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When I lead singing, I don't like to hold a heavy song book.
In the past, I would make copies of the songs and just use those copies.
I would make notes to myself on those sheets as reminders of stanzas to sing, notes or words that I was having trouble with, etc.
Using The Paperless Hymnal, or any projected material for that matter, can bring with it a whole new set of challenges. I think it best that the leader not do his own slide flipping, so don't add that task to your workload. The leader needs to be spending his time concentrating on the songs and making as much contact with the audience as possible. There are a lot of songs I know by memory, but I seem to forget them at the worst time. We have a TV monitor on the front pew facing the pulpit that shows the same image as the one on the screen. I can read the music from that monitor, but I read music about a half line ahead of the audience. If I just watch the monitor, it throws me off at the slide transitions. Having a copy of the song in my hand is my answer. I just watch the monitor enough to make sure I am in sync. If the person working the PC messes up, it doesn't mess me up. So, where can you get copies of the songs in The Paperless Hymnal without making copies of all the slides? Can you imagine going up front with fifteen pages per song and having to mess with them? But, nothing is much worse than making a copy out of the song book and have the slides show a different set of lyrics. And, many songs in The Paperless Hymnal are not in song books yet. The answer is the FullSong song slides found in The Paperless Hymnal. When you open up the "tph" directory where all the songs are found, there is a directory called "FullSong". In that directory you will find all the songs again, but this time the slides look like a song book has been opened up to that song. These are still in PowerPoint, but you can easily print them out. These songs are the same arrangements as the PowerPoint slides that the audience sees. Once you print out a song, hole punch it and put it on a binder. Before long, you will have your own loose leaf song book. One question we get asked is, "Can we make additional copies of these FullSong slides" for one reason or another. Yes, but you should have a CCLI license for this. You don't need a CCLI license to use The Paperless Hymnal because we have paid the copyrights. Making printouts for the song leader is within the intended purpose use of TPH. If you put your CCLI license number on TPH slides, don't do it any more and don't report TPH songs used to CCLI. It doesn't apply. But, making additional copies of the FullSong slides, just as making copies of pages from any hymnal, takes a CCLI license for songs that are still in copyright. |