Free worship training resources for Christian musicians

Free Band Skills course with all Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVD orders

By admin | March 13, 2023

All orders for any Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVDs will receive a free gift this week only (ends midnight Sunday 19 March). We’ll add the Band Skills DVD to any order you make for a physical DVD from either the Musicademy or Worship Backing Band websites. No need to add them at the checkout. […]

Free gift with all Musicademy and Worship Backing Band DVD orders

By admin | January 28, 2023

All orders for any Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVDs will receive a free gift this week only (28 Jan to 4 February). We’ll add the Advanced Vocals Work-out CD AND a Worship Backing Band Musicians Practice Track DVD with 54 songs with on-screen lyrics and chords to play along to. No need to add them […]

Worship Training Day Ealing London 5 November 2022

By admin | August 8, 2022

Saturday 5 November Musicademy presents a packed training day for the whole worship team (or just come by yourself!). Features special guest vocal coach Nicki Rogers and Psalm Drummers Terl Bryant and Mark Jones. The programme features: BRAND NEW plenary session from the whole Musicademy, SFL and Psalm Drummers: 12 things to Improve your Worship […]

How to get maximum exposure for your song writing

By [email protected] | November 16, 2021

If you have ever recorded a worship song, it is an exhilarating experience, but also a lot of work. First there is the writing, wrestling with the words to make them work with the music and rhyme, and say what God has put on your heart to say. There is capturing the right melodies, and […]

8 ideas to encourage more participation in worship

By [email protected] | September 3, 2021

I recently read a book which chronicled the rise of the evangelical church in England from the 1950s onwards. This reported a clear link between high levels of participation in worship and personal spiritual growth and communal church renewal. The book, controversially called ‘Selling Worship’ (by Pete Ward), also observes that in sung worship in […]

DIY Worship Team Workshops (and Band Skills course): Half Price Offer

By admin | May 21, 2021

Getting the band back again only to find you are all a bit out of practice? Kick-start your post lockdown band skills with our half price DIY Worship Team Workshops. Churches across the world are gearing up to return to face-to-face services which means that in many cases musicians are playing together again for the […]

Streaming your worship services legally | Everything you need to know

By admin | April 8, 2020

Here at Musicademy and Worship Backing Band, we’ve had calls and emails daily about the legality of using worship songs in online services. People are very confused about the different licenses, and the new Streaming Plus License that CCLI has created. I decided to chat to our friends at CCLI and asked them to point […]

How the world worshipped this week: sharing your online services

By admin | April 6, 2020

Online Church: How the world worshipped With Covid-19 forcing much of the world into lockdown, churches have responded by diving into online services. Whether using Zoom, Facebook Live, YouTube or more complex set ups such as OBS, tech, pastoral and worship teams have found themselves in a steep learning curve in recent weeks. This article […]

Streaming online church services: the tech, the tips and the stories from around the world

By admin | March 23, 2020

Last weekend was the first weekend that many churches globally closed their physical doors and instead embraced the virtual world of online services. Over on the Musicademy Facebook Group several people had spent the previous few days discussing the technical options, the pros and cons of the various streaming platforms before taking their decisions on […]

28 Do’s and Don’ts of Christmas service planning

By admin | December 10, 2019

Planning a Christmas service? Read this first DO plan well in advance and lock everything down in good time with the leaders DO choose and circulate your music/key choice well ahead of rehearsals. Christmas is often the one time of year when you have orchestral and brass instruments joining the band. They tend to prefer a […]