The Carpenter's House
The Carpenter's House

 

 
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The journey flow for
writing songs at TCH

We believe God has given each of us special gifts + talents.
And so we are moved to write songs that God has stirred in our hearts for his people.

 
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Spiritual & Creative Direction

  • Discuss the spiritual and creative direction for a songwriting retreat or project.

  • Planning starts for Team preparation; includes preparing any workshops

Duration: 1 - 2 weeks | Who: Pastors & Worship Leaders

 
 
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Pray, Prepare & Grow

  • Spend personal time to spiritually prepare through prayer and studying His Word.

  • This may include praying and studying a devotion together.

  • During this time, there may be some workshops the team will need to participate in.

Duration: 4 - 6 weeks | Who: Pastors, Worship Leaders and Songwriting Team (Everyone)

 
 
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Retreat or Project

  • A location off-site is booked. Food is organised for the team while away.

  • Pack and transport any gear needed for the weekend/project.

  • The Creative team join the team to document the weekend/project.

Duration: 3 days - 1 week | Who: Everyone

 
 
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Reflect & Plan

  • Pastors and Worship Leaders debrief following weekend/project.

  • Discuss and plan next steps to completing songs.

Duration: 3 days - 1 week | Who: Leaders

 
 
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Feedback

  • Final group session to review songs and provide feedback.

  • This may require splitting into groups of similar discipline ie Vocalists, writers, musicians.

  • This could be a 1 - 2 hour session. Musical Instruments may be needed.

  • Based on the Feedback, a Demo version is then prepared by the Core Songwriting Team (Worship Leaders + Pastors)

Duration: 1 session | Who: Everyone

 
 
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Live! Production

  • Produce songs to completion and prepare lyrics and music to sing with church family.

  • Lyrics are sent to Production team.

  • Worship team begin to learn new songs.

  • Worship team prepare and record/film a version to share with the church

  • These songs become the “Live Versions”

Duration: 2 - 3 weeks | Who: Core Songwriting Team

 
 
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Share Songs

  • Post a video or audio link and lyrics to the song in Local Notices

  • Important to also post a video with explanation of how the song was written - The Song’s Story

Duration: 1 - 2 weeks | Who: Core Songwriting Team

 
 
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Live! Version

  • Ready to sing new songs Live! during a church service.

  • Communicate to church in Local Notices that new song will be song during service.

  • Service Announcer to also announce new song sung during service.

  • Worship Leader to introduce the song.

Duration: 1 - 2 weeks | Who: Core Songwriting Team, Service Announcer, Worship Leader

 
 
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Studio Production

  • Begin work to do a studio recording of the song.

  • This is to prepare songs for an official release outside of our church family.

  • Potentially could lead to creative videos of songs etc.

  • These songs would then become “Studio Versions”

Duration: 2 - 4 weeks | Who: Core Songwriting Team

 
 
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Official Release

  • Sing release or this could be part of a body of work - Song collection (album)

  • Leading up to an official release there would need to be a plan to communicate internally to our church family and publicly on our digital platforms.

  • It’s important that we package our message in officially releasing these songs with the intention to give glory and honour to God and to grow the Kingdom

  • Release to Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Spotify

  • Potentially look to hold a live Worship night and invite others to be a part of the official release.

Duration: 1 - 4 weeks | Who: Core Songwriting Team