Open the song and use − and + next to Key. You can go up to 3 semitones down or up. The tempo stays the same and the words stay in time.
The first time you pick a key, it takes a few seconds to prepare; the original key plays until it’s ready. Your key is saved for that song on this device, so it’s still set at the service. In Big lyrics, the Key button does the same.
Key change works in Chrome, Edge and Safari 15 or later.
Yes. Set the key first, then download: the button names the key, for example “Download in A”, and so does the file name.
Whole set lists and My list download in their original keys for now, and say so.
Open the song and tap Download. The button says which version you get: with or without backing vocals.
For a whole service, open a set list in Discover and tap Download set. To get every song, use Download MP3 files at the bottom of any page.
Most songs come in two versions. With backing vocals has the choir parts on the track, so a solo singer sounds full. Without backing vocals is the band alone, for when your own singers cover every part.
Pick the version above Play on the song page. Downloads name their version, and My list remembers the one you chose for each song.
Tap Big lyrics, next to Play on the song page or in the player. The line being sung lights up in yellow and stays in the middle, so you can read it from the mic stand.
Use A− and A+ to change the text size. If you scroll away, the words come back to the sung line by themselves.
Open Big lyrics, then show your screen on the TV with your device’s own mirroring. ShemenMusic doesn’t cast by itself.
The words are for you on stage: place the monitor where the singers can see it.
In the app on your Home Screen, the screen stays on while the words are open. On the website, your phone decides: before the service, set Auto-Lock to Never (iPhone: Settings › Display & Brightness › Auto-Lock; Android: Settings › Display › Screen timeout), and set it back afterwards.
Live Listen is for when the band is playing in the room. Hold up your phone: it hears which song is playing and puts the words up, line by line, on the line being sung.
It uses your microphone. Nothing is recorded or sent. The first time, it downloads about 42 MB.
Yes, about 300 songs have translations. Choose your language with the globe at the top of the page. Song pages, Big lyrics and Live Listen then show that language wherever a translation exists.
The original words are always one tap away: Lyrics language on the song page, Language in Big lyrics.
There are two reasons.
Some songs by other artists can’t show their words on the website for copyright reasons. Their words are in ShemenMusic on your Home Screen: tap Open the lyrics on the song page.
Other songs don’t have their words yet. We’re adding them.
Type in the search box at the top: a title, an artist, or any line you remember from the words. Lyric lines count, so you can find a song even when you’ve forgotten its name.
Search also finds set lists, albums and artists.
Yes. Discover has ready set lists by occasion and theme. You can also type the occasion in search, like wedding, funeral or communion, in any of the four languages.
Open a list to play it through or download the whole set.
Tap Add on each song to put it in My list, set the order, then press Play once: the list plays through.
My list stays on this device with no account, and it remembers the version you chose for each song. Playing a song never changes it; you remove songs only from the list itself, with Undo.
Open My list and tap Send this list to others. Your team gets a link that opens the same songs, in the same order and versions. They don’t need an account.
Yes. In Songs, open Sort and choose BPM or Key. Every song shows its key, and where it changes key, both keys, for example “Key of G → A”.
Tap Add to device: it shows the steps for your phone or computer.
It then opens full screen, like an app, and the songs you download play with no internet.
Tap the ShemenMusic icon on your Home Screen (on a Mac, in the Dock). It opens full screen, like any app. Can’t see it? Swipe down on the Home Screen and type ShemenMusic.
Yes, in ShemenMusic on your Home Screen. The first time it opens, it offers to download every song and shows the total size first. Downloads run while the app is open; you can pause any time.
Songs on the phone show a green tick. Songs that still need internet show a cloud.
Yes, unless you choose otherwise: it downloads on any connection, and shows the total size before it starts. Tap Pause at any time.
On Android, turn on Download on Wi‑Fi only in Settings. iPhone doesn’t tell the app which connection it’s on, so on iPhone tap Pause until you’re on Wi‑Fi.
Allow the microphone for shemenmusic.com, then tap Start Live Listen again.
If it says this browser can’t use the microphone, open the site in Chrome or Safari.
On iPhone and iPad, Apple keeps Safari and Home Screen apps apart, each with its own memory. Keys, My list, language and downloads you set in Safari don’t appear in the Home Screen app, and the other way round.
Rehearse where you will play: if you lead from the Home Screen app, set your keys there.
Try these in order.