Obviously, there is no need for keeping track of lots of paper on stage as only one paper with the song list is needed. But that’s not very much compared to the other things: It is easier to keep track of other things happening during the service if you don’t have to look at the sheets.

And the only way to be able to learn the chords of sufficiently many songs is to actually learn to hear chord progressions. Thinking in terms of tonic, dominant, subdominant helps. This is the one thing that has helped me the most as a worship leader. It helps greatly when playing and arranging and organizing the band.

Being dependent on sheet music in worship is not a good thing imho. The chords are usually very simple also, so it’s not too difficult to learn.

It takes a while to get used to this, though. A tradeoff that I used for two years or so and still use occasionally was to organize the chord sheets like shown in the pdf below. I made one of these per service. This reduces the amount of papers on stage to two (for me), which is also good. Plus it makes it easier to see the chord patterns, which is great.

http://mellan.dyndns.org/files/dav/ordning.pdf

How has the responce been to your blog? Do you have many people visiting it on a regular basis? I am curious to find out what people need help with the most.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated!