Today on Mina Studio five free Android apps for the worship leader.
Thank you so much for joining me here in Mina studio I'm Nathan and over on the keys is my tech
director Ronald. Today we're gonna look at five free Android apps for the
worship leader. So let's get into the apps. Our first free must-have app for
worship leaders today is g-strings. g-strings is a free recording app for
your Android phone. You can see it's registering my voice right now. Why don't
we try tuning something with it. Let's see if I can find something here... oh look
a ukulele. I'm sure it's perfectly in tune. Or not. Let's tune it up with g-strings.
There we go. Our second app today is bpm tap. This is a tap tempo app. You just tap
on the screen and it will tell you what tempo you are tapping. That's a tongue
twister. I use this all the time when I am recording in the studio and when I
write songs to figure out what tempo thee song I just wrote is actually in.
If you wait two seconds it'll clear and you can start over again. You can also use
this in worship team practice if you're trying to figure out what tempo a song
should be in especially if you're using a click tracks or you just want to tell
the drummer they're way off. A third free Android app for worship leaders today is
Smart Recorder. Now this is just a simple voice recorder. Click here and it starts
recording. A lot of Android phones come with a pretty decent voice recorder
already installed but if you don't have one Smart Recorder is a good option and
of course the uses for a voice recording app are limitless for a worship leader-
recording songs, recording song ideas just taking notes, you can record practice, you
can record your service, you could record your pastor talking. A good idea for this
is if you don't record your sermons you can buy a cheap lavalier microphone put
it on your pastor, plug it in start the recording, put it in his pocket and you
have a sermon podcast ready to go. Our fourth free app for worship leaders is
Chord Bot. The Chord Bot is just an app that plays a chord progression for you.
Lets go in and make a chord progression here. Let's see
click on a key, we'll be in the key of G because we're worship leaders and there
aren't other keys right? Just G. Got the key G here. Select major, then we can just
make our chord progression. We'll start with a G major.
Go to our next chord, how about a B minor, maybe a D major, then a C major. Like that.
Then I click on that and you can play your chord progression.
I actually kind of like that. All right that one's mine. Copyright Nathan Drake 2018.
Don't steal it. So Chord Bot is great if you are planning
worship and you're not around your instrument. I use this when I know
I won't have my guitar with me and I need to figure out like what key a song could be and I
could just enter the the chords here and sing it over these chords and I can tell
if the keys good or not. You can also use it for writing songs. It's really good
for picking out chord progressions again if you don't have an instrument or maybe
if there's chords you don't know how to play but you want to hear how that sound
you can use Chord Bot. And our final free app for worship leaders today is
Open Camera. Now there's a really good camera app called Filmic Pro that we
will talk about in a later video but it is $15. Open Camera is kind of the free
substitute for that. So let's take a look at Open Camera. So you can see here we
have Open Camera, just your typical camera app but what this can do that's
important is it can be manually set. Sort of. So you can really just lock the focus
and exposure- you can't adjust them you just lock them. Let's find an exposure
we like here. Looks good, so we'll lock the exposure and let's say we also
wanted to focus right there we will hit this little focus lock button and our
focus and exposure is locked which means if I go closer it should not change
focus or exposure you see the focus is not changing or if I go up to our
light here the exposure is not changing as well. So there's our 5 free must-have
Android apps for worship leaders. Of course there's a lot more than 5 apps in
the App Store that can be useful for worship leaders so we might just have
another video. 5 more free Android apps for worship leaders as well as iOS apps.
I'm sure you also have your favorite apps you like to use for worship
leading please comment below give us some tips give us the apps you'd like to
use we'd love to hear about that. Thank you so much for watching Mina Studio.
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