Category Archives: Contests

Be Your Everything

Posted on February 28, 2011 by gregscheer

The last few days have been a marathon of writing, mixing and recording my latest lunge for lyrical longevity. Yes, it’s contest time again, people! This one is the ”16 Love” song contest, the winner of which will be featured in a … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Losing

Posted on February 15, 2011 by gregscheer

In today’s episode of Adventures in Losing, we find our protagonist (me) reading the following: Heartfelt and nostalgic instrumentals needed for film scene. Instrumental Classical or cinematic music tracks. The music should be heartfelt and nostalgic. The song will be … Continue reading →

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If You Love Me

Posted on October 1, 2010 by gregscheer

It’s our fifth and final day of a week of non-stop submission music. How can I top a rapped version of Acts 1:8 or a hymn tune that was almost entitled “My Fanny”? Well, in times of great need, one … Continue reading →

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MY CROSBY

Posted on September 30, 2010 by gregscheer

Day 4 of my contest submission extravaganza is the second tune I entered in the St Lukes contest. Same text, new tune. This time the tune that came out was a straight up gospel hymn. So I decided to call … Continue reading →

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Acts 1:8

Posted on September 29, 2010 by gregscheer

You’ll notice that this week’s series of posts get progressively more quirky. In this, day 3 of my posting extravaganza, we once again tap into my submissions to Faith Alive’s Sunday School curriculum. They asked for hip hop, Caribbean, and … Continue reading →

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MINOR CELEBRATION

Posted on September 28, 2010 by gregscheer

Day two of our contest extravaganza finds Greg losing a hymn tune contest. St. Lukes of Victoria, BC (that’s in Canada) held a contest for a composer to write a tune to go with Judy Trueman’s text “Celebrate God.” I … Continue reading →

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My Keeper

Posted on September 27, 2010 by gregscheer

It’s going to be a week long extravaganza of contests, starting today! The first song is one that I wrote a while back–1999 to be exact. “My Keeper” is a rendition of Psalm 121 that began its life as a … Continue reading →

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A Humble Mass

Posted on September 2, 2010 by gregscheer

A while back NPM (National Pastoral Musicians) held a contest  for new musical settings of the English Mass which was recently approved by the US Roman Catholic bishops. For those of you who aren’t Catholic, even small changes in the … Continue reading →

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Greg Scheer: a win-win situation

Posted on July 3, 2010 by gregscheer

In a previous post, I complained (okay, whined) about being a runner-up and/or outright loser. But it seems my luck has changed. This week I received word that I won the Top Golf theme song contest with my irritatingly catchy … Continue reading →

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Get out the vote!

Posted on June 13, 2010 by gregscheer

Hey everyone, Usually this blog is strictly reserved for tasty musical morsels in MP3 or PDF-size bites. But I’m breaking my own rule tonight to tell you about an opportunity for you to help push a recent post from also-ran … Continue reading →

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