Understanding The Genres

One of the hardest things we do is categorize songs. I wanted to take a little bit of time and explain how we do it on freeworshipmusic.com so that you can find the songs that you will find useful. We do know that contemporary means different things to different people, but we hope this guide helps you find songs useful in your church setting.


We have only a few genres currently that our songs fit into.

• Blended - These songs would do well in a "Blended" setting that is, a setting where
  hymns and some choruses are sung. These song are a little lighter than "light
  contemporary" but may also find a home occasionally in a light contemporary
  setting.
  
• Light Contemporary - These songs are on the light side of contemporary would not fit into the "blended" catagory.
  Churches new to the 'contemporary music' services may
  in fact find these useful.
  
• Contemporary - These songs are most like the songs you may hear on the radio. Songs
  like "Here I Am To Worship" these songs are recorded or written in this
  style.
  
• Modern Hymn - A modern hymn is hymnody with modern harmony. Modern hymn
  typically are very wordy and deep theologically.
  

The are very general and you may find songs that fit into more than one category.