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Neighbor Speaking In Tongues Album Video

Neighbor Video

My song Neighbor is one of the most complex projects from my album Speaking in Tongues.  It has five vocal parts that I overdubbed 4 times each during the recording.  I wanted to put together a video for this song that would feature me singing each of the parts. I searched for easy to use software that would allow me to put this together.  After a few tries with other software, I settled on iMovie on my iPhone. I did put together some practice videos to make sure that my face would be centered in the views.  In the practice video, I just used one video and I put it in multiple frames to discover that stacking them first worked better than putting them side by side.  The video in the center shot was the most difficult to decide how to position.

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Neighbor Song Writing Speaking In Tongues Album

Writing Neighbor

My song Neighbor is based on the parable of the Good Samaritan.  The song has 5 verses and each verse has its own melody.  It works like a round.  Each verse gives voice to a different person related to the parable.