Does your church want to have great times of worship together but you don’t have any musicians?
Worship Backing Band Volume 8 is a single DVD featuring backing tracks for 36 contemporary worship songs with on-screen lyrics and fully mixable vocals. This means that you can set the vocals at zero all the way up to full depending on whether you have a confident lead singer yourself.
All designed for churches and small groups on a budget.
36 Split Track backing tracks in singable, congregational keys with mixable vocals
On-screen lyrics that change in time with the music
Build play lists in iTunes, Windows Media Player etc for seamless times of worship
Play on a TV/DVD, PC/Mac. Download to iPod, iPad, tablet, smartphone or PowerPoint
The lowest cost way to access backing tracks
Create your own playlists
You can either select the songs individually and quickly via the simple DVD menu system or make a playlist where one song automatically follows the next via any standard media player like iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Player etc.
Choose the level of vocals
You can mix the level of lead vocal from full to zero, or anywhere in between simply by adjusting the left/right audio balance on your your hifi, computer, mixing desk iPad or iPod. Full details of how to do this are given with the DVDs.
The video below shows volume 2 but the features are all the same and the songs are in the same style.
Songs featured
The DVD features 36 of the best known worship songs including 8 hymns.
All are recorded in congregational (singable) keys and sung with meaning and emotion by some of the best session musicians involved in today’s modern worship.
The songs include:
All Creatures of Our God and King - Draper, Francis
At The Cross (Hillsong) - Morgan, Zschech
Beautiful - Wickham
Behold (Then Sings My Soul) (Hillsong) - Houston
Build My Life (Housefires) - Younker, Barrett, Redman, Martin, Kirby
Chain Breaker - Fieldes, Smith, Williams
Even So Come - Tomlin, Ingram, Cotes
Fierce - Quilala, Silverberg, Fieldes
Great and Glorious - Petch
Great Big God - Hemming, Hemming
Great is Thy Faithfulness - Chisholm [this track is also on volume 3 but has an error there so is included here as a bonus track]
Here as in Heaven (Elevation) - Brown,Furtick, Ntlele, Brock, Joye
Holy Holy Holy - Heber
How Firm A Foundation - Keen, Keith
I Stand Amazed - Gabriel
Jesus - Tomlin, Cash
Jesus We Love You (Bethel) - Heiligenthal, McClure, McClure
Just As I Am - Elliotts
King of My Heart - McMillan, McMillan
Look To the Son (Hillsong) - Crocker, Houston, Ligertwood, Morgan, Sampson
My Hope is Built (On Christ the Solid Rock) - Mote
My Lighthouse - Rend Collective
Never Gonna Stop Singing ( Jesus Culture) - Smith, Vaughan, Jackson
Nothing But Glory - Farren, Wood, Asgarde, Lundstrum
Our Father (Bethel) - Meier
O Come to the Altar (Elevation) - Brown, Brock, Furtick, Joye
O Praise the Name - (Anastasis) (Hillsong) - Hastings, Ussher, Sampson
Praise to the Lord - Neander
Reckless Love (Bethel) - Asbury, Culver, Jackson
Running After You - Jones, Jones
Shine Jesus Shine - Kendrick
The Lion and the Lamb (Bethel) - Brown, Johnson, Mooring
Review of Worship Backing Band by Worship Leader Magazine
"Whether in a small church or small group where resources are limited, musical excellence in worship no longer needs to be something you must compromise on. Musicademy has produced 35 high quality video backing tracks with on-screen lyrics allowing you to lead corporate worship in the smallest of settings. With this resource you are able to create playlists as well as mix vocals so that your live vocalists are leading each song.
The songs provided on this resource are an excellent fit for most mainstream worship communities. All you need is a DVD player or computer and you are ready to go."
When we sell you the MultiTrack Player and songs we are selling them to you as an individual or church generally for use on a single computer (but see “Exceptions” below). If you want to put the player and songs on an additional computer we ask that you buy an additional license for the Player and one additional license per song downloaded. You can click through to the links below to buy the licenses retrospectively:
The principle is that you pay 50% of the normal cost of the Player/each song for each additional user.
You can buy the multi-user licenses at any point. So if you buy the track in January and add it to a second computer in March, just buy the license in March.
Please note that the Transition iPad player is not available at a 50% discount. This is because it is sold via the App store where we don’t have control over offering a second user discount.
Exceptions to the rule
We are happy to make an exception whereby THE SAME person uses the computer in the church as they do their personal computer for practise at home. In this instance just one license is required.
iPad users
Because of the way App store purchases (an iCloud IDs) work different users will need to purchase a new Worship Backing Band app if they are using a different iPad to yours.
Why are we charging for multiple users?
We feel that it is fair that the biggest users of the software and tracks pay the largest share. When you buy from Microsoft, you pay a fee to them based on how many computers the software is used on. When you buy songs from iTunes, you are meant to buy one song per user.
Developing our Player, recording the tracks, hosting the files, running the website etc etc have all cost many tens of thousands of pounds/dollars of investment. We’re a small independent business not funded by a ministry or some deep pocketed backer. We really do need to recoup that investment in sales of both the Player and the tracks. And without making some money we simply won’t be able to continue to offer support, develop the player and record new tracks.
The other reason that we charge for multiple use is that we pay a fee to the Publishers of each song that is sold, each time it is downloaded. This is a way of ensuring that the original song writers are honoured for their work.
How do I download the Player/Songs onto multiple computers?
Each purchase comes with a number of download attempts. Use the first for the first computer then login to your account with the second computer and download there. If you run into problems please just contact us. Likewise with the song downloads. You’ll also find that with the songs once you have them downloaded into your first computer (in the Songs folder) you can save them to a memory/USB stick and transfer them to the same folder on your second computer. You can’t do this with the player though – with the player you must download directly from the website.
What happens when I upgrade my computer?
You are welcome to transfer your license to another computer when you upgrade (please ensure that the Player and tracks are deleted from the original one though). You can follow the procedure described above for downloading. If you need to contact us for a new download link (i.e. you have used all your download attempts up on your previous computer) we will charge you a small admin fee.
