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Don’t let your worship music stop in February 2027: What options do you have other than iSingWorship?

If you’ve been in the market for affordable backing tracks over recent years you will probably have come across iSingWorship. Like Worship Backing Band it offered a low cost option for backing tracks with some basic functionality.

We know many of you loved the flexibility of iSingWorship. It was a great, simple tool. But with the recent news that iSingWorship is discontinuing, we know many are looking for a reliable, long-term home for your worship tracks – ideally one without a subscription. We’ve had a lot of emails asking how Worship Backing Band compares and what our own plans are for the future so we thought we’d address some of those questions here.

Worship Backing Band’s Split Tracks (rather than our MultiTracks) are the best like-for-like comparison with iSingWorship so that’s what we are focussing on here. And for simple, small church worship that simplicity is probably all you need rather than the more detailed functionality of MultiTracks.

Why move to Worship Backing Band’s Split Tracks?

  • No Discontinuation Dates: We are active and growing. Your investment in our tracks is safe. There’s no subscription – once you’ve purchased the track it’s yours for life and you don’t need proprietary software to use the tracks either.
  • Same “Split Track” Familiarity: Our Split Tracks are high-quality MP4s with on-screen lyrics and mixable vocals. You can use them exactly like you did in iSing – simply play them through any freely available media player such as VLC or iTunes and you are ready to go.
  • Simplicity and Quality: Professionally recorded by session musicians, our tracks ensure your congregation can sing confidently, with lyrics that are always legible.
  • Total Control: While our Split Tracks are simple (no key changes), if you ever want to switch to our MultiTrack Player, you can! You’ll get the same, high-quality audio with the ability to edit arrangements, change keys, and control individual instruments.
  • Low Cost: No subscription necessary – buy only the songs you need or save big with our 35-song compilation DVDs (which you can also rip to MP4s)

Don’t wait for your library to become obsolete. Try our Split Tracks today and keep your worship flowing, seamlessly.

You might also be interested to know that Zarc Porter from iSingWorship has actually worked on a number of Worship Backing Band’s tracks over the years.

Free MultiTrack: Blessed Assurance

The free track for May is Worship Backing Band’s contemporary band arrangement of the beloved hymn Blessed Assurance.

PLEASE NOTE: The discount is applied at the checkout (so when you put it in your basket you will still see the normal price shown).

Blessed Assurance was penned by Fanny Crosby in 1873, with the music composed by Phoebe Knapp. The hymn’s creation is a story of collaboration and inspiration. Phoebe Knapp, playing a new melody, asked Crosby what it evoked, and Crosby instantly responded with the hymn’s opening line: “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!”

The hymn has been sung in churches for over 150 years and was sung extensively in the Moody and Sankey revivals in the UK and US. Download our backing track today and remind your congregation of it’s words and melody.

All Worship Backing Band MultiTracks are configured to be immediately playable in our MultiTrack Player. When you buy the Player you also get another eight free tracks.

Two new Brandon Lake MultiTracks

We have released two new MultiTracks from worship leader and singer songwriter Brandon Lake: Praise You Anywhere and Tear Off the Roof.

Fun and up tempo, the hit single Praise You Anywhere reminds us to praise Him through the hardest times. This arrangement follows the original recording’s arrangement, but is in a lower key.

Tear Off the Roof adapts into music the stories of the paralyzed man who was lowered through a hole in the roof to see Jesus, and the woman who touched his cloak. This slightly shortened and dropped key version is congregationally friendly, and lends itself well to praise bands of various sizes.

Listen to the audio samples below.

Two new hymn releases: Christ the Lord is Risen Today and Crown Him With Many Crowns

Two brand new backing track releases by Reawaken Hymns to join the many tracks we have from them: Christ the Lord is Risen Today and Crown Him With Many Crowns. All three are ideal for Easter services. Listen to the audio samples in the video below.

These new hymns are a modern arrangement of the classic hymn with unchanged melody and lyrics but updated music with a full band and modern worship sound. Click on the links below to purchase and download the tracks. Each comes with a free chord chart and hymn info sheet.

Free MultiTrack: Jesus Paid it All

The free track for February is an arrangement of Jesus Paid it All by Reawaken Hymns.
We have chosen this as our free track as we also have two brand new backing track releases by Reawaken Hymns to join the many tracks we have from them: Christ the Lord is Risen Today and Crown Him With Many Crowns. All three are ideal for Easter services. Listen to the audio samples in the video below.

Listen to an audio sample and download the free track here. There is also a free chord chart available.

The song comes in Transition Track formatting for Worship Backing Band’s Mac/PC or iPad Transition MultiTrack Player. 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 kids backing track in both MultiTrack and Split Track format

We have 12 songs from kids worship duo Awesome Cutlery in MultiTrack and video Split Track format. This month we are giving one of these away free-of-charge. Perfect for your summer kids camps and holiday clubs.

You can watch the lyric video of the free song, We Are The Church, below.

Download the free track We Are The Church  by clicking the link. Select MultiTrack or Split Track format.

Rather than the usual plain black backgrounds with our Split Tracks, the Awesome Cutlery ones are kids-friendly with lots of fun graphics.  When you go to the tracks on the Worship Backing Band webstore you can also listen to a 30 second audio sample of the track before you buy. Watch the compilation video below:

When you purchase the Split Track you will also get the lyric video bundled with the split track audio. Each track has a downloadable lyric sheet included.

Awesome Cutlery is named after Captain Awesomeness and Cutlery Boy, two wannabe superheroes who appear in sketches on the Awesome Cutlery albums, as well as in their live shows.

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In real life, Awesome Cutlery is Gareth Loh and Dan Adams. They are both dads, church pastors and dubiously-skilled superheroes. The Awesome Cutlery songs began life as songs they wrote to sing with their children and in kids’ ministry. Since then they have released two albums and seen their songs used all over the world.

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Awesome Cutlery exists to help families worship Jesus together. Their songs are designed to be sung by all ages, and this specially-selected catalogue from their two albums has been put together for use in churches. The songs cover a host of topics, including the church, prayer, God’s word, the great commission, God’s eternality, and Jesus’ return, all in a way that that everyone can sing and enjoy.

The song list (click for links to buy) is:

Find out more about Awesome Cutlery on their website.

Four new MultiTracks

We have four new MultiTracks available.

Four new backing track releases in MultiTrack format all recorded in singable, congregational keys.

The songs are:

  • A Thousand Hallelujahs – Brooke Ligertwood, Phil Wickham
    This was written by two of the most famous worship leaders and songwriters in the Christian Music Industry.  It is a great congregationally friendly song and a perfect example of what Brooke Ligertwood is known for from her work with Hillsong.
  • In Jesus Name (God of Possible) – Katy Nichole, Jeff Pardo, Ethan Hulse, David Spencer
    Katy Nicole was introduced to the listening world of Contemporary Christian music with this power ballad.  Its message of hope and personal lyrics make it a great choice for special music or thematic services. Based on the original recording, this arrangement is only a half step lower to place it in an easier key for instrumentalists.
  • This is Our God – Phil Wickham, Steven Furtick, Brandon Lake, Pat Barrett
     This song is one of Phil Wickham’s newest releases and joins the vast library of praise and worship songs by this artist.  Plus it’s co-written with Brandon Lake. This up tempo arrangement matches the original format, but is in a lower, more congregationally friendly key.
  • Now Here – Jake Espy, Tyler Roberts
    Red Rocks Worship is a new worship team on the CCM Charts, and “Now Here” is the song that got them there.  Set in a swing 6/8 meter, this great sing-along praise tune is super catchy – plus it has a strong message about the power of God’s presence.

Free MultiTrack – Mimina by Tausi Zaina

The free track for June is an African style track called Mimina by Grand Rapids worship leader and song writer Tausi Zaina.

Tausi’s song, Mimina, has become a favourite at Kentwood Community Church, where she is a worship leader.  Kentwood Community is home to a multicultural congregation from all over the world, and Mimina’s African style ministers across cultural boundaries.

Mimina translates as  ‘sprinkle’, and ‘shukisha’ means ‘pour out’.  Baba is an affectionate term for ‘Father” in Swahili.  The song’s catchy chorus just means “Father, sprinkle Your presence, pour down Your blessings”.

Listen to an audio sample and download the free track here. There is also a free chord chart available.

The song comes in Transition Track formatting for Worship Backing Band’s Mac/PC or iPad Transition MultiTrack Player. 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.

Top 20 best selling MultiTracks

Below are our best selling MultiTracks for the last 12 months.

It is interesting to see how many of these are relatively old favourites that appear in our best seller lists year after year. It perhaps reflects the slightly smaller church demographic of our typical customer.

  1. Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
  2. Graves Into Gardens
  3. What a Beautiful Name
  4. How Great is Our God
  5. House of the Lord
  6. Battle Belongs
  7. 10,000 Reasons
  8. Blessed Be Your Name
  9. Great Are You Lord
  10. I Speak Jesus
  11. Good Good Father
  12. Lord I Need You
  13. Build My Life
  14. Here I am to Worship (Light of the World)
  15. Open The Eyes of My Heart
  16. This is Amazing Grace
  17. Glorious Day
  18. Mighty To Save
  19. The Lion and the Lamb
  20. Above All

 

Free Band Skills course with all Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVD orders

All orders for any Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVDs will receive a free gift this week only (ends midnight Sunday 19 March).

We’ll add the Musicademy Band Skills DVD to any order you make for a physical DVD from either the Musicademy or Worship Backing Band websites. No need to add them at the checkout. We’ll simply pop them into your order when we ship.

We’ve not mentioned the free gift on the websites other than the blog but you will find the DVD and CD in the package for any orders placed from now for the next week.

Simply purchase at least one physical DVD from either Musicademy or Worship Backing Band to qualify for your free gift.