Split track backing tracks for x10 carols

By admin | November 23, 2018

For churches that don’t have any musicians, and simply want a backing track product that offers them quality “karaoke” worship tracks, there is no need for the Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player with all its functionality of filling in for missing musicians, looping, key and tempo change. Our option for such churches are our budget […]

New Remembrance Day Hymn

By admin | November 9, 2018

Former Musicademy drum tutor Richard Morgan is now a school music teacher and he has written a new hymn for Remembrance Day. Your congregation will recognise the tune (it is Londonderry Air / O Danny Boy) so it should be a fairly easy new hymn to teach this weekend: YouTube: Facebook    In Every […]

Re-defining worship so it equals more than music

By Evron Sampson | October 4, 2018

Somewhere along the way we as a culture decided that worship = music In fact, music is just one element of worship. Worship can happen without one single note being played or sung. We’ve also come to the conclusion that since most people do connect to music on some basic level, then surely they must […]

Separating song from genre

By Simon Timperley | September 10, 2018

Two stories: Christmas carol service, doing “Silent Night”. I had set it on mandolin with a very simple strummed guitar background, very few chords, very gentle and folksy. The keyboard player kept twitching and saying it wasn’t “Christmassy enough” so we had a chat, and he set up a nice big church organ sound, and […]

How to transition from traditional to contemporary worship

By Marie@Musicademy | September 2, 2018

In an era where many congregations are facing dwindling numbers many churches are turning to a more contemporary approach to attract and retain people. They see the success that churches such as Hillsong and Bethel enjoy with rock concert style music and seek to bring at least some of that style to their local setting. […]

Preparing your worship set – a practical guide

By Simon Patrick | August 28, 2018

As I’ve grown in experience as a worship leader one of the growing joys of the role is helping to bring others into not just the worship team, but leading worship too. The way we do that at King’s Church is initially through a process of co-leading with them. Planning together, and then sharing the […]