by the way~
Well this does not surprise me about you, I guess. I almost always have music on while driving and that precludes me from coming up with anything original. You are in the habit of writing music, just as I am in the habit of writing blog posts. It reminds me of how hard a time your wife had writing something at a baby shower once while I rattled off lines and lines of inspiration…because I write all the time!
Well this does not surprise me about you, I guess. I almost always have music on while driving and that precludes me from coming up with anything original. You are in the habit of writing music, just as I am in the habit of writing blog posts. It reminds me of how hard a time your wife had writing something at a baby shower once while I rattled off lines and lines of inspiration…because I write all the time!
Yes, as they say, “practice makes perfect”. It’s like me trying to create outside of the realm of music, my wife is awesome at that, and when I try to go outside of my realm, I am paralyzed by my limited view of how I am creative. I create in 1 specific medium, and everything else is foreign to me.
Yes, as they say, “practice makes perfect”. It’s like me trying to create outside of the realm of music, my wife is awesome at that, and when I try to go outside of my realm, I am paralyzed by my limited view of how I am creative. I create in 1 specific medium, and everything else is foreign to me.