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There is a lot of confusion surrounding how to choose the best key for leading worship with a mixed congregation and this is a subject we receive lots of emails about.

If you lead worship in a church with a limited number of available musicians, you know the Sunday morning struggle all too well. Maybe your drummer is away, or perhaps you don’t have a bass player at all. You might be leading a Sunday service with just an acoustic guitar and a willing heart, wondering how to fill the room with sound. You aren't alone.

Many churches effectively use one or more live singers leading from the front, supported by backing tracks in place of a full worship band.

The job of any worship leader (or perhaps church leader using a backing track) along with the guy running the sound is to work together to provide a solid, non distracting platform to aid their congregation in worshipping God. There are many mistakes that can be made from the mixing desk that can hinder (or even destroy) this. ​ A question to ponder: when setting sound levels in church, who should we treat as the 'lead vocalist'? My suggestion to this is NOT the worship leade