Practical help for band rehearsals part 3 – Standard song forms

By Guest Blogger | July 18, 2011

Practical Stuff for Practicing Our Stuff: Standard Song Forms The problem with some of us worship leaders (read:me) is that we use our artistic/free spirits  as an excuse to “just flow with it.” Sometimes we’ll even say we’re moved by the Spirit. I’m all for moving with the Holy Spirit. But often, said “spirit” is […]

Practical ideas to improve rehearsals (part 2)

By Guest Blogger | July 12, 2011

As promised, we’re going to dive into some practical stuff to help us practice our stuff. The temptation is to start with the band and vocalists and “laundry-list” them with what they should be doing to prepare. But it needs to start with us leaders. As worship pastors, music directors, lay leaders, etc., it is […]

The difference between practice and rehearsal – new guest series

By Guest Blogger | July 6, 2011

Do you find your worship team re-rehearsing almost every song on Sunday morning? It’s like the mid-week rehearsal didn’t occur. Or at best, it’s three steps forward and two back. Transitions have been forgotten. Dynamic changes are sucked into some black hole in the collective band brain. And that major change in the chart we […]

Jammin’ your way to a better worship band

By Guest Blogger | June 10, 2011

Jammin’ your way to a better worship band – Open Jam Sessions are the best recruiting, training, auditioning tool for small/medium size churches.  At least that’s what I think. Big churches have a completely different set of problems when it comes to worship musicians than your average small/medium sized church.  In a church of thousands, […]

True worship – and its nothing to do with music

By Marie@Musicademy | May 27, 2011

I want to kick off this blog post with some scripture. You will, no doubt, be very familiar with these passages: Is not this the kind of activity I have chosen … to provide the poor wanderer with shelter. Isaiah 58 The disciples shared everything they had … [so that] there was no needy person […]

Build your own bundle of Musicademy DVDs and save money

By Marie@Musicademy | May 23, 2011

We’ve created a facility on our webstore allowing you to build a bundle of different DVDs with additional discounts. You’ll probably have noticed in recent months that when you click on a product you get the option of adding other titles to it. Normally the titles on offer are for the same instrument, so if […]

The worship rota – how to organize musicians

By Guest Blogger | May 16, 2011

Last week we posed the following Friday Facebook Question: Should you mix up your worship teams in terms of ability or is it unfair that the better musicians end up always having to work with out of time drummers and flat backing vocalists? I decided today to write about a few different ways that I […]