New year resolutions for singers

By Guest Blogger | December 31, 2012

New Year is a good time to make new goals & look back on what has been achieved over the previous months. A constant goal I keep renewing myself is to do more regular vocal practice. The VOICE, which is after all a muscle, cannot be expected to get any stronger without ‘working it out’. […]

Understanding strumming patterns for worship guitar

By Andy@Musicademy | December 14, 2012

Strumming patterns for worship guitarists If there’s one piece of advice I’d give to acoustic guitarists to improve their tone and dynamics it is to think about their strumming patterns. Very often when we first learn to play we get pretty good at changing chords with our left hands but don’t pay so much attention […]

Christmas gift ideas for guitarists

By [email protected] | December 10, 2012

It’s that time of year again when rehearsals for Christmas services are ramping up and everyone is working on their best O Come All Ye Faithful chops for Christmas morning. On top of which everyone is shopping like mad for presents for friends and family. But have you thought about getting presents for your worship […]

Caring for your voice during the winter months

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With the cold weather upon us, the voice can take a real bashing so it’s important to look at how we can best look after it in the winter months. Going from one temperature into another – i.e from a warm room inside to the freezing cold outdoors, can really affect your singing voice – […]

Christmas gift ideas from Musicademy

By Marie@Musicademy | December 5, 2012

Whether you are looking for low cost stocking fillers or something rather special for your significant other Musicademy has a great range of music-related gift ideas: Stocking Fillers Musicademy Vocals Warm-up and Work-out CDs Vocals Workouts for Guys and Girls Hand drumming (djembe, bongo, congas) and percussion Drums Work-Out CD Bass and Guitar Song Learner […]

The Musician’s “Cut Out & Keep” Guide to Transposing

By Andy@Musicademy | November 28, 2012

Transposing for guitar, keyboards and bass For lots of players the real world way of transposing involves keyboard transpose buttons or capos to put a song that’s in a complicated key into an easy-to-play key. But how many semitones up or down do you go with that keyboard button or, for guitarists, which fret do […]

Musicademy launches its new Beginning Worship Guitar DVDs

By admin |

Beginning Worship Guitar What if one guitar program could take you from beginner to competent musician with a years’ worth of lessons, tests and backing tracks? Musicademy’s new Beginning Worship Guitar Course is suitable for complete beginners and uses contemporary worship songs. The course is available now on DVD, downloads and via our subscription website […]

Ask the Expert – What cajon would you recommend?

By admin | November 26, 2012

Justyn Hall asks for advice on purchasing a cajon drum. He wants more of a rocky feel to wondered about this Snare Cajon (photo above) We asked Terl Bryant from Psalm Drummers for his advice. He said “I’ve been playing Cajon Drums for the last couple of years, made in Plymouth, great sound and build […]