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1) Glorious (Houghton/Munizzi): Key Gm. Simplified, yet funky version of this song. Very keys (piano) driven. This one is a fun one. We really nail the harmonies on this one and hit a really cool acapella break at the end to finish it off.

2) Revelation Song (Riddle): Key D. Great song. We rock it up a notch. Added some cool drum loop/synth intro to it. Live drummer brings us in and then we rock it until the end. For our “space” this song is to awesome to be sweet and soft. We crank it.

3) Jesus Is The Best Thing (Munizzi): Key D. Fun tune to do. We include a slightly modified version of the live version rap and it’s fun to do. Great song.

Part of Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlists.

So gang, I finished up my song this afternoon for the week. (my reporting over at stickk.com is actually on Thursday so this one will be reported on next week – I should have set my reporting day to be Monday, ugh).

Anyways this is somewhat of a rewrite. You see back in the day I was in a band called Blind Men See, we rocked it. We had a song called captivated that we just barely got to play right before we called it quits. I was always happy with the chorus, but the verses never did it for me.

So today in the middle of writing a totally brand new song this chorus started bouncing around in my head. I wrote a pre-chorus that leads write into it and tweaked the end of the chorus to be pseudo similar to the end of the verse.

The old song was called captivated. The new song started off being called You Are Here. What do YOU think I should call it?

The ideas for the song come from some poetry-esque stuff I had written in response to the Pure Praise study I’ve been going through.

Pardon my nasally singing, I’m sick but wanted to go ahead and get this one posted. I also added in some ideas for harmony.

You Are Here (Captivated) [ 4:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lyrics and chords (capo 4):

Fmaj7                        C                  Em
So many times I have chosen the wide road again
Fmaj7                                    C                Em
Still knowing that path would lead me to sin
Fmaj7                              C           Em          D2sus(add3)
But You are waiting on the edge of heaven’s seat
Fmaj7     GsusG
Not far, but near
Em
You are here
F                    G      Em
Eyes full of fire, I’m your desire—–

Am                Fmaj7           C                Em
I am captivated by the burning in Your eyes
Am                    Fmaj7                 C                  D2sus(add3)
I can’t escape Your love it’s like fire burning inside
Fmaj7     D2sus(add3)
Not far, but near
Am7add9
You are here

Fmaj7                        C                  Em
So many times I have turned my heart away
Fmaj7                                C                  Em
Knowing my actions would spit in Your face
Fmaj7                                 C    Em          D2sus(add3)
Yet you’re still running to save me from me
Fmaj7                     GsusG
I don’t, understand it at all
Em
You are here
F                  G   Em
Eyes full of fire, I’m your desire

Am                Fmaj7           C                Em
I am captivated by the burning in Your eyes
Am                    Fmaj7                 C                  D2sus(add3)
I can’t escape Your love it’s like fire burning inside
Fmaj7     D2sus(add3)
Not far, but near
Am7add9
You are here

Also, there’s a few chords I’m not exactly sure how to spell out correctly. The D2sus(add3) is like a traditional C chord but slid up 2 frets. If you know the officially name let me know :)

Also, be sure to check out Mandy Thompson’s Guest Post on Songwriting. It’s really good :)

Here’s last week’s entry. I’m about 3 songs behind for the year, but that’s ok. We started a great little CREATIVE accountability community last week with a bunch of great bloggers. Check it out.

This is a song idea called “Redeemer” – I was really inspired by some of the older salvation, ransom, redeemer type hymns and was just worshiping and writing when this kind of flowed out.

Redeemer (Draft) from Russ Hutto on Vimeo.

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We didn’t use beatboxin for a whole song, nor do I claim beatbox mastery, but a few weeks ago we threw down a little “acapella meats beatbox” rap/singing in Shackles. It’s one of our funky regulars that we do a lot. It had kind of gotten stale, but since it’s such a favorite with our HOJ folks, I wanted to add a touch of something different to grab people’s attentions. It worked.

It was fun, got lots of positive feedback, and probably was very cheesy. Which I’m ok with because if you can’t let your hair down and have a little cheesy fun from time to time when you’re celebrating in worship the goodness of the author and creator of all that is good and fun, something ain’t right.

The mix on the vid is just what comes from the mains, so you don’t get drums at all. Sorry. that’s why it sounds a bit empty. But it’s where we are now.

So without further ado, I give you me…and all my cheesy beatboxin’ goodness.

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