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40% off our Play By Ear DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | May 20, 2013

40% off flash sale.
Learn to play by ear, without sheet music or chord charts

We are offering our Play By Ear DVD set at a huge 40% off until the end of May.

The course teaches you how to play by ear as well as gain a deeper understanding of what you can do with chords. Great for transposing, transcribing, improvising, arranging and even finding new chords for song writing.

The comprehensive course is designed for guitar, keyboard, bass and orchestral players and will guide you through the process of working out what chord comes next in any song by ear. It will even teach you how to substitute chords to change the mood or feel of a song. Perfect for working out chord charts from CDs, song writers, band directors or anyone wanting a thorough understanding of chord theory.

Plus each section includes plenty of in-depth demos, play alongs and there are 20 tests to maximise your learning.

Musicademy Director, Andy Chamberlain says:
“This is the most comprehensive video series we’ve ever made. It has the potential to transform the musicality of your entire worship team“.

What’s included? Buy with our Money Back Guarantee

Click through to the Musicademy website for a detailed description of what’s included. And remember, your purchase is covered by our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee. If you don’t like the DVDs you can return them for a full refund.

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Buy now

Head on over to Musicademy to buy at the time limited sale price and with free shipping (US & UK – low cost flat rate to elsewhere in the world).

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Louie Giglio mashup of stars and whales singing God’s praise

By Marie@Musicademy | May 15, 2013

The preamble here is definitely worth a listen in order to provide some context but if you just want to skip to the mashup go to around 9 minutes in.

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Who stands where in the band? Why most worship teams get it so wrong.

By Marie@Musicademy | May 10, 2013

Band Skills Seminar #3

The traditional rock band set up with the drummer at the back and the lead singer at the front is often adopted by church worship teams. Why is this so wrong and what alternatives are there?

Andy Chamberlain and Tim Martin demonstrate in an interactive band skills seminar.

Please note, we were very shorthanded the day we filmed this seminar so the sound is not from the desk but the ambient mics of the camera. As such there is a bit of echo, and we understand from Facebook, that some non British subscribers may struggle with the echo and the English accents. If so, we apologise. We do just like to make the seminars available to those unable to attend the day in person.

In the feedback forms after the day long event we ask each delegate to list 3 things that they will take away from the day. Almost everyone cites “stage placement” as a key learning outcome.

If you’d prefer to cut to the chase and not watch the seminar, please see our article 10 tips to improve your worship team’s stage placement.

We’d be interested to hear what you do in your churches. Please comment in the box below.

 

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Free MultiTrack of the Month – Oh The Deep Deep Love of Jesus

By Marie@Musicademy | May 1, 2013

Free MultiTrack for May – Oh The Deep Deep Love of Jesus (The Sailor’s Song)

A contemporary hymn

Download the Graham Kendrick contemporary hymn Oh The Deep Deep Love of Jesus free of charge throughout May. You can also listen to the song and download the lyrics and a free piano score via the Musicademy website.

You will need to go to the Worship Backing Band website to download the MultiTrack backing track.

Remember that you need a copy of Worship Backing Band’s MultiTrack Player to play the backing track. MultiTrack is the simplest and least expensive solution to get a full band sound from your worship team, even if you’ve only got a couple of musicians. Read More »

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I am the vicar, I am

By Marie@Musicademy | April 24, 2013

I am the vicar, I am.
I am the pastor, the carer, the listener
the one with the time to drop everything and
I also understand global politics and immigration and
I am the one who knows about Afghanistan
and cares about ‘our boys’
and I care about speed-humps
graffiti
litter
and the positioning of zebra crossings near schools.

I am passionate about school assemblies
council meetings
mums and toddlers and also
I am good at one-to-one and small groups and
I listen and empathise and at the same time
I am the one who plans and strategizes and
I am the one who understands budgets and decides if we can buy any staples
or replace the heating system.
I am the vicar, I am. Read More »

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