Loop – Sing to the King

“Sing to the King” by Billy Foote & Charles Horne is a very simple song of declaration that’s pretty easy to teach and sing. If you are a church that’s going through a bit of a worship style transition and looking for a song to bridge from some older, more traditional songs to newer, contemporary songs then this could be a good pick. The melody is easy enough for most people to pick up the second or third time they hear it and the lyrics are very straightforward.

The last time we did this song I was looking to spice it up a bit by using a click track. We’ve been using click/loop tracks for about a year and a half at OBC and they’ve become another one of the instruments in the band. We don’t use them every week but when we do they help the band play better and give another sonic layer to the song.

I normally get all my click/loop tracks from PraiseCharts.com but they didn’t have one for this song so I went on a bit of a hunt. I found that Greg over at DigitalWorship.net had posted loops to use with an Ableton Live setup. I haven’t posted about Ableton before but basically it’s click/loops on steroids – guys who are using it can do phenomenal stuff – but right now we are using the standard linear kind of loop during our services.

I took the snippets that he posted on his site and put together a beginning-to-end loop that we used last week in our services. Have a listen -

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The loop we used has a click track to keep our drummer on tempo with a one-bar count-in. You can download the loop here – it’s a stereo WAV file so you can separate the loop from the click.

Here’s the structure for the click -

(click only) One bar – count-in
Intro – 8 bars
Verse
Chorus
Turnaround – 8 bars
Verse
Chorus
Chorus
Turnaround – 16 bars
Verse
Chorus

2 Responses to “Loop – Sing to the King”

1. beth says:

   May 27, 2009 at 9:35 am

   Chris – thanks for posting this. Interesting. We’re occasionally running live loops from our Motif onstage, but have never worked with one strictly from a computer. So clue me in (feeling so ignorant here) – do you run this from the stage or from the board? And whose responsibility is it (musically speaking – who triggers it?)

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   • Chris From Canada says:

     May 28, 2009 at 1:05 pm

     Beth – Right now we run loops from a laptop in our soundbooth. We work on cues with our sound guys so that they know when to hit play. If we were using loops for our whole service, I’d probably run them from a laptop or iPod from the drummer. Doing only one or two a week means we can really nail the cue with our soundguy.