Newsletter 10th May 2012

What makes a good worship song?

What are the three main elements that make for a great worship song?

Top 10 signs you lead a small church worship ministry
When the loudest singer in the room isn’t on the worship team, or even a good singer, you know you’re leading a small church worship ministry. New series from Jon Nicol.

Songs of Praise with subtitles (funny video)

BBC TV recording with not quite the most intelligible lyrics.

Improving your projected song lyrics (part 3)

This week we look at operating the slide show. Great advice from Kenny Lamm.

Evidence of Jesus at the supermarket again

Over on Facebook we’ve unearthed photographic evidence of Jesus at the supermarket. And it’s caption competition time with this truly awful 60s album cover.

Have you booked the worship training days yet?

Our UK-based worship training days are filling up fast. Click through for more information. The first day is on 26th May.

Thanks for reading

Andy, Marie and the team at Musicademy

P.S. Our website has been a bit slow in recent weeks. It’s now super quick. Here are the articles you might have missed:

• Graham Kendrick video interview on modern worship music
• Where to go to find new worship songs
• How do you learn to sing and play guitar at the same time?
• Has worship music lost its soul?

Tim Hughes’ song Giver of Life is our free Worship Backing Band track of the month

Worship Newsletter – 26 April 2012

Has worship music lost its soul?

Interesting article on the state of contemporary worship music.

Where to go to find new worship songs

Four great resources to help you discover new worship songs.

Improving your projected song lyrics
We’ve already had some very positive feedback to this post on how to improve your projected song lyrics.

How do you learn to sing and play lead guitar at the same time?

Unfortunately there is no quick fix to this challenge but Andy offers some advice to lead guitarists who also need to sing.

What three things do you wish worship leaders would stop doing?

That’s the question we are asking on Facebook this week.

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Andy, Marie and the team at Musicademy

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7 reasons music techs are late with the words in church

Jason Chollar unearths 7 reasons why music techs are late with the words in church and offers advice on how to avoid it.

Download over an hour of vocal warm-up exercises on video

Regular vocal warm-up exercises are essential for improving the tone, range and power of your voice but how many of us actually get round to doing them even before we sing, let alone on a regular basis? We’ve created a set of downloadable video clips which pull together countless breathing, warm-up and range development exercises.

Have we found the next Susan Boyle?

Britain’s Got Talent has just had another “Susan Boyle” moment. This video of Jonathan and Charlotte singing a prayer has now gone viral. Do take a look if you’ve not yet seen it. Heartwarming.

Ask the Expert – we’re thinking about hiring a professional sound engineer for church

Advice on the principles of hiring in professional help with services along with pay rates from our tech panel.

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Andy, Marie and the team at Musicademy

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