A track from Musicademy blogger David Clifton’s Christmas album was played on UK Radio 2 Aled Jones show recently and a number of people have been looking for where to hear more. The album is available on iTunes, Amazon and in high street stores in the UK & Canada.
There’s a sample track and review of the album below: Read More
Autumn is here. The leaves are falling from the trees. Winter will soon be upon us. With the dying of some of the visible things, new life is growing in the invisible places; bulbs are beginning to stir underground, ready to send their new hopeful, bright shoots and flowers into the air once the winter frosts have passed. Read More
Part of the new “Musicademy Shorts” series, Marie Page gives advice on choosing keys suitable for female worship leaders and smaller congregations.
Flo Benton from Alaska emailed with an emergency request as she was leading worship for the first time. I thought it would make a good Blog post so our advice is here as well as Flo’s responses. Read More
You know the scenario, you’re either trying to remember the chords for a song that you don’t have music for, or you’re trying to find some chords to accompany a new melody, so you stab at all sorts – G F, C Em, A, Bb – some seem to work but some don’t. There is, however, a method of narrowing down the options to just seven chords – you just need to know what key the song is in. Read More
We’ve just found a great online resource for proper sheet music and guitar tab. Click the link to go to Musicnotes. As well as almost every rock and pop song you might want to play, the site has plenty of music for worship songs by Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin and more.
Andy Chamberlain gives a guitar lesson teaching how to play in tenths on guitar. Here you play two notes in the same key that are ten intervals apart. Great for finding new chord voicings in D. This is the technique that the Delirious song Majesty was written using.
The first problem with organising a rota is to know who is available for each time slot. Once upon a time you would call each person one at a time and ask if they can or cannot do each slot. These days you send out some emails, and get a few less back. The next task is to arrange the replies into a table of who’s available when. Read More
