#songsheets

Music to support the war effort flooded the market. Music publishers offered songbooks “chock full of ammunition for building morale at the Front and at Home” as well as separate pieces of sheet music. Mostly written for piano with vocal accompaniment, these popular songs urged young men to fulfill their patriotic duty to join the military, honored war heroes, and offered comfort to those left behind on the homefront. Not surprisingly, upbeat lyrics and tempos predominated, but a few songs addressed the devastation of the battlefield and the difficult adjustments to the peacetime world faced by both soldiers and civilians.  

We have tons of worship leaders at our church and that's a great thing. But one of the complications that arise with this sort of complexity is many different songs in lots of different keys. I know it gets super frustrating when you're looking at PCO and we don't seem to have the song in the key you need for practice. 

I'm going to work really hard at rectifying that. But you can help me. In fact, I would love it if you could.

Transposing Songs

Planning Center has a nifty little site called "transposr.com" that will allow you to modulate any song or click track into whatever key you need. Once you do that, upload the version you made on to Planning Center so everyone has access to it now.

Alternately, Audacity is a program that you can download for free. It slows songs down and modulates. Google search!

Transposing Songsheets

Songsheets are even easier to grab. Go to songselect.com and log in with the username and password I can provide for you (msg me) and once you've searched for the song you need, you have access to change that song to whatever key you'd like. 

Again, once you've done that, upload the version you made on to Planning Center so everyone has access to it.

Thanks everyone! And thanks again for your hard work!