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iPad during worship?

Hey guys,

I've been thinking the iPad would be great for creating, editing, and storing chord charts. A couple of weeks ago I was playing keys, and I didn't have my chord charts printed out. I used my iPhone for viewing the charts, but the screen is way too small! I was thinking of how cool it would be to have something like the iPhone, but bigger, for viewing chord charts during live worship performances. Then I remembered the iPad is now available!! I think it would be PERFECT for this! Do any of you have an iPad, and do you use it during your worship performances?

Andy

Tags: chord charts, iPad, live worship

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Permalink Reply by Stevo on March 7, 2012 at 4:52am

You can believe I'm keeping my eye on it. It's got a lot of potential. But crashing - can't be all that hard to fix. And yet, there are dozens of IOS apps that spontaneously combust without warning.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Cameron on March 7, 2012 at 9:45am

Crashing is not good when you depend on it for live worship.

Here's a challenge for you - try to crash this new little iPad app from RESOUNDworship.org:

RESOUNDworship Songbook

It's a self-contained songbook with all the songs from resound. Chords are transposable and you can use the sheet music too.

Permalink Reply by Stevo on March 7, 2012 at 2:18pm

Isn't that kind of limited? Would that they would link to the CCLI library.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Cameron on March 7, 2012 at 2:42pm

It is less limited than pdf digital songbooks you buy from other publishers :)

There's a generic version coming out soon to integrate with Power Music.

Linking to the CCLI library is not that straightforward unless you only want lyrics, or images of chord charts.

Permalink Reply by Stevo on March 8, 2012 at 5:03am

What the boy needs is one that allows transposition and isn't limited to PDF - can read score, can read Chord Pro format, can use PDF or whatever. I never use the songs exactly as they're published. So I need to import PDFs or some kind of text file that I can then transpose on the spot since we sometimes find ourselves changing the key during rehearsal.

Permalink Reply by Kitty Herbert on March 6, 2012 at 2:48pm
I bought an ipad 1, secondhand, just for this. The 16gb has loads of space if you only want to have your music pdfs on it, with space left over for Bible apps and other apps. It is brilliant. The other members of our band have now got one each too. We can share files by bluetooth on the spot, or even whole setlists, or else by email. There are great music reading apps available - we use Unreal Book which allows you to annotate straight onto the ipad freehand or with text. If you're in several bands it is wonderful as all your music is there in the ipad and just a click away, easily searchable. Go for it!
Permalink Reply by Brenda Cameron on March 7, 2012 at 5:11pm

Here's another great app - from Innervation:

iSingWorship

Backing tracks with lots of options, display lyrics/chords, choice of backgrounds. Moves seamlessly from one section of the song to another section of your choice.

The app is free but you pay for the content.

Permalink Reply by Scott Kantner on March 7, 2012 at 6:45pm

The app is free but you pay for the content.

That's the typical rub with the free apps. Sort of locks you in.

Permalink Reply by Joel Johnson on March 13, 2012 at 12:00am

Hey, thanks for pointing this one out Brenda, this looks like it's gonna be really useful. The way the sections can change is really clever.

Permalink Reply by Brenda Cameron on March 13, 2012 at 10:10am

Yes, it's very clever, Joel.

And the price of the tracks is very reasonable considering the amount of work that must have gone into creating them.

Permalink Reply by Joel Johnson on May 22, 2012 at 9:50pm

Since reading this post here, we've been using iSingWorship in my small group but it's also being used in other groups in my church and it works extremely well. The real key is the flexibility to be able to break the music down into quiet sections, this brings such spontaneity. It's actually pretty remarkable that it's even possible to do this with backing tracks now so easily. Thanks again for the heads up!

Permalink Reply by Mark Levigne on March 12, 2012 at 6:39pm

I've seen it used to control lighting to be honest but for charts?  Not sure if the ease of use is worth the smaller display area.  A cheap laptop with a 15" LCD can do that but there are digital music stands out and our current worship band uses them.  They lay right on the steel music stand and are, I believe, foot pedal ( two button like a mouse...) controlled.  There's a guy who shared how you can make your own here  http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tim.bell/espresso/makeYourOwnDigit...  For what's it worth.  I'd not get a nice iPad ($499 base) for just that.  ;-)

 

    Mark

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