Becoming an Effective Worship Leader — Earl Fox

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Good afternoon everyone. Let's bow our heads. Dear Father in Heaven, we want you to fill us. We want you to lead us. We want you to use us, Father. That is our heart. So God, we come to you in the name of Jesus.

We ask that you would just be with us this afternoon as we share. God, I just pray that you would bless it as it comes forth, Lord. We thank you and praise you in Jesus' name. Amen. The title of the session this afternoon is Becoming an Effective Worship Leader.

Singing is a wonderful experience that combines the spiritual, emotional, and physical parts of man. With singing, we worship God, we express our thoughts and feelings, and enjoy the almost indefinable relationship of body, soul, and spirit.

As we sing, as I observe, and as I experience, it is with our whole being that we sing. Psalmist David says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. A combination of body, soul, and spirit.

Our whole being is involved in our worship and praise to our God. I don't believe you and I, at least I, have not scratched the surface in expressing worship to my God. I believe we're only scratching the surface right now.

But wait until we get to glory and we can praise him in perfect praise, in a perfect body, in a perfect voice, in a perfect environment. It's going to be awesome. It is my desire just to know God better so I can praise him in that more perfect way.

We think of God and who he is. I just had to think of last night, as we drew near to God last night, and Brother Zach was speaking, we were drawing nigh to God, I believe. The truth was coming forth. Our spirits were with God.

We were open to truth. The closer we get to God, the more we realize, of course, how God is in his majesty, in his glory, in his holiness. The more we see ourselves, I see myself as bankrupt. Nothing in my hands I bring simply to thy cross I cling.

I see my own unworthiness. I see my own undone-ness. I see my own wretchedness. I see the deceit of my own heart. I see my pride as we draw nigh to God. And that is the response that we have. If you draw nigh to God, you will see yourself as you are.

It's impossible to draw nigh to God and not see ourselves. I really believe that. If we truly see God, who he is, we will also see who we are. Like I said, suddenly our heart cries out when we are in the presence of almighty God.

Nothing in my hands I bring simply to thy cross I cling. Naked come to thee for dress. Helpless look to thee for grace. File I to the fountain fly. Wash me, Savior, or I die. And God says, I love you.

It's for people like you that I died. It's for people like me. It's people that realize their wretchedness, their undone-ness, their sin, their bankruptcy, their utter failure in trying to be a Christian without God.

So God says, it's for you that I died. And then we respond and say, like the hymn writer, I yield my powers to thy command. To thee I consecrate my days. Perpetual blessings from thy hand demand perpetual songs of praise.

My Jesus, I love thee. I know thou art mine. For thee all the follies of sin I resign. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where thou hast died. You know, one of the most precious times, or some of the most precious times that I have with God, you know, when I'm all alone.

And perhaps not even in my own time, regular time of devotion. When I was driving down the road, I particularly remember one time I was struggling. I used to struggle with assurance of salvation. Time I was going down the road, and this song came across the tape that I had on.

And that song said, I hear the Savior say, thy strength indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and pray. Find in me thine all in all. I just broke down. I pulled off the highway, and I wept. In the next verse, for nothing good have I were by thy grace to claim.

I'll wash my garments white in the blood of Calvary's lamb. And when before the throne I stand in him complete, Jesus died my soul to save. My lips shall still repeat, Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe.

Sin has left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. Praise God. Praise God. Worship, brothers, worship. Seeing God, what he has done for me, and the response of my heart, gazing on God and his goodness and his greatness.

That is worship, brothers. And we're talking about becoming effective worship leaders. I believe it all needs to start right there, brothers. Our vision of God, our concept of God, and our relationship with him all starts right there.

Let's get into the second part here. Switching gears a little. Music is powerful. I mentioned that yesterday, and we want to talk about that a little bit. Music is tremendously powerful, and we want to look at why it's powerful and what it does.

Music has tremendous power to affect feeling, belief, action, and destiny. Let's look at feeling. Have you ever come to church, and you were sad, you were depressed, you were discouraged? But when the singing began, they sang songs of praise, they sang songs of encouragement, of blessing.

And guess what? Those feelings left you. And so you totally changed your outlook, your perspective. Your feelings have changed. They have the ability to change feelings, music does. It has the ability to affect belief, very definitely.

The songs that are sung, whether good or bad, have tremendous power to affect our belief, or society's belief. You take the music of the 60s and the rebellion here during that time. The songs that were sung there by the popular groups were songs of rebellion, and of disrespect.

Of man being an island, and not part of a brotherhood. I'm a rock, I'm an island, and no man can touch me. That was the message of the 60s and 70s. And that affected, that swayed our society, that totally changed our society, I believe.

I believe we can go back to that point. So music has a tremendous ability to affect our belief. It has the ability to affect our actions as well. Think of the songs, We sing sometimes, It moves us to action.

And now of course it has the tremendous power to affect our destiny, ultimately. Music is moving. Music is powerful. There is none of us, there is no human being that is not affected by music. The music that I listen to definitely has an effect on me.

Definitely influences me, either for the good or bad. And it will ultimately affect my destiny. What will you do with Jesus? Neutral you cannot be. Someday your heart will be asking, what will he do with me?

It brings us to that realization that yes, what I do will affect my destiny. Music brings that out, has the power to do that. I believe another reason why music is powerful is because we are attracted to it.

We are naturally, like I mentioned yesterday, we are naturally attracted to music. Therefore, we are drawn to it. And so we respond to it naturally. And God knows that, but Satan also knows that. And he plays havoc in the lives of people because he knows that is true.

The words that are set to music are much easier to remember and memorize than when they are just said in words. Definitely. When I was a little boy, I would be in preschool, I still remember learning the ABCs.

And I learned it to a tune. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and so forth. I learned it to a tune so I could remember it. I picked it up fast. And even as I was in first grade, I remember what came after the letter F.

I'd go A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, you know.

And I hummed the tune, so I thought, oh yeah, there it is. I found myself doing that. Music, the power of music. As we relate music to words, has a tremendous power on our minds. It does. The advertising people know this.

Over radio and TV, they do it all the time. They put their little jingles, their little advertisements to music. That's why it sticks to you. Music is powerful because it does that. It just sticks in your mind.

Another reason why music is powerful is because it has the ability to affect the subconscious mind. And I'm not sure what all that means. But I'll give you an example. If we indoctrinate our children, we indoctrinate them with songs like, Oh, be careful little feet where you go.

Oh, be careful little feet. And we say, oh, be careful little eyes what you see. Oh, be careful little hands what you do. And we drill this into them. We drill into them songs like, dare to be a Daniel.

Dare to stand alone. Dare to have a purpose firm. Dare to make it known. All those songs like that are also in the subconscious mind then. And when they get to a situation where they have to decide where their feet are going to take them subconsciously, they won't necessarily maybe even think of that song.

But it will affect them on their responses. It affects us subconsciously. It's also used subconsciously in the shopping malls. They tell me that the music that is played at Walmart or wherever, your hometown mall, is music that will cause you to buy more, to purchase more.

They guarantee it. They guarantee that if they play their music over the PA system in the store, it will increase your sales by whatever. Music is also used to minimize shoplifting. And that was a new one.

I didn't realize that. And it's not words. This is just music. I'm saying music has the ability to affect us subconsciously. So the shopping malls, or the people that are doing this music, are saying that we guarantee if you use our music in your store, that the shoplifting rate will drop.

It's incredible. I don't understand all that. It's almost scary. So music is used to relieve pain. They tell me some dentists are using, putting headphones on you when they're drilling your teeth, and it starts hurting, you crank up the music.

This music is supposed to... I never tried it. But they say they're doing that. So we're concluding that music has the ability to bypass the conscious and affect us subconsciously. I believe we'd all have to agree.

Music is like gasoline. Now, we all need gasoline. I mean, that's a good thing, right? We need gasoline in our cars to propel them. It's a fuel. But the gasoline needs to be contained. It needs to be used properly.

It needs to be used carefully. You don't just use gasoline haphazardly. I wouldn't have gasoline up here. I don't allow my workmen to bring gasoline in an open container in our shop at work. It's dangerous.

But it's not dangerous if it's used properly. If it's contained properly, then it's not. And that's the way music is. Music, if it's used improperly, is explosive. It can do damage. Music has the power to unify.

It unites families. It unites children with their parents. Parents, that's a wonderful way to relate to your children. It's a wonderful way for you to connect with them through song. Teach them singing.

Singing with them. Teaching them songs. Memorizing music together. It's a family thing. It unites. Music reinforces sound teaching and theology. Many of our hymns talk about theology, of who God is and what he has done.

And the various aspects of God and doctrine. It brings encouragement. It helps us to remember. It develops godly character in children. I did mention that. And the last one I have listed, I really like this one.

It moves the heart of God. That is awesome. I think that music, what we sing, can move the heart of God. Let me give you an example. Pass me not, O gentle Savior. Hear my humble cry. While on others thou art calling, do not pass me by.

Moving the heart of God. When God sees and hears that coming from a sincere heart, God is moved. I think that's awesome. God is moved when we hear God's name. I think that's awesome. Our Lord, I am fondly, earnestly longing, into thy holy likeness to grow.

God is moved. And God wants to do that. He wants to fill us. And he wants those streams to come flooding into our lives. That's God. That's wonderful. Now we'll go on more directly into our topic. Talking about effective worship leaders.

The first point I have here is every effective worship leader must have a vital relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. I think it all starts there and what I talked about seeing God for who he is, seeing myself for who I am and then responding properly to that.

It all begins right there brothers. How is the worship leader able to lead the people in worship if he himself doesn't have that in his heart? It's a must I really believe. If the song leader is in touch with God, I believe the people will catch on.

He must realize the importance that spirit-filled singing has in the worship service in uniting the hearts of people. I think we need to realize song leaders the importance of that. What the singing does to a worship service, the thing that it adds to it is tremendous.

Take singing, imagine what singing would be or what our services would be like or what our lives would be like without singing. It's hard to imagine but we see the importance of it. We know what it does.

We have experienced it and we know it's God's will. I believe the worship leader must sense his calling as a calling from God. I believe it is a calling really. He senses his call from God to lead people in worship through the church or however.

But I believe it is a calling. It's a high calling to corporately unite the congregation and lead them in worship is a calling. I think we need to see it as that. We take our calling seriously. We take our calling seriously.

And I believe that God's calling is a calling to realize that I am responsible to help lead these people into worship. It's an aid to help them to come to worship. It's also important that he prepares his own heart before he leaves.

Before a Sunday morning service or Sunday evening or whenever the service is, I think it's important that we prepare our hearts. We come before God and just ask him to show us any need in our life. Make sure our relationship is clear with him and then to ask him, Lord, what did we sing this morning?

I do that. Lord, this is your service. You direct it. So spend time in prayer. Spend time before God and worship yourself. I will go a long way in your own spirit. And I know I don't always do that. Sometimes I fail to do that properly.

And I just don't have it within my being. I just I got to kind of work it up. You know, it doesn't flow naturally. But when I know when I prepare my heart, it's a natural thing. It just comes out and flows.

I'm sure you've experienced that. You'll experience that. You don't need to be a song leader to experience that. Prepare your hearts when you come to worship for God. Come before his presence with singing this worship.

Next thing we want to look at is for the song leader getting more practical here now is a hymn selection. Hymn selection, like I mentioned, is done prayerfully. What songs do I choose? What songs are proper for the worship service?

Depending on the nature of the service, if it's a communion service, you have songs related to the to the death and suffering of our Lord Jesus. You know, if there's baptism, then you want songs on the Christian life.

If it's just a worship service, you see, you got to kind of pick out songs that are appropriate for the occasion. But in general, just let me give you some general guidelines that I go by that I think are good and you can evaluate them.

Probably the most important song in the service is the first one. You know, if you get the first song off to a bad start, it takes a little bit of to get it up and going again. So I think the first song is important.

The first song I like to choose when I lead is a song of worship to God, a direct song addressing God and who he is and his holiness, such as. Eternal Father, when to be beyond all worlds by faith, I soar.

Before thy boundless majesty, I stand in silence and adore. But Savior, thou art by my side. And so on it goes. Beautiful. Raises our thoughts and our heart up to the almighty God. The first song. I think that's important.

Rather than picking a song like Years I've Spent in Vanity and Pride talks about who I am in my experience. And it's good to sing those types of songs sometimes, but I think it is most noble and proper and right to sing songs that are directly and direct worship and praise to our God.

So that's a suggestion that I would have. Many songs like that, like Eternal Father, Jesus, almighty Lord, great is thy name and so forth. Thy name we glorify, thy name adore. It's another good one. Oh, God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blasts and our eternal home.

Talks about God, talking directly to God and what he is to us and what he means. Those songs, I think, are very necessary in the beginning of a service. Then maybe after the second or so song, you can pick maybe just general songs, Christian life songs.

Maybe the Lord will direct you to lead in an area of, let's say, faithfulness. Songs encouraging the congregation and us to be faithful. Or maybe it's on the grace of God. Any subject that the Lord might lead you to.

I think that is powerful. And then as you choose the songs and as they progress from one song to the other, maybe you can make comments about how one song relates to the other one and kind of build from one song to the other is also very good.

Helps in worship. And then when we get to the end of the service, while the minister is speaking, while the sermon is being preached, songs are flashing through my mind of what would be appropriate now to sing.

I think every sermon, when the truth is presented to you and I from God, it needs a response. When the truth is presented, then we need to respond to that truth by saying, yes, Lord. And we do that through singing.

If the preacher is preaching on consecration, we need to dedicate our lives to God. Then we say, take my life and let it be consecrated Lord to thee. Songs like that, that just clinch what the message was about.

That is very important. So think about that song later as you are during the service. You can't pick that song at home. You need to do that while the service is unfolding. In general, I would pick songs of depth.

There are some very light songs, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah songs, and they are okay on occasions, but it's usually the songs that are light, that will appeal to your emotions, appeal to your soul.

But you probably would get tired of them if we sing them every Sunday. Those light songs, those songs that are kind of catchy and catch on right away, they don't last long. But the songs that are solid, loaded with doctrine, loaded with truth, and maybe don't jump out at you right away as being really a nice song, but they grow on you.

Absolutely. They will grow on you if I may use that term. You will become to love and appreciate that song in a deep way. It doesn't have the emotional appeal, but it sure has the spiritual appeal. So I would challenge you on that in evaluating your singing.

Don't evaluate it by just if it is really upty-upty. But evaluate it on content and on depth. Because the Bible says, in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, Psalms meaning, I believe, like singing out of the Psalms, like, unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

That would be a psalm. And hymns are like, Eternal Father, when to thee, before Jehovah's awful throne, when I survey the wondrous cross, are hymns. And the spiritual songs talk about our Christian life.

Years I spent in vanity and pride, caring not my Lord was crucified, talking about our experience in life, and so forth. All those songs have a place. But I think the songs of worship, directed to God, should be in the foremost.

That's my opinion. The song leader, when he comes up to the, I don't know if your song leaders come up to the front or not in your church, or how you arrange it, but anyway, be enthusiastic. Because you are enthusiastic, right?

If we're full of God, we're enthusiastic. Approach the congregation with enthusiasm. Not like you're, you know, half dead. That goes a long way. And there's nothing that matters with smiling. Get up there and just smile.

Everybody smile back at you. Announce the number, and so forth. Approach the congregation like you have something to offer, or like there's excitement in the air, and there should be. When we worship our God, my, we should be doing our best.

We should be sitting on the front edge of our seat. We are worshiping God. Not in a haphazard way. We're not slouched back there and you know. I think we need to give God our best. So we approach it that way.

We approach it with enthusiasm. We approach it with anticipation, and worship, and reverence. So we announce the number. Song leader gets up. He approaches the congregation enthusiastically. Announce the number clearly, distinctly, that everybody can hear.

And he's good to announce it twice. I like to hold the book. I don't always, but I think it's best. The song leader holds the book when he leads. That way he can look at the music, and look out at his audience without looking down, and then up again.

If he has the song book down on the pulpit, he needs to look down, and then up. You hold the book in your hand. You can readily glance at the words, and then up your people. You're directing. You're leading in worship.

Okay. He announces the song number. It gives them adequate time to, the congregation, to find the songs in the book. Don't start out too soon while the people are still leafing through their pages. Give them adequate time to find the number.

And when they have found the number, you blow the pitch. And we're going to talk about how to do that in case you don't know how, what to blow. Blow the proper pitch. Hum the pitch. And by the way, I would train, I think as congregations, maybe you want to do it on a Wednesday night.

Just give them a few pointers for congregational singing. And one would be to hum the pitch with the song leader, like this. Doh. And you would hum doh. Now you are all ready. But for me to blow a pitch, it's much harder for me to start on key.

I can probably do it. Doh. But it's much harder if I first hum the pitch. Now I got that tone, that sound in my mind. And we can start right together. Be a blessing to everyone. Rather than nobody hums the pitch, everybody will probably start on the second or third word.

But if we hum the pitch together, and your congregation is looking at you, and you're looking at the congregation, then you can all start together and be a blessing. Okay. So that's another point for you.

Tell your congregation to watch the song leader, even if you're not up front. Maybe you sit in a circle or however you do in your church. Be aware of the song leader. Watch him. So you can start together.

You can stop together. There's orderliness. That's all a blessing. But it takes some discipline. It takes some reminders sometimes. But I try and get our congregation here at Charity to hum the pitch.

I mentioned it already. I didn't for a while, but I think they're doing pretty good. Blow the pitch and I hum. I go like this if they forget. So I know they're with me. I don't want to sing a solo. We're here to worship together.

So they hum the pitch, and then you get your hand ready, and then you start to lead and be a blessing. Another thing I would like to recommend too is maintain eye contact with your audience as much as possible when you are leading song leaders, if you're up front especially.

It's not good for the song leader to be up here and have his nose in the book. It doesn't communicate. So I think it's good. Song leaders, you don't have the whole book memorized. That's a big order. I don't.

But it should be our goal, the song book that you have, memorize songs so you don't have to have your nose in the book. As a youngster, I memorized, I don't know, maybe hundreds, I don't know, a lot of songs.

So if you're young, even if you're old, memorize songs so you don't have to have your nose in the book. It can be really a blessing to sing songs by memory. So song leaders, watch your audience. Keep in contact with them.

Another reason why you want to be in contact, eye contact, is make sure they're singing with you. Maybe you start on a different tempo than what your congregation thought. You can kind of see and also hear.

And you need to stay together. Another thing I would suggest for the song leaders is observe the punctuation throughout the song. Our job is to lead these people in worship. And so certain phrases of the song will have a comma or maybe there's no punctuation at all where it's a normal spot to take a breath, but the message is going on.

So to take a breath there would break up the thought. So keep that in mind too and try and direct the congregation through that phrase to continue the thought so you don't lose the thought. Let me give you an example.

Number 51 in your book, take a second verse. I'll Praise My Maker is the title of the song. Second verse is, Happy the man whose hopes rely. Now right there would be a normal spot to take a breath. Happy the man whose hopes rely on Israel's God.

But there is no comma after rely. The comma is after Israel's God. So happy the man whose hopes rely on Israel's God. There you take a breath. He made the sky and earth and sea with all their train. See, get what I'm saying?

So you break the music at the same place that you would break when you speak. You don't stop in the middle of a sentence, but you continue the sentence to the end and then you stop. It's a normal way of speaking.

And so it is with singing, I believe. In order to follow through with a thought, song leaders, you need to lead with your hand and your voice. Don't be afraid to sing out. Don't be afraid to be heard, like Brother Denny we talked about.

Lead your congregation with your hand and also with your voice. Don't overpower. I've been in services already where the song leader was so overpowering. Or the man back at the PA system had it turned up too high or whatever.

And that can be distracting too. All you can hear is the song leader. You can hardly hear the congregation. But you can kind of judge that. Don't be overpowering. And yet, if you feel the congregation is lagging on behind you, maybe lean into the mic a little bit to the sense that they are on behind a little bit.

And that brings it right with the thought of song leaders, it's your job to set the tempo of a song. It's your job to interpret the song. I strongly recommend song leaders that you look over the text of the song that you're going to lead and you become familiar with the message of that song so you know how to interpret that song.

It's like you would when you talk. If you're telling your wife, you don't say, I love you. No, you say, I love you. You say the same words but it's not proper. So we need to interpret to Him. See what I'm saying?

And we need to sense and try and sense what the song is saying and then adapt that to the song, to what it's saying. Songs of prayer to God like, Nearer, still nearer, close to thy heart. Draw me, my Savior, so precious thou art.

That shouldn't be sung real loud. That's a prayer sung tenderly. And we can put emotion in it. We can still put feeling in it, brothers, and sing it softly. Nothing I bring, not as an offering to Jesus, my King.

And then we tend to, it's just a natural thing and it's a good thing, and I think we do it, is as the music goes higher, as the melody goes higher and the chords are higher, then our volume increases.

And then as it goes back down again, it's a natural thing just to relax also in your volume. It makes music beautiful and it expresses the meaning in the song. But if everything is sung at one level, I don't think it expresses it nearly as well.

Really what that hymn writer had in mind, there's many ways to express the song and each song has its own interpretation. Each song has its own message. So song leaders, it's up to you to interpret that message.

So we talked about setting the tempo. We talked about interpreting. A song like Be Silent, Be Silent, a whisper is heard. Be silent and listen. What spirit is coming out of that song? One of what? Quietness and reverence and awe.

So that should not be sung like joyful, joyful, we adore thee. There's two different songs that should be sung in different ways, brothers, because it's two different songs. Be silent. The master is here.

We can put a little emphasis on that. Be silent and listen. Treasure each word. I think you get the idea. Song leaders, that's your job. Man of Sorrows, we sung it last night. What a name for the Son of God who came, ruined sinners to reclaim.

Hallelujah, what a savior. That is the feeling and expression of that song right there and we need to do that. And oftentimes in the hymn books, they help us to interpret it. The P, if there's a P there above the staff, that means soft.

If there's a PM, it means moderate or an M means moderate. F means loud. If there's two Fs in a row, it means very loud. So oftentimes there's markings in the book that we can observe. Maybe you have a suggestion that I missed.

Helps for the song leader or the congregation. Yes. Amen. That's a good idea. Any other ones quickly? Yes. Good idea. I had that written down. I forgot to say it. Now hold your book up like this. Yes.

Yes. Amen. The brother was saying that it's also very helpful to give the history behind this song, that his song helps you enter into the meaning of the song. Okay. We need to move on. Turn to your hymn book.

It's the page after the song 1000, number 1000. It's right next to that before the indexes, right after the last song. It's introduction to rudiments of music. Go on to the second page where it says exercise four, number one.

Are you with me there? Exercise four says accidentals. Accidentals are sharps, flats, naturals used other than in the key signature and continue their effect of raising or lowering the pitch without the measure in which throughout the measure in which they occur.

Now let's turn to number. Oh, let's turn to number 100. Great is thy faithfulness. We all know that a sharp looks like this, a flat looks like this. So if there is a sharp before a note, you know that that sharp means that that note is being raised one half step.

If there's a flat before the note, it means the note is being lowered a half step. Okay. Sharp is raised. Flat is lower. Now let's look at number 100. Let me also mention a natural, which looks like this, something like that.

That is a natural. And what a natural does is if that line is flatted, the natural brings it back to its natural position. So if the song is flatted, that line is flatted and there's a natural there, that means it's canceling out that flat and not bringing it up a half.

If the key signature is sharp and there is a natural there, now the natural will bring it back down to its original position. Okay. It does opposite of what the key signature is. Okay. If the key signature is flatted, the natural will bring it back up again.

If the key signature is sharp, it'll bring it back down. Okay. Now we're looking at number 100, the last line in the base. All I have needed thy hand have provided. Now there's a natural there. What does that do?

It raises it up a half step because the song is in flats. There's three flats there. The flats, you see the three flats that look like this? That song is flatted. So now the natural means that it's going to cancel out that flat.

It's going to take it up. And have provided great is thy faithfulness. See what it's doing? It's taken up half. It's also in the alto. The alto notes are sharp there on great is thy faithfulness. The last line there.

Tenor has a natural on the third note in the song. Great is thy. Great is thy goes up a half. Great is thy is natural. And because it's sharp, it raises it. Okay. Okay. Let's go into determining the pitch of a song.

I'm going to just give you a real shortcut on how you can get the pitch pipe, get the pitch of a song. Okay. Starting with if the song has a sharp, one sharp is G. If the song has two sharps is D. If it has three sharps is A.

Four sharps is E, B, and F. Okay. Five is B and six sharps is F. So, if there's one sharp in the hymn book in that song, let's take like number 92. Do you see these sharps? Do you see the key signature on the left hand of the staff?

How many sharps are there? Four. Come down here to four and four is in the key of what? E. No, not E sharp, but E. Okay. Two sharps is G and so forth. And a good way to remember that that I remember is I put words to it.