I’ve been a worship leader since 2003. I lead from the keyboard and sing. The church I currently serve has 60-80 people attending the service. It’s difficult to pull a band together out of those numbers. I am lucky to have a pastor who plays acoustic guitar really well... an associate pastor who plays bass... a music teacher friend who plays violin.

I have been producing my own backing tracks since 2003. I find it easy to build the track from scratch. Then I keep a library of lead sheets that are formatted for the tracks. Everyone plays on top of the track and it’s been working for 15 plus years.

I have a Genos but even with 550 styles to pick from, there aren’t too many that work for contemporary Christian music.

Here’s a link to the backing track I produced for the song “I Will Follow.” It’s all recorded in MIDI on a Yamaha Motif ES. Then I mix it down to a stereo WAV file and launch the WAV on the Genos and play a piano piano part live.

https://soundcloud.com/shueymusic/i-will-follow