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 D minor songs use the D 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, E. Its chords, with their Nashville numbers, are below; a F pad sits under all of them.
| Number | Roman | Chord |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | F |
| 2m | ii | Gm |
| 3m | iii | Am |
| 4 | IV | B♭ |
| 5 | V | C |
| 6m | vi | Dm |
| 7° | vii° | Edim |
Playing in F on guitar
Guitarists can play in F with familiar shapes and a capo: E shapes with a capo on fret 1; D shapes with a capo on fret 3; C shapes with a capo on fret 5.
The relative minor of F major is Dm: the same notes, starting on D.
Hymns in F
50 of the hymns in Stage Pads’ hymn book (Lamplight Bible’s, all public domain) are written in F. Each opens in the app with its words and chords, ready to play with this pad.
- 'Tis Midnight and On Olive's Brow
- 'Twas On That Dark, That Doleful Night
- A Great and Mighty Wonder
- A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth
- All Depends On Our Possessing
- Alleluia, Sing To Jesus!
- And Can It Be
- Away In A Manger
- Baptized Into Thy Name Most Holy
- Blind Bartimaeus
- Built on the Rock
- By Grace I'm Saved
- Christ The Lord Is Risen Today (Lyra)
- Come, Your Heart and Voices Raising
- Comfort, Comfort Ye My People
- Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning
- Despair Not, O Heart
- Did You Think To Pray?
- Far, Far Away On Judea's Plains
- Fear Not, O Little Flock
- Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
- In The Bleak MidWinter
- …and 26 more in the app
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 F♯ or G.
Questions
What chords go with a F pad?
Every chord in F major: F, Gm, Am, B flat, C, Dm. The pad has no third, so major and minor chords both sit on it.
Can I use the F pad for a minor song?
Use the pad of the song’s own key: a song in F minor takes this F pad, and a song in D minor (the relative minor) takes that key’s pad.