Stage Pads guide
Worship pad in D♭
Tap the button to play a soft pad in D♭: its root, fifth and octave, which sit under every chord in D♭ major (and B♭ minor songs use the B♭ pad). It is made in your browser as it plays, nothing to download.
Play a pad in D♭
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 D♭ major
D♭ major’s scale is D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C. Its chords, with their Nashville numbers, are below; a D♭ pad sits under all of them.
| Number | Roman | Chord |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | D♭ |
| 2m | ii | E♭m |
| 3m | iii | Fm |
| 4 | IV | G♭ |
| 5 | V | A♭ |
| 6m | vi | B♭m |
| 7° | vii° | Cdim |
Playing in D♭ on guitar
Guitarists can play in D♭ with familiar shapes and a capo: C shapes with a capo on fret 1; A shapes with a capo on fret 4; G shapes with a capo on fret 6.
The relative minor of D♭ major is B♭m: the same notes, starting on B♭.
Hymns in D♭
3 of the hymns in Stage Pads’ hymn book (Lamplight Bible’s, all public domain) are written in D♭. 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 D♭ pad fades into it. A last-chorus lift from D♭ usually goes up a semitone or a tone, to D or E♭.
Questions
What chords go with a D flat pad?
Every chord in D flat major: D flat, E flatm, Fm, G flat, A flat, B flatm. The pad has no third, so major and minor chords both sit on it.
Can I use the D flat pad for a minor song?
Use the pad of the song’s own key: a song in D flat minor takes this D flat pad, and a song in B flat minor (the relative minor) takes that key’s pad.