Electric guitar versions of traditional liturgical music.
  • lance
    Posts: 2
    Hi, I'm a new member here. I play many instruments, though my main instrument is guitar. I also play many different styles of music including, contemporary Christian, rock, folk, jazz, and blues. I recently recorded some solo electric guitar versions of songs from the Order of the Holy Communion from the Lutheran Hymnal (1941). These arrangements are not intended for congregational singing, though I think they could be with a few changes. I recorded them mainly for people's listening enjoyment. I wanted to share them with you folks. If you want to, you can share your thoughts on them with me. Thanks! https://lance-eads.bandcamp.com/album/the-order-of-the-holy-communion
  • dhalkjdhalkj
    Posts: 61
    I spent 12 years working with the music for worship at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada so I'm emboldened to jump in here. I think you are trying to bring some wider attention to your endeavours by joining some various church music forums without appreciating how different they are. We are able to respond to somebody who evidently cares a lot about the worship music in his church and who plays with considerable focus and musicality. Nonetheless most of us are from a different church that chose to retain the music associated with the Latin rite prior to Martin Luther and are quite dedicated to maintaining it even in this modern world of electric guitars. So welcome and all, but you might not find us all that congenial a group on the whole.
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,611
    Lance,

    The Agnus Dei has a certain...familiarity. Deliverance? Dueling Banjos? That's the tough thing about composing music, writing something brand-new and finding that other think it sounds like something they already know and which you honestly didn't intend to copy. This group, as you learned above is interested in Gregorian chant, hymn and choral music often in Latin.

    There was a great video of a rock band doing Gregorian chant posted a few years ago. It gained little interest. Even worse was a high-up German Benedictine Abbot (?) who plays in a totally non-religious rock band and is famous, or infamous about it.

    You'll probably find a lot warmer welcome from Lutheran groups...but you've definitely enlivened our night. Keep up the work you are dedicated to!
  • bonniebede
    Posts: 756
    I really liked what you did there. Thanks for sharing it. for liturgy, not so much, but I can see you must have enjoyed doing it and hope you got something out of it yourself.
    Kudos for putting your talents at the service of the almighty!
    Thanked by 1noel jones, aago
  • lance
    Posts: 2
    Thank you to those who gave me valid feedback. I appreciate your opinions. :) Soli Deo Gloria!
    Thanked by 1noel jones, aago
Add a Comment