Gospel Listenings

So I listened to both gospel listenings at once...the 2 hour block got a little long but I made it! I really enjoyed listening to this type of music, there were some really catchy tunes and I found that I knew some of the songs. In the first listening there were a lot of great songs. The song church was great. I really liked the up beat feel it had with all the clapping and how the song was sang as a story. I also really liked how the background music stopped when there was a climax in the singing. I also thought the song Judgement was catchy.. I was singing in my head hours later! I liked how it was acapela, it really added to the song, plus the unique raspy sound to there voice. I found that overall I enjoyed the upbeat song more just because they caught my attention and I didn't know what to expect and they tended to have a lot of different harmonies that were beautiful.
The second listening was also good.. however some of the songs wouldn't load for me so I didn't get to listen to all of them. I really liked how you had 3 different versions of Ain't no graves in this listening. The Bozie Stirdevant version was slower and never really picked up, The Brother Claude Ely Version was faster and had clapping and more singers, and the Kris Delmhorst version was better in the sense that it was newer and more clear and I also liked that it had a bit more of a rock feel to it. Another song that stood out to me was Joshua Fit de battle.. This was an acupeella song that had many great tempo changes. It also included great unisons and harmony changes. I also enjoyed the contrast in the music from when the men sang and when the women sang. I loved when the men sang, how great the background was.
I feel that most of the music that I listened to tied in with what we have been learning because in most of the songs the artist is expressing how they feel about certain things in their life and just like blues songs, alot of them were sang kind of like a story.

Discussion Summary

So I completely spaced out doing a discussion summary for the week of the 7th so I'm just going to do one now! This past week we did a lot with the junk band. On Tuesday we (aka the boys) brought up all the neat instruments that we would be playing on. There were all sorts of odds and ends. The boys jumped up to get there hands on the best or loudest instruments they could find. The girls were a little bit more apprehensive...scoping out all the instruments first. Then Tyler took charge and started handing out instruments.. of course I get stuck with one of the biggest instruments. I was so jealous of Steph and her bike bell..it sounded so cool!...Once we got playing we could get some neat beats going with Joe leading us! Then on Thursday one of the greatest things happened....I got to play the bell!!! ME! on CAMERA!! I was psyched. We all had fun playing, but then the camera was turned on...and everyone got a little awkward...we still sounded cool though. As we played people got to be more comfortable and we started having more fun. Tyler's guitar was a nice touch and I loved how he finished out the songs...I think the junk band was a success and everyone is going to enjoy watching it at the Jamboree!