WFMW Learning new hymns
We have found that opening our school days with a time of worship, Bible reading and prayer is a great start to our day.
(and yes, we are still not done with our school. I know it is nearly July. But we are almost done. One more subject to knock off)
Not attending an English church, we all really miss the time of singing and worship, so we have our own.
The problem with our morning worship time is limited knowledge of hymns and praise music.
We have a couple of song books and a hymnal, but since Mom does not read music we are limited to the ones I know. Or the ones I sort of know.
But there are some great songs in the hymnal and praise book that have lyrics I want the kids to have running through their heads. And mine too.
One day I googled one of the hymns hoping for a sound bite to help me figure out the tune, and found a surprise.
YouTube has TONS of hymns!
People singing, or just playing the music. We have learned several news ones from YouTube.
A couple of our new favorites are Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah and Days of Elijah.
Learning new songs to praise God on YouTube works for us.
Lots of other ideas await at We Are That Family
June 24th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Hubby and I are on the worship team at our church and we use Youtube all the time to listen to new music… it’s great! Glad you found it!
June 24th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I know you’re probably not LDS (or Mormon), but on the LDS website, they have a TON of great Hymn resources. Many of the Hymns we use are standard Christian Hymns. If you go to http://www.lds.org/cm/display/0,17631,4996-1,00.html, they have where you can listen to just the music, the music with words, the different parts (Soprano, Alto, etc.) and you can even change the key, tempo, and print out the sheet music. Just click on Interactive Music Player. It’s a really neat resource!
June 24th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Sweet! I’ll have to try that out. There are few songs that I’m not sure of and that would help a LOT.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Love youtube for not only the music but the how-to videos also. When I was getting ready to make curtains for the living room, I found several instructional videos on youtube for making the pleats.
I sometimes go again and again to a hymn or song I’ve found on youtube. My favorite is Sara Groves “Painting Pictures of Egypt”. I found it a couple years ago when we hit a plateau with raising support, and it really expressed where I was at at that moment in time. I have one of her CDs loaded on my iPod. She’s an amazing songwriter and singer.
P.S. You can find “Painting Pictures of Egypt” at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXciv06218