Musical Designs would like to wish our gymnastics friends a safe, happy, and healthy new year. May 2010 be your best year ever! Thank you, too, for your continued patronage … we look forward to serving you in 2010.
Happy 2010!
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Yes, I know that it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet - which makes it still a tad early for Christmas music – but hey, there are many beautiful Christmas songs out there, and they all deserve to be heard, right? So bring it on!
In the spirit of the season, we hope that you’ll listen to our floor music demo for “Christmas Medley”. Also, beginning December 1st and going throughout the whole month of December, we’ll be offering our demo for “Mr. Grinch” at no charge (it’s usually .35 cents). You’ll be able to download it from our Song List page so please check back with us in December. Both of these songs are great to use in competition.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Karen Habegger (Musical Designs)
November is shaping up to be a great month this year! To start things off, those of us who observe Daylight Savings Time get to set our clocks back an hour shortly after midnight, and hey, what’s not to like about an extra hour of sleep? *lol* For many gymnasts, meet season is well underway and State Meets are coming up soon. To you we send our best wishes for continued gymnastics success! Then to close out this wonderful month, over here in the USA we look forward to spending Thanksgiving Day with family and friends. This special holiday officially ushers in the Christmas season, so needless to say, we’re always very excited about November!
Musical Designs continues to be thankful for you, our customers, and no matter where you live or how you celebrate November, we hope this month will be special for you!
Happy 4th of July!
Musical Designs would like to wish all of our friends a safe, happy and relaxing holiday! And we also want to thank A Kids Heart for providing the above graphic.
Free demos!
Good news everybody! Throughout the remainder of 2009, Musical Designs is planning to run monthly specials on the demos that are being sold in our download store (shop.musical-designs.com). Normally priced at .35 cents each, the demos listed below will be made available as free downloads in the month shown:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July: (please see the 7/29/09 update below)
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
April is almost over, so be sure to spread the word about our “Zion” demo, OK? Oh, and since both “Die Another Day” and “Vogue” are in the lineup for May, we’ve decided to call May “Madonna month”. *lol*
To download the above demos, just go to our Song List page anytime during the month shown, scroll down to the respective song, and right click on the ‘listen to demo’ link. Once you save it to your hard drive, you can go back and listen to it as many times as you wish.
Thanks everybody … Musical Designs is looking forward to meeting your floor music needs!
Bill Murk has been described as one of today’s premier Christian violinists, and when you hear him play, you know this is true! In addition to his violin mastery, he is also a gifted producer, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Musical Designs is very proud to have the following recordings by Bill Murk available in our song inventory:
Demos of “Hungarian Goulash”, ”Hoe-Down Fusion” and “Joyful, Joyful” can be heard from our Song List page, and if you’d like to listen to “I’ll Fly Away”, ”Victory Medley”, or “I Will Call Upon the Lord”, just let us know via e-mail. Demos for “Orange Blossom Special” and “Zion” can be purchased and downloaded for .35 cents through our download store, but please note that during the month of April 2009, our “Zion” demo is being provided for free (it’s track 9 on our Song List page).
Trust us when we say that Bill plays all styles of music with impeccable technique and expressive musicianship! The songs listed above are just a small representation of the music Bill and his family have recorded over the years, and we encourage you to visit myrrh.biz if you’re interested in learning more about Bill Murk and his ministry.
Thank you for considering the above floor music for your next routine! 
We’ve always been a fan of big band music, and Denver-MHO really know how to deliver that great big band sound. When this song was edited for gymnastics, we chose the name “The Mile High Jump” because that’s what it exemplifies on many levels, but the song was actually written and recorded under the title “Jesus Loogie Boogie” (this should help all you Denver-MHO fans find it if you’re looking for the full length version).
As a floor music song, “The Mile High Jump” appeals to gymnasts everywhere, and it’s easily adaptable to any competitive level. As far as we know, the highest level gymnast to use this song for her routine has been an SEC Top 10 college gymnast. (But hey, did we hear somebody say the Olympics? Who knows … maybe one day!). *LOL* Anyway, if you’re looking for music that’s fast and bouncy, we definitely recommend “The Mile High Jump”. You can listen to our 1:24 demo by clicking here. Also … fyi … a shorter version is available, too: it’s 1:16 in length.
P.S. about Denver & the Mile High Orchestra: if you think you’ve seen these guys before, you probably have (and if you haven’t, you should)! In December of 2007, they were a top 3 finalist on Fox TV’s The Next Great American Band show. They’ve also appeared on several of the Christian broadcast channels and play regularly at churches and for various other events, both nationally and internationally. Their website is DenverMHO.com.
With the recent release of “You Raise Me Up”, we’re happy that 2009 began on a good note! A couple of songs are in the works right now, and we hope to release them by the beginning of summer. *fingers crossed* The reason we don’t hurriedly crank out our floor music is because we want to deliver the highest quality product possible; be assured that each song we produce is carefully crafted and then fine-tuned to perfection … always with the gymnast in mind.
Those of you who have worked with us before know that we’re pretty picky when it comes to floor music (which is a good thing)! So with that said, if you’re interested in having Musical Designs produce a specific song for your next routine, contact us any time. We’ll be happy to send you more details!
Just to let everybody know: “You Raise Me Up” was officially released on 2/15/09. The finished length is 1:29 (includes about a 6 second fadeout). This song was arranged for a Special Olympics rhythmic gymnast, and we’re very honored that she chose Musical Designs to produce it for her!
P.S. We’ll be adding the demo to our download store as of April 1st. Until then, it’s being offered as a free download (just go to our Song List page & scroll down to track 13).
New floor music coming soon: “You Raise Me Up” (by Josh Groban, Celtic Woman, Selah and many others)
Just a quick update to let you know that we hope to have our newest song released within the next couple of weeks. Almost all of the tracks have been recorded, so we’re pretty much at the mixing stages now (which = almost done). 
We’re very excited about this song in particular because it’s so powerful and has such a great message … very inspirational!
P.S. We don’t have a final timing on it yet, but it’ll definitely be between 1:25-1:30