Tabscout.com a great starting point

It s always great if you come across great resources that help you further. If thee is one I thoroughly recommend for guitar players to put in their favorites it would be tabscout.com.

On this site you will find a large collection of tabs , PowerTabs and Textual Guitar Tabs that to see or download. The site claims to be aware of well over 400,000 tabs and  must say so far I have nor bee disappointed. The search options are good and easy to use and even though sometimes there may be slight mistakes in the tabs provided by contributors it is a great starting point and time saver especially if, like me you like to teach using the music my students love and would like to play as a starting point.

For such an approach tabscout is a perfect starting point. Look for the tabs or chords of a song, there is a good chance you’ll find it there.Check it out yourself.

Some online (print music/lead sheet) resources for music ministry and worship music

Getting the sheet music together for your music ministry and not breaking the law can be a bit of a challenge. Personally I think that a lot of the songs can be written down straight from the album almost if the music provided is limited to lyrics and chords.

Many use the CCLI site, for New Zealand that is http://www.ccli.co.nz/.

Other sources you may want to consider are:

• http://hymncharts.com/
• http://www.praisecharts.com/
• http://wordmusicnow.com/
• http://pwarchive.com/
• http://www.lifewayworship.com/

You may, especially when you are a guitar player, E-chords which has a lot of free download materials available.You will need to register for the site though. For the individual musician try “free sheet music” plus the name of the song or when you are a guitar player the same but for instance use the key search “free guitar tabs” and the name of the song.

My best advice however is to just train yourself in getting the chords together yourself. Most of the time the songs are not that incredibly complex and the more you do the quicker you get at it.