By admin | April 9, 2013
Here’s a free lesson taken from the Bass Song Learner series. Here Matt Weeks teaches the Stuart Townend and Ketih Getty hymn In Christ Alone. You will 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 […]
By Andy@Musicademy | March 28, 2013
Here’s a lesson taken from our Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course. The course is available on DVD or as individual downloads – see trailer below. We’ve created cheat sheets like the one below for each of the keys where we teach substitute chords on the course.
By Guest Blogger | March 27, 2013
We had an email from Terry who works for the U.S. Federal Courts in South Carolina. He asks: Do you have a recommendation for the best microphone for large area pick up pattern? I need to mic the gallery of a courtroom without having the individuals leave their seat to walk to a microphone. The […]
By admin | March 26, 2013
Are you looking to inject some creativity and fresh ideas into your piano and keyboard playing? Discover the techniques, tips and ideas in contemporary worship keyboard playing by learning pro keyboard parts to 18 well known worship songs. This new 4-DVD set contains a years’ worth of keyboard lessons teaching you the chord shapes, voicings, rhythms, […]
By Andy@Musicademy | March 16, 2013
A few months back I was filming a new Beginning Worship Guitar course DVD series which is essentially a remake of the very first Musicademy DVD I did eight years ago (where does the time go?). Partly the update is to reflect more recent songs that a beginner musician would want to learn and partly […]
By admin | March 13, 2013
Learn how to get away from the musical score Here’s Tim Martin teaching a live seminar for Musicademy on improvisation skills for orchestral instruments in worship. Tim also presents Musicademy’s Improvisation for Orchestral Instruments course. Now HALF PRICE. Other posts you might like: Free video lesson for orchestral instruments – playing sensitively in worship […]
By Guest Blogger | March 7, 2013
Tim Brown is a regular commenter here at Musicademy and his brother was one of our first local guitar teachers. Tim has just released his first album and we really liked one song in particular – Risen King – which is perfect for you to use in Easter services. Tim has kindly written us a […]
By Marie@Musicademy | March 6, 2013
As mentioned in our recent article on giving kind buy honest advice to musicians who perhaps have the heart but not the aptitude for the worship team, we received this email from a lady looking for advice: “I’m in my church choir and have been auditioning for my church worship team since 2008 or so […]
By Marie@Musicademy | March 4, 2013
Feedback – Mixing kindness and honesty We had a touching email arrive at the office last week from a lady who had been turned down at worship team auditions for several years. The lady really, really loves to sing and had been so determined to progress that she had employed a vocal coach to help […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 28, 2013
Workbook Songbooks We have released four Workbook Songbooks to go with our new Beginning Guitar DVDs. Learn 40 extra worship songs including chord charts. 277 pages packed full of extra tests, new chords, strumming and picking patterns, even transposing exercises! They are designed as optional extras to help you maximise your learning as well as […]
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