Blog Post Rewind: Charts...

Over the next few days, we're going to revisit some older posts that you likely didn't read. Here's one about 'charts.'

Charts - this is one of those places where the worship leader/pastor/director needs to overdo it. And by "overdo it" -- be all things to to all musicians, if at all possible.

My OCD (obsessive chart development) stems back to a prolonged and silent suffering under a yet-to-be-convicted chart-abuser. Back when I was a volunteer worship guitarist, the worship pastor used those big hairy piano arrangements from Integrity Music or some other source. He'd give that eight page monster to the pianists, lyric sheets to the vocalists, and a chord chart/sheet (words and chords only) to the rest of the band. At best, these charts were copied from the back of the Integrity songbook where the piano arrangement came from. But more often they pulled off the internet. You know - those courier font chord sheets that look and sound like they've been transcribed by a 14-year old. If it was the same in key, that's all that mattered. [Read more]