By Guest Blogger | February 7, 2011
In those early months of the band, generally speaking, I kept my head down. For starters, in the intervening 12 years of enforced musical absence, I’d lost my musical chops, and beyond that, I was still an interloper, an atheist among the good and the great. However, three things began to happen. Firstly, my little […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 31, 2011
Thank you for bearing with me (previous post Me, Worship & Jesus (though not necessarily in that order) here, a slight detour now. I’ve been saving this bit, so brace yourselves: “My name’s Nick, and I’m a musician”. I lived for years in denial, but finally had to admit it, firstly to myself and then, […]
By Marie@Musicademy | December 23, 2010
In the tradition of a round robin Christmas newsletter, we thought we’d share with you some of the highlights of 2010 for Musicademy. January saw us going to Breakforth Canada for the first time. Breakforth is North America’s largest worship event. As well as a booth selling DVDs, Andy taught a number of guitar and […]
By Marie@Musicademy | October 25, 2010
Tony Marshall, an Elder at Westbrooke Church emails saying: “I’m somewhat of a novice in this field, and am struggling to find advice as to how many songs our worship team should have in its “song bank” at a time. Is there a “typical” number of songs we should rotate through? Do churches vary this much?” Our initial […]
By Marie@Musicademy | October 18, 2010
We were invited to Premier Radio’s Christian New Media Awards on Friday. Last year we were runner up to the mighty Worship Central. And guess what, this year we were runner up to the mighty Worship Central. Congratulations to our friends there and thanks to Premier for the awards. It is really good that they […]
By Bob Kilpatrick | August 23, 2010
I’ve been attending the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) winter show in Anaheim for many years now. It’s the toy store for musicians, and a great place to make and maintain relationships. The musos are looking for free gear and the companies are looking for musos who will influence others to buy their products. […]
By Andy@Musicademy | July 7, 2010
How to handle disagreements in your worship team Princess Pilime from the UK asks for some advice on warring musicians: “Do you by any chance have tips on how to understand each other with the instrumentalists, at the moment we have a problem where the instrumentalists refuse or argue that they do not want to […]
By Andy@Musicademy | May 25, 2010
What to do with a musician having problems with counting and rhythm? We had this email from a Musicademy subscriber in the US which I think flows pretty well on from yesterday’s post. “Our song leader cannot count very easily and has trouble with keeping rhythm. We have to jump through hoops to second-guess him […]
By Steve Weeks | March 2, 2010
We first published this post a couple of years ago but we’ve a lot more subscribers now so worth a second posting. I’ve been using this application for all sorts of rotas and scheduling meetings and its saved loads of time so have a read through to see how it can take some of your […]
By Marie@Musicademy | December 22, 2009
We’ve added a Musicademy “fan” page to Facebook. You can join it here. If you’d like to start keeping up with updates to our website via your Facebook newsfeed then that’s the place to go. There are also a few Facebook only features including a photo album featuring the many haircuts of Andy Chamberlain and the ever […]
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