Our Gospel Recording Services
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One of the great things about making a gospel recording of your music is that it can be stored, shared, and given away to friends, family and church members. This music can then be enjoyed for years in the future. We have recorded evangelists, missionaries, pastors and many lay people through the years. Many times we have done projects for people who just wanted to record songs they have written and need a little help with adding other instruments and orchestration. They then made tapes to pass out for free to church members, family, and friends. The majority of people we have recorded usually can sing well but need extra help with accompaniment and orchestration. We have also recorded piano instrumental background CD's. The process usually involves one or two days at the most. The first thing you should do is read our Philosophy of Church Music page. Make sure you agree with what we are trying to do before you even call and ask about recording in our studio. We consider this aspect of our business more a ministry than a business. Most of our recordings involve recording an acoustical grand piano, or guitar, a Hammond B-3 Organ and we add some digital Orchestration with no drums, except some minor orchestral percussion at times. We do not record secular music or contemporary christian music. Many people come and stay overnight and leave the next day. Some people would not know where to start, so on this link I will outline what I usually tell clients: First: you need to pick out the songs you may want that you know you have well practiced and would not waste time in the studio rehearsing and learning. Second: you need to time the songs you picked and choose 8 - 10 songs that can be split up onto a side A & B of a tape. Even if you are making CD's it is smart to have songs that would fit well on a tape. I usually suggest 16 minutes a side for the tape. Shoot for a 32 minute project. This is an economical and workable project for the time structure that I mentioned. Third: try to come up with an order of songs or at least the songs for side A and B that come out as even as possible. Usually if one side is longer than another I suggest making side B longer. Fourth: Try to have all your written music in order; Especially if you want us to add instruments. At a minumum, you will need lead sheets with chords and words. Fifth: Try to decide how many CD's you will want made of the project. Sixth: Have a picture that you will want or art work you will want to be put on the tape or CD cover. Seventh: It is your responsibility to get copyright and mechanical liscense permission from anyone who owns copyrights to the songs you want to record. We don't do that for you. Frank Bissol President P.S. Below is one of the songs that our song leader brought to me that I engraved and set to music. Bob could sing and played in three keys. I taught him to play in three more keys and then he was satisfied and quit taking lessons from me. He handed me a melody and a rough idea of the harmonic chord changes for this Scripture chorus. I arranged the song for him, and set it to hymn style sheet music and we have been singing it every year at our missions conferences since. A year later, Bob Snyder went home to heaven. Shortly after he died, his children and grandchildren got together and I recorded a tape for them, and they included on the tape this song that Bob Snyder wrote. Enclosed is a sound file with Bob's grandchildren singing the song. Bob Snyder is now in heaven but his family and church still remember him in the songs he left with us. This is one of the great things about writing music and having it properly engraved; it can be enjoyed by family members for years to come. Also, this is the joy of recordings; they are an audible record of the way we wanted that music to be sung. |
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Text: John 4:35
Description: A few years back I asked our song leader Bob Snyder to write a missions Scripture Chorus based on John 4:35 for our missions month. He wrote the melody to this song. We usually sing it every October in our missions conference. A year after Bob wrote this song, he went home to be with the Lord. |
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Text: Phillipians 3:9-11
Description: Often we have recorded Evangelists and Missionaries who don't play an instrument but have wonderful voices. Many times they go to churches where there are not poeple with the proper skills to be able to accompany them. Here is a song I wrote which shares the truth that Jesus is indeed Lord and King. Taken from Phillipians 3:9-11 we can say... Every Knee Shall Bow and Every Tongue Will Confess that Jesus Christ Is LORD! Eveangelist Bob DeWitt recorded this song on a CD. Here is a smaple of him singing this song, and enclosed is a sample of the music that can be downloaded on our shopping cart. This is an example of the services we can offer to churches and ministers, Evangelists and Missionaries. |
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