Ask the Expert: How does licensing work when musicians use tablets for chord charts rather than paper versions?

By Guest Blogger | June 19, 2014

A question on licensing from Alan Rolfe at Slough Baptist Church: It’s becoming more and more common these days for musicians to use their tablets to display music, either as sheet music or lyrics with chords, instead of paper versions. However, reading the small print of our CCLI and MRL licences, they don’t seem to […]

An insight into the Regional Music Adviser role at the Royal School of Church Music

By Guest Blogger | June 11, 2014

We spent some time this morning with the delightful Frances Novillo, Regional Music Adviser for the Royal School of Church Music and were humbled by the breadth of musical knowledge, application and versatility required of her role. I wish I had recorded the conversation, but we’ll get some video interviews in the future. Whilst Musicademy is more […]

Bespoke live training for your worship team

By Marie@Musicademy | May 2, 2014

  Book the Musicademy team for a day of worship training at your church From now through to Christmas, we have a limited number of dates available for bespoke worship team training. This means the Musicademy team can come to your church and deliver a day of training for your team. Whilst we are hoping […]

Training seminars from Musicademy at The Worship Conversation

By admin | March 28, 2014

  The Big Church Day Out’s new “bolt on” event is called The Worship Conversation. Taking place on 26 and 27 May in West Sussex, UK, this two-day conference is designed for worship leaders and worship teams. This new more intimate event is designed to have a very unconferencelike approach and is themed around four […]

NEW. Important changes for our Facebook Page. Even our biggest fans will stop seeing our updates.

By Marie@Musicademy | March 23, 2014

We have over 7,000 fans on Facebook but recent changes by Facebook in their drive to increase advertising revenue mean that from this week only 1-2% of our fans will actually be shown our updates. Here’s the news article rep0rting it. Instead your newsfeed will become increasingly full of advertisements from companies you are not terribly […]

Christian and Gospel music: a timeline

By Marie@Musicademy | February 7, 2014

  Google Research has created a fascinating music timeline reflecting the evolution of music by genre over recent decades. We’ve screen grabbed the Christian/Gospel data here but you can go and explore other genres (and discover all the big releases) yourself: http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/#CHRISTIAN_GOSPEL

Have you used the free backing tracks? We need to know!

By admin | February 1, 2014

We have provided a free backing track of the month every month since about the time our original Worship Backing Band player was launched in 2011. We’ve generally selected either a less well known song in order to give it wider exposure, or alternately chosen an old classic that could do with a bit of […]