Perform is Songbook's stage mode. It turns a plan into one long book: every page of every song's chart, in service order, on a black full screen. You turn pages and never have to navigate, and the screen never goes to sleep.
Play through a service
Start Perform in one of these ways:
Tap Perform on a plan's page, or the songbook button on the Today service card. Perform starts at the first song. If you already had this plan open in Perform since you last opened the app, it picks up where you left off.
Tap Open songbook in the chart viewer header. Perform starts at that song, on the chart you had open, and leaving Perform brings you back to that chart.
Tap the right third of the screen to turn to the next page, or the left third to go back a page. Turning past a song's last page goes straight on to the next song.
To jump a whole song, tap the bottom of the screen for the next song or the top for the previous song. You can also swipe down for the next song and up for the previous one.
To jump to any song, tap the position pill at the bottom, such as Song 3 of 5 · Page 1 of 2, and pick a song from the Order of Service.
When the service is over, tap × to leave the stage.
Tip: A foot pedal turns pages in Perform too, and it works even while you're zoomed in. See How do I set up a foot pedal with Songbook?
Where to tap
The screen is split into areas you can't see:
Left third - previous page.
Right third - next page.
Top - previous song.
Bottom - next song.
Middle - closes the brightness slider.
The left and right thirds always turn a single page, from top to bottom of the screen, so a page turn can never skip a song by accident. A swipe up or down that starts very close to the top or bottom edge is ignored, so your device's own edge gestures can't skip a song either.
Pinch or double-tap to zoom in. While you're zoomed in, taps and swipes don't turn pages or change songs. Double-tap again to zoom back out.
The bottom row
Position pill - shows the song and page, with the song title, and the file name when a song has more than one chart. Song numbers count songs only, not other items in the service. Tap it to open the Order of Service, where Songs lists the songs under their section headers and All shows the whole plan.
Pencil - starts annotating on the stage, with the same tools and marks as the chart viewer. It's grayed out until the current song's marks have loaded.
Brightness - opens a slider for the screen brightness. Songbook puts your device's brightness back when you leave Perform.
× - leaves the stage.
The row sits in the black space under the page whenever there's room, so it doesn't cover the music. On Android, the back button closes the slider or the Order of Service first, then leaves the stage.
What Perform shows
Which charts appear
Each song brings every PDF in its file list for the scheduled arrangement and key, one after another. A song with both the chord chart One Church creates and an uploaded lead sheet shows both. A song with no PDF stays in the running order as a page that says "No chart files for this song", so the song count still matches the plan.
Perform appears on a plan only when at least one song has a PDF chart.
The stage holds still
While Perform is open, Songbook holds the plan exactly as it was when you started. Edits on the website, a deleted song or plan, background updates, permission changes, account notices, and the app's Update available prompt all wait until you leave the stage. Then they all arrive at once. This is on purpose: a page should never move or disappear in the middle of a song. Nothing on the stage tells you the plan has changed, so if your worship leader edits the plan during rehearsal, leave Perform and start it again to pick up the changes.