How music theory can create a worship moment. Guest post by Jon Nicol.

By Guest Blogger | January 15, 2015

Have you ever gotten to that place in a worship song where you just wanted to linger for a moment? It might be as a song ends, or during an interlude within the song, but the arrangement you’re using doesn’t seem to give you that.  That’s because many of the worship songs we use in our service […]

You may not know this bass player but you’ll definitely know her bass lines

By Marie@Musicademy | June 26, 2014

 Amazing insight from one of the leading bass session musicians from years gone by where older studio musicians played the music but didn’t get credited for fear of putting off the record buying teenagers. Carol Kaye has developed an incredible legacy of work. In this clip she reckons that “Playing bass is pretty easy”. […]

Free Bass Guitar lesson – Here I Am To Worship

By Andy@Musicademy |

Which musicians are you missing in your worship team? We did an impromptu survey during our seminars at The Worship Conversation/The Big Church Day Out recently and found that churches were more likely to be missing bass  and electric guitar players than any other instrument. Given how straight forward it is for existing guitar players […]

Free Bass Guitar video lesson – Playing in 10ths

By Andy@Musicademy | May 28, 2014

This lesson is taken from Musicademy’s Intermediate Worship Bass Course available as DVDs and online downloads Since that DVD set we have recently completed the Worship Bass Collection with a more recent range of worship songs. Check out all our Bass courses We have a big repertoire of worship bass courses available on DVD, download […]

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts – Bass Players

By Andy@Musicademy | March 25, 2014

  We’ve now published ten different lots of Do’s and Don’ts for various musicians, sound techs and even the congregation. There was one missing, however – bass players. That’s where you come in. We want to try “crowd sourcing” a list of ideas from all of you! Please write your Do’s or Don’ts in the […]

In Christ Alone – Worship Bass lesson

By Andy@Musicademy | March 18, 2014

Learn a great bass part to this modern hymn and develop positional playing and economy of finger movement in Eb using passing notes, harmony lines that work tastefully with the melody and pedal notes for creating dynamics. This lesson is taken from Musicademy’s Bass Song Learner Series which is currently available at HALF PRICE. Since that […]

Free worship bass lesson – Famous One by Chris Tomlin

By admin | February 20, 2014

Here’s a fantastic lesson from our Advanced Bass DVDs and downloads. When you download the full course, as well as each individual lesson you get two backing tracks for each song. These have the song with and without the bass part so that you can easily hear the bass in one mix and then use […]

The 10 commandments of bass guitar

By Andy@Musicademy | February 17, 2014

  Have you an 11th Commandment to add? Flash sale: 50% off our Worship Bass Courses All our worship bass DVDs on half price sale.  Offer ends Wednesday 26 October 2016. See also: The Ten Commandments of Electric Guitar. Musicademy’s training DVDs and online lessons for Bass Guitar (Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced). Free bass guitar […]