One of the challenges and benefits of writing Primary Songs is the need to keep the piano part simple.

While this creates a unique challenge, it also provides an opportunity.

One that helps you write good harmony by ignoring normal harmonic practices.

It's not that ignoring the rules of harmony is a good idea. It's more about thinking of harmony in a different way... ignoring the traditional way of writing harmony... and how it provides a nice alternative means of Primary Song composition.

And this alternative way is on full display in the Primary Song, "Thanks to Thee," page 5.

Darwin Wolford solves the challenge of writing simple piano parts by turning traditional music harmony thought processes sideways.

This process and the one-step-forward, two-steps-back type of melody writing create the gentle prayer in this song.

It's a simple technique anyone can use, no matter how little experience you have.

And it solves a whole plethora of potential harmony problems.

To take a look and see how you can borrow this technique for your own writing, check out the new Primary Song analysis inside the Latter-Day Musiversity smartphone app.

Simply open up the app on your phone and find my analysis in the "Analyzing the Primary Songs" module.

I even highlighted it for you so you can't miss it.

And if you haven't yet had a chance to download the app on your mobile device, you can do so at the link below:

https://douglaspew.ck.page/842cbedb0c

Enjoy!

Doug