Planning Worship: Songs and Set Lists

The Worship section holds your church's song library and a set list for every worship service. Your worship team reads the set list on their phone or tablet, with each chart in the key you're playing it.

Adding songs to the library

Open Worship

From your admin dashboard, choose Worship in the sidebar, then Add song.

Paste the chart

Paste the chord chart the way you already have it. Chords written on the line above the words work, and so does ChordPro, where chords sit in brackets like [G]Amazing grace. Lines such as Verse 1 or [Chorus] start a new section. The preview shows how the band will see it.

Set the key

Choose the key the chart is written in. Hubl uses it to move the chart into any other key, and to show Nashville numbers.

Tip

Pasting a whole song into an empty chart fills in the title, authors, key, tempo, CCLI number and copyright wherever the paste includes them, and leaves the licensing footer out of the chart. Check what it filled in before saving.

Note

Add the CCLI song number if you have one. It appears on the song usage report, which lists every song you sang and how often, ready to copy into your CCLI report.

Planning a service

The Worship page lists the next six weeks of services. Choose one to open its set list. Find songs from the library, add items like the welcome or the sermon so the band knows where the songs fall, and set each song's key and who leads it. Save when you're done.

While you search, songs sung in the last two weeks are marked, and with nothing typed the list offers the songs that have gone longest without being sung. If last week's list is close to this week's, use Copy it to start from it.

Under each song, the order shows the parts the way the chart has them, like V1 C V2. To play it differently, choose Clear, then tap the parts in the order you'll play them. Tap a part as many times as it comes round, so V1 C V2 V2 C C plays the second verse twice and ends on two choruses. Tap a part in the order to move it or take it out. Back to chart order undoes it. The band's charts and Play along follow the order you set.

Tip

If your worship team is scheduled for particular services, only those services show up. If it isn't scheduled anywhere yet, every worship service shows.

Letting the band know

When the list is saved, choose Let the band know. Everyone on the worship team who is scheduled for that service gets a notification with the songs and a link to the charts. If your church doesn't schedule the band, everyone on a worship team gets it. If you change the list afterward, the planner says so and you can send it again. To say something of your own, like a practice time, write it under The band and send it. That goes only to the people scheduled for that service.

What your team sees

Everyone on a team with the Worship type can open the set lists at /worship on your church site. Each song shows its chart in the service key. Musicians can move a song up or down a half step, pick a capo, switch to Nashville numbers or lyrics only, and make the text bigger. Those choices stay on their own device and change nothing for anyone else.

Print gives one song per page in black and white, in the key each song is played in, with the running order on the first page.

Play along

Tap Play along on any song to open it full screen, one song at a time, with nothing else on the page. The screen stays on while it's open.

The chart is one column. A bar to the right of the words marks the part of the song you're on. To read without it, turn off Place marker under the text-size button.
On a phone or tablet, flick up or down to move to the next or previous part. A slow drag scrolls the chart and stops where your finger stops. In a part longer than the screen, a flick reads on through it first. Tap a verse, chorus, or any other part to bring it to the middle of the screen. A part taller than the screen comes up to the top.
To the left of the words there is a big button for each part of the song, like V1, C and B. Tap one to jump straight there. Each button is as tall as its part of the song. Choruses, bridges and pre-choruses each have their own colour, on the chart and on their button, and intros and outros have a dashed outline. The part you're on is filled in.
A Bluetooth page-turn pedal moves a part at a time, and on to the next song at the end, so the band can play through the set without touching the screen. Set the pedal to send Page Up and Page Down, or the up and down arrows. Swipe left or right, or use the left and right arrow keys, to change songs.
From a set list, the arrows at the bottom also move between songs, and the end of each song shows what's up next.

Worship leaders can also open Play along from a song's page in the library.

Sheet music

Some songs need more than a chord chart: a piano part, a lead sheet, a choral score. On a song's page in the library, choose Upload PDF or photo and add as many as you need. A photo of a printed page works too.

Your band opens them with Sheet music, beside the song on the set list or at the bottom of Play along. Pages show one at a time, sized to the screen; the arrow button fits them to the width instead, for small print. A page-turn pedal, the arrow keys, or the buttons at the bottom turn pages.

Permissions

View the song library and set lists: open Worship in the admin and read everything there.
Edit songs and plan set lists: add and change songs and save set lists. The Worship Leader role template includes both.