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Free MultiTrack and Chord Chart: And I Sing

The free track for March is And I Sing by Bristol singer songwriter and worship leader Loulita. Loulita released her debut solo album The Last Twelve Years in 2018 which led to her being approached by Andy Baker to become part of Handpicked by Homegrown Worship.

You get the original wavs, the Transition MultiTrack plus a chord chart – all free of charge.

The story behind the song

Recently, I spent quite a bit of time meditating on the scripture in Hebrews 12:2, which references Jesus and the cross. The thing that fascinates me about this text is that it says Jesus endured the cross and, at the same time, despised it’s shame. What’s further fascinating is that joy was what motivated Him. Jesus suffered on the cross while all the while looking ahead with joy.

Personally, I would not normally associate suffering of any kind with joy. Suffering usually indicates pain, hardship, distress, misery, adversity, trauma, torment, grief, sorrow… the list goes on. There have been so many times in my life that I have suffered. Some suffering was inflicted on me by people. Other suffering came through circumstances beyond my control, while other suffering occurred because I chose to give up my own ungodly desires and wants (and that is often a very painful thing to do!). It was this that motivated the writing of my song, And I Sing.

I thought a lot about how Jesus chose to suffer for our redemption. It was the joy of us being reconciled back to God that motivated Him to endure the sheer horror of the cross, especially since dying on a cross at that time was extremely shameful. And yet, He abandoned His dignity in order to save ours. While He despised the shame of the cross, He loved the ones He was enduring it for. It was His joy to give up His life so that we could have it, and the reward of what was to come was greater than any suffering He would ever endure.

In light of Hebrews 12:1-2, I realised that the motivating factor for me to throw off anything that will hinder me, or any sin that will entangle me as I run my race, should be joy. I might suffer momentarily while I’m throwing off those things, but it will never compare to the joy of experiencing the life that Jesus paid such a high price for. It will never compare to the joy of living in freedom and peace, or the joy of living without shame, guilt and condemnation.

My response can only be… Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! What a Saviour!

How to get the free MultiTrack

Download And I Sing from Worship Backing Band and with your free ‘purchase’ you’ll get the full wavs, the Transition MultiTracks and the chord chart all free-of-charge.

How to play the free MultiTrack

Unless you are confident with using a DAW such as Ableton, you will need a copy of Worship Backing Band’s Mac/PC or iPad Transition MultiTrack Player to play the backing track. MultiTracks are the simplest and least expensive solution to get a full band sound from your worship team, even if you’ve only got a couple of musicians.

Free MultiTrack from Ben Cantelon: I’ve Found a Love (Love Came Down)

This month the free MultiTrack is I’ve Found a Love (Love Came Down) by Ben Cantelon. Ben is an old friend of Musicademy and appears on our Worship Vocals Course. Originally from Canada he worked at Soul Survivor and Worship Central in the UK before moving to Nashville where he has collaborated with artists including Paul Baloche, Phil Wickham and Kari Jobe.

Unless you are confident with using a DAW such as Ableton, you will need a copy of Worship Backing Band’s Mac/PC or iPad Transition MultiTrack Player to play the backing track. MultiTracks are the simplest and least expensive solution to get a full band sound from your worship team, even if you’ve only got a couple of musicians.

12 new MultiTracks and Split Tracks from Worship Backing Band

We have released 12 huge new MultiTracks and Split Tracks that are sounding simply stunning.

Have a listen to the audio samples of all 12 tracks in the video below.

The songs (click on each title to buy) are:

  • You Say – Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram, Paul Maybury
    Our congregational version of the amazing Lauren Daigle song reminding us of our worth in the sight of God
  • Resurrecting (Elevation) – Chris Brown, Mack Brock, Steven Furtick, Wade Joye, Matthews Thabo Ntele
    This arrangement has been adjusted from the original to enable a fabulous flow of worship perfect for your local church and has great dynamics as you go through the song.
  • Your Love Awakens Me – Phil Wickham, Chris Quilala
    A great up-tempo track but in a more accessible key than the original version.
  • His Mercy is More – Matt Papa, Matt Boswell
    A 6/8 hymn that is really accessible for local churches especially in this slightly lower key than the original. A great message of forgiveness.
  • Death Was Arrested – Heath Balltzglier, Brandon Coker, Adam Kersh, Paul Smith, Paul Taylor (Northpoint Church)
    A fabulous 6/8 track fully encompassing the gospel message and transposed down to the more reachable key of G.
  • Do It Again – Chris Brown, Steven Furtick, Mack Brock, Matt Redman
    From delicate verses through to a soaring bridge this track journey’s through the faithfulness of God
  • He Has Time (Common Hymnal) – Ben Hardesty, Brittney Spender, Art Hooker, Jamie MacDonald, Orlando Palmer
    Our arrangement of Common Hymnal’s most beautiful #metoo song speaking about the healing God brings to us. Definitely look into the story behind this song, it makes the song even more special.
  • Glorious Day – Jason Ingram, Kristian Stanfill, Jonathan Smith, Sean Curren
    A great band track proclaiming his salvation over us done in a more congregation friendly key of Bb
  • Living Hope – Phil Wickham, Brian Johnson
    This fantastic Phil Wickham song brings hymn structured verses with a fabulous Chorus response section
  • Who You Say I Am – Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan (Hillsong)
    An up-tempo 6/8 number with brilliantly focused Biblical lyrics.
  • Worthy of it All – Ryan Hall, David Brymer (Common Hymnal)
    Such a worshipful track and is arranged so that it retains the fluid nature of the song while keeping it concise enough for a local church setting.
  • So Will I (100 Billion X) – Joel Houston, Benjamin Hastings, Michael Fatkin (Hillsong)
    Such amazing words in this epic Hillsong track.

The songs are available as wav files for any DAW (and include a free Ableton session file) and also as Transition MultiTracks for the Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player (Mac, PC and iPad).

They are also each available as a Split Track with fully adjustable vocals and on-screen lyrics that change in time with the music. These are a budget alternative to MultiTracks and great for churches without any musicians.

The Worship Backing Band backing track musicians

We reckon that this batch of tracks are the best yet and feature some extraordinarily talented musicians:

  • Matt Weeks – on production and bass duties as well as backing vocals
    Matt will be familiar to many as Musicademy’s bass course tutor but he is also a full time worship musician having worked with Chris Tomlin, Stuart Townend, Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Brenton Brown, Graham Kendrick and many others
  • Nicki Rogers – vocals
    Nicki will be known to anyone who has come to any of the live Musicademy worship training days where she has taught vocals and gospel workshops. She also features on the Band Skills and Worship Leading courses.
    Nicki has recorded three critically acclaimed solo albums and was previously part of Christian pop group Shine. She’s also provided backing vocals for a number of artists on stage and screen and currently works as a vocal coach and choir leader.
  • Paul Evans – drums
    Paul also appears on a number of Musicademy courses in interviews and presenting guest lessons on the worship Drum courses. Paul replaced Stew Smith as the Delirious? Drummer in 2008 having worked as the UK’s leading worship drum session musician for many years. Paul has also played drums for worship leaders such as Tim Hughes, Ben Cantelon and Cathy Burton.
  • Dan Wheeler – guitars
    Dan Wheeler has been a freelance musician since 2002, when he started playing guitar for singer-songwriters Cathy Burton and Nicki Rogers. He quickly became a regular fixture on the south coast recording scene and notched up session credits on hundreds of projects.
    Dan later branched out into other areas, releasing a number of solo projects and producing albums for artists such as Nathan Jess, Graham Kendrick and Tom Read.
    Dan currently lives near Nashville and divides his time between his recording schedule, songwriting and touring with Grammy winning artist David Phelps.
  • Dave Plumb – keys
    Dave will be known to many as he was a founding member, vocalist, producer and writer of Kingsway-singed urban pop band 29th Chapter. He and his wife Hope have also been involved in some of the live Soul Survivor albums in the UK and written tracks with Tim Hughes amongst others. Dave has sung and played on many of Worship Backing Band’s previous backing tracks as well as taken production duties.

Marie Page, co-founder and owner of Worship Backing Band manages the selection and marketing of all our backing tracks.

 

 

Free Christmas MultiTrack: God’s Baby

We are delighted to offer a new original Christmas worship song as the free MultiTrack for December.

God’s Baby is written by Lori Pethes Anderson and is sung by Mia Koehne. The song comes from Tree Hill Collective’s album Behold Your King. There is a free simple chord chart available with the song.

Please note that this track is ONLY configured for Worship Backing Band’s new Mac/PC or iPad Transition MultiTrack Player rather than full WAVs for other DAWs.

Looking for other Christmas songs and carols?

We have a large selection of backing tracks suitable for your Christmas services. See the full listing here.

Black Friday Sale: Everything at Worship Backing Band is 20% off

We are offering a blanket 20% discount on everything from the Worship Backing Band website this week.

Use the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY19 at the checkout.

That’s 20% off on top of the usual bundle pack discounts for MultiTracks, Chord Charts, DVDs and Split Tracks.

Go to the website to select your items:

https://www.worshipbackingband.com/

Do remember to put the coupon in at the checkout though as we can’t retrospectively credit your discount.

Christmas Carol backing tracks

Carols and Christmas songs from Worship Backing Band

We have a wide selection of carols available in MultiTrack and Split Track format:

Savings on buy carol backing tracks

You get a 20% discount when you buy 10 or more carols at the same time.

Or alternately, for more savings we have a bundle of our 15 best selling carols for an even lower price.

Carols Chord Charts

Carols are often really challenging for guitarists which is why our simplified chord charts are so helpful.

We have chord charts for most of the carols. The chord chart for each song is available by clicking on the song links above.  Buy 10 or more chord charts at the same time and save 20%.

Free MultiTrack: Extravagant Worship

This month the free MultiTrack is Extravagant Worship by Vicky Beeching.

Our version of this classic song comes complete with a fabulous instrumental section and guitar solo. There is also a Super Chord Chart to go with the song which is in E.

Unless you are confident with using a DAW such as Ableton, you will need a copy of Worship Backing Band’s new Mac/PC or iPad Transition MultiTrack Player to play the backing track. MultiTracks are the simplest and least expensive solution to get a full band sound from your worship team, even if you’ve only got a couple of musicians.

Warning: September Catalina update is incompatible with our old MultiTrack Player

Mac users: Don’t upgrade to Catalina if you want to work with our old MultiTrack Player

Apple is planning a major operating system upgrade (macOS 10.15, called Catalina) in October.

With this upgrade Apple is removing a vital component that our original MultiTrack Player needs to work. If you upgrade to Catalina you will not even be able to open the old Player.

We’ve been aware of this upgrade for some time and have addressed it by creating an entirely new MultiTrack Player (called the Transition Player) which we launched recently.

The new Transition Player will work with Catalina without any issues. And it has lots of new functionality for you to enjoy as well, particularly the transition pads for moving between songs, and the simple-to-use import feature.

If you are a Mac user of our old MultiTrack software you therefore have three choices:

You can find out more about the new Transition Player by going to this page.

Free MultiTrack: All Over the World by Matt Redman and Martin Smith

October’s free MultiTrack is Martin Smith and Matt Redman’s All Over The World. It is an example of a great congregational song that never quite hit the radar of many churches. Taken from Matt’s Beautiful News Album, the theme explores God’s greatness and the declarative lyrics match really well with the strong, up tempo feel.

Unless you are confident with using a DAW such as Ableton, you will need a copy of Worship Backing Band’s Mac/PC or iPad MultiTrack Player to play the backing track. MultiTrack is the simplest and least expensive solution to get a full band sound from your worship team, even if you’ve only got a couple of musicians.

Hymns! 8 new MultiTracks from David Woodman

We are delighted to have released eight new MultiTracks and Split Tracks that are contemporary arrangements of classic hymns. Arranged and recorded by our friend David Woodman, they are taken from David’s new album, Hymnal.

The hymns available are:

About the arrangements

  • All For You (Take My Life)
    A new worship song with an acoustic feel (including cello and hammered dulcimer) based on Take My Life And Let It Be by Frances Havergal.
  • All People That on Earth do Dwell (Doxology)
    An up-tempo praise song which works really well at the start of sung worship; this arrangement combines 2 well-known hymns: All People That On Earth Do Dwell and Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow to the tune Old Hundredth by Louis Bourgeois.
  • Come Let us Sing (Wonderful Love)
    A gentle hymn with a missional edge with a new coda focussing on the wonderful love of Jesus.
  • Here is Love (Amazing Love)
    This well-loved hymn is often reduced to 2 verses, as the language in the other verses was a little archaic. David Woodman has modernised the lyrics and added a coda to give a more contemporary feel.
  • O The Blood of Jesus
    This traditional gospel hymn has been given some extra verses and a bluesy feel.
  • Teach Me My God and King (Breath of God)
    The original 400-year-old lyrics to this hymn are difficult for a modern congregation to engage with, but the core theme (of worship being a lifestyle not just singing songs) is timeless. David Woodman has modernised the lyrics and added a chorus emphasising the 24/7 life of worship that we are called to live.
  • The King of Love
    This traditional hymn set to the tune St Columba has been given a Celtic feel and builds to a resounding note of praise.
  • When I Survey
    This is surely one of the most popular hymns ever written. Whilst most versions are reflective, focussed on the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, this up-tempo arrangement takes its cue from the hymn’s final lines: “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all,” encouraging us to live whole-heartedly for Jesus.

Formats available

The hymns are available in MultiTrack and Split Track format. When you purchase either the MultiTrack or Split Track you also get a free chord chart.

Note that the MultiTracks are NOT configured for our OLD MultiTrack Player. When you buy the MultiTrack you get two versions:

  • The Transition Track for our new Mac/PC/iPad Transition MultiTrack Player
  • The studio Wav files for a DAW such as Ableton (+ you’ll get an Ableton session file configured for Ableton 10.1 onwards)

If you have our old MultiTrack Player you will need to purchase the Transition Player in order to play this song.

About David Woodman

David Woodman is a worship leader and songwriter based in Manchester, UK, where he is also part of the leadership team of Bury Christian Fellowship.
David has also worked as a session musician for many years, including on projects for the Worldwide Message Tribe and Spring Harvest amongst many others.

His most recent album, Hymnal, features his arrangements of classic hymns.
“I’ve been leading worship in various places for 30 years I guess,” David explains, “and I’ve always tried to include more traditional hymns alongside contemporary songs. They often have such a depth to the lyrics. along with memorable tunes that congregations can sing easily. The problem can sometimes be that we arrange and perform them in a way that makes them seem old-fashioned. I’ve always tried to freshen the arrangements up, and the positive response from people has been really encouraging, so I felt it was time to record them and hopefully see other churches use them.”

David plays most of the instruments on the album, but bass was provided by Frank Brierley (an experienced session musician who played for Mike Batt on several projects). Producer Andy Green played keyboards and mixed the album.
“It’s such a privilege to get to do this kind of thing with good friends. Frank and Andy are excellent musicians and we love to play together and laugh along the way. I also wanted to suggest a congregational vibe, so we also had our friends and family join us for a group vocal session, which I found really moving.”

For further information or to buy David’s music, please visit davidwoodmanmusic.com