Monday, June 19, 2023

Music Monday: Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing

Every once in a while, I pick an older hymn and try to do some interesting with it. Such is the case with this hymn - Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing. I enlisted my flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash, to help me with this arrangement. He played the melody on the first and third verses and I cover the melody on the 2nd verse. I struggled to figure out how to / what to do what that 2nd verse. I’m not a great soloist, as when it comes to improvising melodies on the piano. So I got frustrated trying to come up with something I liked until I decided to give the Hammond organ a shot. Well that changed everything! While I’m not the greatest Hammond player, I did come up with what I think is an interesting improv. We sang this song yesterday in our Horizons service, minus the flugelhorn and hammond solos, so I thought I would use the instrumental version for today’s Music Monday.