Downloading from PAYLOADZChanged from previous instructions! When you make a purchase at jbcmusic.com and payment is confirmed via PAYPAL or GOOGLE CHECKOUT, you can look for the "continue to download" link on the payment confirmation page to download the file(s) immediately, or wait for a confirmation email from PAYLOADZ giving you the download address.
NOTE: THE DOWNLOAD URL EXPIRES AFTER 48 HOURS, so you need to check your email and make the download soon after purchase. If you have any problems downloading, email me first, and if I can't solve the problem with PayLoadz I'll provide an alternative download.
You can sign up for a free account at either PAYPAL or Google Checkout, or PAYPAL now gives you the option of paying by credit card without an account. You don't need an account at PAYLOADZ and shouldn't have to deal with them, except to follow the download instructions.
The files for download are provided as ZIP archives to provide smaller, compressed downloads, to allow me to bundle several files together as a package, and because your browser should ask you to save a ZIP file to disk instead of trying to display it (If I provided PDF files directly, for example, a browser with the Acrobat Reader add-in installed would display the file directly in the browser window and, if you didn't think to save it, the file would be gone when you shut down the browser).
The ZIP file format is cross-platform, at least as far as Mac and Windows are concerned. Windows XP will browse through and extract ZIP files directly (shown as "compressed folders," right-click to open); other Windows programs that will extract or unzip the files include PKzip, www.pkware.com, WinZip, www.winzip.com, and Stuffit Expander, www.stuffit.com. Older Macs mostly came with Stuffit Expander installed, or get it from stuffit.com. Newer versions of Mac OSX have a Zip archive/unzip utility built in similar to Windows XP. I haven't delved into Linux or other Unix offshoots that much, but PKzip, at least, provides a Unix version, or I can provide .gz or .tar archives via the Mac if needed - forward your Payloadz confirmation email to me (brentc(a)jbcmusic.com) with a note on what format you need.
After downloading and extracting the ZIP files, most of the files will be in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If it didn't come installed on your computer, get the Acrobat Reader free from several places on the internet including ADOBE. Mac OSX's Preview or a browser with an Acrobat plug-in installed will also open PDF files directly, and there are an increasing number of other programs that now handle PDF's.
These files are simply "printouts" from my composing software to Acrobat Distiller, tweaked a little more in Adobe Acrobat. Most of the scores are piano and voice, with additional instruments if I've gotten around to adding them (As We Bow Down). I try to write the scores just as I play and sing them, which is what it is; no claims of great talent there, so they shouldn't be that difficult for anyone else to play or sing. I consider all my scores as rough sketches only, so feel free to improvise, adlib, and arrange to suit your own style, talent, and instruments. Here's a sample of what you'll see in a sheet music score: |
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These are PDF sheet music with just the melody line (vocal or "right hand") plus lyrics and chord symbols. I've provided the chords as just letter symbols (D, A7, Emin) so far. Allegro can provide guitar chord symbols easily enough, but they tend to push the printout to more pages and I won't guarantee their correctness, since I'm not a guitar player. Also haven't studied up on guitar tablature enough to know what to provide in that format. I'd have to have a few emails demanding it to go further in that direction. Here's a sample lead sheet: |
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These are the lyrics printed out with the chord names over the syllables where there's a chord change (if I got the tabs right). There's no indication of the melody or rhythm here; you just have to "know" the song to play it, but this is mostly what I've played with in every contemporary worship church I've ever played piano in. Once you do know the song, this is usually the easiest format to use as a simple reminder of what the chords and lyrics are (I file the scores away and use this type of chord sheet to play my own songs). They're also the easiest to transpose; just mark the chord out and write the new chord beside it. Guitar players, see the note above at Lead Sheets on guitar chords and tablature. My chord sheets will look something like this: |
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I will no longer try to provide any projection lyrics via this site. Every church has its own fonts, layouts, and backgrounds they like to use, and people much more adept with Powerpoint or its alternatives than I am.
If you do copy my lyrics into a projection program, transparency, church bulletin, etc., please do bring the html file up in your browser and copy and paste them directly from that instead of mistyping them. (Avoid some formatting problems by pasting from the browser into a text editor, then copy and paste from the text editor to the word processor or Powerpoint.)
I've included the html lyrics which you can import into a word processor or projection program (see note above), or print to an overhead transparency. If you happen to get a Zip file made on the Mac, you may see extra files with the name starting with a period(.). These have to do with the Macintosh file system and you won't see them if the file is unzipped on a Mac. You can ignore or delete them on Windows.
Lyrics, Music, and Web content copyright 1988-2011 Jeffrey Brent Clifton
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eMail to brent(a)jbcmusic.com
Updated 6/7/2011/jbc