The Blessing (For Mom)

Just a little instrumental jam I threw together last night. Enjoy!

Made for More

Tonight - MIDI Loop

Being graduated left me with some free time, so I recorded a cover of my current favorite worship song.

Blessed Assurance - Cover by Elijah D. Smith

OTP Demo 5-24-2014

Couldn't sleep the other night so I cranked out this song. Here's a short portion of it I recorded!

Insomnia (Demo)

I challenged myself to write and record an original song in 5 hours or less. Here's the result.

"Blinding Light" by Elijah Smith

This short piano piece came out of some improvisation I've been fiddling around with the past few days. I decided to record it and then listen back and think about what the music makes me envision. Here's what I think:

This piece revolves around the anticipation of the Advent season leading up to the Incarnation of Christ. We find ourselves in Old Testament Israel, just before the birth of Jesus.

The A section consists of a repeated dissonant chord over a moving bass line in minor, representing the anticipation of the Jewish people waiting for their Messiah. When will He come? What will He look like? What will He do?

The B section takes us into the relative major key, with several chord changes and few repeats of the melodic line. This represents the hopeful prophecies surrounding the coming Messiah - expectant words written by divinely inspired men.

We return to the A section at the end, because although these prophecies speak highly of this coming king, the Jewish people still do not know when He will come. Then - resolution - we end on a major chord, signifying that Jesus has been born. The anticipation is over and God has become man, Word has become flesh, the Lord has come to live among us.

Awaiting

A demo of the song I wrote for this year's Youth Retreat. Not perfect but pretty darn good for just 6 hours of work.

Echo - Original (Demo)

Two years after writing this song for MYC Youth Camp, I finally completed the recording of it.

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