(I do agree with the sentiment “writing words that succeed at this endeavor is going to be very hard.” Right now, we have basically one song that seems to inspire reverence among basically everyone who attended. I don’t think I’ve written anything that good yet, although a few people do respond pretty strongly to “Brighter Than Today.”
Wordless music is an alternate solution to the problem, but at most, I think it counts as… four songs? (like, you can do 2-3 variations of wordless music, either all at once or spaced out, totaling about maybe 15 − 20 minutes. A long song is 4 minutes).
If you’re starting from scratch, I think I’d agree that 20 minutes of wordless music is better for building reverence than trying to write a pretty song about stars and candles. But if you’re trying to fill a 2-hour-ish event, you’ll need more than that. And if you’re taking either a) songwriting or b) songfinding seriously, you learn more and level up faster by trying alternate things.
(I do agree with the sentiment “writing words that succeed at this endeavor is going to be very hard.” Right now, we have basically one song that seems to inspire reverence among basically everyone who attended. I don’t think I’ve written anything that good yet, although a few people do respond pretty strongly to “Brighter Than Today.”
Wordless music is an alternate solution to the problem, but at most, I think it counts as… four songs? (like, you can do 2-3 variations of wordless music, either all at once or spaced out, totaling about maybe 15 − 20 minutes. A long song is 4 minutes).
If you’re starting from scratch, I think I’d agree that 20 minutes of wordless music is better for building reverence than trying to write a pretty song about stars and candles. But if you’re trying to fill a 2-hour-ish event, you’ll need more than that. And if you’re taking either a) songwriting or b) songfinding seriously, you learn more and level up faster by trying alternate things.