On the "Find and Buy" music page, you can find all of the music available at the site. Here at the top of the page, there is a search box where you can enter song titles, lyrics, or other information about a song to locate it. let us start searching. we will look for the hymn "Like a River Glorious" by typing one of the words in the title: "river." As you type in this search box, results automatically begin to appear below. You can see that there are several arrangements available for download.
For each title, you can immediately see what version of the song it is. Is it a "traditional" arrangement or a "contemporary" arrangement? Is it a "worship song?" you will notice that "Like a River Glorious" has two versions: a traditional hymn and a contemporary treatment of the hymn. You can also listen to a preview of the song by clicking on the "play" button like this.
You can see all of the detail about a song by clicking on the "I" button like this. On the Information screen, you can see all of the detailed information about the song including tune name, tempo, time signature, and more. If you will notice in the upper right hand corner, you can also see the "hymn number." This corresponds to the same number for the hymns and songs in the Baptist Hymnal or The Worship Hymnal. This is so that you can mix and match resources effortlessly. Say you have not purchased the whole set of accompaniment tracks for the hymnal yet, and decide you want to use a track for leading worship in a Sunday School class. You can use the hymnals for the class and download the track from the website. Or maybe you are interested in adding instruments to worship on a particular Sunday. You can come to the site and get the additional parts you need and know that they line up with the same ones that are in every other worship project product.
Right below is a listing of the song lyrics, and if you press "View All Lyrics" button, you can see all of the lyrics in the song or hymn. Press "back to information" to return to the main screen, or in either screen, click the "Return" link at the top to return to where you were.
Let us say we have decided to use the traditional hymn version of "Like a River Glorious" this week, so first we found it, and now we want to buy it. First click the "Add" button next to "Like a River Glorious". This takes us to the cart page.
Here at the cart page, we can choose the parts we need for our ministry. The cart is organized so that like parts are grouped together. Here at the top is the title we chose, "Like a River Glorious". To the right is a red "X" which deletes that song from our cart if we change our minds.
Still have questions? Contact our technical support at 800.436.3869 or worship@lifeway.com.