The plan: to create a consistent collection of well known public domain hymns, including, for each song:
- Sheet music, chord and lyrics books should now be produced using our new Make your own hymn book facility.
- A matching backing track, to lead the song if you have no (or not enough) musicians
- A matching backing track with matching vocals, for where that better suits your situation.
These resources are not made quickly or easily. There are many, many hours that go into each song. Each singer is recorded on their own, and each vocal track is edited so it fits the music, resulting in a performance that is on-key and nicely aligned – perfect for a group to sing along. Plus I had to invest about 1,500AUD in equipment and software in order to create the vocal tracks to this standard.
If you are blessed financially and see it as a good thing, I would greatly appreciate donations towards this project. But only if your financial positions allows it.With or without a donation, I pray that these resources will be a blessing somewhere in your ministry reach.
Voluntary Donation
What we’ve created so far in this project:
- PDF files for lyrics, chords and sheet music should now be created using our unique Create your own hymnbook facility You have to be logged in to use this facility.
- MP3 backing tracks with and without vocals for 13 well known Christmas Carols
- MP3 backing tracks with and without vocals for 9 well known Easter hymns (added v2.0)
Instrumentation is a higher quality than most of what you will find elsewhere on this website. I’m employing newer methods and loving the results.
The backing tracks in this collection are done primarily with piano, guitar, drums and sometimes strings. I do not produce digital organ music. Digital music needs to help you keep together, and especially the drums in these mixes help to do that.
These MP3 backing tracks have been integrated into MyMIDI Player. When you install the latest version of MyMIDI Player, these MP3 files are in the library, ready to use.
The download link below will provide you a zip file containing:
- MP3 Backing Tracks for 13 well known Christmas Carols and 9 well known Easter hymns
- MP3 Backing tracks with vocals for those same Christmas carols and Easter Hymns
- MP4 (video) files with lyrics synchronised with backing tracks and vocals, for the above Easter hymns and Christmas carols
DOWNLOAD HERE (v2.0, 19 Feb 2022)
If you find these music resources helpful, please let me know through the contact us facility on this website. Also please consider the donation to the right.
In v2.0, 9 well known Easter hymn backing tracks and vocals have been added.
In v1.5 there have been lots of minor corrections, mainly to fix lyrics differences between files. Feel free to download again, and overwrite what you previously downloaded. If you find any mistakes, please report them through this site’s “contact us” page on the main menu.