and slashes and lyrics lined up as nicely as they that the chart shows a chord change on just If you don’t include detail like this in your
were in the original key. It won’t take long for about every syllable of the lyric. Yikes! Here’s charts or don’t want to take the time to create
you to love this feature once you’ve changed where you might take a deep breath, open up charts this way, no problem. But if you find that
keys for a chord chart so easily a time or two. an edit window for ChordPro and put brackets sometimes the bass player’s moving on the
around the essential chords for the song. wrong beat or the guitar player or keyboard
Some of you might occasionally include a
player keeps forgetting where the second chord
hymn in your worship sets. Were you to put Without too much work on your part what had of the bridge lands, using ChordPro in Planning
a hymnbook in front of your instrumentalists, been a daunting challenge for some of your Center Online can help eliminate these issues.
I suspect a couple of them wouldn’t be sure team is now a familiar experience. They get to I’ve come to depend on it as an essential tool
what to play since they don’t read music and read chords nicely aligned over lyric syllables in my weekly preparation for worship services
would find it super challenging to analyze a and you can start running through the hymn at my church. I think you may discover it to be
hymn-type arrangement and conclude what with your team. Here’s a simplified line from equally valuable once you explore it a bit.
chords are being used. “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” (Fig.3). A
line that had been filled with lots of inversions
You might head to SongSelect and grab a chord and quick chord changes now has just a
chart for the hymn. You might then discover few changes.
Fig. 3
Ed Kerr
Ed Kerr lives in Seattle with his family. He serves as
worship arts director at First Free Methodist Church,
teaches keyboards in Paul Baloche’s leadworship
workshops and is a clinician with Yamaha’s House
of Worship. He also manages the Yamaha Worship
Facebook group and invites you to join the group.
www.KerrTunes.com
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All hail the power of Jesus’ name,
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Let angels prostrate fall