Hi All

I was sitting in church this morning, and as usual i was listening to the band, and imagining lots of electronic instruments beefing up the worship

anyway, i've spent the evening looking around the web at some electronic worship, and as usual, 99% of christian music is pants when compared to the secual scene

most of the stuff i heard sounds like euro pop, so i want to try and produce some quality remixes of good christian worship

I've got a pretty good home studio, and enough hardware to produce something half decent.

So what i need is maybe some advice, some accapella worship vocals, and as much info as i can to get me started

I'm sure there are many people who have tried to re mix vocal worship tracks?!?
thanks in advance

Mark

And click here for a mix of some of my favorite electronic worship tunes (maybe it'll give you some inspiration--I think they are all very well produced tracks).

I, too, would love to do electronic worship music.  But I'm just now beginning to learn how to produce anything at all, so I think I'm a long ways from being able to put out anything close to the quality I think worship music should have, so I'm just trying to hone my skills for now.

Welcome quade,

Are there any decent singers at your church which you could use as you wont find accapella's very easily.

It's quite tough to get a song that everyone is meant to sing along too not to sound cheesy, writing original worship material would sound less so. It's mainly because peopleare already used to hearing the song inanothercontext/style.

If it's b what you want to do then go for it produce thye backing tracks and and pray for a singer.

H

I personally am one of the ones more on the side of not enjoying Worship remixes.  As it is I have difficulty enjoying worship music in church in its original form so that would explain it a bit.

If you figure you could record half decent vocals with your setup, just do it at home.  Get yourself a decent mic, a stand and one of those great little isolator screens that attach to your mic stand.  they look like a music stand sort of but they form a sort of half circle around your mic.  then put your vocalist in a corner somewhere and giver.   

Or just write something yourself man.  problem with most worship songs is many don't work well for the dance style of chord progression, especially if there's the standard key change or odd bassline progression, that makes it extremely difficult to put to dance music.   

So, what i would do in that situation is find some worship songs you really like, take a short phrase that hits you the hardest from the track and use that as your hook in a basic dance tune.  kind of rewrite it, make your own bassline and use the samples as hooks or meat for your track.   Then you might be able to make it sound half decent  imho.   I've done that a lot with other tracks i enjoy, like the Final Countdown and the Airwolf theme ;-)