50 Hymns for the Church Pianist
Fifty hymns for the church piano. Each one comes in three keys, with the chords right over the words. Every hymn also has a Sunday Version, verse one with the gospel moves we play in church.
Rather have it printed? The paperback has every hymn in its middle key, large print, on full-size pages. Paperback on Amazon, $24.99 · Kindle, $12.99 · Coil bound, $34.99
What is inside
- The Large Print Edition, with 16 point words and 13 point chords. I am legally blind, so I made it the way I need it.
- The Regular Print Edition, the same book in smaller type.
- 50 public-domain hymns, every verse, each in three keys.
- A Sunday Version of every hymn, in every key.
- A big keyboard picture of every chord, with each note marked.
- Contents, an index of titles and first lines, and bookmarks to jump to any hymn on a tablet.
The Sunday Version
The plain chart gives you the hymnal chords. The Sunday Version shows what a church pianist does with them. Walk-ups from the 1 to the 4, the 7-3-6 into the 6, the 2, the 5sus and the 5 before home.
Each move sits on the word where it goes, and each one is explained in plain words and in numbers. The numbers work in any key, so a move you learn in G works in Bb too.
Three keys for every hymn
Pick the key your church sings in and turn to it. The chart, the Sunday Version and the keyboards are all there in that key. No transposing in your head on Sunday morning.
All 50 hymns
The Favorites
- Amazing Grace free chart
- It Is Well with My Soul free chart
- Blessed Assurance free chart
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus free chart
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness free chart
- Holy, Holy, Holy free chart
- Be Thou My Vision free chart
- All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name free chart
- When I Survey the Wondrous Cross free chart
- A Mighty Fortress Is Our God free chart
- Praise to the Lord, the Almighty free chart
- All Creatures of Our God and King free chart
- To God Be the Glory free chart
- Jesus Paid It All free chart
- How Firm a Foundation free chart
Invitation and the Cross
- Just As I Am
- Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
- Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
- Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
- The Old Rugged Cross
- At the Cross
- Nothing but the Blood
- There Is Power in the Blood
- Rock of Ages
- I Surrender All
Trust and Prayer
- Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
- 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
- Sweet Hour of Prayer
- I Need Thee Every Hour
- Near to the Heart of God
- Have Thine Own Way, Lord
- Nearer, My God, to Thee
- Where He Leads Me
- Standing on the Promises
- My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Praise
- O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
- Crown Him with Many Crowns
- Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- Blessed Be the Name
- Count Your Blessings
- I Love to Tell the Story
- Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
- The Doxology
The Black Church Songbook
- Lift Every Voice and Sing
- We'll Understand It Better By and By
- Stand By Me
- There Is a Balm in Gilead
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Love Lifted Me
- Higher Ground
On paper, or on your tablet
The paperback
All 50 hymns in large print, each in the key most churches sing it, with the Sunday Version and the codes to hear every hymn. 8.5 by 11 for the music stand.
See it on Amazon →The Kindle edition
Every page looks just like the book, and you tap a hymn’s code to hear it. Best on a tablet.
See it on Amazon →The coil-bound edition
The same large print book with a coil binding, so it lies flat on the music stand and stays open to your hymn.
See it on Lulu →Hear every hymn
Not sure how one goes?
Every hymn in the book has a page where you can hear it, with the chart chords and with the Sunday Version. The code on each hymn in the book takes you straight there.
Hear the hymns →Try one first
The free hymn charts
All 50 of these hymns are free online, and every one changes to any key in one click.
Browse the free charts →