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 | Em |
| 3m | iii | F♯m |
| 4 | IV | G |
| 5 | V | A |
| 6m | vi | Bm |
| 7° | vii° | C♯dim |
Playing in D on guitar
Guitarists can play in D with familiar shapes and a capo: D shapes with no capo; C shapes with a capo on fret 2; A shapes with a capo on fret 5; G shapes with a capo on fret 7.
The relative minor of D major is Bm: the same notes, starting on B.
Hymns in D
34 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.
- A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
- A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
- Blessed Assurance
- Christ Returneth
- Crown Him With Many Crowns
- From Heaven Above To Earth I Come
- From Nazareth
- God the Father Be Our Stay
- Happy the Man Who Feareth God
- He Leadeth Me
- Holy, Holy, Holy
- I Know That My Redeemer Lives
- Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring
- Joy to the World
- Look Down, O Lord, From Heaven Behold
- My Faith Looks Up To Thee
- None Other Lamb
- O Chief of Cities Bethlehem
- O Father, All Creating
- O Holy, Blessed Trinity
- O Lord of Heav'n and Earth and Sea
- O Lord We Praise Thee
- O Trinity of Blessed Light
- On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
- …and 10 more in the app
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 E♭ or E.
Questions
What chords go with a D pad?
Every chord in D major: D, Em, F sharpm, G, A, Bm. The pad has no third, so major and minor chords both sit on it.
Can I use the D pad for a minor song?
Use the pad of the song’s own key: a song in D minor takes this D pad, and a song in B minor (the relative minor) takes that key’s pad.