Sheet Music for Worship Teams
Charts for songs no catalogue carries, Nashville numbers and getting a worship arrangement from a recording to the band.
Song Not on PraiseCharts? Chart It From the Recording
When PraiseCharts doesn't carry the song: request it, order a custom chart, or write your own from the recording, and what a CCLI licence allows.
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Chord Chart vs Lead Sheet for Worship Keys
A chord chart gives lyrics and chords, a lead sheet adds the melody on a staff, and neither is a piano part. Which one each player on your team needs.
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Choir Accompaniment From a Rehearsal Recording
Get your accompanist's part onto paper: why the full rehearsal take is the wrong source, recording in an echoey church hall, and the CCLI limits.
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Charting an Original Worship Song for Your Team
Your team wrote the song, so no catalogue has a chart. Who owns it, which charts to make, how to build them from a recording, and CCLI registration.
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Song Not on SongSelect? Your Team's Options
Song missing from SongSelect, or listed with no chord sheet? What CCLI says to check, when the licence lets you make your own chart, and how to build it.
9 min readAbout this topic
Worship teams regularly play songs that no chart catalogue carries: an original from someone in the congregation, a local arrangement, or an older hymn setting nobody has written out. When the only source is a recording, somebody has to turn it into something the band can read.
This section covers that workflow: getting a chart or lead sheet from a recording, choosing between a chord chart, a lead sheet and Nashville numbers, and what your licence does and does not cover when a song is missing from the usual services. The aim is a chart the whole team can use at rehearsal, not a perfect engraving.