Pages
-
Recent Posts
Follow Greg Scheer Music
Recent Comments
- Kim Williams on Firefly (with TL Moody)
- Kim Williams on Tuesday Was Behind You (w/ TL Moody)
- Greg Scheer on Firefly (with TL Moody)
- Joni Jones on Tuesday Was Behind You (w/ TL Moody)
- Joni Jones on Firefly (with TL Moody)
Archives
Categories
- 2022 Psalm Collaborations
- Adopt-a-Psalm, 2017
- Arrangement
- Art Music
- Choir
- Church
- Colin
- Commissions
- Congregational Songs
- Contests
- Demos
- electronic
- FAWM 2014
- FAWM 2016
- FAWM 2017
- FAWM 2019
- FAWM 2020
- FAWM 2022
- Finale demo
- Global
- Half the Man
- Hallel Psalms
- Hymn tunes
- Jazz
- Live
- One. Long. Year.
- Pilgrim Psalms
- Production music
- Psalms
- Quirky
- Retuned hymn
- Rock and/or Roll
- Uncategorized
Meta
Category Archives: Rock and/or Roll
Swampzilla at Rockford High School/Middle School
I had the great pleasure of composing a new piece for the Rockford School orchestras this spring. Directors Erin De Young and Allison Holden wanted a piece that would work for their combined orchestras: 6th grade through 10th. That’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Art Music, Live, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
That’s When Lonely Begins
Sometimes you just have to go with it, you know? A phrase popped into my head mid-afternoon: “That’s when lonely begins.” It was a title in search of a country song. Five hours later it’s written, recorded, and posted to … Continue reading
Posted in Demos, Quirky, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
Two Christmases
The final song in my Christmas triumvirate is not a church song at all. As I was working on Christmas songs for worship during March’s songwriting retreat, I began thinking about how unsettling it must be for my boys to … Continue reading
Posted in Demos, Quirky, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
Tiny King (with Liz Vice)
“What’s with all the Christmas music in summer?” You may ask. This March I joined two dozen other songwriters to explore the themes that are missing from common Christmas songs and to compose new songs that address those themes. During … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Congregational Songs, Demos, Rock and/or Roll
1 Comment
We’re Holding On for Dear Life
In 2014, I wrote a song cycle called, “One Long Year,” a set of songs chronicling the unraveling of the narrator’s life over the course of a year. It has only seen the light of day in demo form. I hope … Continue reading
Posted in Demos, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
St. Sinner Orchestra, live at Schmohz
Here are a video and a few pictures from last week’s premiere performance by the St. Sinner Orchestra:
Posted in Live, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
Behold, a Table is Spread
Update 11/4/21: Sheet music for this song can now be downloaded at gregscheer.com. Some songs come quickly. This one, however, took well over a year. It draws its inspiration from “I Hunger and I Thirst.” I liked how that hymn … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Congregational Songs, Demos, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
Keep Your Nose to the Grindstone
As followers of this blog know, I am no stranger to ridiculous ideas. Indeed, I am willing to chase a ridiculous idea to extraordinary lengths. This is one such idea. When work begins to pile up, I either remind myself of the … Continue reading
Posted in Demos, electronic, Quirky, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
It Will All Be All Right Someday
As I came home from church today, I vowed that I would keep the Sabbath by doing something creative (i.e. re-creation), but not something that was work (a fine line when writing music is your work). The result is a song based … Continue reading
Posted in Demos, Rock and/or Roll
Leave a comment
How Do We Know What’s Real?
I should participate in FAWM and do an Adopt-a-Psalm program every year. Even though there’s a certain amount of stress involved in writing 14 songs in the shortest month, I find that when I have to write it primes my pump … Continue reading
Posted in Demos, FAWM 2017, Rock and/or Roll
1 Comment