Lots of New Chord Chart Postings
Posted: April 6, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
sample of a Sunday chord chart for our worship team
Hey everyone, thanks for the encouragement you all give to our worship ministry work here. I was looking over things on this Monday morning and realized it had been a while since I updated the chord charts page so I added a bunch more songs from the last couple years. Below is a list of the songs I just added this morning. I thought I would also share a little about these types of charts and how I use them. At one time I did go to music school and learned music theory, ear training, melodic dictation and all that (some of you might know what I’m talking about) so I realize these kind of charts are definitely not the most accurate way to capture music. I have seen much more “musical” charts that teams use, produced on musical score and such. But I discovered long ago that for me, when playing simple pop music, making quick charts like these in Word or another text program was a quick way for me to remember and reproduce a song. Each slash represents a bar line. The chords are simply represented (in actuality there might be some suspensions or other extra notes). I just try to make it as simple as possible while still capturing the song and we typically use recordings of the songs as reference, either from rehearsal or from the original artists. Every Sunday I pull together multiple charts like these onto one page (sometimes two pages) for all the songs we’re doing that day (like the image above, which is from our outdoor Easter service on the beach yesterday). Usually I’ll format all the songs to about 15 font size so they’re easy to read. For most worship songs that is usually all that’s needed. Occasionally we’ll do a gospel or classical song or something a little more complex that might require a bit more notation-wise. Hope that’s helpful. Let me know if you have any questions on that game plan, and love to hear if you’ve found a better way. (I know a lot of people use lyric sheets with chords above the lyrics. Those are great too and we use those sometimes, it just means you need a stack of papers instead of just one.) Here are more recent charts I just added in to the chord charts page…
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord O My Soul)
BENT ON CONQUEST (COME LAMB OF GOD)
Christmas Baby, please come home
Deck the Halls (Shedaisy version)
Emmanuel (Hallowed Manger Ground)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
ONE THING REMAINS w lyrics in F#m
Monday Morning Music 