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How To Set Up a Multi-Tabbed Music Tracking Spreadsheet (With Examples & Template)

RRench — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:20:32 +0000

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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All the Church Music Tracking Tools I Use Weekly (Mostly Free)

RRench — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:20:57 +0000

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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Our Mountaintops Sure Beat Theirs!

rrench — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:54:10 +0000

My wife and I have been involved over the last few months with the Temecula Valley Master Chorale, a 70-voice choir that meets for over two hours each Tuesday night and is dedicated to excellence in music. We joined so that we could learn music from a different perspective, and it is incredible (and absolutely convicting sometimes!) how much this little “music world” is SO big to some of our fellow members and many of the directors. Some of them live this stuff, and are totally consumed by the words, the feelings, the communication of the music, and the total

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