What if all melodies have been sung before?
What if all melodies have been sung before?, this is a question that came to my mind since the year 2012 when we were composing songs with Compassion international Choir, Impuhwe choir and a Small Music band that I had created with my friends in Gisenyi Town, in the process of writing song lyrics, humming as we try to set it to a melody, I heard one of us saying "" guys that tune sounds familiar let's keep thinking in order to come up with a very new" melody that doesn't sound like any other existing song, we had small debate about the idea some of us started humming familiar songs to prove the point, so we agreed to keep looking for a very unique melody and finally settled on one so we proceeded and finished the song. Here comes the Day to introduce the song to a the rest of the team members, with excitement we gave them printed lyrics, and I we sang for them the whole song first then before I started teaching the song, some choir members seemed un interested...
