Sure, you could just play a song for someone in crisis and it might lift their spirit. But, to write a song that will lift their spirit, address the energetics of their particular challenge, activate their primal healing force within, invite in their etheric support beings, open their heart, release emotional debris, clear patterns of belief…now that is something! I believe you have taken this course because you want to create impactful music that vibrationally shifts lives and lifts the listener to remember their Truth.
If so, then there are elements to consider and, hopefully, adopt as your daily practice. For the healer, to truly do their work, must be in alignment. They must be clear so that they do not, in any way, obstruct the vibration of what is being sent into and through you. To this end, here are some suggestions and invitations:
Maintain proper self care
Daily cleansing of energy and realignment of chakras to be a clear conduit of the frequencies coming in. This will translate into empowered healing creations infused with clear intention and high vibration energy. Do your own inner work and move to reclaim full awareness and access to your True Self. Nurturing thoughts and actions that feed your energy bodies, spirit, mind, and emotions are necessary. Plenty of water and sleep and time in nature are a plus. An open heart supported by self love and acceptance will go far in seeding your songs with the necessary frequencies that impact all listeners.
Work with guidance
In order to be open fully to the information coming in to assist you, from your guides as well as the guides of your client or audience, you must be in a trusting relationship with the ethers. Belief in angelic energies and etheric beings opens the door to communication. Learning to trust and act upon the guidance in a fluid manner will go far to keeping your unprocessed issues out of the song (remember, however, that you can use your issues as grist for the song mill for you attract like vibration to you. Converse and interact with guides of all types. Speak your name or surround yourself with light or use the mantra, Hung Vajra Peh, to protect your energy field. Any of these practices will ensure that you are safe in the realms of guidance.
Monitor your own expression
Begin to understand the impact of your words and their power to manifest what you speak of. This will allow you to be in a higher vibration at all times. Make sure that what you express, especially with emotional energy, is exactly what you desire. Refrain from criticism, judgement, sarcasm, gossip, projection, and lower frequency language. It will pay off handsomely in the impact of your creations.
Keep learning about your craft
Remain open to learning about the elements of music that support your work. Be open to the inner process of learning. Energy and new skill incubates and shows up in these times. I have been pleasantly amazed when after a period of no writing at the piano, I sit down and can play in ways I never could, without any physical dimension practice. Invisible hands?… And in the meantime, practice, get better at your instrument and blossom your confidence and willingness to take risks. Learn new instruments. Learn a piece of equipment. Become adept at whatever you are guided to integrate.
Creating the Healing Song
- In general: 1) Keep a written or digital notebook of ideas, melodies, themes (though much of your work is spontaneous, there is no space and time in the creative ethers so ideas may be downloading for use at a future time); 2) remember that your creations have both an inner and outer element (any songs you are assigned/invited to write are both for you and your clients. The guidance and inspiration is serving you both. Use that.); 3) extend an invitation to the cosmos when you sit down to create (if you are writing for a client speak their name aloud seven times to call in their guides for inspiration and information. If it is a generic song then intend it to be assisting the masses.); 4) consciously get out of the way of the flow of creation. As an event or intention arises there exists a soup of etheric energy in alignment with it. You simply have to reach into that soup and pull out your creation. Visualize that. Go through the motions and see what happens. I believe, if you trust and act, that you will be delighted at the outcome.
- When sitting down to create a song for healing purposes there are key elements to include. The order of how you use them is up to you. The elements are: intention/assignment, key, feel/rhythm, chordal structure, melody, lyric, harmonic structure, and arrangement. My flow is as follows: once I have the intention or assignment from the client or the guidance I choose the key and the minor/major expression. Then I work for the feel. I will go to the instrument that calls me first, piano or guitar. Typically I will put my hands on the instrument and speak the name of the client, establish the intention and start playing something. I let the feel and the chords begin to show themselves to me. In a short time I have something. And, even as I work the chords and feel, I am improvising a melody over them. So, by the time these elements are in place I am very close to the melody. I decide if this is a chant like intentional song, in which case I recycle a motif melody in a 4-
6 line song. If not I also listen to establish a chorus and a bridge. I make a sketch recording in the digital recorder and begin to work with birthing the lyric. Sometimes, as I work to find the music, I have sung something that feels correct. I work with it. Once the lyric is in place I have the song structure. - If I intend to record it as such then I run a two track and record a version. Typically I will recycle a chant 7 times. To keep interest and to work vibration I will vary each repetition in some way, through harmony, new instrument, rhythmic variation, or background vocal. In this case I am creating a multitrack version. So I access the DAW and lay down tracks over one another: rhythm and tempo, bass, guitar or piano chordal instrument with reference vocal. Then I record the main vocal and choose doubling or more. Then I add harmonies, typically doubling and setting pan positions. At this point I may want to flesh out with additional instruments or background vocals, or both. With each track added I set the intention and vibration before recording, so that the song is saturated with high vibration. The actual arrangement unfolds as I add parts and listen to guidance.
- I record typically at 48kHZ and 24 or 32 bit floating resolution. .
- Then I start to create a mix, blending the parts with appropriate volumes, pan positions, effects, and ambiance. I will also provide EQ on each track as necessary, carving a sonic space for each element, especially the vocals. There may be tweaks to tracks, cleaning up sss’s, limiting strong wave starts, lining up vocals and parts, refining the timing, blending parts, etc. I always work for vocal clarity and understanding of lyric over all else.
- Cleaning up the beginning and the end is one of the last things I do. Additionally I may go through prior to this and solo each track to clean up lip smacks, pops, guitar squeaks, rumble, etc, unless I want to leave it in for ambiance.
- If, during recording, I involve other musicians, I make sure they are in vibrational resonance with the song. All these energies matter. It is great to include others with their textures and expressions. But there is something about using all your own voice for harmony and background. It has a unique feel and presence and power.
- When satisfied I will set the overall volume to -
6dBfs on the digital scale and send it to my digital recorder or another computer using Wavelab 7 for the mastering and burn to CD. I create a 16 bit 44.1kHZ wav file of the song with and without the main vocal. Then I make an MP3 out of that master wav file. Finally I will make a 30 second sample of the song in an MP3 format at minimum 196 quality. Burn them all to a disk- at- once CD and I have my master. By the way I may want to dither the master file when I convert to 44.1/16 bit as this cleans up digital artifacts. - That’s it…the process. Your healing song is birthed and growing. Beautiful…start the next one
Session Eleven: Healing Song Writing
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