Kim Gentes

WorshipTeam.com announced an update to its iOS app today with a some nice extensions to its service.

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch users now have a greatly enhanced app for use with their core WorshipTeam.com service.  The app includes the "Music Perform" function that allows users to launch any service (set) into a music stand usable mode. Your iPad becomes a digital music display for all the songs in your services/sets in WorshipTeam.com. Simply swiping the iPad moves to the next song. Additionally added is support for PDF sheet music display incorporated right into the Music Perform function. If you have any songs included in your service/set that you use sheet music PDFs for (instead of standard chord charts) those now display in crisp clarity inside your WorshipTeam.com app.

The app will display PDF sheet music wherever any song can be displayed, including the single song display area or a list or service collection.

For those who haven't heard about the new "Music Perform" function in the WorshipTeam.com App, the goal of the "Music Perform" button is to allow you to have a simple, clean interface with all your songs (PDFs or chord charts) displayed allowing you to page through them, just like you would for a physical songbook on a music stand. Great for use on a stage, in a small group or at home practicing. Your service/set is ready to go without having to print anything off. Here is is how to try it out --

• STEP 1: Install the WorshipTeam.com App on your iPad. Download and install the app for free right here:http://itunes.apple.com/app/worshipteam-com/id409144474?mt=8

• STEP 2:  Login and select the "Services" option to see your upcoming services.
  
  
  
  

• STEP 3: Go to one of your upcoming services on your schedule and select the "Perform" button.
  
  
  
  

• STEP 4: You will see the first song appear. Controls on the top right allow you to page through the songs. You can also use motion/swipe to move through the songs.
  
  
  
  

• STEP 5: If you have loaded your own PDF sheet music into a song (view/version) it will display instead of the standard chord chart, as below.
  
   

• STEP 6: For regular chord charts, formatting controls are at the bottom of the page if you would like different font and size properties. Note that you can turn chords on or off, depending on your needs (vocalists often only want lyrics displayed for example).
  
  
  
  

The music perform function works great on iPads used as music stands (as can be done easily by mounts like iKlip (http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/iklip1), GigEasy (http://www.thegigeasy.com/) or Griffin iPad music stand mounts (http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/mic-stand-mount).

The music perform function is free and included in the iPad app with WorshipTeam.com and does not cost extra. Any WorshipTeam.com user can use this function.

bless you!

Kim Gentes

Chord charts or Sheet Music? YOU Choose!

Some people prefer using sheet music over chord charts. Now when adding a song or creating your custom view of a song in Worshipteam.com, you no longer need to go to "Advanced Mode" to upload your PDF. After entering your song title or view title, simply click the “Upload PDF/Sheet Music” tab and drag and drop your file.

Easy Is Nice!

Adding this easy drag and drop of PDF/sheet music is another thing Worshipteam.com has done to just make life easier for worship leaders.

For more information on this new feature, go to the blog at Worshipteam.com here:

http://blog.worshipteam.com/blog5.php/2009/07/29/uploading-pdf-sheet-music-just-got-easie

Kim Gentes

Blank Sheet MusicIt seems like an obvious contradiction, but oft is the time that I find myself with a desire to just get a clean piece of sheet music.  I could search through the city, trying to find a music store that still stocks blank sheet music, but I might find myself going crazy with the thought of fighting the guitar-hero crowd who ventures to a music store believing they can turn their gaming skills into playing abilities... but I digress.

Anyways, if you would like to print a peice of clean sheet music to your printer and have some ready to work, old fashion paper in the gritty edge of your fingers, then look no further- simply go to a new website that lets you print out blank sheet music pages, set up according to your specs.

The site is easy enough to navigate to : http://www.blanksheetmusic.net/

There are no real hidden agendas here. Just a nice sleek tool for printing out blanks sheet music pages, that can be customized with standard musical info such as time signature, key signature, multi-staves, brakets, indentation, TAB/treble/bass and other signatures. Even the scaling is customizable, along with the orientation of the sheet.  This is a great little flash application that lets you do whatever you want to a customized blank peice of sheet music.  You can even choose from prebuilt templates for various instruments, store your own customizations and a bunch more.

The site is driven by ad words revenue and donations, but it is harmless enough and not invasive.

All in all, a nice little find on the web for musicians and songwriters.

blessings

Kim