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The only experience I have is my own. If you use other tools more effectively, I applaud you. Keep it up. In my experience, a spreadsheet is the most efficient tool for tracking large amounts of data. Our church uses a database for obvious things like member management and financial tracking, but for smaller weekly stuff, I’m using a spreadsheet. Create the Document Create New Document. The MAIN spreadsheet I use weekly is what I call my “Music Tracking” sheet. Simple. It’s saved as a favorite in my Google Drive, and it’s bookmarked in my browser, so I type a few shortcut

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Being a church music director is sometimes less about music and more about administration. Meaning: you sing on Sundays but do paperwork Monday through Friday. While a music director might spend a lot of time practicing with groups or arranging music, a good portion of his week might be planning orders of service, choosing congregational songs, laying out the special music calendar, purchasing choirbooks, or making sure small groups don’t double up on the same song. That takes a lot of tracking! I’m not against software that can do this for you, but I think: Software programs are expensive. Some are hundreds of

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