Saturday, December 25, 2010

Hark The Herald Angel Sing

First of all, merry Christmas to everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas although I kinda had a tough day. Anyway, I really was working with this Christmas project for my playlist, hoping I will be able to complete it by Christmas day itself.

Hark the Herald Angel Sing, a very common song for Christmas. For those who don't know the song, you'll probably go "Oh!!!! This song!!!" after listening to the first line. The lyrics is written by Charles Wesley as a poem in 1739 (Gosh... the Amazing Grace era). The music is later compose by Felix Mendelssohn in 1840.

Oh ya, let's have a slight introduction here. Charles Wesley is the brother of Methodist church founder, John Wesley. He actually wrote more than 6000 hymns. Felix Mendelssohn is a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor during early Romantic period.

Charles Wesley and Felix Mendelssohn:

A link for:
Biblical info about the song
Charles Wesley
Felix Mendelssohn

I actually took 3.5 days for the music, and another 1.5 days for the vocal. This time, it's totally pianoless (not using piano voice in the song at all).It's kinda like 80's 90's rock and I rearranged the song for some different taste (as usual). Oh ya, there's a little mashing in this song, but I won't consider this a WindMash, since I'm playing more on rearranging the song.


It's actually due to recent research of some guitar chords, that I finally understand the concept of power chords. I think I extensively abuse electric guitar power chords in this song, but I seriously like that Bon Jovi rocking style XD

"He is the LORD; let him do what is good in his eyes."
-1 Sammuel 3:18
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Thank You Lord once again for giving Your only son to die for us on the cross. Although we are unworthy, but still You forgive the sins that we bear. Pray that it would be a marvelous year ahead of us as we march into a new chapter of life. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

1 comment:

tim said...

merry christmas adam :)
i liked the pipe organ rock