As far as I know, all Rich Mullins songbooks, that have been published in the last years, are out of print. But since Rich Mullins and his music have been such a great influence in my life, I am of the opinion that sheet music of his songs needs to be available. So I started transcribing his music and I hope to be able to publish a first songbook sometime in 2013 and continue until everything is available.

It is still obscure to me how it will be financed and maybe I will need your financial support later on. But maybe not, I have some ideas on how to get it published with only little cost up front, which I would be able to pay for by myself … hopefully it will all work out.

What I definitely need is your support in prayer. I have the feeling that creating these books is the next big project for me to work on, after having done a songbook for Neal Morse, and I have thought and prayed about it for some time. But I will need the Lord to show me the next steps on this path all the time and there are probably things waiting for me that I can’t do all by myself. So I am grateful if you keep this project and me in your thoughts and prayers, and I am sure these songbooks will come to fruition if it is God’s will.

If you have any ideas and suggestions on how the books should look like, what should be included, and so forth, be sure to let me know. I will then see what is possible.

At this stage I have planned to create one songbook per album. Included will be at least all the vocal and important instrumental melodies, chords and lyrics and also a condensed version with only lyrics and chords of every song. That would lead to books of roughly 60 pages.
But I am also considering two albums per book or doing something like a Best-Of-Songbook at first. Let me know what you think.

You are welcome to join me on the newly created Facebook page for these books to be part of the discussions and get all the latest news.

Finally it’s there! The big, secret project I was working on throughout this year has come to an end. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present … Sing It High, a Neal Morse Songbook.

Included are 15 songs, among them the Transatlantic classics We All Need Some Light and Bridge Across Forever, Spock’s Beard’s Wind At My Back and a whole bunch of songs from Neal’s solo albums.

I transcribed all the melody lines, chords and lyrics and there is also a CD available with all of the songs, so you have everything at hand to play along or with your band of for yourself or whatever …

I am so thankful that God gave me the possibility to do this songbook and the gift to be able to do it! If only my dad, who passed away seven months ago, could have seen this project come to fruition. I still vividly remember how I told him almost exactly one year ago, when he currently was in hospital, about my idea to create this book and how I presented the idea in an email to Neal even five months earlier. Dad couldn’t talk much then, but I saw the joy in his eyes. And only two hours later, when I was home again, Neal finally answered and we slowly started planning the book.
It was a time of great pain, but therein lay wonderful joy and elation and my decision to live as a freelance musician and music engraver, which I know fully do, started forming.

So, if you are in need of a recording or touring musician or a music engraver for creating sheet music, contact me and we will see what is possible.