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NEW: The Story Behind: The Solid Rock

A note from arranger Don Chapman:

I've recorded my classic Hymncharts arrangement from way back in 2003 for the first time! This recording features SATB choir and instrumental parts, and comes with SATB practice tracks, updated sheet music parts and multitracks.

As with most of my hymn histories, I've added an AI enhanced portrait. In this case, it's an image of the composer William Bradbury. I love doing this - it brings the hymn alive and helps you remember these are real people!

Read the hymn history and listen.

NEW: The Story Behind: Revive Us Again

A note from arranger Don Chapman:

Interesting how most hymns have a unique and often dramatic story behind them. Revive Us Again takes the cake! In all my years involved with hymns I've never heard this story until I researched it, and it is amazing. Start your week with this inspiring story!

NEW Website: Worshiphymns.com

Just in time for Christmas I've launched a brand new HYMNS website! I've had this brewing for a few years and finally have it ready.

Here's what Worshiphymns is all about: It's tailored directly for the modern worship team who leads only with the top worship songs. This church rarely if ever sings hymns because they can be awkward to sing/play and feel irrelevant. Worshiphymns will have the top hymns arranged specifically with the modern style in mind - ambient guitars/pads and unique, yet simple, chord patterns. Pick an affordable subscription to meet your ministry's needs - chord charts, sheet music, multitracks or a combination!

How is Worshiphymns different from Hymncharts? Hymncharts offers a broad range of worship styles over the past twenty years with over 150 arrangements, plus more sheet music like SATB choir and instrumental parts. Worshiphymns will be worship band only (with an occasional cello part if I arrange it that way) and feature my newest, modern arrangements with a few remixed classic Hymncharts arrangements I think would work in a modern setting.

If you have a choir and/or instruments like flute, trumpet, clarinet, etc., Hymncharts is what you need.

If you're a worship band-driven style singing the top CCLI songs, Worshiphymns is for you!

Why Are Hymns Still Popular?

Why are so many old hymns still popular to this day? Are they merely being kept around by believers holding to tradition? As society and technology advances, shouldn’t the new dethrone the old?

Continue reading.

About: Don Chapman’s passion is for the Church, music and technology, and he blends all three into resource websites devoted to contemporary worship: hymncharts(.)com and worshipflow(.)com. He’s the editor of the weekly worshipideas(.)com newsletter that’s read by over 30,000 worship leaders across the world. A prolific arranger and songwriter, Don has had songs published by Word, Integrity Music, G3worship and Worship Today, and has orchestrated music for Christian artists Chris Sligh and Jeremy Camp. He’s been featured on the 700 Club, has been quoted in USAToday and is a guest lecturer at Liberty University.

The first worshipideas email newsletter went out to about 400 people on February 11, 2002 (in the heyday, right before the blog explosion, the newsletter amassed over 100,000 subscribers. These days it hovers around 30,000.) Worshipideas was born out of Don’s own desire to share what he was learning as a first-time worship leader at a church plant. Back in 2002 contemporary worship was still fairly new and the worshipideas newsletter and website helped worship leaders across the world figure out this new form of worship.

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