That Easter Morn’- An Easter Cover
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog! For those of you who are new here, on every full second week of the month I publish a blog each day from Monday to Friday. For more information on that, listen to or read my first blog from last month called, School Is Over. I've been writing blogs and adding audio for these blogs which tell the backstory on how I wrote my original songs, how I eventually got my YouTube videos put together, and some memories in my music classes at college.
Today, I'll be sharing with you the story of how I ended up making and uploading an Easter Cover in March of this year. Ever since I started making monthly YouTube videos, it seems like every monthly plan I had would change. I originally planned on having Free as my January video. That song actually ended up being uploaded a couple weeks ago for my August video. So instead, my January video was I Truly Care About You. And guess what? I was originally planning on having that as my February video! Instead, Peanut Butter and Jam was the video for February. So by the time March came around, I wasn't sure if I had the right song for the month.
I've mentioned a couple times that I'm religious. I often think about a question that I want answered when I go to church meetings and activities. So one Sunday at the beginning of March I went to church pondering on what song my March video was going to have. At a moment when it was quiet in the building, I had a thought come to me, You should do another cover of a Hymn. It was just like the thought I had when I decided to start my first YouTube video, Away In a Manger!
But after acknowledging that thought, I realized that there were so many hymns to pick from. What hymn should I choose??" I thought to myself. It was only a small while later that day that I remembered that Easter is in April, and since I upload my videos at the end of the month it seemed fitting to have an Easter video at the end of March.
So I went looking through my Hymn book(the English one this time 😉) to find out that there are only 3 songs that are about Easter. Two of them are very familiar to me, but I had never heard the third one in a church meeting before.
That Easter Morn, the unfamiliar hymn I found, had such a beautiful melody and a wonderful message about the resurrected Christ. I soon felt determined to use this hymn as my Easter Cover! But another thought came to me, and I remembered that sometimes you can take the text of one song and sing it to the melody of another song. So I decided to look for another song that has a similar message and text that could be sung to the tune of That Easter Morn. I ended up finding the hymn called, Behold the Great Redeemer Die, which shares the message of Christ's death. Two songs about His death and resurrection felt perfect for an Easter Cover!
With the help of a friend who has a mic and the help of the audio editing program on my laptop, I was able to get the music recorded fairly quickly. I was originally planning to record my Cello for the accomplishment, but later I felt like acapella accompaniment sounded better. Since midterms were coming up, I didn't have much time to make a video. Thankfully, there were free domain pictures of Christ's death and resurrection on the internet that I could download and use for my video instead.
And that's how I ended up putting together an Easter Cover this March. I hope you enjoyed reading this blog. If you haven't done so already, please feel free to check out the links mentioned earlier. I would also greatly appreciate it that you would look into buying the sheet music of my original songs or at least donating to my website. The money I receive will help and support me as I make more videos and content on this website.
Thank you for reading to the end!
