There ’ s more than one way to bake a cake . There ’ s more than one way to cook an egg . There ’ s more than one way to use this phrase , even . But when it comes to leading worship , finding the best solutions for your church and your volunteers is crucial . We often think that for high-quality production we have to spend copious amounts of time building tracks , setting up equipment , and training volunteers for what will be a rigid and inflexible worship experience . Or on the other hand , the desire for flexibility can cause us to abandon highquality production for fear that we won ’ t have the ability to be flexible in the moment . But what if there were a way to achieve both highquality and retain the flexibility to respond to the moment ?
We recently sat down with Nigel Hendroff and JP Starra from Hillsong , along with recording artist Justin Tweito , to find out how they utilize tracks to best meet the needs of their campuses , volunteers , and ultimately give them more freedom to focus on what really matters , leading worship .
JP Starra
[ Nigel Hendroff ] It ’ s no secret that we run tracks on our weekends . Using tracks will obviously preserve the sonic quality of the song . The song will still sound like the song regardless of if you have three people on stage or ten people on stage .
[ JP Starra ] One of the challenges we ’ ve encountered as we try to roll out this tracks approach across lots of campuses is that level of flexibility and consistency that we should have . We ’ ve been looking at MultiTracks as a solution to that , as a tool that can provide some of that flexibility . That is crucial in the hands of a volunteer that doesn ’ t need to spend two years learning Ableton .
[ Justin Tweito ] My favorite thing about Playback is that it is created specifically for worship . You need to be able to change in the moment , you need to be able to change on the fly . It saves you so much time , so I can focus more on the people I ’ m leading and less time
Justin Tweito