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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.
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Musicademy training stream at Mission Worship

By Marie@Musicademy | April 19, 2013

Musicademy will be running 8 masterclasses at this years’ Mission Worship conference In Eastbourne, UK in November. The seminar details are not yet published on the Mission Worship website but we thought we’d give you a sneak preview here. Andy Chamberlain, Tim Martin and Catherine White will be delivering the seminars over the weekend.

The theme for the weekend is “It’s time to release worship to the poor”. What does that mean? Well, for the most part we understand that worship is a real action word. It’s about loving what God loves, caring for what God cares for and from time to time it’s about the sound that comes from our lips on a Sunday.

We who love God, we who worship Him, we who lead others in worship have a responsibility to show our worship through our actions. For if we do not care for the poor and stand against injustice in our communities, in our towns, in our country and in our world, how will God’s will be done? It’s time for the church to release worship to the poor!

There are some great bands and speakers lined up including Martin Smith, Robin Mark, Worship Central, Brian Doerksen, Desperation Band, Chris McLarney and Glenn Packiam.

If you’d like to join us click through to the Mission Worship website for more information and to book. There’s a £20 discount off when booking before the end of May.

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Improving your online experience on the Worship Backing Band website

By admin | April 9, 2013

Quickly add multiple products to your cart

Thanks to customer feedback we’ve commissioned a change to the Worship Backing Band website which will speed up and simplify the purchase process for customers buying multiple items in one go.

Previously you had to laboriously click through to each product and select whether you wanted a single or multi-user license. Then you would have to click back to the track selection and start again. Now you can simply tick to select your downloads and also click to select a multi-user license.

This is great news for customers wanting to take advantage of the significant discounts available for bulk purchase.

Licenses for multi-users and multiple computers

We’ve created multi-user licenses for each of our downloadable products (Split Tracks, MultiTracks and MultiTrack Pros). If you are using any of these products on multiple computers/devices then you can now retrospectively purchase a license. We charge 50% of the normal web purchase price for the license. Simply search for “M” in the relevant category.

Thanks for your feedback. Whilst making changes of this type are relatively costly, we are keen to make your online experience as efficient and least frustrating as possible.

Obviously if you find anything strange with either of our websites, please do email us.

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Do you think that people going through a divorce should be allowed on a worship team?

By Marie@Musicademy | April 4, 2013

That’s the question we were emailed recently and my heart went out to the person who had sent the email. I certainly don’t think there is a straight forward answer to this and my hunch was that our Musicademy community would have a lot more experience on the topic between them than I. So with that in mind I posted the question on our Facebook Page and sat amazed as loads of comments came flooding in. It’s not great reading the comments here out of context with “Likes” awarded to each, but I thought I’d post them for the benefit of those who don’t use Facebook (actually even if you don’t use it you can click through and read the comments – just not comment yourself)

Nick Sadler – a local decision…

Adrian Higgs – Yes. Next?

Susan Ruth Mueller – No.

Dave Jones – I’m guessing it would depend on the reason. If it was a accepted Biblical reason then why not? They could probably do with the help, support, fellowship and prayers of the team.

Cody Patterson – Musicademy Do you think God can use people that are struggling? Everyone has things going on in their life at all times, sometimes really bad sometimes life is easier. If the person on the team is trying to keep focused on Christ then yes of course. Divorce is wrong Biblically but that doesn’t mean that the person on the team initiated it, or even that they wanted it. People always make mistakes, if we took everyone off the team that made any mistake then we would have no team, not even a leader.

Jane Gould – Why not? If they want to , that is. Do you think they are not in terrible pain anyway?

Tim Ashburner – “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” Read More »

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Helping the congregation learn new songs – Transitioning – Part 5

By Kenny Lamm | March 31, 2013

In our last post on the challenges for a church moving from traditional to contemporary worship styles, East City Church continued its journey to worship renewal by producing a song list of known songs for the congregation and identifying new songs that will be introduced to the congregation. To fast track the worship transition, East City Church will do a variety of things to help the congregation make these new songs part of their worship vocabulary in an accelerated manner.

There are several ways of attaining this goal:

Create a CD of the new songs for distribution. The easiest and most expensive way to do this is to secure copyright permission for professional recordings of the songs on the list. The least expensive avenue would be for the church’s worship team to record the songs themselves. Both projects require securing proper licenses, but the do-it-yourself project would incur less expenses for licenses. (more on licenses). The in-house project would also insure that the songs are in good, singable keys, which might not be the case on professional recordings. Your worship team would also give the church a recording that would sound more realistic to what they will experience in worship. No matter which direction ECC takes, they should:

Begin with the first ten new songs from the timeline of introducing the songs in worship to produce the first worship CD for mass distribution. This one should ideally go out at least four weeks before the launch date.
Produce a second CD several weeks later for the next ten songs Read More »

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