Rich resources are available for the Small Church Music (SCM) audio and associated hymn sheets. This has always been the intention.
- SmallChurchMusic.com website
- Hymnary.org website
- Weebly.com website
- SCM Nettracks app
SmallChurchMusic.com Website
A great strength of this website is the huge amount of categorisation and cross references that are available, including
- Christmas hymns
- First line index
- Hymn tune
- Metre
- Instrumentation
- MIDI files
- PDF Scores
- Video files
- Hymn books
Hymnary.org Website
Hymnary.org has its own page on SCM. Also, a lot of the SCM resources are available throughout the website, with Hymnary.org’s own comprehensive cross-referencing, providing at times deeper insights into the hymns.
Weebly.com Website
This well-established channel also has its own page on SCM.
Clyde provided his rationale for this additional site,
Why create this site which contains the public domain files from my other sites? The answer is simple – the other sites need a lot of managing, and as I am getting older I do not know how long I can continue do that for, and it is difficult to hand it over to others.
This site, is hosted on a managed site (weebly.com) and requires no support from me, apart from paying the hosting costs. This means there is no ongoing support issue.
Hopefully, this site will ensure the long term viability of having the recordings freely available – long after I am unable to carry on.
I shall keep my original sites running as long as I am able, as they currently provide copyright music, and also many other options
So, this additional channel provides resilience, ensuring everyone can access these resources.
SCM app
The intention of our SCM app has always been to provide better accessibility to acquiring and playing backing tracks, particularly on mobile devices.
Our technology is about providing people with the minimum of friction in acquiring, organising, and playing backing music. We provide
- access to hymns via a streaming service,
- setlists to organise tracks, and
- a powerful audio player, which displays the hymn sheet while allowing users to tailor the audio to their needs.
We have more features in the pipeline, like setlist sharing, so small groups can easily share their list of hymns for upcoming services.
The SCM Nettracks app does not attempt to provide the cross-referencing so well provided at the websites. In some cases it does provide a hyperlink to the Hymnary.org website’s page on the hymn.