Organizing Music for Church Services
One of my readers asked me how I keep my music organized for services.
I just came up with a more reasonable way this past Sunday.
I created two sticky tabs to use in the hymnal for our two congregationals per service. The third sticky tab marked with a “C” stands for choir special.
Our choir typically sings a song from the hymnal for Sunday mornings because we don’t have everyone with us until Sunday night service. Quite a few of our choir members either work in our children’s ministry or work in the nursery.
That’s just part of having a small church 🙂
My son, the choir director, has a notebook full of our 8.5 x 11 sheet music for the choir. I have the same type notebook.
I think we’re going to create a hanging file for each of our notebooks because the notebooks are getting full!
We already have all of our choir music in hanging file folders in alphabetical order.
I also carry around a two pocket folder that houses my AM & PM sheet music for upcoming vocal & offertory specials. Works great for me!
It’s also been helpful to have a hanging file folder for each person who sings on a regular basis. They can always fall back on a song they’ve done before in case they’re filling in at the last minute.
Here’s how my pianist hymnal would look like on a typical Sunday morning.
I included a pic of our “order of service” which the Pastor provides for us.
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