Stage Pads guide
Worship pad in A
Tap the button to play a soft pad in A: its root, fifth and octave, which sit under every chord in A major (and F♯ minor songs use the F♯ pad). It is made in your browser as it plays, nothing to download.
Play a pad in A
Made in your browser as it plays: nothing to download. Tap to start; tap again to fade out.
The full app adds Shimmer, Strings, Choir and the pipe organ (Pro), a click, setlists and the hymn book.
The chords in A major
A major’s scale is A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G♯. Its chords, with their Nashville numbers, are below; a A pad sits under all of them.
| Number | Roman | Chord |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | A |
| 2m | ii | Bm |
| 3m | iii | C♯m |
| 4 | IV | D |
| 5 | V | E |
| 6m | vi | F♯m |
| 7° | vii° | G♯dim |
Playing in A on guitar
Guitarists can play in A with familiar shapes and a capo: A shapes with no capo; G shapes with a capo on fret 2; E shapes with a capo on fret 5; D shapes with a capo on fret 7.
The relative minor of A major is F♯m: the same notes, starting on F♯.
Hymns in A
8 of the hymns in Stage Pads’ hymn book (Lamplight Bible’s, all public domain) are written in A. Each opens in the app with its words and chords, ready to play with this pad.
Changing key mid-song
For a key change, tap the new key in Stage Pads and the A pad fades into it. A last-chorus lift from A usually goes up a semitone or a tone, to B♭ or B.
Questions
What chords go with a A pad?
Every chord in A major: A, Bm, C sharpm, D, E, F sharpm. The pad has no third, so major and minor chords both sit on it.
Can I use the A pad for a minor song?
Use the pad of the song’s own key: a song in A minor takes this A pad, and a song in F sharp minor (the relative minor) takes that key’s pad.