Could your church or business do with some help on Facebook marketing?

By admin | October 8, 2013

New Facebook marketing guide published Musicademy resident social media expert (and Musicademy co-founder), Marie Page, was commissioned to write an extensive practical guide to Faceboook marketing by leading digital marketing website SmartInsights. Here it is made exclusively available (without the need for SmartInsights membership) to friends of Musicademy. You’ll find lots of insight into how Marie […]

4 new awards for Musicademy and Worship Backing Band

By admin | October 2, 2013

We’re delighted to have picked up FOUR new awards from Worship Leader Magazine. You can click through and read an online copy of the magazine here (our entries are on Pages 14, 44 and 60). Editor’s Pick award Musicademy Beginning Worship Guitar Course This year we totally re-recorded one of our first ever training DVDs […]

Sneak audio preview of our new Christmas carols

By admin | October 1, 2013

Andy and Dave have been in the studio mixing our Christmas carols today. Here’s a little clip of what they’ve been up to: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Like what you hear? Check out Andy’s article about the carols we have chosen and why. They should be available to buy in a couple […]

10 new MultiTrack worship backing tracks

By Marie@Musicademy | September 26, 2013

Buy all 10 new tracks and save 20%! We’re pleased to announce 10 new Worship Backing Band MultiTrack backing tracks. These are available as both Lite and Pro Wav versions. New MultiTracks I Lift My Hands – Chris Tomlin Before The Throne – Vicky Cooke/Shane and Shane Here for You – Matt Redman Christ Is Risen – Matt Maher […]

Christmas carols – coming your way soon!

By Marie@Musicademy | September 25, 2013

Just a quick update to answer some questions about the 10 Christmas Carols we are recording right now as Multi Track backing tracks. All  are designed to be used in your Christmas services with contemporary full band arrangements in singable keys and in the same style as all the other backing tracks on Worship Backing Band – […]

Fantastic “AlterNativity” new super cool nativity musical

By admin | September 17, 2013

AlterNativity is a brand new musical, written by our friend Jill Priest, which tells the traditional Christmas Story in an alternative way via chart-style songs and an hilarious script. Perfect for large casts age 10+ in schools, youth theatres or churches. This Christmas are you looking for a Christmas production that’s a little different to […]

Backing tracks in worship – a realistic solution for churches with only half a band or no musicians?

By Andy@Musicademy | September 15, 2013

As part of our 10 year celebrations, we’ve been looking back at the past 10 years and sharing some of the highs and lows. The development of Worship Backing Band was certainly not without it’s traumas. Not least that the software was about 2 years getting to the technical specification we had initially dreamed of. […]

Transitioning – Part 9 – Educate, Inform, Do It Constantly

By Kenny Lamm | September 10, 2013

As East City Church transitions its worship service to a unified style of worship (see links below for the previous parts in this “documentary”), they will need to help their congregation understand why the church is going through a change in its time of corporate worship. Conflict results most times in an absence of understanding why […]

Marie looks back at 10 years of Musicademy

By Marie@Musicademy | September 8, 2013

We decided to run a series of articles detailing some of the behind-the-scenes stuff about Musicademy. In a lengthy article (that’s how she rolls), here is a collection of Marie’s reflections from the last 10 years. 10 years of ups and downs (and a lot of DVDs) It’s often felt that we’ve spent the last […]