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This is something we are super excited about giving you another opportunity to make your songs available through worshipsong. We are launching a WORSHIPSONG BAND APP. Think of the WORSHIPSONG BAND APP as a multi-track performance track player. What you would do is create stems of the songs you've recorded, label them and upload them to our Worshipsong Store to be sold and downloaded into the WORSHIPSONG BAND APP. Because it's totally flexible, you can has as many tracks as you want. If you're bass player doesn't show up, you can unmute the bass track and you're good. You can use it to enhance your worship team (like the pros do) or you can use it as your entire backup band while you play along.
What do we need you to do? Start producing stems for all your songs. I would suggest producing them in the following format: Drums, Bass, Keys, Rhythm Guitars, Lead Guitars, BGV's.... if you have Strings, Percussion or Horns, mix those on separate tracks.
The playlist feature allows you to create setlists and the chorus, verse buttons allow you to loop live in the moment. All of this is controlled with the Air Turn 4 pedal bluetooth footswitch. In order to get your files to work, we will be providing additional information and video tutorials to help you. The sale price for downloadable songs will be 5.99 per song and the app will be available in iTunes.
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Bruce Adolph: Holland, you have had quite a history of being involved in worship music and now you are rolling out a “destination” website that offers several opportunities for those involved in modern worship music. Please give us an overview of what your vision is for www.worshipsong.com?
Holland Davis: On the surface the vision of worshipsong.com is very simple. Provide a way for worship leaders and worshippers to hear a complete song and download a FREE chart so they can teach the song to their church, bible study, or simply play it during their personal times of worship. It was born out of a conversation I had with Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa who said, “my sermons are free, why can’t worship songs be free.” So, I prayed and the idea for worshipsong.com was born.
Now, the unexpected surprise came when I received a call from an A&R guy in the industry who asked me about a song I wrote called “I Will Stand”. I asked why. He said it went from the 800’s to the 300’s on CCLI over one reporting period and he wanted to hear the song. What was the difference? Worshipsong. com. The only place the song was promoted was on the site. I learned from this experience that one of the benefits of worshipsong.com is greater exposure to worship leaders, which means greater visibility on CCLI.
Another surprise was the number of worship leaders and worshippers wanting to purchase the songs to distribute to their worship teams. I felt that a FREE chord chart allows me to fulfill Pastor Chuck Smith’s vision to make worship FREE, but I felt that a FREE recording would be asking too much. It takes a lot of money to record a song and I only felt it was fair to charge for the mp3’s. This led us to offer the ability for songwriters to sell their songs via worshipsong.com. This can happen one of two ways. They can sell their songs through our online store, or they can sell their songs by linking back to their website or iTunes. We also secured distribution into iTunes and 500 Christian bookstores via on-demand kiosks with selected songs from worshipsong. com. Our desire was really focused on ministry,
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I'm watching folks upload to the site and they're not quite catching the vision. The idea is to upload a song with a chord chart for folks to download and teach in their churches. The idea isn't to link back to your website to sell your CD without uploading songs or sharing a chart... so we will be doing some house cleaning over the next few days and taking down projects that don't comply. If you're wondering how to upload songs... add albums and artists... I've included links to vimeo videos that explain the steps I take for the projects I've uploaded.
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Out of 26 providers of Worship Song Resources in the United States.... Worshipsong.com ranked 17 ahead of giants like Maranatha Music, Vineyard UK, Kingsway Worship and Song Discovery (affiliated with Worship Leader Magazine). This is an incredible showing for an indie website with one mission... to provide a way for worship songs to get into the hands of worship leaders and worshippers all over the world... many of whom have no other source of worship songs such as missionaries and house churches in countries that are not friendly to the gospel. We have forged a win-win partnership with global ministries that allows us to fulfill our mission while helping them gain greater exposure to the church which results in greater visibility on CCLI. We have provided the current list of 26 worship providers in ascending order beginning with the most visited website in the world for worship songs.
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I was looking through worshipsong.com and it dawned on me that there is no other site like it in all the world.
1. No other site brings together the leading publishers of worship songs such as Vineyard Music, Maranatha! Music, Calvary Chapel Music, Christ For The Nations and Integrity Music...
2. No other site brings together the leading worship leaders of our day such as Tommy Walker, Evan Wickham, Kari Jobe, Brian and Jenn Johnson, Nigel Briggs and Jeremy Riddle...
3. No other site brings together the leading worship songs of our day such as Revelation Song, Forever (The Nails In Your Hands), Let It Rise, Breathe, I Surrender, Hungry and the classic worship song There's Something About That Name...
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We are excited to announce that Bethel Music (Bethel Church Redding) has given us permission to include their worship songs on worshipsong.com. Bethel Music which includes Jesus Culture is the latest expression of worship songs that are sweeping across the world today. Look for Jesus Culture worship songs to begin to appear on worshipsong.com in the days and weeks to come.
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Christ For The Nations has given worshipsong.com permission to include their worship song projects on worshipsong.com. Christ For The Nations is an institute with a passion to educate and train men and women for the work of the ministry. Their school of worship has graduated some of the leading voices in worship today including Shanon-Fogel Wexelberg, Kari Jobe, Tommy Walker and Jenny Lee Riddle. Keep checking back as it will take us some time to upload the years of ministry that CFNI represents.
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Worshipsong.com, the indie distribution platform for worship songwriters, has just been approved by iTunes.com as one of their labels. This means that select members will be able to sell their CD's on iTunes. All worshipsong.com members will be given the opportunity to join our digital distribution program which includes a one time free for each project you want to sell on iTunes. More information to come.
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Now you can sell your mp3's, lead sheets, rhythm charts or anything digitally downloaded through worshipsong.com.
Here is the breakdown of costs:
ALBUM SIGN UP: FREE
Includes uploading to worshipsong.com (a) Mp3 format 320 kbps (b) Include FREE PDF chord chart for each song (c) Album artwork format 600 x 600 dpi
SINGLE SONG SIGN UP: FREE
Includes uploading to worshipsong.com (a) Mp3 format 320 kbps (b) Include FREE PDF chord chart for each song (c) Album artwork format 600 x 600 dpi
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Fondly I remember the lazy months of summer when the tradition in our home was to begin each day with “family devotions.” Dad read a portion of Scripture, gave a brief explanation (perhaps asking questions to see if we were paying attention), and then we would kneel and pray, each of us taking our turn, from the youngest to the oldest. The only break in this routine occurred on vacation when Dad directed a summer camp in Williams, Arizona. Then we shared morning devotions with the entire camp and Dad would invariably choose a psalm for our meditation. There is something about the Psalms that perfectly complements the beauty, grandeur and life-essence that we experience in nature. In fact, our sense of God’s nearness and our impulse to wor- ship Him seem to be triggered by the natural world in exactly the same way they are triggered by the Psalms. Mom and Dad frequently quoted from passages in the Psalms. Dad seemed to enjoy their earthy word pictures, brutal honesty and declarations of God’s glory revealed in creation. Mom was drawn to the intimate expressions of God’s love and nearness, as well as the rich wisdom of the Psalms. I recently spent an enjoyable hour with my dad discussing his love for the Psalms and his use of them in worship and teaching. What follows is the essence of our conversation. I have to confess, I did not do a good job of “interviewing” Dad. Because his thoughts were so stimulating, I had trouble keeping my own mouth shut. My hope in sharing our dialogue is that you will discover the Psalms are the heart and soul of a good and healthy Christian life.
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Worshipsong is pleased to announce that Vineyard UK has given us permission to include their songs on our site. Also included will be FREE downloadable chord charts so that you can learn the songs and play them in your church, home bible study or for your personal times of worship. Worshipsong is committed to providing FREE worship resources for worship leaders worldwide. Especially those who do not have access to traditional musical venues such as missionaries overseas. We are excited to see that Vineyard UK shares the same heart as we do to resource the church.
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Worshipsong is pleased to offer a new service to our songwriters and artists. Worshipsong offers digital distribution into 500 Christian Bookstores via the myMEDIA BurnBars. These are kiosks where people can burn music on demand.
HOW DO I GET INCLUDED?
STEP ONE: Join Worshipsong.com
STEP TWO: Sign our Digital Distribution Agreement. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
STEP THREE: Upload your CD and Artwork to our FTP Site. A link to our FTP Site will be included after you enroll in our program.
- Mp3's must be encoded at 320 kbps
- Artwork must be at 600 x 600 dpi
- xl spread sheet must be completed (will send with ftp info)
- Files must be zipped in one file
- If you need help obtaining ISRC Codes, we can provide those for you.
STEP FOUR: Tell all your friends to find your music at their local Christian Bookstore.
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Worshipsong is an independent music distribution platform that puts your songs directly into the hands of worship leaders. We have missionaries from all over the world who look to worshipsong as their source of music. There are a couple features we built into worshipsong to make it easy for churches to use your songs in worship. I would encourage you to take these simple steps to making your songs available.
1. Make sure you upload a pdf Chord Chart of your song
2. Take advantage of the share button. You will want to use Twitter and Facebook to announce to others that your song is available to them.
3. Make sure you rate your song. It's another way of getting your song attention.
4. Encourage your friends to make comments and rate your songs. This increases your chance of being noticed by search engines.
5. Include album artwork. It let's people know that your song is worth listening to. Make it look like an album cover even if it's a demo.
6. Also, make sure you include tags on each of your songs.
7. Tell your friends about worshipsong.com and encourage them to join for FREE and make playlists that include your songs. I think of playlists as my personal radio station that I can program the songs I like.
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REPRINTED FROM TECHNOLOGIES FOR WORSHIP MAGAZINE
There is no doubt that we are living in one of the most prolific and creative times for worship music in the history of Christianity. It reminds me of something a pastor once told me... during times of spiritual awakening there is a renewed passion for God’s Word, a changed lifestyle devoted to prayer and the outpouring of new worship songs. We see evidence of this outpouring and focus on songs of praise via the proliferation of worship songs making their way on top 40 radio charts, the advent of top selling “worship” artists and even the rise of independent websites devoted to providing new distribution channels for the song of faith. Worship even made the stage of American Idol as battling contestants joined together to sing Shout To The Lord.
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Welcome to Worshipsong.com.
Worshipsong is a FREE independent praise and worship music distribution network that features the best in new worship music written by local worship leaders.
It is the only website of it's kind that is totally focused on music that is written by the church and for the church. The reach of worshipsong.com is global and we are privileged to serve missionaries all over the world who do not have access to new songs of praise and worship. For them, worshipsong.com is their only source of music. It's for that reason that we encourage all our writers to include a pdf of their praise and worship song so others can hear them, learn them and use them in their local church congregations.
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© 2011 worshipsong, inc.
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