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The stroy behind our carol arrangements

Just a quick update to answer some questions about the 10 Christmas Carols we are recording right now as Multi Track backing tracks.

All  are designed to be used in your Christmas services with contemporary full band arrangements in singable keys and in the same style as all the other backing tracks on Worship Backing Band –  I.e not organ music! From the 10 there’s a real mix of big anthemic versions, mid tempo numbers and more gentle carols too. So in other words we’ve tried to give you a real mix of fast and slow stuff to help your carol service ebb and flow and follow a journey.

Big songs include Tomlin-esque Joy To the World and Angels from the Realms of Glory. Brenton Brown’s Joyful Joyful adds in a new contemporary chorus section. O Holy Night takes some cues from Crowder and adds a sense of tension and Hark the Herald, O Come O Come Emmanuel and O Come all Ye Faithful are great mid tempo versions. Silent Night is very gentle but still with a full band arrangement but then The First Noel is really fun and up so there’s plenty of contrast.  And lastly we’ve included Paul Baloche’s Christmas Offering as a more modern song for churches that want to bridge the gap between carols and their regular contemporary worship songs.

But all chosen because they have genuinely worshipful themes and lyrics, not just songs about snowmen. Although I reaaallly did push hard for Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas (joking…well maybe not).

Recording should be finished this week so they should be in the store at some point in October. We’ll keep you all posted as to exact dates and progress. They’ll be available individually and we’ll do a great deal as a pack of 10 which should last you a number of Christmases!

Lastly, even if you have a full band and don’t use them as backing tracks, using the parts with your band could take the time and headache out of building instrument arrangements for your Christmas services.

The songs are:

1 Angels From The Realms of Glory

2 Joy to the World (Chris Tomlin – Unspeakable Joy)

3 Joyful Joyful (New Brenton Brown version)

4 Hark the Herald Angels Sing

5 Silent Night

6 O Holy Night

7 O come O come Emmanuel

8 The First Noel

9 O Come all Ye Faithful

10 Christmas Offering (Paul Baloche)

Reviews of the Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player

Below are some of the reviews when we launched the MultiTrack Player for the first time (it’s got even better since then!)

Over on the Worship Backing Band Facebook Page Eric Simpson said “Had a play around and is FANTASTIC! The ability to change key & speed hits the mark” He also said that the speed is “Massively improved“.

Ken Granger said “Love the tempo and key change“.

Charmaine Wistad said “We have re-installed the new version with jump feature. THANK YOU! We used it quite a lot in rehearsal.” (We’ve also enabled another NEW FEATURE in the player which is the ability to instantly jump to a new song section. This is a really helpful feature for band rehearsals where you need to practice particular sections of songs.)

Kevin Wilbur said “The tempo and key change options are great, as well as the load times for songs! Thank you to you and the whole WBB crew who have put so much time and effort into creating a great product like this.  You are a blessing!”

Rae Runge said “Thanks so much for listening and making a great product even better!!!”

Jen Flatt Osborn said “Thank you for such incredible prices. You have created such content for so little in return.“

Clifton Worley said: “To fellow worship leaders…This is an incredible tool. You need to check this out. If you have looked at the prices of multi-track stems before, you will know this is CHEAP!”