Piano-only rough recording.
preachy
I Don’t Want To Sound Preachy
Copyright(c) 2008 by Ron Lisle
Intro
Maybe Dm7 Em7 F6 Gmaj7
Verse 1
Chorus
Verse 2
Chorus
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Living a blessed life!
Piano-only rough recording.
preachy
Copyright(c) 2008 by Ron Lisle
Maybe Dm7 Em7 F6 Gmaj7
It plan on extending WordPress to support creating music lead sheets using a ChordPro type syntax. This syntax uses square brackets to enclose tags describing music attributes of a song (eg. [Title], [Composer], [Tempo]) in addition to chord names (eg. [Amaj7]).
It appears that a plug-in can be created which will allow extending WordPress without hacking the source code. Requirements and questions to resolve:
In addition to providing the existing functionality, it will be good to allow comments/discussions regarding each song, with searchability for previous comments made about a given song.
Plug-In creation steps:
It may be better to use a “Page” for each song. Need to investigate how to create and link to pages, etc. The down side may be that Pages don’t use the database, and I like the idea of keeping songs in the database instead of as separate files.
Another possibility is to use a Template Tag.
A plugin Filter might be used to format the ChordPro data prior to display.
A plugin Action might be used to syntax validate a new song upon entry.
This might include allowing cut/paste of existing chord sheets that put chords on a separate line above the lyric lines, and then converting them to ChordPro format.
Provide an Admin display to provide buttons for various chord types and song fields.
Following some additional study of WordPress, it appears that what I am trying to accomplish can be done by creating a Theme.
A Theme is simply a collection of custom Template files.
A Template file is simply a modified version of the wp-content/index.php file. Templates can be created to modify the way that specific categories are displayed.
So songs can be displayed in chord/lyric format by assigning them a specific category such as “Song”, and then creating a template for that category to format the chord/lyric display (category-X.php).
Similarly, I should be able to create a category and template for the weekly song lineup.
After further research and thinking, it appears that song sheets could be posted using a “Songs” category.
A full song listing could then be displayed by selecting the “Songs” category. A custom template could be created to display them by title, artist, etc. and to also format them more compactly. MP3 files could be attached, and a plugin used to allow direct playback (like the 1-bit plugin).
The LeadSheet plugin will be needed to format lyrics/chords into a table to align and format them in ChordPro-like format.
Lineups can be handled in either of a couple ways:
I think I’ll pursue option 1. Items needed to implement this are:
This is a rough, piano-only version. We’ll probably record it during church in July, 2008.
fish-on-the-ground-very-ro
Pastor Stella approached me about an idea for a song. She had heard a story by a Rabbi about a couple guys that followed Moses out of Egypt. They were so self-centered that they didn’t even see Moses perform any of the miracles. They were busy looking down, and only saw a bunch of fish laying on the ground. I was immediately taken with the idea, and wrote this within the next day.
This song is being written for the summer “water” theme,
and is currently scheduled for July 6th & 13th.
Partridge family feel with a boogey-woogey chorus. Mixolydian mode.
Written by Ron Lisle
G C Gmaj7 C repeat as long as desired.
(boogey-woogey style)
We all know the story, how Moses parted the sea.
Chorus
Spoken. Loop on intro softly.
Chorus twice and out.
My beautiful wife Shelley surprised me with a secret birthday vacation. On Wednesday we headed out to the airport for destinations unknown. It turns out that she booked our HGVC timeshare in Orlando for 6 days.
Upon arrival, we checked into all of the different things to do here. I must admit that the amount of things to do here is overwhelming. I opted to get a 5 day pass for the Disney adventure parks.
The first day we went to the Epcot Center. They are having a Wildflower Festival. Of course Shelley was excited about that! One of the rides we took though showed how they are using new technologies to raise crops, including things like hanging plants upside down from high tech watering troughs, and bare root water/nutrient spray systems. They mentioned that there is a behind-the-scenes walking tour available, but we missed the last one. We plan on using our 5th day pass to go back and take the tour.
We had also left just prior to the fireworks, thinking that we’ve seen fireworks before. However, as we got on the tram to the car the fireworks started, and appeared to be unlike any we’d seen before. So we’re planning on going back later today to catch the seed tour and stay until after the fireworks.
We had eaten at the English pub, and ordered the fish-and-chips and a cheese platter. We were intrigued by the Bangers And Mash we saw other diners eating. So we’re planning on making reservations for dinner to give that a try also.
Unfortunately we overdid the walking, and my new sneakers caused a blister on the bottom of each foot. So we started out the day yesterday stopping by Target to pick up some sandals and blister pads. We then took it easy at the Disney MGM/Hollywood Studios park. The main things we saw were the car stunt show and the Tower of Terror. We got rained on several times, but had with us a couple Disney ponchos we had bought the first day. We then finished up the day with a nice dinner at the Out Back. Altogether it was a wonderful day.
I woke up this morning with a song stuck in my head. I had dreamed about a group of old folks dressed in Bavarian costumes playing in our church. The song was such high energy that I wanted to get up on the stage with them and play drums.
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The song is a basic C, F, G song with the melody:
[C]E, E, F, F#, G, E,  E, E, F, F#, G, G
[F]F, F, A, Bb, C, F,  F, F, A, Bb, C, F
The lyrics to the last line of the chorus are something like:
[?Jesus gave us some thing] they just can’t take it away
A, A, A, A, A, A, G, A, A, A, G, F, G, D, E, C.
Once again I’m worried that I might be plagiarizing some existing song. I need to record a rough take of it and run it past a few folks to see if it sounds familiar to them.
Written by Ron Lisle
Key Gm
TimeSignature 4/4
Tempo 110
Gm C
Gm C/G
Gm C/G
Gm C/G
Gm C/G
The category links, among others, are not working. I believe that the problem is related to permalinks, which require .htaccess be modified. This appears to only be happening on my local server and not on the remote server. I need to look into this, but it’s a low priority since the remote server appears to be working ok.
This is a fairly negative song, so I probably won’t ever do much with it. The idea came to me while driving to work, seeing some SUVs tailgating these other little cars. It occurred to me that they’d probably get really angry if some larger vehicle (like a semi-truck) tailgated them. The hypocrisy and self-centeredness bothers me.
It is a pretty standard I-IV-V song with VI minor thrown into the chorus. ÂÂ
[Title]Tailgating SUVs
[Verse 1]
[C]Tailgating SUVs, [F]putting my life at [G]risk.
[C]You’re bigger so you don’t care if you [F]crash into me tsk, [G]tsk!
[Am]I’d like to see you get tail[F]gated yourself one [G]day
by a [Am]big mac truck, much bigger than you. Would [F]you think that is [G]ok?
[Verse 2]
Tailgating SUVs, now you’re making me shudder.
You’ve got a hot cup of coffee in one hand, and your cellphone in the other.
I sure hope you don’t spill that coffee in your lap.
You’ll be jumping and screaming and crash into me, and …
… something about the price of gas?
… something about the environment?