By Marie@Musicademy | October 3, 2011
Teresa Novak asks: Hello! I really need some advice on what type of headset mic would be best for my needs. I’m primarily a lead vocalist in a band, but I now play keyboard, as well. Since a neck injury and surgery last year, I can no longer use a handheld mic in on a […]
By Guest Blogger | September 29, 2011
We kick off an exciting series of 10 short worship team devotionals written by guest blogger Jon Nicol from worshipteamcoach.com This week is an introduction to the 6 “Must-Haves” of a worship musician. What makes for a good worship team musician? Gotta have talent, right? But is talent enough? Or is it good enough […]
By Sam Hargreaves | September 22, 2011
You might have come across RESOUNDworship.org – a website sharing new worship songs for free, by a relatively unknown group of writers. We’ve had no major-label backing, little or no budget, and have worked on it mostly in our spare time, and yet the site has over 8.500 subscribers and has resourced churches worldwide. And […]
By Marie@Musicademy | September 14, 2011
The influential magazine, Worship Leader, has posted a nice review of our hand drumming & percussion DVD set Hand2Hand. Randy Cross writes: There is a trend that has been a part of the counterculture for decades, but of late has become more mainstream and embraced by those in worship arts ministries – drum circles. Musicademy […]
By Andy@Musicademy | September 8, 2011
Taken from Hillsong United, this is another common and useful pattern for moving a slower song along. It fits nicely with the changing accents in the rhythm of the melody too. Just be careful not to make it your only default strumming pattern for slow songs. Other posts you might like: Our archive of strumming […]
By Marie@Musicademy | September 2, 2011
David Hughes posted on Musicademy’s Wall. “I have an old e-volution MK-149 midi keyboard which has a single midi out socket. I recently got a Logilink midi-USB cable to try using the keyboard on my new (Windows 7) laptop, but I’m not getting any signal through to Finale PrintMusic or MuseScore. How can I test […]
By Andy@Musicademy | August 1, 2011
Kathleen Trissel emails: “Does the Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Box set utilize 8th note strumming patterns, and not all 16th note patterns? It seems all the patterns I’ve seen are 16th note patterns. I have a default strumming pattern, d d u u d u, that I always fall into. Also, do you cover combining finger picking and […]
By Andy@Musicademy | July 22, 2011
We had some customer feedback recently which we’d like to share with you: “When I purchased the Intermediate Electric Guitar DVDs it was because you advertised it as being a good way for an acoustic player to make a transition to electric. I have played acoustic for years and I have always used a CAPO […]
By Guest Blogger | July 15, 2011
EasyProjector – a musician’s prompt We were contacted recently by Paul Ganney, a musician and all round technical person who wanted to let us know about some software he’d written to ease his life as a worship musician that he has very generously offered to share free of charge with Musicademy subscribers. Here he tells […]
By Marie@Musicademy | July 5, 2011
Lesson taken from our Advanced Bass Course. When you buy the course you also get backing tracks with and without bass parts for you to practice to. This lesson is a feast for worship bass players! Matt Weeks (bass player of choice for Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Graham Kendrick, Brenton Brown, Paul Baloche, Vicky Beeching, […]
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