Song library

Songs, in Worship, holds the songs your church sings. Each song has one or more arrangements, each with its chart: the words and chords, section by section. A Score's song moments come from here, in whatever key the service needs.

The library is kept by the office and by the directors of the areas that own the Songs and Band lanes. Everyone else who opens Worship can read it.

Find a song

Open Worship, then Songs. Search by title, writer or theme. Each song shows its writers, usual key, tempo, CCLI number, how many arrangements it has, when it was last sung, and how many times in the last eight weeks.

Beside the search, In use switches to the songs you've put away, and says Put away there. Press it again to come back.

Add a song

1. Press Add a song.
2. Fill in the Title and what you know: Written by, Usual key, Tempo (BPM), Time, CCLI song number, Themes, with commas, Copyright and Notes.
3. Press Add the song.
4. Add its first arrangement (below).

Arrangements and charts

An arrangement is one way your church plays the song, like "Acoustic" or "Full band".

1. On the song, press Add an arrangement. A song with none has the form open already.
2. Give it a name under Arrangement, the key it's Written in, and its Length (m:ss), written as minutes and seconds, like 4:32.
3. Under Add a section, choose what it is (Verse, Chorus, Bridge), then write its words and chords in ChordPro: each chord in square brackets before the syllable, like [G]Amazing [C]grace.
4. Choose under Add a section again for the next one.
5. Under Order, list the sections in the order they're played. Leave it empty to play them as listed.
6. Press Add arrangement.

To read a chart in another key, pick it under See it in. Tick Capo shapes for guitar to see the chords as capo shapes.

Add a chart from a file adds another arrangement from one SongSelect file.

Singers' keys

Under Singers' keys, set the key each singer leads the song in. Singers are the people on the rosters of the areas that own the Songs or Band lane. A singer can set their own key. When you pick a leader for a song on the Score, the song goes into their key.

Bring songs in from SongSelect

If your church has SongSelect, download the chord sheets (ChordPro) or lyrics files there, then:

1. On Songs, press Bring in from SongSelect.
2. Drop the files on the page, or choose them. You can also paste one song's words, title on the first line, and press Read the words.
3. Check each song Trellis read. A song already in your library, by the same CCLI number or title, says so: choose Skip it or Add as another arrangement.
4. Press Bring in. The button says how many songs and arrangements.

Up to 50 files at a time, each under 200 KB. Trellis doesn't connect to SongSelect or download from it for you, so bringing a file in doesn't count against your SongSelect download limit again.

Credits and your CCLI licence

Every chart and every song's words show the song's credit: its title, writers, copyright and CCLI numbers. An admin adds your church's licence number under Worship, Settings, CCLI licence number.

The same place has Show song words to members. It's off until an admin turns it on. On, members see each song's words in the order on their Sunday page. Your church is responsible for having the rights to show them, for example under your CCLI licence.

Report to CCLI

At the foot of Songs, the CCLI report lists each song sung in services that ran live, with its CCLI number and how many times. Pick From and To, press Show, then Download CSV to enter it on CCLI's site. Only those who keep the library see it.

Songs on a Score

On a service's Plan tab, press Add songs to open the library beside the Score (on a phone, Songs). Drag a song onto a song moment to fill it, or between moments to add one. Click a song moment to choose its Song, Arrangement, who it's Led by and its Key, and to change this week's section order. Save to the arrangement keeps that order for next time.

The office, the producer and the worship leader fill songs. Adding a new moment for a song is for the office and the producer.

If Silas is on, Ask Silas for songs suggests songs for the service. Press Use to put one in, or Not this to pass. See What Silas does.

Put a song away

Press Put away on a song you don't sing now. It leaves the song list and the Score's choices but keeps its history. Bring back returns it.

Still stuck? Ask Silas