Jason Breland - Believe: Worship Leader Assistant

Published Tuesday 16th December 2008
Jason Breland - Believe: Worship Leader Assistant
Jason Breland - Believe: Worship Leader Assistant

STYLE: Pop
RATING 4 4 4 4
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 17638-11215
LABEL: Hosanna 27260
FORMAT: CD-ROM Music resource
RRP: £9.00

Reviewed by David Faulkner

This is a great idea, but the implementation is flawed. The great idea is simple: why provide the traditional songbook when worship bands wanting to play these songs in services need the sheet music, chord charts and lyrics in a more easily copyable format? Given copyright licences and digital culture, putting all three on a CD-ROM seems ideal. You can print off as many copies as your band needs. You can copy and paste text to SongPro, MediaShout, or whatever presentation software is used on the church laptop for the video projector. However, when I came to test this on a PC running Vista SP1, it was clunky in the extreme. Everything worship leaders would want in the way I've just described was there, but accessing it was tortuous. Putting it in the CD/DVD drive brought up the option to run the autorun.exe file. All that did was call up a new instance of my Firefox browser (not even an additional tab, even though it was already running). Worse, it simply showed me the default browser start page! So I closed that down, ejected the CD and started again, this time using Windows Explorer. I was then able to access everything on the silver disc, including all the PDFs I would need. I am used to higher standards of sophistication from freeware and shareware applications. If Integrity are going to offer products like this at full price, they need to get their act together.

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Product Description
This Hosanna! release captures the excitement and passion for worship that is the core of the fast growing First Baptist North Mobile church. Worship minister Jason Breland and 175 voice choir lead worship with new and popular worship songs coupled with fresh arrangements of classic hymns. Includes: 'Make it glorious, Let there be blessing, Evermore.'

Reader Comments

Posted by chelle @ 08:50 on Nov 29 2009

hope you would let us view the lyrics of your songs without any payment..



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