Free lesson from the Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course

By Andy@Musicademy | April 8, 2014

This lesson, taken from Musicademy’s Intermediate Acoustic Worship Course DVDs starts to get into the real meat of the course as we take the chords further and look at cheats and substitutes in the key of C. As with other lessons we take it deeper with some licks and tricks that work well with ‘C’ shapes and […]

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts – Bass Players

By Andy@Musicademy | March 25, 2014

  We’ve now published ten different lots of Do’s and Don’ts for various musicians, sound techs and even the congregation. There was one missing, however – bass players. That’s where you come in. We want to try “crowd sourcing” a list of ideas from all of you! Please write your Do’s or Don’ts in the […]

In Christ Alone – Worship Bass lesson

By Andy@Musicademy | March 18, 2014

Learn a great bass part to this modern hymn and develop positional playing and economy of finger movement in Eb using passing notes, harmony lines that work tastefully with the melody and pedal notes for creating dynamics. This lesson is taken from Musicademy’s Bass Song Learner Series which is currently available at HALF PRICE. Since that […]

Gear confessional – guitars (by Ben Mizen)

By Guest Blogger | March 11, 2014

  Ben Mizen works for the Diocese of Portsmouth by day but by night is somewhat of a gear kleptomaniac. Ben was responsible for helping us put on the recent training day in Portsmouth and here he shares his list of all the guitars he’s owned since back in the day: 1 – 1988 – 1992 […]

Free beginning drums lesson – first ever break

By admin | March 9, 2014

Here’s a free lesson from the Musicademy Worship Drums Course for Beginners which is available both on DVD and as online downloads. Do also check out our training tracks for drummers. Other posts you might like: Ask the Expert – How to play drums with brushes Tips to pass onto your drummers How many cymbals […]

15 ideas for worship without a band

By Sam Hargreaves | March 5, 2014

In our church this Lent we are going to be intentionally ‘stripping down’ our worship to simple elements – simple songs, voices, perhaps just a guitar or piano, or no instruments at all.  This is to put to one side some of the good things which may, nevertheless, become distractions.  It is partly inspired by […]

Top ten do’s and don’ts – Playing Keyboard in Church

By Andy@Musicademy |

How to play keyboard in church I feel for some keyboard players, many are the most well trained musicians in the band, most learned their instrument through the school system, were introduced to sight reading at an early age and they understand the principles of music. They know the musical terms and the fundamentals of […]

Free worship keyboard lesson – You Alone Can Rescue

By Marie@Musicademy | March 1, 2014

Here’s a lesson taken from our Worship Keyboard Collection. Teaching Matt Redman and Jonas Myrin’s You Alone Can Rescue, this lesson focuses on teaching riffs and interesting lines the keyboard player can use as well as making the most of different sounds on the keyboard itself. This lesson gives a good introduction to the style […]