I was presented with a challenge last night at music rehearsal. We are singing one of the songs performed by the Newsboys, He Reigns. In the ending section of chorus repeats, there are two counter-melodies wandering through the melody. I will admit, I know the verses and chorus and when I listen to my WOW cds, I do it for enjoyment. I can turn off the extra and just hear the melody and harmony, sometimes to the exclusion of interesting extras. During rehearsal, a couple of the other singers took the first counterpoint and I stayed on harmony. I don’t know what I said, but said something smart-alcky and our leader said there were actually two counterpoints. There is the one easily found and there is a part that the gospel choir sings. So I stayed up a little to late last night figuring out the part that I might could sing if I can get my act together. My plan is to practice the song at least twice a day every day until we sing.

Before I set about learning the extra part of the song, I worked out an advertising poster. I’m quite excited to offer my help to the community. I went through several redesigns of the poster, even tried to find the design from the business card, but couldn’t. I put my editing skills to the grind and came up with a poster that coordinates quite nicely with my business cards. I’ve got one ready to hang up and four more on the printer.

I went to bed rather “early” this morning and made for a rather tired trip to GR today. I’ll write about that later.

Tags: challenges, music, poster, songs