Stage Pads guide
Worship pad in F♯
Tap the button to play a soft pad in F♯: its root, fifth and octave, which sit under every chord in F♯ major (and E♭ minor songs use the E♭ pad). It is made in your browser as it plays, nothing to download.
Play a pad in F♯
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 F♯ major
F♯ major’s scale is F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, F. Its chords, with their Nashville numbers, are below; a F♯ pad sits under all of them.
| Number | Roman | Chord |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | F♯ |
| 2m | ii | G♯m |
| 3m | iii | A♯m |
| 4 | IV | B |
| 5 | V | C♯ |
| 6m | vi | D♯m |
| 7° | vii° | Fdim |
Playing in F♯ on guitar
Guitarists can play in F♯ with familiar shapes and a capo: E shapes with a capo on fret 2; D shapes with a capo on fret 4; C shapes with a capo on fret 6.
The relative minor of F♯ major is E♭m: the same notes, starting on E♭.
Hymns in F♯
None of the hymns in Stage Pads’ hymn book is written in F♯, but any of them can be moved into F♯ on the stage with Key + and Key −, and the pad follows.
Changing key mid-song
For a key change, tap the new key in Stage Pads and the F♯ pad fades into it. A last-chorus lift from F♯ usually goes up a semitone or a tone, to G or A♭.
Questions
What chords go with a F sharp pad?
Every chord in F sharp major: F sharp, G sharpm, A sharpm, B, C sharp, D sharpm. The pad has no third, so major and minor chords both sit on it.
Can I use the F sharp pad for a minor song?
Use the pad of the song’s own key: a song in F sharp minor takes this F sharp pad, and a song in E flat minor (the relative minor) takes that key’s pad.