When you said contemporary gospel...I was thinking black gospel chiors kinda thing..... then you mentioned "praise" and figured you were really meaning contemporary christian like praise & worship or CCM.....


There are a few new styles in the CCM category that tend to work well.... also do not neglect looking at country and rock styles as much of CCM fits that pretty well.

I think basically two things defines modern CCM aside from the lyrics.... the guitar parts, generally there's not much "fancy" picking in it.....and the drums.... the drums tend to be all over the place not necessarily holding down the groove. Finding the BB/RB styles to fit that can take some doing but, have a look in the style list. There's some fairly workable stuff...

One thing I noticed in listening to this genre is they tend to also use acoustic guitars and go back & forth from light acoustic to fully blown rock crunch throughout the song.

I'm part of an online collaboration band spread all over the lower 48 states. We're in the process now of completing our first song/project. I wrote the song in BB and worked with another musician who has BB to iron out the music. Now, we're all contributing our parts as live musicians..... 25 tracks and counting..... with 9 vocal tracks at last count.....and there's 2 new tracks to add today. So make that 27 tracks.

So...another option is to play some of those parts with live musicians.

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